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Originally Posted by spd10000
Point is that when you watch sports like baseball or football there are players that are called second stringers. These players are on the team and in some cases even get paid rather handsomely but the role is to be a backup. Bit players are vital to the company in a ‘just in case capacity’. These type of players will get opportunities to play and even get extended playing time if they exceed expectations but usually these player will settle into their role as a bit player or backup. Certainly Lance and Dreamer had glimpses of a push but that was all WWE had in store for them and nothing more. Again WWE owed these wrestlers nothing more than the pay that they agreed to upon signing their contracts.
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Good post.
I don't think anyone would dis-agree with the bulk of what you are saying in here, and all too often it is easy to bash the corporate monster that is WWE.
That's one of the reasons I started my 'Favourite Moment' post a few weeks back.
Anyway, the point I'm going to make is this.
The issue that pisses a lot of people off about WWE is that they 'waste' talented people.
They have what? 80 wrestlers on their books?
Now that's quite a big mix of people with different skills, talents and personalities, and there is going to be rotation within that pool of people - some will leave, some new will come in, etc.
There will always be fans who get annoyed when their favourite isn't the WWE champ, or when their hero gets released. Different wrestlers appeal to different people.
What my problem with WWe (and what a lot of people have a problem with) is that WWE frequently brings in talent and then wastes it, or has talent on it's books and buries it, or just plain makes the talent it has look like shit.
Now I happen to think that WWE is doing a fantastic job with the way they are developing Cena and Orton, and I've been vocal about that on this site several times.
What I have also been vocal about is when they do stupid things:
1. Sean O'Haire - signed him, ran promo's, got the fans looking forward to seeing him, and then promptly buried him for a year, then released him. Didn't even give him a chance, because the writers didn't know what to do with him? Maybe it should've been the writers that got released!
2. Matt Morgan - brought him up from OVW, gave him a bit of a push, straight into PPV, and from there, straight onto Heat, then back to OVW in the space of 6 weeks! Because they sent him back down, now he looks like he couldn't cut it.
3. Ultimo Dragon - signed him, ran promo's, got the fans looking forward to seeing him, and then he only appeared on Smackdown about 4 times. The rest of the time he got dumped on Heat or Velocity, and even that was a rare occurence. No opportunity to show his skills.
4. Brian 'Spank' McKendrick - Sean Michaels protege, plenty of skills and talent, had to start off his career with WWE by streaking through the arena, then got a huge crowd response when he started wrestling, and then was promptly bumped onto Velocity. Saw some sense and left to wrestle elsewhere.
5. Tommy Dreamer - came from being a hardcore fans-hero on ECW, and came to WWE and apparently could only do 2 things - eat anything disgusting, or hit people with Kendo sticks. No other opportunity was given to be anything other than a lame ass gimmick, when he could have given more.
6. Lance Storm - again, he was given a 'Boring' chant (not good for anyones career), a flunky to Val Venis (like that is gonna further his career) and the only chance he ever got to do anything was when he was in tag teams. Again, not much of an opportunity.
Basically, I could continue with this list for ages, then I could start on the 'Wasted Pushes' list for Hardcore Holly, Bradshaw, A-Train, Billy Gunn, etc.
This is the big greivance I have with WWE.
It's easy enough to write the bad things you think about a company that produces a show you watch religiously twice a week, but when it comes to the good stuff, sometimes it goes un-noticed.
I think that's a helluva post you put up there, and a rep to you for it!