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This is such a good point. Sometimes that good soldier shit just doesn't work. Cody had that same view point and dove hard into crappy stuff like Stardust. But the only way he changed their perception is by leaving and proving them wrong. Drew too. Cody never would have been the star he is today had he stayed and tried to be a good soldier. If Bailey wants a chance to be seen as a top tier level star, she's gotta go out and change their perception of her.

I mean WWE pay Shiima something like $300k a year and he only gets maybe 6-8 TV matches a year. I dont think it would be too crazy to think they'd offer 30 natives $75k a year plus merch cut to do the 30 ot 40 TV shows. And while not all talent will appreciate the pay cut or change to their life style, plenty will take it and be happy they don't have to grind out so many shows and hustle to get chosen by the office to get on the spot shows. You have way more knowledge of how Mexico works. But I don't think a lot of that is relevant in the sense that WWE will want to make Mexico work how they want it to work. Regardless of the success / failure of that want.

I understand the difference in how AAA operates and how most of the talents income come from being booked out to local promoter indy spot shows. I agree WWE aren't going to do that for them. But why is it being glossed over that what WWE will do it sign them all to contracts and pay them enough to not need more than AAA shows? WWE has about 300 people under contract right now. Maybe 150 regularly make TV between the 3 brands. Some are being paid to train. Some are being trained to sit in catering. I don't think WWE is going to have an issue paying out to have guys under deals and change the structure of how Mexico operates. They'll run 40 shows a year. All will be TV or PPVs. They won't do house shows. WWE will rotate in main roster lucha guys they aren't using. Send nxt guys or people like Omos as attractions. Essentially its going to be ran like a typical WWE brand. Just keeping the name with history and to make it an easier transition to not alienate fans of lucha. The indys / spot shows of Mexico will get flooded with guys. The market will be over saturated and it's going to be a net negative for the business, while a positive for WWE. It'll be like 2002 when WCW and ECW were gone. Sure there were ROH & TNA trying to fill the void. But the vast majority of talent ended up screwed over. I do think this is the new WWE strategy for globalization. NXT UK tanked hard. Started new NXTs everywhere isn't happening. What is happening is buying their way into new markets with slow transitions over time to the WWE way. It's the territories being bought out all over again.

Im surprised it's that high. The average UFC fan (not all, mind you) are the type to look down on wrestling because it's fake. They just want real fights and brains getting beaten in. Generally not the type to appreciate a well crafted story about limb damage leading to someone's downfall. Theres a reason MMA (as we know it) started in the early 90s. It coincides with wrestling coming out in the late 80s as predetermined. MMA is wrestling for people who thought wrestling was real. You're just not going to get those people to watch a fake version of what they like. Now none of these are absolutes. There are people that enjoy both and don't fall in line with the above. But the vast majority do. Just like there is a large majority that watch wrestling because they know (in theory) the object is for people to not get harmed. And you're not going to get them to watch a spot that routinely has gross cuts and bone breaks happen before your eyes. It's a personality types thing. I get why they'd wanna try. But it's an uphill battle to say the least.

Hear me out, Women's Casino Gauntlet at All In. Which leads to Athena winning. Which leads to Athena vs Mercedes (after she beats Toni at All In) at like All Out or Forbidden Door for all 7 or 8 Women's Titles they will have between them. Let's get Mercedes up to 11 to surpass Ultimo lol. I joke, but really I'd love to see it. Their match was fantastic last night and I think they have an even better one in them with some build and importance behind it on a big PPV. But a Women's Casino gauntlet is the way to go for All In. Last year's men's one at All In was really fun. Let's get a lot of the women on this year with a few fun surprises.

You're missing the point I'm trying to make by quite a bit. Or maybe I'm doing a bad job expressing it. The reason I have an issue with the enhancement matches getting 10 minutes is because everything gets 10 minutes. I'm not asking for more squashes. I'm asking them to vary up the match times, the match lengths, and the match purposes. For my tastes Nitro was the show that's gotten it the most right. Sometimes you'd get a 5 minute Marty Jannetty vs Booker T match. Sometimes you'd get a 10 minute Rey vs Dean Malenko banger. Sometimes you'd get The Giant squashing Roadblock in 30 seconds. You honestly never knew how long a match was going to go from segment to segment. I want unpredictability. I was spontaneity. I want purpose behind what we're doing. To me Dynamite feels more like Ink Master than an exciting wrestling show. Ink Master has it's formula. You start with the flash challenge. You do the elimination tattoo. You get the critique. Someone's gone. They do very little to ever mix up the format. Or a show like Chopped on The Food Network. It's the same format every week and you just plug and play the contestants. That's what Dynamite is. There's an excel spread sheet and TK plugs and plays different people into the same segments / matches with no real rhyme or reason. And I've gotten tired of it. It's lazy. Do more to mix it up. I don't care if Blake Christian gets an extended 10 minute enhancement spot if every match wasn't 10 minutes for the sake of being 10 minutes. Mix. It Up. That's where I'm coming from. Having the same template for every week and just writing new names into that same template over and over isn't how wrestling is supposed to be (in my opinion).

