10 Failed Concepts WWE Needs To Revise And Revisit
6. Feast Or Fired
The TNA/Impact Wrestling 'Feast Or Fired' match was a particularly bad failure of a concept, for it boasted plot holes deeper than Vince McMahon's hatred of his audience. Despite a universal panning, we have seen six iterations of it. That's four more than Reverse Battle Royal.
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Why would a top TNA management official risk losing a major star with the wattage of a Samoa Joe or a Christopher Daniels or an Austin Aries, all of whom appeared in the match near or at the peak of their powers? Why would such major stars themselves risk being fired, and not simply wait for a title shot via less daft means? Squint, though, and there is something in it - a potential storyline method of writing a stale performer off television ahead of a repackage (Bray Wyatt), a brand switch (Asuka), or a demotion back to developmental (Dana Brooke). Adding some form of life to a dead act via sudden death stakes at least provides the audience with one last reason to care about them.
Repurposed as a sort of Last Chance match, a Feast Or Fired affair between two jobbers or also-rans would go some way towards alleviating the nothingness that is a Curt Hawkins appearance - a dramatic method of cycling through a floating undercard roster in this age of clutter filler.