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WWE's Roster Opinions
Hello once again I'm Damien but you may call me Omen. Thanks 4 that one, it was a good one haha. Just quickly before I begin, my last blog was an OPINION blog. I appreciate to hear all you avid readers of impactwrestling.com but for the user that said I can't spell and called me a ass clown or something like that. get over it okay no-one is perfect I bet you sit all day bashing people about their mistakes when you yourself make one each day. Thats all I have to say so let me continue.
Professional wrestling is at its weakest point as we know it. All promotions. NOT just WWE. TNA isn't perfect either. There are many factors that have contributed to the state that we are in know. TV deals. PG-13. Ratings. Writers. Wrestlers. Stars it goes on and on. But all hope can't be lost. Did anyone watch Raw this week? Kofi was amazing. Swagger really played his heel role perfectly. That goes for The Miz too. Evan Bourne has really lifted in the past. He was called up to the 'A' show way too quickly. as pocket has pointed out, why not leave him on ECW and attract ratings for the riper show, instead of burying him on Raw. I think this will always apply to Sheamus. He is one big & dominant heel that really could be a part of Raw's midcarders heel category. He has the perfect build and if booked right he really could become a future part in raw's main-eventers list. I just hope that creative don't just burry the lad on Raw. I wonder if it is too early. i hope we don't see an Evan Bourne. Him and Shelton Benjamin had a great little rivalry over in the land of extreme.
The WWE Cruiserweight Championship. Now i mentioned this in another blog but it had zero response. Why not bring back this championship? It really would give some of the younger guys in the locker room T.V. time. Jimmy Wang Yang, Funaki & Curt Hawkins. When was the las time we saw them wrestle. Not job. Wrestle. it would make for some more great rivalries. Who wouldn't;dn't like to re-live the days of guerrero&helms&funaki&Jimmy Wang Yang in matches. It would be an awesome experience. I think put it on the ECW brand. I think ECW is weak from a main-eventer perspective but i do believe that many of their talent could compete for that title. Many of the cruiserweights like noble&guerrero etc. could move to ECW and really build ECW up with alot younger, riper & more vibrant talent.
Really when you think about it. Raw's main event picture is screwed. 3 of the bigger talents (excluding Y2J as he is apart of SmackDown!) are working the tag team picture. JeriShow has given a new meaning to tag team wrestling in recent months. They have changed the landscape of tag team wrestling for years to come. I'm not a real fan of the new DX. It really isn't the older DX we were used to seeing. It just doesn't feel right. SD really are loaded with main-event power but I think Raw has more younger superstars on their roster that are really expanding. But don't get me wrong, SD have great young talents aswell. Morrison, Ziggler and more. I just see more things from Raw in the future. But Morrison will be WWE in next years to come.
Y2J is one of the most no wait is the most reliable & best performers on the roster closely by orton and injury-prone edge. His mic. work is astonishing. And his in-ring ability says it all. CM Punk really should've won. I was looking foward to maybe a casket match between Punk & taker at Survivor series. But with Show double-crossing Raw to help SD is interesting also. I hope CM Punk will still be in that main-even picture for years to come. I think Randy Orton's viper character is the best in the WWE at the moment. Let me explain
I read blogs where orton receives heat, but receives praise. For all the Randy Orton haters, which there is alot of, you are really making a dumbass out of yourself. I mean saying his character is boring or whatever is actually making the character what it is today. it is one of the most popular character in the WWE. It doesn't matter if he gets heat, or they eat him up. Orton is getting a reaction. But it follows onto the net and everywhere. even in conversation with friends. Orton is talked about everywhere and that is making his character stronger. He gets a REACTION. Good, Bad who care. He is playing The Viper perfectly.
Thanks for reading this blog i hope you have enjoyed it. I would like to hear your comments and opinions,
Kind regards, Damien (Omen)
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10/29/2009 1:18:00 AM
Yeah the cruiserweight title has been dead for a while but to be quite honest,resurrecting it would mean that it would be the 10th title in WWE.Honestly there are too many meaningless titles already which are not given much importance ,putting one more would make no difference except to give 5 jobbers a more respectable job.
And wat's with putting fairly new guys on RAW.Why do they keep putting guys from ECW on RAW?To bury them?If u look at RAW's midcard -it's flooded Miz,Kingston,Swagger,Bourne,Carlito(although they r not using him much),Primo,Chavo,Masters,MVP,now add Sheamus to that and I maybe missing a few names here as well.Why have so many mid carders on RAW and then not use them well.MVP is rotting ,so is Henry,Miz is being used well,Bourne is almost a jobber ,ditto for Primo,Kingston's finally getting to wrestle a main-event star on a big ppv,donno wat exactly they want to do with Swagger,heel vs heel for the US title?And he's not supposed to lose this year and Miz just won the title.
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10/29/2009 7:29:00 AM
Well Shamus is Helmsleys training partner and is busting his ass... impressing along the way... so that's one reason why he's been promoted to Raw..
As for the Cruiseweight Title... it is definately needed because people fu##ing love highflyers! There are too many titles on show at present... there should only be one womens belt which would make it more important and would stop models like Fox and Kelly Kelly getting title shots.
Sooner or later the tag belts will be forged into one "undisputed" set of belts, which is also the logical thing to do as what JeriShow have done for the division is incredible... working on all three shows has given the belts more exposure and perpose... great to see!
I would also have to question the nessecity of having all three US, IC and ECW belts on tv? I would drop one of them!
I'd love to see a restructuring of the way the Titles are televised... not over exposed!
Raw:
WWE Title
Smackdown:
Worlds Title
ECW:
ECW Title
Cruiserweight title
and then expose the Womans title, Undisputed tag team titles and the Intercontinental Title on both Raw and Smackdown.
