The WWE Title tournament looks like being a massive missed opportunity. - Page 4

**Maluco** · 11-11-2015, 11:45 AM

The majority of people would suggest that WWE writing has, at best, lacked originality or creativity and at best been paint by numbers every week to get to PPV matches. It has divided opinion on the forum and every thread ends up being about it.

But, similar to the Invasion angle, they get presented with a massive opportunity, just thrown into their laps, and it looks like they are taking the easy road once again, when a more measured and creative path could have led to all sorts of positives.

I am talking about the title tournament. Here wa s a chance to make the WWE title the focus of one of their biggest events of the year. To have a tournament on PPV that could have had intriguing booking throughout the night, focused on different personalities, created new feuds, but most importantly, had everyone's focus on the WWE title. This could have been built up to be the biggest event of the year.

Instead, it looks like WWE writers have looked at the opportunity as an excuse to fill up a few weeks of TV with bracket matches and give us the sem finals of a dud tournament on PPV. Sure, those matches could be good quality and something intriguing might come from them, but I can't help but feel this was a chance to put all their focus on the big prize.

If they had done that, every feud, including the main "story" of the winner would have had everyones full focus and it could have given us stories and feuds on the basis of the tournament matches and the big stakes of it being on PPV, for the next 2-3 months.

I could be wrong, but it looks like the easy option has been taken, and a once in a blue moon event, has been turned into a series of matches to fill 3 hour RAWs and Smackdown up to the PPV. None of these matches feel special, and that's because they aren't. I don't buy Ryback/Kalisto as a tournament match buried on Smackdown. Now, if they had fought and won the right to be on an 8 man PPV tournament, and we got the incredible upset on PPV, this would have boosted Kalisto and could have been the start of a story for Ryback.

That's just an example. It could have been the biggest night of the year with so much going on, but I feel like they have taken the gloss off it and missed a massive opportunity to do something special.

Thoughts?

11-11-2015, 11:45 AM	#1
Maluco Reigning Tipsters Champ! Posts: 2,088	The WWE Title tournament looks like being a massive missed opportunity. The majority of people would suggest that WWE writing has, at best, lacked originality or creativity and at best been paint by numbers every week to get to PPV matches. It has divided opinion on the forum and every thread ends up being about it. But, similar to the Invasion angle, they get presented with a massive opportunity, just thrown into their laps, and it looks like they are taking the easy road once again, when a more measured and creative path could have led to all sorts of positives. I am talking about the title tournament. Here wa s a chance to make the WWE title the focus of one of their biggest events of the year. To have a tournament on PPV that could have had intriguing booking throughout the night, focused on different personalities, created new feuds, but most importantly, had everyone's focus on the WWE title. This could have been built up to be the biggest event of the year. Instead, it looks like WWE writers have looked at the opportunity as an excuse to fill up a few weeks of TV with bracket matches and give us the sem finals of a dud tournament on PPV. Sure, those matches could be good quality and something intriguing might come from them, but I can't help but feel this was a chance to put all their focus on the big prize. If they had done that, every feud, including the main "story" of the winner would have had everyones full focus and it could have given us stories and feuds on the basis of the tournament matches and the big stakes of it being on PPV, for the next 2-3 months. I could be wrong, but it looks like the easy option has been taken, and a once in a blue moon event, has been turned into a series of matches to fill 3 hour RAWs and Smackdown up to the PPV. None of these matches feel special, and that's because they aren't. I don't buy Ryback/Kalisto as a tournament match buried on Smackdown. Now, if they had fought and won the right to be on an 8 man PPV tournament, and we got the incredible upset on PPV, this would have boosted Kalisto and could have been the start of a story for Ryback. That's just an example. It could have been the biggest night of the year with so much going on, but I feel like they have taken the gloss off it and missed a massive opportunity to do something special. Thoughts?