WWE Drops A Concept PPV.

[John]

WWE has officially dropped their Breaking Point concept pay-per-view. The show only did 169,000 buys last September which was by far the lowest buy rate of any pay-per-view in the third quarter of 2009 as SummerSlam did 369,000 buys and The Bash did 267,000 buys. WWE announced a new pay-per-view schedule after Wrestlemania which also eliminated the concept pay-per-view that was going to be called Wild Card.

Source: WNW.

John's Thoughts: Thank God. The PPV was solely for wrestlers to create new submissions and test them out and most wrestlers would use a submission for this show then suddenly forget about it. Submissions aren't used much in the WWE now and it's a shame because ages ago submission moves used to be a way to end a match (Benoit with the crossface is one; I remember the announcers screaming because he had the move locked in and there was NO WAY that anyone would escape it).

[Metalitia]

On a slightly related note has anyone noticed how virtually everytime the sharpshooter is done now, whether it was Hart at Mania or when DH Smith does it, the opponent either taps straight away or it's broken up by outside interference?

SO much better when the opponents were able to try and resist and even try to counter it.

[Bubala]

Actually I'm kind of tired of this whole "one type of match for every match PPV" all together. Whatever happened to the gimmick match as a special treat. How special is a ladder, submission, or elimination chamber match when everybody's doing one? WWE really needs to pick a priority. If you want to please the politicians, and outside media than for Christsake leave the wrestling business, if you want to please the wrestling fan community than give us your 100%...not a half ass , half baked product. Like this whole thing with elements to wrestling being banned on a near regular basis to please the outside. If you take all the ingredients out of soup what do you have? Hot water? Not very exciting anymore is it? WWE has shown us without question that they simply don't care anymore, so why should we?

[Travicity]

Thank god very happy about that they should leave submissions and technical wrestling to Puro and Indy's = experts.