RAW expanding to 3 hours EACH WEEK starting in July!

Why watch the show?? Nobody here clearly enjoys it. If you did, you would be delighted it was been expanded. I read nothing but complaints on here every week at how bad RAW is!!

This isn't a post directly squarely at you, so I hope you don't think I'm coming across very aggressive towards you. More that I've seen this said a few times recently and it's an argument which drives me nuts.

The reason we complain so much is because we love the show so much. That may sound like faulty logic at first, so I'll expand. Most people continue to watch wrestling because they know every now and again, we're going to get a moment that makes it all worth while; The "Month of Punk", the Nexus, MITB cash ins, swerves and twists we didn't see coming but which are brilliant. Most wrestling fans on here have followed the product for years and we only want to see WWE thrive and rediscover it's form on a consistent basis.

The reason why we moan and complain is because we can see how much potential is there and how great the product could be quite easily, but instead of getting to enjoy that, we have to sit back and watch Vince and co. ruin the potential. Its like a group of football fans who complain about a manager; it's possible to adore and love the club while still getting frustrated with the direction those in charge are leading it. And that's what's happening here with WWE.

Everyone could see the potential of bringing Brock in, building him up for a year and going for a big, BIG pay off at somewhere like Mania. Something like that could have provided months upon months of tension and good story telling. So of course people get frustrated when Cena beats him and then is doing 90s comedy three weeks later. Every few months, we have something which we can get excited about but that WWE ultimately ruins. We complain because we want this company, this product and this industry to re-experience a boom period, and we see it could if some people could get their heads out of their asses. Instead, we're stuck watching the product die a slow death.

This 3-Hour Raw thing is yet another example. Raw is not a packed show which has no time for midcard stories or development of other characters. it's a show which is already crammed with recaps, filler and pointlessness. A third hour is only going to provide yet more of this time-wasting material. I would love if this was used to actually build people and angles up, but they already have plenty of time they aren't using for that right now, so they won't be using the time efficently for 3 hours either. Worse, the move from 2 to 3 hours is one of the main things WCW was always given out about for, and it was held up as a historic example of a stupid move for the product at the time.

As wrestling fans, we want to see WWE thrive. But there's absolutly no evidence to show that this move to three hours is going to bring anything more than yet more filler and nonsense, and on top of that, cause further burn out for both writers and fans alike. If the product was at a pique, where ratings were doing really well and there wasn't enough time to cram everything in, then I could accept the decision. But it's because I am a fan, it's because we do love WWE, that many people here will watch the show and complain about how stupid some decisions are.