| You're replacing GM's with other GM's essentially though. I think Vickie, Teddy, and Tiffany were all doing a great job, but now there's no Vickie and we have this guest GM deal. I'm just not sure that's gonna cut it really. The authority figure in wrestling has been done to death so I'm all for the scrapping of GM's, but let's do it right. Just dump the authority figure concept entirely, and have the show run by an anoymous booker we never meet. Neither named, nor mentioned. The McMahons can be used in times of extreme importance, but after McMahon overload during the Attitude era and beyond having 3 doses of seperate McMahons is a bit much for me.
I was going to answer these seperately, but they kind of link. I'm all for unifying the World Titles like they have the Tag belts, and I want them to do it with the Women's straps to. I've said this a million times. It would simply make everything more prestigious. You then would have the midcard Title for each brand stay as is, the Intercontinental and US belts, as well as the ECW Title, it's so rarely refered to as a World Title that as long as the Unified Titles were defended on ECW once in a while it could act as a midcard belt. I kind of agree with Tommy that ECW's roster doesn't have the depth to pull it off, but right now there is Christian and Tommy Dreamer as "main eventers" on the show, and in all likelihood Vladimir Kozlov and William Regal will be up there to. So what does Shelton Benjamin do with his time once those four are jockeying for position to challenge the Unified World Champion? He holds the ECW Title, facing Zack Ryder, Sheamus and the Japanese fella who sparked him out this week. It would also work as a real stepping stone (for a while at least) because the possibility of an ECW "main eventer" ever beating the World Champion would be miniscule and thus the ECW Title would often (if not always) be the only Title held on the show by someone on the roster meaning the promo's cut themselves about who is the "main event" on ECW.
I agree with the brand split being a joke but there are other ways around it than this. You have to remember that no matter how you slice it Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, Summerslam and Survivor Series will always be multi-brand. Assuming we follow on from the previous suggestion and unify the World and Women's belts as the Tag ones have been, we'd have to have those belts (or at least one of those belts) defended on each of the single brand PPV's, as well as the brand specific midcard Titles. It's actually a good way to fill out the ECW card because you would have three unified belts, more often than not, held by non ECW roster members, which would mean ECW would only have to provide half the match-up. Creating three or four fresh matches after that should be simply enough. With WWE's current PPV schedule, they are looking at about thirteen PPV's per year, so splitting it as three PPV show's each between the brands would work fine, using the above model.
However, WWE could get around it without brand specific PPV's. Having the WWE Title and World Heavyweight Title defended on alternate PPV's, while the ECW Title is defended each month, and the other midcard belts are also alternated. It would free up space on each PPV card for fresh fueds and mean the top Titles were fueded over for longer, thus making them look worth the time and effort to care about.
The commentators I'm pretty happy with for now. King and Cole are an ear canal abortion granted, but JR could have a potato sat next to him and he'd still be fantastic. I also like the team Matt and Josh have going on. It's not the same as what Matt and Todd had going on, but it's not bad by any means.
As for the Women's Division... I'm one of the few guys I know that pays attention to the Women and in all honesty, even I struggle with WWE's take on it. I agree that Alicia Fox, Michelle McCool and The Bella Twins should fuck off and be replaced by girls with talent, but unless those talented girls catch Johnny Ace's eye in Playboy it's just not happening.
Great 500th post by the way.
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