Now after some last-minute planning: I decided to watch some RAW roughly [Monday 25/06/2019,] so I could
include this in this blog. Now from an overview perspective it was okay mixed
in with okay but it could go south any second that kind of feeling and whilst I
am on this subject, I valued my sleep more.
Let's get real WWE: really WWE, really
you are exploiting another real-life situation for your own gains. This is not
surprising, because this is what the WWE do, yes I am referring to Rollins and
Lynch's relationship, yes I am a little bit angry about this and the only
reason I am not more angry is because as I have already said this is what the
WWE do.
So we are
having the Main Event of WWE Extreme Rules 2019 [to cover my back I just want
to say card subject to change but this is probably the Main Event Match] as
Baron Corbin and Lacy Evans vs. the Universal Champion Seth Rollins and the Raw
Woman's Champion Becky Lynch with the stipulation of Winners Take All Mixed Tag
Team Match. Now for some strange reason I am getting the feeling of déjà vu
here in these two ways, didn't we see this already where the women took on the
women and the men took on the men for their respective championships [in more
than one match each for these championships] and secondly didn't we see a
similar stipulation of this nature being used at the Main Event of WrestleMania
35, I must stress in this situation there was a detail put in place where if
Evans and Corbin loses they cannot ever challenge for their respective Raw
brand championships again [I'm guessing this only applies as long as Rollins
and Lynch are champions this time around? I should just point out this is only
speculation mixed in with common sense, but I could be completely wrong about
this.
So I have
one massive and when I say massive I mean the size of Galactus rhetorical
question "How is this going to sell tickets seriously?" It isn't,
because there is no way, absolutely no way or once again just to cover my back
there should be no way that the hierarchy can be considering making new
champions here, so by using this stipulation or stipulations in this match they
have already told us the result, so why pay for something that we already know
the result to.
I mean if
the hierarchy were that adamant/desperate to have this match I would have kept
the second stipulation and modified the first stipulation to something like
this: if a champion gets pinned they lose their championship. You see on using
my way they could have disguised or made an effort to disguise the result
better, so in theory it could have been possible for one champion to lose their
championship. Yes I still think the result would be the same but I'm not
talking about the result, I am talking about disguising the result so people
may want to watch their product or having taken two seconds to think about it;
if they really, really want it to be creative they could keep the second
stipulation, but put these two championships in a ladder match where the first
one to bring down a championship providing it ends up in their respective genders
hands they win that championship and the other championship gets automatically
returned to its holder, so it could create some friction between these two
teams or something like that or if they wanted to think outside the box in the
match they could have Lynch going for the Universal Championship, in a scramble
to pass it off to Rollins to end the match, just because they are a tag team
and consequently by her actions she saves/defends her championship as well.
UK TV: now this is what I really wanted to talk about,
in short the WWE and Sky Sports have decided to go their separate ways with BT
Sports/BT Box Office picking up the rights to show RAW, SmackDown Live and
their pay-per-views.
This is a
great move for Sky Sports and BT Sports for very different reasons, now as far
as I'm concerned the WWE are a sinking ship and the way they do business on any
level is something I have grown to dislike. I'm just speculating here but on
one hand from Sky Sports perspective maybe it was a good time to cut ties with
the WWE and on the other hand this is good for BT Sports/BT Box Office to
improve their numbers.
I know
nothing about business [I dropped it when I was in college many years ago,] but
I am not sure how this new partnership is meant to be beneficial for the WWE,
yes obviously this deal is an outlet for them but in the bigger picture it is
like they are giving up the UK market with their actions basically saying
"We are done with this part of the world let's explore new options."
Now if it
should happen you think I am being too harsh or anything to this effect; All
Elite Wrestling being business partners with ITV4 [ITV Box Office or Fite TV in
collaboration with ITV Box,] as you can see I have done some research but as of
this blog and here and now with doing a little bit of research I can't tell
where their pay-per-views are going to be based from a viewing perspective.
Maybe when their TV programming begins later this year things will become
clearer [on a quick side note I would massively prefer them to be on ITV Box
Office, because I can watch them in bed, I have no problem with paying for them
it is just if they are online it makes it impossible for me to view them,
because of my physical situation.
But the
potential for All Elite Wrestling to take over the WWE's UK market/fan base is
from a WWE perspective is a frightening inevitability or if they haven't
thought about this yet it should really be dawning on them about now.
I'm not
against the WWE, because the more places that characters/performers have to
perform is good for business. But having said that I am happy to see them go
from my TV, I can catch up on anything I want from this company from online
sources so I don't have to watch their main two brands and I would happily by
many billions upon billions upon billions upon billions of miles without
question pay more to see All Elite Wrestling's pay-per-views on ITV Box Office
over the WWE Network [to be fair minus anything to do with NXT or if they show
WWE Studio projects.]
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