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Post by Spider2024 on Oct 19, 2020 7:24:10 GMT -5
Seriously, it still makes me laugh how silly that was. After USA Network apparently told WWE they didn't want commercial breaks to cut into matches, WWE had the genius idea of making several matches each week a 2 out of 3 falls match for no apparent reason, at least kayfabe wise. They decided that commercials would air in between falls and basically said "another job well done, fellas!"
This could have been incorporated storywise, at least somewhat. Like outright book a 2/3 falls tournament specifically where the winner gets some title shot. At least that would've made sense and even been interesting. Or replace the 2/3 falls stip with matches that incorporate a ROUND SYSTEM. Then the rest periods are already built into the matches and there are your commercial breaks.
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Post by 4real on Oct 19, 2020 7:30:24 GMT -5
Yeah this was pretty terrible. Considering how well the Rounds system is working in NXT UK I wouldn’t have minded if Raw gave it a shot.
Just don’t go TNA Grand Championship with it please.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Oct 19, 2020 7:47:06 GMT -5
It actually came from Vince since he suddenly realized that real sports don't play during commercials so no one could wrestle during them either. So a completely unforced error on his part. I attended a live RAW during this era and it was so ungodly awkward and boring to just have dudes standing around for a few minutes while we waited for the show to come back on.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Oct 19, 2020 7:49:16 GMT -5
I think this was also around the time when the WWE Youtube started posting videos of fan interaction “games” during non-match breaks for whatever reason.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Oct 19, 2020 7:57:12 GMT -5
It actually came from Vince since he suddenly realized that real sports don't play during commercials so no one could wrestle during them either. So a completely unforced error on his part. I attended a live RAW during this era and it was so ungodly awkward and boring to just have dudes standing around for a few minutes while we waited for the show to come back on. Vince obviously hasn't seen real sports in years, with how many times you damn near miss a play due to commercials, or outright miss a play.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Oct 19, 2020 8:59:00 GMT -5
"Hey could you do stuff to intentionally piss off your fans and maybe drive a few more away?"
"Goddamn Pal, I've got just the thing!"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 9:01:54 GMT -5
I know there was at least once that they just kept wrestling during the commercial anyway and just added a bell ringing noise when they came back from the break.
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Post by Soultastic on Oct 19, 2020 9:05:18 GMT -5
Most matches on raw are super short anyway, how hard can booking around commercials be?
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Oct 19, 2020 9:07:35 GMT -5
It was a dumb idea since they already had a solution to it: show the match and commercials together in a split screen.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Oct 19, 2020 9:13:34 GMT -5
It actually came from Vince since he suddenly realized that real sports don't play during commercials so no one could wrestle during them either. So a completely unforced error on his part. I attended a live RAW during this era and it was so ungodly awkward and boring to just have dudes standing around for a few minutes while we waited for the show to come back on. Vince obviously hasn't seen real sports in years, with how many times you damn near miss a play due to commercials, or outright miss a play. As always, Vince tries to make wrestling for people who don't like wrestling, while knowing nothing but wrestling.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Oct 19, 2020 9:30:03 GMT -5
It was a dumb idea since they already had a solution to it: show the match and commercials together in a split screen. A solution that only NXT and AEW seem to be running with currently.
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Post by thehottag on Oct 19, 2020 13:38:45 GMT -5
As someone not in the US, how often does Raw go to commercials that they felt the need to do this? Didn't think TV matches usually went that long?
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Oct 19, 2020 13:39:28 GMT -5
As someone not in the US, how often does Raw go to commercials that they felt the need to do this? Didn't think TV matches usually went that long? Most WWE TV matches have a gap during matches for commercials.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 13:58:46 GMT -5
The two out of three falls thing was at least better than how all other matches were having stupid overbooked bullshit to grind them to a halt. Like the AJ Styles vs. Ricochet match where first it had Gallows and Anderson interfering leading to a restart then it had a missed rope break leading to another restart.
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Post by 67 more on Oct 19, 2020 14:02:36 GMT -5
Maybe some of the worst booking I've ever seen.
Around this time, we had the elimination mixed tag match, right? Meaning that if both teams had scored an elimination each, the match could only end in a draw as it would leave a man left with a woman.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 14:44:03 GMT -5
It was a dumb idea since they already had a solution to it: show the match and commercials together in a split screen. A solution that only NXT and AEW seem to be running with currently. I feel like the only reason why RAW and Smackdown doesnt have this is because Vince doesnt believes that someone would watch something else beside wrestling. nXt only has it so their fanbase wont get tempted away by that evil Jezebel, AEW.
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Post by chazraps on Oct 19, 2020 14:48:23 GMT -5
We've really sat through some shit, haven't we.
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Post by Abadebe on Oct 19, 2020 15:16:04 GMT -5
To this day, I don't understand why they feel the need to have commercials during every match.
They could easily have entrances, go to commercial, come back with the bell ringing, have the 8 minute match, then go to another commercial.
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Post by Chiral on Oct 19, 2020 15:34:54 GMT -5
To this day, I don't understand why they feel the need to have commercials during every match. They could easily have entrances, go to commercial, come back with the bell ringing, have the 8 minute match, then go to another commercial. My only guess is they got really fond of the multi commercial break 20 or so minute matches as they don't have to write anything for big stretches of a 3 hour show and booking more short matches is harder to them than keeping the longer ones.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2020 15:35:43 GMT -5
Only time I really cared about 2/3 falls matches was when Briscoe Bros had the undefeated streak with that stipulation.
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