I know WWE can be the land of wasted opportunities, but I’m really getting fed up with them announcing matches via Twitter.
Let’s take this Sunday’s Money In The Bank PPV event, how awesome would it have been after AJ Styles attacking Cena the previous week, for Style to then come out the following week and call out John Cena and challenge him to a first time ever match.
It’d have been truly an amazing moment to witness, something never seen before and something we never thought we’d see AJ Styles laying a challenge out to John Cena. Imagine that first promo Styles could have cut on Cena during the challenge, saying everything he’s ever done in wrestling was to lead up to a match against Cena, telling Cena he wants the match because he knows he can beat him.
We did get a similar interaction a week later, but the match had already been made, the question of ‘how is Cena going to respond?’ and ‘will Styles challenge him to a match?’ had already been answered…via Twitter!!
How rediculous. A first time ever match, announced via a social networking site.
It robbed us, the viewers, of one of the best confrontations of the modern era.
To change gears, how about the Natalya/Becky Lynch v Charlotte/Dana Brooke match, that could have been a fantastic opportunity for Dana Brooke to boldly put out a challenge to Natalya and Becky Lynch to show unity with Charlotte.
Or how about Becky Lynch cutting a promo challenging Dana and Charlotte to a match, noting how she wanted to beat some respect into the pair of them. Charlotte could have even taken the lead wanting to take Dana under her wing against the opponents.
The possibilities were endless.
Where did we hear about it though? Facebook live, and then again on Twitter.
So once again instead of a promo on RAW or Smackdown, an ideal opportunity to put some of the hard working divas over and give them so mic time or exposure (Dana Brooke), we’re just told via social networking.
I repeat, how ridiculous.
They’ve been doing it for a while now and I don’t know why they do it, it used to be one of my favourite things, watching 2 superstars make their own match via challenge, and watch them go at it verbally. At school the next day my friends and I would be talking about it “did you see ______ challenged ______??” and it would create a buzz. Now it’s just, there, no anticipation, no build up, just a match announced. Great.
One match for this Sundays Money In The Bank PPV was even announced via Snapchat…SNAPCHAT! A form of social media not ever WWE fan even has access to. It’s so poor, and in a way, degrading to the superstars that they’re unable to hype up their own matches.
See this is what I feel is one of the things missing most from WWE, excitement. There doesn’t seem to be many promos or exchanges between superstars that really get people talking anymore.
Remember when CM Punk challenged Brock Lesnar to a match at Summerslam? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpTHCaL5j74&ab_channel=WWE)
How about when The Rock challenged Hulk Hogan to a match at Wrestlemania? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw2Edjp2vD4&ab_channel=PatrickCullen)
These matches are best hyped by the superstars, and how much better did them issuing their own challenges make them? The latter is arguably one of the most iconic moments in WWE history.
Imagine if that was just announced on WWE.com? We’d have never seen the epic moment where wrestling’s greatest star of the past in Hogan was challenged by the greatest star of the (then) present, The Rock.
Why not give the superstars the time and the platform to put out their own challenges? Let them take centre stage and be given the opportunity to get people talking about a potential match?
I just find the whole ‘oh by the way, this match just announced on Twitter’ thing utter crap.
Is that really the way to announce a WWE match? I can just about accept them doing that for RAW or Smackdown, but to announce a PPV match via Twitter or Facebook is dreadful.
Let the superstars that the fans pay to see get in the ring and do the job they’re hired to do, and entertain.
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