WWE continues to push the irrelevant streak of Auska with a new promo package on RAW informing fans that on October 7, 2015 her streak began. The promo claims 240 wins, 0 losses. Claims that she’s defeated “34 different women across 4 continents in 11 countries.”
Here’s the thing:
What she did in the minor leagues is completely irrelevant.
If a minor league baseball player has a 50 game hitting streak when he gets called up to the major leagues, if he gets a hit in each of his first six games he doesn’t tie Joe DiMaggio’s streak of 56 consecutive games.
A college football players stats don’t count in the NFL.
For goodness sakes shoving this irrelevant streak down the viewers throats is not only annoying, it’s embarrassing.
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t MMA and boxing include the records of other companies the fighters have worked in, not just the promotion they currently work for?
Either way it doesn’t matter because Asuka’s streak could go further back if WWE were including “minor leagues” but they’re not. NXT may not have the viewership of a RAW or a SmackDown but it’s still a WWE show and thus the stat’s carry over. It’s not the same as baseball or American football because they’re set up very differently - also, it’s a fictional record that they created so they can do what they like with it.
Why they wouldn’t promote it and their other show, I can’t even begin to imagine.
Minor League is a developmental league that feeds to a main roster [talent gets called up to the main roster from a developmental division owned and run by the same organization].
If a minor league baseball player had a 50 game hitting streak, you’re right that it wouldn’t “count”. But I’m pretty sure the announcers would still mention it. A lot. Especially if it continued for another six months.
I still don’t understand why you think it’s irrelevant. You keep talking about ‘minor leagues’ but you’ve not rasied a single solid point about why it shouldn’t matter.
So the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (Yankees Triple A/ developmental org) is equal to the New York Yankees? I think that Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge, Masahiro Tanaka and Jacoby Ellsbury would disagree.
You’re right, if a guy with a 50 game hitting streak in the minors gets called up to the big leagues, Vin Scully doesn’t mention it. He just says “look at this youngster, never seen him before.”
And then when he starts his major league career on 30 game hitting streak, SportsCenter never references the fact that he had a 50 game minor-league hitting streak as well.
No shit. Your attempts to prove that I don’t know baseball because you have no rebuttal to my actual statement are ridiculous. Enjoy your sense of self satisfaction.
I mean, WWE don’t bill it as anything other than WWE NXT. It’s been referred to as developmental. It’s been referred to as WWE’s own “super-indie league”. What it is, is show that has a higher profile than TNA and ROH for sure so if those are “other leagues” and not “minor leagues”, then so is NXT.
It’s not an irrelevant statistic because many of the women she beat on her way to that unbeaten streak are players on the main roster today; Bayley, Dana Brooke, Nia Jax, Emma before she left. Also, @Deezy makes an entirely valid point that the bookers will promote what they want to promote, so Ric Flair is a sixteen time world champion, AJ Styles is a world travelled “sports entertainer” who’s been a champion every where he goes, Balor Club were well known as a unit outside of the WWE.
Saying that an impressive statistic or achievement is irrelevant once you graduate to the top of any respective “sport” fails to take into account that all sports promote “amateur” or “minor league” achievements. Ronda Rousey’s Judo career has been touted over and over again during her professional MMA career even though it was outside of the UFC and during her time as an amateur athlete. The NFL drafts new players using knowledge of their achievements during their college ball careers. And pro wrestling promotes most what makes their stars seem more impressive… or it should, it doesn’t always and this is one of the few times that it actually has done it right.
That all being said, I’m pretty sure you know and agree with all of this and are just looking to push people’s buttons because your dismissive responses in this thread aren’t attempting to debate or converse on the subject that you started at all.
