10 Ways WWE's Current Product Mirrors That Which Killed WCW

10. A Three Hour Main Show & The Amount Of Product On TV

Nitro, WCW€™s flagship live Monday night show, was a breath of fresh air at first; in many ways it changed the industry. But as WCW became more successful Nitro extended to three hours; Thunder, a new two hour show, was added to Thursdays and the long established WCW Saturday Night brought the total of WCW television to six hours on a weekly basis. Unfortunately all this airtime eventually lead to repetition of matches, story lines and feuds and the overexposure of their talent roster; which stood at a whopping 260 wrestlers at one point. As the wheels became to come off of the company from a creative prospect; three hour Nitros became ponderous affairs, Thunder rarely had anything of note happen and was paid little attention by the creative team and Saturday Night was mostly filler. Fast forward to today and WWE currently runs eight hours of television across multiple platforms and its flagship show Raw runs in a three hour block that is often ponderous; Smackdown rarely has the top stars involved and little of note happens while, with the exception of NXT, the rest of WWE€™s weekly schedule is mostly filler. All this with only 103 active wrestlers across the main and NXT rosters. Raw is too often tedious with the same talents in the same spots having the same matches and feuds on a weekly basis; and, just like it did for WCW, it is driving their audience away.