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Professional Wrestling federations tend to end up with more wrestlers than they know what to do with. They tend to sign people simply so that the competition can't, snatch up hot young talents in hopes of figuring out how to put them in the show later, or hire guys as a favor to somebody in the office. For most professional wrestling organizations, the "A Show" is where only the big name talents compete on the show. Naturally, the average wrestling fed can't squeeze all these guys onto their main "A Show", so they eventually put together a B Show. The A Show is the show that draws — or is supposed to draw — the biggest ratings. The "A Show," then, will have most of the storyline developments (or the most dramatic therein) and have most of the championship title changes. Often, the biggest star of the A Show will be booked as the champion, holding the most prestigious title, and many times the best matches of a given calendar year happen at these events. In contrast, a B Show is a very different experience from an A Show. Whereas the A Show, being the flagship, may have big, dramatic, Soap Opera-esque "story lines" with twists and turns aplenty in order to hook the viewer, a B Show has few angles going on at any one time, and what angles do appear are much simpler and largely character-driven. Instead, you'll simply see a few matches- some Squash Matches, and some memorable encounters from those trying to get noticed- with video packages in-between recapping the latest angles from the A Show. They're considered something of a loss-leader in the wrestling world, put on largely so that the wrestlers can keep themselves sharp and the promoters can watch carefully to single out wrestlers with potential, rather than with any eye to ratings and revenue. While some promotions such as CMLL and AAA run actual B Shows outside of their main venues and some promotions have entire "B Markets", fans in the USA are used to organizations like WWE taping their "B Shows" at the beginning of an A Show, to minimize the costs involved. That is to say with larger organizations with large rosters, there are often two events going on on a single evening. While the A-Show (which may or may not be a live event or television taping) is going on in one city, the B Show will be taking place in another city sometimes hundreds of miles away. The B-Show, then, is comprised of younger wrestlers, often up-and-coming stars who are currently middle- and lower-level talent in a wrestling promotion, although well-known wrestlers making a comeback, finishing a career or making a special appearance will often participate, as will local wrestlers who compete for local or regional organizations. Additionally, there may be one or two A-show stars who appear at these shows, so as to draw fans (and thus anchor the show) and to help guide newer, up-and-coming wrestlers. note Often, the local wrestlers will be put in the role of jobber, although they could also be matched against a lower-level talent to provide a good-quality match. These shows are not always taped, although it's always been said the cameras may sometimes be rolling, either to capture an unexpected title change, development or — most importantly — to use as an evaluation tool for the wrestlers. Almost always, a championship match — usually for a secondary or tag team title –- will be contested as the "main event," although this has also included battle royals and special "gimmick matches" pitting a wrestlers in the promotion's current No. 2 or 3 feud, and sometimes the flagship title is contested between the champion and a challenger who normally may not receive this opportunity on an A-Show. These shows often have a unique experience and flow to them, and very often B-Show wrestlers are able to develop their skills enough to be promoted to the A-Show. So, in many ways, the wrestling at a B-Show is often very good, if not excellent, and the same goes for C-Shows (for organizations that sometimes have a third group of wrestlers who compete at yet another event). In the case of B Show made of matches cut from the A show, they often start off with appearances from draws who didn't wrestle on the A show's last airing or special events such as debuts and first title defenses but usually regress to showcasing talents the company simply has nothing for at the moment. A wrestler who manages to develop a B Show following in this case can easily find himself promoted to the A Show; however, most B Show regulars who find themselves on the A Show play a different role entirely. B Shows taped entirely separate from the A or indeed "B Markets", will usually maintain their special attractions. Not to be confused with Big Show... unless you're looking for a Dope Slap by his Giant Hands of Doom. |
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All Japan Pro Wrestling's general B-show is the creatively titled B-Banquet, with the archive showcase Royal Road Club serving as a B-show of sorts to their Samurai TV A-show King's Road. | |
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Championship Wrestling Superstars/Global Wrestling/North Florida Championship Wrestling/United States Class Wrestling/American Championship Wrestling/Southern Professional Wrestling was the B-show to Championship Wrestling from Florida. That B-show went through a LOT of names. | |
