An open letter to TNA about gimmick matches

[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by Chavo You might be right about the Ultimate X... but the cage match should be sacred. Lockdown takes the cage match too far because by the end of the evening, the crowd has habitualised to the concept, meaning that the bookers need to introduce further stipulations such as an electrified cage, or doing insane spots from the cage such as an Elix Skipper huricana. Thankfully, what has saved TNA so far is that they haven't yet regressed and tried to use a cage as a climax to a feud, because then the crowd wouldn't give a shit because they had a whole card of cage matches a couple of months ago. However, they are going to have to continue to raise the bar now because a cage match isn't enough. And that can only lead to one thing... Triple deck cages and Viagra on a pole matches. Sounds familiar?

To be fair, though, it's not just TNA that are at fault for this. The WWE has watered down the cage match immensely. I can't remember the last time I was excited for one. They usually come out of nowhere, when the WWE wants to cheap pop the crowd and throw a gimmick match away on TV. I mean, I that it lost to a Street Fight at Cyber Sunday should be pretty telling (I think it was a Street Fight it lost to).

The WWE is also starting to slip up with their Hell in a Cell Matches, too. They've always been somewhat spotty with that. But DX vs. Big Show, Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon? I remember when they were going to throw the match into Cyber Sunday just for the hell of it. There was hardly any build-up to Triple H vs. Randy Orton at all. And while there was for The Undertaker and Batista, that they were opponents in a regular Triple Threat Match a month later is not a great sign.