Hell In A Cell Attendance
WWE announced that the attendance at the American Airlines Center in Dallas was a legit sellout at 15,303.
WWE Dropping Elimination Chamber PPV?
The Wrestling Observer reports that Elimination Chamber is being dropped as the February PPV, and is being replaced with the name Fast Lane. The Elimination Chamber match itself is said to be moved further down the calendar as a setup for SummerSlam.
Former Wrestler Suing WWE
Billy Jack Haynes has reportedly filed a lawsuit against WWE, alleging egregious mistreatment of its wrestlers for its own benefit, as well as its concealment and denial of medical research and evidence concerning traumatic brain injuries suffered by WWE wrestlers. Haynes last wrestled for WWE in 1988.
New Series Premieres on the WWE Network Tonight
WWE Rivalries makes it's debut on the WWE Network tonight after RAW. The first episode will focus on the feud between Steve Austin and Vince McMahon.
WWE announced that the attendance at the American Airlines Center in Dallas was a legit sellout at 15,303.
WWE Dropping Elimination Chamber PPV?
The Wrestling Observer reports that Elimination Chamber is being dropped as the February PPV, and is being replaced with the name Fast Lane. The Elimination Chamber match itself is said to be moved further down the calendar as a setup for SummerSlam.
Former Wrestler Suing WWE
Billy Jack Haynes has reportedly filed a lawsuit against WWE, alleging egregious mistreatment of its wrestlers for its own benefit, as well as its concealment and denial of medical research and evidence concerning traumatic brain injuries suffered by WWE wrestlers. Haynes last wrestled for WWE in 1988.
New Series Premieres on the WWE Network Tonight
WWE Rivalries makes it's debut on the WWE Network tonight after RAW. The first episode will focus on the feud between Steve Austin and Vince McMahon.
I think Metsfan4ever from reddit was the first to report about the EC PPV.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that kinda baffles me is that people are still irritated by WWE's supernatural tactics. People, this company has always been doing silly shit like this. From Kane shooting up fire and Taker with lightning, this holographic image from last night really isn't any different. How are people NOT tuning out if they are so sick of it? There's just something that people love about hating on something.
Oh my god that's a terrible name.
ReplyDeleteI like the Chamber but it doesn't need to be February...it particularly doesn't make sense this year if Brock is still champ. Wow though, Fast Lane??? That's awful.
Always wanted WWE to use Redemption as a PPV name.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to hate. Sometimes, more fun than it is to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI can't speak for everyone, but my only real issue with Wyatt's involvement is that it seems that Ambrose will now be feuding with Wyatt while Rollins moves on to... Orton? Maybe?
And the Ambrose/Rollins feud never gets a real, proper blowoff. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but Ambrose never got a win over Rollins, did he? He sprayed him with green goop and tonged his dong, but he always choked in matches. And now, with Wyatt apparently due for a renewed push, my guess is Ambrose puts him over as well. Seems sort of counterproductive.
If you need me I'll be watching some old school wrestling, mainly WWF Wrestlemania III. You know when the booking was not that fucking retarded.
ReplyDeleteThey likely just discovered the 3 year old Eminem / Royce song and want to use it as the theme song.
ReplyDeleteI think I get what WWE is doing now!
ReplyDeleteDean Ambrose is Tommy Dreamer and Seth Rollins is Raven! Dean will never pin him!
Yea, I think that's very fair. Ambrose/Rollins was the best thing going in the WWE and nothing even came close.
ReplyDeleteI hope somehow Ambrose/Rollins continues because I'm still entertained by it and, damn it, I want to see Ambrose get his win.
There was nothing retarded about yesterday's booking. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteWho is thinking up these ppv names? Is there really someone on hundreds of thousands a dollars a year that thinks 'Fast Lane' is a good ppv nname?
ReplyDeleteLegit sellout, and the crowd was pretty hot the entire time, including for the Cena/Orton match.
