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How would you feel about a WWE World Cup?
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You wouldn't disrupt the regular TV feuds, god knows Raw could do with something other than repeating what happened 10mins ago to kill time, so it makes perfect sense.
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Really like this idea, endless skits and matches giving guys exposure and personality. This could easily create a few stars. The lazy writing at the moment has made things so boring, this gives an easy focus to so many guys and would definately keep me interested...
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Feeling Oof-y
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Dunno if the writers just give up when we by this "down period". Seems to me the mentality is "what's the point if no one is watching" rather than "what can we do to get people watching"?
Also solves the problem of TV matches meaning nothing. For all the bad that TNA does I think the Bound For Series is a really good idea for filling TV time and getting people hooked into something. |
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Just bring back the King of the Ring.
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Well I like the idea of a World Cup, but I'd rather see talent from actual other countries federations as opposed to guys from the same.
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4 teams might be a better idea like how TNA did it but the idea does sound great. Having an all-heel Team USA does sound really interesting considering its almost always the opposite with team based stuff.
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I mean, come on. Wouldn't you like to see these guys representing Turkey in the WWE? |
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Feeling Oof-y
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Feeling Oof-y
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I get where you're coming from Rollermacka and it would be interesting, however, the point of the concept is to give TV time to the under-used talent already under contract. Bringing in guys from around the world kinda flies in the face of that.
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I'd like the idea if it didn't take up TOO much of the show and if the story was Zeb Colter came up with the idea to show America's dominance in the sport. Then it's actually a viable storyline as opposed to a generic way to avoid writing compelling storylines. And any sign of effort to actually get more than 6 or so guys involved in a story is a good step forward in my book.
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That is true, and if you watch either of the matches from TPW (I got one of those matches from YANGB) pro wrestling in other countries may not be up to the same standards as we are accustom to in America. If it was going to be just from one company, I would have to agree with Tedious then and just do a King of the Ring. If not that, they should start utilizing tournaments for the IC, US or even tag titles then. Having an 8 man tournament over a span of a month for either belt and having the title shot at the next PPV would possibly generate interest in the belt and give it back some of the prestige that the belts use to have.
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-Team Canada
-Team India (ginder and khali, maybe find some jobbers to be eliminated in palimenary(sp?) competition)... sean davari and his brother, or are they pakistani? -Team Japan(don't know if yoshi is still on the roster but im sure it would be easy to get a few over, even use Tensai maybe) -Team UK (as mentioned above) -Team EU (santino,Sheamus,ceasaro I'm sure there are others) -Team UN -Team Mexico(use guys from Triple A) -Team Caribbean/Porto rico/the colon family(get guys from CCW) -Team Samoa edit: I forgot: Team America Team Real Americans (Zeb's Team maybe with the confederate flag) maybe get some jobbers to make a team iran/turkey or something that are just throw aways in eliminated in qualifying bouts, so they can actually make it seem more international. |
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The Germans will win on penalties.
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I'd be rooting for Team Turkey.
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AWW! He edited out Team Turkey!
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they should just make up a fake country and say these jobers are from their, have everyone just squash them, Fuckastan.... get JBL to do the hammer to the back of one of their heads when they dont expect it.
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Team Parts Unknown
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Cesaro and Swagger/Coulter should do something like a "Real American Challenge" and face foreigners every week. Have maybe someone like Neville debut and be the one to beat one of them.
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I think it would be kinda neat, but I never really got all that excited about these sort of "competitions". I'd rather they use this lull period to push Wade Barrett back to the main event. I'd do a Punk/Barrett feud where Barrett announces that just like there was a "Summer of Punk" that there will be a harsh and bitter "Winter of Wade Barrett". They could easily have Barrett go from beating Punk to becoming the new golden boy for HHH/Stephanie. Daniel Bryan/Wade Barrett has a lot of history with it, so it'd be a great WWE Championship feud to have with Daniel Bryan at TLC and Royal Rumble. He can be in the Elimination Chamber and get eliminated by whoever he'll feud with going into Mania. WWE needs to have the entire roster involved in this power struggle storyline. Yes, there some feuds not involved with it but most of the roster needs to pick a side. Have some heels show some balls and stand up to HHH while still being heels and have some boring babyfaces turn tweener by bending to HHH's will while not directly kissing his ass. It makes sense for HHH to do "what is best for business" for the entire card/roster and not just the main eventers and occasional asshole move to midcarders. It should be an all-consuming war that ends in an epic final battle where Daniel Bryan makes Triple H tap out in the main event of WrestleMania 31. There is no reason this big of a storyline should be finished in 7 months.
