Extreme Rules 2014: General Post-PPV Reaction

Nothing specific today. I just want to give my general reaction to what happened at the PPV last night. It seems the WWE produced a PPV that would make a lot of fans out there happy and create some buzz. Considering that this was Extreme Rules and not all the matches really had an extreme gimmick to them, the WWE did well.

And it didn't start at Extreme Rules. The build to the PPV was pretty good. Most of the matches had some good development to them. The midget match did. There was a tournament to lead into the IC title match. The diva match could have been developed a lot better. Even the match to put over Rusev further had some build to it in the week leading up to it. I usually point out that the WWE does a poor job developing PPVs in recent years, but they did a better job here and did some good stuff at the actual event.

Could this all be to help with the WWE Network issue? Relying on a cheap price and all that content has not produced the results the WWE would have liked. And a major issue in there is PPV providers dropping them. I noticed a few more have done it recently, not just the satellite providers. This must be a wake-up call for the WWE. They cannot afford to be lazy. If they start pushing a great product again, that will get fans interested in buying the PPVs. That will either lead to PPV providers being pressured into offering WWE PPVs again or these fans being more willing to get the WWE Network. Either way, the WWE wins. That is, if they can keep the ball rolling.