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Post by polarbearpete on Jul 26, 2021 13:42:02 GMT -5
The superhero character was not written to have legs and her title win served one purpose: to give Flair another notch. House show crowds can be drizzling shit though. Last one I went to popped for entrances, big moves and finishes and fell asleep during the matches. It used to be the house shows were better crowds but man, not anymore. Just speaking from personal experience, that's on the company and not the crowds in my opinion. I remember going to a couple of house shows in around 2007-2009 or so. The shows had self-contained storylines going on throughout the night. As a particularly memorable example, I went to one that had a story thread of Drew McIntyre wanting to prove that he's the next big thing going throughout the night and leading to an entirely unexpected Drew McIntyre/Ricky Steamboat match. I went to another where William Regal (who wasn't even wrestling on TV at the time) answered an open challenge for the US Title that Santino had issued earlier in the night. You know, nothing major, but made the shows feel like something consequential was actually going on. The one last night was literally just clips from RAW and Smackdown, followed by matches, with very little in the way of promos (except for Sheamus cutting a very brief YOU DONT DESERVE TO SEE ME DEFEND MY TITLE and Lashley doing a near-identical YOU DONT DESERVE TO SEE THE NEW DAY). It just all felt very formulaic to me. House shows used to be a ton of fun because they'd go off the beaten path a little bit, and guys would get to cut loose a little more on the mic than they can on TV. This one just didn't feel like that. It felt like an untelevised episode of RAW/SD to me. What I will say, though, is the kids around me seemed to be having an absolute blast and the crowd was smallish, but full. So, overall, it was a very successful show, I think. Just not really up my alley anymore as a 33-year-old fan. I’ve been to house shows in more recent times (like 2017-2019) and they did have storylines woven throughout the evening as well so I’d imagine that won’t be a relic moving forward. They’ve done title changes on house shows even in recent years too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2021 13:49:58 GMT -5
Just speaking from personal experience, that's on the company and not the crowds in my opinion. I remember going to a couple of house shows in around 2007-2009 or so. The shows had self-contained storylines going on throughout the night. As a particularly memorable example, I went to one that had a story thread of Drew McIntyre wanting to prove that he's the next big thing going throughout the night and leading to an entirely unexpected Drew McIntyre/Ricky Steamboat match. I went to another where William Regal (who wasn't even wrestling on TV at the time) answered an open challenge for the US Title that Santino had issued earlier in the night. You know, nothing major, but made the shows feel like something consequential was actually going on. The one last night was literally just clips from RAW and Smackdown, followed by matches, with very little in the way of promos (except for Sheamus cutting a very brief YOU DONT DESERVE TO SEE ME DEFEND MY TITLE and Lashley doing a near-identical YOU DONT DESERVE TO SEE THE NEW DAY). It just all felt very formulaic to me. House shows used to be a ton of fun because they'd go off the beaten path a little bit, and guys would get to cut loose a little more on the mic than they can on TV. This one just didn't feel like that. It felt like an untelevised episode of RAW/SD to me. What I will say, though, is the kids around me seemed to be having an absolute blast and the crowd was smallish, but full. So, overall, it was a very successful show, I think. Just not really up my alley anymore as a 33-year-old fan. I’ve been to house shows in more recent times (like 2017-2019) and they did have storylines woven throughout the evening as well so I’d imagine that won’t be a relic moving forward. They’ve done title changes on house shows even in recent years too. Hopefully so. I'm probably being overly harsh on the first show back on the road after a yearlong hiatus. This show was just 7 matches either for, or involving, 7 championships, and there wasn't really any self-contained story thread going throughout the night, which is what I always enjoyed about house shows.
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Post by Legion on Jul 26, 2021 14:06:35 GMT -5
Did the people there enjoy nikki? The kids seemed to, but I heard a smattering of boos during her introduction. Rhea was the clear favorite; I heard fans chanting her name and “Let’s Go Rhea!” during the match. This is the thing. So many adults who watch the show - and WWE appears to skew older with audiences - seem to dislike the gimmick. But if kids are getting in to it, WWE needs that. Kids buy merchandise, kids get excited and talk about about wrestling to other kids, kids get their families to watch and so on. I do think sometimes, and it's not just in wrestling, but in so many fandoms, older fans decide something is awful and so shit on it over and over, forgetting that they aren't the only market/audience and sometimes, a gimmick for the youth appeal is just what the doctor ordered. And let's face it, if the gimmick gets cut, Nikki gets cut with it.
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