When Kurt Angle returns to the ring...

[Guest Anglesault]

He's been getting the bashams?

 

I must have just totally glossed over that in the spoilers.

 

Nothing can kill a reign faster than constantly facing boring, heatless opponents.

[Guest Choken One]

yep...He fought them like three times now.

[Guest I Got Banned for Sucking]

Usually there'd be complaints about making the rookies look bad, but they're boring as hell anyway. He bout Doug, Danny and then Doug again this past week. And him wrapping it up cleanly on both ends this mini-feud.

 

Choken, I don't know if the WrestleMania X8 match deserves ***1/2... It had great psychology and with Jericho working over Triple H's leg, but apart from that and some fun spots, including the ending, very lackluster.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

Why would you want him back IB? Do you like people dying? Are you hoping he spends his life like Dynamite; in a wheelchair (for real) and having watch his beautiful daughter grow up and not be able do the things he should be able to do but can't because he had to work a rematch for little fucks like to do "yay! i saw a decent match! too bad the bald headed guy like can't walk anymore!".

 

Kurt is only 34 years old...He has a big life ahead of him where there is a large source of things for him to do in his retirement...from working as an on screen character on WWEtv...wwe trainer...High School wrestling coach, Motivational Speaker...

 

He doesn't need and SHOULDN'T be forced into the ring for the ungrateful fans. As great as HBK/Angle would be, if Angle was healthy...I'd be all over that match but the fact of the matter is...Angle is a german suplex away from being a permanant vegtable.

 

He cheated death last year with Lesnar, don't make Eddy have to worry about perserving Kurt's life.

 

And if WWE and their idiotic braintrust does decide to bring him back...It should only be at Survivor Series and the angle needs a great build to make it MEAN something.

 

And after that match, Angle can not ever work another match again.

Ew...I agree with Choken.

[humongous2002 0]

Angle shouldn't risk his life anymore in the ring, he's got nothing else to prove to the fans or his peers. Right now WWE should think about giving somebody else the chance to be a main eventer and I'm not talking about boring as hell Cena.

[iggymcfly 0]

"New" main eventers aren't what the WWE needs right now on Smackdown. What they need are credible main eventers to make people take the title feuds seriously. They need to get the belt on Angle (if he can still work) or Undertaker (if he can't) ASAP. Then, from that point they need to take the title seriously, by not having the champion open the show against jobbers, or lose on PPV to midcarders, or just generally be uninteresting for months at a time. Then, after they've built up the belt for a few months, they can think about giving it to someone like...uh...well I can't really think of anyone on Smackdown they should give the title too. Booker's been jobbed way too much to ever be a credible threat to the title, RVD's leaving, and JBL's a douchebag midcarder. Maybe if Mysterio got a quick two week reign it might change the way he's thought of in the WWE, or they could give Cena some kind of middling reign due to his popularity.

 

What they really need is to build up some serious heels, but JBL got pushed so hard right away that it's just not gonna work with him now. Chavo's never gonna get out of Eddie's shadow, and Dupree's going to continue to be a joke as long as he keeps this gimmick. Haas was making progress until they inexplicably decided he'd better as a lower midcard comedic face than an upper midcard serious heel. At least when Big Show comes back, they'll have someone with automatic credibility on the heel side, but I don't know if I can take 4 months of Taker/Show on PPV.

 

 

Given how decimated the heel ranks are on Smackdown right now, (and the main event in general), there's only three things that can save the show:

 

1. Kurt risks injury and comes back to take over the #1 heel slot on Smackdown.

 

2. Brock realizes he's just not that good at football, and has tons of heel heat for thinking he could turn his back on the WWE, and become a "real athlete" again.

 

3. They decide to move someone over from Raw to challenge for the title.

 

 

Until then, Smackdown's just gonna keep on sucking.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

Benoit didn't main event in 2003, for whoever said he did twice.

 

Rumble 2003 - Title Match overshadowed by Brock's chase and the Rumble match. Did Hardcore Holly "main event" this year's Rumble?

 

NWO - pointless six-man

 

WM - pointless three-way

 

Backlash - Zilch.

 

JD - pointless six-man, curtain jerked, lost opening match

 

Veng - lost opening match

 

SummerSlam - lost so-so four-way

 

No Mercy - A-Train

 

SSeries - opening elimination match

[Guest Anglesault]

Benoit didn't main event in 2003, for whoever said he did twice.

 

Rumble 2003 - Title Match overshadowed by Brock's chase and the Rumble match. Did Hardcore Holly "main event" this year's Rumble?

Smackdown Main Event of the Show. Rumble is a collaboration.

 

I forgot about Rock/Hogan when, so I was thinking the handicapped match for the second one.