6 Problems That Led to WWE Ratings Decline

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Less is more, more is less

During their run in NXT Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks had one of the best women’s matches ever held under the WWE banner. It was a brutal, technical, wrestling classic. Less than a year later they had a match on Raw, this was finally a chance for the “Divas Revolution” to begin. Then they had a 4 minute match. And it sucked that these two women weren’t given the opportunity to show the world what they could do.

One of the biggest problems is that, whilst Raw runs at 3 hours long, there’s never enough time for matches to go long enough to really mean anything. It’s almost like they’re trying to get as much stuff on the show as they can, but missing the point of the stuff that people want to see. Offer me the chance to watch a 15 minute match, going over a couple of segments, or 3 matches (probably including a multi man match) in the same amount of time, and I’d take the 15 minute match any day of the week.

If we’d gone back to the fledgling days of Raw, where it was only an hour-long show, and i could understand why you had thrown a load of short matches on the show. Today, there’s no excuse for only giving two well trained athletes 4 minutes to try to tell a story. When they inevitably get called out for not getting over in the match, the blame falls on them for not achieving what was expected not the people who expect the world from them without the time to actually achieve it.

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With a three-hour show there’s not a fan in the world who would begrudge seeing a great match that between Becky and Sasha, that had the chance to live up to the same standards as the matches they had in NXT.

The same could be said for a lot of the matches we see every week. It’s not uncommon for the matches we see to get less time than the shenanigans that precede them and the rubbish that follows them. In short give the wrestlers time to wrestle and they might just surprise you!