http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/blog.php?10497-All-Dre-Everyday Wrestling News and Discussion - eWrestlingNews.com Community en Thu, 23 May 2013 06:08:05 GMT vBulletin 10 http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/blog.php?10497-All-Dre-Everyday http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?41457-Super-Kick-2-Tagging-In-Bringing-Tag-Team-Wrestling-Back-to-Life Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:44:29 GMT Oh, you didn't know?(like really, you didn't know that tag team wrestling sucks nowadays) Your ass better call somebody!!!!

Hey guys, HB-Dre here with another edition of Super Kick. Thanks for all the feedback on my first Super Kick about revamping WWE's PPV product, but the past is in the past so lets move on to Super Kick 2, and my thoughts on whats wrong with tag team wrestling. Now let me clear up some confusion on the topic before we even get started, tag team wrestling is not dead, as you could clearly see on every episode of Smackdown while Teddy Long was GM.


But seriously, tag team wrestling is on life support, its like the WWE puts it out there because they're expected to. While the tag team situation is dire, I do believe there are some simple solutions to making tag team wrestling and the tag team titles relevant in the WWE.

1. Name Recognition
One of the biggest problems with tag team wrestling today is the fact that outside of the Uso's(which really is creative genius marketing), there is no name recognition when it comes to tag teams. If I were to ask you to name of the great tag teams of all time, I would get answers like The Rockers, Midnight Express, Demolition, The Hart Foundation, Harlem Heat, the Steiner Brothers, the New Age Outlaws, The Outsiders, 3D/theDudley Boyz and my personal favorite, the Legion of Doom. With the exception of Edge and Christian, can you think of an exceptional tag team that didn't have a tag team name? Hell, back in the day when two singles competitors were teamed together they were given tag team names (e.g. The Mega Powers and the Brothers of Destruction.) Its ridiculous to think that the current tag team champions don't have a name they go by, rather they are just Epico and Primo; that might fly if they were main event caliber start, but they aren't. I thought that the WWE was on to something when they had Air Boom and Awesome Truth, but apparently Evan Bourne and R Truth had secret tag team partners that showed up on their drug test and killed those teams. (On not so random not, I was hoping like crazy that the WWE would give Kofi and Truth a chance at being a legit tag team known as the Brothers Darkness, but that didn't happen.) Honestly thought a real simple step in rebuilding the tag team division would be to have teams that have an identity that could be marketed to the fans and a team name would do that.

2. The NXT Great Tag Team?
So I know it sounds great on paper to have tag team names, but the problem that still is on the table is the lack of legitimate tag teams. Outside of Epico and Primo and the Usos, the WWE has no constant tag teams and is filled with flavor of the week pairings. The WWE universe has no rooting interest whatsoever in tag team matches now because they don't have any connection with the team; and that's because the teams don't stay together for more than a couple of weeks, if that long. The WWE needs to find tag team pairings and stick with them so that fans can build a familiarity with them. So how do you accomplish this? Well in my opinion, an easy way to do this would be to use NXT with the exception of making it for tag teams rather than singles competitors. I think that would be a great way for the fans to get familiar with a team and buy into them. I would however change the format for NXT and rather than have teams be eliminated I would have them compete for points that would determine seeding for a number one contenders tournament for the tag team titles that would happen at the end of the competition.

3. Mic Check
Great matches are necessary to bring back the tag team division, but to get the audiences attention you have to be good on the mic and be able to cut a great promo, whether you area face or a heel. Some wrestlers are gifted on the mic but there are many who are not. To those who are I think you have to team them with someone else who is gifted on the mic that way they can play off of each other in their promos and have the crowd buy into their cohesiveness as a team. To those who aren't gifted on the mic, the answer is simple-GET A MANAGER! Some of the greatest teams of all time had someone else do the talking for them. WWE has legends contracts with wrestlers that quite frankly I don't want to see wrestle anymore but I would love to see them manage. Do the math and bring them on as managers. Some that I would love to see wold be Ric Flair(when he leaves TNA), Mick Foley, Roddy Piper, Ted Dibiase, HBK(I could only hope of course he's one legend I wouldn't mind seeing in the ring again); heck bring back Jimmy Hart and make Teddy Long a manager again. I'm sure you have ideas of who you would like to see as a manager again.
Those are the 3 main things I would implement to improve the tag team division, but here are some other details that I think could help

• Tag Team Finishers-nothing says were a team like taking the opponent with an amazing double team move.
• Entrances-from WHAT A RUSH to OH YOU DIDN'T KNOW, nothing gets the crowd into it like a great entrance
• Team up Miz and Jericho- thats a certain way to get fans cheering for other teams competing against them
• Have John Cena and another draw, face Epico and Primo for the tag team titles on Raw and lose cleanly- that would be a way to give your tag titles some credibility.

