Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Pro Wrestling has become GARBAGE!! Part 2: (Can it be saved)


Well boys and girls in my last installment, I was talking about how pro wrestling has become garbage or boring to well guys in my age demographic (18-35 year olds) and how it has become for kids and not have any great storylines or not even good wrestlers. The question is can it be saved?

Before I go into that I watched this past Monday Night Raw which had The Rock confront the Miz and John Cena with the Rock beating up the Miz but getting F-5 by John Cena in the pic above it shows good hype to Miz vs John Cena at Wrestlemania 27. I liked the confrontation with Triple H and The Undertaker for their Wrestlemania match in which The Undertaker's undefeated streak is on the line. The Randy Orton/CM Punk angle was good, so was Jack Swagger vs Jerry Lawler in order to hype up Lawler's match with Michael Cole the annoying bad play by play guy
The only bad thing for that Raw was after the Santino Marella-Justin Gabriel match they made Kane who used to be a monster heel look ridulous celebrating with Santino, Vladmir Kolzov, and the Big Show with that hornet celebration. But I can look past that. I still can't get over the fact that Snooki is wrestling. Here is the footage from Raw with Trish Stratus while they were at the Jersey Shore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsU1cKalcQw
Snooki sounded drunk and it seemed like like a longer pause from the time the question was asked to  when she answered, and they both catfight with Lay-Cool.
This is also footage from the Wrestlemania Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ9eusztZ_c
So watch out for the Brunette Mafia!!!!!!!

I admit that after watching I'll still be a casual follower but not religiously like to the point where I attend the house shows or go to Pay Per Views like I did back in 1996 when SummerSlam was in Cleveland. I remember the Bolier Room Brawl between The Undertaker and Mick Foley at that one.

I think with the times changing and with the Internet, Twitter, Facebook, Wrestling News Sites the business has changed and the wrestlers are pretty normal, well somewhat. Check out the Iron Sheik's twiter page. http://twitter.com/the_ironsheik For even funnier stuff type in Iron Sheik on YouTube and listen to his promos.

 One other big reason is after 9/11 we realize who the real heros and villians are in the world. Also, I bet you all remember the Chris Benoit double murder suicide of his wife and son and how steroids and multiple concussions played a major role in that tragedy.


I know TNA is trying to get the competion but they are seriously lacking behind the WWE. They have great wrestlers such as A.J Styles, Kazarian, Samoa Joe, Abyss, and Jay Lethal and a couple of pretty good wrestlers that worked in the WWE like Kurt Angle, Mr. Anderson, Rob Van Dam, and the Hardy Boyz.  But, so far there owner has Hulk Hogan and Eric Biscoff run the show which is a big mistake because as much as what Hulk Hogan has meant to Pro Wrestling he shouldn't book shows neither should Bischoff. They haven't been pushing the X Division as much which is the one thing that separted them from the WWE since the WWE got rid of their Cruiserweight Division. Their women's division is weaker than the WWE's but the tag team division in TNA is a little stronger. TNA, however just lacks the direction to be competive.

Here are my suggestions for both TNA and WWE.

TNA

1.) Keep pushing the younger and talented guys like Styles, Anderson, Lethal, Samoa Joe, The Pope, and RVD.
2.) Have less of Hogan on my TV. He's just in it for the celebrity now and not the wrestling part. I used to watch his reality show "Hogan Knows Best" but unfortunately he didn't, Brother.
3.) Make the Tag Team and X Divisions stronger. Make the Dudley Boyz reform, have more X Division matches.
4.) Try to make the Television Championship a legitamite secondary title like the WWE does with the Intercontental and United States Titles.
5.) Or if all else falls why don't you and the Wrestling Promotion "Ring of Honor" just form into one big company and take on WWE. From what I hear ROH has some good wrestling.

WWE

1.) Use Stone Colds appearances on "Tough Enough great. By the way Stone Cold was on 97.1 The Fan on Tuesday while I was driving home and it was fun listening to him.
2.) Since The Rock is making certain appearances now and then just have him be the RAW General Manager instead of that annoymous GM in which gives instructions to Michael Cole. Speaking of that.
3.) Fire Michael Cole!!! He sucks as a play by play guy and he is favoring the Heels, especially The Miz, Play by Play guys don't favor the bad guys they just call the action and try to be fair when the bad guys attack the fan favorites. You could have other guys that can do decent play by play. Or if you want to keep him just make him the Evil General Manager if the Rock is just going to make part time appearances.
4.) Try to look at other guys getting runs as World Champion. I know a few that would make great World Champions like John Morrision, Christian, and especially Daniel Bryan. They are very talented guys that can be rewarded. I mean John Cena wasn't terrible as champion. He's your big cash cow but try to reward those talented guys.
5.) Keep The Miz as a heel. I don't mind him as WWE Champion once in a while but he's annoying in real life. How he ever got together with Trishelle Cannatella on The Real World is a mystery but Trishelle has been known to be loose.

6.) Make the tag team division strong again. Have tag team go from Raw to Smackdown competing with each other.
7.) Do something interesting like bring back the Cruiserweight Division. There are some lightweight guys that can have the cruiserweight to fight for.

I mean you can't bring back many casual fans but the product could be better. I think wrestling can still be watchable in TV-PG if you have something to offer the younger kids, teenagers and 20 something males.

I hate to admit it but we are a blood thirsty society and we might as well watch UFC more or wait for another Stone Cold or Rock to come into pro wrestling. I'm D-Money and that's my two cents!!!

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