5 Things That Should Be on Chris Jericho’s List

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2. Gimmick Pay-Per-Views

Disclaimer: This does not include the Royal Rumble or Survivor Series.

Gimmick pay-per-views need to end for a few reasons; the biggest one being that it devalues the match type it is built around. Take Hell in a Cell for example. It used to be the case that this match would only be brought out when the feud had gotten so personal and so intense that the only way to settle it would be to put the participants inside a giant steel structure to settle their differences. And that meant you could see a Hell in a Cell match at any time as long as the situation called for it. Having a PPV named after the match, thus necessitating that the match takes place, goes against this line of thinking entirely.

Sure, WWE will try to convince us that the feuds between Roman Reigns and Rusev, Charlotte and Sasha Banks, and Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins have boiled over to the point where they all need to have Hell in a Cell matches. But do we really buy that? If the next PPV had been, say, Payback, would there still be Cell matches? Of course not. The only reason they’re occurring is because the calendar says they have to, and that alone makes them less interesting and exciting.

The same goes for Elimination Chamber, Extreme Rules, and TLC. Just let these matches happen naturally when the story calls for it, not because the calendar dictates it. Gimmick matches…

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