9 Reasons Seth Rollins' Injury Is Best For WWE Business
7. Tournaments Are (Generally) Awesome
As wrestling blogger and author Scott Keith regularly notes, tournaments are awesome. Anyone who watched NXTs 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, youd have a good chunk of the roster competing for the companys top prize. And the results of some of the matches could set up future feuds, which is an added bonus. If WWE is smart, theyve 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 wont try to cram a 12-match tournament into one PPV.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