These are just my thoughts, let me know what you think ]]> HB-Dre http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?41457-Super-Kick-2-Tagging-In-Bringing-Tag-Team-Wrestling-Back-to-Life http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?41365-Super-Kick-Revamping-WWE-s-Pay-Per-Views Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:02:22 GMT Hey guys, HB-Dre here with the first, of what I hope to be many more blogs on my views on wrestling, in my weekly Super Kick. I'm new at blogging but have always had a passion for writing, so hopefully that passion comes through as a coherent and well thought out blog that creates some sort of reaction, be it good or bad.

Today I'm going to bring to you attention my thoughts(maybe just ramblings depending on how you see it) on revamping the landscape of WWE's pay per views.

Let me start by saying that I was well pleased when I saw that for 2012, the E was going back to 12 PPV's for the year. In the past, I felt that more than 12 made it hard to book matches with decent build ups without feeling rushed. So kudos to WWE for going back to what amounts to as the monthly PPV format. However, thats about the only improvement that WWE has made to their PPVs this year with the exception of another change they made, that I will touch on later on in this blog. Here are a few of the things I would tweak for PPVs.

1. The BIG 5, not the BIG 4

We all know the BIG 4 Pay Per Views that WWE has to offer, The Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series; but to many fans it was never the Big 4, it was the BIG 5. WWE needs to bring back the King of the Ring. The KOTR is part of WWE history and has been a critical stepping stone for WWE legends and superstars to catapult them to the next level of stardom. I would make on minor change to the KOTR and that would be have the winner of the tournament be awarded a title shot at SummerSlam; this way KOTR could serve to SummerSlam the way the Royal Rumble serves to WrestleMania. Think of what added prestige it would bring to the KOTR tournament and to the main event of SummerSlam if the winner was awarded a heavyweight title shot.

2. Gimmick PPVs are ok...if not OVERDONE.

Now one of the biggest complaints that I have about PPV's today is the fact that it seems like everything has to have a gimmick to it. (When I saw that their was a PPV last year called Capitol Punishment in the midst of several gimmick PPVs, I was almost worried that this would be a gimmick that resulted in lethal injection for losers of matches.) In reality gimmicks are good if used in moderation, but I think WWE has overdone it. I mentioned in the blog earlier that I was a fan of one more thing that WWE did this year for PPVs and that was making No Way Out a cage match stipulation gimmick PPV Here are the gimmick PPVs I would keep on WWE's schedule- No Way Out and TLC. Technically I wouldn't keep TLC as it is now, because I would throw in the MITB ladder matches into this PPV instead of its own seperate PPV gimmick. Extreme Rules are col for matches but when you know that its coming the month after WrestleMania regardless of whats going on in a feud, the stipulations lose some of their awe power. I guess technically I would keep one more gimmick PPV and that would be Night of Champions if you consider that a gimmick, but I'll touch on that more here in a minute.

3. Show classic WCW PPV's some love

WCW holds a special place in wrestling history, I know they went to war with WWF back in the 90's but its in the past lets. Lets show some love for their PPVs. My first priority would be to bring back Starrcade to the December PPV spot have it be known as STARRCADE: Night of Champions and have all the titles on the line to end the PPV year. The next thing I would do is replace October's HIAC PPV with Havoc. Now I know it was called Halloween Havoc back in the day, but I think you could drop the Halloween and still use it as a nod to WCW, sort of how WWE had The Bash in reference to The Great American Bash. I would use Havoc as a Quasi Extreme Rules, where you could have something such as a HIAC, 3 stages of Hell, Elimination Chamber or a buried alive match serves as main events at Havoc occasionally, but it wouldn't be necessary to have an extreme stipulation on every match. While we're showing WCW some love, I would love for No Way Out to incorporate a War Games match somehow.

Those are the main 3 things I would change to WWE's PPV landscape but here are some minor things I would like to see as well, and then how I would schedule a years worth of PPV

• Bring back traditional Survivor Series matches. And use your big guns too, perhaps have the WWE champ and the WHC as team captains of a match.
• If the Raw/Smackdown brand separation does continue, make a Survivor Series match a Bragging Rights match and scrap that PPV
• Scrap February's Elimination Chamber PPV and have the Royal Rumble winner announce the next night on Raw who he is facing and start the build up to WrestleMania.
• Bring Backlash back
• Bring bcak Cyber Sunday
• Make Night of Champions about Champions, not like last year with HHH and Punk
• Make a PPV specifically refering to the build up to WM

PPV SCHEDULE
January- Royal Rumble(start the road to WM)

February- Boiling Point(build up to WM)

March- WrestleMania (the Main Event of PPVs)

April- Backlash (backlash from WM)

May- Now Way Out (all cage matches, with War Games)

June- KOTR (winner gets title shot at SummerSlam)

July- TLC(with MITB matches)

August- SummerSlam

September-Cyber Sunday

October- HAVOC

November- Survivor Series

December- STARRCADE: Night of Champions (every title defended)



These are just my thoughts, let me know what you think ]]> HB-Dre http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?41365-Super-Kick-Revamping-WWE-s-Pay-Per-Views