>
>>I hear that, but this also is part of the issue with the
>>overcrowding of ppvs. They gotta get most of the titles AND
>>some personal feuds on the card, then they squeeze in
>workrate
>>stuff like Darby/Kyle on there.
>
>I mean, as I said above in DoN review, the Owen Hart
>Tournament stuff shouldn't have been on there. That eliminates
>about an hour off the rip. If they can afford to leave FTR off
>two consecutive PPVs, they can afford to leave off Adam Cole,
>Samoa Joe, and Britt Baker for one.
>
>And regardless, those two Owen Hart belts are **really**
>belts. They probably should have gone the trophy route, but
>opted for the belt visual instead.
>
>>Looking forward to that tbh, although I do think they’ll
>>still pop up here and there on AEW programming, which is
>>tolerable I guess. Even without those, I think there’s too
>>many titles though. None of those were featured on DoN and
>the
>>show was still probably an hour and a half too long.
>
>They desperately need to sign a streaming down with HBOMax or
>Hulu or whoever. Then go the previous NXT route and put all
>the ROH stuff on there. Until tnen, you've got a very deep
>roster and 3 hours of TV to put them on. They can try and hype
>up Dark and Dark Elevation as someone different, but it's
>always going to be the equivalent of what WWF Superstars was
>back in the day: enhancement talent putting over mid card
>guys.
>

It’s an odd situation now for sure. People can’t/won’t accept that being a good midcard guy is not a shot to the heart of a guy’s career. AKA even with a bunch of belts, multi person matches, tv shows, online shows, and/or feds, someone has to be the main event. And that main event crew will change OR the cries of ‘stale’ shall be loud and fierce cuz Twitter and bad faith pods can’t just show up and say ‘wow, there’s like 100 good wrestlers that any reasonable fan of this shit could like..this is a good time to like wrestling. And sometimes it’s not gonna be your favorite’s turn’. And we know why..they can’t rank, rate, compare and/or complain about shit all day if that’s where the convo starts and ends. It’s easier and lazier to just say ‘everything sux now cuz Cesaro isn’t champ, MJF isn’t the richest dude wrestling, there’s too many titles, and nobody is as big a deal as The Rock, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair and Stone Cold Steve Austin..aka the most over mfers since cable tv blew up’.

I swear I remember 80s and 90s weekly shows being a lot of ‘midcard’ guys doing shit with some guest appearances of the big shit dudes. And then, the hook was occasionally having the big shit dudes get into some kind of conflict with a ‘midcard’ character. And then the mission was to sell the fan on the idea that the midcard dude had a real chance to win. And then, they usually would FUCKING LOSE! And then it was onto the next feud after they’d gone around the country wrestling each other.