After 50 matches in a row that go 10+ minutes, even the forgone conclusion ones, you go numb to it. It has no impact. It has no purpose. It doesn't do anything for the performers except churn content and waste time. I'm not advocating for a Superstars format to return where it's 50 squashes in a row either. Because then you go numb to squashes. What I'm advocating for is a fluid format that sometimes has 5 minute competitive sprints. Sometimes there's a squash. Sometimes there's a competitive 10 minute enhancement match. Sometimes you get that dope 20+ minute epic that wows you. What I'd like to see is less predictability in formatting. Because then you never peg down what the format is and you don't go numb to it. Dynamite is 6 matches. Every week. No wavering from it. Unless it's a Blood & Guts episode. One of those 6 matches features the women. All of them go 10+ minutes. A more effective way to format the show is to vary the amount of matches and the length of matches. On paper I don't have an issue with Omega giving Alan Angels what he did. Or even giving Blake Christian that. If the amount of matches and length of matches varied, those would stand out as giving those guys some shine and trying to raise their stock. But because long matches are the norm, it doesn't do any of that and actually starts to diminish your star performer. Collision they do have a little bit of fluidity in the formatting. But I don't watch Collision very often. That's a whole different subject that would just muddy my point here. My point here is that variety is necessary for wrestling shows to be exciting. Dynamite hasn't been exciting in a long time.

If everyone is elite no one is elite. If everyone has a belt no one has a belt. If you push everyone as equals no one gets mega over. You don't get to have your cake an eat it too. If you throw someone on TV who hasn't been on in a long time, who they have no plans for, and that person hangs with Omega for 15... that doesn't bring them up to Omega's elite level. That brings Omega down. It's just what the optics are. Just because a match is long, doesn't mean you gain something from it. Just having him go long doesn't raise his stock. Going long and losing 50 times in a row just means you're a jobber and the best in AEW have trouble beating jobbers. You can't protect everyone. When you do everyone just blends together as equals and no one stands out. And yes matches going long is a form of protection so the performer doesn't feel slighted. Would Warrior beating Honky Tonk at Summer Slam 88 have meant as much if they went 15 minutes? Would Waltman beating Razor have meant as much had he been going 15 minutes in the weeks leading up to that win in close defeats?

Unpopular opinion (maybe?), AEW doesn't do enough squash matches. Even enhancement matches are 15 minutes long and have a commercial break. It's a real draining format. They need to switch shit up and do a few short matches and a few squashes here and there. I know Collision is a little bit looser than Dynamite when it comes to that but it's still too much. One thing that clouds TK's booking is his fandom (in my opinion). He's a fan and wants to have all these long matches because he wants everyone to show their best stuff each time out. But a good showing means more when long matches aren't the norm.

If you lose every match, you're a jobber. He's doing the job. Has he ever won a match in AEW? (ROH doesn't count). In this day and age you can rehab anyone and make them meaningful. But dude is the definition of a jobber right now. He's talented but he loses all the time. Would you have less of an issue if he used enhancement talent instead of the word jobber?

Yeah he had one in AEW that was too close, they actually had to take it down and stop selling it lol.

Looking more and more like The Giants will end up with Abdul Carter if they stay at 3. I really want Sheduer. But I get using the number 3 pick on someone graded where he is defies current draft logic. Better mentally prepare now for a season with Big Russ as my QB1.

16 years between year long reigns is kind of mind blowing. 1989 when Savage dropped it until 2005 when Cena hit his year.

In before the "Idk where you guys are getting this from, no other wrestling spaces dislike The Deathriders like DVDVR does" post lol. The evidence I bring forth is TK being asked about it at the scrum. Clearly it's a bigger thing than just here if he's getting asked if he ever considers pivoting when the crowd is disliking a story. Hate to keep dwelling on the negative but it's such an overwhelming grey cloud hovering over the whole company it really drags even the fun stuff down (for me).

The idea came because you can't change your vote in a poll. And there were a lot of people who said they voted yes but they're a big nope now. We were curious how different the results would be three months later for this reign of absolute garbage.