You think so? I feel like the only children that watch wrestling are kids who have had male role models turn them onto it in the first place. I mean it airs at 9pm. Besides,the power would still be in the hands of the adults. I'm sure you'll have some kids who stumbled upon wrestling themselves but from my experiences kids pick that up from adults just like NBA or NFL. It's just not something I see kids up and do on their own. I kinda still stand by my original statement,if the more hardcore fans stopped watching eventually it would become noticeable enough for them to change things. and if they Pg'd it all the way up,I'm sure we'd get a new WCW/ECW or better TNA to watch from the lack of an entire audience not being catered to.
That's probably another reason they started Raw at 8, so both shows start at 8, and 8 is like primetime for kids.
But me personally, I was put onto wrestling from other kids. They were always talking about Goldberg, NWO, Rock, Stone Cold, etc. so I got into wrestling to keep up with the discussions. Plus back then, it wasn't targeted to kids. The violent fights, the half naked Divas, funny promos with sex jokes, when you're a kid, that's shit you want to see lol It was easier to get into back then. Now? Probably not so easy.
With the product targeted to the kids, the power will always be with the parents because they have the money and parents aren't going to let their kids watch wrestling if they have blood, or T N' A, or cursing or adult jokes. And now there's a lot more parents watching what their kids watch. I know if my mom would've saw me watch the Katie Vick skit, I wouldn't be able to watch wrestling again.
And Vince is a stubborn guy. He wants things to be ran his way, but blames other people when they don't work out. He already knows about the blogs and the wrestling websites and Youtube videos people make bashing the product. He knows what the people want or at least he has people on his staff (like J.R.) who know what the people want - he just doesn't want to do it. Which leads me to believe that the way they're doing things right now is making them more money than if they went out hired better writers, got better booking, better talent scouts and had more intense (potentially injury-risking) matches and concentrated on making good product instead of making the most money.
I agree with you, but it just that's only half of the solution. It'd take more than people to stop watching and stop buying. WWE needs competition. One of the other federations has to step up and put out good product that young adults are into and make good money from it. Enough so that Vince will want a slice.
Plus it'd be easier to draw people away from WWE if there is another company putting out good product. TNA could've been it, but their product isn't that much better than WWE's. WWE and their PG product will be seen as the "baby" wrestling company by teens and young adults and will move on to the new company that caters to them. I'm convinced that's the only way things will change.