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[MBC] Tuesday Bloody Tuesday - May 20th, 2009
Topic Started: May 27 2009, 04:15 PM (624 Views)
KliqerT
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MBCKyle,Jun 12 2009
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RedRajah,Jun 12 2009
12:00 PM
KliqerT,Jun 12 2009
12:16 PM
Flouzemaker,Jun 12 2009
03:05 AM
Taylor MacKenzie VS Brianna Landis.
I skipped it.
Yeah, you heard me (or read), I skipped it.
I had already read this at A&A. And since the world revolves around yours truly, I had assumed everyone else did as well. ;)

I'm on the fence with this booking.
On one hand such title changes, so to speak, help make the face defending champ look like she's still a champ and did not job. On the other hand, I sort of feel that winning a championship with a blind stip devalues the belt a little by:
1 - Telegraphing a title change (for if the heel doesn't get her way with a blind stip, she looks too inept to contemplate)
2 - Winning a belt with a "cheap win" - though technically, Landis didn't even win.
In short, the upside is that Taylor looks good in the ring (not just the shower), the downside is that the Lightweight Title doesn't look like much of a prize at this point.

First of all, don't you EVER skip a Brianna Landis match again.

Secondly, the blind stip usually is just a way to totally screw over a babyface, as it's mostly a heel's doing to bring it out. Kyle can correct me if I'm wrong, but every BS match I can think of was at the behest of the heel.

Point taken about the joint light heavyweight title not looking so hot after being won with a defeat, but it was a title that was at best inactive for the past several years so it didn't really have much lower to fall anyways. The trick now is to start building it up. And oh, build it up we shall. Damn Omen.

Oh, and for the record, Quarter Beer Night is still my favorite MBC PPV name.

For shame, Beeby...you didn't forget the one where Stephanie Harper used the Blind Stip to get back at Donna Tetreault in UWF, did you? ;)

Perhaps we should say that Blind stip matches are always at the behest of the Bastard.

What Kyle said. I can't believe I forgot about that one Katie, you're right. At least Donna finally won one though, back at SOTC. :)
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Yes, it is true, Stephanie Harper used the Blind Stipulation match.

Of course, if you go back through the storyline, Stephanie did so to mess with Donna's mind, given that Donna was, and still is, all about playing mind games and finding ways to circumvent whatever rules were in place.

In other words, comeuppance. Nasty word there. :)
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ratrangerm,Jun 12 2009
03:58 PM
Yes, it is true, Stephanie Harper used the Blind Stipulation match.

Of course, if you go back through the storyline, Stephanie did so to mess with Donna's mind, given that Donna was, and still is, all about playing mind games and finding ways to circumvent whatever rules were in place.

In other words, comeuppance. Nasty word there. :)

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The history of the "Blind Stipulation" match, as best I can recall...

Simon O'Neal had just won the MBC title after spending six months as the troubleshooting referee, during which he managed to tick off half the roster (including cause one card to be over in ten minutes when he DQ'd every match when a punch was thrown, because he wanted to get to the strip clubs).

His plan was to give eight title contenders a title shot, with the catch being that the shots were only good as long as Simon held the title (the plan was to get all of the contenders to fight each other and leave Simon alone).

Unfortunately (for our Bastard), the first title shot was against a 300+ pound brawler named Ogre. This leads to the following thoughts:

Thought #1: Gee, it's too bad this isn't a scientific rules match. Simon could just wait for Ogre to throw a punch and get an easy win.

Thought #2: Hey- Ogre signed the contract. How do we know that it ISN'T a scientific rules match?

Thought #3: Even better- why not say in the contracts that Simon gets to choose the match stipulations at his whim?

Thought #4: And just because Simon knows the stipulations doesn't mean he has to tell his opponents...

And thus the "Blind Stipulation" match was born- as a way for Simon to rig the rules so he wouldn't lose, by not telling his opponents what the rules were.

It didn't always work out, though- A triple threat ladder match (Simon starting on top of the ladder, Tom Landis and Shane Matthews starting on the floor) was wrecked when Landis threw Tinkle to knock Simon off the ladder.

And the match against Alex Martinez where neither man knew the rules- Simon got a pinfall (thanks to using a chair) then screwed up and didn't realize it was a Texas Death match, giving Martinez a ten count to recover. "The Last American Badass" then turned Simon into a bloody pulp.
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Flouzemaker
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Wow.
Something I wrote created some kind of reaction.
That's an unusual occurrence...



Well, maybe I'm too heavily influenced by the booking philosophies of Lance Storm - stuff that sounds like it should work in pro wrestling, but may not apply in e-w.
For instance, the philosophy that heels only exist to make faces look cooler and/or better/tougher. I hear it's the other way 'round in e-w.


Blind stip history notwithstanding, it was probably the right call for the Landis/MacKenzie match.
MacKenzie needed to look like a champion because she was retaining the GTC, yet some sort of reason was needed to weasel out the Lightweight Title.
And I say that only because I'm currently believing this statement:
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The trick now is to start building it up. And oh, build it up we shall.

... Cuz personally, I didn't see a need to bring back that title.
There are already a whole lot of various titles in the MBC, and if it were to migrate to the UWF, it would find a similar situation.
Adding shine to that title seems pretty difficult to me (though not impossible) under those circumstances.

Then again, I think there are too many championships everywhere...
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