6 pack challenge= we cant come up with anything else

[Jugganauts09]

No No No No No this is not stupid or lazy or dumb how ever you want to think of it No, this is very smart and creative booking and i will give a couple of reasons why:

1. The 6 men involved in the match are the 6 biggest superstars in the raw brand at the moment over 40 championships have been won throughout these 6 men

2. This match will deffinately make or break Night of Champions if they give it a lengthy amount of time and have NO outside interferance this will be the match of the night

4. This storyline will also give Wade Barrett the match he finally desveres after winning the NXT season 1

3. Sheamus is entering the permant main event pharse, just think when he came to raw no one thought he would last more than a week, he has won 2 wwe champioships and if he retains it will put him over huge.

So just a recap, this is smart and creative booking, the match has 6 of the biggest superstars on the raw brand (Sheamus, Randy Orton, John Cena, Edge, Chris Jericho and Wade Barrett???), This match perfectly booked will be the match of the night, Night of Champions will be the birth of Sheamus permantly in the Main Event.

 

[BuckshotBrian13]

2. This match will deffinately make or break Night of Champions if they give it a lengthy amount of time and have NO outside interferance this will be the match of the night

4. This storyline will also give Wade Barrett the match he finally desveres after winning the NXT season 1

3. Sheamus is entering the permant main event pharse, just think when he came to raw no one thought he would last more than a week, he has won 2 wwe champioships and if he retains it will put him over huge.

So just a recap, this is smart and creative booking, the match has 6 of the biggest superstars on the raw brand (Sheamus, Randy Orton, John Cena, Edge, Chris Jericho and Wade Barrett???), This match perfectly booked will be the match of the night, Night of Champions will be the birth of Sheamus permantly in the Main Event.

Barrett is in the match and the GM hasn't announced yet if Nexus is barred, so you can't throw out the interference. Barrett is bound to win by Nexus interference.

 

[A**hole]

At this point it looks like great booking...........until they hit it with the lamestick.

I don't even know the rules.
1st fall or elimination?
All start in action or will there be some sort of order of entry?

I'm just waiting to see the finish because the possibilities are endless

 

[Fisheatppl]

I really don't think Barret is going to win it. The only way I see Barret winning is if The Miz cashes in MitB right after and Barret appears on Raw the next night as a "former WWE Champion" which has weight in and of itself (unless you are the Great Khali), but having never REALLY "held" the title. But again in all honestly I think they are still waiting on Miz. I don't think he'll be champion quite yet. Waiting til when I don't know but I think if they were gonna make him Champ now they would have made him champ after SummerSlam. But I DO think Barret is going to prove himself as a Main Eventer and that is a huge win, seeing as how 1 year ago he was in FCW (i think). I think Shamus is going to retain, though I would cry with happiness if Jericho pulls through. I would love to watch Miz stalk Jericho and the battle of words between THOSE two.

 

[Remy LaCroix]

Let's put the whole "more superstars in the title match = PROFIT!" thing aside cuz even though that may be true, it doesn't mean it's anything but a quick buck or, like it rightfully is, lazy. Imagine if they went by that logic on EVERY PPV -- would it still be considered "smart and creative booking" just because they have their top stars on the same match?

d_henderson1810 had it right with the scramble match idea. It would work perfectly in this clusterfuck of a match. It would carry the element of surprise and keep you on the edge of your seat as time turns to mere seconds.

But noooooooo, WWE only wants buy rates since they've been dropping a little lately. I don't know what a 6-pack challenge is exactly, but they did have something called a Fatal 4 Way recently, so this match came off as overkill to me.

 

[Jack-Hammer]

A "6 pack challenge=we cant come up with anything else"? Beyond ludicrous.

The WWE has included four huge names in the match for the WWE Championship, four names that've won more than 30 world championships combined over the course of their respective careers. These four are also some of the biggest names in wrestling over the course of the past decade and are some of the most over wrestlers working today. The other two participants include the first Irish-born WWE Champion and the winner of the first season of NXT and current leader of The Nexus faction.

