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Sheppy said:
It would be funny if they strip him of his title because he will be out a month or two, yet Roman seemingly defends his twice a year
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Especially considering in Triple H's promo introducing the title, he literally said they created it because Roman doesn't defend his regularly.

TD Charlie said:
Sorry i meant that they could forget about booking it cuz nobody would have a briefcase. Not until the next mitb anyway
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God willing, they get rid of MITB for awhile. Especially if they're gonna continue with long title runs.
 
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FriendlyGhost92 said:
Especially considering in Triple H's promo introducing the title, he literally said they created it because Roman doesn't defend his regularly.



God willing, they get rid of MITB for awhile. Especially if they're gonna continue with long title runs.
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I doubt it. MITB has become one of the marquee events IMO. I wouldn't mind if they did away with it for this summer though. Maybe bring it back as a match at Wrestlemania or Summerslam down the road. They have had pretty good success with it though.
 
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TD Charlie said:
I doubt it. MITB has become one of the marquee events IMO. I wouldn't mind if they did away with it for this summer though. Maybe bring it back as a match at Wrestlemania or Summerslam down the road. They have had pretty good success with it though.
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I’d be OK if they swapped it for KOTR.
 
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Sheppy said:
I’d be OK if they swapped it for KOTR.
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KOTR hasn’t felt important to me in a long ass time. Survivor Series lost its luster for a while too. I also miss having multiple rounds of the KOTR tournament all on the ppv. They could make that so good if they kept the brackets up on the big scoreboard all night. Do big entrances and hype up every match more and more as the night goes on. Give it sort of an old school ufc tournament vibe. Make a huge deal out of the winner, rather than the hokey cape and scepter bullshit

MITB is fun, but i think they could make that match more of a spectacle by having it at Mania or Summerslam. Even if they did the men and women on separate shows.
 
TD Charlie said:
I doubt it. MITB has become one of the marquee events IMO. I wouldn't mind if they did away with it for this summer though. Maybe bring it back as a match at Wrestlemania or Summerslam down the road. They have had pretty good success with it though.
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I disagree. Don't think most people really give a shit anymore. They've kinda run out of stuff to do with the actual match, as it's hard to innovate a new spot they haven't done before. It's basically just a different erector set with somebody crashing through a ladder.

And with the actual MITB, Theory cashing in on a mid-card title pretty much exposed that the gimmick had run it's course. Priest has been treading water with his for months despite being in a stable, where they could literally gang up on the champ at any point and trigger a cash in. The belts are more "Prestigious" at this point with longer title runs, and they don't seem to want to end those runs with a cash in. MITB is essentially a ticket for a mid-card guy to get a title shot, and they don't seem intent on putting the belt on mid-card guys anymore.
 
MitB has been one of their best performing non-big 4 PPV for years now, big 3 because I think it usually does better then Survivor Series too.

It makes zero business sense to take that PPV off the schedule.

Especially this year with it in Toronto.
 
Emperoreddy said:
MitB has been one of their best performing non-big 4 PPV for years now, big 3 because I think it usually does better then Survivor Series too.

It makes zero business sense to take that PPV off the schedule.

Especially this year with it in Toronto.
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That’s my argument for why it’s not going anywhere.
 
It's one of the few gimmick based PPVs they can actually can book some meaning for.

Another reason why it's still around by the HIAC and TLC PPVs have been retired.

It's really only in a slow spot because Theory's cash in was a failure (which they do need to fail occasionally IMO) and Priest hasn't cashed his in yet.

That hasn't been the case for the women though, who have cashed in sooner generally and with higher success rates.

Like I don't think you can claim Iyo's win this past summer didn't matter.
 
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Emperoreddy said:
It's one of the few gimmick based PPVs they can actually can book some meaning for.

Another reason why it's still around by the HIAC and TLC PPVs have been retired.

It's really only in a slow spot because Theory's cash in was a failure (which they do need to fail occasionally IMO) and Priest hasn't cashed his in yet.

That hasn't been the case for the women though, who have cashed in sooner generally and with higher success rates.

Like I don't think you can claim Iyo's win this past summer didn't matter.
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I love the MITB and Elimination Chamber (though, that one's a bit predicable).

HIAC, TLC, KotR, have all dropped for meaning nothing. Heck...Survivor Series has been losing momentum for years because (some of) its matches being meaningless. It was huge back in the day when Superstars was just showcasing wrestlers against jobbers, but now, the matches just feel like a RAW.
 
Different circumstances. Nakamura was obviously a draw in Japan but i'd wager the majority of the WWE's fans/viewers had no idea who he was. Okada is a bigger draw and North American fans have had a fair amount of exposure to him thanks to the AEW/NJPW relationship.

Putting him in NXT would devalue him and i'd argue all the other stars they're working on building down there since it becomes the Okada show. At that point you just go to AEW.

