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[EmeraldGladiator]

An MVP and Lashley vs Heyman and Brock feud will be epic. I predict Roman causes Brock to lose title at Royal Rumble to Lashley out of spite but then Lesnar will win Royal Rumble itself and the mystery will be which champion will he face at Mania.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Having the Rumble winner get a title shot at Backlash devalues the Rumble. Throwing away almost 30 years of tradition for yet another belt unification isn't worth it.

Yeah.... F-CK TRADITION.


The company needs to try and create an interest in Wrestlemania. Holding to the past is what has hurt this f'n company. Next thing we will have folks so no one ever can go undefeated at Wrestlemania , ever because Undertaker's history.

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I actually was enjoying both Lesnar and Lashley as faces (at least it looked like Lashley was going to turn face) Now one of them has to stay heel.

What happens with the RR winner if Lesnar and Brock are fighting at Mania?

Maybe Lesnar loses to Lashley at RR and is put back in his program with Roman for Wrestlemania.

It all looks very...cloudy.

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[Noodle]

Yeah.... F-CK TRADITION.


The company needs to try and create an interest in Wrestlemania. Holding to the past is what has hurt this f'n company. Next thing we will have folks so no one ever can go undefeated at Wrestlemania , ever because Undertaker's history.

Making people care less about the Rumble (the one event fans seem to still actually care about every year) to create interest in one Wrestlemania ain't it. Much less for either Brock/Roman or title unification, both of which the fans are pretty much apathetic to at this point anyway.

Also, the streak is overrated. The last few years of it were less about the streak and more about the match, because people always knew Taker was going over anyway. Before Brock the last person that was a believable threat to it was Orton.

[Immortal Weapon]

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What happens with the RR winner if Lesnar and Brock are fighting at Mania?

How can Lesnar challenge himself at Wrestlemania?

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Making people care less about the Rumble (the one event fans seem to still actually care about every year) to create interest in one Wrestlemania ain't it. Much less for either Brock/Roman or title unification, both of which the fans are pretty much apathetic to at this point anyway.

Also, the streak is overrated. The last few years of it were less about the streak and more about the match, because people always knew Taker was going over anyway. Before Brock the last person that was a believable threat to it was Orton.

Your still giving people a title shot for winning the Royal Rumble. Your just gonna make it where its actually worth a crap now , instead of them having to book 2 World Champions (and struggling right now as we see). You can actually keep the brands separate , just use the World Champion to travel on each brand now. This will give the WWE time to build a new main event roster ahead and maybe get more depth there for it.

[Noodle]

Your still giving people a title shot for winning the Royal Rumble. Your just gonna make it where its actually worth a crap now , instead of them having to book 2 World Champions (and struggling right now as we see). You can actually keep the brands separate , just use the World Champion to travel on each brand now. This will give the WWE time to build a new main event roster ahead and maybe get more depth there for it.

You can earn a title shot whenever. You can earn a shot winning some random battle royale on Raw. The entire appeal of the Rumble is that the winner gets a title shot at Mania. They literally advertise it as "the beginning of the road to Wrestlemania." Removing that removes what makes the Rumble special.

Why have the guy win it and wait 3 months for a throwaway b-tier PPV? No one's going to care.

[Immortal Weapon]

Agreed. Getting the title shot at WrestleMania is what makes me give a shit about the Rumble. The match is used to make stars and build feuds for mania. I'm all for tearing down tradition but this is one worth keeping. Brock and Roman isn't worth the heart of the match.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

You can earn a title shot whenever. You can earn a shot winning some random battle royale on Raw. The entire appeal of the Rumble is that the winner gets a title shot at Mania. They literally advertise it as "the beginning of the road to Wrestlemania." Removing that removes what makes the Rumble special.

Why have the guy win it and wait 3 months for a throwaway b-tier PPV? No one's going to care.

The Royal Rumble can still be "The Road to Wrestlemania" by actually having them sell the Lesnar/Reigns program post match in a way. Your selling that road to Wrestlemania. Also doesn't this company now have a female battle royal ? You can legit have that winner get the title match against someone at Wrestlemania.

Having the winner wait til the PPV after Wrestlemania won't kill the concept. Its one of those...we have a big situation come up and for a 1st time , the winner will get the 1st Unified WWE World title match due to winning.

