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It sounds insane to be making this criticism after years of complaining that there wasn't enough wrestling on WWE TV, but there's no reason Ambrose and Owens need to wrestle anyone every week. Looking back to the Attitude Era, if you want to take that as the "standard", does anyone remember the two minute, insignificant midcard TV matches that lead to the pay-per-view matches, or do they remember the angles? Does anyone remember any of the Val Venis matches that Kaientai got involved in, or do they just remember "choppy choppy your pee pee"?
Tyler Breeze is, to me, the biggest example of how badly they're missing the point. Breeze shouldn't be wrestling every week, but he should absolutely be on TV every week. Show vignettes of him at photoshoots or in exotic locations, get him seats at genuine fashion events and show footage of that, have him come out to the ring to unveil a new photoshoot or new line of clothing. And that's for a character with an easily represented, easy to understand gimmick ready made, but what could you do with characters without that? You flesh them out. You teach the audience who they are, what they're all about. Aside from a dumb hairdo, crazy bumps, and gear that would be befitting of a CAW version of Shawn Michaels...what is Dolph Ziggler?
The whole point of wrestling-as-entertainment is that you have all these larger than life characters interacting with one another, but where's the appeal in that if their interactions are all the same? Wrestling match after wrestling match after wrestling match every week does nothing to embrace the appeal of these characters.
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