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One Night Stand was soooo good
Jun. 13th, 2005 08:24 pmBefore I start on that, just 1 question to those of you who know about ECW - is there more hatred towards WCW, or was it just not politic to complain about WWE on a show WWE were paying for?
( Anyway )
The only problem with the fun-ness of this PPV was that it kind of showed up the lack of fun-ness of other recent WWE PPVs. Now I promised after last year's WM that I would be nice about WWE so this isn't me bashing them, this is con-crit that they aren't going see ;)
Problem 1 - people cared about these matches, okay for special reasons, but they cared about matches where there wasn't a belt involved. What was the last RAW feud that people cared about where there were no belts involved? (Not rhetorical, feel free to answer) The last SD one I can think of is Eddie v Rey Rey and that's because instead of it all being posturing and grrr, there's emotion attached as well.
Problem 2 - let's look at the Crusaders for a minute. Who did RAW have? Bischoff who's not a wrestler, Coach who is not a wrestler, Edge who no one gives a damn about (sorry Edge), Maven, Snitsky who, well, what is the purpose of Snitsky, Tomko ditto, Christian who is at least entertaining, Regal who rocks (but isn't totally WWE), the French Fries and I think that's it.
SD had Angle (who is good), JBL (who I am fond of), Carlito (who I am fond of), Orlando Jones (who occasionally show signs of being interesting), Matt Morgan and the Bashams. Have I forgotten someone?
If we ignore the ones that have been imbeded for quite some time, the new guys don't seem to have much purpose. Sure you've got Carlito and Piper's Pit redux, which is fun, and La Res who have functional characters going (though who knows what they're going to do with them when there's finally a split) but the others haven't got characters (stuttering is not a character, it's a gimmick that was stale and old before Bubba Ray stopped using it) and it's not like ROH where you can get by on being a great wrestler alone, this is sports entertainment and these guys are being seriously let down by the writing.
So basically, IMO, WWE would be a lot better if the writers got their fingers out and started to write decent plots and characters and basically did their job to a reasonable standard.
( Anyway )
The only problem with the fun-ness of this PPV was that it kind of showed up the lack of fun-ness of other recent WWE PPVs. Now I promised after last year's WM that I would be nice about WWE so this isn't me bashing them, this is con-crit that they aren't going see ;)
Problem 1 - people cared about these matches, okay for special reasons, but they cared about matches where there wasn't a belt involved. What was the last RAW feud that people cared about where there were no belts involved? (Not rhetorical, feel free to answer) The last SD one I can think of is Eddie v Rey Rey and that's because instead of it all being posturing and grrr, there's emotion attached as well.
Problem 2 - let's look at the Crusaders for a minute. Who did RAW have? Bischoff who's not a wrestler, Coach who is not a wrestler, Edge who no one gives a damn about (sorry Edge), Maven, Snitsky who, well, what is the purpose of Snitsky, Tomko ditto, Christian who is at least entertaining, Regal who rocks (but isn't totally WWE), the French Fries and I think that's it.
SD had Angle (who is good), JBL (who I am fond of), Carlito (who I am fond of), Orlando Jones (who occasionally show signs of being interesting), Matt Morgan and the Bashams. Have I forgotten someone?
If we ignore the ones that have been imbeded for quite some time, the new guys don't seem to have much purpose. Sure you've got Carlito and Piper's Pit redux, which is fun, and La Res who have functional characters going (though who knows what they're going to do with them when there's finally a split) but the others haven't got characters (stuttering is not a character, it's a gimmick that was stale and old before Bubba Ray stopped using it) and it's not like ROH where you can get by on being a great wrestler alone, this is sports entertainment and these guys are being seriously let down by the writing.
So basically, IMO, WWE would be a lot better if the writers got their fingers out and started to write decent plots and characters and basically did their job to a reasonable standard.
