Guest saturnmark4life Posted January 8, 2003 Report Posted January 8, 2003 I really don't think two gay married wrestlers would have gotten over with half if not most of your typical wrestling audience. I'm not against it really, but the whole notion of applying wrestling of all things to modern issues like that is never going to work. Of course, they'd look a lot less stupid if they'd gone through with it, but like they would ever.
Guest ShooterJay Posted January 8, 2003 Report Posted January 8, 2003 Is it me, or does the Dawn Marie/Al Wilson storyline sorta like an inverted gender version of the Mark Henry/Mae Young storyline in the past? At least that storyline involved, you know, a wrestler.
Guest AndrewTS Posted January 8, 2003 Report Posted January 8, 2003 Is it me, or does the Dawn Marie/Al Wilson storyline sorta like an inverted gender version of the Mark Henry/Mae Young storyline in the past? At least that storyline involved, you know, a wrestler. And Mae took lots of big bumps.
ChrisMWaters Posted January 8, 2003 Report Posted January 8, 2003 Is it me, or does the Dawn Marie/Al Wilson storyline sorta like an inverted gender version of the Mark Henry/Mae Young storyline in the past? At least that storyline involved, you know, a wrestler. And Mae took lots of big bumps. Yeah, but when is the last time Mae Young sold a pumpkin on the head.
Guest Michael Joel Benoit Posted January 8, 2003 Report Posted January 8, 2003 The mot damaging angle of 2002? Anything that involved someone whose name is HHH.
Guest Brian Posted January 8, 2003 Report Posted January 8, 2003 Some people may have liked the nostalgia act, but a lot of people were driven away just by that, especially the key teenage male demographic. That hurt them more than anything else. I don't think there's another ratings slide in the year like that.
Guest Choken One Posted January 8, 2003 Report Posted January 8, 2003 The nostalgia angle (Hogans) would have been fine if it was just Wrestlemania and a couple more months. Fans would have gone "Oh, This is a last run deal here, no harm". Instead it looked painfully clear Hogan was staying so fans went "More of this shit? Fuck that..call me when Rock or Austin come back". Hogan really should have laid down at WM, Gone over HHH for the title, laid down to Taker, face Brock at Judgement Day and pass the torch as he did and left from there the next thursday with a Thank you promo. The Gay Marriages brought them Attention and media and that never hurts but what resulted killed WWE dead. No one in mainstream even mentioned Necrophilla...The Gay Marriage is the more damaging angle.
Guest graph9 Posted January 8, 2003 Report Posted January 8, 2003 1.The Necrophelia angle by far..I nominate it for a shit colored Emmy as one of the worst angles of all times...the top 5 at least.. Whose ever idea that was needs to be bitch slapped..everything about it was so lame..the dialouge..hhh sitting with that dummy...i put myself out of my own misery and refused to waste precious hrs of my life watching it.. 2.The HLA angle..it had no place at all..nothing 2 do with wrestling..and it is outdated..it belonged in the Dx/Attitude era..& it showed how desperate the wwe is..they were probably hoping to draw more prevs to watch so they can jack off watching..goes to show that sex dosen't always sell..
Guest Brian Posted January 8, 2003 Report Posted January 8, 2003 Still, nothing drove away the ratings like the title run.
Guest The Old Me Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 Still, nothing drove away the ratings like the title run. Just goes to show WWE they can stick their "nostalgia" right up their asses. We want new TV damn it!
Guest humongous2002 Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 tHE BRAND extension has been the most hurtful angle of them all.
Guest Choken One Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 Not really, it has been a good thing (keeping so many wrestlers distanced) but it hurts in stopping new angles. Most are rehashes.
Guest Hardcore Lance Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 i think the most damaging in the long run would be the billy and chuckie wedding. it screwed wwe for life for being on any major stations.
Guest AndrewTS Posted January 9, 2003 Report Posted January 9, 2003 The split doesn't count as an angle to me, it was a business decision they had chosen to make, and wouldn't have mattered how they did it storyline- wise. In my opinion? Katie Vick angle, hands down. First of all, it sidetracked RVD in a dead-end fued with Ric Flair, ending in a mediocre match. Secondly, Kane and Hurricane could have been good champs, but instead, the decision was made to give Kane the IC title and fued with HHH. So Jericho had to put over the big red S&M freak, of course, although he did drag a good match out of the lug. Hurricane was shoved aside, and was made to look unnecessary when Kane won the TLC match by himself, which also made the OTHER six guys in the match look like chumps. Kane was made out to be a murdering necrophiliac...he hasn't recovered yet, IMO, not that I care. The funeral parlor skit. Enough said. Drove away fans and once again HHH was all over the shows. Kane vs. HHH at No Mercy was as bad as a Beefcake match, only it went over SIXTEEN MINUTES!! It stunk up what could have been a good show. The Intercontinental Title was killed so that HHH's Ego-Fuck championship may live. Now the only other titles to shoot for on Raw are the tag titles. So any midcarders are stuck with little else to do but challenge for the tag titles, and no one is built up as a singles threat. Eight guys had their careers harmed (some more than others), ratings went down again, a title with a great deal of history was killed, resulting in the midcarders being pigeonholed. Yeah, that's pretty damn damaging.
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