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Post by swarm on Sept 6, 2011 0:41:26 GMT -5
I feel like the WWE is moving waaay too fast. HHH JUST became COO and already he is in a match where it's being used as a stip. Kevin Nash just debuted. Hasn't even had a match yet and he's fired? Punk has lost his steam. It's not his fault. The ending was retarded. ADR gets every heel on the roster to jump Cena and it doesn't work. Would be way more interesting if it did. End the show with the whole heel roster destroying Cena and make ADR look like a dangerous and powerful champion. But no. Too paint by numbers for me. I lost interest by the time the main event began. Changed channel and missed the ending. Oh well.
Oh and wtf is up with Teddy Long coming out of left field with "Since I'm the GM on Smackdown, HHH has given me the authority to intervene when necessary on RAW." What?
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Post by Eliath on Sept 6, 2011 4:53:07 GMT -5
Now Nash will interfere in the match at Night of Champions; HHH will lose (naturally) because of said interference. Then we find out that this is a takeover angle by the Executive VP of Talent Relations & he has about half the roster on his "side".
I think they might be trying to revive the Monday Night Wars feel between their own 2 shows to make wrestling "exciting" again.
Of course, I'm probably wrong; but that's what it feels like to me as I watch. They are putting their top talent into positions to either support or oppose one side or the other.
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Post by Shon Maxx on Sept 6, 2011 5:08:10 GMT -5
I'm not buying the firing angle for a second. There's going to be a 'shocking swerve' at NoC as usual.
I hope ADR destroys Cena, but I doubt that'll happen.
Gotta love the status quo.
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Post by Crimson Cross on Sept 6, 2011 6:57:41 GMT -5
I feel like the WWE is moving waaay too fast. HHH JUST became COO and already he is in a match where it's being used as a stip. Kevin Nash just debuted. Hasn't even had a match yet and he's fired? Punk has lost his steam. It's not his fault. The ending was retarded. ADR gets every heel on the roster to jump Cena and it doesn't work. Would be way more interesting if it did. End the show with the whole heel roster destroying Cena and make ADR look like a dangerous and powerful champion. But no. Too paint by numbers for me. I lost interest by the time the main event began. Changed channel and missed the ending. Oh well. Oh and wtf is up with Teddy Long coming out of left field with "Since I'm the GM on Smackdown, HHH has given me the authority to intervene when necessary on RAW." What? I have no doubt that the interest and excitement level will go back up in the WWE, but lastnights Raw was boring and I too changed the channel at different times. I'm a Nash fan but honestly to me he's not delivering in this angle with HHH & CM Punk and that might point to if he is scripted more then Punk is, which hurts Nash in not being free on the microphone. I agree CM Punk has lost some steam, I think he has dropped a notch from being cool to more of a snotty-brat and not in a good and interesting way. I wasn't really in favor of Kofi in the Tag Division, but the crowd were Hot for Air Boom winning and yeah it looks like they'll loose to Miz-Truth but I'm interested once again in tag team wrestling. In the end Raw just didn't deliver this week, but you can't have them all be stellar... |
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Post by marktaggart on Sept 6, 2011 7:31:50 GMT -5
They tease something new or special, and slip back into the formula and familiar. That explanation of Nash texting himself was the most puzzling bad excuse for "we didn't think this through" or "we had second thoughts" I've ever heard. I also didn't make it through the show to the main event, because I knew it was going to end with Cena making everyone else look stupid and mugging it up at the end. Of course, the interesting thing to do would have been to make Del Rio look like a credible scheming conniver who orchestrated a beatdown of the challenger. However, they decided to go with what was so aptly described above as "paint by numbers" where Cena gets his superhero moment to close the show.
This is what happens when McMahon and the WWE have no credible threats to their dominance: they coast and rely on the formula. They seem afraid to take an honest chance at doing something different. What could've been a big, exciting time seems to have become yet another "what could have been".
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Post by swarm on Sept 6, 2011 8:27:01 GMT -5
I'm so let down with the direction they've since gone with CM Punk. The HHH/Punk/Nash stuff has probably been the best thing they have going on the show, but it's annoying how quickly they moved away from Punk vs. Cena. Cena has done exactly what Mark said and slipped right back into his usual role. Punk was on FIRE calling out Cena for becoming a "franchise". That was their money angle right there. John Cena, the money making franchise players being protected by the guys at the top vs. the tattooed punk fighting for the voiceless, tired of having Cena shoved down their throats. All that is totally gone now.
It's killed all that momentum dead. RAW his still fun, something to do for 2 hours on Monday but all that incredible drama they had going on with the whole world waiting to find out what happens next -- dead. Totally gone.
Few weeks ago Punk was THE MAN. Now he's the 3rd string company face and Cena is back to being same old. Sad.
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Post by Phoenix on Sept 6, 2011 9:53:58 GMT -5
Yeah i felt the same way about the new stipulation. Also hard to see what's going on with Nash. I don't feel like Punk has lost steam. The fans are behind him, he gets featured top of the show, wins a match.
The rest of the show was troubled. Why is Orton facing Slater. what purpose does that serve? Is this Superstars of wrestling? jobber match? Teddy Long? when is someone going to tie him up and stick him in the basement as the WWE trucks pull away?
And Cena....after all the hot stuff with Punk, when Cena comes out it it just feels like this prefabricated cooked up storyline with no bite that we've seen over and over again. It's kind of like at the end of the Attitude Era if hogan came back and went back to his Hulkamania era style. oh wait they did that.
yaaaay. 8 man tag. REALLY? oh gee what will happen? you're kidding? SuperCena won just like 1987 hogan? i wouldn'ta guessed.
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Post by Tournament Master on Sept 6, 2011 15:24:11 GMT -5
Amazing how quickly things have gone down hill since Summerslam. The show has gone back to it regular formula. The only bright spot I really liked was the "Awesome Truth" promo.
I'm also surprised that going into the debut of MNF next week they have nothing going on. I guess they are content with going into the fall on a low and coming back strong at the Royal Rumble.
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Post by Justin Case on Sept 6, 2011 16:54:36 GMT -5
I echo TM's comments about "Awesome Truth" Promo, was really the only bright spot of the show. Otherwise, pretty much what everyone has been saying is how I'm feeling as well. RAW pretty much blew for me. Cena winning the Main Event yet again made me just roll my eyes and wonder why do I watch this crap?
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Post by Avarice on Sept 6, 2011 17:54:53 GMT -5
I'm so let down with the direction they've since gone with CM Punk. It's killed all that momentum dead. RAW his still fun, something to do for 2 hours on Monday but all that incredible drama they had going on with the whole world waiting to find out what happens next -- dead. Totally gone. THIS! Bad timing perhaps for WWE to be slowing this down with the start of MNF. If it keeps up, I will definitely be tuning into to more MNF and less WWE. Had they kept it real hot like it was...I'd have been flipping back and forth. Not now. |
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