This is pretty interesting. You remember the famous WWF/WCW writer, Vince Russo? Well he worked for WWE at some point in the past as a writer and he recently spoke his thoughts on his podcast show of RAW’s low ratings.
He says that the writing team’s job is to do whatever pleases their boss, Vince McMahon. The writing team just does whatever it takes to make their boss happy so they can save their jobs. So they have to write storylines and matches that pleases Vince. You see guys, how the WWE business goes everything you see on TV goes through Vince McMahon’s approval. If he likes it, Vince will put it on TV.
It seems that Mr. Russo is so right on that ’cause I remember Chris Jericho talking about that in his books that everything that goes on TV goes through Vince’s approval. The writers can come up with their own storylines, feuds and matches but it only goes on TV if Vince likes it. If Vince doesn’t like it, he’ll trash it.
Read this interesting article where Vince Russo is responding to his thoughts on the low ratings of RAW:
I do agree with Vince Russo that the reason not a lot of people are watching RAW these days is because it isn’t good anymore.
Vince McMahon is undeniably a genius promoter and businessman. He’s a genius at that stuff, no doubt but he’s horrible at the creative direction and writing. I think what Vince’s problem is that he thinks about himself too much.
He needs to learn how to please his fans and not please himself, ya know? Fans tell Vince what they want to see for years and he just doesn’t listen to them at all. Fans want the good wrestling back, they want to see blood and they want to see the hardcore wrestling back. Fans want good characters and we don’t have that anymore.
It’s Vince McMahon that ruined wrestling. Yep, I absolutely blame him for the declining of wrestling. It’s his fault for sure for the low ratings. Give what the fans want, Vince. Give them what they want to see and maybe people will start watching again.
I stopped watching myself. Haven’t been watching RAW for way over a year now. Although, once in a blue moon I’ll tune in to RAW to see what’s going on and it still hasn’t changed much. RAW is still pretty bad.
Kev


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