Various comments and questions

[Guest Whatmaniac]

1.What exactly makes Bill DeMont qualified to teach the Tough Enough contestants? Shouldn't the show be taught by talented/successful wrestlers in order to give it some credibility?

 

2.For that matter, why are they pushing him? The guy is way past his prime and should be looking to retire now.

 

3.Hypothetically, if RVD were to win the Raw title, who would he defend against? Right now the only heel on Raw who can credibly challenge Rob is HHH and a feud between those two probably won't keep people's interest long enough for the Raw writers to develop new main-event heels.

 

4.Why did the WWF sign Scott Steiner? He's old, can't wrestle very well, does not speak coherent english, and is notoriously-injury prone. He alos does not really qualify as a draw or big name since no one was watching WCW when he was main-eventing.

 

4.To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever gotten over using a gimmick related to rap music. I really doubt that John Cena and B2 are going to buck this trend. I am predicting an eventual entrant into wrestlecrap.com for these two.

 

5.Al Wilson and the Smackdown divas currently get as much, if not more airtime than the McMahons and the champions of both shows combined. Why? Their storyline isn't nearly interesting enough to warrent this much attention.

 

6.Triple H is awfully reminiscent of the X-Men villian Apocalypse these days; an awful lot of time and effort is put into telling us just how impressive he is while very little is put into giving him anything remotely impressive to do.

 

7.Was the Katie Vick angle originally designed with RVD in mind? He and Kane seemed to swap spots on the card awfully abruptly and the timeframe established by the storyline, (Ten years ago) is roughly the same time Rob started wrestling so he would fit the storyline a bit better than Kane. Was there a last minute change in the booking plans and if so, why?

 

8.Is Eric Bishchoff a heel or face right now?

 

9.Roughly 2/3 of the Raw roster consists of has-beens such as Ric Flair and Tommy Dreamer, or very green rookies like Bautista. Conversely, Smackdown has the cream of the crop. Why would the WWF distribute its talent so unevenly?

 

10.Why have the Three Minute Warning been booked as heels? Their gimmick consists of ending bad skits and pummeling the offenders. Doesn't it seem natural to push them as babyface tandem?

[Guest bob_barron]

1.He can yell????

2.He's getting the TE push which Al Snow always gets once in a while. Don't worry- it'll be forgotten soon.

3.RVD could feud with HHH and Jericho. They could start pushing someone or bring Steiner to RAW and turn him heel.

4.I don't know why WWF signed him but I think WWE signed him because he's pretty over and hopefully he can provide a nice short term boost.

5.I hate John Cena so I see no problem with an attempted push failing.

6.I think Paul is just trying to have fun here and see how far how he can pushing him.

7.(cue HHH-joke)

8.I haven't heard anything about that but I wouldn't think so because they wanted to kill the I-C title which RVD lost before Unforgiven.

9.He's supposed to be a heel I think.

10.Flair and Dreamer are both pretty over so I don't have a problem with it.

11.Their heels via association with Bisch and Rico.

[Guest El Satanico]

Flair at 55 can still outwrestle at least 25% of the WWE roster, so he's not that much of a "has been".

[Guest Human Fly]

1. They needed a "bad cop" for the show.

 

2. What Bob said

 

3. Jericho, a match against Christian every now and then, HHH, probably Batista pretty soon. (Raw is really low on heels)

 

4. I think they're trying to stop the bleeding and were willing to fling him against the wall and see if he sticks. They probably know he will only be good for a little bit and that's why they are fast tracking him to the ME.

 

5. That's why Cena's initial push is so ridiculous. I know it's been said a million times, but just let him use his OVW gimmick.

 

6. It's kind of pointless since they couldn't even really show the payoff, hopefully it's over.

 

7. He'll be Raw champ again in a few weeks, only after they made him seem like Hercules in the loss. He's gone over the entire Raw roster that means close to anything.

 

8. I don't believe so, that was probably one of the top 5 worst angles of all time. The less that is said the better.

 

9. A heel

 

10. That's what happens when you rush booking plans.

 

11. That's why I think they stopped the run-ins everyone was beginning to anticipate when they were running out. They were getting babyface pops.

[Guest BillyTheStud]

1. Hes a mean looking hoss who can yell.

 

2. Everyone on the roster except Justin Jobber gets at least a two week push once in a while.

 

3. If he were to win then the Game-uh would just win it back the next show.

 

4. This is Vince McMahon you're talking about.

 

5. I love their new gimmicks. Cena's raps are cool and Bull Buchanan looks hilarious wearing those little beanies.

 

6. Who the fuck knows.

 

7. He does look impressive, look at the way hes no selling offense all the time.

 

8. Probably

 

8. heel

 

9. Dreamer is cool.

 

10. I don't know, they're only employed b/c thier fat and Samoan.

[Guest Whatmaniac]

3.RVD could feud with HHH and Jericho. They could start pushing someone or bring Steiner to RAW and turn him heel.

 

But RVD has beaten Jericho countless times already this year. I doubt that the marks would buy him as a legitimate threat. As for any of Raw's other heels, it would take at least six months to build them up to the point that anyone could see them taking the title

 

8.I haven't heard anything about that but I wouldn't think so because they wanted to kill the I-C title which RVD lost before Unforgiven.

 

If killing the I-C title was the primary goal, they why did they go to the trouble of hotshotting the title onto Chris Jericho and then onto Kane? It would have been much easier to just keep the title on RVD do a remath from Unforgiven.

