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Originally Posted by Loose Cannon
exactly what I was going to post. obviously the argument of most title reigns vs lengthy is moot because of the whole fake sport thing.
But you can bring up the question of when has the WWF World Title had the most prestige? And you'll get various answers.
I think the storylines behind the World Title run play a huge part of making said run seem important.
In my opinion, The Title has lost a lot of prestige or value over the last 7 years or so. First of all, having two World Champions kind of killed any value it had to me and second, the storylines are pretty bland and have no emotion or anything behind it. Look at this HHH/Orton storyline right now. They've had so much history behind these two and the story has been lame the last couple weeks. There's nothing to it other then two guys that hate each other. wow. The WWE has actually got me less interested in the match then when they started the storyline.
Then you go back and you take a look at Macho Man Randy Savage's reign in 88/89. That whole storyline with him and Hogan was probably booked right after Mania 4. You look at his reign back then and how it led to Wresltemania 5 and then you look at the shit today and I'm just baffled. It's not that the industry has changed so much at all. They could easily do an angle like that today. They just seem to take the easy way out and use really cheap booking with terrible scripts and acting (see last night.)
sorry if I got off track, but yea.
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WWE has gotten lazy, excellent point.