3) Backstage Feeling About ‘RAW Legends Night’
According to Ringside News, WWE has high hopes that the ‘RAW Legends Night’ will boost ratings. While saying that, there is not much optimism in the company about being able to sustain the ratings bump that the show will receive.
Here is what the site wrote:
A tenured member of the creative team told us that bringing legends in is an “annual ratings boost.” Vince McMahon is counting on that theme to increase ratings. There wasn’t as much optimism when it comes to sustaining that higher viewership number.
It was also reiterated to us that “the creative process in this company has fallen completely apart.” There does not seem to be any real plan to improve ratings, but there is always a hope that it will happen.
My Take:
- I agree that the ratings bump will not be sustainable. They need to write better storylines for their talent and they need to make fans care. Smackdown is doing a good job at retaining fans and the storylines have been good. RAW needs to follow suit.
2) Trish Stratus Has Discussed A Possible Role In NXT
Trish Stratus was recently interviewed on the Women’s Wrestling Talk podcast. During this, Trish revealed that she has had discussions about a possible role in NXT.
Here is what she said (via ITR Wrestling)
“We [Trish Stratus and Fit Finlay] would be, like, co-agenting probably. We would be awesome but, I would like to contribute in some way and I’ve talked to Matt Bloom, my former partner, about possibly going to NXT. We’ve talked about it on a number of occasions. It’s just like… It’s never the right time has come about to do that.”
My Take:
- I think that Trish would be a great mentor for some of the women’s talent in WWE. Hopefully they can get her on board.
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