Corbin speaks on the quality of Raw lately

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Before reading his quote I'm expecting him to shyt on marks having their opinion

According to Corbin, social media makes the world seem "beyond miserable"; however, the General Manager-Elect of RAW suggested that social media is a necessary evil in pro wrestling.

"It gives a bunch of idiots in reality an opinion and they don't know how to express it appropriately," Corbin said. "The language, the insults, all of those things, and it just makes the world seem so unhappy.

Shocking ..

 

[CM_Burns]

You can understand why WWE has this attitude when you consider when the last time the vocal internet fans would say a year of WWE programming was good. I thought 2015 and 17 were good years in recent memory, but even those were responded to overwhelmingly negatively online by the kind of people who post a lot about wrestling online.

I think 2008 might be the last year the internet responded generally well to WWE, and even that had a lot of “Cena is Superman”, “HHH is burying people” “Why isn’t Santino/Punk/Morrison/MVP/Kennedy/etc pushed more”.

Internet fans complain so much that for WWE there’s no telling the difference between when something is “decent but not great” and horrific and channel change worthy.

 

[dh86]

You can understand why WWE has this attitude when you consider when the last time the vocal internet fans would say a year of WWE programming was good. I thought 2015 and 17 were good years in recent memory, but even those were responded to overwhelmingly negatively online by the kind of people who post a lot about wrestling online.

I think 2008 might be the last year the internet responded generally well to WWE, and even that had a lot of “Cena is Superman”, “HHH is burying people” “Why isn’t Santino/Punk/Morrison/MVP/Kennedy/etc pushed more”.

Internet fans complain so much that for WWE there’s no telling the difference between when something is “decent but not great” and horrific and channel change worthy.

2016 Smackdown

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

You can understand why WWE has this attitude when you consider when the last time the vocal internet fans would say a year of WWE programming was good. I thought 2015 and 17 were good years in recent memory, but even those were responded to overwhelmingly negatively online by the kind of people who post a lot about wrestling online.

I think 2008 might be the last year the internet responded generally well to WWE, and even that had a lot of “Cena is Superman”, “HHH is burying people” “Why isn’t Santino/Punk/Morrison/MVP/Kennedy/etc pushed more”.

Internet fans complain so much that for WWE there’s no telling the difference between when something is “decent but not great” and horrific and channel change worthy.

Nah, they’ve spent the past 17-18 years booking how Vince wants regardless of what the crowd wants. For a while, they still tried to give the crowd what they want, but in the past 4-5 years, they’ve gradually dropped all pretenses of booking what anyone wants except Vince. You mentioned the 2007-08 era. Yeah that era was mostly bad, but at least there were people who were legit over that the audience wanted to see that sorta got to progress up the ladder. The serious problems were people being fed to cena, still trying to press Khali as a main event heel, and Michael Cole going to raw to replace Jim Ross. We had an undercard with entertaining guys like Morrison and Miz doing their thing as a team, punk was getting overlooked but some progress was made at least, Jeff hardy got to the top in December, Jericho reinvented himself completely, edge shined as a top heel, mike adamle was so bad that we laughed in real time, kofi was getting over, they did Flair’s retirement angle, and legacy looked promising by the end of 2008. The show sorta felt like it had direction. It had plenty of problems, but at least it felt like they were trying to make an interesting show. I think the roster was mostly healthy too, so that was a plus. Compared to now, that may as well be 1997-98 quality.

 

[TheGodling]

You know there's a middle ground between shytting on the fans and shytting on your boss right?

Something like yeah there's some things we may be able to do a bit better. You know a nonanswer answer. So that the fans who support you can at least say well he ain't say much but he said something


As opposed to "these fukking smark basement dwelling inbred b*stards wouldn't know a good show if it slapped their mother/sister in the face "

This is what baffles me. They could talk about the focus being shifted towards PG-crowds, or the fact they are saving stuff up to build up to a spectacular Mania (even if it's a lie), or hell, talk about the scale of handling a roster that's bigger than ever spread over different shows (Raw, Smackdown, NXT, NXT UK, 205 Live), but instead they just point and shyt on fans. Over and over.

 

[CM_Burns]

2016 Smackdown

The internet does always like Smackdown even when it’s bad. That time was good though

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

The internet does always like Smackdown even when it’s bad. That time was good though

Wasn’t 2009 a good year for smackdown as well? Damn, we gotta go 10 years back to find a good year for the show before 2016

 

[DaHNIC82]

Getting the belt off Brock will help

Big Dog was there everyweek and it was still terrible... This is a Vince Mchmahon problem

 

[Sghost597]

WWE "Everything is Fine" against all time lows is quite hilarious.

 

[NYChase718]

You can understand why WWE has this attitude when you consider when the last time the vocal internet fans would say a year of WWE programming was good. I thought 2015 and 17 were good years in recent memory, but even those were responded to overwhelmingly negatively online by the kind of people who post a lot about wrestling online.

I think 2008 might be the last year the internet responded generally well to WWE, and even that had a lot of “Cena is Superman”, “HHH is burying people” “Why isn’t Santino/Punk/Morrison/MVP/Kennedy/etc pushed more”.

Internet fans complain so much that for WWE there’s no telling the difference between when something is “decent but not great” and horrific and channel change worthy.

2008 was like the last good royal rumble
As well

 

[NYChase718]

WWE "Everything is Fine" against all time lows is quite hilarious.

Theyll clearly be just as big as disney in no time

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

its gotta get worse before it gets better. the ratings have to hit rock bottom, no pun intended before they make it better.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Wasn’t 2009 a good year for smackdown as well? Damn, we gotta go 10 years back to find a good year for the show before 2016

Pretty much 08/09. You had various match combos with Punk, Morrison, Rey, MVP, Edge, Shelton, Umaga, Jericho, Jeff, and Undertaker.

On Raw, the only thing I can remember is Jericho vs HBK from 08

 

[dh86]

Ironic that they shyt on fans to suck up to Vince only for Vince to admit last night that the shows have been terrible

 

[Golayitdown]

its gotta get worse before it gets better. the ratings have to hit rock bottom, no pun intended before they make it better.

They don't have the luxury of taking a chance on that now though. They had every opportunity to make the product better during the decade plus of dedicated viewership they had in their pockets. The fans that watched during that time were essentially diehard fans who were always gonna watch regardless of quality and didn't really drop out no matter how bad the shows and the overall product got. Now that those viewers/fans are dropping out in droves, who's gonna watch the shows as they hit rock bottom?

It doesn't help that they don't have a single true bonafide full-time star on the roster that can step in right now. They're in a real bad spot (on this front) no matter how they try to spin it for PR.