ReplyDeleteOMG 1999 WCW, WWE is going out of business!!!
(Sorry, had to do it. It's out of my system now)
When they did this at Royal Rumble 94' it got rightfully shat all over. It was stupid, contrived, and not entertaining in the least, much like the Bray Wyatt angle last night. Kane was very violent and presented in a very over the top, tongue in cheek sort of way. They went all in with Kane where they were half pregnant with things like Papa Shango and more recently Bray Wyatt.
ReplyDeleteDid you actually watch the show? and if so how?
ReplyDeleteAnd isn't Over the Limit their token speed racing PPV?
ReplyDeleteThey have a whole shit load of awesome PPV names sitting on the shelf - WCW, ECW, and even some their old ones like No Mercy.
ReplyDeleteA 12 min 2/3 falls match is stupid, especially with guys that can go.
ReplyDeleteSee, I remember watching that when I was about six, and thinking that it was really cool. I bought in Taker's hype and I enjoyed the fact that a wrestler like him had supernatural powers.
ReplyDeleteI don't find the hologram insulting even the slightest. It just wasn't the ending that I was hoping for.
I did watch the entire show. And.... ......
ReplyDelete....... It's a secret... *shuttt uuuppppppppp....*
I wouldn't call the crowd hot the entire time.
ReplyDeleteNow all dean needs to do is start taking himself way too seriously and overstating his worth to wrestling and he's all set
ReplyDeleteSo Dean will be in GFW years from now, talking about how he had the WWE crowds in the palm of his hand that one time?
ReplyDeleteThe ending to the main event wasn't stupid?
ReplyDeleteYour pessimism saddens Vince Jordan.
ReplyDeleteYou know it's a possibility...
ReplyDeleteYou are one of the lamer trolls in recent memory. At least Jobber makes it fun when he does it.
ReplyDeletePeople pretty much did tune out in 1994 when Taker died, in 1998 when Hogan saw the magic mirror, in 2005 when Randy Orton saw the magic mirror...
ReplyDeleteSeveral PPV main events ended with a screwjob finish, which led to a new feud. So while I would have liked a clean win from Ambrose, there was nothing stupid about it, no.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they are wating for Wrestlemania to blow it off?
ReplyDeleteGet in the Fast Lane on the Road to WrestleMania!
ReplyDeleteall McDevitt and WWE needs to do is show a judge Billy Jack's RF shoot interview. Case dismissed.
ReplyDeleteYes, yes there is.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind screwjobs, but I hate lame unrealistic screwjobs.
ReplyDeleteI'll agree about the magic mirrors, but Taker dying and levitating was awesome. And that is a fact, baby!!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that weird-ass interview be evidence of Billy Jack's concussion-addled brain?
ReplyDeleteI'm not Vince apologists, but some of this is BS. Haynes wrestled for like 15 years, only two of it was for the WWF. But Vince is responsible?
ReplyDeleteCan't you just hear early 1990s Vince saying that and then the classic WrestleMania theme (the one that ended up Linda McMahon's music) kicking in?
ReplyDeleteno way it is to honor the one season wonder TV show starring Bill Bellamy
ReplyDeleteThe booking direction is solid. But nobody needed to see "Dean Ambrose meets a ghost."
ReplyDeleteIf we'd just gotten the blackout, creepy words and than Bray standing over a fallen Dean it would have been perfectly great.
The screwjob was not the problem, the ghost was.
Fast Lane is a pretty stupid name. just name the fucking thing No Way Out again.
ReplyDeleteI like all of these things!
ReplyDeleteEspecially Billy Hack sworn deposition, that will make some nice reading someday.
I see, maybe they should make it WWE Holding Pattern.
ReplyDeleteNo one tuned out of WCW and WWE because Orton and Hogan saw other figures in a mirror. Don't be silly.
