The Power is in Your Hands

In less than a week Cyber Sunday will be airing live on Pay-Per-View.

For the fourth straight year WWE is holding an interactive event in which every match on the card has been influenced by the fans in some way. The concept behind this unique show is that the fans are given different options for each match and then get to vote for what they want. Voting is easy--just go to the Cyber Sunday website and click on the match you would like to vote for.

This year's card includes matches for the main championships of each brand (the WWE television shows--Raw, Smackdown, and ECW). Title matches are supposed to be the most important of matches, so having three of them on a card that the fans get to choose is fairly exciting. For two of those matches the fans get to decide on the opponent for the current champion (Raw Champion Randy Orton is pictured at left). There are three possible opponents to choose from with two actually being potential candidates and one being someone who really isn't main event material. But hey, tt's all up to the other fans to make the decision on that one. The third title match gives fans the chance to choose the guest referee. Again, two out of the three are actual contenders.

The other three matches give options for the type of stipulation fans want to see in a match. For those three I really can't predict what the majority of fans will choose because, quite frankly, all three choices hold a relatively equal entertainment value.

I think that perhaps the most interesting idea about this kind of show is the fact that nobody knows for sure what the outcome of the voting will be. Sure, we can all have our predictions about the most likely candidates but there's still always the chance for a little surprise.

Giving the fans the opportunity to decide what they want to see is probably the easiest way to give back to them. Since the fans are what keep wrestling alive it only makes sense to let them have some solid input into what they are so diligently following. If there was more input allowed in other areas of wrestling there might not be so many people turning away from it.

--Photo borrowed from WWE.com