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Post by Artie Kendall on Sept 12, 2017 12:22:17 GMT -5
I'm of the old school mind that TV should be used to build up to pay per views and to sell tickets to house shows. I think they should go back to having jobbers to show off the wrestlers that are going to be in the upcoming towns. The house show is where the marque match ups should be. Gives people a reason to buy the ticket. "Come see this match at your local arena" type deal. This is 2017, not 1997, ratings aren't the end all be all to how a show on TV is doing. If that were the case then Vince would have changed a long time ago. He does not care about the rating because the rating doesn't matter in the long run.
50-50 Booking is terrible. You don't make stars out of 50-50 Booking. But maybe they don't want to make stars, maybe they don't want anyone bigger than WWE. Back in the day of Hogan, Warrior, Savage, and Flair, it was a big deal when they lost. Some fans know exactly which matches those stars lost because it didn't happen that much. And I get that WWE currently has Brock Lesnar as champion and he is going over everyone. As he should be. Save him to make your next big star so that it means something when he does get beat. Make it clean to.
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Post by Bandalero on Sept 12, 2017 14:59:39 GMT -5
Sunday Heat was probably the last show where the jobber-dynamic could realistically exist. A 1-hour, showcase of 2-3 top stars in squash matches with maybe a mid-card main event to cap it off.
I think the product suffers greatly from these give-away PPV-type matches. Braun vs Brock is complete money, but if we see them clash every week then what's the point? Cena vs Braun is also money, but they give it away somewhat just to keep people from flipping to football because RAW is 3 hours long.
Like him or not, Elsworth was the jobber story we always wanted to see and AJ put him over 3 times! Sure he overstayed his welcome, but it was a refreshing run that most of us liked because it was different.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Sept 12, 2017 19:05:33 GMT -5
Yes.
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