J.R.'s Family Bar-B-Q

Home › WWE › Dear Mr. Ross, As a wrestling fan for the better portion of 25 years, I find the WWE’s current approach at “entertaining fans” to be mind boggling. I realize that each new era in wrestling causes the creative staff to take different routes and make all kinds of changes, but honestly I am not sure I understand the paths they have decided to go as of late. First off, there is the new “guest host” idea. It was cool for about a month, but honestly it dried up really fast. The fan’s lack of interest (based on dwindling ratings for 6 consecutive weeks) should be evident that something needs changing. The idea lost its appeal in a hurry, yet the creative minds on Raw have decided to just stick with business as usual no matter how many of US fans stop watching. What’s even worse is lately it dozen’t matter who the guest host is, you already know the outcome of the show before it even comes on. For example: Stupid segment at the beginning of the show with said host…Y2J and Big Show interrupt. DX or Cena in some way get involved. First commercial break. Diva’s match than cut to another commercial. Segment in “office” of guest host with Santino and the Bella twins, cut to commercial. I mean seriously this is how it’s been for 2 months. It’s mind numbing how dull the programming has become. But I don’t want to lose interest in wrestling because it’s something I grew up on. However, I find it harder and harder to watch it since anymore it’s always the same. The “PG” era of wrestling is destroying Raw. Smackdown has always been kind of PG and that’s fine, but ECW is a joke because of it, and Raw is damned near unwatchable. Another thing that is shocking to me is the fact that Survivor Series is right around the corner and neither brand has cut an interview, a storyline, or really ANYTHING for that matter in regard to the title matches. Is this because once again the WWE creative staff is just going to screw the pooch and say “let Cena win…..again”? They were on to something big by having Cena vs DX. They could have had HBK do what he always does and turn on HHH, or Vice versa, which would have set things up for a vintage feud between the two DX members, but instead….nothing. Not one word about the match. Instead they decide to pit the tag team against the smackdown opponents for Taker’s title? I mean honestly what is that? Does WWE even have a creative team anymore, or do they feed ideas into a computer and go with whatever it spews out? There is also the fact that Cena is getting annoying. I know he is this era’s new “Hogan” and all, but seriously let somebody other than him and Orton have the title for a bit. The PPVs aren’t worth getting anymore because you always know Cena is going to win. Just saying the WWE needs to actually pay attention to what THE FANS want for a change. Because that’s a ball they dropped a long time ago.