New plans for Summerslam

[sh17]

credit:prowrestling.com

PWInsider reports that WWE hopes to make SummerSlam a bigger annual event with a WrestleMania-like feel to it. WWE is holding a Fan Axxess event for the show this year, and plans to continue hosting the PPV in major cities in hopes that the idea of SummerSlam being WWE’s 2nd biggest show will catch on.

One problem with the plan this year is that there’s only 30 days between the upcoming Night Of Champions PPV and the SummerSlam PPV. Several people within the company feel that 30 days isn’t enough time to hype up an event that’s supposed to be second only to WrestleMania.

There are talks within WWE about possibly eliminating one of their annual PPVs in favor of having more time to promote the others, and also jacking up the SummerSlam PPV price tag to match WrestleMania’s.

[Hollywood]

What a great idea! Let's shoo fans away by jacking up the prices! Hey, it's working for the Fort Worth Star Telegram... oh wait...

[sh17]

Their idea is good, just the situation is horrible. If you cut your PPVs down to 4, hell even 6, you could charge more. But 40 bucks a month, every month is just lunacy. I'd pay 50-60 bucks every 2-3 months

[Hollywood]

I'm in favor of cutting down on PPVs, but throw the fans a bone and lower the price tag on the PPVs. If their DVD sales are any indication, they'd be better off not charging so damn much for PPV.

[sh17]

Yeah, I agree. If I really want to see it, like someone I really like wins it big(RVD winning the WWE Title at ONS. I saw it live but I have it on DVD too) I'll just wait a month or so and drop 20 bucks on the DVD. If they charged 30 bucks, they would see a spike in their sales because their quantity would pick up so much. So many people would buy the shows that it would close the gap.

[Bubba JD]

if WWE wants Summerslam to be properly viewed as the #2 PPV, hype it up like Wrestlemania is. that would be a start in the right direction.


second thing they could do is make storylines more interesting. ratings & buyrates, for the most part, have suffered lately. if WWE wants good buyrates, as well as solid DVD sales, make sure the storylines are better. i'm not going to ask for huge storylines like we had during the Attitude Era. just stuff that's a bit easier to watch.

no more then 6 PPVs a year should be done. gives better build up for the matches, if you have to go 2 or 3 months, before the next big show.

[greendragon]

They need to go back to the PPV schedule they had before when the brands were more split.


Raw - SD - Both

Raw - SD - Both

[freak]

But that's what got them into this mess in the first place. Because of that we had two PPVs in January, two in June, two in November, and two in December. Now that all that's over we still are stuck with two months with two PPV events.

The simplest thing to do? Get rid of The Bash or Extreme Rules in June and junk one or both of the October PPVs.

No reason to have single branded PPVs anymore because the buy rates would be just as low, if not lower. No reason to cut back on events beyond the multiple month PPVs because lord knows WWE doesn't want to lose any ground to the inferior product (say whatever you will about TNA, it's garbage and you know it). Remember, the lack of events was part of what started WWE's decline in the mid '90s opposite WCW.

[Hollywood]

Jul 15, 2009 21:00:20 GMT -6 freak said:

But that's what got them into this mess in the first place. Because of that we had two PPVs in January, two in June, two in November, and two in December. Now that all that's over we still are stuck with two months with two PPV events.

The simplest thing to do? Get rid of The Bash or Extreme Rules in June and junk one or both of the October PPVs.

No reason to have single branded PPVs anymore because the buy rates would be just as low, if not lower. No reason to cut back on events beyond the multiple month PPVs because lord knows WWE doesn't want to lose any ground to the inferior product (say whatever you will about TNA, it's garbage and you know it). Remember, the lack of events was part of what started WWE's decline in the mid '90s opposite WCW.

I think the gamut of bad gimmicks such as Duke "The Dumpster" Droese, Mantaur, Aldo Montoya, Fatu "Man of the Streets," Dean Douglas, Jean Pierre Laffite, among others, MIGHT have done a bit more damage than a lack of PPVs. And the reason they had a lack of events is because NBC didn't want to take the chance on Saturday Night's Main Event anymore when ratings dipped after the damage done by the steroid scandal of the early 90s.

[freak]

Yeah, but shitty gimmicks aside, WWE's problems started when you started seeing WCW putting out 12 PPVs a year. Then Nitro came around, and the whole Monday Night War...linchpins.

And besides, WCW had quite their fair share of shitty gimmicks too.

[Reaper]

And overall, I miss WCW... whats that say about the state of wrestling today?

[greendragon]

Jul 15, 2009 21:00:20 GMT -6 freak said:

But that's what got them into this mess in the first place. Because of that we had two PPVs in January, two in June, two in November, and two in December. Now that all that's over we still are stuck with two months with two PPV events.

The simplest thing to do? Get rid of The Bash or Extreme Rules in June and junk one or both of the October PPVs.

No reason to have single branded PPVs anymore because the buy rates would be just as low, if not lower. No reason to cut back on events beyond the multiple month PPVs because lord knows WWE doesn't want to lose any ground to the inferior product (say whatever you will about TNA, it's garbage and you know it). Remember, the lack of events was part of what started WWE's decline in the mid '90s opposite WCW.

my bad, i meant both as in both brands together.

[Bubba JD]

Jul 15, 2009 23:51:22 GMT -6 Reaper said:

And overall, I miss WCW... whats that say about the state of wrestling today?

i've resorted to watch & liking classic AWA matches. when i can get myself excited for a Jake "Milkman" Milliman match, you know that the current product is horrible.