BigWill
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Post by BigWill on Dec 7, 2013 17:08:15 GMT -5
I dont think it makes more sense at all. Tag champions have never really drawn money unless you go back to DX or Road Warriors before them but the number of tag champs that were draws are very few and far between where as you can put the IC belt on people already proven box office once you get rid of the secondary world title. The IC belt always headlined the B shows back in the day. I don't think tag team wrestling draws. It can be entertaining and there have been some great tag teams but it's always been the singles wrestlers that are mainly responsible for getting people to part with their cash. Many Tag Team matches have headlined the card at "A & B" shows in the past. Throw two hot Singles Stars against the Tag Team Champions, and tickets get sold. Throwing hot singles stars at the Tag Champions is part of the reason why the tag division has been crap for most of the last decade or so.
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Dec 7, 2013 19:19:28 GMT -5
Many Tag Team matches have headlined the card at "A & B" shows in the past. Throw two hot Singles Stars against the Tag Team Champions, and tickets get sold. Throwing hot singles stars at the Tag Champions is part of the reason why the tag division has been crap for most of the last decade or so. We're not talking about TV. We're talking about Live Events/House Shows. It has no bearing on the onscreen division/product.
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BigWill
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Post by BigWill on Dec 7, 2013 20:52:43 GMT -5
Throwing hot singles stars at the Tag Champions is part of the reason why the tag division has been crap for most of the last decade or so. We're not talking about TV. We're talking about Live Events/House Shows. It has no bearing on the onscreen division/product. If the division goes back to crap on TV, you think people are going to pay to see it at a house show, just because a couple of big stars are part of the match? If it were that simple, House Show attendance would never drop.
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Dec 8, 2013 13:46:41 GMT -5
We're not talking about TV. We're talking about Live Events/House Shows. It has no bearing on the onscreen division/product. If the division goes back to crap on TV, you think people are going to pay to see it at a house show, just because a couple of big stars are part of the match? If it were that simple, House Show attendance would never drop. As we stand right now, the Tag Division is booked much better than the IC Belt is. So for current purposes, highlighting the tag belts at house shows makes sense. There is a lot of work that needs to be done to try and reclaim any prestige that the IC title used to have & make it a main event worthy title for any show - be it televised or not.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 8, 2013 13:55:03 GMT -5
WWE, IC, Tag and Divas
Nothing else required.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2013 13:55:54 GMT -5
Remember when you'd look at Royal Rumbles in the mid-to-late 90s and only see 1 or 2, maybe but rarely 3 guys with a legit shot of winning it?
Yeah, it's gonna be like that again.
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Post by Dat Dude on Dec 8, 2013 14:23:48 GMT -5
A two world title system I'm for, but not in it's current incarnation. I'm more for splitting up the world titles by weight-class: heavyweight and light-heavyweight. Both regarded with the same esteem and top-billing. An easy way to have something for every fan, when following the world title scene.
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Post by KofiMania on Dec 8, 2013 14:49:01 GMT -5
Remember when you'd look at Royal Rumbles in the mid-to-late 90s and only see 1 or 2, maybe but rarely 3 guys with a legit shot of winning it? Yeah, it's gonna be like that again. That's the part that will stink the most.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Dec 8, 2013 14:54:10 GMT -5
Remember when you'd look at Royal Rumbles in the mid-to-late 90s and only see 1 or 2, maybe but rarely 3 guys with a legit shot of winning it? Yeah, it's gonna be like that again. That's the part that will stink the most. I hope that instead of letting the established guys win the Rumble, they'll start using it to "make" people again, or at the very least, give them an accolade to put on their resume to give them a bit of credibility (ex. Wrestler X may never actually win a title, but could still have the rub of winning the Rumble).
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Post by KofiMania on Dec 8, 2013 14:57:45 GMT -5
That's the part that will stink the most. I hope that instead of letting the established guys win the Rumble, they'll start using it to "make" people again, or at the very least, give them an accolade to put on their resume to give them a bit of credibility (ex. Wrestler X may never actually win a title, but could still have the rub of winning the Rumble). That still telegraphs the winner, like in 96 with HBK, 98 with Austin, 03 with Lesnar.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2013 17:05:03 GMT -5
The World Heavyweight titles role was fine.
It acted like the Attitude Era IC title where a main eventer could win it and have a run without being beneath them and a midcarder could have a run without it being above them, but it was primarilly for the uppermidcarders.
All the unification will do is put the IC title into the WHC's place and keep the US title where it currently is.
They'd have been better off scrapping one of the US or IC title IMHO
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Dec 8, 2013 18:31:22 GMT -5
The World Heavyweight titles role was fine. It acted like the Attitude Era IC title where a main eventer could win it and have a run without being beneath them and a midcarder could have a run without it being above them, but it was primarilly for the uppermidcarders. All the unification will do is put the IC title into the WHC's place and keep the US title where it currently is. They'd have been better off scrapping one of the US or IC title IMHO The problem was that we were expected to pretend that those midcarders were main eventers on par with the major stars competing for the WWE Title. WWE never pretended the IC belt was something it wasn't. And we just ended up with a bloated "main event" scene and a poor midcard. There were too many guys on the roster being presented as "main eventers" while anyone who wasn't one of those guys or in a program with one of those guys were irrelevant.
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Post by kamero00 on Dec 8, 2013 18:35:11 GMT -5
Remember when you'd look at Royal Rumbles in the mid-to-late 90s and only see 1 or 2, maybe but rarely 3 guys with a legit shot of winning it? Yeah, it's gonna be like that again. Don't think that would ever work while Vince was in charge
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