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Originally Posted by Mat the Gambler
It was late last night, and I forgot one person who drowned in a swamp, one person being erased from existence and/or being banished to somewhere else in the multiverse, one person falling twenty feet onto concrete, and lots of women being forced to wrestle Nia Jax.
Ironically, the thing I want most out of my wrestling is the feeling that something is at stake or there are consequences high enough that what I'm watching matters enough to get me invested (provided there's some coherence to the series of events).
These people really hate each other. Fear that someone could be seriously hurt. I can't wait to see what happens next.
NXT has been able to do that often enough that it's my favorite wrestling product. AEW accomplishes this occasionally. Yet, for all of the things that the main WWE product has done this year that have been mentioned here (like what should be real life or death stuff), I never feel like the stakes are serious enough to garner serious interest because it's never built up enough between the competitors before hand or they're back the next show or it's more an attempted comedic effect than serious one.