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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Oct 11, 2021 15:33:52 GMT -5
I'll partially concede by saying an NXT championship does serve a purpose, however, there is no need for a secondary title. My issue with the championships on a development level is these are the talent that should be getting a good push out of the gate when called up to the main roster. It is an odd conundrum, as you want fans to take some notice of these stand-outs, but if you have them debut as a champion only to have them job to a main roster talent, it diminishes the title since the champion would not be able to put the belt on the line. This is my reasoning for development titles to be something else, like a medal or trophy. I know I'm splitting hairs over props, but these props do hold signicance to the story being told. I would make a medal system for the developmental talent to strive for and earn. These medals would be used for talent who could be in line for a push on the main roster, and would allow them to "try out" on Raw or Smackdown. No need for them to come out with it, as they forfeit the medal for the opportunity to wrestle a bigger name. The developmental talent win/lose/or draws according to what Vince want for that talent going forward. Not every medal winner will win on the main roster, nor would their debut be set in stone. If they lose, then they should go back to developmental, but there are different stories that can be told. A multi-time medal winner that loses every chance they have could become a sympathetic underdog that fans might lean towards hoping one day they'll "make it." Another scenario could find a medal winner getting his debut, and instead of having a match at all, they destroy the popular name they were supposed to wrestle, setting up a new talent and a compelling feud for them to begin their main roster career. Again, splitting hairs with the props, but the handling of Kross' debut really should never have happened while he was still the NXT champion, and aided in exposing the problems between the NXT and Raw/Smackdown rosters. It’s not silly to call championships props. If you are watching a show where someone loses a wedding ring should you not care because it’s just a prop? No because in the reality of the show it is something important. If they are champions in NXT then ideally they should be the best of developmental and therefore equal to some of the main roster at least. A hierarchy could be NXT talent-WWE jobber/low carder-NXT Champion/WWE midcarder-WWE Champion (any belt ideally). I guess my frustration with the NXT having champions is their presence on the main roster. You would imagine that the NXT champion would want to bring the belt and defend it on the main roster. They shouldn't want to be in developmental, and winning and defending a title in NXT seems pointless when the real money and glory is on Raw and Smackdown. |
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Oct 11, 2021 23:09:08 GMT -5
Turning Main Event into something like Dark where it's generally vs local workers with the occasional midcarder vs midcarder match but with local workers that get a chance to look good so that the winner in turn looks better for beating them.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Oct 12, 2021 5:02:05 GMT -5
I'd use the from scratch trainees on the C-show prior to NXT tv, to let the dip their toes in the water and experience the main show at a point in their careers they won't suffer much harm career wise from getting squashed in short matches.
If they use outside talent, they'll stop the second someone goes from WWE TV to AEW, even though they're not under contract and were never offered anything but a vague promise of a look down the line.
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Oct 12, 2021 11:02:48 GMT -5
Turning Main Event into something like Dark where it's generally vs local workers with the occasional midcarder vs midcarder match but with local workers that get a chance to look good so that the winner in turn looks better for beating them. This reminds me of what Velocity used to be when indy talent would be used. I'm not sure if their matches were "try-outs," or WWE wanted capable jobbers. I agree that Main Event should use a mix NXT/development talent and indy/local wrestlers as jobbers. I also think it's weird how the Attitude Era changed the jobber dynamic. I'm curious to know how many of the talent used as jobbers were developmental talent in the WWF? Was that even a thing in the 80s and 90s? And if not, then did these workers need to take a crash course on how to perform for WWF television? |
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Oct 12, 2021 11:32:27 GMT -5
Turning Main Event into something like Dark where it's generally vs local workers with the occasional midcarder vs midcarder match but with local workers that get a chance to look good so that the winner in turn looks better for beating them. At its current state, Main Event isn’t really anything special other than partially serving as a recap show, so I think this would help change things. |
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