Monday, November 29, 2010

WWE

The WWE is holding a three hour live RAW event tonight for their King of the Ring event on the USA Network (check your local cable and satellite providers for channels).  What has happened to the WWE?  I remember back in the late 1990s when the Monday Night Wars were are the rage.  Do you remember Monday Night Nitro?  So what started the raged back in the 90s?  It was one little pay per view event called BASH AT THE BEACH in which Hulk Hogan turned "BAD" and created a little thing called the NWO (New World Order).  Hogan who was a goody too shoes for all the 80s was suddenly the worse of the worse and NO one could believe it!!?  How could Hulk Hogan turn on all his little Hulkamania fans?  It was pure ratings GOLD!  A clever move by the WCW at the time.  People would watch every Monday night to see A. what Hogan and the NWO would do and B. if it was going to be this week that Hogan would go back to his yellow tights and be a good guy again!  To compete with WCW the WWE soon caught up with WCW with he likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, and DX and they eventually went on to buy WCW.
     When the WWE bought the WCW this marked the beginning of the end for the Monday night WARS and the end of a GREAT run for Wrestling.  WWE's purchase of the WCW might have been the worse move the WWE could have done for the success of their own company.  With that single purchase their was NO more competition to win Monday night or even Thursday night (now Friday night), and they flooded their own company with to many wrestlers in one company.  The WWE did have some success but eventually they had to create three versions of the WWE to make all the new wrestlers work with RAW on Monday night, ECW on Tuesday night and Smackdown on Thursday night (which was later moved to Friday night).  After Stone Cold Steve Austin stopped wrestling, The Rock leaving for a movie career, and the demise of DX the WWE was left without any real gimmicks.  WWE has tried to bring newcomers like John Cena, Randy Orton, and Chris Jericho to the front of the company with success, but yet still lacking what I call the NWO/Hogan turning bad factor.  I think the WWE has realized these lacking factors over the last year with the introduction of the Nexus.  Did they have a working formula?  Was the Nexus the second coming of the NWO?  Almost.  John Cena this generations Hulk Hogan was forced to join the Nexus yet the WWE FAILED to make CENA the bad guy.  The WWE got it wrong!!!  CENA should have turned to the Nexus.  Cena should have become the bad guy like Hogan did.  If the WWE had made CENA the bad guy viewers would have tuned in for the same reasons viewers had tuned into see Hogan and the NWO! 
     So what has the WWE got going for it right now?  The WWE finally got something right by making The Miz the Champion.  I think the Miz is the future of the WWE.  He is very confident and a very well-spoken individual that can cause trouble for the WWE.  The Miz needs a group like DX, the Nexus, or even the NWO to join him.  It is a proven fact that groups have ALWAYS worked better for a storyline in wrestling anyway.  But the question remains has the WWE lost its MOJO???  Right now I would say for you to TIVO Monday Night RAW so you can FAST FORWARD through most of the BORING storyline right now.  Please leave your comments and questions - Has the WWE lost its MOJO???
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1 comment:

  1. They made a HUGE mistake by loosing Cena. HE is the face of WWE and the only reason i and most started watching and keeping up with it again after many years of not. There again with him leaving i will go back to not watching.

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