I know it has been a long time since my last post, I've been wanting to update but I had nothing to say. I've wanted to comment on the WWE scene and how they've messed up. Or sports like the Red Sox winning the World Series so we can finally stop hearing FOX Sports yap about 'the curse' and shoving the Yankees-Red Sox down our throats. This is going to be a rambling post, so please bear with me.
The first thing is Super Bowl XXXIX on Sunday. Personally I think the Patroits will win the game, but I wouldn't care if the Eagles won. I just hope for a close game like XXXII, XXXIV, XXXVI, and last year not a blow out like XXXIII, XXXV, and XXXVII. Well that covers the Super Bowl.
Next on tap is wrestling. Since my last post a lot of things of happened in the WWE, a lot bad and only some good. What has to be the worst thing the WWE did all of last year (the Diva Search will not be mentioned, I don't recognize it happening in my universe) was turning Randy Orton face after winning the World Heavyweight Title from Chris Benoit at SummerSlam and having Evolution turn on him. This occurred because of fans booing Edge and cheering, slightly, Orton when the two feuded over the Intercontinental Title. The WWE creative team thought it meant that Orton was ready for a face turn, but what they realized too late was a signal for Edge to turn heel. Because they didn't realize this the WWE made a grave error that forced them to destroy their plans for WrestleMania XXI (no numbers in my blog, anymore) for a Triple-H vs. Orton Main Event. After looking back on it, I would have done the following...
1) I would have kept Orton in Evolution to show off his World Heavyweight Title in front of Triple-H and playing up that maybe the future was now. Then at Unforgiven have Evolution involved in a number of match-ups like Orton vs. Benoit for the Title, Flair/Batista vs. Regal/Eugene, and Triple-H vs. Chris Jericho. Have every Evolution member win but Triple-H. This would lead up to Triple-H being tossed out of Evolution by Orton who says, "Ric Flair is the past of this business, Batista is its future, I am the present, but Triple-H evolution has past you by and that makes you extinct." This would keep Orton as a heel, which people excepted him as, and make Triple-H a tweener, not to be cheered against Benoit or Jericho not to be booed against Evolution or Kane.
2) Have Orton-led Evolution attack people back stage at random making them more evil while Triple-H starts feuding with a heel Edge who is picked to join Evolution to become more of a face. That leads to either Triple-H winning the Royal Rumble or winning a tournament to face Orton at WrestleMania.
Another thing the WWE did was blow the momentum the John Cena was garnering earlier in the year and blow it in the fall with him having to do "The Marine." Instead of creating a contender for the WWE Championship, they made a United States champion that fans are starting to get tired of. They tried to repair it a little at the Royal Rumble and afterwards, but the damage might be done.
Bradshaw as the WWE Champion has been a good and bad thing for the WWE. His championship reign has been positive in that people want him to lose the title and will pay to see it on PPV. But his rise to this point has destroyed the pushes of Eddie Guerrero and Booker T, and now possibly Big Show if they mess up No Way Out. Personally I think that Big Show vs. Kurt Angle might be the way to go for SmackDown!'s Main Event at WrestleMania XXI.
There are only two things that WWE did right since my last post. The first was Eugene, Eric Bischoff's "special" nephew, was a character that could have destroyed Eric Dinsmore's career and pissed off a lot of fans who won't like to see a mentally challenged (or any other disabled) person as a walking laugh line. Having a family member who is disabled I was watching Eugene closely and the WWE realized they couldn't have him a walking laugh line so constructed a good storyline around him and probably planned to build the tag team division on RAW until his knee injury at New Year's Revolution.
The only other thing that the WWE has done has been their slow turning of Batista. If one had watched the Royal Rumble, he was getting great pops from the crowd. The WWE realized from the Orton Debacle that the fans don't want to be told to cheer someone, they'll cheer someone if they like what they see and if the turn is slow or has a build up to it. The WWE has done this to great effect with Batista making him a logical monster, he can beat the hell out you in the ring and out of it out think his opponents. Batista is obviously heading to a break with Evolution, everyone knows it who's watching but how he does it to piss off Triple-H no body knows.
