WATCH RAW?? MAKE ME!!

For the last couple of months I have broken a habit of a lifetime. SHOCKER.....Yes it's happened, I've stopped watching RAW EVERY Monday night.

Now, my guilty pleasure in life consists of viewing weekly indy shows such as Lucha Underground, Ring of Honor, and WWE Develpopement brand NXT. 

Oh no not another one of those smarky fans i hear you say?? Well I shoot that argument straight down. My reasoning for putting those shows ahead of WWE are simple. They are an easy watch. They are only on for an hour and keep you hooked from start until finish.

Yes a load of you say ROH is superkick....suicide dive....superkick....dive off the top rope.....superkick......repeat!! Although this is highly exaggerated, it really is all the show needs to be. They keep it simple, they let their talking happen in the ring, with fast, crisp, exciting matches. They only have one hour viewing per week to produce, so this makes for a really clean, well put together product.

 I watch the show for great wrestling matches and that's what you get. Its only an hour, so you don't need over produced, over written, story lines. And the matches are more free and not constrained in any way.

 In my opinion, after I watch the show I feel like, hell they left every bit of themselves in that ring there. 

Lucha Underground is a little different. They have shown us a nice alternative style to wrestling tv production and storylines.

This is my favorite wrestling show of the week. it's unique style has me hooked and wanting more and more every time I watch it. 

They have a movie like style of back stage promo and story telling, and it works fantastically well. This mixed with the fantastic Lucha and indy style action in the ring makes for a really great product!! They have seemed to find the perfect balance between story lines, production, exciting matches and gimmicks. 

So like ROH they have one hour of great wrestling action. But what makes it more special is the chaining of the shows! I can't wait to see what happens there next week. 

So this brings me onto WWE. I will always love WWE, and will never hate or bash them. If I hear there is a great match on RAW, I'll find it and watch it. I will never say I don't watch WWE or I refuse to watch WWE.

 I look at the PPV cards. If I see a match i think will be great, I put the network on the next day and I watch it. 

The problem is, I don't enjoy watching the full shows.

There are various reasons for this. I think the most important reason is INVESTMENT.

In three hours of RAW and two Hours of SmackDown, there are few and far between moments that can justify me watching the full shows every single week. Why is this???