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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
I honestly think every wrestling promotion needs to have a strategic plan.
Where are we going? How do we grt there? WWE used to do this really well, work toward the Big 4 PPVs with Wrestlemania weekend being the season finale/premier all in one.
Who are the champions, who's chasing the titles, what other feuds are happening, how does the rest of the roster help progress those storylines?
It keeps you focused and acts as a filter so great ideas that don't fit the plan can have a pinout in then, characters can be consistent, and internal logic can apply.
Otherwise you get a seat of your pants mess that smells like a mess in the seat of your pants.
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What made WWE successful during the attitude era, is that they wrote cohesive story lines for weeks or months down the road and kept to it. What killed WCW was that Easy Eric and then Russo were hotshot booking for ratings, they would react to what was going to happen on Raws that were pretaped. Also WCW's hot shot booking happened because of guys like Hogan and Nash and Hall and others who were given the right to refuse or rewrite story lines on the fly. Vince during the attitude era was very much in control of his roster, and what he said went.
WCW to get ratings hotshotted all of their belts until they were meaningless, people got absolutely buried because of the older roster was protective of their spots and didn't care about the companies health until one day the checks just stopped.
I don't know how long term of comprehensive WWE writing is now, under Vince it was pretty horrible in the end, I think HHH is better.
With AEW their booking is just all over the map, and just isn't really strategic. The other thing is that they have so many belts that belts don't matter anymore.
Also I think there was a reason why Vince was pretty insistent on his writers writing promo's for the wrestlers. Because outside of a few like Wyatt, and Rollins and Cena, aren't capable of doing promos' on the fly. They're just not. We see it in AEW where a lot of the workers it seems just go out and go off the cuff and the result is bad promo's and incomprehensible builds.
Even Moxley's promo's are getting boring and repetitive and stale because he writes his own promo's and goes back to the same well over and over again.
Omega is actually really bad at promos. the best guy in the business right now on the mic is MJF.
AEW doesn't have their Dusty Rhodes type of figure. They clearly don't have agents that can get through these guys heads or past their egos.
WWE and HHH seem to have restored the agents role that Vince really had overseen.