If he comes to WWE he gets minimum slotted into the top of the midcard to start with the intent of building him to be a true contender/main eventer.
 
Whoever lands Okada needs to immediately catapult him into the top heel in the company. Ivan Drago over Creed type dominance. Then the babyface that beats him gets put on a pedestal as well.

None of this NXT or midcard crap. Make a statement with this guy
 
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TheBeastCoast said:
Guy is not going to NXT to start lmao he obviously could end up in WWE but that report is complete BS.
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I can see him going to NXT, but I'd imagine the pitch was from a production standpoint, not a wrestling standpoint.

Essentially, "You're not here to run the ropes and learn holds, you're here to learn where our cameras are, and where you need to be for us to shoot you the best."

As far as I can recall, since NXT started, AJ is the only guy who has never worked for WWE that completely bypassed NXT, and he had a decade of work in TNA. I can see them doing a KO-like stint with Okada where he gets just enough time in there to learn WWE's production and then goes to the main roster.

TD Charlie said:
Whoever lands Okada needs to immediately catapult him into the top heel in the company. Ivan Drago over Creed type dominance. Then the babyface that beats him gets put on a pedestal as well.

None of this NXT or midcard crap. Make a statement with this guy
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Ehh. You could essentially do this by having him kill every babyface he comes up against in NXT for 3-4 months while he learns the WWE production, and then thrust him into WWE because he's "Too good for NXT". I don't think that really hurts NXT's brand. Everybody knows it's developmental.

What you're suggesting is pretty much what Gunther already is. Not saying you can't have two of those, but they definitely have one right now.
 
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Blitzkrug said:
Different circumstances. Nakamura was obviously a draw in Japan but i'd wager the majority of the WWE's fans/viewers had no idea who he was. Okada is a bigger draw and North American fans have had a fair amount of exposure to him thanks to the AEW/NJPW relationship.

Putting him in NXT would devalue him and i'd argue all the other stars they're working on building down there since it becomes the Okada show. At that point you just go to AEW.

If he comes to WWE he gets minimum slotted into the top of the midcard to start with the intent of building him to be a true contender/main eventer.
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I'm not entire sure a whole lot of WWE fans have any idea who Okada is.

Punk's "You can't just go punching people in the face these days" comment receiving little to no reaction from the live crowd was pretty eye opening. Sure, those people probably knew he was in AEW, but it seems that a lot of them had no idea what the hell happened.
 
FriendlyGhost92 said:
I can see him going to NXT, but I'd imagine the pitch was from a production standpoint, not a wrestling standpoint.

Essentially, "You're not here to run the ropes and learn holds, you're here to learn where our cameras are, and where you need to be for us to shoot you the best."

As far as I can recall, since NXT started, AJ is the only guy who has never worked for WWE that completely bypassed NXT, and he had a decade of work in TNA. I can see them doing a KO-like stint with Okada where he gets just enough time in there to learn WWE's production and then goes to the main roster.



Ehh. You could essentially do this by having him kill every babyface he comes up against in NXT for 3-4 months while he learns the WWE production, and then thrust him into WWE because he's "Too good for NXT". I don't think that really hurts NXT's brand. Everybody knows it's developmental.

What you're suggesting is pretty much what Gunther already is. Not saying you can't have two of those, but they definitely have one right now.
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Okada has wrestled with a hard cam before. It really isn't that hard to figure out and the idea of wasting months of Okada in NXT is honestly just ridiculous. If you are bringing him in, it's to bring him in billed as THE biggest guy to ever come to America from Japan....not to play in the little leagues for the first half a year to a year. Also supposedly Okada's pull towards WWE is Mania. I can't imagine pitching him on spending months in developmental will do a whole lot to help push him away from AEW.

Jussi said:
Nakamura did start in NXT first. He wasn't long there though.
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Okada isn't Nakamura and there wasn't AEW also after Nakamura at the time. Not the same thing.
 
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TheBeastCoast said:
Okada has wrestled with a hard cam before. It really isn't that hard to figure out and the idea of wasting months of Okada in NXT is honestly just ridiculous. If you are bringing him in, it's to bring him in billed as THE biggest guy to ever come to America from Japan....not to play in the little leagues for the first half a year to a year. Also supposedly Okada's pull towards WWE is Mania. I can't imagine pitching him on spending months in developmental will do a whole lot to help push him away from AEW.
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It's not really about wrestling in front of a hard cam. WWE has like 50 cameras on a televised show lol.
 
Worth bringing up. About a week ago the F4W crew speculated that if WWE dumped Kevin Patrick, they could circle back to Mauro Ranallo.

I believe Mauro's big problem in WWE was Vince in his ear. (I can't remember, but I feel like something happened with Graves, too)

EDIT: There was an issue with a Tweet made by Graves... And honestly what he said was absurdly harmless.
 
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