ReplyDeleteJudging by the depth of PPV names like "Elimination Chamber," "Hell in a Cell," and "Fatal Four Way," I can only assume it's going to involve some type of track meet theme, or perhaps stock car racing. That could be something different, at least.
ReplyDeleteFeaturing the return of Bob "Spark Plugg" Holly? SIGN ME UP.
ReplyDeleteYou're right; those were extremely popular segments that expanded WWE and WCW's fanbase.
ReplyDeleteAnd two straight falls? WTF?!
ReplyDeleteBut you said they tuned out. He corrected you.
ReplyDeleteSuperBrawl for the win.
ReplyDeleteI liked that. I usually had best of 7's that ALWAYS go 7, and 2 out of 3 falls that ALWAYS go 3. It was a nice little twist, I was expecting Cesaro to get the pin, then boom, Ziggler sweeps out of nowhere.
ReplyDeleteHopefully Elimination Chamber being changed to a special occasion is just the beginning. Maybe they'll scrap the Hell in a Cell and TLC PPVs too.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I didn't mind a sweep.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcSMWQ_RFdA
ReplyDeleteI think that one works better.
You are the troll, Vince.
ReplyDeleteThe only good magic mirror spot was Paul Orndorff looking in the mirror and seeing Mr. Wonderful.
ReplyDelete*applauds*
ReplyDeleteSo does Cena face Brock at Survivor Series or the Rumble?
ReplyDeleteIf the latter, how does WWE keep him busy till then?
WWE: Fast Lane... finally a PPV that Speed Force can headline!!! Hosted by Sparky Plugg.
ReplyDeleteVince Jordan.
ReplyDeleteI thought we're in the holding pattern now?
ReplyDeleteCastrol: We Know You Rasslin'-Watchin' Hoosiers Can't Afford a New Car!
ReplyDeleteI have decided to watch all the Survivor Series on the Network IN REVERSE, starting with 2013 and going all the way back to 1987.
ReplyDeleteThis may be a suicide mission...
Nope, I just give my honest opinion, and point out positives in the product. Sorry if you don't agree with it and you feel the need to troll me over it. Now go away.
ReplyDeleteSo glad they brought out that song for Hogan's b-day celebration earlier this year.
ReplyDeleteWho reported that Cena/Orton would go on last? Internet reporting strikes again!
ReplyDeleteIt amuses me that Noble and Mercury are higher up the card as lackeys than they ever were as wrestlers.
ReplyDeleteI thought the main event last night was better than the rating Scott gave it. Closer to four stars than three, at least. Yeah, the ending was goofy, but not much more than the first Cell match. I expect, not unlike Bryan/Wyatt turned out, this'll be a roadblock before the big Ambrose/Rollins blow off at Mania. I hope.
Is it me, or is the ring mic'd way too loud now? Crowd seemed hot enough last night, but they weren't mixed high enough.
To be fair.. I believe Haynes got injured in WCW towards the end of his career. He may have a case since Vince bought WCW.. but I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteWWE: Status Quo
ReplyDeleteEmotional damages due to being called Billy Jerk Haynes.
ReplyDeleteWWE: We Swear It's Not A Repeat
ReplyDelete"For the record, it is Billy JACK Haynes."
ReplyDelete/Okerlund.
So, seriously, I must have missed something, but what happened to Curtis Axel? Just watched him get squashed by Big E at last year's SurSer.
ReplyDeleteIts fucked up the way the wrestling business was set up, where guys basically killed themselves, pressure was constantly put on them to go further and further, but there is no real legal recourse they ever had to protect themselves.
ReplyDeleteHe had negative charisma?
ReplyDeleteConsider me as one of the fans that tuned out during the Papa Shango/Ultimate Warrior crap. Never was a fan of early Undertaker as well.
ReplyDeleteWWE: "It's The Road To WM So Things Will Actually Happen"
ReplyDeleteNo, I get that he was bad. I meant, where is he now?
