It’s the story that we all feared was coming and was even hinted at earlier this year
WWE live shows have always been a crucial part of WWE’s schedule
On top of their usual weekly television tapings for Raw, Smackdown, and NXT, WWE would also
have live events sprinkled in during the week
The big live events usually took place on the weekends.
At these shows, WWE would always have a much smaller crowd than their usual television
tapings crowd, but it was still a big enough crowd
Unless it was a WWE network special, these shows were almost never recorded or televised
and was just exclusive for the fans in attendance
There’s no commentary, or big entrance ramp, it’s just a simple plain ramp with a wrestling
ring present for the show
nothing important to storylines ever happens at these shows.
There’s no story advancements at all, this is just for fans that wanna see their favorite
superstars compete up close and in person
Even if it is a pointless match with no storylines really advancing, it’s still a fun time
for fans to come out and see the show, especially younger WWE fans because they just get star
struck at the sight of their favorite superstars.
So fans like that couldn’t care less that it was just a live event show, they still
enjoyed seeing their favorite superstars compete
However, on the flip side, the debate has always been if WWE should cancel these shows
for good
They’re great for revenue and brings in a lot of extra income from WWE, but it is
an extra few days that the superstars have to work
Now with the full time regular WWE schedule, the superstars would barely get any time for
themselves
Between fan signings, television tapings, and those live event shows, superstars have
explained before that they got 1 day off a week and maybe 2 days off if they were extremely
lucky
It’s just a stressful schedule and it’ll really burn you out after a long time
CM Punk got burnt from the whole day-to-day schedule and how everything was being operated
that it made him fall out of love with his passion for wrestling
We just heard Ronda Rousey, who actually tried out being a full time superstar for one year,
say that she’ll never do it again, she’ll never go full time with WWE ever again because
of the toll it took on her over that one year alone
So even after just one year on that crazy schedule, it made a talented athlete like
Ronda Rousey even tap out
So it’s definitely rough working that schedule especially for the superstars that have a
family at home
we just talked last week about how Brie Bella was complaining about the same thing, that
time with Daniel Bryan is nearly impossible and it was drifting them apart
But ever since the lockdown, WWE superstars have benefited from a very lighter schedule
than usual
They no longer have to worry about “meet and greets” since they have all been cancelled
and likely won’t be coming back for a long time
WWE obviously doesn’t have to travel city to city anymore, so it’s less stress from
all that constant traveling and the best part of all, majority of superstars are only working
once a week
Unless you’re Charlotte flair, who’s been working all three shows lately, then all you
really have to worry about is one show a week at the performance center
Obviously live events and television tapings with live crowds have stopped for a long tine
now and even though the television tapings may come back down the line, it’s the live
events that seem like they just may be done for good
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Let’s get back into the story
We got our first hint at this a few months ago during Vince McMahon’s investor call
Mr. McMahon explained that they’ve always been in the live event business for many years,
but they not be in the live event business at all after everything returns to normal
Those Vince McMahon comments came from a few weeks ago, but a new report seems to be reinforcing
that same idea from Vince McMahon
The new report claims that the live event producers have all been released since they
were just sitting at home because there were no live events to work
And now it’s looking like WWE may never actually return to the live event business.
This does not include television shows like raw, Smackdown, and pay pre view events, all
of those shows will hopefully continue to have live crowds in the future
it’s being reported that WWE is looking for live crowds to return in late summer for
those shows, but it’s the house shows that may be actually gone forever and it’s not
a bad thing at all
One of the major pros about this situation is all the time and attention it will bring
to the television product
Previously, WWE was spending a lot of time booking these live event shows and coming
up with new cards for them every week, so that can be really time consuming and take
their focus away from the television product
But now if you remove these live events from the picture, WWE no longer has to worry about
creating those house shows and they can use that time to improve the quality of the television
product and all the on going storylines
Not to mention that the WWE superstars will also feel refreshed.
WWE superstars were previously wrestling a lot of matches a year mostly because of live
events, so if you take those live events away then it’ll also be a big relief for the
superstars
Now they get more time to rest their bodies since they don’t have to compete in those
filler house show matches and can get themselves fully rested for the the televised matches
and the matches that really matter
They won’t be coming to television tapings all drained and looking like zombies, they’ll
actually be refreshed and it’ll improve the quality of their matches and the show,
so it’s definitely a great thing when you look at it like that
Before everything happened, WWE Superstars we’re coming to television every week and
just didn’t have the most energy with their chaotic and busy schedules back then, but
you might have already noticed the difference in current day
Superstars seems more fresh and a bit more relax with the light schedule and more refreshed
talent is going to result in a better performance and product
So the actual talent is refreshed and the WWE writers and produces don’t have to split
their attention up between television and live event house shows anymore.
Now the television product gets their full undivided attention and that could result
in a better television product
WWE’s current ratings are at weird point right now.
They’ll go down one week, slowly rise the following week, and then back down after that
Vince McMahon said himself that he believes it’s because of the new talents that’s
been popping up on Raw and Smackdown
You tune into raw or Smackdown and you see someone that you never saw before, some fans
might just not care and tune out of the show right there and that’s the problem
Some fans aren’t that interested right now in these new talents, so it’ll take some
time for the fans to grow that interest towards them
WWE also started doing trades now which was reportedly a Vince McMahon decision
We recently saw AJ styles traded over to Smackdown which is a great move for AJ.
He lost his club brothers of Gallows and Anderson and didn’t really have much going on for
him on raw, so Smackdown will be a great fresh start for him and he already has such a rich
history on that brand
However, couldn’t help but think how dumb it was from Raw’s perspective to trade away
AJ Styles for pretty much nothing in return, so just from a viewer point of view, it just
makes Raw’s management seem foolish
You’re giving away an elite top tier talent to Smackdown for what WWE described as “Future
Considerations”
Basically meaning that Raw gets nothing back in return for the trade, so from that point
of view, it makes the raw staff look dumb for making this trade
“Future Considerations” has no real meaning or explanation, so we have no way of telling
if it was a good trade or not for raw
Now if WWE would’ve announced that Raw has traded AJ Styles to Smackdown for the number
1 pick in 2020 WWE Draft then that’s a decent trade and makes sense for both sides.
but at the current moment, seems like Raw gave up one of their best talents for pretty
much nothing
So WWE is definitely trying these best to make some big moves to freshen up the product,
but it’s still unfortunate news about the live events
The cons about no more live event house shows are less revenue for WWE and the younger fans
will have less chances to see their favorite superstars come to their cities
But the pros include more rest time for the superstars, so that’s always a great thing
for sure
What are your thoughts on the rumors that WWE may never have another live event house
shows again?
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