The WWE is in the middle of a youth movement in which they're using older and established talent to help create new stars that are going to be the ones carrying the company in the future. In this particular case, Sheamus & Wade Barrett happen to be two of those young stars. This match will ultimately wind up being an example of the WWE using some of the biggest names they have to give these two young guys a rub and make them look like a million bucks. I expect Sheamus to retain the title and look great doing it and Barrett will probably come out smelling like roses even without the title.

A six pack challenge isn't something that the WWE does often. Unlike some other companies, the WWE generally doesn't just throw out gimmick matches with the same casual ease in which I might brush a fly away from a piece of pizza I'm about to dig into. They wheel them out on rare occassions and that's why specialty matches like a six pack challenge actually feel special.

 

[gd]

They had no other choice, basically. At least with it being Night of Champions and all, Barrett was in line to get a title match, but are you just going to have him go 1 on 1 and leave Cena, Orton, and Jericho off the card? Of course not. So, we get a clusterfuck of a main event instead.

Of course, the other thing they couldn't done was put the other guys in, uhh, not a title match, but that would break the rules of NOC, rules that they in fact created. Bah Gawd, the madness!

With no more ECW Title and the apparent unification of the women's title on the horizon, they should just add a couple of World Title number 1 contender's matches to all future version of NOC. Gets everyone on the card without having 36 people in the main event.

 

[MrHashasheen]

It's not a lack of creativity, but more of a need to add unpredictability. We've all seen the shockers they've pulled on the fans, from the Nexus to Daniel Bryan's return. This 6-pack challenge could give the title to anyone of the people involved. Sheamus could get instant credibility. Randy Orton would cement his status as the top guy on Raw at the moment. Wade Barrett could re-ignite the main-even status of Nexus. John Cena could get another title win to assuage his many beat downs at the hands of Nexus. Edge and Jericho are dark-horses who could pull it off one more time. And all of that could mean nothing if the Miz decides to cash it in.

 

[showstoppaa]

Like people have said before, They want as many main eventers on the card as possible, but because this is Night of Champions, It is all title matches, so they needed to find a way for them to get on it. Lets face it, If it was Barret vs Sheamus, Where would Cena be? Vince isn't going to leave his top superstar off the PPV, And he's above the mid card titles, So this is a way to fit him in.

 

[EffinSaySo]

I don't mind this at all. It goes to show you that WWE management is everything that Wade Barrett been making it out to be (for the whole summer). Of course they were going to screw him by adding four other worthy main event talents. This is the same WWE management that forced them to do obstacle courses and pointless contests when they all felt they were better than that.

I rather have this six pack challenge a championship scramble match.

From wiki:

WWE features a match called the Championship Scramble in which none of the wrestlers are eliminated. Two wrestlers start the match and every five minutes another wrestler enters until all five participants are present. After the last wrestler enters, there is a five minute time limit. Each time a wrestler scores a pinfall or submission, he becomes the interim or unofficial champion, and such reigns are not recorded as official reigns. Five minutes after the final wrestler enters, the wrestler that scores the last pinfall or submission is declared the winner and the official champion.

Wade Barrett could be interim champion until the end when Randy Orton RKO him and Sheamus pulls Orton up and tosses him out of the ring and steals the victory by pinfall seconds before the time expired.

 

[BuckshotBrian13]

I really don't think Barret is going to win it. The only way I see Barret winning is if The Miz cashes in MitB right after and Barret appears on Raw the next night as a "former WWE Champion" which has weight in and of itself (unless you are the Great Khali), but having never REALLY "held" the title. But again in all honestly I think they are still waiting on Miz. I don't think he'll be champion quite yet. Waiting til when I don't know but I think if they were gonna make him Champ now they would have made him champ after SummerSlam. But I DO think Barret is going to prove himself as a Main Eventer and that is a huge win, seeing as how 1 year ago he was in FCW (i think). I think Shamus is going to retain, though I would cry with happiness if Jericho pulls through. I would love to watch Miz stalk Jericho and the battle of words between THOSE two.

If Miz cashes in on Barrett, you can expect Nexus to be there to put a stop to the match. There's no way nexus will let the WWE championship out of their grasps.

