Howdy Blog Of Doomers!
It's going to be hard pressed for the Whiff to surpass what they did Monday night. The show was so good, moved so well that even the McMahons stuff didn't bother me that much (eventually it will).
This week there will be lots of questions answered (I hope) about the impending Cena-Henry and Brock-Punk encounters. If they can keep those stories moving well AND provide some good matches I won't complain.
Otherwise I was thinking on this TV title thing. It truly was an undervalued concept back in the day because it was a simple way to put over a midcarder without really giving them anything. Tully Blanchard, who held the title for damn near most of the mid-80s, would defend it against a mid-level guy on the Saturday night show. 10 minute match and Tully would mostly get the shit kicked out of him for 70% of the match, make the guy look like a million bucks and then time expires.
Sounds all great right? Here's where the value of the concept works...A draw for Blanchard was considered a victory. Post match he would jump on the stick and brag about his 'victory' and how no one could beat him in under 10 minutes. So he wrestles a guy, puts the guys offense over like crazy, neither of them suffer the pinfall, the crowd completely loses their shit in the last two minutes with all these near falls...and no one gets damaged in the process. Blanchard "wins" by surviving and the guy that "lost" never gets pinned and is looked at in a positive light because he tried hard and had he just had 30 more seconds he could have won. The pessimist says Blanchard was lucky, the optimist says he was tough and conditioned. They are both right.
Would still work perfectly. And actually Curtis Axel would have been the PERFECT (no pun intended) guy to run with this concept. It would have been much better than guy lucks out with countout victory two minutes into match right?
Anyway that's all I got. Enjoy the show, come out swinging and...keep it clean.
It's going to be hard pressed for the Whiff to surpass what they did Monday night. The show was so good, moved so well that even the McMahons stuff didn't bother me that much (eventually it will).
This week there will be lots of questions answered (I hope) about the impending Cena-Henry and Brock-Punk encounters. If they can keep those stories moving well AND provide some good matches I won't complain.
Otherwise I was thinking on this TV title thing. It truly was an undervalued concept back in the day because it was a simple way to put over a midcarder without really giving them anything. Tully Blanchard, who held the title for damn near most of the mid-80s, would defend it against a mid-level guy on the Saturday night show. 10 minute match and Tully would mostly get the shit kicked out of him for 70% of the match, make the guy look like a million bucks and then time expires.
Sounds all great right? Here's where the value of the concept works...A draw for Blanchard was considered a victory. Post match he would jump on the stick and brag about his 'victory' and how no one could beat him in under 10 minutes. So he wrestles a guy, puts the guys offense over like crazy, neither of them suffer the pinfall, the crowd completely loses their shit in the last two minutes with all these near falls...and no one gets damaged in the process. Blanchard "wins" by surviving and the guy that "lost" never gets pinned and is looked at in a positive light because he tried hard and had he just had 30 more seconds he could have won. The pessimist says Blanchard was lucky, the optimist says he was tough and conditioned. They are both right.
Would still work perfectly. And actually Curtis Axel would have been the PERFECT (no pun intended) guy to run with this concept. It would have been much better than guy lucks out with countout victory two minutes into match right?
Anyway that's all I got. Enjoy the show, come out swinging and...keep it clean.