Who Would You Give The Book To (total Authority)

[Guest converge241]

now i know this is a crazy hypothetical, but out of the people currently there who have an interest in booking or who have done it before, who would you give total free reign to?

Obviously you are just picking on you preference or perception as we dont work there and dont know who always does what, so you dont need to "defend" your answers to the fullest...

 

my favorite booking ideals come from Cornette..

 

but I voted HHH... i think he would be motivated to make a long lasting , sound structure based off of his love for the business..

I know he's not loved (and can just feel the hate seething) but thats just what I think

[Guest The Vanilla Midget]

no one person should have total power. there needs to be a committee to filter the bad ideas like there currently is. however, they also need to eliminate the nepotism and biases which exist to make an impartial committee with the best interests of the company, and not themselves in mind.

[Guest Austin3164life]

I feel that this kind of position should be shared by both Jim Cornette and Paul Heyman......

[Guest converge241]

"no one person should have total power. there needs to be a committee to filter the bad ideas like there currently is."

 

oh trust me I agree with you totally.. Just an "if you had to have one and only one" hypothetical

[Guest Prince Paul]

I voted for Flair for total control. I agree that no one man should have total control, but he would be the best for complete control, IMO.

 

Vince-would already have Brock wearing gold.

 

Russo-do I even need to say why that's a bad idea?

 

Heyman-has some great ideas, but some lousy ones as well.

 

Cornette-too much of a traditionalist. Piledrivers would be winning matches again.

 

Steph-just take off your clothes and shut your mouth honey.

 

HHH-would be the champion longer than Hogan ever dreamed.

[Guest The Vanilla Midget]

yeah i know, and thats why i think russo should have the book. wwf was very entertaining for the most part when he was in charge, and the midcard owned!

[Guest Brian]

The great thing about it is them working together in theory. Vince oversees with Russo as head is my way. Than you have Cornette, Hayes, and Heyman contributing to one side (SmackDown); and Gerwitz, Flair, and Dunn working on the other side mainly. Fuck Steph and HHH. They're primarily on air talent.

 

If any single person should have the book, it should be Vince. Those eight months from October 1999 to June 2000 where he had the book were very, very good and did better business than any other period (excluding ratings, which aren't that important). And he was missing Austin for the most part during that time and still did pretty well.

[Guest converge241]

That era you pointed out (the McMahon-Helmsley regime) did great ratings at some points as well.. that was a succesful period..was it that long ago? thats depressing

[Guest Nezbyte]

I voted for BIG SEXY, The Streak Ender Kevin Nash!

[Guest DrEvil]

Vince McMahon - No, the well seems to have run dry, he can't come up with anything new

 

Stephanie - No, just a plain horrible writer who spent too much time watching daytime soaps

 

Vince Russo - No, might have some ideas left, but so many of them would be such total shit that it would bury the company in months

 

Kevin Nash - No, he might have some good ideas but not someone who can be trusted to put the good of the company above his personal agenda

 

Ric Flair - No, see Nash, just something about Flair makes me think that he'd go with the old crew without bringing in any new stars

 

Triple H - No, overvalues himself, maybe down the road when he accepts that he's not the performer he once was, but at the moment it'd be a year long HHH title reign

 

Jim Cornette - No, this decision is based on ignorance, I haven't seen enough of Cornette current work to know if he could write a style that would be accepted by today's audiences, but a brilliant writer who would be my second choice

 

Paul Heyman - My vote, can't discount someone who took nothing and almost made it a big three industry. He couldn't take the violent and profane ECW route with the WWE, but he has good writing ability, and is an expert at using a wrestlers best talents.

[Guest BoboBrazil]

I can't believe so many people are picking Heyman. He is booking Smackdown right now and the show is boring and I can't even stand to watch a whole episode anymore.

[Guest Flyboy]

If I just to pick JUST one... it would be Heyman. I go with DrEvil's reasoning, too.

[Guest Anglesault]

Cornette

[Guest Angle-plex]

Russo, Cornett, or Heyman.

