If you look at stuff like TNA back when they went to Mondays, I don't know how anyone can claim that a wrestling show will be able to truly rival WWE. What draws for WWE is the brand and the viewers that they've kept. They have a long established history, and that will never change.
They have the production quality as well as the shit load of money, connections and better TV deals.
It airs in more places around the world, which is why people across the internet talk about it more.
>>11899334This is a good way of seeing it. /mu/ examples would be like The Smile and Radiohead. Basically the same core band members everyone likes but its a side project and they're not Radiohead, so even some /mu/ fags don't even really listen to them.
Something important to notice is that NXT really is the first big thing that WWE has done outside of RAW and Smackdown since like Heat and Velocity, and those were in different time when wrestling was more popular.
205 Live was put onto Raw's hours, it wasn't really a brand until it got pushed onto the Network.
Like, even NXT barely got paid attention to and was treated like some weird 205 thing, you can look at the stuff with Lowki and Axel and the other guys on the first 3 seasons or so.
Raw is the biggest name in wrestling. Most people don't know about things that happened prior to the wrestling boom. 1980s-2008 is probably the period that people who remember wrestling from childhood periods or boom periods would have the knowledge of, and that's mainly WCW/WWE. What was around then? Raw, Smackdown, Nitro, maybe Thunder.
