6 Reasons Why WWE Badly Needs An Off-Season

2. Making Things Important Again

Let€™s face it: there€™s no sense of urgency anymore in any of the shows WWE puts on outside of WrestleMania, The Royal Rumble, and to a lesser extent SummerSlam. These shows used to be known as €œThe Big Four€ with Survivor Series rounding out the quartet, but you could argue that in recent years Money In The Bank has replaced Survivor Series in the hierarchy. As for all the rest, if you miss one€no big deal. The sheer amount of pay-per-views and programming that WWE produces turns their shows expendable, and the lack of consequences for most of the results contribute to that. With Survivor Series 2014, we were witnessed what was promoted as the €œend of The Authority€ if Team Cena lost, only for them to be back in power less than two months later. Many of the B-shows fall victim to this same booking problem in that nothing really matters long term. And now WWE has taken the regular slate of events and tacked even more big shows that are Network exclusive, which is a massive amount of wrestling. That would all be fine if more than half of them didn€™t feel like they were spinning wheels and leading nowhere. Because the company has to pad out these cards, we get four straight pay-per-views of Cena vs. Rusev when two €“ maybe three at the most - would have been more than enough If you lessen them amount of shows your produce, you increase the importance in the events themselves. As a fan, If you know WWE isn€™t going to run the same match for a quarter of a year or longer, you€™ll be more inclined to follow along closely with the product. As it stands now, almost every show is expendable and most of them are nothing more than glorified episodes of Raw.