Thread: The 'Wild Card Era' has essentially killed off all of WWE's tag divisions
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Old 06-10-2019, 06:01 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by Simple Fan View Post
What they really need to do is end the brand split and bring back WCW for those not featured on the main roster but too good for NXT and just tape the shows in the old Impact Zone in Orlando. Would keep things in town between the PC and NXT as well as playing off the NBC Universal relationship. More content for the WWE Network also.
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I disagree with this. For two major reasons:

One, you propose they end the brand split ... to do another kind of brand split? Not only that, but you want to make a separate entity that is in and of itself a midcard hell? People are already languishing in 205 Live and doing Main Event/SuperStars/Saturday Morning Slam/Jakked/Metal/Heat duty. That doesn't need segregated into its own brand. NXT shouldn't be seen as a demotion anyway. In... what... TWO appearances back on the brand, Tyler Breeze has done more for his character and in the ring than he has in like 2 years of main-market television of "the machine".

Two, you suggest making "tiers" where main roster WWE is "the best" and everything below that is "not as good". Biggest problem there is that NXT is currently OBJECTIVELY better than it's mainstream counterpart. You're making the same false equivalence they are themselves... and even that is a continuation of the problem between RAW/Smackdown from the days of the Smackdown Six. If something (someone) was working on Smackdown, Vince just tried to transplant it to RAW instead of emulating the environment and having two successful shows. People are popular and/or over in NXT, and they're just plucked and placed on the main roster with little to none of the care they've been handled with in Florida.

A combined problem with both of these issues is that you're assuming that everyone on the main roster deserves to be there and everyone not there is not there because they're not as good. That is super wrong all the way around. Nearly everyone who has been called up to the main roster from developmental has been ruined by either being called up before they were ready or, in most cases, called up with zero plan.

They don't need to do drastic gimmicky shit like shakeups and wildcard rules... they just need to book better and cast a wider net than the same 10 people all the time. They have 5 hours of TV to fill a week, there is zero reason we should see the same fucking faces all the time. And nobody will ever become a big star if they keep getting treated like second class citizens, jobbers, and lepers.
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