Post by andrew8798 on Nov 9, 2008 1:56:27 GMT -5
Did Meltzer use any facts to compile this list or did he just pull it out of his ass?
From the observer
Several years ago, we did a story on who, based on number of main events and drawing power, would be the strongest legitimate viable candidates for the WWE Hall of Fame.
Our definition of major shows would be every PPV event in company history, plus all Madison Square Garden shows starting with the November 26, 1956, show, when Vince McMahon Sr. took over promotional rights to the arena about 11 months after the combine of Eddie Quinn and Al Haft closed up shop.
We used Madison Square Garden as the base arena along with the PPV shows through 1995, although the role of Madison Square Garden in WWF changed with the 1984 expansion.
It’s time to update it. When WWE moved to monthly PPV shows, we moved away from Madison Square Garden as the base arena to the monthly PPV events as the big shows, although we did include Madison Square Garden sellouts after 1995 for non-TV tapings.
We also awarded bonus points, for selling out Madison Square Garden, or double sellouts including the Felt Forum, as well as for drawing 400,000 buys on PPV, and also for drawing in excess of 600,000 buys on PPV.
This system has its good and bad points. It rewards longevity as a headliner, but for the wrestlers from before the 1984 expansion, with the exception of the champions, most people went from territory-to-territory. Also, during that period, most main events were singles matches with occasional tags. Today, there are a lot of multiple man matches, plus, in recent years, the value of certain match- ups and names as drawing cards has been minimized as people buy the big name shows.
But in more cases, the system will reward those who were on top for the longest period of time and draw in that position.
Our definition of major shows would be every PPV event in company history, plus all Madison Square Garden shows starting with the November 26, 1956, show, when Vince McMahon Sr. took over promotional rights to the arena about 11 months after the combine of Eddie Quinn and Al Haft closed up shop.
We used Madison Square Garden as the base arena along with the PPV shows through 1995, although the role of Madison Square Garden in WWF changed with the 1984 expansion.
It’s time to update it. When WWE moved to monthly PPV shows, we moved away from Madison Square Garden as the base arena to the monthly PPV events as the big shows, although we did include Madison Square Garden sellouts after 1995 for non-TV tapings.
We also awarded bonus points, for selling out Madison Square Garden, or double sellouts including the Felt Forum, as well as for drawing 400,000 buys on PPV, and also for drawing in excess of 600,000 buys on PPV.
This system has its good and bad points. It rewards longevity as a headliner, but for the wrestlers from before the 1984 expansion, with the exception of the champions, most people went from territory-to-territory. Also, during that period, most main events were singles matches with occasional tags. Today, there are a lot of multiple man matches, plus, in recent years, the value of certain match- ups and names as drawing cards has been minimized as people buy the big name shows.
But in more cases, the system will reward those who were on top for the longest period of time and draw in that position.