I think that TNA also need to do the same, and the new boys will ring in the changes..... They have TNA, X Div, Legends, Tag team, IWGP Tag, Knockouts and Knockouts Tag belts...... WAY too many belts for a two hour show... either Bischoff and Hogan will rid a few un-needed belts OR split them into two... with rumours of a second show coming to Monday nights... suggests to me of following the trend of brand split of sorts.....
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10/29/2009 10:25:00 AM
If the cruiserweight division is to return and work, it should be on ECW. They have some good wrestlers but not many are appealing or to even be taken seriously. WCW had a fantastic cruiserweight division. There were the fun highflyers and then the serious technicians like Melanko and Guerrero. Who's going to take a Funaki and Jimmy Wang Yang match seriously. There needs to be some variety.
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10/29/2009 10:37:00 AM
ECW doesn't need a cruiserweight division because the ECW belt IS the cruiserweight belt ...just in another form..its closer to the X-division belt being there's no wieght restrictions.
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10/29/2009 2:44:00 PM
If you ask me... and I've been saying it for years already, it's time to end the roster split and join Raw and Smackdown together. ECW can be it's own entity, the minor leagues of the WWE if you will. This way feuds will constantly be fresh and we won't be seeing matches between the same guys PPV after PPV. Also with the roster split, feuding for the main event titles gets very stale, very quickly. Just as an example on Raw it's always John Cenas vs Randy Ortons vs Triple HHHs vs the Shawn Michaels in some form or another. If the WWE is lacking anything right now it's spice and surprises. There can be only so many surprises with a roster split, meaning the same guys face eachother over and over again. Even in the PG era this can be done, but until the roster split ends, I'm not sure that it will happen.
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10/29/2009 2:50:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Niteshadow24
If you ask me... and I've been saying it for years already, it's time to end the roster split and join Raw and Smackdown together. ECW can be it's own entity, the minor leagues of the WWE if you will. This way feuds will constantly be fresh and we won't be seeing matches between the same guys PPV after PPV. Also with the roster split, feuding for the main event titles gets very stale, very quickly. Just as an example on Raw it's always John Cenas vs Randy Ortons vs Triple HHHs vs the Shawn Michaels in some form or another. If the WWE is lacking anything right now it's spice and surprises. There can be only so many surprises with a roster split, meaning the same guys face eachother over and over again. Even in the PG era this can be done, but until the roster split ends, I'm not sure that it will happy
Ending the split won't help it, in that regards. Who says just because the split is over there still won't be Cena vs. Orton vs. HHH. Especially when it's time to build new stars, ending the split is not an option right now. Look at all the guys who got an opportunity because of the split.
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10/29/2009 8:17:00 PM
Rather than ending the roster split ,WWE should rather revert back to the Brand Only PPVs ,because that gives a reasonable time to build up a feud and not serve half baked stuff every 3 weeks.Currently ,the writers are having it easy as far as PPV booking is concerned cause they just have too many easy options ,6-7 matches from 3 brands ,they don't really need to rack their brains ,put the 4-5 big names in some matches and u have a PPV.I don't know how this arrangement can work with ECW present too,but the PPV split does make the top management work to come up with 7 matches ,ofcourse it may not always be attractive cause the other brand's big names won't be there.Again ,this is just my opinion on it.
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10/29/2009 9:38:00 PM
Brand Only PPVs are a horrible idea. The more star power that you have, the more ppvs you will sell. Plus, who wants to pay to see a hornswoggle chavo match on ppv? The brands need to be seperated because if you combine them then no new stars will be created.
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10/30/2009 2:48:00 AM
Guy this is one hell of a debate and if I'm honest I agree with you all!
The brandsplit offers more exposure for new stars to break through.... yet thats not really happening is it? Cena v HHH v HBK
Splitting the brands opens up a whole bunch of feuds that the brandsplit cannot...
Brand only PPV's did indeed allow more time for feuds and match-ups to grow, yet on the other hand a PPV without Cena, Orton or DX just is never gonna draw as much as if they are on the card... which is why they are!
I would love to be rid of the split because its just fu##ing boring seeing the same matches on Raw each week, let alone the PPVs.... BUT the brandsplit was fu##ing awesome when it origanated... Bischoff and Steph were always trying to one-up each other.... trying to compete, signing top free agents and so on..... having two solid GM's competing with each other is a way forward..... and also something I feel is deeply needed is to have a secondary Draft. Once a year we get to see guys drafted to other shows which is always a show to tune into, but from that day you can pretty much predict the entire years feuds.... so there has to be improvement and refreshment... maybe a draft every 8 months?
This years draft sucked major ass... all the big players stayed put... sure Hunter moved back to Raw but he was on Raw from the Rumble through Mania anyways! He should've stayed on Smackdown and Edge drafted to Raw..... It also amazed me that Batista switched to Fridays instead of them booking Cena to Fridays??? Cena's has done everything, yet Batista hasn't really had chance to work his feud in full with Orton, and after Orton busting his arm up there was no comeback revenge angle??? WTF?
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10/30/2009 9:48:00 AM
Raw is what it is. It's the HHH and Friends+Cena show. I don't think that's going to change. Just have to look to Smackdown for different feuds. There's no way that Jeff vs. Punk for the World Title, which was a great feud, happens without a brand split. There's no way Edge dominates without a brand split. Not that he's not capable but it just doesn't happen. How many times have we actually seen HHH not part of DX or feuding for the World Title. It seems like DX is just a prop for him to remain relevant when he's not after the title. DX seems more important than the main feud.
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