>>Just show up and talk shit and hold the title up in the air
>>every now and then for a few months, until it’s healed?
>Let
>>all the other workhorses carry the show? When’s the next
>>PPV anyways? AEW doesn’t have them every month like WWE.
>>If he’s not ready by the next PPV, just have him make an
>>appearance, and have the main event be for a title shot or
>>something. Or let the TNT match main event and make it
>really
>>matter like the old 80s-early 90s IC title. They used to
>do
>>shit like that all the time - go back to it, who cares?
>>Nobody got time for keeping up with this pressed ass title
>>match at every monthly PPV, 5 different champions in a year,
>>modern WWE bullshit schedule anyway. Nobody following
>>wrestling like THAT. Slow it down and let him hold it, who
>>cares?
>
>Yeah. They could do something like that. But Punk probably
>doesn’t want to be that type of champ (even tho it would
>make that MJF story everyone keeps booking a WOW for a
>different reason). And maybe he’s FUCKING HURT and he could
>be out for longer than they even wanted to say. Like 6 months
>or something more.
>
>Now that you bring it up, I also wonder wtf WWE is about to
>do. Rollins/Cody is the number one program in the company and
>Reigns is off somewhere doing something/on some Brock+ shit.
>They’re kinda doing what you’re talking about. There’s
>rumors that Jack Tunney isn’t walking through any doors
>(with his defense every 30 days rules) and Reigns might not
>defend again til damn near Summerfest.

Man, I don’t even know what’s going on there - I didn’t even watch Mania, and Sasha walking out lets me know I’m missing nothing that I care about.

Good point on Punk possibly not wanting to do that, but man I have to wonder if anyone would even know if they slowed it down properly. The whole industry could use a cool down a kill off the hot shot shit, the pressed shit. They lost their minds in the attitude era and have been chasing that ever since. Maybe that was the fluke, and the sweet spot blueprint was the stuff before that? Hope he’s not 6 months hurt like you said though. If he’s not, I say let him be the champ without wrestling for a few months and then build to something big. He doesn’t need to wrestle every week to build - he knows how to do it.