ReplyDeleteI miss Kaitlyn's top half. Nothing else about her, but she had a great body.
ReplyDeleteStill there but Ryback got hurt.
ReplyDeleteMore like Fast Lame, am i rite?
ReplyDeleteGod forbid creative find something else for them to do.
ReplyDeleteMeh... He's had his chance.
ReplyDeleteHas anybody stopped to wonder how a backwoods hillbilly like Bray Wyatt can have access to futuristic hologram technology in the first place?? Did he use his crystal meth fortune to pay some M.I.T. kids to make one for him or what?
ReplyDeleteMaybe Fast Lane is an attempt to entice The Rock to appear, given that Fast 7 is scheduled for April.
ReplyDeleteHas someone else verified the sellout (without papering), or is this like the 93,000?
Does Rivalries mean the Monday Night War series is done?
Billy Jack Haynes and I don't care,
ReplyDeleteBilly Jack Haynes and I don't care,
Billy Jack Haynes and I don't carrrre...
...
I've got Olympic gold.
Breaking into cages is his "thing". See also, last year's Elimination Chamber.
ReplyDeleteHe's still celebrating his countout victory over HHH.
ReplyDeleteYou go away Vince. You're over the top positive troll bit is terrible. The anti-troll just spouting positives no matter what is really sad. It truly saddens me.
ReplyDeleteWait, I don't remember Orton and a magic mirror at all. Would someone please refresh my memory?
ReplyDeleteAll the undisclosed injuries Billy Jack suffered in WWE led to him discovering in WCW that he had developed black blood.
ReplyDeleteOrton-Undertaker, IIRC. Basically the same as Hogan-Warrior's version, just replace the following:
ReplyDeleteHogan = Randy
Bischoff = Bob
Warrior = Taker
Sooo.. who gets into the WWE Hall Of Fame first? Ole Anderson or Billy Jack Haynes?
ReplyDeleteOle at least has his pre-WCW career to fall back on. BJH has NOTHING.
ReplyDeleteHey, it's voodoo, dummy.
ReplyDeleteI think everybody is over it at this point.
ReplyDeleteCheers for shaking up the PPV rotation!
ReplyDeleteJeers for that terrible PPV name.
Who do you voodoo, Bitch?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78bj6ebUVqA
So Los Matadores will introduce Speedy Gonzalez as their new mascot?
ReplyDeleteBring back the Repo Man to steal his merchandise from the arena and have a 'Tiny Towel On A Pole' match.
ReplyDeleteThat I read this in Michael Cole's Voice and than Todd Petengill's voice makes me hate myself a little.
ReplyDeleteThis Total Divas vs. Non-Total Divas elimination match has gone on WAAAAAY too long.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a hologram. The man can on ghosts!!!!
ReplyDeleteCena gets revenge on Rollins i assume
ReplyDeleteThe 2nd edition of WWE Rovalries is set to feature the biggest feud in WWE history.
ReplyDeleteThe WWE vs WWE Fans
Billy Jack Haynes: I read about this the other day and the article I read correlated Haynes' lawsuit with the lawsuit that cost the NFL $765 million dollars a couple of years ago. That opened the door for this lawsuit and if the NFL could lose, then I think the WWE could lose. If they have to pay anything close to what the NFL did, then it might be "lights out" for the company.
ReplyDeleteDusty Rhodes is RIGHT THERE. You can get on the man for many things, but he had a way with naming special events.
ReplyDeleteIf you were just basing it on the voodoo and teleportation in the show, HIAC might have been the best PPV of all time.
ReplyDeleteThey're over it because it didn't happen. Had it happened, they would definitely not be over it.
ReplyDelete'94 Rumble was awesome.
ReplyDeleteSO......is this proof that the fed is still behind Ambrose?
ReplyDeleteGood grief that ending sounds like something out of a Nyquil blender.
it's where Jyaaaaaaan Cena and Nikki Bella team up to take on Dick Dastardly and Muttley in the Wacky Races!
