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I've got the crazy question of the moment, with everything pointing that WWE thinking of bring back the nWo. What if they swerve us and bring The Kliq back as a actual stable? I mean with Scott Hall health issue and Shawn retired it be like corporation then nWo but wouldn't that be cool?
Shawn Michaels is retired and plans on staying that way. Kevin Nash is barely mobile. Scott Hall just can't be around the business. Even if none of that was true, if I wanted to watch 50 year old guys at the top of the card, I would tune in TNA. No, I have zero desire to ever see that.
Why is WWE making out that having wrestlers (yes I said it, wrestlers!) from both Raw and Smackdown appearing on both TV shows from now on is a brand new concept? The shows may have different names but all it basically is is a pretty weak end to the brand split. Have they lost so much of their fan base from pre brand split days that they think most fans won't know the difference and view it as "new and exciting". Is it also a way for WWE to make cut backs by reducing their roster? With their top level talent appearing on both shows, I fear we will get overdosed on them and not get to see any new talent or anything different. It will be the same guys wrestling one another on both Raw and Smackdown.
WWE realizes that ratings are down and that they have not created new stars over the past few years (though they don't seem to understand the reason for it). So, they are combining the rosters for TV purposes to try and make the shows more exciting and draw more fans. Sadly, what they don't realize is that their own creative process is the main reason that they haven't gotten young talents over. Like you, I worry that it will turn into a situation where the guys that are over will get overexposed while no new talents will get a chance to break through.
Why does WWE keep saying how every MITB winner won the championship by surprise and that Daniel Bryan is the only one to say when he will cash in? RVD said he was going to cash in his MITB at the second One Night Stand PPV in 2006. Are they just ignoring history again, as usual?
Yes, they sure are. In wrestling, the truth is whatever they tell you it is, facts be damned!
Richard Trionfo said in his most recent (8/29/11) RAW Thoughts that, "it could only hurt Punk’s standing because what would happen if Nash tried to sandbag him during the match?". Would Nash actually do this? I mean, I know he's always had a bit of an ego (who wouldn't if you're going out in spandex every night), but would he actually sandbag anyone, let alone a guy who's meant to help carry the company for the foreseeable future?
I would hope he wouldn't do that but even if Nash gave everything he had, he's not exactly Davey Richards in the ring. Sometimes a guy can look worse winning a bad match than losing a good one.
First off, I'm a big CM Punk fan, and that frames this question: maybe it's just me, maybe it's just my TV or The Score (Canada's WWE home), and maybe it's cause I didn't order SummerSlam, but does the crowd reaction to Punk come off subdued to you guys, too? I mean, sure, we get the 'CM PUNK!' chants, and chants for GTS, but compared to guys like Cena, like Orton, like Hunter, even to Sheamus nowadays...if it isn't just me, then is this indicative of how the WWE has presented Punk? Is it the fact that they prop him up more as a talker (which he's good at) and not as an 'ass-kicking' machine, ala Austin, or Orton, or Hunter, or Sheamus?
There are fans still behind Punk, for sure. I think the fact that some aren't as vocal as they were was because WWE has burned them. After booking Punk as a special character for a few months, they eased off and changed his character for his feud with HHH. If WWE kept pushing Punk the way that they did before the end of SummerSlam, I am sure his character would have kept growing. Once again, WWE dropped the ball.
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