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All Elite Wrestling has AEW Rampage, a one hour show that airs on Fridays, and is typically taped after and treated as an extension of the A Show AEW Dynamite. AEW formerly had two more B-shows in AEW Dark and AEW Dark: Elevation that were shown on YouTube. Both these shows were cancelled in May 2023 after AEW was given a third cable show called Collision on Saturday nights. This wasn't intended to be a B-shownote It was intended to be Ring of Honor (which AEW owner Tony Khan purchased in March 2022), but Warner Bros. Discovery had no interest in airing a wrestling company that just went belly up, regardless of who the current owner was. ROH now has a streaming show on their own website that is for all purposes a third AEW B show, more like a soft roster split to keep certain wrestlers as far away from each other as possible, but after a hot start Collision ratings fell to about the same level as Rampage (or about a third of what Dynamite does), firmly cementing it as another B show. |
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TNA Xplosion, which is syndicated in a handful of markets. It in fact predates TNA's A show, iMPACT. Xplosion was created when TNA was running weekly pay per views and existed mainly as an advertisement for them. iMPACT started as the weekly program with the move to monthly pay per view, with Xplosion still around but not even broadcast in the USA anymore. | |
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WWE had Raw as an A show and Smackdown as its B-Show, but Smackdown grew in ratings to the point it eclipsed Raw and became a separate A show with its own B show, Velocity, to match Raw's Heat. WWE NXT served as a kind of B-show to both after Heat, Velocity and WWECW were taken off air, its emphasis on talent straight out of developmental and/or the independent circuit (the "Rookies" are competing for a shot on an A-Show). More to the point is WWE Superstars, a show which started on WGN but now airs online, which features either three or four matches taped before RAW and WWE SmackDown (originally it featured a match each from the RAW, Smackdown, and ECW brands). Oddly, Smackdown began to serve as a B-Show to NXT after a prolonged stay in the Friday Night Death Slot. It's recorded at the same time and location as NXT, which airs live. Though Smackdown had many more of the A-Show names on it, mostly to cling to the dreadfully small pool of ratings left, several A-Show talents appeared on NXT as mentors to new talent. Lately Smackdown has featured very lengthy recaps from Raw with very few matches of its own. WWE has evolved into a clear hierarchy of A Show: Raw; B Show: Smackdown (though less B show than most have historically been) and C Show: Main Event (which is on broadcast television on the minor Ion Network)). NXT is now just the development promotion and isn't even available through the main WWE website, and Superstars only airs overseas. |
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WCW Thunder counted as a B Show too by virtue of the fact that all of the top-card wrestlers- which Nitro's angles would revolve around- refused to appear on it. That, and Thunder was so poorly produced that it's hard to believe that WCW cared about it at all.note Most of them didn't care because Thunder was forced on them by the Turner brass, over the loud objections of Eric Bischoff and several others. Bischoff felt that an extra 2 hour show would just oversaturate the market and burn out the bookers, and he was right on both counts Thunder came about because of an aborted arc: the plan with Starrcade 97 was that the nWo would win control over Nitro and WCW would be forced to retreat to the newly created Thunder. It bombed, though, when the company tested out the idea of "nWo Nitro" right before a PPV and it was a giant clusterfuck of bad ratings, largely because they made the move to remodel the set ON THE AIR, causing about 40 minutes of said remodeling to drive away viewers in droves (and the few who stuck through it turned to Raw during the three to four 20-minute circle jerk sessions involving Hulk Hogan). |
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Dragon Gate's "Prime Zone" webcast and "Infinity" television show are sometimes referred to as "B Shows", since they air matches from other events. | |
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AEW formerly had two more B-shows in AEW Dark and AEW Dark: Elevation that were shown on YouTube. Both these shows were cancelled in May 2023 after AEW was given a third cable show called Collision on Saturday nights. This wasn't intended to be a B-shownote It was intended to be Ring of Honor (which AEW owner Tony Khan purchased in March 2022), but Warner Bros. Discovery had no interest in airing a wrestling company that just went belly up, regardless of who the current owner was. ROH now has a streaming show on their own website that is for all purposes a third AEW B show, more like a soft roster split to keep certain wrestlers as far away from each other as possible, but after a hot start Collision ratings fell to about the same level as Rampage (or about a third of what Dynamite does), firmly cementing it as another B show. | |
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