ReplyDeleteGotta love South Park for bringing this back.
ReplyDeleteis BJH the guy that got arrested for smuggling cigarettes into Canada?
ReplyDeletealso I see we're using rejected Black-meets-white cop action comedy names for PPVs now.
Coming soon: WWE Traffic Jam, WWE Ride Along, WWE Rush Hour, WWE Loaded Weapon.
they've been on a roll this season. that and the Lorde/cis episode were fantastic.
ReplyDeleteWWE: 48 Hours (Because That's How Long It's Gonna Feel)
ReplyDeleteThat is a weird demographic that I want no part of.
ReplyDeleteUnless they put MitB at WM again, I don't know where you would put the EC.
ReplyDeleteWTF is the theme of Fast Land. It sounds like a direct to DVD action movie starring John Cena.
ReplyDeleteYeah, at least EC had a somewhat decent setup - winner either wins the title or goes to WM to challenge the champ that wasn't challenged by the RR winner.
ReplyDeleteUnless they're going to do a joint MiTB/EC PPV, which I'll say no thanks.
Possibly based off of the app game that Cena was returned in?
ReplyDeleteWWE Storylines vs Logic
ReplyDeleteShe is in even better shape since she left.
ReplyDeleteI would only approve of a PPV called Fast Lane if the PPV that happened after that was Over the Limit.
ReplyDeleteSurvivor Series will be re-named to WWE: Tag Team!
ReplyDeleteFollowed by "WWE: Cops fill their quota"
ReplyDeleteI guess the show is called Fast Lane because the superstars are on the "fast lane" to Wrestlemania? It sounds terrible. It sounds like I'm at the grocery store. Back in the day, there would have never been an In Your House: Express Checkout.
ReplyDeleteMeh, it's like that "Special Main Event" Demon match in WCW. I'd rather have Cena-Orton go on last than the mess that eventually did.
ReplyDeleteThe card needs to be 8 matches or less.
ReplyDeleteSo it will be headlined by Speed Force?
ReplyDeleteAnd each match needs to be 60 seconds.
ReplyDeleteIt's too much to bring back No Way Out I guess.
ReplyDeleteElimination Chamber shouldn't be the name of the PPV, although moving the annual match to July - September is probably a good idea. Maybe they realized even if it's not that hardcore compared to before, that wrestling in the Chamber might hurt their talent RIGHT BEFORE WRESTLEMANIA is a bad idea.
"Austin vs. McMahon first?! That's bullshit!. Everybody knows I should have been first. Later on, Austin walked up to me, and with a tear in his eye, Austin said said to me "Bret, your rivalry with Shawn should have been first."
No, it'll be called "Fast Lane", short for "Fast Lane to Future Endeavors".
ReplyDelete8 Brock Lesnar squashes.
ReplyDeleteOr Bret Hat vs. the world.
ReplyDeleteYou joke.. but for the amount they are paying him.. having him run a gauntlet on PPV might be a good use of him.
ReplyDeleteSpeed Force needs to dominate at Fast Lane.
ReplyDeleteIf that PPV name is just there so Vin Diesel can show up to promote a new Fast and Furious movie......
ReplyDeleteHeh, rename the PPV, Brock Lesnar, the Beast Incarnate.
ReplyDeleteNow that would be a great name.
ReplyDeleteI guess Billy Jack's suing because Vince didn't protect his love child Daniel Benoit?
ReplyDeleteBret The Hitman Hat!
ReplyDeleteWay to live dangerously!
ReplyDeleteI'd approve of "Fast Lane" if they started feeding the wrestlers cocaine before their promos and matches again.
ReplyDeleteFuck you sir. Fuck you for making that joke before me. Fuck you very much.
ReplyDeleteAlso to be fucked the horse on which you rode in.
Oh dear that's why they chose that isn't it?
ReplyDeleteRock and Vin Diesel vs. Mizdow.
