Wrestling Thread 5: FKA The Viking Experience • Page 220

Oh cool...didn't know that.

 

Ads are limited to 12 minutes an hour here, but frequently are shorter than that. Usually there is 3 ad breaks throughout the hour. Think the UK is the same apart from American import shows.

 

Just do the fucking thing with the split screen when there happens to be a match still going on over commercial breaks

 

remember when instead of split screen they sent you over to the wwe app

 

It's not though, Alvarez always makes it a point to say when it goes to a commerical break and there is a shift in who has the heat that the viewers dont see. He talks about it pretty often. Do I care? No. But its more than rest holds sometimes.

 

It's all about variety. Yes, I am 100% for less matches that are all exactly 12 minutes. They fall to the outside...commercial...come back for a finish.

But having this strict edict on absolutely no wrestling during breaks doesn't fix that issue. Now we're just gonna get more 8 man tag and 2 out of 3 falls matches.

You want less wrestling during breaks? Okay cool. But completely eliminating the possibility of a 20+ minute match is silly too

 

I've definitely noticed that before. I also saw a video of Balor going up against someone during the break and he starts working over the other guys leg. The leg selling for the rest of the match was probably confusing for people watching on TV.

 

Ah havent watched SDL in a quite a while. I just think WWE is ultimately going to over think things and make the product even worse, but who knows I could be wrong,

 

it is honestly hilarious that last night Ziggler opened the show like "later tonight i've got you in a TWO OUT OF THREE FALLS MATCH"

and then Miz/Elias happened and they were like oh uh yeah this is one of those as well

 

i remember Kofi winning a match during a commercial break years ago, it may have even been for the US or IC title. they came back and he was already celebrating. may have been when they were pushing the second screen app shit.

 

Sonya Deville And The Risks Of LGBTQ Storylines In WWE

 

i read a theory on reddit that it will be Mandy trying to trick Sonya into falling in love with her to manipulate her but Sonya will be like "uh not interested" and that would be the impetus for the feud, i think that would be a solid misdirect that would also tackle the "just because someone is gay doesn't mean they want to fuck everyone that is of the same sex" stereotype

 

I do love how they are having the Firefly Funhouse puppets showing up randomly in the background backstage

 

I think they should cut the shoot time down for Raw. Film the whole thing straight through, and cut it up as they go along. Crowds would be a lot less dead. There is no need to give a crowd commercial breaks between music playing.

 

hahahaha

Kevin Owens Invites Fan Involved in ROH/Bully Ray Incident to WWE Event

 

btw these Ali vignettes remind me so much of the Fatu "Time for a change" gimmick

 

Riki Choshu retired today. NJPW put together a list of his biggest matches with the promotion. There is one with him and Oinita in a barbed wire explosion match. Its a cheesy gimmick but fun as fuck to watch.

 

Evolves 10th anniversary show will stream live on WWE Network

 

head to head against AEW

 

I hate to say it, but Kofi as champ has really become stale.

There's just isn't anything interesting going on to make his run compelling at this point.

What a mess this company is right now.

 

That is very sad. I know he made mistakes, but it takes guts to put this out there.

 

when you had to watch on TOUT

 

guy is on a 21-0 streak in all matches. what the fuck do you want them to do with him?

 

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