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Dave from Parma, Ohio, joined wrestlingmarks.com on 11/10/07
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
by Impact on 11/12/07 7:27 PM
The WWE believes that they can raise their ratings by constantly throwing in ridiculous gimmick matches of some sort. Yes, it is good to see a Hell in a Cell match once in awhile, but at the same time, overkill kills it. Also, they push far too many stars that have limited wrestling talent, while the most talented people I've seen in a wrestling ring in years are held back. John Cena is over with the women and the kids, not because of his wrestling ability, but simply because they think he's "awesome" or "hot" and he has some silly "can't see me" taunts. Bobby Lashley has no real tangible gimmick period, and is basicaly just a black Brock Lesnar (doesn't his entrance look a wee bit familiar?). On top of that, you have people like Shawn Michaels, an outdated performer, taking up all the main event time that younger guys could be using. Or someone like Stone Cold Steve Austin running up twenty minutes of time on one episode of RAW just to disappear again. You know, I loved Austin back in the day too, but that doesn't mean he should make a random appearance and take away tv time from the building of tomorrow's stars. See, tomorrow's stars aren't getting their shots today because today they're still focusing on yesterday's stars. That can't happen. You can't make forward progress by going backwards. Yes, I loved D-Generation X and the Rock and Austin as much as the next guy... but those days are over. Give the spotlight to people like Orton, and Edge, and Jeff Hardy and MVP. They deserve it and they're the ones that the company will be carried by once Austin and Michaels and Undertaker are so bashed up they can't get out of bed in the morning. Build them now, while they can still be built. Sooner or later, all this focus on yesterday will hinder today and tomorrow will have absolutely nobody.
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From bpapa on 11/13/07 12:01 AM
At the end of the day it's who makes money, and guys like John Cena and DX make money. Personally, I think they have great matches too, but that comes down to personal taste.
As for gimmicks, yes, WWE does overuse them a bit. It's not as bad as TNA, as we only see stuff like Hell in a Cell now on a semi-annual basis, but it still could be better. It seems they did a good thing in 2007 and have slowed down with the ladder matches.
From Punkfan101 on 11/13/07 2:29 AM
People serve a lot of masters in this businsess man... And unfortunately for us, USA network is one of those masters. They made a lot of suggestions to the WWE and the only one that was accepted was to bring back the Attitude era guys to build off of.
I agree with you in full, but I don't know if we'll see a change anytime soon.
From theone86 on 11/13/07 4:25 AM
I agree. I am so sick of D-X reunions. It would be fine if they actually promoted it as a real fued instead of this, "OMG, D-X is reuniting for one night only, watch our show," crap. It's like they've completely lost the desire to have any kayfabe at all and are basically saying, "Yeah, it's fake, we're not going to try and hide it AT ALL, and your only reason for tuning in is to see some wrestlers you used to like back in the day do some crotch chops." And it's not just D-X. They bring back ECW, yet make no attempt to appease longtime fans; They try and build Cena into some hybrid Rock/Austin/Hogan yet make no attempt to involve him in even a semi-decent fued (Not that he can sell a decent fued anyways). Everything they're doing is retro, in a bad way. When you do retro you want to have a product that keeps up with the times while having small bits of retro, not have a product that is almost identical to your old product with a few select new things thrown in.
As for Cena and D-X making money, less than you'd think. Where do they flourish the most? Merchandise. As far as ticket sales, most people who buy tickets to see Cena and D-X don't care where on the card they wrestle, as long as they wrestle. WWE could probably move them down to the mid-card permanently and not see a big change in profit. I wish they would at least make some sort of effort to appeal to hardcore wrestling fans, but it seems that they're just interested in making their product seem as uniform as possible.
As for USA, that may be true, but WWE writing has been bad recently. The reason USA has to say anything at all is that Raw's ratings are dropping fast.
From Impact on 11/13/07 1:17 PM
All good points, and someone mentioned ECW that made me think of something also -- What happened to the extreme rules matches? If I'm not mistaking, it was the hardcore matches that made ECW Extreme Championship Wrestling. Right now, everything I've seen on there is generic regular matches involving the same six people every night.
I can see why WWE would want to tone down the hardcore matches for the sake of injuries (as there have been so many anyways)... but at the very LEAST, the ECW Championship matches should ALL be extreme rules.