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Post by nisidhe on Mar 23, 2019 22:09:37 GMT -5
It can be done - WM IV managed 16 and stayed under four hours with no Kickoff; VI and VII had 15 each. It might be a stretch, but it's not impossible _if_ they're careful to save time wherever they possibly can without cutting into the experience.
Obviously, all the matches would need to be shorter bell-to-bell than what we're used to seeing on TV (with at least one blink-and-you'll-miss-it squash). Looking at most of the matches taking place during those pay-per-views, the average match length was under ten minutes for most, with the longest matches reserved for those with the most narrative behind them. We could tolerate 20 minutes from the Becky-Charlotte-Ronda match, the Lesnar-Rollins match and the Kofi-Bryan match, but I would limit Miz vs. Shane and, if it's happening, Balor vs. Lashley to fifteen a piece and the rest of the matches should keep under ten, including the battle royals. The entrances for many of the matches can afford to be hastened by golf carts, as was done at the Silverdome - not every superstar needs or deserves the "long walk" entrance, and some can be pre-empted by quick backstage interviews. The title matches do not need the second in-ring introductions - it's a trope borrowed from MMA or boxing and wasn't needed in the earlier years of Wrestlemania. Move the hype packages off the PPV itself and show them on the go-home shows instead.
Of course, who am I in all this? WWE's gonna do what it wants and it'll likely run six hours because Kevin Dunn.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 22:13:28 GMT -5
It can be done - WM IV managed 16 and stayed under four hours with no Kickoff; VI and VII had 15 each. It might be a stretch, but it's not impossible _if_ they're careful to save time wherever they possibly can without cutting into the experience. Obviously, all the matches would need to be shorter bell-to-bell than what we're used to seeing on TV (with at least one blink-and-you'll-miss-it squash). Looking at most of the matches taking place during those pay-per-views, the average match length was under ten minutes for most, with the longest matches reserved for those with the most narrative behind them. We could tolerate 20 minutes from the Becky-Charlotte-Ronda match, the Lesnar-Rollins match and the Kofi-Bryan match, but I would limit Miz vs. Shane and, if it's happening, Balor vs. Lashley to fifteen a piece and the rest of the matches should keep under ten, including the battle royals. The entrances for many of the matches can afford to be hastened by golf carts, as was done at the Silverdome - not every superstar needs or deserves the "long walk" entrance, and some can be pre-empted by quick backstage interviews. The title matches do not need the second in-ring introductions - it's a trope borrowed from MMA or boxing and wasn't needed in the earlier years of Wrestlemania. Move the hype packages off the PPV itself and show them on the go-home shows instead. Of course, who am I in all this? WWE's gonna do what it wants and it'll likely run six hours because Kevin Dunn. If anything I'd figure Lesnar / Rollins is going to be one of the shortest matches on the card. Lesnar works best anymore in quick bursts of energy, neither of them is really one for doing anything fancy for entrances so those probably won't be padded out much, and really the match is pretty inconsequential anyway.
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Post by clifford on Mar 24, 2019 8:30:52 GMT -5
There's no match on the card that needs to go more than 15 minutes. Triple H/Batista will of course be 30+
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Mar 24, 2019 10:28:06 GMT -5
So it seems WrestleMania is lacking a high match count and could use some filler material. Now hear me out....... No Way Jose conga line of 100 extras & WWE legends interuppt the PPV's HOF segment. with Ron Simmons saying "Damn" to end the segment
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Post by stevec484 on Mar 24, 2019 11:48:03 GMT -5
I could see the women's three way going about thirty minutes
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Mar 24, 2019 14:32:44 GMT -5
The three "big" title matches (Rollins/Lesnar, Lynch/Rousey/Flair, Bryan/Kingston) have a good chance of going beyond 15 minutes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2019 18:54:06 GMT -5
Apparently Daniel Cormier said that he โmay go to Wrestlemania and cost Brock the titleโ to get him into UFC more quickly.
Is Cormier just talking or is the WWEโs MMA boner about to be uncontrollable? lol
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Mar 24, 2019 19:14:40 GMT -5
I would hope Daniel Cormier doesn't directly get involved in the match because it'd be much better for Seth to win on his own rather than having some MMA dude help him beat Lesnar.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Mar 24, 2019 19:46:54 GMT -5
Am I tripping or is the period between Rumble and Mania extra long this year?
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Post by Stu on Mar 24, 2019 19:50:14 GMT -5
Am I tripping or is the period between Rumble and Mania extra long this year? You're mostly tripping. I always use X-Seven as my go-to for this sorta subject, because it happened on April Fools Day (April 1). That just tells me Wrestlemania is always around the first week of April, while the Rumble is usually at the end of January. Basically, everyone assumed the gimmick battle royal was a joke and wasn't actually gonna happen.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 2:06:30 GMT -5
Am I tripping or is the period between Rumble and Mania extra long this year? I think it's Fastlane screwing everyone's perception up. Other than Roadblock in 2016, which was treated as a fully inconsequential filler show and didn't really get much build besides a bit of token seed-planting for Triple H / Ambrose while both already had Mania feuds going on, and brand-exclusive shows, this is the first time there were two PPVs between the Rumble and WrestleMania.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Mar 25, 2019 9:17:30 GMT -5
The womenโs triple threat match is officially going on last.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 25, 2019 9:18:53 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 9:19:06 GMT -5
To nobody's surprise, WWE confirmed the RAW Women's Championship will main event WrestleMania.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Mar 25, 2019 21:43:29 GMT -5
Too Many Matches
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Mar 25, 2019 23:29:31 GMT -5
Well, we have 12 matches official now, with one definitely official and one almost certainly to be official from SmackDown tomorrow to make it 14. This leaves the two male tag titles and a womenโs battle royal to get us to the hypothetical magic number of 17.
...Shit, that IS a lot, isnโt it?
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Mar 26, 2019 0:23:31 GMT -5
EmojiMania๐ฝ updates, including probable matches in parenthesis.
๐ฅ vs. ๐ vs. โ๏ธ
โ ๏ธ vs. ๐ฅ
(โป๏ธ vs. ๐ฅ)
๐ฎ vs. ๐ธ๐
๐ค vs. ๐
๐ค vs. ๐ญ
๐ฌ vs. ๐ฐ
๐ฅ vs. ๐บ
โ๐ฝ vs. โ๏ธ
๐คก vs. ? (๐น โ๏ธ ๐ ๐ฒ)
๐งฅ vs. ๐ช๐ฟ
(๐ณ๐ค vs. ๐ป๐ฅ vs. ๐บ๐ฆ vs. ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ)
๐จ vs. ๐๏ธโโ๏ธ
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 1:48:55 GMT -5
Yeesh, of 12 officially-announced matches at the moment I really only actually care about three of them. And even then I'm kind of being generous claiming to care about Joe / Rey since it's just going to be a very short bit of nothing that's just setup for their real match at whatever the May PPV is these days.
I think Reigns / McIntyre is my pick for least-interesting match, because that sounds like complete flaming death, but there's certainly no shortage to choose from. Shane / Miz, Angle / Corbin, and the Women's Tag match all also sound pretty bad, and then there's Lashley and Balor having their 700th borefest but this time Finn will have some paint on.
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Post by Rican on Mar 26, 2019 8:23:49 GMT -5
The three "big" title matches (Rollins/Lesnar, Lynch/Rousey/Flair, Bryan/Kingston) have a good chance of going beyond 15 minutes. Them and Orton/AJ I feel are the only ones that need to be that long tbh.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Mar 26, 2019 9:07:33 GMT -5
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