4. Overexposure
Back in the earlier days of the WWF, there were only 5 annual pay-per-view events, and the weekly shows ran for merely an hour. Admittedly, it is fair enough to argue that this is not sufficient time to get through a roster of 40-50 wrestlers, and so the mid-90s change to a 2-hour format for Raw might be one of the few smart instances of Vince McMahon widening his berth. Still, look at the product today: two weekly two-hour shows, 12 PPVs per year, reduced from what was at its peak a whopping and excessive 16. The overt commitment to watching 4 hours of any TV show every week notwithstanding, it gives the feeling that they have more screen time than they can adequately fill with entertaining content. With the news that WWE is to extend Raw to 3 hours, this is only likely to get worse (and something I imagine they will nix after a few months). Watching a PPV event, how often do you feel like youre watching filler? For me, its constantly. A more streamlined approach is what is needed of quality over quantity but given that the USA Network have been wanting Vince to extend Raw to three hours for years, that is unlikely to happen.