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Post by Prince Petty on May 8, 2019 0:10:10 GMT -5
What's the problem? There are at least two women on each show, isn't that enough? Sure, they might only get five minutes of screen time, but what the hell do you broads want? Jeez.
This company is imploding so damned quickly, I half expect to see Tony Khan on Raw in a few weeks, bragging that he bought the WWE out from under his dad's nose.
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Post by adamclark52 on May 8, 2019 2:11:40 GMT -5
What's the problem? There are at least two women on each show, isn't that enough? Sure, they might only get five minutes of screen time, but what the hell do you broads want? Jeez. This company is imploding so damned quickly, I half expect to see Tony Khan on Raw in a few weeks, bragging that he bought the WWE out from under his dad's nose. I would only accept that if he pulled the “double-G, double-O, double-N, double-E” on Jeff Jarrett
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Post by stevec484 on May 8, 2019 8:29:48 GMT -5
Will have to see how the Smackdown ratings do this week. Maybe they think the excessive amount of women's wrestling has been causing people to tune out during the show
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Post by Cronant on May 8, 2019 8:39:25 GMT -5
There is always something going on with Smackdown womens matches, where they announce a match during the week and change it an hour before the show. I can't imagine how frustrating that has to be.
They literally had Carmella show up at the arena, give an interview about a 6 women tag match 2 hours before the show, then change the match and delete said interview. This also happened with the 4-way to face Asuka that just turned into Charlotte/Asuka. They all showed up at the arena hyping that match up for it to switch right before the show.
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Post by brentreznor on May 8, 2019 8:54:17 GMT -5
I mean sure, but it’s not even a women’s issue. Pretty much nobody gets a chance regardless of gender. Agreed, 80% of the women are booked poorly. But the same could be said for the men. It's not "WWE doesn't know how to book women", it's "WWE doesn't know how to book"
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2019 9:39:06 GMT -5
There is always something going on with Smackdown womens matches, where they announce a match during the week and change it an hour before the show. I can't imagine how frustrating that has to be. They literally had Carmella show up at the arena, give an interview about a 6 women tag match 2 hours before the show, then change the match and delete said interview. This also happened with the 4-way to face Asuka that just turned into Charlotte/Asuka. They all showed up at the arena hyping that match up for it to switch right before the show. Yeah, I can only imagine how frustrating that can be. You show up in your ring gear and everything, only to be told that you’re not being used or your match got scrapped for time. On top of that, you’ve got those who haven’t even gotten a chance to be used at all.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2019 9:40:07 GMT -5
Yeah, my personal gripe is just certain talent being left off entirely on top of the constant changes/cut off time for matches. Aside from that, the IICONICS are supposed to be a team that got lucky at Mania and are now having a hard time getting their shit together. It’s basically how they’ve always been booked, so I have no problem with them or the Kairi/Asuka pairing. I think time cutting is very poor unless it's just done across gender which idk maybe it is. The problem on Smackdown is they have to wait until Becky loses her belt so they can restructure the roster on Smackdown. Clearly, this was not their initial plan which is why I think we got a sort of awkwardly time Kairi/Asuka (maybe they wanted to call up Io idk) pairing because I believe they had plans for Asuka to still be women's champion for MITB. So whenever Charlotte gets her title back I am sure the smackdown women roster will get their time back. Or Charlotte and her feud will. Yeah, there’s absolutely no doubt that things will change a bit once Charlotte beats Becky at MITB. I just really hope she does at this point lol
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Post by Hypnosis on May 8, 2019 10:20:54 GMT -5
There is always something going on with Smackdown womens matches, where they announce a match during the week and change it an hour before the show. I can't imagine how frustrating that has to be. They literally had Carmella show up at the arena, give an interview about a 6 women tag match 2 hours before the show, then change the match and delete said interview. This also happened with the 4-way to face Asuka that just turned into Charlotte/Asuka. They all showed up at the arena hyping that match up for it to switch right before the show. Yeah, I can only imagine how frustrating that can be. You show up in your ring gear and everything, only to be told that you’re not being used or your match got scrapped for time. On top of that, you’ve got those who haven’t even gotten a chance to be used at all. All the underutilized women should just show up in street clothes until they're consistently given more time to wrestle at this point.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2019 10:50:50 GMT -5
There is always something going on with Smackdown womens matches, where they announce a match during the week and change it an hour before the show. I can't imagine how frustrating that has to be. They literally had Carmella show up at the arena, give an interview about a 6 women tag match 2 hours before the show, then change the match and delete said interview. This also happened with the 4-way to face Asuka that just turned into Charlotte/Asuka. They all showed up at the arena hyping that match up for it to switch right before the show. Yeah, I can only imagine how frustrating that can be. You show up in your ring gear and everything, only to be told that you’re not being used or your match got scrapped for time. On top of that, you’ve got those who haven’t even gotten a chance to be used at all. Hell, a lot of them have been very vocal about it. Wouldn't be at all surprised if this is part of what led to Sasha's thing.
