These Cinematic Segments

Just bring back Southpaw Regional Wrestling.

These segments aren't pro wrestling. Honestly, a lot of crap that people like about what they think is wrestling has no place in wrestling, but the whole thing has gotten away from everybody. They're interesting segments, but they're not "matches" they're something else being done by wrestlers.

They're just going to be overdone and make things harder for the wrestlers to actually make money doing wrestling as it was intended. Something people can believe in and justify. You can believe and justify some pretty strange things for wrestling, but this just isn't it.

they are absolutely fantastic on every level. they are DIFFERENT and interesting.

would i want them all the time? absolutely not. but given the circumstances, getting them is a treat. i hope they continue here and there going forward.

I loved what Ciampa & Gargano did last night. It was brutal and very well filmed. It felt like a fight.

I liked the Boneyard Match. It was ridiculous, shot beautifully, but still felt like a movie fight.

The Firefly Fun House I'm meh on. While it was filmed well, it wasn't really a match. And at the end of the day, this is still wrestling. Needed more of a wrestling/fight feel.

Sometimes the most interesting part of wrestling isn’t the wrestling. Hence Dark Side of the Ring and shoot interviews being popular. The fight was getting Cena to put over Bray. He finally won.

I haven’t seen the nXt match yet, but you’re saying it was done like the other two? Interesting. Looking forward to it.

While I don’t wholeheartedly agree with Jim Cornette’s take on these scenes, he has some good points. For one, neither WM billed ‘match’ was actually that.

The Boneyard was a fight with a wrestling move or two thrown in. The brutality Taker used on Styles reminded me of Michael Myers stalking a victim at times. Had this been a scene in an actual movie it would be praised as a summer blockbuster.

The FFF on night 2 was almost a psychological thriller. The hero was forced to relive failures from his past (while hitting a couple fun rumors from the dirt sheets) to break him down until the villain was finally able to take him down.

Cornette said he always felt that wrestlers were better than Hollywood because while choreographed, wrestlers have the disadvantage of being viewed on all 4 sides, not to mention that many nights it’s filmed live. He (and AJ as well) mentioned that a few of these here and there are fine, but if WWE overdoes it, the uniqueness of them will fade to everyone that enjoyed them and they will be ruined.

Jim also reiterated Kevin Dunn’s desire to make WWE more entertainment than wrestling, which I’m sure most of us know already. I think Jim kinda liked the Boneyard match as a brawl, but because it would go against the his stance on pro wrestling he had to stick with it.

I love them, hope they do more tbh.

I liked the WCW mini-movies. I liked Lucha Underground. I liked the Ultimate Deletion. I liked all 3 cinematic offerings that WWE did over the past week.

My only concern is that WWE will do it too often. Sometimes when things get a lot of buzz, WWE will over do it and ruin it. Hopefully they don't do that this time.

It's the perfect way to put on a Sting vs Undertaker match. Maybe you put Vader in the HOF next year and have the match in the White Castle of Fear? You can't do another Boneyard match.

While I understand your point, empty arena matches arent pro wrestling either. The very basis of pro wrestling is crowd manipulation. If theres no crowd, you dont have a wrestling match.

So for the time being, I have absolutely no problem with these segements/matches being on the shows. They are entertaining and keep the shows going during these months where we have nothing to watch.