10 Changes To Fix WWE's Ratings Woes

6. Cool It On The Comedy

Some comedy in wrestling is good. Most of it is bad. Now in theory, it's nice to break up the action now and then with some laughs, but WWE is really, really overdoing it these days.

Jack Nicholson has talked about at this stage in his film career, he'd prefer to just do comedy films. It feels like Vince McMahon is becoming that way as well when it comes to promoting wrestling. Maybe serious fights just don't interest him that much anymore, and that's why so much of what we see now is based off weird attempts at humor.

The problem is, if fans wanted nothing but comedy, they’d watch a comedy show. No one is going to sit through a three hour program of people fake fighting in hopes of laughing their way through it.

But in WWE, there's Goldust and R-Truth scaring fans away, along with Titus O’Neil and The Shining Stars. That’s not even the worst of it, though. Kevin Owens is the Universal Champ and 90% of what he does is comedy. Over on SmackDown, A.J. Styles has been positioned as Elmer Fudd with Dean Ambrose cast as his antagonistic Bugs Bunny.

While guys like The Rock, Steve Austin and Hulk Hogan may have had comedic elements to their characters, we still mainly watched them to see them beat the hell out of their opponents. A move back into that direction is in the company’s best interest, as this bad comedy era isn’t connecting on a deep level with the vast majority of their audience.