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Is there hope for Wrestling? (Flashback to February 2007)

| June 7, 2012 | No comments

I just found this blog from 2007 that I wrote on Myspace (remember that thing?). I thought I would put it up and reflect on how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Here it is:

So I just finished watching the first period of the Calgary Flames vs Detroit Red Wings game and the Flames are getting crushed 3-0. Not much incentive to continue to watch that, which brings me to my main topic: What is my incentive to watch proffessional wrestling, or as the two Vinces with a pen call it Sports Entertainment. To me, the stories are moving along way too fast and the ones that are sticking around don’t revolve around wrestling. The current example of this is Vince vs Trump. They are not wrestling so what’s the point. It’s not entertaining to anyone other than the McMahons and MAYBE Trump himself. » Read more..

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Please Come Home Chris Jericho

| August 30, 2011 | No comments

In the early expansion of the Rock N’ Wrestling era Vince McMahon built his promotion around Hulk Hogan. Yes he was fortunate to have some other talented acts such as Roddy Piper, Randy Savage and Bobby Heenan but his strategy was to bring in stars such as Cindi Lauper and Mr.T to place the spotlight on his product and hopefully turn those new eyeballs into fans of his current product, most noticeably The Hulkster.

And it was wildly successful, and lasted several years.

But it did have a shelf life, and by early 1992 the fans had lost some interest in Hogan, and in fact Vince thought that could eventually happen which is why The Ultimate Warrior had a shot 2 years prior.

This combined with the steroid scandal the WWF was facing caused a change at the top, but with how the promotion had been built around Hogan there wasn’t a real strong heir apparent, so Bret Hart, Diesel (Kevin Nash), Shawn Michaels, Psycho Sid Vicious, and even The Undertaker all had a chance.

Many of these men I enjoyed a great deal, but none of them lit the world on fire and the WWF struggled under their championship reigns.

Until the next big superstar emerged, in fact 2 of them did, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. And yes they were once again lucky to have other very talented performers there at the same time such as Mick Foley or Triple H but make no doubt who were now the faces of the promotion. And it was wildly successful, but lasted a few less years. » Read more..

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