>>9795716>>9795754I would watch AEW if it was one show, or multiple shows per week, but they had "roulette matches" where instead of just showing the match and everyone always has to fight everyone, you spin a wheel live and it has names on it of fighters
fighters who are uninjured/available/present, no need to work the wheel ever or at all, just present it from the beginning as a thing where people are "in rotation" not that you have everyone at once
In fact the wheel could even be just people who WILL be fighting that night, but just determines who
Now obviously wrestling is fake as fuck but here's the deal, this show would have no live audience, and the wheel spins would be pre-taped on the same set with a close cropped shot however long before they needed to be for the wrestlers to practice with their partners and get all set up
Then on the day of the event the wheel spinner(s) are wearing the exact same outfit and are lining up the wheel to be on the wrestlers it's on in the clip, and you just do a few creative cuts in a consistent format and it looks like everyone's all surprised and the wrestlers are lined up waiting, or there are live backstage cams if they're waiting backstage, and they can cut promos and act surprised and glare at each other or start fighting before they get to the ring or so on
So the whole thing where they're finding out right before the fight is worked, but the spins genuinely are real and not worked/redone, even if the wrestlers don't like each other or have good synergy, even if this is the third week in a row they've both been in rotation and fought each other, even if it seems like non hype booking, this is truly random matchups within each pool, and the pools don't rotate with always the same people coming in at the same time, it's staggered or random somehow allowing also for injury/rest/other shows.
So you get lots of squashes and it's organic non-overused hype when rivals or friends do get booked together on this.
