Guest Your Olympic Hero Report post Posted April 29, 2002 A New Beginning… The World Wrestling Federation has gone through many makeovers in the past year. First, the purchase of WCW by Vince McMahon began what was the dream of every true wrestling fan: the WWF vs. WCW feud. Finally, wrestlers from opposing federations would face each other in the same ring. However, the WWF managed to completely fail with the “Invasion” angle. Chris Benoit and Triple-H, two of the WWF’s biggest stars, were injured throughout the entire angle. Other superstars were horribly misused as stale characters such as The Undertaker and Diamond Dallas Page took center stage in some of the bigger storylines. They united WCW and ECW as “The Alliance”, who fought a very forgettable war against the WWF superstars. The failure of this angle was obvious, so it was scrapped following the 2001 Survivor Series pay per view event. The WWF decided that they would unify the two World titles at the next pay per view, Vengeance. A four-man mini-tournament was scheduled, and an underdog by the name of Chris Jericho came out on top. Fans were buzzing about this, thinking that finally the WWF would stop holding down new talent. Also, crowd favorite and wrestling legend Ric Flair was brought in as co-owner of the company. However, Jericho was given very few clean wins and even jobbed in a few non-title and tag team matches. The return of Triple-H was thought to lift the WWF, but all the extra bulk he had put on during his hiatus affected his in-ring work, and thus he had some very uneventful matches. Vince McMahon decided to inject “poison” into the Ric Flair-controlled WWF, and brought in the New World Order, consisting of “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall. Things were all downhill from here. Older talent in the main event status marred Wrestlemania, the supposed biggest card of the year. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, who had carried the WWF through the Invasion angle, was demoted to the mid-card against a horrible worker by the name of Scott Hall. The Undertaker and Ric Flair wrestled for 20 minutes in a lackluster brawl of two men whose combined age is around 100. And in the main event, Triple-H defeated Chris Jericho for the Undisputed WWF Championship, in a decent-at-best match with Stephanie McMahon playing the central role in the story. Jericho was made to look worthless, and Triple-H was on top of the WWF mountain again. In what has so far been a bad move, the WWF roster was split into two factions, with one team getting the Raw timeslot, and the other getting Smackdown. This led to yet another disappointing pay per view event in Backlash. After the dust had settled, Hulk Hogan, who is nearly fifty years old, came out with the Undisputed title. Chris Jericho, who main-evented Wrestlemania, wasn’t even included on the car. Nor was former WCW standout Booker T, who has been misused since his WWF debut. It is obvious that an enormous change is needed in WWF programming, and in this fantasy booking column, I have prepared to turn things around for the WWF. The roster split is over, certain wrestlers have been given their releases, and all titles have been vacated. Tournaments will occur to crown new champions shortly. The first television show, the April 28th Raw program, will be posted tomorrow, on April 28th. Thank you for your time and I hope you will continue reading my column. I will do my best to keep you interested. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Your Olympic Hero Report post Posted April 29, 2002 *April 29th Raw program will be posted on today, April 29th* oops... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
