Smackdown
Date: June
20, 2014
Location:
Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio
Commentators:
Michael Cole, John Bradshaw Layfield
Reviewed by Tommy Hall
We're in the
home stretch now for Money in the Bank as the WWE Title ladder
match's lineup is set. However, there's now a second ladder match
which was announced on Main Event. Seth Rollins is the only
confirmed name for the match with the rest being announced on Raw.
They're really going to be stretched thin at the PPV as a result.
Let's get to it.
We open with
a recap of Cena vs. Kane from Raw.
Here's Cena
to get things going. He points out the titles above the ring and
gives us a ten second recap of the last nine months of the titles.
That brings us to Money in the Bank and it sounds like the start of a
bad joke. “A Mexican, an Irishman, a European, a Duck Dynasty
reject, a primadonna and Dudley Do-Right walk into a WWE ring.”
Cena says that's where the comedy stops because he'll be knocking all
of them out at Money in the Bank and taking his title back. So he'll
be knocking himself out?
This brings
out Del Rio who says Cena needs to stop talking and start worrying.
He qualified first and then he'll climb the ladder first. Sheamus
comes out and says people haven't forgotten to be afraid of Del Rio.
People just don't care about him at all. Sheamus will leave the PPV
as a double champion. Cue Cesaro with Heyman and the latter talking
about how Cesaro loves a match where it's every man for himself
because only Cesaro has a full time strategist. I haven't heard
Heyman talk this fast in a long time.
Next up is
Reigns with what sounds like new and slower music but it's very
similar to the Shield's song. He has trouble trusting people anymore
but now the only thing that matters are those titles. Reigns doesn't
care who you think you are (looking at Cena), no one is going to stop
him. He and Cena stare each other down and John takes off his shirt
but Orton interrupts. Randy reminds everyone that he's the face of
the WWE and Reigns is already on the ramp to brawl with Orton. They
fight up by the stage while the others brawl in the ring. Sheamus
and Cena clear the ring but don't fight each other. This was fine.
Seth
Rollins vs. Kofi Kingston
Rollins has
new ring gear, including what look to be dark gray tights and no
shirt. Kofi says he wants in the ladder match in an inset interview
before we get going. Seth is quickly tripped down and splashed for
two before Kofi takes him into the corner for some right hands. Kofi
gets sent into the buckle and put in a chinlock about a minute into
the match. Back up and Kofi nails a quick cross body for two but
Trouble in Paradise hits the ropes. The buckle bomb and a good
looking curb stomp put Kofi away at 2:55.
Post match
Rollins gets on the mic and says he'll win the briefcase. Ambrose
pops up on screen and says tonight might be the night he gets his
revenge on Rollins. If it's not tonight, then it's coming soon.
Rollins says that might be a good idea if Ambrose didn't have to face
Kane. Dean: “Shut up.” Ambrose promises to take care of both
Rollins and Kane.
Dolph
Ziggler vs. Bad News Barrett
Non-title.
Ziggler wants another chance to be Mr. Money in the Bank. The bad
news of the week: everyone else's chances at Money in the Bank are
like the US's World Cup team: they might have some early success but
they'll fall at the end. A quick dropkick puts Barrett down but he
sends Dolph into the corner and kicks him out to the floor. We take
an early break and come back with Ziggler fighting out of a chinlock
but getting kicked in the ribs to put him right back down.
Some knees to
the face set up the big boot in the ropes to put Ziggler on the
floor. Back in and JBL references the White Bronco and Roddy Piper
vs. Goldust at Wrestlemania XII. A jawbreaker puts Barrett down and
a running cross body does the same. That's about it for Dolph's
offense though as he walks into Winds of Change for two. The Bull
Hammer misses and Ziggler grabs a sunset flip for the pin at 4:08
shown of 7:38.
Rating: C.
Not enough time to go anywhere but they got in most of their
signature stuff. I'm not wild on the ending but it's nice to see
Ziggler getting a clean win over a name. I'd assume both of them
will be in the ladder match, but this doesn't put much confidence in
me for Barrett's title reign.
Ziggler
walks into a Bull Hammer post match.
Adam
Rose vs. Titus O'Neil
Titus
sends him into the corner to start but gets rollup for the pin at 42
seconds.
Titus
says ring the bell again and gets rolled up for another pin at 10
seconds.
Kane
vs. Dean Ambrose
Rollins
is on commentary. Ambrose's
new ring gear is a white undershirt and jeans. It
actually suits him well. Ambrose charges at Kane to start but gets
sent face first into the buckle. Rollins dares Ambrose to come fight
him anywhere as Kane drives knees into the ribs. Dean
stops Kane with a boot to the face and a top rope dropkick puts Kane
down. A clothesline does the same and Ambrose hammers away in the
corner.
