9 Reasons To Stop Watching WWE RAW

5. WWE Cares Only About The Mass Audience

For decades, WWE has been trying to captivate the mass audience. The company shouldn't be faulted for trying to grow their fanbase and catering a product to the many instead of the few is a wise approach. Where the problem comes in is that WWE employs this strategy as if it is mutually exclusive with catering to their core wrestling fanbase, and it is not. The Attitude Era is a perfect example; the WWE was widely popular with the casual and hardcore fans alike. There is nothing wrong with developing a story with the general, mass audience in mind; that's how any good television show becomes successful. Currently though, RAW is not good enough to hold any new viewer's interest even if a segment momentarily captures the mass audience's attention. Instead of focusing solely on the fleeting casual viewers, the WWE should be focusing on making a quality wrestling show. It matters very little what the core subject content or the setting is, so long as the story being told is of high quality. It's the reason why shows like Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, and House Of Cards can have such a colossal difference in the settings and characters of each show yet still be equally successful. If the writers and showrunners are producing television that tells a good, compelling, interesting story, the audience will come. As for the WWE, if it pleases their current fans, the hardest of critics, then it should be good enough to attract and keep other viewers' interest. Speaking of their current fans...