Much has been said regarding WWE reducing its live event schedule, with figures like Cody Rhodes speaking out about his desire to ramp it back up. Former WWE star Maven Huffman has now joined the chorus of voices in favor of “house shows,” with the retired wrestler covering the subject on his YouTube channel.
“The primary problem I see is the absence of house shows, or non-televised events,” Maven said. “During my time, we were wrestling, weekly, three untelevised shows, then we had ‘Raw’ or ‘SmackDown’ every week.”
Maven elaborated that sometimes wrestlers would should work each TV shows along with live events, meaning that they’d be performing 4 or five nights each week. While there are still occasional house shows, with Maven declaring that they are mostly in greater cities like Latest York, it might’t be denied that the schedule could be very different.
“By eliminating shows, [it] makes the wrestlers not all the time be at their peak, optimum performance level,” Maven continued. “The present talent is wrestling as much in a month now as we might wrestle in a single week, sometimes even less. Young me would’ve loved that schedule, but I also recognize now … that you simply only recover by doing something repeatedly.”
He pointed to CM Punk vs. Jey Uso at WWE Saturday Night’s Important Event earlier this 12 months for example what he meant. Maven explained that each men are excellent wrestlers, but their match was lackluster, almost certainly because they did not have live event reps to work out what they were going to do.
Along with match quality dropping, Maven also believes the dearth of live events hurts camaraderie within the locker room, as that additional time on the road results in bonds being developed amongst performers.
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