Thought Of The Day: Smackdown And The Main Event
I know the brand split is basically dead, but this is ridiculous.The last time Smackdown had a main event of a PPV (excluding the Rumble which isn’t a Smackdown match) was Hell in a Cell 2010. I know Smackdown is the lower level show, but wouldn’t it help a bit to have them close out a show once in awhile? You’ve already sold the show, so does it really matter if the Smackdown match goes on last? Especially if you have a somewhat weak Raw main event?
Is there a reason for this that I’m not getting?
I thought all house shows featured the entire roster and both champions now.
But anyway, I still recall 2007 when ECW probably had the biggest feud going in Bobby Lashley vs Mr. McMahon. Rather than that closing One Night Stand ’07, John Cena vs The Great Khali closed it for no other reason than it’s the bigger show and Smackdown’s match had no build up. It was Edge vs Batista about 2 weeks after Edge cashed in on Taker.
I consider it a lack of trust on WWE’s part. They have two titles and rather treat them as equals or such, one belt is just a testing ground for who could someday hold the other one nowadays. It’s pretty evident when you have Daniel Bryan lose the World title and then jump to the WWE title.
Yeah it probably wouldn’t hurt to have the Smackdown Main Event close out a PPV again. I didn’t even realize it had been since HIAC 2010 that SD had closed things out. I agree though it would be hard to unify the Titles right now and I really don’t know how they could right now.
Speaking of Main Event Ive really enjoyed the Show so far and the format of it.
Well that’s what feuds are for, really. The Horsemen drew because everyone wanted to see them get their asses kicked, and while the NWA thrived on a heel-first style of booking, the same archetype can be applied to the WWE’s current roster, if existing heels (besides Punk) managed to gain enough heat and crowd response to draw. A lot of the angles they do these days don’t exactly hype up feuds all that well (take any Del Rio angle in his Sheamus feud).
That’s my point though: without these feuds being treated as big deals, why would they draw an audience? If they’re treated as midcard matches, they’re never going to be seen as main events. Make them a main event once in awhile and it’ll draw a better audience.
At the same time, majority of Punk’s reign not even the WWE title closed the show.
Unify the titles. Simple.
World title is being treated as a midcard title these days anyway.
Not that simple actually. Two world titles means two house shows a night. Granted in the 80s there was one world title and the other feuds were big enough to be able to run three house shows a day but I digress.
Still, the Smackdown house-shows have been especially weak for a while now in terms of attendance (heck, isn’t that why Orton was supposedly moved and kept face for so long?), and it’s not like they can’t run multiple house-shows featuring other big names in the main event. Considering how they treat their championships besides the main-event ones, it’s not like it’d be that big a change
Yeah but now they have Sheamus as another top face to use on SD house shows. At the end of the day, why would you want to see a match with nothing on the line in the main event? If you see it fine and if not, that’s fine too.