ReplyDeleteMAKE IT HAPPEN
Can't wait until we get the Ziggler-Kingston edition of Greatest Rivalries!
ReplyDeleteI have a weird idea all of a sudden.
ReplyDeleteA new Divas search, but a different way of doing it...
Have like a WWE PPV (not the monthly one, a different one) operate like a horror movie. They can use whatever skills they have to "survive". Which ever contestant makes it to the end become Diva and is sent down to the new training center.
If that's true, then they deserve to have the Network implode on themselves.
ReplyDeleteTrue, we can retitle Hell in a Cell to "WWE: Meh"
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to Bayless?
ReplyDeleteVacation.
ReplyDeleteIs that because they can't run an elimination chamber with Brock, and they can'y have a number 1 contenders match either because of the Rumble?
ReplyDeleteKidnapped by Archie lookalikes. Long Story.
ReplyDeleteFast Lane sounds like a Mid-80's teen prostitution movie starring Linda Blair and Tim Thomerson.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, is there a reason No Way Out is considered not good enough for a PPV name? Did No Way Out say "F you" to Linda, or have sex with 15-year old Stephanie? There must be a good urban legend for this.
ReplyDelete(If "No Way Out" was in Benoit's suidicide note, I will consider this an acceptable answer.)
No Way Out isn't good enough I guess.
ReplyDeleteUpdate: Brian Bayless was separated from his tour group, and was last spotted in an incoherent state in the jungles of Aruba in a tattered shirt, eating papayas. They're currently trying to coax him out with photos of Dave Scherer.
ReplyDeleteThey did just use it in 2012 right? Or one year recently.
ReplyDeleteBryan's first featured promo poster!
ReplyDeleteChavo vs. Hornswoggle, 3MB vs. Los Matadores!
ReplyDeleteYou would think No Way Out was the greatest PPV name in the history of our sport based on the comments in here.
ReplyDeleteI think Dino Bravo was the guy that got in trouble for that.
ReplyDeleteIn honor of his hero; Brian Bayless may or may not return to Daily Update duties on a date TBD.
ReplyDeleteIt is our "Yes We Can".
ReplyDeleteHis planet needed him.
ReplyDeleteI kind of wish they'd go back to every PPV has a distinct name based on the relevant story like back in the IYH days. Just keep the big 4 and MitB.
ReplyDeleteBy far the whiniest of all "Smark Problems."
ReplyDeleteShortest PPV in history with no match clocking in over 45 seconds.
ReplyDeleteStarrcade!
ReplyDeleteThe commercial for the rivalry show was good. I'm not looking forward to seeing them talk about Austin/Vince for the millionth time, but I'm down to watch an episode devoted to Hogan vs Piper or Edge and Christian vs the Hardys.
ReplyDeleteI picture Eeyore's voice saying this.
ReplyDeleteHas Hogan ever pinned Piper?
ReplyDeleteYeah, Canadian Stampede, Beware of Dog, Rock Bottom and others were all memorable and effective names.
ReplyDeleteWWE: Rusty Tailgate!
ReplyDeleteI feel like it happened in wcw but I'm not sure.
ReplyDeleteFast Lane....on the Road to WrestleMania....I get it
ReplyDeleteUpon sobering up I've discovered that the show last night was really not very good.
He have magical powers (wich unfortunatly doesn't help him to win any matches)
ReplyDeleteI do to, and it fits perfectly.
ReplyDeleteBy being tied to a train track.
ReplyDeleteBreaking through the glass ceiling is another thing entirely.
ReplyDeleteThat could be a fun one.
ReplyDeleteVin would probably be a good worker too.
