Speaking of paydays, why wouldn’t promoters re-establish a winner’s share of the match purse? This is yet another method to increase the prestige of winning a match beyond pride and bragging rights. Dollar amounts don’t have to be established, but I do recall Gorilla Monsoon preaching the downside to a champion losing by disqualification with “Well he may keep his championship, but he won’t get the winner’s share of the purse!”
Anyway, back to the ladder system. Both Raw and Smackdown have 22 Superstars. Raw has eight Divas, where Smackdown has six. That could put seven Superstars in the running for each singles title and three tag teams competing for the non-brand specific Tag Team Championship. The ECW Title could have four Superstars challenging with two tag teams competing with the teams from the other two brands. The remaining ECW Superstars would be those trying to prove themselves in the “New Talent Initiative”.
The television product changes slightly by featuring the lower level matches as well as advancing storylines and building the Pay Per Views. The Lower level Pay Per Views feature the Mid Card Championships, Women’s Championships, higher-level matches, and occasional World Title and gimmick or special stipulation matches. The High level Pay Per Views feature the biggest feuds and World Championship matches in addition to the action featured on the lower levels. This justifies the now outrageous price tags of the “Big Four” of Wrestlemania, Summerslam, Survivor Series, and the Royal Rumble which were previously different from the other monthly Pay Per View events in price tag only.
I know this particular article has been heavy on the concept and non-existent in the dialog. Next week there will be plenty of dialog to go around. Why you ask?
I am proud, as a wrestling fan, to announce that I think there is a current Superstar on the WWE roster who is being properly booked and has the potential to go extremely far with the company. He has done what we hope that several will in that he was a character that I absolutely hated and now I absolutely love him. And that’s not the good kind of “I hated him” like I hated Steve Austin for assaulting Bret Hart, but the horrible kind that sounds like “Ed Ferrara, you’re going to burn in hell for that god-awful imitation of Jim Ross.”
He is a young man who had always dreamed of being a professional wrestler. He is a young man who was given the excruciating to watch gimmick of every hey-bro that I had to deal with in college. And most importantly, he is a young man who gets it done both in and out of the ring.
Who could I be talking about?
He’s awesome.
He’s the Miz.
How do I think his career path should go? Make sure to read next week here exclusively at Wrestlezone.com.
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