*Blog post was started on August 3, 2021.
Display the Merch!
Has the WWE forgotten how to book a show for a live crowd? Nikki A.S.H. winning the Raw Women's Championship has been the only pop not related to John Cena. That was the third night of having fans back. The past two weeks, nothing of not has occurred over the past four episodes of television. Sorry Bill Goldberg.
In the meantime, AEW has had violent shows and numerous high profile title matches. As I type, I think I may just want wrestling programming to be dynamic. If nothing changes, there is nothing to talk about. Hence, there is nothing to blog about. There are only so many movie reviews left in my 11 year-old notebook sitting at my desk and satire is hard to come by. Change in the WWE product is something I need. Midcard championships are not meant to be static.
I have effectively booked myself into a corner. Or I could blame AEW for this situation. Did Darby Allin really need Sting to get further over. If so, did he have to be the TNT Champion. At least with Cody Rhodes offering up open challenges, we knew the championship was important then. Can there only be one midcard championship worth talking about?
WWE has been trying to make us forget about the United States and Intercontinental Championships despite they had the most qualified title holders. What about the merchandising?
When we would go to WWF shows in the early 90's, we were always trying to get Dad to buy us a toy championship belt. For whatever reason, WWF never updated their world championship toy from the WrestleMania III strap to the Winged Eagle. Perhaps they were selling to many replicas of the eagle, so they would not want fans taking short cuts with the foam version. Regardless of motives, you had three belts to choose from. We would not choose prestige, we would choose belt design. WWE is failing themselves by not having Sheamus and Apollo Crews defending every week. If we do not see the toy, why would we want to buy it.
Or I can just stroke my ego and say that one from my scores of readers works for WWE and is taking my opinions seriously. "Russ has not placed any of our world championships in the hands of our performers. If Sheamus loses, we have no champions to represent us in the Disgruntled's Real Championship Wrestling.
I can go on and suggest that we should have more sanctioning bodies to help promotions offer title matches on every card, but there is still the Men's Doubles World Championship to establish.
The Continuation of The Gnarly Men's Doubles World Championship
When it comes to my scores of readers, there are not too many voters. Of course, I put the poll to determine whether we call the championship gnarly or legit on a Twitter account with 54 followers. It was easy to scroll pass it. This question was posed to my coworkers. When added to the Twitter poll result, we ended up with a tie.
I have decided Gnarly is the way to go at this time. My dreams of starting up a promotion are still to be realized, so this website is not a sanctioning body (but I am willing to negotiate). Thus, do I have the authority to use a word that expresses legitimacy instead of coolness/goofyness?