Dean
escapes a quick chokeslam attempt and gets two off a tornado DDT.
Rollins stands up and dares Dean to come fight him but Ambrose sends
Kane outside instead. Dean dives on him before going after Rollins,
only to walk into an uppercut from Kane. Back in and the chokeslam
is good for the pin at 3:34.
Rating:
C-. This didn't have time to
get anywhere but it was more about Ambrose vs. Rollins than anything
else. Seth as part of the Authority rather than Evolution works much
better as Orton is being phased out of the group anyway and Rollins
as the new star isn't a bad idea at all. Ambrose vs. Rollins will be
one heck of a fight.
Rollins
curb stomps Ambrose post match.
We
recap the opening segment.
Big
E. vs. Jack Swagger
Colter
talks about Big E. taking a handout last week when Lana distracted
Swagger. Big E.'s music cuts him off and we're ready to go. Swagger
takes out Big E.'s leg to start and clotheslines him out to the
floor. Back in and Big E. runs him over and the Big Ending gets the
pin at 47 seconds.
Fandango
knocks on the Divas locker room door and tells Layla that they're up.
She says she'll be right there so Fandango turns around and sees
Summer Rae. Summer says she understands why Layla loves him but she
loves Fandango more. Summer kisses him and of course Layla comes out
and catches them, sending her back into the locker room in tears.
Video
on the Special Olympics.
Fandango
vs. Bo Dallas
Fandango
comes out on his own but Summer runs out to dance with him. He isn't
sure but Layla runs out to jump Summer. Fandango tries to break it
up but the girls get in the ring. Layla accidentally kicks Fandango
in the head and the girls run to the back. The Bodog gets the pin at
1:16.
Fandango
gets a pep talk post match.
The
Wyatts pop up on screen with Bray talking about a bunch of mice
running around chasing a piece of cheese. Bray is the snake entering
the maze and the monster ready to sink its jagged teeth into the
world. All he has to do is climb a ladder and take what is his to
bring us into the era of Wyatt. Can we please get the writers a
thesaurus for some new words other than era?
There
will be six other people in the briefcase ladder match to be
announced on Raw.
Roman
Reigns/Sheamus/John Cena vs. Randy Orton/Cesaro/Bray Wyatt/Alberto
Del Rio
Sheamus
and Cesaro get things going with the Irishman hammering away in the
corner. Cesaro takes him down to the mat before running away when
Sheamus gets back up. Off to Wyatt for a slugout with Sheamus with
the pale one nailing his running knee lift. Cesaro offers a
distraction and Bray takes over. Back to Cesaro who hammers away but
Sheamus says bring it on. Cesaro does just that but walks into a
powerslam anyway.
Cena
comes in for his bulldog, sending Cesaro off to Del Rio for a tag.
Alberto does about as well as Cesaro as he's taken into the corner
without putting up any offense at all. Cena tags Sheamus back in and
Reigns looks annoyed that he didn't get the tag. Del Rio gets
Sheamus into the corner for a tag off to Cesaro as the heels take
over. The Irish Curse out
of the corner sends Cesaro to the apron for the ten forearms to the
chest.
We
take a break and come back with Del Rio getting two on Sheamus off
what looked to be a suplex. A chinlock keeps Sheamus in trouble as
the fans want Roman. Sheamus shrugs it off and tags in Cena again to
work over the now legal Orton. Randy is knocked to the floor and we
get the seven man standoff followed by the seven man brawl. Orton
brings Cena back inside for the Elevated DDT and stares down Reigns.
Cena gets taken into the heel corner for some stomping before it's
off to Bray for the running splash.
Del
Rio hits the low superkick but misses a charge and falls out to the
floor. Cesaro throws him back inside for a fast tag to Orton who
powerslams Cena down with ease. Randy hammers away before it's back
to Cesaro for more of the same. A
delayed vertical suplex gets two on John and we hit the chinlock.
Reigns looks like he's about
to explode on the apron. The fact that Cole described it using the
exact same words frightens me a bit.
Cena
fights up and suplexs Cesaro down but Swiss Death prevents the tag.
Del Rio gets two off the corner enziguri but gets dropkicked out of
the air to put both guys down. He's
right back up for another low superkick to stop the tag again though
and it's back to Cesaro. A big right hand knocks Sheamus off the
apron but Cesaro is afraid to punch Reigns.
Cena
avoids a shot to the head and makes the tag to Reigns for the house
cleaning. Everything breaks down with Reigns hitting the apron
dropkick but getting sent into a forearm from Wyatt. Del Rio kicks
Roman in the ribs but the armbreaker is countered into the spear for
the pin at 16:03 shown of 19:33.
