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With the G1 blocks announced, was just wondering what a proposed WWE G1 field would look like if I was given the book and the directive of putting together the best possible month-long wrestling tournament:
Adam Cole (NXT Champion)
Daniel Bryan (SmackDown Tag Team Champion)
Finn Balor (Intercontinental Champion)
Kofi Kingston (WWE Champion)
Samoa Joe (United States Champion)
Seth Rollins (Universal Champion)
Tony Nese (Cruiserweight Champion)
Velveteen Dream (North American Champion)
WALTER (NXT UK Champion)
AJ Styles
Aleister Black
Ali
Andrade
Apollo Crews
Cesaro
Dolph Ziggler
Kevin Owens
Ricochet
Sami Zayn
Shinsuke Nakamura
All of the singles champions in the company are rewarded with entries, with the exception of R-Truth because of the inevitability of his matches being interrupted due to the 24/7 title, so Bryan gets his champion spot instead.
Yes you technically could have an even better in-ring tourney by including more NXT people, but you're going to need some guys to finish at the bottom of the block and I'd rather keep the few NXT people in this strong. So that'll give a guy like Crews who is a good wrestler but never gets to show it a chance to work some fun matches even though he'll probably go 1-8 or something.
Might be too many champions in this, some of them are going to have to lose. But if they're mostly losing to each other it's not all that bad. Lone exception to this being Nese, he'd probably lose to most people....could replace him with Buddy Murphy or something if he's still alive.
Anyway, the effectiveness of this tourney would be lost in modern WWE because the show is already just filled with random singles matches. But there'd be some sweet first time match potential in here. Would be particularly keen to see WALTER chop the shit out of people.
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