If there is one thing fans of wrestling have
learned it is that the WWE have a major hard on for getting members
of there current roster to break title records, heck we are even
teetering on the edge of getting to see Cena beat Rick Flairs record
of 16 world title reigns. This is not the record I am going to be
talking about now though.
If you have been paying attention to the things
they have been saying on Monday Night Raw then you will have heard
mention that The New Day are getting ever closer to reaching/beating
Demolition's record of 478 days as Tag Team champions. Now The New
Day have proved themselves to be incredibly popular with sales of
there merchandise being a real money spinner for the WWE, so I can
see why they have been given such a long run and come December the
13th they will have equalled Demolitions Record and if
they can make it to the 14th then they will have beaten it
but should they?
I was and always be a massive fan of Demolition
and I think given that they hold this record and that they were one
of the most important tag teams during a period in the WWE's history
when the tag division was very talent rich it is a huge shame that
they are not in the hall of fame, heck the bushwhackers who were a
very comedy heavy team from back then have made it to the hall so why
haven't Demolition? Well I think part of it is the fact that both
main members of Demolition have had some disagreements with the WWE
in the past in fact both of them are currently a part of what I would
refer to as the Concussion lawsuit (a bunch of X-WWE wrestlers taking
WWE to court in connection to the WWE allegedly ''neglecting the
health of there performers'' which I have previously mentioned on
this blog. By letting The New Day beat the record the WWE would
practically eliminate the need to talk about Demolition in the future
when it comes to long impressive title reigns as they would from this
point forwards refer to the new day instead, it also allows them to
manufacture big moment when the streak is beaten. The truth is as
great and loved as Demolition was to some of us to Vince they were
pretty much just his rip off version of the Road Warriors/Legion of
Doom who he was happy to make vast piles of money from until he could
get his hands on the real thing. I personally would argue that even
if in some ways Demolition started out as Road Warrior clones in some
ways they went far beyond this and became a wonderful historic team
in there own right and its a darn shame if people don't see them in
this way.
In answer to the question of if The New
Day should beat the record or not how do I feel? Well if they are
being made to beat it in an attempt to try and erase demolition from
history then no it shouldn't happen, as that would be a very shitty
spoiled baby move by the WWE as despite who wins or losses the
lawsuit Demolition was still a great team who brought some absolute
fantastic moments to WWE television/Events and they should be placed
in to the Hall of Fame were they belong instead of being airbrushed
out of history. If the streak could be broken without negatively
effecting Demolitions legacy then I don't really have an issue with
it, however I would argue that it would be an even bigger swerve to
have them loose at the very last moment surprising the fans and
robbing the New Day of the record, there is so much you could do with
this from a story point of few so many ways you could use it either
to change the group or well lets face it there have been whisperings
for a long time about the group splitting up because WWE sees a
particular member as having a future as a single wrestler, maybe make
the loss this persons fault and see him thrown from the New Day?
Regardless of it the record is broken or
not I will never ever forget Demolition, it is time for them to go in
the Hall of Fame because there comes a point were if you keep the
best of the best out of the hall due to personal grudges and petty
squabbles then you actually majorly damage the credibility of the
hall itself.
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