Instinct Culture's Denise Salcedo recently caught up with WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle, and the Olympic Gold Medallist shared his thoughts on the declining viewership of RAW, NXT, and SmackDown.
"I think that crowds are going to make a huge difference," he said in regards to WWE's rating woes. "It just sucks that right now all these companies are waiting for [live audiences] to return. It’s been very frustrating and I know first hand because I worked as a producer in WWE and being in the meetings it just really sucks to not have the fans there."
"There’s a lot of things we have to do that are different now so it’s going to take a while," Angle continued. "I know we have to wait for this [vaccine] to come through, but it’s gonna take some time. I really think the business will boom afterward. I know the ratings have gone down to an extent but that’s because there’s no fans."
That's certainly contributed (it's not the same watching wrestling without them), but there are many problems in WWE, with creative being somewhere near the top of the list. It's not good, and not even cinematic matches have helped turn things around.
Check out Angle's interview in full below: