Serujuunin wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 17:29 This MSG show seemed to be a really big deal, since they had some Smackdown stars there too (I would have loved to have been there), but yeah, it seems weird!

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 18:45

Serujuunin wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 17:29 This MSG show seemed to be a really big deal, since they had some Smackdown stars there too (I would have loved to have been there), but yeah, it seems weird!

Okay... doing a cross-branded show is really annoying, too. I'm in the NYC market so I saw all of the local commercials for this during Raw and SD and they didn't feel any different from local commercials for past NYC-area house shows.

Serujuunin wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 21:45

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 18:45

Serujuunin wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 17:29 This MSG show seemed to be a really big deal, since they had some Smackdown stars there too (I would have loved to have been there), but yeah, it seems weird!

Okay... doing a cross-branded show is really annoying, too. I'm in the NYC market so I saw all of the local commercials for this during Raw and SD and they didn't feel any different from local commercials for past NYC-area house shows.

You're in the market and you didn't go to a show that had Balor AND Nakamura on it! I would have died to be there! Nothing fun happens in Calgary because our stadium is trash.

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 22:09

Serujuunin wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 21:45

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 18:45

Okay... doing a cross-branded show is really annoying, too. I'm in the NYC market so I saw all of the local commercials for this during Raw and SD and they didn't feel any different from local commercials for past NYC-area house shows.

You're in the market and you didn't go to a show that had Balor AND Nakamura on it! I would have died to be there! Nothing fun happens in Calgary because our stadium is trash.

Couldn't go.

Serujuunin wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 22:18

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 22:09

Serujuunin wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 21:45

You're in the market and you didn't go to a show that had Balor AND Nakamura on it! I would have died to be there! Nothing fun happens in Calgary because our stadium is trash.

Couldn't go.

Ah, gotcha.

The more I think about it, I think the change is meant to get people to believe that things that actually matter can happen at house shows- maybe their attendance at house shows is in the toilet and they need something to get those numbers back up. A title change at a house show would certainly do that.

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 22:43

Serujuunin wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 22:18

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Jul 9th, '17, 22:09
Couldn't go.

Ah, gotcha.

The more I think about it, I think the change is meant to get people to believe that things that actually matter can happen at house shows- maybe their attendance at house shows is in the toilet and they need something to get those numbers back up. A title change at a house show would certainly do that.

I'm sure that's the reason behind it and I wouldn't object to it in theory, but for God's sake don't waste the babyface's win in a match you just spent a bunch of TV time building up. It's counter productive, especially when they could have done it with, say, the Smackdown Women's Championship (or a whole bunch of other titles if they had just waited a week). It's cutting off your nose to spite your face.

KILLdozer wrote: ↑Jul 11th, '17, 22:29 All the "Face of America new face of America" over hyped crap just had to end. Immediately lol. Couldn't even wait for SD!

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Jul 11th, '17, 22:30

KILLdozer wrote: ↑Jul 11th, '17, 22:29 All the "Face of America new face of America" over hyped crap just had to end. Immediately lol. Couldn't even wait for SD!

That is one positive of this.