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Post by Heinz Doofenschmirtz on May 27, 2018 9:29:56 GMT -5
With AoP, the Revival, and every other tag team crashing and burning on the main roster, could a show that highlights tag teams work?
We know Vince doesn’t think tag teams draw but NXT seems to show they can at least make interesting TV.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on May 27, 2018 9:34:17 GMT -5
I think it could definitely work but I think "give it its own show" is a bit too much of a bandage solution, and as a main roster product it'd still be a Vince show anyway so the problems would still all be there.
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Post by Abdullah on May 27, 2018 9:56:34 GMT -5
This seems to be a very WWE mentality: that the solution to their lackluster product is simply more of it. Look at how much attention 205 Live gets as proof of how badly that can fail.
Having said that, you might be onto something. Everyone likes a little bit of format-busting. I'd like to see a Smackdown episode which focused solely on tag teams or solely on women. I think that would have value.
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Post by Nosnorb on May 27, 2018 10:16:08 GMT -5
Isn't that called Main Event?
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Post by trollrogue on May 27, 2018 10:32:19 GMT -5
I think a Mixed Match TV show would work loads better, being that having the Guys and Gals team up generally shows huge amounts of originality and charisma that they otherwise don't get to show (Team LittleBig as the babyfaces of the tournament was a shock, but every team even Sami/Becky got good offense and storyline gold outta mining the MMC)
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Post by pegasuswarrior on May 27, 2018 10:57:20 GMT -5
Tag team wrestling so important to me. The fact that WWE is a company where great tag teams go to wither and die is one of the reasons I’ve never been attracted to it as my number one brand.
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Post by Citizen Snips on May 27, 2018 11:08:18 GMT -5
I think a Mixed Match TV show would work loads better, being that having the Guys and Gals team up generally shows huge amounts of originality and charisma that they otherwise don't get to show (Team LittleBig as the babyfaces of the tournament was a shock, but every team even Sami/Becky got good offense and storyline gold outta mining the MMC) I have this fear that since the MMC was so entertaining because Creative probably paid absolutely no attention to it and let the wrestlers do their own thing and if they decide to really push it, they'll quickly try to put their own stamp on it and instantly ruin it. |
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Post by trollrogue on May 27, 2018 11:27:55 GMT -5
Tag team wrestling so important to me. The fact that WWE is a company where great tag teams go to wither and die is one of the reasons I’ve never been attracted to it as my number one brand. I think the business during and post-Attitude Era especially for WWE just heavily skewed towards dudes getting themselves over, and not the art of wrestling over. Usually the singles guys get more glory, tv time, and attention from fans in general since the days of people buying tickets just to see Stone Cold, The Rock, or Undertaker live. Tag teams were always the icing on the cake, and not really treated as 'necessary' for a successful card it seems judging from WWE's booking over like 3 decades. The Usos not ever having a WrestleMania match until that squash-match Triple Threat at the last one (where they jobbed quickly and quietly) in their decade-long career in WWE when they are probably the best team on the entire roster is a shame. I'm glad they jobbed to Gallows and Anderson who are another great tag team, but either tag team pitted against two guys who work better as two individual singles monster heels in The WWE Champions The Bludgeon Brothers is sad. NXT is does almost as much damage, perhaps more, to the art of tag team wrestling and 'true tag teams'. You have Roddy Strong and SINGLES CHAMP Pete Dunne practically win the Dusty Classic tournament over a bunch of legitimate teams, and their only contender is a group of singles guys, two of which have the NXT Tag Titles (The Undisputed Era are all singles wrestlers in their current incarnation-- Fish and O' Reilly are a pretty good tag team though but Fish has been out for months via injury). Whereas popular tag teams that they seemingly build up (Heavy Machinery, The Street Profits) end up jobbing themselves into obscurity and way out of any tag title shot against, again, a bunch of singles wrestlers. It's probably gonna take a straight up tag team show to make people care about that kind of wrestling without any of the singles guys to muck up the works with their bloody 6-Man tag main events being more hype than any 'plain' 2-on-2 match booked that night. OP might be right. |
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Post by Hit Girl on May 27, 2018 16:21:19 GMT -5
405 Live?
No.
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Post by schma on May 27, 2018 17:27:34 GMT -5
It's kinda funny that a guy whose company was home to some of the all time great tagteams doesn't seem to see their value. As a kid I was a huge fan of the Rockers, Demolition, the British Bulldogs, the Hart Foundation, the Steiners, the Legion of Doom and more. As a teenager I loved watching the Hardy Boyz, Dudley Boyz, Edge and Christian, Too Cool, APA and more. Granted some of those teams have aged better than others but the fact is, as much as I loved singles stars, there were always tag teams that I was really into. I always thought it was a shame in the 2000s when tag teams just became two random singles wrestlers thrown together because why not. Yes some of those pairings have been magical but for the most part, meh.
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