10 Things WWE Are Secretly Telling Fans About Their Future
5. Bigger, Better, Badder
To their credit, WWE have done a better job over the last few months of pacing their over-stretched shows out like something people might actually want to sit through.
It's one thing parking yourself in front of the WWE Network for an entire workday's slab of pro wrestling, but it's quite another to sit in the arena for it too. Fans of the current product are being asked to dedicate literal days to major shows, and this will only ever increase.
The organisation were once limited by pay-per-view time, and even then stretched that to the absolute limit. That all viewers are now locked into a service that only results in per-minutes-watched bonuses for execs gives the company no cause or call to cut or slash anything.
WrestleMania is surely less that five years away from being a two-day show as part of an even larger weekend of events. And generally where the 'Show Of Shows' has led, the other events have followed. Supersized SummerSlams and reimagined Royal Rumbles may only be the tip of the iceberg. Four hour Raws as USA Network looks for something - anything - to retain viewers may be a nightmare waiting to happen.