Grimmas Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Years back people talked about what wrestling should do to be more like sports. For some reason, today, that came back to me and I started to wonder about schedules. If a wrestling promotion started up with a 32 man roster and put together a full season with a schedule at the start of the year would that work? After that schedule you can have some sort of playoff post season and award the champion for that year.It would be different, but I think there could be a lot of positives coming out of that. For one, you could have two guys face on the first week and something happens that starts a rivalry. Then you know they will face again in 7 weeks on this date and get pumped for that. Then your playoffs could wind up all the story-lines that get built up all season. I doubt this would ever happen, but I am curious if this is something that could work. It works for real sports, why not fake sports too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Wrestlemania always feels like the climax of a season followed by a reboot. You can debate whether a new season begins the next night, in the fall or some other time as that part of the "schedule" is obviously very fluid, but at some point everything builds to the one big finale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillThompson Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 That's similar to what EVOLVE has tried at different points in its existence. I think it can work, but I'm not sure if it can work as a mass appeal product but rather as a niche product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 The biggest problem I'd see with this is that it would explicitly tell people which shows and parts of the year they can freely ignore until the playoffs start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tofu_chipmunk Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Isn't that basically what happens now with the Royal Rumble and the "Road to Wrestlemania"? I guess Summerslam would be kind of like the All-Star Game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steenalized Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Wrestling scheduling is more like boxing. Lower level guys should have more matches, champions go less often, who you face and how quickly you face them depends on your recent win-loss schedule. The bonus of wrestling is that you get to use workers much more often and get to book how things go with little interference, for the most part. A schedule would make feuds odd and drama probably non-existent. You're also pigeonholing yourself into certain results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmas Posted October 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Wrestling scheduling is more like boxing. Lower level guys should have more matches, champions go less often, who you face and how quickly you face them depends on your recent win-loss schedule. The bonus of wrestling is that you get to use workers much more often and get to book how things go with little interference, for the most part. A schedule would make feuds odd and drama probably non-existent. You're also pigeonholing yourself into certain results. Not necessarily. Look at hockey. Being a Leafs fan, every match against the Bruins, Habs and Senators are rivalry games that mean a lot. Those things would still exist, it would just be done completely differently. Plus, you'd have the post season to run a tournament plus blow off all of the feuds you'd built up in the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steenalized Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Team sports have decades of history to their rivalries and don't have the same structure to rivalries that pro wrestling does. Wrestling is all about building to the eventual blow off then delivering on that. It can continue after a blow off down the line, but that big match is key. Getting your rival in a playoff match or at a key time is great, but not a blow off since you know you'll be back next year. I think it could work in the sense that you are capable of running a promotion that way in the most basic sense. I don't think it would ever work in the sense that people care about the wins and losses. It's like when Evolve tried to do the "we keep records" shtick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 24 years too soon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 The big problems would be setting an entire roster in stone and dealing with injuries. A football player gets hurt and the team plugs in a replacement. But a single wrestler? An ill timed injury could destroy an entire year of planning. I think wrestling could use with more seasonal competitions though. King of the Ring, King of Trios, that sort of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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