TWJT
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Post by TWJT on Dec 8, 2021 8:08:30 GMT -5
Obviously announce table spots have been around a long time, 26-27 years. I don’t see them ever going away, but I think they might happen now more than ever, when you look at the totality of PPV and TV occurrences.
Do you think they’ll ever book less of them? They definitely aren’t special, and I just don’t understand why they need to constantly happen. I can’t say it was ever rare or unique, because even when I started watching in December ‘99 they happened often. But man - as far as the modern era’s average of announce table bumps per year…I have had enough.
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The Real Chillary
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Chillary since day one ish
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Post by The Real Chillary on Dec 8, 2021 8:50:50 GMT -5
I hear ya,
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Post by TKO Propagandist on Dec 8, 2021 11:12:27 GMT -5
I'm good with them once every quarter. Which is just shy of the rate they tended to do them during the Attitude Era the greatest era in wrestling
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Post by k5 on Dec 8, 2021 11:57:43 GMT -5
I agree, it’s past over done. I also think the whole ‘spear through the barricade’ spot was old a decade ago but they just keep going back to it as well
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TWJT
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Post by TWJT on Dec 8, 2021 14:05:39 GMT -5
I agree, it’s past over done. I also think the whole ‘spear through the barricade’ spot was old a decade ago but they just keep going back to it as well Agreed! The first time Rosey was put through it by Goldberg was really good. Now we see it all the time. |
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Dec 8, 2021 14:16:50 GMT -5
We need to see more big boot/leg drop combos and posing after a match!
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E N I G M A
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Post by E N I G M A on Dec 8, 2021 17:18:17 GMT -5
I feel like Randy made them more popular in the last years due to his Singh Brother spots becoming such a gimmick. I don’t mind a good table crashing spot, but I hate the Shane O’mac one where the opponent lays there for an eternity and the announcers make it seem like Shane never ever could jump that far…
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tripleh23
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Post by tripleh23 on Dec 8, 2021 20:39:07 GMT -5
Yes, in my old fig fed I used to have a rule of one announce table spot a month. And I didn't even always meet that. But I was watching Fully Loaded 2000 the other night when Chris Jericho fights Triple H in a last man standing match. The match ends when Triple H hits a back suplex on Jericho through the table and Jericho stays down for 10. I was thinking that that would never be the finish now.
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Post by Codyverse: Tag Team Champion on Dec 9, 2021 21:20:34 GMT -5
Announce table spots are some of my favorites so that’s a no from me
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Post by PJ on Dec 10, 2021 7:46:48 GMT -5
I feel that way about suicide dives. Back in the day you might get one as a big spot at a PPV. But now everyone and their mother are doing at least one in every single match it seems.
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Post by Scott! on Dec 10, 2021 7:55:16 GMT -5
I feel like Randy made them more popular in the last years due to his Singh Brother spots becoming such a gimmick. I don’t mind a good table crashing spot, but I hate the Shane O’mac one where the opponent lays there for an eternity and the announcers make it seem like Shane never ever could jump that far… Agreed. Every Shane match has that spot, it’s too predictable and boring now. Overdone though? Nah keep putting Lana through the table every week for a laugh, we’ll never get sick of that right? |
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Post by MKSavage on Dec 10, 2021 16:21:41 GMT -5
There used to be a rule in wrestling when 1 person/match did a "special move or spot" on a show, especially a big show/PPV, then no one else on the card could do that move/spot. This was to make it appear rare or special. But they threw the rule book out years ago.
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Post by Turnbuckle Zealot(Phil) on Dec 10, 2021 19:27:39 GMT -5
Seriously they refuse to be creative in any way that doesn’t involve more flips or breaking random objects. I’m tired of it. It’s why there have been exactly three spots involving hitting a table or fighting near a table in the six years of fantasy territory booking I’ve done in the last three years. For context I run four fantasy promotions and consider the tv takings and house shows different days so once I hit 50 house shows in the weekly territory I’ve completed a year in the time line.
My point being I’m so sick of table spots I never want to do them in my feds because they happen four times a month across the different promotions. They do too much of it
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Post by ¡Twist Of Cinnamon! on Dec 10, 2021 21:11:43 GMT -5
Eh they're fine. If they're not breaking the table then its not as noticeable, like Orton's back suplex.
Its the spear through the barrier that I'm sick of. Especially since it can be seen a mile away.
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shenmue
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Post by shenmue on Dec 11, 2021 18:23:35 GMT -5
No but there are far too many roll Ups, sometimes 3 or 4 in one show.
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Post by Next Man’s Knowing Rock on Dec 13, 2021 20:25:12 GMT -5
I don’t even notice them anymore unless there’s something unique about it. I think I’m pretty desensitised to them, which suggests there are too many. I’m more bothered by suicide dives though, as they mean nothing anymore, and they’re dangerous and people do them all the time.
In general, wrestling has “too much” on any one show. Almost nothing gets protected or made special - matches on the same card see the same finishes, the same moves, the same storylines etc. In an era where very few wrestlers have memorable characters, they don’t help themselves stand out by doing the same thing as everyone else. Every wrestler should have a USP.
Kyle O’Reilly, for example. Neither WWE nor AEW needs him on the roster. He doesn’t bring anything to the table that you can’t already get from Adam Cole, Daniel Bryan, Pete Dunne, Cesaro, Finn Balor, Tommaso Ciampa etc. He’s a “nice to have” but he’s never going to be an essential, game-changing superstar. And his presence on a roster makes those other similar guys seem less unique. On the same note, but less suicide-dicey, Commander Azeez would probably be a bigger deal right now if Omos wasn’t around.
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