The idea of a TV-14 product for WWE has reportedly been dropped by Stephanie McMahon according to a new report.
Ever since 2008, the WWE has been presenting a PG product to its fans. This meant no more blood, less hardcore segments and the banning of many “bad” words. This remained the same until very recently when there were rumours that WWE would change to a TV-14 product.
However, Triple H recently revealed that they won’t be making the jump. It was apparently Stephanie McMahon who felt that since things were doing well currently, they didn’t need to change the formula.
Dave Meltzer recently discussed the situation on the Wrestling Observer Radio.
“That’s not gonna happen now yet.” Meltzer said. “That was one of the new things. Andrew knows the whole story but there were memos and everything. I mean it was planned. And I think it’s the new regime and that could be Stephanie instead of Vince. You know Vince maybe was considering it. Stephanie’s thing is you know we don’t need it. And they don’t. Before when things were down, things were declining, you kind of go what can we do to reverse the decline. When things are going up and haven’t done it, you don’t have to go like, ‘Hey, you know, we got to come up with some ideas to make things go up. And they’re doing swearing so maybe we got to do that one now. “
“AEW is not going up and we are going up. ’ So why do we need to fight them on their own. To do what they did, that stopped working. The trajectory of everything, it’s kind of like… Yeah, that’s probably a decision we shouldn’t make right now. So they didn’t. I actually congratulate them for reversing course based on analyzing what’s happened in the last four months.” (H/T ThirstyForNews)
The current product seems to work so we might have to wait a while before we get to see some of the stuff from before 2008.
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