{"id":50239,"date":"2024-10-22T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T02:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50239"},"modified":"2024-10-27T21:15:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T02:15:28","slug":"i-will-never-understand-the-repeated-50-50-booking-of-bron-breakker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50239","title":{"rendered":"I will never understand the repeated 50\/50 booking of Bron Breakker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-50240 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ICcostcochik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ICcostcochik.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ICcostcochik-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I was chatting with some of my bros about Jey Uso\u2019s long-awaited singles championship when he won the Intercontinental blet from Bron Breakker, and my first remark was along the lines of, <em>well I hope they don\u2019t give the blet right back to him in 3-4 weeks<\/em>, because this has basically been the exact recipe that the WWE has been doing with Bron Breakker since he debuted back in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For whatever reason, Bron Breakker always has two matches with a guy when there\u2019s a title involved, and by the time the second match is over, Breakker is the one coming out with the title.\u00a0 50\/50 booking in professional wrestling is when two sides trade wins, with the goal of each party getting an opportunity to look like the stronger side once, but in the end the benefit is minimal if at all, because both parties will have taken an L.\u00a0 It is often criticized by the fan community and I can\u2019t say that I disagree with the notion, and I\u2019d rather a guy be used sparingly and sell a feud on character work and promos as opposed to there being a series of matches where both guys come out no better than which they started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Like, here\u2019s a list of Bron Breakker\u2019s championship 50\/50s since emerging in the WWE ecosystem:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Tommaso Ciampa: Loses on 10\/26\/21. Wins NXT Championship on 01\/04\/22<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dolph Ziggler: Loses NXT Championship on 03\/08\/22. Wins NXT Championship on 04\/02\/22<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Sami Zayn: Loses on 07\/06\/24. Wins Intercontinental Championship on 08\/03\/24<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Jey Uso: Loses Intercontinental Championship on 09\/23\/24. Wins Intercontinental Championship on 10\/21\/24<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Like, I\u2019m not pulling this pattern out of my ass, since Bron Breakker has emerged onto the scene, this has been precisely how he\u2019s been booked, and I don\u2019t know why.\u00a0 After three years, he\u2019s proven himself to be a tremendous talent, very much the genetic heir to his family lineage from his dad Rick Steiner and uncle Scotty.\u00a0 He\u2019s demonstrated the ability to work with all sorts of styles of workers, from all-around talents like Ciampa and Ziggler, small technicians like Carmelo Hayes, to bruisers like Gunther.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">50\/50 booking should be reserved for guys greener than Breakker, but I feel like they\u2019re doing it anyways, because of his general age.\u00a0 Pro-wrestling has this archaic philosophy that everyone should pay their dues and apparently for a very long time.\u00a0 Furthermore, a guy like Breakker has to always be weary of being accused of succeeding on account of nepotism, so I have to assume that all this 50\/50 booking is being done to help him pay his dues, despite the fact that I think it\u2019s doing more harm than it is good to have him eat so many losses, when he\u2019s clearly set up to be one of the torch bearers for the company in future years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">So I guess writing things out, I kind of answered my own question to why Bron Breakker is being 50\/50 booked so much.\u00a0 I don\u2019t necessarily agree with it, but as long as some old philosophies remain, even the most talented of guys will have to learn to eat some shit sandwiches because all their predecessors did too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">That being said, the tease of Bron Breakker vs. Jacob Fatu will be interesting.\u00a0 I would\u2019ve said that the new Bloodline would be beginning an amassing of titles with Jacob getting his first taste of singles gold, but that would be problematic when it would come time for Solo to try and nab one of the World titles, and I think we all know nobody\u2019s dethroning Cody or Gunther.\u00a0 But let\u2019s not pretend like the ol\u2019 E won\u2019t 50\/50 Bron against Jacob Fatu as well for a fairly meaningless title change just to help advance the Bloodline storyline which is in my opinion starting to border on becoming dragged out too long and with too many players in place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But hopefully, the E will just stop booking him like this inexperienced rookie, and just let him have a monster run with the gold, because I genuinely believe he\u2019s the future, and it\u2019s important for him to be established as such, when the time comes for him to start being the man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Even if when he is in performance mode, he\u2019s the color of Hulk Hogan mixed with a Costco rotisserie chicken.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was chatting with some of my bros about Jey Uso\u2019s long-awaited singles championship when he won the Intercontinental blet from Bron Breakker, and my first remark was along the lines of, well I hope they don\u2019t give the blet right back to him in 3-4 weeks, because this has basically been the exact recipe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I will never understand the repeated 50\/50 booking of Bron Breakker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,83,54,49,55],"class_list":["post-50239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-blets","tag-observations","tag-wrestling","tag-wtf","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50241,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50239\/revisions\/50241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}