WWC’s Weekly TV Showcases Fundamental Flaws en Route to 50th Anniversary

World Wrestling Council (WWC) is slated to celebrate 50 years as an established promotion this coming June with their 50th Anniversary event. However, as we close in on it, a problem that has been a constant with WWC once again rears it’s ugly head. That being a very poor weekly television program. WWC has an established television deal with Wapa television, airing every Saturday and Sunday at 1pm. The biggest television station in Puerto Rico. It’s had this deal for decades and it’s the only wrestling promotion on the island that gets paid for television. However, the quality of the program hardly reflects it.

WWC: Flaws on Television as 50th Anniversary Approaches

Despite it’s current string of success with it’s live events, the television show barely shows any of what makes these events seem so hot. As the weeks have gone by, we see less and less of the actual matches. To the point that out of 10 match cards, only 2 matches get televised. Instead, more and more promos take up the air time. However, these aren’t exactly very inspired promos. These are instead an abundance of short, generic, shouty promos where wrestlers simply shout their opponent’s name, name the city and arena the event takes place in, promise to win and so on. There is hardly any real character progression involved in these. Ironically, if we do see any character progression, it’s from the matches we barely see.

What causes this, exactly? WWC’s production is pretty bare bones despite it getting a fair amount of money for it’s programming. Commentators will come into studio to quickly fill up the timeslot with clearly no supervision as lots of blunders make their way into the show and the show is edited as soon as possible. Word of mouth is that the shows air Saturday and Sunday and the next batch of shows are already done by Monday. And rather obviously upon watching these, there is no quality assurance.

Headed to the 50th Anniversary

WWC is preparing itself for what is supposed to be it’s biggest event ever. However, yet again, the company is starting to be marred by poor presentation. It seems the company seems to simply lean on the idea of the 50th Anniversary show being all that’s needed to keep interest going. At the same time as talents start to return and attendance is going up, we start to see creative quality slipping as well. As promised matches are either not delivered or shorthanded in some manner, constant rematches despite a large roster size start to creep up and it’s storytelling borders between simple and just lazy.

Sometimes, matches are directly harmed by the poor television quality. Best example being the recent Cezar Bononi (of AEW and NXT notoriety) vs. Intelecto 5 Estrellas Universal title match where both commentators and fans had no idea who Cezar Bononi was. Leading to a very poor match that wound up edited to be short for TV. Making what was on paper the very interesting story of former Universal Champion Steve Corino’s student being curious about the company’s legacy, on it’s 50th anniversary no less, just wind up being a completely meaningless match.

Things will not be pretty for WWC once their 50th Anniversary passes. Especially now that it’s pretty clear that producer Jose Roberto is likely leaving afterwards. He’s the seems to be the only person in WWC to have shown any actual interest in pushing the company forward. Nobody else seems to show concern about the product.

What Does the Future Hold?

Nobody seems to show concern, nor the interest in hiring anyone that could come in to give the company the much needed love it’s production needs. When one was hired last year, Hector Frodo Caban, who is currently one of IMPACT Wrestling’s Spanish broadcasters, they were simply not interested in paying him for extra work. Frodo is credited for the success of LAWE’s OnDemand service. Currently, WWC doesn’t even have any plans for broadcasting it’s 50th Anniversary in any way, shape or form. An incredible lost opportunity, without a doubt.

As things currently stand, the company’s official Facebook page does a far better job at presenting the product of WWC, thanks to the assistance of the local wrestling media. Site’s, influencers and such like Contralona, Lucha Libre Online, Carlos Toro, etc. are the ones that actually seem to bother creating content that will assist the wrestlers in developing their characters in a territory where fans far prefer that aspect over match quality. None of this makes it’s way to the TV show under any capacity. It is all strictly Facebook. However, it won’t likely last forever. Eventually, the few people that bother to manage the Facebook page as such may either get tired of it, or leave.

How will things go after the 50th Anniversary? Given it’s not the first, third or even fifth time WWC ends up in such a state, the company will likely just march on, regardless. It all depends, ironically enough, on what interest they can muster for their live events. Which is stifled by it’s poor weekly television. A vicious circle that has plagued WWC for years.