*Blog post started on August 31, 2020.
I suppose I could have just gone to The AV Club to kill the last 25 minutes of my shift, but we did have a title change over the weekend when Bobby Lashley defeated Apollo Crews. The pressing question for my readers is, "Did he win the DRCW Ocho Championship?" It is a chance for me to bring in AEW to the title lineage of the secondary championship. Hence the question becomes, do I want to expose myself as an All Elite mark?
Tribalism in professional wrestling is something that the Internet Wrestling Community has been trying to discourage. I suppose you cannot have that on the indies. When my career started in Peoria with Next Generation Wrestling, us performers ended up thinking competition was bad, but that was probably because no one on the scene had a trainer worth noting. Springfield was a similar scene if I recall correctly. What I am saying is, when you are playing pro wrestling, you do not want anyone telling you that you are doing it wrong. If you would like a summation of what downstate indies are like, read "What is there to Hurrah about?".
Those with any aspirations to be successful in the business would try to work anywhere they could. Exposure was as good as a hot dog and a handshake. In the end, promotions in great wrestling cities would not care about where you worked, as long as you would be available to still be booked by them. If you were not, chances are that you were in such high demand, you could start your own promotion. Eventually the great could work wherever and whenever they wanted. Until the pandemic of course.
As for wrestling fans, tribalism is the only real sport element we are allowed. I think we would get over that if NXT was on Monday or Friday, but WWE would probably just overload Wednesday with draws from Raw and Smackdown. Then again, based on WWE house show numbers, does either show have a draw? Seth Rollins is no Kenny Omega.
The actual way to end tribalism is for WWE to just run NXT on Tuesday, like tomorrow, since numbers indicate there is an audience that just wants wrestling and still wonders what/where AXS TV is. But it is not about WWE's survival, it is about WWE's domination. Vince McMahon is determined to be the only wrestling on TV. In response, you bet your left one that I am going to be cheering on AEW.
Book me Vince, and I will be professional and give your products a try. I could write off my cable bill for research. Otherwise, do not go putting on too many heavyweights on Wednesday. My motivation to take advantage of a non-picture-in-picture ad break to watch your product will be gone.
The 148th Disgruntled's Real OCHO Champion:
(WWE Intercontinental/WWE United States/IWGP United States/
NWA National/ROH Television/ECW Television/
Impact X Division/NXT North American)
AEW TNT Champion Mr. Brodie Lee (8/30/2020)
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