2. Forcing Total Divas Down Our Throats
It's great for WWE that Total Divas brings in some good ratings over on the E! Network, albeit with this season's ratings down from the previous two. It's cheap to produce, and it helps to make money for the company. That's fine and dandy. The problem comes when you try to take the "drama" from Total Divas and bring it to Raw and Smackdown. That means taking fake storylines and incorporating them within a show that features an entirely different set of fake storylines. Making it worse is that the target demographics for both shows are different. There are actually a large percentage of Total Divas viewers that don't watch wrestling. They watch the show for the cattiness, just like on other shows of that ilk. The average viewer on Raw and Smackdown aren't watching shows like Total Divas, Real Housewives, and so forth. Raw is the ratings cash cow for WWE. The company should be using Total Divas to help gain viewers for Raw, not the other way around. The most egregious mistake the company is making is taking the soap opera-style storylines of Total Divas, and bringing them to Raw and Smackdown with the absolute worst acting going right now. Nobody is expecting a WWE Diva to be Meryl Streep, but Brie and Nikki Bella have, almost without question, the worst acting abilities in the history of pro wrestling. Neither of them can convey a proper emotion to save their lives. Their reward for that? Being given
more television time and
more promo time. Without Daniel Bryan by her side, Brie is simply floundering out there, and fans don't care. "Boring" chants have been heard during her promos and segments, and she's supposed to be the sympathetic face in all of this nonsense. Giving these women main event segments on television is only driving people away and not making them want to come back. The sooner the company realizes this, the better off they'll be.