Rating:
B-. Again Reigns is made to
look like a star and treated like a main event equal. I don't think
he wins the title but it's still too early for him to do that anyway.
This did what it was supposed to do and followed a solid tag team
formula to get there. Cesaro being afraid to fight Reigns was a
great visual too.
Overall
Rating: C+. This was another
show where most of the stuff went by so fast that it's hard to grade
it. The stuff that did get time was good though, especially the
Money in the Bank build. I'm still not sure how they're going to
fill in a card with fourteen people in two matches and four in another
but they've pulled off harder tricks before. Good building show
tonight.
Results
Seth Rollins
b. Kofi Kingston – Curb stomp
Dolph Ziggler
b. Bad News Barrett – Sunset flip
Adam Rose b.
Titus O'Neil – Rollup
Adam Rose b.
Titus O'Neil – Rollup
Kane b. Dean
Ambrose – Chokeslam
Big E. b.
Jack Swagger – Big Ending
Bo Dallas b.
Fandango – Bodog
Roman
Reigns/John Cena/Sheamus b. Cesaro/Alberto Del Rio/Randy Orton/Bray
Wyatt – Spear to Del Rio
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I thought the Bo to Bray segments was a nice little segway.
ReplyDeleteCan we please get the writers a
ReplyDeletethesaurus for some new words other than era?
Well, didn't we have the Age of Orton? Those were good times.
That's one O!
ReplyDeleteTWITTA MACHINE!
ReplyDelete@milkmanv1bonzai
facebook.com/sharktheherald
ReplyDeleteThat final match was like a long, slow root canal. Ugh. Another blah SD.
ReplyDeleteBoth of you guys just won the Internet for the night, if not the month.
ReplyDelete@PerriTheSmark
ReplyDelete:)
The reign of reigns is coming.
ReplyDeleteThe new nickname for Jack Swagger is apparently "Bigg Hoss" - NO.
ReplyDeleteSharmell vs. Jenna Morasca somehow managed to beat Trish/Bradshaw vs. Jackie Gayda/Chris Harvard for single worst worked match I've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteWorst years:
ReplyDeleteWWE - 1995, period. Although 2007 post Benoit was pretty dismal.
WCW - 2000
ECW - Probably 2000 as well
TNA - 2010; man, reading that LOLTNA brought back so many bad Hogan memories
I stopped watching ROH whenever they lost the HDNet show because I don't get the Sinclair shows and they quit coming to a convenient venue so I don't know.
WWE from Benoit's death to like late 09....just wasn't feeling it.
ReplyDeleteThat was the year they completely gutted Smackdown to the point where they instantly pushed Bradshaw into a title feud and started the JBL stuff...just pitiful, NOBODY was buying it. And then they actually kind of had something with the Mordecai character but they had a total goof in it who couldn't get it over.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/HOWwrestling
ReplyDeleteAlso, if I'm not mistaken weren't Kong and Raisha Saeed involved?
ReplyDeleteKong/Jenna vs Sharmell/Saeed wouldn't be good either, but it would of been a 5 star match compared to that flaming pile of dogshit.
I'm watching the live sex Raw....Daivari managing Kurt Angle? Seriously...I don't remember this.
ReplyDeleteThe Evil Shield thing he enters in is fucking CHOICE though.
ReplyDeleteIt was toward the end of his run in WWE.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I remember it is because he cut a promo about hating black people and jesus.
LOL I remember that. I think he was doing that as a joke on how he could say the dumbest, most offensive thing and not get any heel heat. Kurt Angle in 03-06 was just STAGGERINGLY over. I think this was right before Batista got hurt and they hotshotted the Smackdown title onto him in a battle royal. He's teaming with his nemesis Shawn Michaels for some reason on this episode.
ReplyDeleteAwesome Kong was in Sharmell's corner and Sojo Bolt was involved somehow I think.....fuuuuuuuuuck was that match bad. For some reason I actually was streaming the TNA PPV that night and it just kept getting worse. My jaw was on the floor by the end of the match. I felt like i wanted to take my brain out and scrub it with a toothbrush in the sink or something.
ReplyDeleteAh they are doing Whacky Tag Team Partners That Hate Each Other.
ReplyDeleteAlso HBK lost a clean pin to Carlito in the Elimination Chamber the night before...how does this guy bitch that he didn't get a fair shake?
Best episodes of these shows; because I'm bored:
ReplyDeleteThe Sopranos: The Test Dream....very closely followed by Long Term Parking.
Breaking Bad: Fly
Mad Men: The episode where Don is drunk building the playhouse, i forget the name
The Wire: Doesn't play that well by episode without watching a big chunk; but I'd have to go with the Season 1 finale and the "String, where the fuck is Wallace?" part
Classic Simpsons: Marge vs. The Monorail - it put Ogdenville and North Haverbrook on the map.
