WWE Thoughts

It feels like I haven’t written about wrestling in forever.  It might just be my imagination.  I have a lot to cover to please bear with me as I sort through all my thoughts.  I’ll try to make them coherent.

First I have to complain – possibly again – about the booking of Randy Orton.  Is it really necessary to make him such a weak champion?  They haven’t done him the favor of having him pin the current champion, center of the ring, without fighting multiple matches that night.  They haven’t let him beat a strong competitor fairly.

Judgment Day was more of the same, apparently.  Randy got himself disqualified after Batista began to mount a bit of offense.  I guess I’m just conflicted by the whole thing.  I do understand booking and how to position these guys.  I remember for years when I was younger hating Triple H.  Now he’s one of my favorites. 

I think we’ve seen all these guys go through their petulant youth.  Then they grow into the face of the company role.  Unless your name is John Cena.  Come to think of it, Hunter and HBK might be the only guys to go through that petulant youth.  Then again, how many guys are tabbed as the future of the business? 

I suppose this just falls into the category of with no competition the WWE doesn’t have to push the envelope.  So they can sit back and plot the same things over and over because they know it works.  It sucks for the smarks but it is what it is, I guess.

I just saw a commercial for the upcoming WrestleMania DVD.  I couldn’t have been more underwhelmed with a 25^th anniversary.  It just didn’t play out well and I think it gets back to what I said in the last paragraph.  Every match seemed to run so slow.  I found myself wondering why everything flowed like a Hulk Hogan match. 

The only match that had a flow to fit its combatants was HBK-Taker.  I totally understood why those two were fighting at that pace.  They’re about 50 years old.  But the MITB has devolved into a spotfest and the flow is very disjointed.  The Hardy Bros match was similar.  I just couldn’t say enough bad things about the entire card. 

Now they want me to drop dough on the dvd.  Which I’d consider if only for the WWE HoF material.  But if I didn’t get last year’s with the Ric Flair stuff, why would I get this year’s?  Because it features The Rock.  You people don’t know me well enough…