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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2022 22:38:14 GMT -5
This week? Sure.
Next week? Who knows.
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Post by TheMediocreWarrior on Mar 6, 2022 17:55:31 GMT -5
The belts are more dead weight than the people you mentioned Which is a bummer, because AEW manages to make the TNT Championship seem as important as their world championship. If WWE cared about the lineage of the IC/US Titles as much as the fans did, I think it wouldn't take long for them to seem prestigious again. If Vince McMahon can put his ego aside (yeah right), they should copy the AEW formula of world title matches being rarer, but IC/US champions take on all challengers.
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Post by Chiral on Mar 6, 2022 17:59:45 GMT -5
Midcard title cycle
New name wins it -> cuts promo about restoring the legacy of the belt -> does open challenge for a while -> randomly loses belt -> WWE forgets about belt -> champion barely defends it -> repeat
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Post by nisidhe on Mar 6, 2022 18:49:01 GMT -5
This cannot have been a long-planned strategy for the midcard title(s); less than a month ago both were JTTS with increasingly loud discussion that at least one was on the way out of the company. The lack of depth to the main roster as a whole has left WWE vulnerable to some potential major gaps (injuries, for example) that has required all hands on deck (and has brought WWE cap-in-hand to some of its higher-profile stars.)
Particularly scarce were babyfaces at or near the top of the card. Ricochet is considered the #2 babyface on SD! after Drew, while Balor is currently the top singles babyface on Raw. They're both also workhorses who can carry a wide array of opponents and can bring back some of the credibility WWE has lost with all its recent news about NXT 2.0 and Vince's new developmental strategy - and, perhaps, might signal to the industry as a whole that they have not slammed the door shut entirely on indie talent.
That said, I think it's becoming increasingly clear that WWE will not play ball unless it absolutely has to - so, it behooves the competition to keep up the pressure so that WWE continues to give its stars the creative respect they deserve.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 6, 2022 18:56:37 GMT -5
I wouldn't call Finn a Jobber to the Stars.
He usually has been in the "guy we need ot have doing something" section... granted they didn't figure out what to do with him after the dumb Roman ending.
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Post by Tiffany Stratton's Daddy on Mar 7, 2022 12:16:43 GMT -5
I feel Priest and Nakamura were supposed to be the guys to elevate the titles. But it's creative that really ties them down. I don't see Ricochet and Balor being allowed the opportunity to make the titles as good as they were in 2014-2016. John Cena's US Title run and The Miz's IC Title run were two of the better mid-card eras in WWE. They made the titles mean something... I just think creative is too lazy to reach that point anymore.
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