10 Reasons WWE Should Abandon Cable Broadcasting And Work With YouTube
10. PG What?
If you put WWE on YouTube, there's the benefit to the product of removing the "PG" rating for the program, which frankly hampers the presentation. While I don't believe that this should enable ECW-style programming, it should allow for more realistic use of language, as well as pushing for more episodic TV tropes to re-emerge in the product like, say, bad guys winning, and yes, a portrayal of the John Cena we see on Total Divas and not the smiling corporate shill we get on Raw. Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose should absolutely be able to drop an "f-bomb," and the creative freedom allowed for performers including Brock Lesnar, Paul Heyman and Bray Wyatt in such an environment would be exciting, too. Raw and Smackdown without a "PG" rating? That's ABSOLUTELY best for business.
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.
