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Originally Posted by tucsonspeed6
Which is why every promo is obligated to have the word "poop" in it, we're serinaded with JBL promos every ten minutes, El Gran Luchedor is running amok, and Lex Luther...er....Kurt Angle (until about a week ago) plots and schemes his evil webs whilst Big Show flips cars for the main event.
Randy Orton, the longest reigning Intercontinental champ in 7 years loses his precious belt to a tweener who cheated him of it three times in a row, the unstoppable Chris Benoit proves again and again that he is the real thing.
I'd rather watch that than a pot bellied nazi texan do his best Jeff Jarret impression, "Poopmaster Flex" keep less rhythem and rhyme than Fred Durst, Undertaker shoot more lightning bolts from his arse than William Wallace, and cruiserweights who steal the show with the best three minutes of a 2 hour program.
"If I agree with you completely, I'll see that you're always right and that your vision is reasonable and true...." Where do I sign up for your cult?
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I didn't say it was completely like WCW...but that they are slowly moving to that standard.
I, too, think JBL moved to the top of the card was a bad idea. His character has gotten funnier to me, though...but he should have been the reason Cena got his title stripped, if not Rene Dupree.
Also, I think, by the response you've given that perhaps you feel that this was a Raw bashing post, which it isn't. They are slowly becoming two distinct shows, for a myriad of reasons. That's why the brand extension seems to be working somewhat and should be kept on. The reason why I posted this up, was because... well, there's been quite a few posts bashing the brand extension and really, I think it's a lot of people caught up in the smoke-and-mirrors of the Attitude Era. I loved the Attitude era, loved heel Rock, the anti-heroic Stone Cold, the crazy DX, Mankind, Undertaker (especially... I think Undertaker through the latter end of the Attitude era up until ABA times was the highest point in his career), and all of that... but no matter how entertaining it was, there was always something lacking (in WWE, it was the lower card matches...some of them, REALLY sucked in the quest to go all-out with characters and angles, and since wrestling took a backseat...)
I also agree with Corkscrewed that SmackDown needs a little drama to stir things up, and not random run ins... the beginning of the "SmackDown Renaissance" seemed to be showing a little of that with the Booker T/RVD conflicts, and Kurt Angle as GM. It stalled indefinitely when they decided to push JBL to the top, after trading HHH back to SmackDown....last week's incident with Spike Dudley was a great way to build up that kind of drama. It actually has me wanting to tune in next week to see why Spike turned in the first place. (Never thought I'd be saying that about Spike Dudley of all people...)
Raw's bit with the IC belt was great. Randy Orton is one of my favorite wrestlers on the Raw brand, and giving Chris Benoit the belt he earned and then was stripped as he left for WWE and having him KEEP it after making HHH tap cleanly for months was one of the best things WWE has done in months. I think of all the people who have held a title in WWE, no one has had the deck stacked on both sides of the fence more than Benoit (except for maybe Chris Jericho...that's a different post altogether). It gives me hope that perhaps other great, passed-over talents will get their moment to shine before they do other things.
as for the "poop" comments, that seems to be grounded to John Cena, because no one else really does that. Actually, I like it when Cena does it, because it's seemingly less premeditated than his "toned down presumably for the FCC" rhyming rants, and actually pretty funny because he doesn't do it every time he's on the mic. It's certainly a lot better than one of the top 5 lowest points on Raw: when Austin peed on Arn Anderson, offscreen...