The RAW Main Event Tag Team Match

[ben:friendship frog]

Example:
"Tonight! Enemies at the PPV are partners tonight when John Cena teams up with Triple H to face Randy Orton and Batista!"

I've been a WWE fan since 1999 and me and my best friend watch RAW together every week. We watch the stupid skits, the 20 minute interviews, the divas matches but when there's a RAW tag team main event we always skip to the end.

Am I the only one who finds 4 main eventers in a tag match incredibly boring?

[forgottensinpwf]

That may have more to do with the main eventers in the tag match over the actual match itself

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

For the most part I can't stand them either. Particularly in the last few years, it's just an excuse to shoehorn the entire main event roster into one match. At least in the Attitude Era they'd shake it up by adding midcarders into the mix, like teaming Austin with the Hardys Against HHH and E&C.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

I agree that it would be better if the main eventers were mixed in with midcarders - test the waters with those midcarders.

Still, I think it's as good a way as any to give a good main event without burning up the PPV match.

[Lance Uppercut]

depends.

I enjoyed everytime Austin and HBK wrestled as a team. Probably cause they were both so awesome alone, but had considerable tag team experience.

[ejt713]

there was an attempt at mixing this kind of thing up when cena tagged with evan bourne...
but i mena we all know whta happened to evan bourne - - first got rko'd in mid air, and then got injured.....
yeah these tag matches dont seem to work to often

[Free Hat]

Nov 25, 2010 4:21:24 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

For the most part I can't stand them either. Particularly in the last few years, it's just an excuse to shoehorn the entire main event roster into one match. At least in the Attitude Era they'd shake it up by adding midcarders into the mix, like teaming Austin with the Hardys Against HHH and E&C.

Yeah but even then it still got repetitive. I remember a period in early 2000 where it seemed like main events on both Raw and Smackdown consisted of nothing but endless combinations of Rock/Foley/Too Cool vs. DX/Big Show/Radicals

[Deleted]

I miss the days when at least they'd occasionally mix it up by having the WWE and IC champions face off against whoever their challengers were.

Still, it beats that period when every damn week had a handicap match in the main event. The Legacy days were particularly bad for that, though also there were the three weeks between WrestleMania 22 and Backlash where every Raw in between had some combination of Edge, Trips, and Cena in a handicap match.

[James McCloud IS John Godot]

My personal peeve was the Evolution/Four faces eight-man tag Raw main events which, to me at least, seemed to happen every week without fail.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

Nov 26, 2010 6:44:30 GMT -5 James McCloud IS John Godot said:

My personal peeve was the Evolution/Four faces eight-man tag Raw main events which, to me at least, seemed to happen every week without fail.

And it seemed like for whatever reason. Maven somehow was always on the face team against them.

[Jimmy]

The worst to me was a period between, like, 2003-2005 where every week on RAW you'd have a 6 man tag with guys like Jericho, Christian, Tomko, and various other midcard guys. And it would go for 15 minutes because right away they'd go to commercial. And it just bugged the hell out of me because I knew this 6 man tag was just meaningless filler.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

It's weird that Smackdown tends to do this less and has more straight up one on one maim events

[Ryback on a Pole!]

I'm not a fan of them myself.

Maybe I'd like them more if they weren't so over-used.

[percymania]

Usually they do these right before a PPV as a way for opponents to get a little "practice" working with each other before the big money match at the PPV. That's all I ever see it as.

[Fantozzi]

Nov 25, 2010 4:15:01 GMT -5 ben:friendship frog said:

Example:
"Tonight! Enemies at the PPV are partners tonight when John Cena teams up with Triple H to face Randy Orton and Batista!"

I've been a WWE fan since 1999 and me and my best friend watch RAW together every week. We watch the stupid skits, the 20 minute interviews, the divas matches but when there's a RAW tag team main event we always skip to the end.

Am I the only one who finds 4 main eventers in a tag match incredibly boring?

that's because they'll only use the match as filler

[bob]

Nov 25, 2010 4:15:01 GMT -5 ben:friendship frog said:

Example:
"Tonight! Enemies at the PPV are partners tonight when John Cena teams up with Triple H to face Randy Orton and Batista!"

I've been a WWE fan since 1999 and me and my best friend watch RAW together every week. We watch the stupid skits, the 20 minute interviews, the divas matches but when there's a RAW tag team main event we always skip to the end.

Am I the only one who finds 4 main eventers in a tag match incredibly boring?

you should really check out the match where HHH hurt his quad the first time

Austin and HHH vs Jericho and Benoit for the tag titles

even after Trips was hurt this was a great great match

[MolotovMocktail]

This is exactly why ppv buyrates are currently in the crapper (along with the insane prices during a recession). They would give away at least one match that would be a ppv main event, and possibly two, by having the guys who would face each other on ppv do so on free TV. So why, exactly, would we want to see basically the exact same match a week later for $50? If anything, main event guys like Cena, HHH, Orton, Edge, etc. should be used as little as possible on TV and saved for PPV's, like during the 80's and early 90's. This way, the ppv match actually seems special, there is intrigue seeing a match we have never seen before, and the midcarders will have more chance to shine on TV and get over with the fans.