1. Divas. Cut the Diva tag matches, drop the Bellas, ex-Funkadactyls, and Tamina back to NXT to learn how to wrestle, and downplay sports entertainment in favor of pure wrestling in order to promote idea of female wrestlers being as entertaining as male roster.
2. Tags. Vince doesn't like the tag team division. He hasn't for about two decades. I'd make it more palatable to him with King of the Ring-style tag tournaments, TLC matches, and innovative new matches that capture the audience's imagination again.
3. Raw. Stop opening Raw with 30 minute monologues. This isn't Saturday Night Live. Also, give main event a definitive ending instead of either the run-in, the Dusty finish, or the Dusty finish with a run-in.
4. Smackdown. Make it more relevant with titles actually changing hands, the full roster being available to work either show, and better advertising.
5. ECW. This cult classic promotion was diminished by its purchase from the WWE. Sell it to Tommy Dreamer at a bargain rate; the positive publicity from that act of generosity would increase the WWE's popularity and show the world it isn't afraid of some competition.
6. Race. I was sad when Ron Killings was basically "shucking and jiving" in and out of the ring just to keep working. He is an extremely talented wrestler, and maybe it's too late now, but selling him as a fun babyface was a mistake. Also, New Day should have started as a Nation of Domination reboot, which would have worked as heels or faces. If you're going to play the race card, do it right.
7. NXT. After Samoa Joe broke Tyson Kidd's neck, I'd fire him, regardless of whether or not it was an accident and regardless of his name recognition. No one blames Joe and everyone chalks up Kidd's injury as a fluke accident while the WWE has swept the incident under the carpet, but not only has a talented young superstar lost his career as a result, but the Stu Hart legacy stable has lost an important showcase of talent.
I think NXT should be its own brand, not just a farm promo, and NXT talent moving to the main roster should be a lateral movement instead of "being pushed up," maybe with a trade involved. As one can see with the Ascension and Bo Dallas, creative for the main roster has a hard time writing for younger, more kinetic talent, used to the five-move, all-talk standards set by Ryback and Randy Orton.
8. Stephanie McMahon and Triple H. The Authority has been around for over a year now. Reign in the heel boss angles, which is only being half-heartedly sold, and let's see the other side of the coin for a bit, like the Wyatts running all over the roster, forcing the Authority to go face to "team-up" with face talent to stop it, or their poster boy being more charismatic than THEY are and convincing them that being legit is what's best for business.
9. Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose. I like both of them, but they got too big of a push as singles competitors too quickly. Let's scale them back down to at least a tag team, maybe as a mini-faction with Seth Rollins/Tyler Black again, and see how that goes.
10. Let everyone have their own names. Curtis Axel? No. At the very least, Michael Hennig. Bray Wyatt? Why not Bray Windham? At least the Dudleys are the Dudleys again, and not Devon and Bully Ray.
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