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Post by polarbearpete on May 4, 2022 14:38:58 GMT -5
I'm fine with it. The champion doesn't even have to be on the card for every show. When a belt is defended every month, the result is in most cases not in question. Remember the Big 4: in the early days, Survivor Series and Royal Rumble had the champ in the specialty matches, and even 3 of the first 4 Summerslams had the champion in a tag match. That left Wrestlemania and the occasional SNME as the times the belt was defended. And each time, it was built up like it could actually change hands. I agree on some level, but back then you also didn't have two weekly multi-hour "supershows" in primetime the way they do now, which makes it tougher to ask your audience to sit tight and wait another month or whatever for movement on the World title. Plus the expectation back then was that fans would buy tickets to see the WWF title defended at house shows; granted, the outcome was basically never in doubt on a house show, but again, expectations were different back then. Still, as it was said above, if they do actually use this as a chance to really invest in telling compelling stories with their other belts and divisions then it could prove to be a good thing. Nobody really minded, say, Hulk Hogan not defending the title at SummerSlam '91, because you knew you were getting Hart vs. Perfect for an importantly booked IC title and LoD vs. Nasty Boys in a street fight for the tag belts, and those felt like appropriately big matches for a big card. It’s not really much different from AEW with 3 hours of first run programming per week since Raw and Smackdown are split up roster wise and the 4 PPVs each year with occasional big title defenses on TV. You’ll still get a featured Ronda-Charlotte gimmick world title match and big grudge matches between main eventers with Edge-Styles and Cody-Seth.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on May 4, 2022 17:14:57 GMT -5
it'd be fine if the WWE cared at all about anything but the main event.
NXT managed to end some of their take overs with no NXT title defense and had the Tag Team Championship main event at least once... and the Women's title had main evented a few times there as well...
but the way that WWE does things absolutely not.
They don't care about the midcard or the titles, they don't really give a shit about tag teams or the tag team championships they are only somewhat presented because it ties into the main event angle.
The women's division almost entirely revolves around the title feuds (though Raw has gotten better at that recently but I have doubts it will last) the women's tag divisions is... basically non existant.
Roman's entire reign is basically padding so it's either padding days or padding days and defenses so it really doesn't matter. When they undoubtedly go back to two different people holding the two titles still it would at least make some sense to have one the night off.
my point is... in theory yeah it could work... but not the way WWE does anything.
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Post by rrg251 on May 5, 2022 18:23:13 GMT -5
I like fighting champions who want to put as many notches in their (figurative) belts as possible. I used to love going to the ROH website and its Title Histories section and seeing the wide array of opponents beaten by the likes of Joe, Bryan, and Nigel. I'd suggest WWE have something like that, except that it would expose how rarely the championships are defended.
Yes, I'm in favor of defending the championships at every LPE, and more often on television for that matter. And if they aren't going to put the champions in championship matches, it had better be something LPE worthy, unlike this seemingly stakes-free six-man we're getting on Sunday.
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Post by Starshine on May 5, 2022 19:42:49 GMT -5
I mean, it's fine. The idea is you just have something else on the card instead to drive interest... which is why it's so weird they removed the tag title unification match which could have been that, and went with a bog standard RAW main event six man tag with no stakes whatsoever...
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Post by The Thread Barbi on May 6, 2022 14:31:48 GMT -5
That's because true champions only defend at PPV events, not Premium Live Events.
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