The WWE Network is a subscription-based 24/7 video streaming system that was launched on February 24th, 2014 by WWE Inc.

The network offers fans access to all WWE weekly programming including Monday Night Raw, Friday Night SmackDown, Main Event, and NXT. Along with these shows a subscriber will be given all twelve WWE Pay-Per-View events. All this for the low low price of … $9.99 (They have made that abundantly clear).

Aside from its flagships shows, the network also provides a large dose of nostalgia making available past WWE, WCW, and ECW Pay-Per-Views as well as old episodes of Monday Night Raw and Monday Nitro. Original programming includes countdown and reality shows as well as featured documentary-style and behind-the-scenes type footage.

The problem now facing WWE is that the network is not living up to its expectations and with so much time and money invested they are left scrambling around and trying to figure how they could increase subscription numbers. The network is currently being offered for free all throughout the month of November – including the Survivor Series Pay-Per-View which is one the company’s top-four events. It is never a good sign when you are giving away something you are supposed to be selling.

When the network was first set to launch earlier this year, WWE pulled out all the stars they could in order to help promote their latest endeavor. Hulk Hogan made a much-appreciated return to WWE and was instrumental in pushing the network on the fans. It's always nice to see Hogan on WWE TV but his influence on popular culture is not what it was once and nobody was going to subscribe because Hulkster told them to, brother.

What does the future hold for the WWE Network? Your guess is as good as mine. In fact, what does the future hold for the wrestling industry as a whole? The network was supposed to revitalize the business once again but all it has done is sour it even more.

There are many reasons why the network isn't working out – probably many backstage reasons we will never know about – but there are some in plain sight. These are the top 10 reasons why the WWE Network is failing:

4 10. Forced Desperation

I understand how selling anything requires a certain level of repetition. Your sales pitch is important and sometimes, when it doesn't seem to be working, you may need to lower your standards or resort to some desperate ploy. The WWE has taken their sales pitch to a whole new level of desperation. The network is forced upon the public week in and week out and is mentioned on a continuous loop throughout all its programming. The price of the network (which is $9.99, in case you didn't know) has been repeatedly incorporated into promos and segment. The desperation that comes across when trying to sell the network leads one to believe that the network can't be all that great to begin with if the WWE feel they need to constantly forced it down the throats of of its viewers.

3 9. Current Product is Poor

The current product being produced by the WWE is far away, and perhaps too far gone, from the product of its glory days. There is nothing terribly exciting going on right now that makes people feel that they need to watch WWE. There was a time when it felt like if you missed one week of Raw, you would be missing something monumental. These days, after missing a week or two or three, it feels as though you're picking back up where you left off anyway. There are no longer massive stars on your television each Monday night. There is one at the show: John Cena. There is another one sitting at home: Brock Lesnar. Then there are the rest: the perpetual mid-card WWE talent. Look, it doesn't matter how low the cost is ($9.99 by the way), people will not pay for a poor product and when they do feel like watching some wrestling, they will switch to the USA Network and enjoy a few hours on a different bill.

2 8. Pay-Per-View Quality

The most appealing aspect of the WWE Network is that a subscriber would receive all of WWE's monthly Pay-Per-Views, including WrestleMania. That alone may be the sole reason people have signed up for the network and that would be reason enough to subscribe... if the Pay-Per-View events still felt like Pay-Per-View events. The Pay-Per-View is supposed to feel like a big deal or an epic conclusion, but they just feel like something you could watch on Raw. The WWE World Heavyweight Championship is not scheduled to be defended again until the 2015 Royal Rumble. The latest Hell in a Cell event featured a recycled match between John Cena and Randy Orton as the co-main event, along with a Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins match – two guys who are awesome to watch and having them settle their score inside of the cell made sense, but the main event of any Pay-Per-View should involve the champion.

1 7. Overestimated Love