 

[The 1-2-3 Killam]

This usually happens around the time of Night of Champions. It's pretty obvious why, and I don't think lazy booking is necessarily the reason.

So, you want either Sheamus vs. Wade Barrett for the title, or Sheamus vs. Miz? Barrett's team lost at SummerSlam, so it doesn't really make sense to just hand him a title match. If he wins, Sheamus looks weaker, and if he loses Nexus looks even more weak, and neither of them can really afford that right now. But here's the obvious reason for the "lazy booking". It's Night of Champions! The gimmick is that every title has to be defended, or at the very least every champion will be in action. So the first thing is that Miz has to defend his US title, and he's obviously going to face Daniel Bryan. The second thing is that if you have Sheamus and Barrett go at it, you have to leave Randy Orton, Edge, Chris Jericho...and John Cena off a PPV. You just don't do that if you want to make money. So in order to keep them all on a card where all the titles must be defended, they have to be in a title match...I'm not a fan of 6-man matches in general, but it makes sense. It's easy booking, nor lazy booking. Sure, it didn't take a lot of thought. But (A) it solves all their Night of Champion-based problems, and (B) it means there's a huge chance that Sheamus could lose the title, and you can't be certain who it's going to be to...

Yeah, it would look that Miz would cash in Money in the Bank after the main event, but... I really don't think he will. Or he will, and he'll lose. But either way I just don't see Miz leaving Night of Champions as the WWE Champion. Let his super push go on longer, get him some real steam, and them set him lose the same way they did John Cena against JBL.

 

[LSN80]

Well, WWE kind of booked themselves into a corner with this one, especially on the Raw side of the card. Night of Champions has always been an all title matches PPV, and WWE has at least 5 main event players on Raw at this point. Its like the first year they did NOC, when they did the "champions challenge" match, where they had a five man WWE title match for Cenas title. You cant leave the main event players off the card, ande its not like most of them(except Jericho or Barrett) could legitimately slide down into the US title hunt? Cena? If it was 2004. Ditto for Orton. Its been even longer since Edge was in the mid-card hunt


Do I like the the concept? Not really. The multi-man title matches have been overdone badly this year. The elimination chamber, fatal four way, and now a six pack challenge. It eliminates the "best man wins" ideal and allows room for luck, like being in the right place at the right time. I can understand why, but I can't say I like it. But you have to get all of your biggest draws onto the card, and there are only so many titles. Its really as simple as that.

 

[Find'er Woo'er Ryder]

Lazy booking? Have you been watching raw over the past several weeks leading up to summerslam?

This match continues the story lines that have been building all summer. Cena v barrett, Jericho v edge, orton v sheamus, nexus v everyone. Mondays whole show was designed to build this match with sheamus ultimately deciding to duck all of them. It's hardly lazy booking. It's a culmination of this summer's story lines surrounding all these main eveners. Maybe the problem is that you're a lazy fan.

i agree. it builds up fueds that has already been going on for a while now. and wwe wouldnt have the 5 biggest superstars on raw not in a ppv...mostly talking about cena and orton.

 

[The Encore]

What is the best possible way to have this match end? I am certainly enjoying Sheamus as the WWE Champion. And if he won this match it would make him look just awesome beyond measure in my eyes. Especialy if he wins it in an awesome way. Whats with all this awesome I speak of. I don't know. I see this being the part where Miz FAILS his MITB cash in and then gets somehow moved over to RAW or something along the lines of that and Wins the WHW Championship off Kane due to interference from Taker. Thus giving Miz a main event spot in smackdown preparing him for when he is next on RAW and is really rolling with the Big Dogs and has the Taker vs Kane fued over no belt which allows the fued to go longer, and BE THE LAST ONE FOR GOD SAKES!

 

[JuviJuiceIsLoose]

I don't think the WWE booked the 6 pack challenge because they can't come up with anything else.

I think they booked it because they wanna push Wade Barrett to the Main Event, but he's really green, and can't really wrestle. So, they figure they can remedy this problem by constantly putting him in Multi-Man matches.