 

9.He's supposed to be a heel I think.

 

He acts like a face during his backstage vigenettes with HHH.

 

10.Flair and Dreamer are both pretty over so I don't have a problem with it.

 

They are both so deteriorated that they cannot do much more than chop and swing big sticks. I would rather the WWF push some real wrestlers like D'lo Brown and the Hurricane.

 

11.Their heels via association with Bisch and Rico.

 

Dumb booking. They don't do anything that would make people boo them. Right now they are just a pair of generic fat guys with an enfemette hairstylist.

[Guest MD2020]

They are both so deteriorated that they cannot do much more than chop and swing big sticks. I would rather the WWF push some real wrestlers like D'lo Brown and the Hurricane

 

 

D-Lo will probably never get a real push, because of the accident with Droz. It's a shame, but that's how it's going to be.

[Guest razazteca]

9.Roughly 2/3 of the Raw roster consists of has-beens such as Ric Flair and Tommy Dreamer, or very green rookies like Bautista. Conversely, Smackdown has the cream of the crop. Why would the WWF distribute its talent so unevenly

the Split must have both brands as converses of each other so they can be considered different companies........One is Sport and the other is Entertainment. Its WWE Logic.

 

I tell you what, Raw does not have a Entertaining Main Event also from what I see from Velocity clips the Smackdown Divas are not Sporty in any way.

[Guest jester]

1. He's big and intimidating looking. Maybe he hands out the roaids.

 

2. Don't think of it as a push so much as cross-promotion for Tough Enough. Hence the reappearance of Ivory and Al Snow.

 

3. Well, since it all probablity HHH is getting the belt back, RVD should beat HHH for the belt, and then feud for awhile longer in which HHH jobs twice more clean to establish that RVD can beat him, clean. One of those losses should be really definitive--I'd love to see HHH loses a head shaving match. Of course, that will happen right after Vince hires me as a consultant for 1 million a year. After that, RVD could feud with Jericho, a heel turned HBK.. admittedly much better oponents for RVD are on Smackdown.

 

Here's a question WWE should be asking themselves--who would a face HHH fight? Who would a heal HHH fight? He's beaten everyone after he beats HBK.

 

4. Apparently so he can squash minor heels like Stever Richards and Matt Hardy. You know, guys who might bring something new to the table.

 

4. Yep.

 

5. Can't have all the crap on Raw.

 

6. Bad movie lovers call it the Implied Attribute: when the other characters in the movie have to rave about how beautiful, smart, dangerous, etc., another character is because this person shows no signs of actually being that thing.

 

7. I wondered this too. Also, it would have been easy to say RVD was high when the crash occured, given his character background.

 

 

8. He's one of those fascinating tweeners. But wait five minutes, he'll cahnge from face to heel or heel to face, just like Stephanie.

 

9. I think they believe they have distributed them evenly.

 

10. That's the contradiction that WWE doesn't seem to understand. The majority of rowdy male wrestling fans would love to see lesbian sex. If Trish and Stacy went at it in the ring, their heads would explode. Of course, they really can't show that, so they have to do the swerve. WWE seems to think we'll all say "Ho ho ho, they lead us to believe we were going to see hot chicks have sex, but in fact they tricked us and showed us some overweight Samoans instead." Instead we thought "Another promise broken." If you can't deliver WWE, don't promise it.

[Guest Whatmaniac]

3. Well, since it all probablity HHH is getting the belt back, RVD should beat HHH for the belt, and then feud for awhile longer in which HHH jobs twice more clean to establish that RVD can beat him, clean. One of those losses should be really definitive--

 

Their first match was a definitive loss for HHH. RVD practically squashed him in a tag match a week after Triple H received the Raw Title. One has to wonder how this rivalry can go from there to Triple H winning when the deck was stacked against him, especially since he need 14 guys with leather straps and a belt shot to beat Rob just a few weeks ago.

 

Here's a question WWE should be asking themselves--who would a face HHH fight? Who would a heal HHH fight? He's beaten everyone after he beats HBK.

 

4. Apparently so he can squash minor heels like Stever Richards and Matt Hardy. You know, guys who might bring something new to the table.

 

4. Yep.

 

5. Can't have all the crap on Raw.

 

6. Bad movie lovers call it the Implied Attribute: when the other characters in the movie have to rave about how beautiful, smart, dangerous, etc., another character is because this person shows no signs of actually being that thing.

 

Isn't the Raw booking team composed largely of ex-bad movie writers? If so, then this would be very ironic and explain a lot.

 

8. He's one of those fascinating tweeners. But wait five minutes, he'll cahnge from face to heel or heel to face, just like Stephanie.

 

The legacy of Vince Russo. Don't we all just love him for introducing rapid-fire turns.

 

10. That's the contradiction that WWE doesn't seem to understand. The majority of rowdy male wrestling fans would love to see lesbian sex. If Trish and Stacy went at it in the ring, their heads would explode. Of course, they really can't show that, so they have to do the swerve. WWE seems to think we'll all say "Ho ho ho, they lead us to believe we were going to see hot chicks have sex, but in fact they tricked us and showed us some overweight Samoans instead." Instead we thought "Another promise broken." If you can't deliver WWE, don't promise it.

 

They should at least come up with a more creative bait-and-switch method than the same thing that they have already been doing for a month prior.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever gotten over using a gimmick related to rap music.

Rikishi and to a lesser extent Too Cool got fairly over with one. Maybe New Jack as well. Probably won't work for Cena though, I'm just saying.