ReplyDeleteSo for those defending the finish last night as good booking and that Ambrose (much like everything else) is totally fine, would you agree that Ambrose/Wyatt coming out of that finish puts them in a major bind? Two supossedly rising stars both coming off of big losing streaks are now gonna feud with eachother. So basically, someone's gonna come out of this looking like a chump.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it have made much more sense for Ambrose to get his big win before moving onto the Bray feud? That way if Bray does come out on top (which he definitely will), Ambrose isn't losing back to back major feuds.
I'd bet the thinking is that Rollins needed the win because he's feuding with Cena and/or Orton next, so it's time for him to do some jobs. (Rather than ya know, Rollins putting Ambrose over last night and then getting his heat back by actually WINNING a feud against the veterans.)
Hogan pinned Piper at SB VII (where Savage turned on Sting or something like that) in one of the dumbest ref moments you'll ever see, where Piper won with a sleeper but the ref restarts the match after Savage put Hogan's leg under the ropes. AFTER THE REF SIGNALED THE BELL.
ReplyDeleteSofa king dumb.
STOP MAKING SENSE
ReplyDeleteI remember a couple of youngsters named Rocky and Hunter in that situation. They turned out okay if I remember right.
ReplyDeleteIt brings upon good times; No Way Out had some awesome PPVS. 2001 is probably the best secondary PPV ever.
ReplyDelete-WWE.
ReplyDeleteIf I am not mistaken it WAS the name of a short lived TV show starring Bill Bellamy, Tiffany Amber-Theissen, and a white guy.
ReplyDeleteThat would require them to come up with stories ahead of time..
ReplyDeleteI didn't hate that it was a sweep for Ziggler if it leads to them making the IC title at least seem more important. If he loses tonight on Raw, it will seem like a waste. And 12 minutes does seem like not really enough time for a 2 fall match on a PPV.
ReplyDelete@Stranger in the Alps this guy is saying your daily updates suck and you are an awful human being. The ban hammer is the only answer here.
ReplyDelete#Instegate
The difference between the company now and then is gigantic. Cena and Orton still being pushed as the true main guys would be like if Hogan and Savage were still on top of WWE in 97/98. There was a feeling then of the new guys that fans wanted were getting pushed. Nowadays it's the legacy stars are still the ones who come out on top, and everyone else is spinning their wheels against eachother.
ReplyDeleteEh they usually have one at least. Or just name it after someone's nickname. Last night could have been "Lunatic Fringe."
ReplyDeleteSo...what with the PPV model being totally dead, they can get rid of these gimmick PPV's right?
ReplyDeleteIf they had half a brain and were pumping subs all year rather than only trying *really hard* to get subs every six months I'd say they should keep them, but they're not doing that so what's the use of gimmicks now?
January: Royal Rumble
ReplyDeleteFebruary: No Way Out
March/April: WrestleMania
April: Backlash
May: Judgment Day
June: MiTB
July: Great American Bash
August: Summerslam
September: Night of Champions
October: No Mercy
November: Survivor Series
December: Armageddon
I will say that I liked the booking of Ziggler/Cesaro. Yeah Cesaro should have gotten a major push this year, but that's over and done with and he's a lost cause. So at least they put someone over STRONG rather than a banana peel third fall finish.
ReplyDeleteNot that it'll matter, as I'm assuming Ziggler looked strong last night just so he'd make better non-title job fodder for the next month, but in theory it was cool.
I would like to see them get back to protecting finishers. No amount of Michael Cole screaming "RKO OUT OF NOWHERE!!!!" over and over is going to make me believe he's getting the pin the first time he hits that move. And everyone kicks out of finishers now...that whole plot device has lost it's luster for me.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is, the fed knew they were going to push both. Ambrose isn't going to get that, and Wyatt just spent his free time counting lights to Cena. Rocky and Hunter were rising - these guys are being pushed back.
ReplyDeleteMan, I wonder what Survivor Series is going to look like. Bleacher Report is projecting a Cena vs. Kane, Orton vs. Rollins, Ambrose vs. Bray, Divas 5 on 5, and Traditional 5 on 5 featuring midcarders.
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