Ok, so everyone is bored with the current talent drought in both the WWE and TNA main events. The same tired acts are recycled over and over again without fail, making us, the fans, the people that actually pay to watch this bullshit switch off - recently in record numbers.
Wrestlemania 26 would have drawn hundreds of thousands of more buys if it had have had two world title matches with different people in them. How many times had we seen Jericho v Edge and John Cena v Batista? Enough times, that's how many. It's a sad state of affairs when you can't even see a team such as the Hart Dynasty on the biggest pay per view of the year, if they're not managining a once great Bret Hart to the ring, for a match, which if we're being honest, should never have happened.
John Cena has been in the main event for around 6 years now. Which is five years too long. The man has no talent whatsoever, and keeps spouting out the same old catchphrases week after week. He peaked in 2005 and the only reason Vince McMahon is pushing him to the heavens is because he piuts great big wads of Benjamins in McMahon's back pocket. Does that deserve a main event push when guys like Christian are drowning in the ever building mid card pool? No!
Yet John Cena keeps winning a neverending parade of Championships, all because children who have ruined this business love the guy. If that's what we've come to now, then we're in serious trouble.
John Cena loosing to Batista at Wrestlemania would have done him no harm. In fact it would have made the feud that followed, which led to batista's exit even more excitable. Yet no, WWE bigwigs didn't have enough about them to make Cena look at the lights on Mania night, and made us suffer yet another Cena title reign.
Which brings me to everyone under Cena. And yes those people are finally starting to be pushed. The awesome Miz winning Money in the Bank, which will obviously lead to a WWE Championship win down the line: Seamus defeating John Cena at Fatal Four Way to become a two time Intercontinental Champion: the Nexus running riot over Raw: the once robotic Drew McIntyre making a name for himself, most notably in a sterling series with Kofi Kingston and the Hart Dynasty finally getting the push they deserve.
When you look at the current WWE scene, it's hard not to be encouraged by the goings on. How long though, can it last? Let's see.
The Nexus angle is already ten times better than the diabolic Invasion angle that WWE put out in 2001. It could all still go horribly wrong depending on who is finally revealed as the leader of the gang. Everyone thinks it's going to be Triple H when he fiannly returns at the end of the year. It is a possibility, but then who could prosper from that? Triple H is a notoriously selfish man behind the WWE scenes. Could a man of Triple H's standing really give the limelight to the Nexus? I doubt it. Then there's Vince McMahon: if the big man was to be revealed as the leader, then the whole angle would die on its backside at the point of unveiling. The only sensible and logical reason would be John Cena being unveiled as the Nexus leader, thus rendering him a heel. That way he'd have a reason for all the boo's he recieves. He could then turn on the fans that boo him and blame them for his turn - something along the lines of he tried his best to be liked, but we wouldn't take him to our hearts. Whoever the leader is going to be, I hope WWE don't throw away a golden opportunity.
Sheamus would prosper from a lengthly WWE Championship reign, extending into the Royal Rumble or even Wrestlemania next year. The chances of him getting them though are slim. With a six pack challenge at Night of Champions, it looks as though Sheamus, one of WWE's top talents right now, will be forced to drop the title back to Cena, either at Noght of Champions or sometime before the end of the year. The logical chocie here would be, if Sheamus did have to drop the title, then drop it to the phemominal Randy Orton, which would then spiek Orton to covert the gold again so much, eventually turning him heel. Orton works better than a heel than he does a face.
The Hart Dynasty will lose out more than anyone else in this talent drought. Once Bret Hart decides his time is up in WWE, the Hart Dynasty will be pushed to Superstars to waste the rest of their days. The tage team division don't have that many challengers for them and once they run out of steam, they'll be split to find the next big singles superstar.
The only shining light of the next year can be the Miz. The man that started out as a poor in ring wrestler has become one of WWE's hottest properties. With the likes of Cody Rhodes, Ted Dibiase, John Morrison, R Truth and the rest of the guys that should be the future of the buisness watsed, Miz is the one shinign beacon of hope for them all. Just a few months ago Jack Swagger upened a soon to retire Chris Jericho for the World Heavyweight Championship, but, in true WWE fashion was wasted as champion. It might be an inferiority complex on Vince's side, but ever new guy who hasn't been champion before is humiliated in their first reign, making the job harder a second time around. The Miz though has the John Cena qualities, he's over with the boss, he's putting in more time for fans and soon he will be your WWE Champion.
Overall, with the Undertaker and Kane, two old, tired men waring over the World Heavyweight Championship: Rey Mysterio, C.M.Punk, Skip Sheffield, Joey Mercury and others out injured. WWE need to take the dog by the collar and put their neck on the line to create a new crop of superstars who will take over the ranks of WWE in the future. Otherwise, I forsee dark days ahead.
TNA, is the biggest hypocrite of the wrestling wars. Claiming to put their new talent first and making new headline talent, they have done hardly anything in advancing new talent. A.J Styles has been one of the only guys to step up and be allowed to take the rigns, when he captured the TNA championship earlier in 2010.
Since Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff took over TNA, they've pushed their friends and brought in old WWE wrestlers to make what they think is TNA's bright future.
Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, The Nasty Boys, Ric Flair, Rob Van Dam, Sting, Mick Foley and Jeff Jarrett. Are these the men that are going to take TNA into new, sunlit uplands? No! Old, hurt men in the twilight of their careers are harming the company more than doing it good. Scott Hall was released from his TNA contract earlier in the year, hence his weight and alcohol issues. Nash is soon due to retire, the NAsty Boys followed Hall out the door and Van Dam became TNA Champion before his storyline injury.
The best thing TNA can do is sack Hogan and Bischoff and let the powers that be right the company. TNA wasn;t great before Higan and Bischoff took over, no though it's the pits. The only answer is to get rid of the deadwood and start again, by building a ship with new and fresh timbers. Timbers such as A.J Styles, Samoa Joe, Eric Young, Jay Lethal. The stars of tomorrow.
The problem with hiring such hands as Hogan, is that you only have to take a look at the guys sense of self importance. His previous two autobiographies, his DVD's, his abysmal show 'Hogan Knows Best', to see how much he thinks of himself. His ego is bigger than the U.S.A and that go has sunk TNA to its lowest depths. It can only get better from now, right?
Depending on weather the Hulkster and Bischoff can put their egos to one side now and do what's best for the company, depends on if TNA is going to be around in the next 2 years. If not, then they might as well close the doors on what could have been one of wrestling's shining success stories.
Whatever they're going to do, bringing back old ECW wrestlers and hasbeens that never were isn't the answer. And with Dragon Gate USA and Ring of Honor hot their tales, now is the time to step on the accelerator instead of grinidng to a halt.
From what I've said here, you;d think it's all doom and gloom. It's not though. While we have such great takent as Sheamus, Randy Orton, the Nexus, A.J Styles etc, then there's always hope. Hope that one day WWE will get their heads out of their asses and see the light. Hope that TNA can see Hogan is doing them more bad than good. Hope that a better tomorrow is store for all of us. Because in the end, this business is just that. A parade of hopes and dreams.
A new day is dawning on wrestling. And it's going to be...AWESOME!
"It may be the gulfs shall wash us down! It may be we shall touch the happy isles! And though we are not now that strength that in old days moved earth and heaven! That which we are, we are! Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will! To strive, to seek, to find! And not to yield!"
- Dr. Frasier Crane
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