 What's good, Josh, your boy Ross back again with another video. So with the response of my last video I posted basically talking about Oldberg coming back to the WWE and challenging Drew McIntyre for the WWE championship Inspired me to make this video. This is straight off the cuff. No script Just kind of first thoughts that come to my head and it's the state of the WWE man Specifically the main roster Not gonna lie to you, bro WWE hasn't been as exciting for me as it has been in the in the past in my honest opinion Of course, you could probably chalk it up to the COVID situation and fans not being allowed to really be at any of the Events and shows I get that it kind of takes down the overall experience, but it really comes down to the booking, bro For the likes of me it doesn't make sense why we should even have a legends night Not to say that we can't show respect to the legends, but I think we've done this so many times I mean we have one like at least once or twice a year and they only pulled out the legends when the ratings are low. I Feel like that's just a slap in the face To the up-and-coming wrestlers, bro How many wrestlers have we seen come from NXT just to be poorly utilized on the main roster? There's no doubt about it that today's roster is probably the most talented WWE has ever had and yet they barely use any of their roster and if they do use them They use them in poor ways, man. Like I'm sorry, but Having the legends there just to be belittled and not really utilized not really putting over the new talent doesn't help Anybody you're just riding the nostalgia train and I think the problem with WWE right now main roster wise as a whole is they don't know what their fans want and the thing is the fans make it very clear who they want to see but No one cares and it's not even I don't even want to just pin like put the blame on everybody We all know what the issue is is Vince Vince is out of touch with the product He's been out of touch with the product for years. The only person that really Has some idea what the fans want and what they're trying to see is Triple H That's why NXT has been some of the best stuff on television Even the next he's gone down in quality, but it's still much better than raw and smackdown is still much better than raw only by Really one main overarching storyline, which is Roman Reigns turning hill I'll get to that in a minute But Vince really doesn't know what the fans want in 2020 or in 2021 He hasn't known what the fans really wanted for years We let it be known what we want, but he pushes who he wants I Never understood why you would have a team full of writers That probably come up with some great ideas Then never see the light of day. I never understood that to be honest with you like I don't even understand how you don't allow your Your your wrestlers your talent to input on their story lines into input on like their promos and what that character would do some of them get that at that type of Exclusive treatment, but not everybody and I think if you want to build up someone's promo skills or build up their character You let them kind of work with the writers and kind of give their own thoughts and feedback to make the overall show a better show And it's like what's the point of having all these people writers and all these executive producers on the payroll When Vince is going to ultimately say okay, not okay, and he'll change up Last-minute stuff right before the show. There's been many reports where he literally right before the show he flips the script Oh, let's go this way and it ultimately a lot of times doesn't work out So I'm just really kind of confused on how they expect people to care now. I get it. They're making a lot of money So I think that's the bottom dollar here making as much money as possible and they're making some money But I feel like they could be making more if they really just gave what the fans want and you can also say well The fans don't don't know what they want Sometimes it's true. We don't know what we want, but this wrestling has always been How the fans react if the fans react to you positively Nine times out of ten, you're gonna be the next guy up or the next woman up If they're reacting to you negatively, we got to do a character change We got a role with them not liking you and that's what made wrestling Pure it's not like any other sports entertainment show the fans kind of decide Who's an help next and it's just one of those situations where it's like WWE has lost touch with their fans. They've lost touch with the time that they're in like I'm sorry Legends night shouldn't have happened. Just being honest with you legends night shouldn't happen at any point Maybe if there's like a special event sure, but it shouldn't be you shouldn't pull out the legends just to get a ratings boost Utilize your talent. That is the downfall of the WWE. They just don't utilize their talent and the writing sucks And their logic doesn't make sense. Like there's so many things that they could do, but they don't There's ultimately even though AEW is their competition AEW isn't making much of a dent in their overall Like viewership now it won't now. I'm not saying that AEW can't I haven't really watched too much AEW But from the consensus of people that do watch it. They enjoyed a lot more than Monday Night Raw Facts and Monday Night Raw is supposed to be a flagship show They enjoy AEW one because obviously they're getting what they want from the product It seems like Tony Khan listens to the fans and knows what the fans want So it's one of those type of things where it's like You can't beat that why watch a product that they're not gonna listen to me They're not gonna push the people I want