Russo gives credit to WWE for making WrestleMania into a Superbowl-esque event, and he thinks they’d probably sell out WrestleMania each year regardless of who’s main-eventing. However, if their goal is to continue to attract new fans, the new style of professional wrestling is not what they should be highlighting because that’s not a mainstream style.
Vito thinks that WWE should make NXT into its own brand and this would give fans an alternative option in terms of what to watch on a Monday night. He thinks if NXT were to go head to head against RAW on Mondays, NXT would actually end up drawing more numbers than RAW. This would also create a competitive environment again, similar to the Monday Night Wars back in the day.
Russo points out that some fans might jump from RAW to NXT, but the majority of the NXT audience would be the smart marks. For this reason, he doesn’t think the NXT roster would ever develop bigger stars than RAW roster.
That sums up today’s episode of Vince Russo’s The Brand. You can listen to the show yourself anytime here, and I’ll catch ya tomorrow for another recap!
