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Post by The Rick Jericho on May 21, 2022 15:54:00 GMT -5
After re-watching the WWE confidential piece on the IC title, who was in favor of the company getting rid of it at the time?
Pritchard said in the segment, it made things clearer. One title one goal on each show.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on May 21, 2022 16:16:24 GMT -5
Prichard is the stoogiest stooge that's ever stooged. Of course he said that.
I thought it was a terrible idea. Clearly not every guy on the roster is world title material. The guys in the midcard need something to do, especially since WWE doesn't respect or put any effort into tag team wrestling. An IC or US title is essential. It was obviously a stupid idea since it only stayed retired for 7 or 8 months.
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Post by fw91 on May 21, 2022 17:22:18 GMT -5
at least it didn't last long.
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Post by fg on May 21, 2022 18:43:55 GMT -5
NOOOOOOOOOO!
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Post by tirtefaa on May 21, 2022 18:47:14 GMT -5
Absolutely not.
I'm actually a defender of the Reign of Terror, and by getting rid of additional Raw titles, it just put more focus on the thing that a lot of people were railing against.
I will say, having Christian be the one to win the title was at least a great move.
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Post by Mozenrath on May 21, 2022 20:12:55 GMT -5
It's basically the poster child of "less titles makes the remaining ones mean more!" being an ideology that fails to stand up to scrutiny. Like, yeah, you can overdo it like the territories sometimes did, having dozens of titles floating around, but subtracting titles doesn't just instantly make things make more sense and have more gravity. There's a lot more to it than just scarcity.
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Post by tafkaga on May 21, 2022 21:23:01 GMT -5
I don't even remember that this happened.
I can't understand why anyone would think this is a good idea, since the midcard titles are basically there to give midcard guys some purpose.
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Post by cornettesracket on May 22, 2022 6:40:53 GMT -5
After re-watching the WWE confidential piece on the IC title, who was in favor of the company getting rid of it at the time? Pritchard said in the segment, it made things clearer. One title one goal on each show. Vince said…
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Post by johnnyk9 on May 22, 2022 9:19:08 GMT -5
No because it was the start of HHH’s reign of terror which turned me off to Raw, his 3 year on and off with the title was the worst booking/writing ever he couldn’t even lace Hulk Hogan or Ric Flair boots when it comes to how to hold a title for a long-standing time and it also made me lose a lot of respect for HHH the person using his family and politics behind the scene
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Post by Hit Girl on May 23, 2022 10:27:24 GMT -5
Prichard is a frog in a pan, slowiy boiling to death.
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Post by msc on May 23, 2022 12:11:47 GMT -5
No, it was an absolutely terrible decision that f***ed me off. And most of online fandom tbh. Everyone complains about the IC title not meaning as much and the champions being buried but people *like* the title. That's why they complain so much.
If you want to know the public reaction, remember that when the WWE brought it back in 2003, they openly had Austin trashing their decision to get rid of it in the first place. One of the very few times I can recall Vince's company actively reversing a booking decision and apologising for it, practically.
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Post by sdoyle7798 on May 23, 2022 12:19:07 GMT -5
If Prichard said the sky was blue, it's only because Vince McMahon said it was.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on May 23, 2022 13:17:28 GMT -5
Hell no. It had lost some credibility but it was far from unsalvagable. It hadn’t been rendered into a near joke like some of those 2000 WCW belts were booking wise.
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Post by Tiffany Stratton's Daddy on May 23, 2022 18:38:40 GMT -5
I'm glad at this post it's a 48-0 unanimous vote.
But with how prestigious the IC title is nowadays, maybe it does need to get retired and reintroduced in 6 months.
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Post by Starshine on May 23, 2022 18:46:05 GMT -5
If they could write half decent midcard feuds for shit, they could get away with it. But they couldn't, so they needed MacGuffins to both keep things interesting, and the writing as basic as possible.
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Post by Sephiroth on May 24, 2022 9:48:31 GMT -5
I can see the argument of the title situation needing a bit of a reboot at tge time, but by its sheer legacy the IC title should be untouchable.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on May 24, 2022 9:57:38 GMT -5
I'm glad at this post it's a 48-0 unanimous vote. But with how prestigious the IC title is nowadays, maybe it does need to get retired and reintroduced in 6 months. I'd like to see them strap up someone like Ricochet or Ali and have them do an RVD with it. Go on a year long string of successful defenses, put it on PPV, have them cut promos about how they don't give a shit about the world title, this is THEIR belt. Any title is only as important as the company treats it. Make it seem like a big deal, and it will be a big deal.
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Post by horseface on May 24, 2022 10:09:20 GMT -5
Didn't make any sense and what Pritchard is saying makes no sense either. The logic is inconsistent. They had two-plus belts for years when there weren't two split rosters.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on May 24, 2022 11:02:33 GMT -5
In a list of terrible WWE decisions this is probably in the top 3 for me.
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Post by msc on May 24, 2022 11:31:58 GMT -5
I'm glad at this post it's a 48-0 unanimous vote. But with how prestigious the IC title is nowadays, maybe it does need to get retired and reintroduced in 6 months. I'd like to see them strap up someone like Ricochet or Ali and have them do an RVD with it. Go on a year long string of successful defenses, put it on PPV, have them cut promos about how they don't give a shit about the world title, this is THEIR belt. Any title is only as important as the company treats it. Make it seem like a big deal, and it will be a big deal. They have strapped up Ricochet and he's on a 5 title defence streak since March. Problem is, they still refuse to have the title on PPV. And they used the champ for a squash defeat on RAW. And he's probably losing it shortly to WALTER.
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