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Ebon Bear wrote:

> "Michael"  wrote in message
> news:3E1AD9F4.60803{at}charter.net...
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>>Ebon Bear wrote:
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>>>>1.  The ring should really only be used for two things--wrestling
>>>>matches and wrestler interviews.  Commitment ceremonies,
weddings, rap
>>>>contests, bikini contests, singalongs, and the like should be done
>>>>somewhere else.  (Some of these things shouldn't even be happening.)
>>>>WWE's got the World over in New York.  Most of these things can be
>>>>done there.  You got a contract signing?  Then do it in the
>>>>executive's office or in a press conference where it belongs, not in
>>>>the middle of the squared circle, where it will bore everybody.  The
>>>>weddings have become expensive wastes of time that do not further
>>>>anybody.  What's worse, serious wrestlers like Benoit, Angle, Lesnar,
>>>>the Guerreros, Hardy, and the cruiserweights have to wrestle in that
>>>>ring.  Even Albert and the Big Show don't deserve that kind of
>>>>humiliation.  The wedding on last night's Smackdown is going to
>>>>overshadow the wrestlers and the wrestling.  This needs to stop
>>>>immediately, unless it takes place in a chapel.  This leads me to my
>>>>second point:
>>>
>>>
>>>Agreed up to a point but a lot of those events degenerate into impromptu
>>>squashes anyway. The commitment ceremony became a run-in from Bisch and
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> the
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>>>Island Boyz, which was a shame (hey, I for one would have loved to see
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> the
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>>>look on Billy and Chuck's faces as they tried to figure out how to get
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> out
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>>>of it).
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>>I'm still trying to figure out what the payoff was from the wedding.
>>
> 
> Not sure there was one except to get Steph in another big angle, humiliate
> Bisch some more and to push the Island Boyz as killers (and that was going
> fine anyway)

I meant the Dawn Marie/Al Wilson wedding.  My bad.

>>>>5.  If you get new blood from OVW, keep their original gimmicks.
>>>>Smackdown's on the way to doing this as well with the
arrivals of R.C.
>>>>(Charlie) Haas, and Shelton Benjamin.  This is a lot better than what
>>>>they've done with John Cena.  Haas and Benjamin should be a good tag
>>>>team, and Benjamin himself looks like he could do wonders with the
>>>>cruiserweights.  Unfortunately, the death of Charlie's brother Russ
>>>>has robbed us of a fantastic tag team who could have given the
>>>>Guerreros a run for their money.  Anyway, Charlie's finishing move is
>>>>called the Haas of Pain, and it can give Benoit's crippler
crossface a
>>>>run for its money.  Could be a feud there.
>>>
>>>
>>>Looking forward to seeing it. Certain guys do seem to need a gimmick
>>>overhaul when they come up. B2 for example, was working a Cape Fear
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> inspired
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>>>gimmick down there. In the minor leagues, that's fine but in the majors,
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> it
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>>>just looks like a rip-off or, depending how blatent it is, a lawsuit
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> waiting
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>>>to happen. Sting got away with the blatant Crow rip-off though so maybe
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> the
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>>>Cape Fear gimmick could have stayed.
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>>A good gimmick's a good gimmick.  But if people are getting over in OVW
>>with a certain gimmick, I'm not sure why they aren't brought into the
>>WWE with a least a very similar gimmick.  Especially since the gimmicks
>>we've seen for OVW guys aren't that great, aside from how they brought
>>in John Cena.
> 
> 
> Personally, I like Cena's current gimmick but you do have to wonder why he
> wasn't allowed to bring the Prototype persona with him.

I know Vince has a thing about giving a person a "WWE-only" gimmick, but 
when the gimmick came from WWE's own minor leagues, what's the big deal?

>>>>Oh yes, sometime this year, if Raw's ratings don't improve, it's time
>>>>to move Smackdown to Raw's slot.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Is that possible though? I have no idea what the contract stipulations
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> with
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>>>the respective channels are but would it really be that simple?
>>
>>I don't think so, unless you switch the two shows.  I think you'd still
>>have to keep the names in the current timeslots though, so Smackdown
>>becomes RAW and RAW becomes Smackdown.
>>
>>
>>>Finally, allow the stories some time to develop. That's getting there
>>
> now
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>>>but remember how the nWo came in and Hogan was turned in his first
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> match?
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>>>Kidman and Noble's feud lasted less than a month. Give the stories some
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> time
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>>>to develop.
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>>The current metality is definitely to book towards the upcoming PPV and
>>no further.
> 
> 
> Again, self-destructive. Has Vince really forgotten about the days of having
> your head face chase the title for months and the golden payoff that usually
> ensued at the end?

Vince has forgotten a lot of stuff since he bought WCW.

Michael


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