How Long Should a Wrestling Event Truly Be?

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Today's sermon from the house of glorious marsupial tabernacle holy anointed leaves of baptist church, we're talking about the length of wrestling events. Should they be long as hell like how our brethren from the land of the rising sun does, or should they be like two hours tops ala Triple Minute Man does?

Judging by the consensus of All In yesterday leading into last night, the congregation was split down the middle between the sickos desiring marathons, WWE stans scoffing at the bloatness, and old marsupial wrestling heads thats:

I mean...I used to sit through hours of Wrestle Kingdom but this is absurd.

Bottom line, what's the sweet spot for timing concerning a wrestling event. I say about close to 3 as it was traditional in the stance of a old school PPV event, weeds out the bloatness, and feels the most cohesive. Thus why I had to take frequent breaks with All In, due to the card being a bloated mess that picked up near the gauntlets.

Thoughts and please keep it civil in Jesus name amen

 

[OneDeep]

Regular TV=2 Hours
Regular PLE/PPV=3 Hours
Major/Flagship PPV/PLE=4 Hours

No wrestling event should go past 4 hours

 

[Norrin Radd]

Seven hours is far too long for any PPV/event, let alone a wrestling PPV/event. Four (including preshows + packages) maybe, tops.

 

[VegetasHairline]

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

The irony that this dude looks like Tony Khan and wouldn't be surprised if this will be the next event "Fight Forever" literally

 

[Doctor Wily]

If theyre telling great stories in & out of the ring...& the product is hot then take as long as possible.


We've been conditioned for 3/4 hours since forever.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

If theyre telling great stories in & out of the ring...& the product is hot then take as long as possible.


We've been conditioned for 3/4 hours since forever.

The thing about long events is that they are either bloated turds with some gems, or overrun its course. The 3/4 hour is the sweet spot period. You get the main courses from low, mid, and main event in a collective.

I love long shows like any other wrestling fan, but it has to have some sort of cohesion, otherwise it's just a marathon, instead of a sprint to the goal.

Once the puro timing of events came to the states, it just killed the vibes altogether because every event got to be longer than Jill Scott's titties. I'm like 40 in human years

 

[avon barksdale]

I like to get my money worth, so I like the long ppvs...

What's the difference of watching it in one day or waiting 2 days to watch trash matches just to get to the main event on Sundays

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I like to get my money worth, so I like the long ppvs...

What's the difference of watching it in one day or waiting 2 days to watch trash matches just to get to the main event on Sundays

I used to want the whole quantity for top dollar, but the two-day event steez feels like a double album approach to it. Its a pace mechanism that suits well, especially for heads that don't watch wrestling for 24 hours. Some folks look at something like SNME more than enough because it's like 2 hours, versus All In which NGL, the earlier matches should have not been on the card but on Zero Hour tops.

Then again, I am more of a less is more type of breh. Trust, if All In was like 3 to 4 hours, I would sit through that jawn like the OG Dub events because its a Tony Khan joint. Meaning fukkery from hour 1 to 3

 

[avon barksdale]

I used to want the whole quantity for top dollar, but the two-day event steez feels like a double album approach to it. Its a pace mechanism that suits well, especially for heads that don't watch wrestling for 24 hours. Some folks look at something like SNME more than enough because it's like 2 hours, versus All In which NGL, the earlier matches should have not been on the card but on Zero Hour tops.

Then again, I am more of a less is more type of breh. Trust, if All In was like 3 to 4 hours, I would sit through that jawn like the OG Dub events because its a Tony Khan joint. Meaning fukkery from hour 1 to 3

Maybe it's just me but for 50 dollars I got my money worth just like when Vince use to run 7 hours of WrestleMania before the 2 day event I like that too

 

[The Villain]

2 hrs for a TV show.
3 hrs for a PPV

Beyond that you just dragging it.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Maybe it's just me but for 50 dollars I got my money worth just like when Vince use to run 7 hours of WrestleMania before the 2 day event I like that too

Oh trust I know Dub delivers on that moneys worth steez concerning the main ppvs. just don't have it in me anymore. Hell, when Noah had their long event which was like 5 hours...I had to two day the jawn.

Power to folks that can sit through extensive hours, but my sweet spots always been 3 or sometimes 4. 5 and up, is like descending into madness.

 

[KFBF]

Three hours.

 

[Novembruh]

Arbitrary time designations are messy.
Hard and fast rules rarely work well across the full gamut of an artform.

I'll say this though: If I can watch the whole Star Wars OG Trilogy before your wrestling event ends, it's too fukking long.
Point blank period.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Arbitrary time designations are messy.
Hard and fast rules rarely work well across the full gamut of an artform.

I'll say this though: If I can watch the whole Star Wars OG Trilogy before your wrestling event ends, it's too fukking long.
Point blank period.

We talking VHS before special edition or special edition