Things you should never do if you own a wrestling company

Tommy Platinum · 09-12-2009, 12:01 PM

Let's try to come up with a list of things that are ALWAYS a bad idea if you own a wrestling company. These will mainly be booking decisions related to the product but there will also be other things included. We at WC have learned from wrestling history, and if we ever own a wrestling company, we sure as hell won't be doing shit like this:

1) Put the title on a celebrity (eg David Arquette in WCW).

2) Have a wrestler win a title his first night in the company or on a specific brand (eg Kofi Kingston winning the IC title on RAW), or alternatively their first night back from injury (eg. John Cena at Survivor Series 2008).

3) Have a wrestler retire/leave with a Championship (eg. Trish Stratus at Unforgiven 2006).

I'll be back with many more, and feel free to add your own, that's kind of the whole point of the thread. Also if you disagree with any of mine, or any of somebody elses', and feel that it can work in certain situations, say so. Like the Hall of Shame, I'll keep updating the main post with ones we seem to agree on.

Goldberg · 09-12-2009, 12:07 PM

1. Celebiritys Wrestling
2. Hire Vince Russo

Il Try to think of some more later on

God · 09-12-2009, 12:09 PM

Celebrities for anything other than ring announcers unless they actually trained to wrestle which, as far as I know, is very few.

Rape angles.

Pregnance angles (Both succesful and unsuccesful).

Weddings etc angles. They never end the way they are supposed to.

I'll probably think of more.

King Steventon · 09-12-2009, 12:13 PM

Angles which have nothing to do with wrestling imo.... e.g. Vince's death.

Tommy Platinum · 09-12-2009, 12:21 PM

Allow wrestlers to have creative control (Triple H).

Allow wrestlers to break kayfabe on air (Triple H).

God · 09-12-2009, 12:23 PM

Creative Control isnt always bad imo, provided the wrestler isnt only out for themself of course.

Goldberg · 09-12-2009, 12:25 PM

dont make a decent wrestler job to a midget leprachorn

Tommy Platinum · 09-12-2009, 12:26 PM

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Creative Control isnt always bad imo, provided the wrestler isnt only out for themself of course.

I think wrestlers should have a lot of input regarding their own character and such, but when a wrestler has as much power as Triple H it can only be bad. I probably phrased that badly.

KenTheKiller · 09-12-2009, 12:27 PM

Have young wrestlers get beat up by big men, comedy skits or not.

Have midgets beat full sized wrestlers (especially former champions) cleanly.

Have former World champions as jobbers.

Hire Michael Cole.

Also.. pretty sure creative control is almost always terrible.

The Postman · 09-13-2009, 11:33 AM

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2) Have a wrestler win a title his first night in the company or on a specific brand (eg Kofi Kingston winning the IC title on RAW), or alternatively their first night back from injury (eg. John Cena at Survivor Series 2008).

3) Have a wrestler retire/leave with a Championship (eg. Trish Stratus at Unforgiven 2006).

I don't see the problem with either of these. When done right, both can work quite well.

I'd better provide examples......

2) Carlito winning the US title. Instant heel heat and credibility for Carlito by beating a hugely popular Cena.

3) Bryan Danielson winning the PWG title this past weekend. Now, the upcoming BoLA has a greater importance, and losing the title in such a fashion adds to Chris Hero's character.

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