My career is far from stagnant. I continue to come out to this ring and prosper because I am the best in the world at what I do. I already have a hall of fame career. I’m the first ever Undisputed World Champion. I’m a five-time World Champion. I’ve held the Intercontinental Championship more times than any person in history. I do not need the Unified Tag Team Championship to cement my legacy. I take it simply because I am that good at what I do.
But I do have to give your credit. Perhaps you are more than the simple eye candy that we all thought you were.
So we have good news for you. You are right.
Did you hypocrites hear me? That blonde puppet was right. There is no credible threat to our Unified Tag Team Championships.
So you go ahead and scour the world for the best new tag teams out there. You find whatever you think is going to embody what ECW is all about. You pick the best two individuals you can find and put them in the ring with Chris Jericho and the Big Show. Then we will show you exactly why we are the best tag team in the history of this business. We will show you the perfect combination of strength and speed, power and finesse, brains and brawn.
Whatever team you find, make sure they’re better than these clowns.”
Jericho and the Big Show continue to beat down the four new superstars until the General Manager comes back out to stop them.
“You two need to get off of my talent.
Big Show, I seem to recall that you couldn’t handle the Extreme in Extreme Championship Wrestling. Didn’t you run out of gas in an elimination chamber match to lose that ECW Championship? Then after that you got right back on the horse and worked towards being ‘the best big man in the business’ again didn’t you?
Oh, that’s right. You were beaten so hard you actually quit wrestling altogether. You were beaten so hard you considered becoming a boxer instead. How far did you make it there, Show?
But that’s ok, you figured out how good you were when you made your triumphant return to wrestling at Wrestlemania 24 and then…lost to a man about a third your size.
Jericho? Do I even need to bring up your time in ECW? Or would you rather me spare the audience the lame imagery of ‘Lionheart Chris Jericho’ with his yellow striped pants, Village People leather vest and fluffy mane of bad 80’s nightmare hair?
Oops. There it is.
Neither of you two is bigger than ECW. Neither of you even survived ECW. Now you both had best be on the lookout, because the past is coming back around to get you. And your Unified Tag Team Championships are coming to Tuesday nights.
One more thing, look out behind you.”
Jericho and the Big Show turn around to all four new superstars armed with the weapons the champions used to attack them in the first place.
From this point, five new tag teams debut on ECW over the course of the next several weeks while Jericho and the Big Show are occupied with the current roster of tag teams. Some are brand new out of developmental, some are members of the active WWE roster looking to reboot their career. Once all five teams have debuted, that presents eight teams that want to challenge Jericho and the Big Show, a tournament open to all WWE tag teams could be held over two weeks of ECW television with the finals of the tournament taking place on pay per view, then the next month used to build the new number one contenders to credible opponents to Jericho and the Big Show. The tournament could also serve to start feuds between several other tag teams thus creating more dramatic storylines for television.
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