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Aug 20, 2004 Last night I was watching Vince McMahon’s WWE Smackdown! and I have to admit, wrestling today is not what it used to be. I have been watching pro-wrestling since the summer of 1988, and the other night was my sixteenth anniversary of my love for professional wrestling. Sadly though, I’m getting bored with The WWE, it seems that nothing shocks or interests me in wrestling. Rob Van Dam still has the same moves and still has no microphone skills (in other words, he can’t give a good interview if his life depended on it). Kane is still some big bald “monster” that is now going to be a daddy. Vince, how many times has the pregnant storyline been recycled? There was the one with Terri Runnels, a wife to a bisexual freak named Goldust, and of course the very disgusting storyline with an elderly woman and a fat black man. However, the old woman did pop out something, a hand. A hand? Vince, what were you thinking? To my surprise I saw a legend, not Hulk Hogan, but the Undertaker. He’s still fighting? Worse yet, he is supposed to be “The Deadman” again. If you’re not familiar with wrestling or it’s history, The Undertaker’s gimmick was to be a living deadman and it was one of the greatest gimmick’s of all time; however, Mark Calloway aka The Undertaker, decided to have a more “real” gimmick; therefore, he was known as Undertaker: The American Badass, but from what I saw he should have been known as The American Fatass. Undertaker was out of shape, his gimmick was supposed to be a mixture of two recent gimmicks; big guy on a motorcycle, and a badass who just beats people up. Sounds like a mixture of The Disciples of Apocalypse and Stone Cold Steve Austin. The wrestlers in WWE has become a joke; if you have been watching WWE wrestling, you know this to be true. Eugene is a prime example. A retard who knows how to wrestle? In case you’re not familiar with Eugene, I will enlighten you. Eugene is a grown man who is supposed to be mentally challenged, yet for some odd reason he can wrestle. The fans love him for some odd reason, maybe it has something to do with the more popular wrestler, The Rock’s approval of Eugene. The fans of wrestling are very susceptible to what they decide on who they like, where before it was the fans decision to cheer or boo any wrestler. I remember Hollywood Hulk Hogan was a badguy, and people were cheering for him. I remember The Rock was a goodguy and people were booing him. Now, it’s back to the way it used to be. Badguy’s are badguys, and goodguys are goodguys. The Rock is probably the most known wrestler in the world; however, it’s not his wrestling career that people know him for, it’s his movie career. Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock, was an electrifying wrestler in the ring and on the microphone. However, The Rock’s abilities in the ring and even on the microphone have been the worst I have ever seen him do. For some odd reason The Rock is all the time talking about the hometown of wherever Vince’s WWE decided to go. Of course talking about the hometown is an act of desperation for a cheap pop, cheap pop is a term in wrestling to get the crowd cheering. What really irritates me is The Rock only comes back to wrestling when he’s either bored, if he’s plugging a new movie, or if Vince is desperate for ratings. The Rock should stay in Hollywood and make more movies and leave the wrestling to the so-called wrestlers. John Cena is another wrestler that has one of the worst gimmick’s in WWE history; a white rapper. Gee, a white rapper, never seen that before; maybe I should go to the store and see if they have some Vanilla Ice cream with M&M’s on top. The storylines in WWE wrestling are so predictable anymore. I remember watching Smackdown and General Manager, Theodore Long, had some BIG news and he was going to bring a wrestler back to Smackdown. Well Duh! It’s The Big Show. Jesus, Vince, how predictable can you be? Then on RAW, another of Vince’s WWE wrestling shows, Randy Orton is now the youngest world champion in WWE history. Another predictable outcome come true, why? Let me give you a little history of why Randy Orton is world champion. Years ago a young and upcoming wrestler named Brock Lesner came to the world of WWE wrestling. He was bigger than Hulk Hogan, stronger than Bill Goldberg, and was sloppier than Bob Holly. But Brock was awarded the world champion two years ago, he was 25 years old, and he beat the all time fan favorite, The Rock. Ironically, it was done at SummerSlam, a wrestling pay-per-view set around August. Then, Brock made a decision in March of 2004 that he was going to leave professional wrestling for football, which he now succeeded in signing up for The Minnesota Vikings. Naturally, this angered Vince McMahon and The WWE; therefore, Vince couldn’t have Brock Lesner, a Minnesota Viking, be the youngest world champion in WWE history. So, Randy Orton became the world champion. Randy didn’t win the title because he was talented or because he was better, he won the title because of personal issues with Vince McMahon and Brock Lesner. Afterall, Brock pretty much told Vince McMahon that The NFL is a much better career choice than The WWE, especially now that The XFL, Vince McMahon’s version of football, was simply destroyed by The NFL. What was worse is that Randy Orton was now turned into a goodguy, which is smart because now the fans can’t question his achievement in being champion; however, I am not stupid. He was turned into a goodguy so fans will forget about how he REALLY won the title and instead cheer him on for the “screw job” he received from his so called friends, HHH, Ric Flair, and Batista. Watch Randy Orton be cheered by fans now, where before the fans would boo him tremendously. If the fans were smart, they would boo Randy Orton because that is their god giving right; however, Vince would call up The Rock and have him come to tell the fans what to think of Randy Orton, just like he did with Eugene. To this day, I still can’t believe that the fans of WWE wrestling are susceptible enough to listen to a guy’s opinion on who is cool in wrestling and who is not. If The Rock was to tell the fans of wrestling to smoke cigarettes, you’ll see all the fans no matter what age and what logic they may possess start smoking just because a guy in tights tells you to. I really wish the fans of WWE wrestling would go back to the days where their opinion mattered and The Rock or any other wrestler didn’t have a say-so in it. WWE wrestling is at it’s worst, and I for one am tired of wasting my time watching it; I guess I will follow in Brock’s footsteps and vanish from wrestling without any good reason except to get out. Brock wasn’t happy with The WWE, I’m not happy with The WWE, and I believe most of the fans are not happy with The WWE. Maybe Vince should bring some actual talent in The WWE, and no I’m not meaning The Crock, err, The Rock. ------------ About the author Eric Schomburg: Visit http://www.geocities.com/schomburg2002. The website is about my novel, One of a Kind, a story about a young boy who possess the powers of the natural elements. Email: schomburg2002@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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