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Christian has turned into a crazed heel with anger-management problems in pursuit of the World Heavyweight Championship. Maybe he'll replace Edge as the monster heel on Smackdown...MAYBE.



 

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Runa216 said:
My story with the WWE was interesting. I was HUGE into it in the late 90's and up to I think 2004 or 2005 (I gave up around wrestlemania 20 or soon thereafter). I loved pretty much everything about it, and I never got bored of it. I went to house shows, Raw and Smackdown, and even Wrestlemania 18 in Toronto (if you look closely, you can see me and my friend on the DVD).

But it's really gone downhill since then. like I said, I stopped watching soon after Wrestlemania 20 (Summer 2004 I think it was), and on a whim decided to check out Wrestlemania 27. I downloaded it, and WOW...I was entranced with how absolutely BAD it was. Like, not so bad it's good, but so bad it's bad again bad. seriously, Michael Cole and JR should not be a friggin wrestlemania event.

But for the hell of it, I decided to continue watching (and have since then, I'm currently up to date), but I honestly cannot figure out why. Nobody has a fraction of the charisma the superstars had back when I watched it. The storylines aren't funny or epic or dramatic, there are almost no high flyers or stuntmen anymore. I remember watchning the Hardy Boyz, Dudley Boyz, Edge and Christian, Jericho, and dozens of my other favorites having a LOT of fun in the ring, now it all seems so standard. so commonplace.

And where the eff are the gimmicks?! remember when Crash Hardy put his championship on the line 24/7? That was SO fun to watch every commercial break. Now everyone looks and acts pretty much the same, or has some boring-assed gimmick. Cody Rhodes with that face mask? seriously? At least Orton vs The New Nexus was interesting,b ut that ended as quickly as it began, in my eyes (I just came back, remember.)

And to top it all off, ALL my favorite wrestlers are either gone, retired, on hiatus, or dead! (well maybe not dead, but still.) Mick Foley has retired, The Rock appears 95% retired save the occasional appearance, Stone Cold is long since gone, The Undertaker appears to be gone, Edge just retired, Jericho is off doing other things, the Hardy Boyz are in TNA, I have no idea where t he Dudleyz are, Crash Hardy is dead (right, I knew there would be one!) Triple H is...I have absolutely no idea. he disappeared after wrestlemania. Benoit is dead, Angle is gone, everyone is gone! Sure, I know that's jsut how it goes, wrestlers get old, they have lives to attend to, but their replacements are BORING. the only major star to come out that I've even remotely liked has been Cena and Orton....and I remember HATING Cena before I left.

Whatever happened to good teams? where's the Tag Team Division? where's the hardcore division? it's just....so much potential.

I admit, this is the one thing in the world I pirate...I don't actually have Television (I usually just buy DVD's), so I download every raw and smackdown, but seriously people, this is sad. I could (and do) write better than this.




Runa, I do agree with some of your points but I don't understand the logic behind some of the others. Yes WWE/WWF has gone down hill. You insult the gimmicks of the wrestlers which is rightfully so, but how can you say that Cody Rhodes' gimmich is bad? His gimmick with the mask and putting the paper bags on fans is the best gimmick right now. It reminds me of the Attitude Era. Seriously WTF? Mick Foley is in TNA, The Rock will wrestle Cena at Wrestlemania, Stone Cold has been doing Tough Enough and has been making special appearances. Edge will have a future role in the WWF, and Angle is in TNA. After your ranting I don't understand how you enjoy Cena and Orton. There is no logic in liking Cena after your rant because his character is the stalest in WWF history. Orton is a great wrestler and good on the mic but he always gets pushed.



Intendo21 said:
Runa, I do agree with some of your points but I don't understand the logic behind some of the others. Yes WWE/WWF has gone down hill. You insult the gimmicks of the wrestlers which is rightfully so, but how can you say that Cody Rhodes' gimmich is bad? His gimmick with the mask and putting the paper bags on fans is the best gimmick right now. It reminds me of the Attitude Era. Seriously WTF? Mick Foley is in TNA, The Rock will wrestle Cena at Wrestlemania, Stone Cold has been doing Tough Enough and has been making special appearances. Edge will have a future role in the WWF, and Angle is in TNA. After your ranting I don't understand how you enjoy Cena and Orton. There is no logic in liking Cena after your rant because his character is the stalest in WWF history. Orton is a great wrestler and good on the mic but he always gets pushed.


 Foley has left TNA. Codey is pretty good with the bags but it reminds me alittle too much of the beautiful people. Angle is still putting on good matches. Orton is a good wrestler but is very stale on the mic. In three years the WWE has had 3 people use the say your own name gimmick, Dolph, Alberto, and now Randy. 



 Go Team Venture! I still don't get the Wii, PS Move,  and Kinect.

Heavenly Sigma said:
 


 Foley has left TNA. Codey is pretty good with the bags but it reminds me alittle too much of the beautiful people. Angle is still putting on good matches. Orton is a good wrestler but is very stale on the mic. In three years the WWE has had 3 people use the say your own name gimmick, Dolph, Alberto, and now Randy. 

And Snoop Dogg.



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Speaking of Snoop Dogg, did you guys know that they started that "You can't see me' saying back in 1993 (It's a Doggydogg world) and everybody was saying it in 1995? John Cena is trying to be cool by using a saying that's almost 20 years old!!



The Ultimate Warrior has something to say......



what a horrible PPV. can't believe I stayed up to watch that.



That was the worst PPV I have ever seen, I feel bad for the people who paid fifty bucks to watch that. Not even one heel could win. Crowd was dead. Matches were boring, except for CM Punk's match. Booker T sucks at announcing. Fake Obama sucked.



Is this the first viewers choice that hasn't sucked?



 Go Team Venture! I still don't get the Wii, PS Move,  and Kinect.