BlackDawn2024
08-27-2004, 12:24 AM
I've just joined TPWW as of yesterday, but I've been visiting for a while. As a wrestling fan my entire life, I agreed with the majority of what people were saying in early 2001 and even late 2000. The WWE(well, they were still the WWF then) slowly began to lose steam. Shows became boring and mundane. Storylines, which I defend often among my jaded wrestling fan friends, were becoming incredibly lame.
It became so bad for me, that in the middle of 2001, I offically tuned out. I stopped watching Raw, stoped watching SmackDown. I stopped watching wrestling because it had become so bad. But then came November 2003. As I was sitting at home monday night, I saw that Raw was coming on in about 5 minutes. Bored to tears, I watched. It wasn't the best Raw ever, but I personally thought it was a significant improvement.
I've now returned to watching wrestling on a weekly basis, but the real point of this first post is for me to vent about some things that have been bugging me in the wrestling world.
Firstly, John Cena. When I first saw this guy, I wasn't impressed. Even after watching him for a while, I'm still not impressed. His mic skills are medicore, his in-ring work is in desperate need of help, and I'm sick and tired of Cena being pushed down my throat.
Secondly, the lack of good cruiserweight matches. WCW had an amazing cruiserweight division. TNA has the incredible X Division, but what does WWE have? A standard and boring excuse for a cruiserweight division. Sure, they've got a couple of good ones. The obvious one being Mysterio, but he's been significantly watered down as of late. When Nitro would come on, I was guaranteed at least one good cruiserweight match, and there was even usually a title change. Hell, sometimes you even got two cruiserweight matches if you were lucky.
Now, you're lucky if you even get ONE good cruiserweight match. The last great match I saw put on by two cruiserweights was on Velocity. Jamie Noble vs. Paul London. Great match. But still, let them fly. Let the cruiserweights do what they do best...fly.
Thirdly, anyone who knows me knows I'm a huge fan of that Mexican wrestling machine known as Psicosis. I was such a huge mark for him back in WCW. The guy had amazing written all over him, and he was seemingly pushed to the sidelines by the man I like to call "Little Triple H" Rey Mysterio. Don't get me wrong, I love Rey Mysterio, and think that he can put on some amazing matches when he puts his mind to it, but back in WCW, he was the cruiserweight division's golden boy.
Even with him being on TNA a bit lately, he's constantly jobbing. The guy's amazing, yet he's always pushed aside for someone else because the teenage girls think he's "hot". Rey Mysterio is amazing(WCW Rey), but I'll always think Psicosis is just as amazing. I could go on and on about Blitzkrieg, and how he was pushed aside as well, but that's another day.
Well, I've probably already wasted enough of your time. So feel free to call me a loser, or just say my post is too long, I await responses.
It became so bad for me, that in the middle of 2001, I offically tuned out. I stopped watching Raw, stoped watching SmackDown. I stopped watching wrestling because it had become so bad. But then came November 2003. As I was sitting at home monday night, I saw that Raw was coming on in about 5 minutes. Bored to tears, I watched. It wasn't the best Raw ever, but I personally thought it was a significant improvement.
I've now returned to watching wrestling on a weekly basis, but the real point of this first post is for me to vent about some things that have been bugging me in the wrestling world.
Firstly, John Cena. When I first saw this guy, I wasn't impressed. Even after watching him for a while, I'm still not impressed. His mic skills are medicore, his in-ring work is in desperate need of help, and I'm sick and tired of Cena being pushed down my throat.
Secondly, the lack of good cruiserweight matches. WCW had an amazing cruiserweight division. TNA has the incredible X Division, but what does WWE have? A standard and boring excuse for a cruiserweight division. Sure, they've got a couple of good ones. The obvious one being Mysterio, but he's been significantly watered down as of late. When Nitro would come on, I was guaranteed at least one good cruiserweight match, and there was even usually a title change. Hell, sometimes you even got two cruiserweight matches if you were lucky.
Now, you're lucky if you even get ONE good cruiserweight match. The last great match I saw put on by two cruiserweights was on Velocity. Jamie Noble vs. Paul London. Great match. But still, let them fly. Let the cruiserweights do what they do best...fly.
Thirdly, anyone who knows me knows I'm a huge fan of that Mexican wrestling machine known as Psicosis. I was such a huge mark for him back in WCW. The guy had amazing written all over him, and he was seemingly pushed to the sidelines by the man I like to call "Little Triple H" Rey Mysterio. Don't get me wrong, I love Rey Mysterio, and think that he can put on some amazing matches when he puts his mind to it, but back in WCW, he was the cruiserweight division's golden boy.
Even with him being on TNA a bit lately, he's constantly jobbing. The guy's amazing, yet he's always pushed aside for someone else because the teenage girls think he's "hot". Rey Mysterio is amazing(WCW Rey), but I'll always think Psicosis is just as amazing. I could go on and on about Blitzkrieg, and how he was pushed aside as well, but that's another day.
Well, I've probably already wasted enough of your time. So feel free to call me a loser, or just say my post is too long, I await responses.