The Great American Bash 2007: Why it failed

The Great American Bash 2007. It was horrible. The matches were underhyped and overhyped. I had a viewing party for this PPV. My choices were either that or Summerslam. I knew I should've picked Summerslam.

Everyone complains about this PPV, but no one ever tries to figure out why it was so bad. Well, I'm getting to the bottom of this. I'm going to figure out why The Bash was so bad.

The first reason The Bash was so bad was because some matches were underhyped. Let's take a look at the underhyped matches:

Underhyped matches at The GAB 2007

Carlito vs. Sandman- Singapore can on a pole match

No one even knew this match was going to happen. It wasn't on the original card. The rules weren't very clear, and Sandman and Carlito had just started fueding 2 weeks prior.

Cruiserweight Open for the Cruiserweight title
This match wasn't on the original card either. They just threw it in and had Hornswoggle win it. This was a very short, sloppy match and it seemed like the wrestlers were'nt prepared for it.

WHC: Khali vs. Batista vs. Kane
This match was announced 48 hours before The Bash. I liked the idea, but the match was short, sloppy, and boring. It was predictable that Khali would win too.

Jeff Hardy vs. Umaga- IC title
This was the best match on the card. It was underhyped, but it still worked.

Now let's take a look at the overhyped matches:

Overhyped matches

John Morrison vs. CM Punk for the ECW title

This match was pretty overhyped. They dedicated a whole episode of ECW to this one match. It wasn't so great, either. The match was a little boring.

John Cena vs. Bobby Lashley for the WWE title
Everyone knows this match was overhyped. It was a little below par, too.

Now, here are the matches that were correctly hyped:

Correctly hyped matches

Melina vs. Candice Michelle

These 2 had been fueding for months. Hell, they even had their own posses!

MVP vs. Matt Hardy

Hardy had beaten MVP, so he got his title shot. I thought for sure that Hardy would win, but I was wrong.

Randy Orton vs. Dusty Rhodes in a Texas Bullrope match

This was a very entertaining rivalry, but the match wasn't so good. Oh well.

Here is another reason the bash failed:

Mathes like Carlito vs. Sandman and the cruiserweight open shouldn't have happened. They were unessacery, and they were low quality. Why don't you add a match that has actually been hyped. Or why don't you just leave this spot on the card balnk?

Well, know you mnow why the bash failed. Here are some ways WWE can keep it from failing again:

Take away the no hype matches. It'll give you more time for main event matches. It'll also give you time to have matches like Cena/Lshley and Morrison/Punk to live up to the hype. Let's hope that The Bash 2008 will be a lot better.