Well that's all for this ramble. I hope to have another post up in less than 10 months.
The first thing is Super Bowl XXXIX on Sunday. Personally I think the Patroits will win the game, but I wouldn't care if the Eagles won. I just hope for a close game like XXXII, XXXIV, XXXVI, and last year not a blow out like XXXIII, XXXV, and XXXVII. Well that covers the Super Bowl.
Next on tap is wrestling. Since my last post a lot of things of happened in the WWE, a lot bad and only some good. What has to be the worst thing the WWE did all of last year (the Diva Search will not be mentioned, I don't recognize it happening in my universe) was turning Randy Orton face after winning the World Heavyweight Title from Chris Benoit at SummerSlam and having Evolution turn on him. This occurred because of fans booing Edge and cheering, slightly, Orton when the two feuded over the Intercontinental Title. The WWE creative team thought it meant that Orton was ready for a face turn, but what they realized too late was a signal for Edge to turn heel. Because they didn't realize this the WWE made a grave error that forced them to destroy their plans for WrestleMania XXI (no numbers in my blog, anymore) for a Triple-H vs. Orton Main Event. After looking back on it, I would have done the following...
1) I would have kept Orton in Evolution to show off his World Heavyweight Title in front of Triple-H and playing up that maybe the future was now. Then at Unforgiven have Evolution involved in a number of match-ups like Orton vs. Benoit for the Title, Flair/Batista vs. Regal/Eugene, and Triple-H vs. Chris Jericho. Have every Evolution member win but Triple-H. This would lead up to Triple-H being tossed out of Evolution by Orton who says, "Ric Flair is the past of this business, Batista is its future, I am the present, but Triple-H evolution has past you by and that makes you extinct." This would keep Orton as a heel, which people excepted him as, and make Triple-H a tweener, not to be cheered against Benoit or Jericho not to be booed against Evolution or Kane.
2) Have Orton-led Evolution attack people back stage at random making them more evil while Triple-H starts feuding with a heel Edge who is picked to join Evolution to become more of a face. That leads to either Triple-H winning the Royal Rumble or winning a tournament to face Orton at WrestleMania.
Another thing the WWE did was blow the momentum the John Cena was garnering earlier in the year and blow it in the fall with him having to do "The Marine." Instead of creating a contender for the WWE Championship, they made a United States champion that fans are starting to get tired of. They tried to repair it a little at the Royal Rumble and afterwards, but the damage might be done.
Bradshaw as the WWE Champion has been a good and bad thing for the WWE. His championship reign has been positive in that people want him to lose the title and will pay to see it on PPV. But his rise to this point has destroyed the pushes of Eddie Guerrero and Booker T, and now possibly Big Show if they mess up No Way Out. Personally I think that Big Show vs. Kurt Angle might be the way to go for SmackDown!'s Main Event at WrestleMania XXI.
There are only two things that WWE did right since my last post. The first was Eugene, Eric Bischoff's "special" nephew, was a character that could have destroyed Eric Dinsmore's career and pissed off a lot of fans who won't like to see a mentally challenged (or any other disabled) person as a walking laugh line. Having a family member who is disabled I was watching Eugene closely and the WWE realized they couldn't have him a walking laugh line so constructed a good storyline around him and probably planned to build the tag team division on RAW until his knee injury at New Year's Revolution.
The only other thing that the WWE has done has been their slow turning of Batista. If one had watched the Royal Rumble, he was getting great pops from the crowd. The WWE realized from the Orton Debacle that the fans don't want to be told to cheer someone, they'll cheer someone if they like what they see and if the turn is slow or has a build up to it. The WWE has done this to great effect with Batista making him a logical monster, he can beat the hell out you in the ring and out of it out think his opponents. Batista is obviously heading to a break with Evolution, everyone knows it who's watching but how he does it to piss off Triple-H no body knows.
Well that's all for this ramble. I hope to have another post up in less than 10 months.
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