The WWE Title tournament looks like being a massive missed opportunity.

**The CyNick** · 11-11-2015, 02:49 PM

It's tough

This got sprung on them last minute. It's not luke they had weeks to come up with a plan and not have it screw up existing stories they are working on our trying to get to. You don't want that WCW feel where they reset the angles every 4 months and start from scratch.

I personally would have preferred a 16 man tournament that had qualifying matches on RAW and SD (like they did), and then have the 8 man tourny all on the PPV. However I know WWE isn't a huge fan of the single night tournament, so I also didn't go in expecting that to happen.

I understood why they didn't have Wyatt in the tournament. They have been promoting Survivor Series all month, and those commercials are shot and in the bag well in advance of the show. So it would have come off really odd to not have Taker in a revenge match with Bray and co.

I don't have a good explanation why New Day wasn't included other than they probably want them in another match for the tag titles and didn't want them to lose randomly in a tournament match.

The problem with this tourny is you see how thin the star power is right now. I feel like the tournament itself has been booked fine. You've got the intrigue of what will Roman do, you have some good matches booked (Roman-Cesaro), and an upset or two.

At the end of the day unless they had access to some bigger names (Lesnar, Rock, Jericho, etc) it was never going to come off as this earth shattering event. I'm still looking forward to how the Finals to see if there is a Reigns heel turn or an Ambrose heel turn, or maybe they strap a rocket to Owens.

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11-11-2015, 02:49 PM	#3
The CyNick Make the IWC Great Again Posts: 8,922	It's tough This got sprung on them last minute. It's not luke they had weeks to come up with a plan and not have it screw up existing stories they are working on our trying to get to. You don't want that WCW feel where they reset the angles every 4 months and start from scratch. I personally would have preferred a 16 man tournament that had qualifying matches on RAW and SD (like they did), and then have the 8 man tourny all on the PPV. However I know WWE isn't a huge fan of the single night tournament, so I also didn't go in expecting that to happen. I understood why they didn't have Wyatt in the tournament. They have been promoting Survivor Series all month, and those commercials are shot and in the bag well in advance of the show. So it would have come off really odd to not have Taker in a revenge match with Bray and co. I don't have a good explanation why New Day wasn't included other than they probably want them in another match for the tag titles and didn't want them to lose randomly in a tournament match. The problem with this tourny is you see how thin the star power is right now. I feel like the tournament itself has been booked fine. You've got the intrigue of what will Roman do, you have some good matches booked (Roman-Cesaro), and an upset or two. At the end of the day unless they had access to some bigger names (Lesnar, Rock, Jericho, etc) it was never going to come off as this earth shattering event. I'm still looking forward to how the Finals to see if there is a Reigns heel turn or an Ambrose heel turn, or maybe they strap a rocket to Owens.