7 Huge Problems The WWE Wild Card Rule Has Created

5. Cancelled House Shows

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If you’ve been following news reports in recent weeks, this isn’t surprising to you.

Wrestling sites, including this one, have noted that recent Monday SmackDown house shows (sorry, live events) have been cancelled and rescheduled, presumably because at least four of the blue brand’s top stars won’t appear on the card because they’ll presumably be showing up on Raw that same night.

Live event attendance has been declining, but when you start outright cancelling house shows because your top SmackDown stars are needed for a televised Raw, that sends an even clearer signal to fans that house shows are not important. If WWE is pulling its top stars and nixing house shows, how are fans supposed to take these events seriously and treat them as something important?

The simple answer is: They don’t, and they won’t. That isn’t going to help improve live event attendance numbers.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.