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In a recent Q+A, Someone asked you why Vince McMahon didn't like Christian. You answered that until recently, McMahon didn't see Christian as a main event wrestler (Yes..I said wrestler Vince!). Christian has been World Tag Team Champion and Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion several times!! The fans love him. Yet, McMahon pulls the WWF/E World Championship off of Christian after only one week as Champion. This sure seems like McMahon doesn't like Christian. With what has happened lately, do you think it was fair to have Christian as a one week Champion? How much has this move hurt Christian and does he really have a future in the WWF/E as a world champion or has he gone as far as he can go with Vince in charge?
There is a difference between liking someone and thinking that a guy is a main event, top drawer wrestler. Vince doesn't hate Christian personally, but never saw him as a guy that was a championship contender until recently (and that is really only due to the fact that Edge needed to retire). I don't think that it helped Christian to have a less than a week reign one bit. It made it look like his win was a fluke. It would have made more sense to let him carry the belt for a while and see how things progressed. Randy Orton certainly did not need the title and could have waited a while to get it. I think that Vince blew a chance to see what he had in Christian. Maybe he was afraid of being proven wrong about Christian's ability to draw on top so he killed his reign early. Only he knows for sure.
When will Vince McMahon realize that the reason that PPV buyrates are down is because he only pushes a couple of people at the top of the card? Who wants to buy a show when you know Randy Orton and John Cena will win and no one else is to be taken seriously?
I couldn't agree more. Christian is a perfect example. The circumstances around Edge's retirement put the company in a position to push Christian and see what they had. Instead, he jobbed right away to Orton. Even if he wins the belt down the road, there was no point in pulling the title off of him so quickly. As someone who bought the PPV, I felt ripped off. It would make me reconsidering buying shows in the future if I were an average fan. When the same two guys always win it takes the drama out of the product.
To follow up on a recent question about Taker's future, what is the deal with Triple H? It seems like WWE just forced the "Legend vs. Legend" feeling that HBK-Taker had, but part of the reason I didn't buy into it was that HHH had not wrestled in sooooo long before WM that there was no storyline and I felt no emotional connection. If it is indeed Taker-HHH 2 next year then what will HHH do until then and what will be the point of putting his career on the line if he is only wrestling a few times a year anyway?
HHH is transitioning from an active wrestler to part of WWE management. His wrestling career is winding down and his next career is starting. At this point, he will be more special attraction than full time wrestler. I disagree with you on his program with Taker though. Both men are established and the only real build I needed for their bout was that two legends were squaring off. It wasn't as emotional as Michaels-Taker, but that doesn't mean it was bad either.
I was surfing the web and I found a large wrestling website that seems to use the word "Revealed" in every other headline. They never really "reveal" anything, they are just reporting news. It comes across as really pathetic and amateur to me, like they don't know what they are doing. How do you feel about the use of that word in headlines?
I think it's very National Enquirer-ish. To me, it's the kind of headline that gets dopes to click. If they have morons reading their site, then they are using the right headlines. We don't have morons reading this site so we don't use them, except for today that is!
Why do wrestling websites cover MMA? It is not pro wrestling.
Years ago, when there was some crossover between pro wrestling and MMA, some writers started covering the new sport because they personally liked it. Some sites that copy the work of the industry leaders began doing the same thing and also began doing coverage even though today's MMA has no real crossover. In essence, it started because a few wrestling writers liked it and started covering it and basically told their readers that was the way it is. My feeling is that a site that is supposed to be dedicated to pro wrestling should only cover MMA when it involves someone like Brock Lesnar, who has a legitimate background in the pro wrestling business.
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