10 Lessons WWE Shouldn’t Forget From WCW’s History

7. Get Rid Of Three Hour Raws

Three hours is just far too long for a televised wrestling show. At Nitro's peak as WCW's flagship show, it moved to three hours. Not only that but it was replayed later that same night, giving WCW six hours of television on the TNT network. It was borderline insanity at the time as fans realized a three hour event that wasn't a pay-per-view was the equivalent of slamming your head against a wall for 180 minutes. When Raw moved to three hours, the drop in quality was instantly recognizable. Instead of creating exciting television and entertaining matches, WWE is now looking to fill time. They take needless commercial breaks during matches, produce completely unfunny comedy skits, drag out backstage segments, and present an infinite number of video replays and hype packages. Seriously, we don't know how anyone can sit through a three hour Raw in 2014 and be entertained by it. The USA Network is going to be very hesitant to move Raw back to two hours because WWE attracts a great deal of advertising money. The toothpaste is already out of the tube and it's nearly impossible to put it back in once that happens. WWE was asked to go to three hours by their network and they obliged but it's absolutely killing the pace of the show.