to see or they're gonna just make some convoluted storyline But we're gonna watch the same match. We've been watching for I don't know weeks now How many times have you turned on raw and seen the same match you saw the previous week? And then immediately just turn it off because you don't want to see that gets boring Gets very boring gets very redundant. They do the same stuff. It's like between pay-per-views They just go on autopilot and it's it's dull And that's why they lose viewership now Let's get into Roman Reigns and why SmackDown has become the the best version of WWE right now, and it's really because of Roman Reigns Imagine events with a listened to the fan reaction and turned him heel years ago imagine What type of? Character we would have now with Roman Reigns you could easily turn them back face Imagine turning him here when you beat the Undertaker at WrestleMania Imagine the type of nuclear heat real heat not we don't want to see you on TV heat We would have gotten from him and it's like You listen to the fans now when there's no crowd as really no No L and taking a risk and it's like that's cool But even then SmackDown is only being saved by one aspect. What about the rest of the wood? What about the rest of the roster? There's some interesting things going on here and there, but there's a lot of filler and That's not enough to keep people wanting to watch You know, eventually you're gonna have to have something else to a you know I had to smack down because right now. It's just Roman. I'm in this making Smackdown watchable, you know, and so and it all Comes down to once again. This is Vince McMahon Vince McMahon's guy This is the guy that Vince has been pushing for for many years and now he's finally getting this type of praise That Vince has been wanting, but it's like you could have gotten that years ago. Now. I'm not complaining that he is he'll I'm just I'm really showing the facts that WWE they don't listen. Well, I don't want say WWE Vince doesn't listen He does when what he wants when he wants and that's what it comes down to he will never change That's just it. That's just what it is And I think the only time he'll really just change is when people's really just truly stop watching Because I'm gonna be honest with you guys I only watch the YouTube clips because they're easy to digest quick straight to the point I don't have to watch a whole bunch of fillers. I Don't I literally watch YouTube clips I don't even watch raw clips like that. The only reason why I watched The old birds of segments because you guys wanted me to check it out But I barely watch raw segments. I only watch the Roman Reigns segments I know you guys like them. You only care about Roman Reigns. That's the only thing I really care about on the show I'm sorry. They haven't utilized anybody else to the capacity of wanting to check it out. I Check out the pay-per-views and even with the pay-per-views if you guys know is I don't check out all the matches because I Don't care for all the matches. Just be honest at least with NXT I can at least digest majority of the matches that are on a nxt takeover a card. So I don't know Will WWE ever change? Unfortunately not for the foreseeable future as long as Vince McMahon is running things Expect more or less the same like There's a reason why You have people like Tomasso Champion saying they don't want to go to the main roster and I understand why Because they would never really utilize correctly. I'm just be honest with you Like honestly if you an NXT you should not aspire to be in the main on the main roster Until Vince McMahon steps down and we all know Vince is not stepping down He's gonna be in that position until he passes away We can not get anybody can take that or he can't physically do the day-to-day duties And I'm not wishing death upon the guy. I would never wish death upon anybody, you know He loves doing what he you know what he does. So I'm not mad at that I just think he's lost so much touch with how wrestling should really operate nowadays It's it's a different time period. It's not the 80s anymore. It's not the 90s anymore It's not the early 2000s. You got to move differently You got to really be in tune with what people are wanting in social media You know, they always promote Twitter and all this other stuff But you don't even check out what the fans be wanting. You know I'm saying like It's simple. The blueprint is there listen to the fans You know not all the time because not every time the fans are right, but majority of the fans You know saying know what they want to see So if you're able to at least meet them halfway People are gonna want to watch the shows cuz I oh damn they're finally pushing this guy. Oh damn He's finally getting a title opportunity. Oh damn. I'm you know, I'm never get I'm never gotten seen like I've never seen this type of matchup before. This is new. This is fresh. Why not? You did it with Roman you can do it with the rest of the roster you just got to want to So comment down below. Let me know what's your opinions on the state of WWE Do you think it'll get better or do you think it's gonna more or less be the same for the rest of 2021? Hopefully it does get better, but my money would be Definitely bed on the other half of it more or less will probably be the same as it was last year So it sucks to you know, think that WWE is not gonna get better, but hey When it comes to Vince McMahon Setting up legends night It's not a good sign for the rest of the year for WWE But who knows? I mean, you know, it may be something better just right around the corner Hopefully so I appreciate all the love and support roads of 40k appreciate y'all kicking with me. That's the only next one. Peace