3. Give The First Hour Of Raw To Other WWE Programming
Yes, for the next 13 weeks, Tough Enough will be occupying the 8-9 PM EST slot usually occupied by Raw's first hour. This shouldn't be the end of this concept. The first hour of Monday night programming as a space occupied by a rotating door of WWE Network broadcasting would be amazing. Between Corey Graves' "Culture Shock," "Unfiltered with Renee Young," occasional Stone Cold or Jericho live podcasts or long-form character pieces, there's a way to make that first hour of WWE a very compelling thing. Add in the "Match of the Week" with wrestler overdubs giving more insight into the matches, and it'd be groundbreaking and fun. Three hours of in-ring action is difficult to watch without characters that compel you to watch. Two hours of TV right now is perfect, but using a third hour to get both personalities and the company itself over is certainly worthwhile.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