It's easy to hide Wade Barrett's negatives in the ring when you put him in matches like the 7 on 7 where he's really only in the ring for 2 minutes at a time.

It's the same thing with the 6 pack challenge. He'll only be in the ring for a few minutes at a time.

I could also see them wanting to put all their Main Event guys in 1 match to try to get hire buyrates.

But, for the most part, they're doing it because of Wade Barrett. He's never had a 1 on 1 match on PPV. He's also never been in a 1 on 1 match that lasted longer than 10 minutes on T.V.

 

[natlee75]

I'm not a fan of the Six Pack Challenge only because I think it "cheats" Barrett out of an opportunity to really shine in a one-on-one engagement against Sheamus or some other champion. Everyone keeps talking about how Nexus is finished and can't continue after SummerSlam, after Skip Sheffield, etc. - Barrett winning the top belt *and* looking really good doing it in a one-on-one legitimizes the group again. I suppose Barrett winning against five other top flight Superstars also does that but you know that they're not going to have their top guys get Goldberged by someone who was a "rookie" only a half year ago. Nonetheless, I hope Barrett walks out with the belt and uses Nexus to keep it on himself for a long time to come. In fact, I'd be happy if they kept the title on him until Wrestlemania or at least right before Wrestlemania.

 

[natlee75]

What is the best possible way to have this match end? I am certainly enjoying Sheamus as the WWE Champion. And if he won this match it would make him look just awesome beyond measure in my eyes. Especialy if he wins it in an awesome way. Whats with all this awesome I speak of. I don't know. I see this being the part where Miz FAILS his MITB cash in and then gets somehow moved over to RAW or something along the lines of that and Wins the WHW Championship off Kane due to interference from Taker. Thus giving Miz a main event spot in smackdown preparing him for when he is next on RAW and is really rolling with the Big Dogs and has the Taker vs Kane fued over no belt which allows the fued to go longer, and BE THE LAST ONE FOR GOD SAKES!

If they were going to break the MITB win streak, they would have done it with the God awful Jack Swagger. All signs point to WWE management really looking at The Miz as its next big star so they wouldn't have him be the first one to fail at cashing in his title shot!

In fact, I'd say it would even be stupid for him to cash it in after the Six Pack Challenge.

My ideal scenario would be Wade Barrett winning the championship at Night Of Champions and keeping it until Wrestlemania where he'd actually retain the belt against whoever the top face was at the time after which The Miz would come out and cash in his shot to turn mega face.

 

[Prax]

I'm sure this has already been mentioned, but the opening post here is pure hogwash. It's not lazy booking, it's WWE booking themselves into a corner. Night of Champions is a good idea, but it also means that the WWE can't have any non-title matches on the show. Meaning that if you pick one of the 5 guys to get a shot at the champion, the other 4 have to be left off the show. WWE's main event is saturated with a lot of experienced guys and they have no choice but to do these multi-person matches sometimes because you have to get the Ortons, Cena, Jerichos, Edges on a show, and a Barrett vs. Sheamus one on one main event wouldn't make much sense anyway.

Besides, have you really ever seen a six pack challenge title match that wasn't good? Go look back into the record books, six person matches are ALWAYS good. ALWAYS.

 

[balkinator]

I think the 6-pack is actually a good compromise of featuring a lot of great wrestlers at the same time to allow a split where they will go on to separate brands afterwards - Jericho and Edge will move on to SD and the others will stay in. i think its a unique chance to feature the midcard as well. hopefully it works out!

 

[darqknyt]

I do think that most of the time when you have these 4way, six pack etc.(especially triple threats @Wrestlemania)its a possible sign of lazy booking, but in this case. NoC is still not a PPV that can draw on name alone eg Summerslam, Wrestlemania. To have booked Barret in the mainevent by himself(i.e one-on-one against Sheamus/Orton) would have been to big of a risk.Yes Nexus is over with the fans, but its not that over.
Secondly, booking Barret or anyone else alone would have mean that 4 other mainevent stars would be off the PPV, because they would have no business being booked on a "Champions Only" PPV.This was more a business decision than lazy booking.