JRGoldman 2,093 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Only two hours of a three hour raw are worth watching, but those two hours are better than a two hour raw would be. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
cwoy2j 3,915 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 If they went back to two hours, the first thing that would get cut is the match times. The pacing of the shows is a lot better now, most segments are worth watching. Even the talking segments don't drag like they use to. You make a good point. If it went back to two hours, I doubt we'd be getting all of these awesome 6 man and regular tag-matches and the occasional 10-20 minute great singles match b/c if I'm not mistaken, those don't generate a lot of ratings. Aren't most of the ratings spikes during in-ring talking and the like? Link to post Share on other sites
Ultimo Necro 2,248 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 They're all trying to watch RAW on the screens behind them. They would rather watch 3 hours of Raw than 1 minute of Impact. Link to post Share on other sites
scraylo187 872 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 The three hour Raw gives us all of these great matches they've been doing...Which means that the 90 minute cut of Raw on Hulu is AMAZING. Link to post Share on other sites
odessasteps 14,335 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 I figured they kept the crap and cut out the good matches on that shortened raw. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
cool arrow 4,121 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 I've never actually watched Raw on Hulu but I've been led to believe that there's no rhyme or reason to the cuts. Link to post Share on other sites
HumanChessgame 2,704 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 I have no problem with it being 3 hours but someone (whomever it is that's always pulling those elaborate statistics out) should calculate how much time of actual wrestling there is along with how much time is devoted to recaps and other such filler. In this age of social media there's really no reason to interject countless recaps of what happened earlier. It would be nice if they cut out a bunch of that as well as the overly long segments of someone (usually Cena) going out to the ring and doing some promo that never ends. Nitro being 3 hours didn't bug me unless they had some never-ending NWO segment because they would actually have decent undercard matches on there. Give some of the undercard guys who can actually put on entertaining matches some meaningful feuds and angles and cut out the filler. Link to post Share on other sites
Bustronaut 4,302 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 The Raw where Vince bought WCW had 14 minutes of wrestling, over 7 matches, 2 of which were tags, so I wouldn't complain about filler these days, it's pretty light, comparatively. Link to post Share on other sites
Joe Fixit 44 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Last week's Raw had 77 minutes of wrestling, according to profightdb. Link to post Share on other sites
Niners Fan in CT 15,602 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 I have no issue watching the show live. If something comes on I don't want to see or it goes to commercial I can just switch to whatever game is on, etc. Link to post Share on other sites
Big Fresh 4,553 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Since I rarely watch live and fast forward through shit that doesn't interest me, I like 3 hours. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
Omega 295 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 And Daniel Bryan's bad luck continues. He needs neck surgery http://nodq.com/wwe/401943180.shtml Link to post Share on other sites
Daddy-O 4 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Three hours becomes one hour with a DVR. I tried watching RAW live after watching it on DVR, it sucked. Guess I was just spoiled. Link to post Share on other sites
L_W_P 2,366 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Your winner and NEW WWE World Heavyweight Champion... John Cena? Bray Wyatt? HHH? Batista? Randy Orton? Kane? Link to post Share on other sites
Go2Sleep 1,492 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Luckily the sheets are saying it's just a minimally invasive procedure and he would only miss a few weeks. Hopefully they don't strip him of the title. Just set up a #1 contender's match and run a huge Shield/Evolution gimmick match as the main for Payback. Link to post Share on other sites
L_W_P 2,366 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 So just have Kane beat him down for a stretcher job and come back the night after the PPV then? Link to post Share on other sites
RunningFromAmerica 1,485 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 They'd probably just go with Kane, unless they think Batista is worth placating and can be booked around. But do you stick the title on a huy who just nixed a program? HHH is too busy with his real job, Cena would get booed more heavily than ever, I can't see them reverting to Orton. A possible problem they have is Money In The Bank PPV is only 6 weeks away, so any more problems and Daniel Bryan misses two PPVs. Battleground is 3 weeks after MITB; it's a tight PPV schedule until Summerslam. On a related note, who will win Money In The Bank. I like Wyatt for it, just because the idea of waiting for the sheephead wipe and the big entrance with the briefcase just seems too obviously dramatic to miss. Plus the Bryan-Wyatt feud was essentially left open. Link to post Share on other sites
Big Fresh 4,553 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Cesaro is gonna win MITB. Link to post Share on other sites
Big Fresh 4,553 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 People on Twitter are saying Alicia Fox quit. Bummer for Total Divas. Link to post Share on other sites
Casey 8,738 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 She supposedly quit, LIVE!, on the WWE App. Link to post Share on other sites
Niners Fan in CT 15,602 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 People on Twitter are saying Alicia Fox quit. Bummer for Total Divas. It was apparently on the WWE App so I would have to assume that it is..... ah never mind. Too bad she quit. I'll miss her. She was getting quite good. Link to post Share on other sites
RunningFromAmerica 1,485 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Cesaro is gonna win MITB. I think in the previous times of two MITBs he's win the World Heavyweight one, but I'm not sure he'll win this one and it might be too much, too soon anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
piranesi 15,917 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 "No, No...This isn't Alicia right now. This is Victoria Crawford, bro. Yeah. Look it up in the "dirt sheets!" And I'm talking to the "bookers" in the "back" and I'm not going to take this "Jobbing" anymore!!!!" Please let them be trying a worked-diva-shoot! Just for the acting. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
RunningFromAmerica 1,485 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 People on Twitter are saying Alicia Fox quit. Bummer for Total Divas. It was apparently on the WWE App so I would have to assume that it is..... ah never mind. Too bad she quit. I'll miss her. She was getting quite good. I thought she was with Barrett? Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 281 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 People on Twitter are saying Alicia Fox quit. Bummer for Total Divas.It was apparently on the WWE App so I would have to assume that it is..... ah never mind. Too bad she quit. I'll miss her. She was getting quite good. I thought she was with Barrett?IVE GOT SOME BAD NEWS FOR YOUI don't know. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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