Mid-Card
Main Event...
Every wrestler wants to Main Event...Yet not all wrestlers can make it to Main Event WWE and that’s just facts...
(Sorry to all you Dolph Ziggler fans)
But to tell a great story you need more than just the main event; you need the mid-card...and the low-card. And solid wrestlers are required for all levels...the wrestlers that are rock solid in the cards...and those wrestlers who can swing between the cards with ease.
The IWC have their favourites; the ones they champion and extrude their virtues and how they are being criminally underutilized by creative and need to be placed in the main event...sorry folks but that shit isn’t going to happen. Some wrestlers are Mid-Carders and will be for their WWE careers (most Mid-Carders seem to do better in the Indies, and end up as Main Event Talents there...most recent example would be Drew Galloway who in his first outing with the promotion for Evolve/Dragon Gate USA won the EVOLVE Championship; yet the highest he got was the IC Title/Tag Title in WWE). There are others who will always be in the Low-Card...examples being Ryder; Slater; O’Neill. Despite the recent wins Slater has had as of late he most likely won’t get past the low end of the mid-card. The show that is WWE is more like a 3 ring circus...if a little afternoon soapy...than say a weekly sit-comor drama. As with a circus you have your points of tension...in a circus it’s those moments of watching an aerial acrobat do the high wire; trapeze or a lion tamer and his lions; in WWE it’s the Main Story Lines and Main Events. Also as with a circus you have the comedy shtick; in a circus it usually involves clowns, small cars and dancing bears...in WWE it usually involves Slater...Hornswoggle...and those two dude and their bull. Comedic relief to give counter point to the high tension moments (well...what would be considered high tension moments); sprinkle in the pretty girls in whatever they happen to be wrestling in which corresponds to the circus’ female trick riders and acrobats.
This makes Vince and Triple H the ringmasters; assisted on mic by Paul Heyman (when he needs to push Lesnar as The Beast Incarnate) to keep the crowd engaged and invested in their show. Although lately; it seems as if Vince is running Barnum and Baileys’ while Trips is running The Ringling Brothers. Both the same company however; Vince has got the red tour...and Trips the blue.
Author’s Note: Barnum and Bailey’s originally started out as separate entities 1875 and circa 1860 respectively before they merged in March 1881. Ringling Bros’ was started in 1884 by 5 of the 7 Ringling Bros. in 1907 Ringling Bros. purchased Barnum & Bailey’s Circus; both circus’ were run separately until 1919. They run two tours; a Red Tour and a Blue Tour. End of Author’s Note.
Now the fact that they seem to run two different ‘tours’ wouldn’t be a huge problem; for they had
operated a two shows; RAW (The Red Label) and SmackDown (The Blue Label) and save for Title Holders who could bounce between each show; everyone else on the roster was basically to stay put unless they were traded or won a contract for the other show. Now it is very different; there really is no brand split and almost everyone who shows up on RAW could show up on SmackDown...except for Jerry ‘ The King’ Lawler who rarely shows up on Smackdown; which explains why he pooches some of the wrestler’s names; because he doesn’t see them. This is why they have an issue; you can tell that two men are trying to run the same show...sometimes it works and sometimes it goes straight TITS UP. This is reflected in where wrestlers sit on the card...if they even show up on the card (house shows are one thing...TV shows are entirely different.) This is why it seems confusing ...because two men have two very definite ideas of how the story should be told...two different ringmasters who have separate ideas on when the acrobatics are to be brought out...and when to send in the clowns.
But to tell a great story you need more than just the main event; you need the mid-card...and the low-card. And solid wrestlers are required for all levels...the wrestlers that are rock solid in the cards...and those wrestlers who can swing between the cards with ease.
The IWC have their favourites; the ones they champion and extrude their virtues and how they are being criminally underutilized by creative and need to be placed in the main event...sorry folks but that shit isn’t going to happen. Some wrestlers are Mid-Carders and will be for their WWE careers (most Mid-Carders seem to do better in the Indies, and end up as Main Event Talents there...most recent example would be Drew Galloway who in his first outing with the promotion for Evolve/Dragon Gate USA won the EVOLVE Championship; yet the highest he got was the IC Title/Tag Title in WWE). There are others who will always be in the Low-Card...examples being Ryder; Slater; O’Neill. Despite the recent wins Slater has had as of late he most likely won’t get past the low end of the mid-card. The show that is WWE is more like a 3 ring circus...if a little afternoon soapy...than say a weekly sit-comor drama. As with a circus you have your points of tension...in a circus it’s those moments of watching an aerial acrobat do the high wire; trapeze or a lion tamer and his lions; in WWE it’s the Main Story Lines and Main Events. Also as with a circus you have the comedy shtick; in a circus it usually involves clowns, small cars and dancing bears...in WWE it usually involves Slater...Hornswoggle...and those two dude and their bull. Comedic relief to give counter point to the high tension moments (well...what would be considered high tension moments); sprinkle in the pretty girls in whatever they happen to be wrestling in which corresponds to the circus’ female trick riders and acrobats.
This makes Vince and Triple H the ringmasters; assisted on mic by Paul Heyman (when he needs to push Lesnar as The Beast Incarnate) to keep the crowd engaged and invested in their show. Although lately; it seems as if Vince is running Barnum and Baileys’ while Trips is running The Ringling Brothers. Both the same company however; Vince has got the red tour...and Trips the blue.
Author’s Note: Barnum and Bailey’s originally started out as separate entities 1875 and circa 1860 respectively before they merged in March 1881. Ringling Bros’ was started in 1884 by 5 of the 7 Ringling Bros. in 1907 Ringling Bros. purchased Barnum & Bailey’s Circus; both circus’ were run separately until 1919. They run two tours; a Red Tour and a Blue Tour. End of Author’s Note.
Now the fact that they seem to run two different ‘tours’ wouldn’t be a huge problem; for they had
operated a two shows; RAW (The Red Label) and SmackDown (The Blue Label) and save for Title Holders who could bounce between each show; everyone else on the roster was basically to stay put unless they were traded or won a contract for the other show. Now it is very different; there really is no brand split and almost everyone who shows up on RAW could show up on SmackDown...except for Jerry ‘ The King’ Lawler who rarely shows up on Smackdown; which explains why he pooches some of the wrestler’s names; because he doesn’t see them. This is why they have an issue; you can tell that two men are trying to run the same show...sometimes it works and sometimes it goes straight TITS UP. This is reflected in where wrestlers sit on the card...if they even show up on the card (house shows are one thing...TV shows are entirely different.) This is why it seems confusing ...because two men have two very definite ideas of how the story should be told...two different ringmasters who have separate ideas on when the acrobatics are to be brought out...and when to send in the clowns.
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