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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Now that's something I have no desire to see return. I struggle to get through squashes for all but the most impressive talent, even when I know there's perfectly good character development reason for one in some cases.
It's hard for me to set a hard dividing line on whether Wrestler X is perceived as having no chance because of Y amount of losses OR if it's because a lot of the fan base has a pretty good notion of how booking works and therefore knows who is likely to go over more often than not.
I mean, in theory, a bunch of 50-50 guys should mean we have coin toss expectations in their matches. And even a long winning streak (to build momentum for someone going up against a next-level-higher opponent) would telegraph certain expectations as well.
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The point behind it would be that instead of seeing Kevin Owens vs Dolph Ziggler on RAW 15 times in which KO wins 12 of their matches and now they have a short 1-2 month feud about something non sports related and have a PPV match that very few will actually care about, to actually save this match and have a legit feud in which the outcome is up in the air. I understand people dont like watching squash matches but if you use them to build the story and build up perceived talent of the main roster it would create better PPVs and better matchups.
Im not saying go all squash like WWF mid to late 80s but use the squash to build up the momentum of wrestlers that need it and advance storylines that way. Even keeping wrestlers out of the ring for awhile so they can tweak the character would help with perceived talent.
When we see the same matchups on RAW as well do the PPVs it doesnt really make the PPV matchups seem all the important.