Opinion by Fro

WWE Creative Change and Raw Boycott Petition [petitiononline.com]

I just got this e-mail link in the mail a couple hours ago... now hear me out.

For months, WWE has been basically crap, I know it, and WWE fans know it. Yes, there have been some good things that have happened (Smackdown particularly), but the good outweighs the bad by a ton and we all know it.

It's the same crap over and over again, and as a WWE fan for years, something needs to be done about it. How much can a 'diehard' fan possibly take?

These days, every conversation I have with wrestling fans, online or offline, it's about how bad the WWE is, and how can I disagree? It's 95% crap most of the time.

There is a petition. This isn't like other petitions that fall flat on their faces. This is a petition to help bring the product to where it should be. Something needs to be done with the WWE, badly, and ASAP.

You can sign the petition and basically write a message to the WWE about anything you want. These will be snail mailed to Titan Tower, among other places.

It's time someone does something about this product, it's sad to see wrestling this way, so if you have a couple seconds, take the time and sign the petition. I don't feel like getting messages "oh this won't help." You don't know that. Give it a shot, there’s not a thing wrong with giving it a try.

If there are a lot of signatures, it will help. It will give WWE a clue, something they have none of these days. Pass it on to your friends, other message boards, whatever. Try and get as many signatures as you possibly can. Each page of comments will be printed out, and it will be seen by WWE, WWE Advertisers, TNN, and TSN.

I know someone is probably going to whine about “we can’t make a difference in the ratings, we don’t have Neilsen boxes” or “the online fans don’t have enough impact to change the product”. That’s complete bunk… if an advertiser gets a petition from tens of thousands of fans online or TNN does they’re going to be wondering what is wrong with the show.

If 10,000 hardcore fans didn’t buy a PPV, that’s $300,000 lost… if 10,000 fans quit watching completely that’s around four million dollars a year in revenue lost. Even if they don’t buy every PPV, the impact would be over a million dollars if everyone quit watching completely.

We’re not doing that yet, but by signing up for this petition you will allow yourself to network with other fans to be involved in any future efforts.

Here's the current plan, we're going to boycott Raw on June 9th. We may do more later, but as of now we're limiting it to one day because we know that a lot of people don't want to give up watching wrestling completely. Some people can't afford TNA or trading tapes. By boycotting Raw and letting the sponsors, networks, and the WWE about it, we can work towards our goal of positive creative change in the WWE.

I think they think the "hardcore" fanbase will watch no matter what crap they keep throwing at us. This petition for creative change and boycott of Raw on June 9th are designed to dispel those ideas. We're the people who go to the house shows, we're the people who buy merchandise, and we're the people who pay money for Pay-Per-Views.

Since that date is so far away, we can *easily* gain thousands of signatures and get people and the major news sites to take it seriously.

At this point, in a few days we've already amassed over 650 signatures after posts to only a handful of message boards.

The petition is going to be posted on several more message boards, plugged on internet radio shows, and on major wrestling news sites and columns over the next several weeks.
So give it a try, for the sake of wrestling, will you? What's the worst that could happen? It only takes a few seconds and if we all act together, maybe we'll see the people who deserve the top positions in the card finally get them.

WWE Creative Change and Raw Boycott Petition [petitiononline.com]