[Guest AM The Kid]

Heyman, but he'd still have to go through Vince some of his ideas.

[Guest Prince Paul]

Heyman, but he'd still have to go through Vince some of his ideas.

I would have picked Heyman as well, if he were filtered through Vince. But if we're talking just 1 man calling the shots, I'd pick Flair. I think he can see when a new start is rising, and do the right thing when the time is right.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

You have to have a dictatorship in wrestling, there must be one man with total authority. That is how Vince has stayed as long as he has, because he oversees everythings. You ask any wrestler what was the difference between WcW and Wwf and they will say Vince Mcmahon.

 

I am going to have to go with Jim Ross. He likes cruisers, he likes old fashioned wrestling, and he does not like ass-kissing angles.

[Guest Tony149]

I'll say Russo with (Vince) McMahon watching over him.

 

Everybody on the poll has their flaws. Wheather it's being out of touch, too old school, favoritism, etc.

[Guest SupaTaft]

I dont like any of the choices. I'm making a write in for The American Dream Dusty Rhoses. The tower of power ooohhhh too sweet to be sour. Ready to give some knuckle sammiches to anybody thats ready Freddy. And Dusty Rhodes is ready for anything.

[Guest AnnieEclectic]

now, as for Dusty Rhodes being booker, let's think about this a quick second....

 

close your eyes and imagine....

 

your NEW WWE World Heavyweight Champion.....

 

*sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh* Goooooooooooldduuuuuuuuust!

 

 

yep.

 

My vote, and even though he's been an insufferable idiot, Vince Russo. Why? Because he'd have Vince above him watching and even Vince knows a bad Russo idea. His good ones go through, and possibly they can lift the company.

 

-Annie

[Guest converge241]

lol @ no votes for a mcmahon....

 

a write in for Dusty? his name crossed my mind, but i was just keeping the list limited to current on hand people just for space constraints..i didnt list Ross because i wasnt aware he did any of that.. Malenko and Raven crossed my mind as well

[Guest Anorak]

Heyman and Cornette booking one brand against each other could really bring some competitive edge back to things as their mutual dislike for one another would possibly inspire some creative inspiration as they strived to outdo each other. It would be fascinating to see if Cornette would be capable of adapting to the WWE style while still succeeding at getting relatively heatless people over in more traditional ways, it would mean achieving a pretty unique balance but I don't think its impossible. RAW as SMW would of course bomb in record time but I think certain Cornette ideals could still be valuable for the WWE to adopt in a certain form, It would be a case of meeting halfway and being flexibly open minded about the whole booking process.

 

Probably a pipe dream in all honesty, mores the pity.

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

I would avoid giving it to anyone who has been in charge of a company while it was going bankrupt and/or became bankrupt/went out of business. So in short, the following people would get axed immediately: Heyman, Bischoff, Russo, Nash, Sullivan, Cornette. Picking one person, obviously Vince McMahon, with his 2000 booking team underneath him.

[Guest X-Factor Corperation]

I voted Russo, since, well, I'm his biggest mark, and what he set up was watchable.

 

And if Heyman is booking Smackdown! then I'm scared of him.

[Guest El Psycho Diablo]

Jim Ross? Dear god, why?

 

 

This is the very same Jim Ross that crammed Albert, Bull Buchanan, Rikishi, Godfather, and every other talentless bastard under the sun down our throats. I'd rather not see Ross' "hoss-centric" booking, thank you. *shudders* We'd have World Champion Albert within the year, and I don't think anybody (with the exception of buffybeast) wants that. Now I'm frightened.

 

-Shiro

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

But really, how is that any different than Mcmahons preference for muscle-heads, or Heymans preferences for crackwhores?

 

Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't Ross help book NWA in the late 80's?

[Guest Tony149]

Ross had a hand in booking for the NWA/WCW a few times, but he never had full control. The times he was involved with the NWA/WCW booking team was when they had a head booker change.

 

Oddly enough, I think Tony Schiavone was also on the booking team when JR was.