09/15/19 Clash of Champions: The Night Before the Night of The King of the Ring

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There will never be anything like :hitgoat: winning three matches in one night to take the crown again :wow:

Yep. Not sure I've watched it in full since it actually aired, but that PPV is inked on my brain.

Tournament PPVs can be great if booked right. This has been a good way of having TV matches with something at stake, but I feel like they should've done a couple of larger prelim rounds on TV pulling in eeeeeverybody on TV and then kept the 1/4,1/2 and final on a PPV. Part of the KOTR kudos should be that you won several matches in one night.

They could get 2 or 3 months build out of this if they did it right and it'd feel like a much more important crown at the end. Have NXT, NXT UK and 205 Live running some sort of league to get some of them into a Round of 32. Round of 32, Round of 16 on Raw/Smackdown over a month and then a full KOTR PPV with the 1/4 Finals onward. I'd be tempted to leave all the other titles off the book and just add a couple of marquee grudge matches (could easily build two 'favourites' into an angle during the prelims) to bulk out the card if it needed it.
 

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I havent watched much of the TV leading up to this, but looking at this card now, it looks like half of it could be good.

Orton vs Kofi should be very good and have the best traditional face/heel reactions and work of the card. The audience should actually react to the match like how the wrestlers are laying it out. WHich is nice.

The womens title matches should be good, probably a non finish in Sasha vs Becky

Stroman vs Rollins could have a good match just based on physically what those guys can do, but their storyline has sucked

Miz is a horrible matchup for Nakamura. Nakamura sucks as a character and Miz is only a character and can only have character and story-based matches because he wrestlers like the 03 Divas.

AJ vs Cedric could have some great spots
 

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Bayley vs Charlotte Flair: I don't care to see Charlotte holding another title tbh, but at the same time I feel like if she doesn't win they're going to end up drafting her to Raw, and after their last feud Sasha doesn't need to be anywhere near Charlotte unless she's going over her. Also if Bayley loses she could be drafted to Raw her and Sasha could finally have their main roster feud that's been teased so much. I feel that Charlotte needs to go on a hiatus similiar to the one Sasha took if only keep her out of the title picture for a while.

Kofi Kingston vs Randy Orton: Randy is stale as fukk and should honestly call it a career. I can't remember the last time I've been interested in seeing him in a match let alone for a title. If Kofi has to drop the title it should be to literally anyone else but Randy.

Becky Lynch vs Sasha Banks: From what I've seen it looks like Becky may be moving to Smackdown when they move to fox, if that's true then now's a good time for her to drop the title. Sasha came back and is fresh and hot it would be ideal to give her the title and let her run with it. I sincerely hope Vince realizes Sasha's value and doesn't fukk her over for the umpteenth time, especially not after we saw what the division would look like without her. It's disappointing how Becky had to carry Lacey for then entirety of their feud and then had to have a program with the Charisma vacuum known as Natalya, people might not agree but they completely botched Becky's title run.

Braun Strowman vs Seth Rollins: Seth's title run has been underwhelming so far, his ring work is fine but I feel character wise he does his best work when he's heel, but that's probably because of the way WWE books babyface wrestlers. I don't think this match ends in a clean finish, after last week I think the fiend appears and takes them both out, kicking off a feud between Seth and The Fiend /Bray Wyatt.
 

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