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
I think that shows that WWE fans are fans of WWE rather than fans of wrestling.
Takeshita is still so good. I really hope his English gets good enough that they will feel confident enough to give him a run with the world title
Does Darby do promos?
Okada doesn’t do many promos? Just some random backstage stuff or interrupts omega promo.
MJF does and page tries to but heck wwf had warrior as champ and his promos are a train wreck.
but that was because Vince was obsessed with body builders, and that blew up in his face quickly.
Exactly but I never thought it was a good idea - makes ya wonder how he never gave Luger the belt wasn’t he in that wbf nonsense?
I'm pretty sure almost every week Smackdown does better total ratings the Dynamite and Collision combined. Could be wrong though.
Thought Dynamite was a good show, however I am not a fan of Darby defending the title every week against random people.
The world title shouldn't be defended on every show every week.
When MJF wins the title back he's certainly not going to do it.
On another note, the part of the show with MJF walking by every bald guy in AEW was really good.
Thought Dynamite was a good show, however I am not a fan of Darby defending the title every week against random people.
The world title shouldn't be defended on every show every week.
When MJF wins the title back he's certainly not going to do it.
On another note, the part of the show with MJF walking by every bald guy in AEW was really good.
I think he did really well in AEW. I’d hope WWE would give him another chance.
Gas prices so high Jacob Fatu might start using his breaks!
Watching this old Nitro from 2000 and I can say that it's bad but at least it isn't boring. This is what crash TV looks like.
That's my guilty pleasure. It's totally absurd and objectively bad but there's always stuff happening. If you are hating a segment, don't worry, there'll be a new one in thirty seconds. And it tickles the nostalgia.
And you still have some good in 2000 WCW:
- Terry Funk being Terry Funk
- Big Poppa Pump and Booker T finally getting a top singles push
- the cruiserweights in that era were basically the precursor to TNA's X Division
- Sid was actually really over at that time until he broke his leg in half on national TV