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on May 8, 2019 11:27:49 GMT -5
The most disgusting thing is that the IIConics were seemingly restricted to a couple of 2 minute promos that didn't even make it to air!
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Post by cabbageboy on May 8, 2019 12:34:56 GMT -5
Why the shock for the Iconics? I tend to think the whole point of them getting the women's tag belts was just to bury the belts, which was kinda what Sasha was frustrated with. I dare say Sasha might be a big reason why WWE seems to have scaled back the whole women's revolution of late. After all, if I had put the title on someone multiple times, let her be involved in the first women's PPV main events, first women's tag champ of the 21st Century, etc. and she still was a malcontent and walked out over doing a job I might be inclined to wonder if there was any point to pushing the women. It's not like ratings and attendance haven't plummeted since they've done this.
As far as SD goes, consider the following talent that weren't booked in a match last night for TV: Aleister Black, Apollo Crews, Aiden English, Buddy Murphy (who hasn't even made TV since the draft), Chad Gable (again, hasn't made TV since the shakeup), Elias, the Colons, Balor, Luke Harper (who knows what his deal is at this point), the Sanity guys, Lars Sullivan (who was in the backstage vignette), Matt Hardy, R-Truth (in same vignette), Heavy Machinery (another skit), Orton (post match attack, but not a match), Reigns, Rusev, Nakamura, Shelton Benjamin, Sheamus (where is he?), and Sin Cara. Those are just the men that weren't doing anything last night.
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Post by MrElijah on May 8, 2019 14:16:14 GMT -5
I agree with all this on principle, but I’m racking my brain trying to figure out how to give EVERYONE their shine under the current TV structure where the only way they kind of give a damn about you is seemingly a guaranteed 15 minutes every week. Rotate who gets the majority/main focus of the time. Say it's June: -Week 1, Main Event angles -Week 2, Women's angles -Week 3, IC/Tag Team -Week 4, mix and match.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2019 15:04:24 GMT -5
I agree with all this on principle, but I’m racking my brain trying to figure out how to give EVERYONE their shine under the current TV structure where the only way they kind of give a damn about you is seemingly a guaranteed 15 minutes every week. Rotate who gets the majority/main focus of the time. Say it's June: -Week 1, Main Event angles -Week 2, Women's angles -Week 3, IC/Tag Team -Week 4, mix and match. I feel like that’s what SD tends to do, but it usually comes up short for the women.
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Post by stevec484 on May 8, 2019 15:59:03 GMT -5
I agree with all this on principle, but I’m racking my brain trying to figure out how to give EVERYONE their shine under the current TV structure where the only way they kind of give a damn about you is seemingly a guaranteed 15 minutes every week. Rotate who gets the majority/main focus of the time. Say it's June: -Week 1, Main Event angles -Week 2, Women's angles -Week 3, IC/Tag Team -Week 4, mix and match. what if you get a hot main event angle? just cut it's time because it's someone else's turn? i don't see that working
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on May 8, 2019 16:18:29 GMT -5
If they bothered putting actual television angles meant to resovle themselves on television up instead of only cramming in everyone who will be on the PPV, they could actually use their roster.
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Post by markymark on May 8, 2019 16:48:45 GMT -5
So who would be AJ Lee this time?
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2019 16:56:19 GMT -5
Sad that we're already back to them being underutilized so quickly. After Ronda left they said "new plan, let's do what we did before with the women" and here we are.
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Post by theironyuppie on May 8, 2019 17:58:00 GMT -5
I think time cutting is very poor unless it's just done across gender which idk maybe it is. The problem on Smackdown is they have to wait until Becky loses her belt so they can restructure the roster on Smackdown. Clearly, this was not their initial plan which is why I think we got a sort of awkwardly time Kairi/Asuka (maybe they wanted to call up Io idk) pairing because I believe they had plans for Asuka to still be women's champion for MITB. So whenever Charlotte gets her title back I am sure the smackdown women roster will get their time back. Or Charlotte and her feud will. Yeah, there’s absolutely no doubt that things will change a bit once Charlotte beats Becky at MITB. I just really hope she does at this point lol Yeah, I think logically it’s the best thing for the rosters and even for Becky, but I fear Vince is just going to give Becky SuperCena booking and win both matches clean. Speaking of Ronda BTW, she’s at the Fox Upfronts next week.
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