Also XL, fuck you for making me agree with #1-wwf-fan. Quote:
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![]() I like the teams you've set out, XL. I think an Alberto Del Rio/Rey Mysterio power struggle could be quite interesting. I wouldn't have Los Matadores in the team, however, since they are meant to be Spanish, not Mexican aren't they? Have Hunico and Sin Cara round out the team. Team Canada is pretty much perfect. I'd swap out Mason Ryan for Adrian Neville in Team UK, but I guess you could have William Regal move down as a coach or manager and get Ryan in there as well. Santino Marella leading a miscellaneous team featuring Justin Gabriel, The Great Khali and maybe Yoshi Tatsu (a great worker with nothing to do) could work out great. You could also have Alexander Rusev make his main roster debut, even if just for this series as a face in Marella's team. The Real American team is interesting, and I like the idea of Colter extending an offer to Heyman, but I think you could fill up there side with a few other choices. Maybe a returning Mark Henry, who represented the United States in the Olympics? Heath Slater or Bo Dallas in the group would be tremendous too. Or Colter could call up Antonio Cesaro's old tag team partner, Kassius Ohno to help out. |
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Has Wade Barrett read the books?
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You can't teach that
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People get excited with the idea of a bad ass twin lannister gimmick or a stark like winter is coming gimmick, but Barrett is just going to get a sister character that he fucks.
The burchills were ahead of their time, they needed hbo to make incest popular. |
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I would love to watch WWE stars play soccer.
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It might become too obvious who's going to job, much like how not even the casual fan thought Pieroth, Cibernetico, Latin Lover, Heavy Metal, or Mil Mascaras would win the 1997 Royal Rumble.
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b/c 5 is better than 4
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works for me.... you could even add a Shield team to compete as well if they are out of the "main event" feud by then..... them competing short-handed could also add another wrinkle to the team dynamic.....
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I did consider a Team Authority but - imagining the series to take place immediately after Hell In A Cell this year - I didn't want to involve the Main Event angle, as HHH havning a team would mean Bryan/Cody/Goldy would need an opposing team. Then the series which is designed to give the low/mid card guys something to do becomes a vehicle to help get the main event feud over instead.
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Nice.
It's all about the skits for me. Slater trying to get himself into the Real Americans/freaking out about the Band splitting up. Everything Santino and team would be getting up to. Christian trying to prove somebody's Canadian heritage/getting someone to re-nationalise/trying to talk Edge, Bret, Lance Storm out of retirement before Jericho comes back. An uneasy alliance between Barrett and his guys. |
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An ongoing, "Round Robin" style competition should create a platform for any number of matches/interactions/skits that should help build underdeveloped personalities. |
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#36 |
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I agree that Round Robin format would be best because it allows losers to save face against comparable guys or to even have most guys' W/L ratio in that tournament be 1:1 except for the winner and maybe a few bottom-of-the-card wrestlers.
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You wouldn't even need to keep everything so even. You could have a guy like Santino lose consistently only to pick up a big win against a dominant Wade Barrett. You have tag guys prosper in tag matches but falter in singles matches, whereas two singles guys thrown together in a tag match would struggle.
The main point though is that the format keeps these guys on screen longer than losing in the first 2 rounds of a tournament. Use that time to push a personality/character and it shouldn't really matter what their win/loss ratio is. |
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I thought people didn't like it that wins/losses don't matter.
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If by "people" you mean "#1-wwf-fan", then yeah.
The whole concept of the competition is that wins matter. What I'm saying is that creating a personality/character/gimmick by giving these guys consistent exposure is more important that the individual winning every match. Santino is a great example of a guy who remains over despite losing most of his matches, Heath Slater too. |
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I'm pretty sure I'm nowhere near the only one who thinks the concept of wins and losses being meaningless is fucking stupid.
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