Thread: The 'Wild Card Era' has essentially killed off all of WWE's tag divisions
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Old 06-06-2019, 02:01 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by Slik View Post
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And theres the rumor of future signees to NXT being required to agree to a deal where WWE can automatically renew their contracts at the end of three years if they wish.
God, I hope not. That can end up wasting people's careers just to keep them from becoming stars for someone else.

"And then, one day, you find ten years have gone behind you. No one told you when to run. You missed the starting gun..."


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Because the one thing WWE needs isn't better storylines or cohesive storylines, it's more wrestlers on a show that now aims to have 4-5 matches a week over 3 hours.
That's been a problem ever since around 97 RAWs. Used to have like 4-5 matches in that hour. You didn't have to see the biggest big names wrestle every week. Feature creep over the years have made them try to book standard TV shows like they used to book PPVs.

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It's the same thing that happened with the first brand split.

1. Split the brand's, and initially it's very good.
2. Smackdown gets raided every year, then draws less of course
3. Brand exclusive PPVs go away cause gotta make all PPVs good
4. Without a PPV feud to build to, half of each roster suddenly is forgotten and meaningless
5. Each show gets stale because they are filling the same amount of show time, but only writing half the number of storylines.
6. Vince adds even MORE people to the bloated roster, and then more people aren't getting storylines
7. Vince reacts by ending the brand split because neither brand has enough stars

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Vince is too moronic to realize the shows don't have enough stars because he doesn't build any new stars or stops any momentum a rising star might have cause they lazily manage the brand split.

Or even worse, because he jerks the pushes around for some of the most petty bullshit ever.

Braun Strowman shows up at the arena at 2:30pm instead of 1:00pm for an 8:00pm show, so fuck all the potential money we can make off of him, he needs to know his place.

EC3, a natural heel, let's book him like an asshole for a month where he never talks, then be surprised fans don't cheer for him at a house show against Dean Ambrose.

Shinsuke Nakamura, the most unique, different, and captivating talent to show up in years, but he doesn't speak English flawlessly, being Japanese and all, so nope, let's squash him push, can't let him be the top guy.

Ambrose might talk about goofy shit sucking, but as a fan I am much more disgusted that Vince purposely books people so they DONT become big stars.

It is astounding that someone who is so driven by money that he deals with the Saudis, but he continually pisses money away but stopping wrestlers from becoming mega stars.
Mega stars they say they're trying to build, at that. We're supposed to think Roman Reigns and Baron Corbin are the biggest face and heel in the company respectively, but Roman is only tenuously liked for medical reasons, and Baron is drawing the wrong kind of heat, but because fans don't know how to properly play along anymore, any heat is percieved as proper heel heat.

They don't fix the shit they need to fix... just pay lip service with snide "in jokes" or signing the next "indy darling" without realizing exactly why that person is as popular as they are.

At least WCW was oblivious to what they were fucking up. WWE seems to know what's wrong, but not care and double down on the stupid shit because it appeases Vince, shareholders, advertisers, a TV network, or all of the above.

I'm seriously more excited about both NXT brands than the main roster shows. I catch all my wrestling via YouTube "highlights" (read: skipping chunks so content ID doesn't delete the show) anymore, and I feel like I'm missing nothing with RAW and Smackdown condenced into about a total of 30 minutes combined. I'd rather go back and watch the Takeover match between Sami Zayn and Shinsuke Nakamura than see anything they're doing with either guy right now.

But I watch stuff from NXT and get sad at the inevitability of every single one of the talent that are either over or in the process of getting over being called up just to disappear inside of two months.

They're still on their toy collecting bullshit, especially since AEW is a thing.
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