9 Reasons Seth Rollins' Injury Is Best For WWE Business

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7. Tournaments Are (Generally) Awesome

As wrestling blogger and author Scott Keith regularly notes, tournaments are awesome. Anyone who watched NXT€™s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic earlier this fall knows that a tournament is a fun, simple way to make multiple matches have added significance. Look at the qualifying matches to become number one contender on Raw a couple weeks ago. Each bout had stakes and the entire episode felt important as a result. A tournament for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship €“ say a 16-man tourney €“ would produce some unique match-ups and some potential show-stealers, while each match would have the highest of high stakes riding on them. Instead of just one person vying for the title, you€™d have a good chunk of the roster competing for the company€™s top prize. And the results of some of the matches could set up future feuds, which is an added bonus. If WWE is smart, they€™ve announced the tournament will take place at Survivor Series, but what they should do is hold the early rounds on Raw €“ and maybe even Smackdown €“ the next two weeks, setting up the semi-finals and championship match at the PPV. That would give Survivor Series three high-stakes matches that have time to develop. Hopefully WWE officials have learned from WrestleMania IV and won€™t try to cram a 12-match tournament into one PPV.