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**The CyNick** · 11-13-2004, 02:32 PM

I dont think you can sell a PPV based on only 8 man elimination matches. That worked back in the day, but that was when stars were never on TV and you had to pay to see competitive matches (for the most part).

I like the way they keep the tradition alive by doing a couple of elimination matches, but also throw in some other matches.

As has been mentioned its hard to stay interested in say 6 elimination matches on one card. First they are hard to build because there are no real stips involved, and after a while they would all run together ("will this team be able to get along? Find out Sunday!").

I mean they could have instead of having Heidenreich vs Taker one on one, thrown 3 guys on each team and make it an elimination match, but then you've got to sit through 3 quarters of the match which will be meaningless just to get to Heidenreich vs Taker. Or JBL could have had Kenzo, Rene and OJ on a team and BT could have got Josh Matthews and some tag team on his team, btu again, pointless filler just to get to JBL-BT. And then the match really has no meaning, because nothing is on the line.

Of course with allt hat said, I still think the show will do a bad number, but thats because of the state of interest in the product more than how the matches are set up for the show.

11-13-2004, 02:32 PM	#31
The CyNick Make the IWC Great Again Posts: 8,922	I dont think you can sell a PPV based on only 8 man elimination matches. That worked back in the day, but that was when stars were never on TV and you had to pay to see competitive matches (for the most part). I like the way they keep the tradition alive by doing a couple of elimination matches, but also throw in some other matches. As has been mentioned its hard to stay interested in say 6 elimination matches on one card. First they are hard to build because there are no real stips involved, and after a while they would all run together ("will this team be able to get along? Find out Sunday!"). I mean they could have instead of having Heidenreich vs Taker one on one, thrown 3 guys on each team and make it an elimination match, but then you've got to sit through 3 quarters of the match which will be meaningless just to get to Heidenreich vs Taker. Or JBL could have had Kenzo, Rene and OJ on a team and BT could have got Josh Matthews and some tag team on his team, btu again, pointless filler just to get to JBL-BT. And then the match really has no meaning, because nothing is on the line. Of course with allt hat said, I still think the show will do a bad number, but thats because of the state of interest in the product more than how the matches are set up for the show.