Wrestling Thread
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With AEW and Darby, I get the fighting champion routine.
But am I in the minority that defending the world championship every single week, sometimes twice in a week on free TV, cheapens world title matches?
For example, Darby faced Pac on Collision on Saturday. They already booked Darby/Okada for this Wednesday, so it’s painfully obvious Pac wasn’t winning on Collision. The match was fine was but the outcome was very predictable.
Maybe this and TK’s love of babyface vs babyface is just new school booking and I don’t understand it.
But am I in the minority that defending the world championship every single week, sometimes twice in a week on free TV, cheapens world title matches?
For example, Darby faced Pac on Collision on Saturday. They already booked Darby/Okada for this Wednesday, so it’s painfully obvious Pac wasn’t winning on Collision. The match was fine was but the outcome was very predictable.
Maybe this and TK’s love of babyface vs babyface is just new school booking and I don’t understand it.
Definitely agree - plus what did pac do to “earn” a title match. It’s inconsistent logic.
I’m think there should be a happy medium between only defending your title on a PLE event and defending it every week, but I’m not sure what it is.
Back in the territory days in Memphis if you didn’t defend it every 30 days you were stripped of the belt. But at least it was a contender and not just a random opponent.
Right that's the thing with AEW.
If TK was booking during the Attitude Era, would he have had Austin defending the title on episodes of Raw in 20-minute competitive matches against Headbanger Thrasher and Taka Michinoku? Granted that would be better than some of the crap they served during that era (cough Brawl for All), but still.
Just because two guys can have a good match together, doesn't mean that match needs to be booked