Word on the street is that ALL PPVs will be five hours long starting with Backlash

[CBoz]

if this comes to pass.

 

[mr.africa]

they barely can make interesting 3 hour shows
5 hours

 

[Buzzed Lightyear]

Ticket sales are probably gonna drop because sitting through a whole PPV is gonna seem like a chore. The crowd will literally be dead throughout the main event. The Big 4 will definitely be Hell on the people attending when you factor in finding a parking spot, the 2 hour kick off show, 5 hour PPV, & the time it takes to leave the arena, find their car, & the slow ass time it takes to get out of the parking lot. I'm just wondering if all this fųckery really just the ghost of WCW returning the favor for WWE sending Russo down there to drive that company to Hell because that's what it seems like is happening to them now.

 

[DaylitoJames]

If it works for NJPW, it's going to work for us pal. *inserts Vince pointing smiley*

That whispered 2 day WM becoming more of a reality.

The main reason it works for New Japan is because they actually make all of their titles important. Imagine if the WWE actually made the Intercontinental Title important that it could be the main event on ppvs but Vince will never do that

 

[cartierhoe]

Yeah, yall can have that

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Breh...these dudes is tripping. Like it's bad enough Raw gotta have Playbill cliff notes to condensed the shyt, but 5 hour PPVs, even the ones that are just filler. This isn't UFC man, WTF

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

The main reason it works for New Japan is because they actually make all of their titles important. Imagine if the WWE actually made the Intercontinental Title important that it could be the main event on ppvs but Vince will never do that

Its obvious they copying UFC format of 2 hour prelims, 3 hour show and thinking it works, but forgetting the fans don't like the 6 hour Summerslam/WM shows because its too long and the live audience gets tired somewhere into hours 2-4.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

The main reason it works for New Japan is because they actually make all of their titles important. Imagine if the WWE actually made the Intercontinental Title important that it could be the main event on ppvs but Vince will never do that

Exactly. Unlike the WWE, NJPW...matter of fact almost every Puro promotion actually know how to put on an event from the filler jawns to the major ones. WWE however feels compelled to treat every event like it should be on a major broadcast, but the harsh reality is that *GASP*, wrestling is a niche as fukk product where majority of casual fans will hop along to see the big 4 and sleep through the rest. This isn't the UFC once again, it's a fake sport

 

[RammerJammer]

Ticket sales are probably gonna drop because sitting through a whole PPV is gonna seem like a chore. The crowd will literally be dead throughout the main event. The Big 4 will definitely be Hell on the people attending when you factor in finding a parking spot, the 2 hour kick off show, 5 hour PPV, & the time it takes to leave the arena, find their car, & the slow ass time it takes to get out of the parking lot. I'm just wondering if all this fųckery really just the ghost of WCW returning the favor for WWE sending Russo down there to drive that company to Hell because that's what it seems like is happening to them now.

That's another thing to consider, take this previous SummerSlam for example, first match started just short of the 6pm ET hour and the main event ended around 11:30 pm ET, that's way to fukking long. Hell, WrestleMania 33 ended at midnight! That's gonna kill any crowd regardless of how good the card is. I miss the days of just WrestleMania being 4 hours and the PPVs being 3 hours.

 

[Da King]

These same marks crying about it being 5 hours act like if it was 24 hours long they still wouldn’t watch

Y’all ain’t got shyt else to do but watch whatever play fighting WWF puts on your TV

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

theyre gonna kill their audience

 

[Buzzed Lightyear]

That's another thing to consider, take this previous SummerSlam for example, first match started just short of the 6pm ET hour and the main event ended around 11:30 pm ET, that's way to fukking long. Hell, WrestleMania 33 ended at midnight! That's gonna kill any crowd regardless of how good the card is. I miss the days of just WrestleMania being 4 hours and the PPVs being 3 hours.

They want people to pay to sit there for almost a whole work shift & watch their bland ass show. Soon enough they'll be back to doing Raw at the Manhattan Center every week.

 

[RammerJammer]

These same marks crying about it being 5 hours act like if it was 24 hours long they still wouldn’t watch

Y’all ain’t got shyt else to do but watch whatever play fighting WWF puts on your TV

Yet you still in this forum with your obnoxious takes on "play fighting" so get off the computer, rip the Vince Russo poster off your wall and stfu cac.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Looks like I'm about to do PPVs like I do Raw and SD.

This company continues doing stupid shyt.

 

[infamousred]

so they just talked about the ability to have different matches but now they're saying that they will have less middle and lower class wrestlers? these motherfukkers will never learn.