Nothing feels as good as a good old fashion bullshit. No, I am serious, there isn't a thing like the feeling you get when you're pissed off right at the start of the new year. I will assume you know me enough or at least read the title to know, that I am talking about last episode of RAW.
I really am not sure what angers me more, the rehashed storylines, the constant stupidity in booking or maybe, just maybe, the fact TNA did put up a far superior show for much less money. I will admit here I do not watch all wrestling, there is a lot of it these days and I don't have the chance to see it all and TNA was something I was skipping for quite some time now. Not that I don't know what was going on there and who is who, I used to watch it a year or two ago, so I was not completely in the dark. But this is not about that, one thing to say is that it was a far better show.
The first signs that RAW will suck came last week, when we saw the stupidely-idiotic story of breaking Edge's neck and the return of Authority. I should've known better, I did know better, I knew it would end up like it. WWE is not capable of making things like this work. But, let's start from the beginning...
We all knew that Authority will return, Cena was given that power for a reason, the problem here though is that it was done too early. We just got rid of them, we just had Dolph Ziggler crowned a hero of WWE, he go a prize for match of the year... Ryback was still moving forward, regaining momentum he lost, slowly getting actually better and Eric Rowan, well... He didn't fully failed yet... All in all everything is heading the right way. So, since everything is going the way it should be going, let's completely change the scenery and fuck it up. Why? Because soap opera writers, that's why.
Of course we had to get a tired, eye-rolling, revenge story from Triple H and Stephanie, again. Wasn't the whole build up to Survivor Series a revenge story? Authority was punishing team Cena for joining John in the first place? Yeah, that rings a bell, doesn't it? And now, mere 6-7 weeks later we get the same thing, again. Dolph Ziggler was forced to put his title on the line against the returning Wade Barrett. While I have nothing against Bad New Barrett, I do believe having Kane interfere in this match making it a 2 out of 3 was just insulting to Dolph. Some could say that WWE took away the IC title from Dolph, because he will be pushed further up. Now, while I do admit it is an option, it will not happen anytime soon. The next special event will see Cena fight and - according to rumors - win the WWEWHC title. That means Lesnar would get a rematch sometime in the future. What about Daniel Brian? Roman Reigns? Seth Rollins? There are people already up in the food chain, that will get the main title push before Ziggler gets it. Plus the whole "firing" angle from the end of the show is just stupid.
Those are exactly the reasons why this angle just doesn't work. There is too many top names involved, and they are names that do need to be pushed now. Plus with all of them surely going into Royal Rumble, there is no way they will stay away for longer then a week or two. Especially with people like Ryback involved, who simply put, needs the exposure. Everything combined not only made the Survivor Series match basically worthless, but will also render whatever will happen now, that's right, completely pointless.
And that is what you get when you let soap opera writers write a wrestling show. You get predictability, redundancy, nonsense and constant rehashing of old ideas.
Moving on, I was kind of high on the Ascension debut, last week, kind of... Then they came out this week and more then less made themselves a pair of Road Warriors wannabees. Maybe what they do works better at an NXT event, where you have the same people every time, always chanting, always active, but their shtick just doesn't cut it in the main roster. They seemed sluggish and not at all interesting. I still wish them luck, but I don't know anymore.
Dean Ambrose lost another storyline, this time to Bray Wyatt. Is WWE trying to make him fail? Cause he is on the way down, not only going down, but spiraling down with open arms. Why?
It was just not good overall, everything reused, rehashed, burned out, used out, worthless, pointless, stupid. And that is seriously, seriously sad. WWE with their millions and millions could do far, far better. We have so many problems here that I don't even know where to start pointing them out.