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Considering the WWE just advertised on NXT that the winner of both the women's and men's royal rumble's get a title shot at Mania, makes me think they won't be changing the tradition any time soon.

[Immortal Weapon]

The Royal Rumble can still be "The Road to Wrestlemania" by actually having them sell the Lesnar/Reigns program post match in a way. Your selling that road to Wrestlemania. Also doesn't this company now have a female battle royal ? You can legit have that winner get the title match against someone at Wrestlemania.

Having the winner wait til the PPV after Wrestlemania won't kill the concept. Its one of those...we have a big situation come up and for a 1st time , the winner will get the 1st Unified WWE World title match due to winning.

The entire point is Wrestlemania. Not getting the shot at Mania absolutely kills the concept because the point would be loss. It will mean nothing like Greatest Royal Rumble and Andre Memorial Battle Royal.

[Noodle]

The Royal Rumble can still be "The Road to Wrestlemania" by actually having them sell the Lesnar/Reigns program post match in a way. Your selling that road to Wrestlemania.

No you aren't. The road to Wrestlemania will be about Reigns/Lesnar. The Rumble winner will be an afterthought. They'll be in some throwaway match at the biggest show of the year because they're waiting for the main event to end so they can get their title match on the b-show. The entire build for Wrestlemania will be about the title match, while the Rumble winner will be off to the side.

Having the winner wait til the PPV after Wrestlemania won't kill the concept. Its one of those...we have a big situation come up and for a 1st time , the winner will get the 1st Unified WWE World title match due to winning.

But it's not even for the first time. They've done the whole unification thing on more than one occasion before. It's not special. It will be exactly like when they did it with Cena and Orton: people won't care. They've seen Roman/Brock multiple times before. They've seen title unifications before. Nothing about that scenario is special.

[Jcogginsa]

If they want to do Reigns vs Lesnar at Mania, then have Roman put his title on the line in the Rumble match and win it. He can then claim the win lets him challenge Brock.

If Roman hasn't recovered enough to wrestle by the time of the Rumble, then have the winner of the Rumble be one half of a title match at mania, the other have being decided at Elimination Chamber

[BigLbo]

I hate to tell you this...but there was an inter-promotional war where Omega showed up and beat the Impact World Champion and aligned with Good Brothers. Its like saying , oh hey ...we can't say Impact is on AEW's level. But were gonna have our top star go face wrestlers there for months and bring Good Brothers over as well. But its nothing....

lol.

i hate to tell you this but no, there wasn't. or maybe there was but only in your mind. there was no invasion or attempted takeover, like you said kenny was aligned with impact wrestlers and christian was a face champion.

Its just Impact should have made a push that Omega lose to Moose and well...right now it would have helped Khan's defense he's trying.

yeah that makes perfect sense. job out your champion in the middle of an epic title reign so you can claim you put over a black wrestler a year later.

AEW can do better with their top black male talent. This isn't the 80s or 90s, there are a number of established black wrestlers out there.

Most AEW black males are in the lower mid-card and job most of the time.

But if Khan really has an interest in building up black talent, he could sign up Keith Lee and/or Isaiah Scott. And he really shouldn't job out established guys like Jay Lethal on their debuts.

they can.

who's out there unsigned and available right now?? i try and keep up with the talents and all i can come up with is aj gray who's really good imo but couldn't slide right into a top spot w/o seeming out of place. keith lee is the no brainer but is he even available yet?? same with swerve.

Lio's basically disappeared since Dante joined Team Taz. We'll see where it goes, obviously, but the whole scenario makes little sense so far. Scorpio's relegated to a tag team again along with being Dan Lambert's lackey.

i didn't mean they were xceptions, just that you didn't list them with the others. scorpio had a decent push in the past, i'd like to see him get a run with the tnt title.

Eh, no he didn't. If Swole had straight-up called him a racist, sure, but that's not what she said.

he had a point that she wasn't a good wrestler.

beside the point but i didn't buy swoles story about her daughter.

When it comes to black wrestlers, AEW really hasn't made any real strides if we're being honest.

why are black wrestlers separate when it comes to diversity?? that is a question not a counterpoint of any kind.