Well, we do seem to be going through a transitional period within WWE, but with change comes questions, and generally in professional wrestling, when change happens, we are not given answers to the questions that we are questioning. So this next article of mine will be quite different to my usual ones, it's more of a list of questions and statements that both WWE and TNA need to answer about their products and presentations.
Sting, a well respected legend from WCW and working to establish TNA as a global brand and to one day challenge WWE, but this “Joker” angle where your seemingly channelling Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson and Cesar Romero (from the 1960's TV series), are we meant to take this character seriously or is the goal to make the audience laugh??
The Impact zone cannot be too big to draw a huge crowd in for TV tapings, I would guess you could get 300 people in there, but when you get more people at a house show than TV tapings and PPV broadcasts, then this surely cannot be good for the company.
John Morrison was injured by R-Truth a couple months back, since when did getting injured constitute being fired, leaving Triple H to “Bring him back”??
When a heel does a promo in ring during Impact Wrestling, having the production team play audio booing over the heel's talking is not cool, for a fact the booing sounds like there are more people than there are in the Impact zone but also, look at the fans behind, they are not even interested in the promo going in the ring, and are mainly talking amongst themselves, I mainly noticed this with any Mexican America promos.
Many fans are sick and tired of Jerry Lawler's “Fat” jokes of Vickie Guerrero, I find his total paedophile-esque perversions over the likes of Kelly Kelly or Eve Torres is quite disturbing. Now we have to put up with Michael Cole's “Fat” jokes of Jim Ross now that he is back full time. Isn't WWE in partnership with GLAAD?? And if they are, why aren't these people reprimanded for such comments??
David Otunga and Mike McGillicutty are no longer Nexus, judging by the new music and tron videos this week, and also no Nexus armband, but there should be an explanation of sorts to why teams/factions break up, and not a simple crappy one like when Wade Barrett said that Daniel Bryan was thrown out of Nexus because he “Showed compassion” after the original Nexus ambush. As a fan, I would like a genuine ending to something, maybe CM Punk should have ended Nexus when on his 5 star promos, he could have said it was to focus on the WWE Title aspirations.
The CM Punk/John Cena feud is the hottest thing around in WWE at this minute, and Punk winning the WWE Title, in my view, was a victory for the wrestling fan and not the sports entertainment fan, but for him to “Walk away” and then return just 2 weeks has killed the story for many fans, fans have to realise that if Punk was out for a considerable amount of time, that the quality of WWE would fall, yes it would have given the story a bit more realism but we are in a post kayfabe era and in a sports entertainment era, so we need CM Punk on TV, and his promos are brilliant storytelling that fills in any voids for fans wondering why he's returning after him saying all that he did.
What are we suppose to think as fans when within the space of a week, different wrestlers are using each others entrance music, its misleading because many fans will think that there is some sort of Nexus/Corre reunion. If you think this is going to happen, you are sorely mistaken.
When did Santino Marella seemingly become an auditioneer for tag team partners to take on Otunga and McGillicutty, if you want challengers to the tag team titles, stop splitting teams, it's only a matter of time before The Usos, as pure as a tag team you can get in pro wrestling at the moment, are split up and separated onto different shows. If rumours are true that the Kings of Wrestling are coming from Ring Of Honor to WWE, will they stay a team for a long time, or will they be torn apart, like every other WWE team.
Zack Ryder, many people say he isn't worth the hype, the fact is look at all of what he has done when given a chance before the YouTube show was even created, lets not forget that he and Curt Hawkins started in WWE as the Major Brothers, seemingly a jobbing tag team who overcame the odds who beat top teams back then, then he had a pivotal role with Edge during his feud with Undertaker around WrestleMania 24, don't forget he was chokeslammed over the top rope onto Curt in that match, a bump many people wouldn't take. The solo career when started in ECW with his world famous one legged ring attire was great, he was never given a shot at he ECW title on a PPV as far as I can remember, but he was the man who ended Tommy Dreamer's WWECW career before Tommy went to TNA. So to say Zack doesn't deserve a push is an insult to him, the fact he hasn't been used in a while is a shame, but now we are set to get a lot more of Zack Ryder in WWE.
The majority of fans were happy that Christian finally won back the World Heavyweight Title from Randy Orton, myself included, but if I'm Christian, would you not be thinking that WWE has no faith in you to beat Randy Orton cleanly?? The WWE rules have always been that titles cannot change via count outs and disqualifications, but if you think about it, the World Heavyweight Title is in NWA/WCW heritage and in their title matches, if you lost the match via countout or dq, then you lost the belt too, so should we be surprised to see Christian use this?? Yes if truthful, and if this was mentioned post match on Smackdown as part of the ploy to win the title, I think it would add more credibility to him because ultimately I don't think WWE have faith in Christian hence why he cannot win a belt in a legitimate manner.
Well I'm done, for now, there are probably many more questions that need asking about the current state of pro wrestling, hopefully we will get some answers soon.
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