Carlito was one of those situations where they just lost interest in the guy for some reason.
ReplyDeleteBtw, I think there's an argument to be made that last new guy WWE was willing to put over against Cena was Carlito.
It might of been Sojo. But I do remember for sure that there were two capable knockouts that could of carried a tag team match.
ReplyDeleteThey pushed him to the moon over EVERYBODY with no discernible reaction. They even put him and his talentless brother over the incredibly super over Miz and Morrison team at Wrestlemania and they still got no heat.
ReplyDeleteAgreed about Cena, this is of course when WWE still booked him to have some vulnerability.
Val Venis is on this Raw...man does he feel anachronistic in 2006.
Shelton's dimestore Madea (who is a dimestore Martin Lawrence Big Momma) yelling "beat him!" and "beat his ass, Shelton!" ad infinitum outside the ring. How did this not get him over?!?
ReplyDeleteAlso Val's promo and the opening Lita/Cena segment and the live sex thing....this Raw feels pretty dirty. Was there a "bring back the smut" initiative in early 06?
Requesting a gif of Beecher maniacally spraying the fire extinguisher.
ReplyDeleteIt begs the question of why use or pay Jenna Morasca, or Booker's wife for that matter - when their regular knockouts were working at the Sunglass Hut to pay their rent.
ReplyDeleteThey were trying to leech off her Survivor fame like 5 years after her season and she was no longer relevant.
ReplyDeleteYup, they were trying to go AE without officially bringing back the Attitude Era.
ReplyDeleteThat's why you got the live sex celebration, a DX reunion, etc.
It was like a super PG DX though - the whole TONE of the angle and why we were supposed to cheer for them. They beat up Male Cheerleaders. The whole point of the angle was 'HAHA! FAG!"
ReplyDeleteVery cool. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteThe live sex is still a great segment though. It's so stupid and you know it's not going to happen but Edge does so much to get it over. The music for it is HILARIOUS too.
ReplyDelete2009-10 DX was super PG. 2006-07 DX were kind of raunchy, but in a weird, two 40 year olds kind of way.
ReplyDeleteThere was a weird paranoid homophobic jock thing to it...haha, they are grilling big long sausages on the Summerslam poster! They are shoving the McMahon's face into The Big Show's ass...haha! Asses and sausages....but not male cheerleaders, that shit is gay.
ReplyDeleteCunnilingus getting a pop from the WWE crowd?
ReplyDeleteFourteen people in one match?
ReplyDeleteI'm not trying to be funny here, but you realise there are 2 separate ladder matches, right? One for the title and one for the standard briefcase.
So if both of those are long enough, there's plenty of roster to fill the other gaps.
I don't think that many wrestling fans watch Survivor. Hell, do many people watch Survivor? I haven't heard anything about that show since like 2001.
ReplyDeleteThe Con-Chair-To...there's a spot you won't see anymore. Flair took a nasty one. It's a recipe for a Con-Cuss-Ion
ReplyDeleteThey manage like 10 million viewers or some shit. Plus, they have like 20-something seasons in a 15 year period.
ReplyDeleteKeep in mind this is the same company that thought at the time having two black guys steal people's stuff, one of their writers going out in a thong and rubbing baby oil on himself while dancing, and calling a midget a bastard were good ideas.
ReplyDeleteCryme Tyme was really tongue-in-cheek and the guys playing it were having fun. Tone and context makes a hell of a difference at how something is perceived.
ReplyDeleteThe fat thong writer guy thing was abysmal, also the Trump vs. Rosie match.
I actually liked the "Lil Bastard" name better than "Hornswoggle".
I guess I just don't watch CBS. It's the television equivalent of hospital food.
ReplyDelete*sharpens knives*
ReplyDelete*loads pistol*
*fills chainsaw with gasoline*
*crafts nail bomb*
I'm watching Vengeance 2007, the infamous ECW title match between CM Punk and Johnny Nitro (filling in for Benoit). It seems like the Network edited out any of the announcer's references to Benoit, but not the loud "We want Benoit" chants from the crowd.
ReplyDeleteHa. I expect nothing less from this group.
ReplyDeleteThat Shelton story line of course led to a PPV match in which Viscera mock-humped Shelton in front of his mom. Talk about emasculation.
ReplyDeleteI was asking about the baby-oil dancing guy in another thread the other day. Who was that and what was that gimmick about?
ReplyDeleteIt's been sewn on the front of his jacket for a long time, they don't actually ever call him that on commentary do they?
ReplyDeleteConan wrote that Simpsons episode.
ReplyDeleteI think 1998 might be the most underrated year in WWF given how amazing it was. WrestleMania-Survivor Series was an amazing run. Sure the year limps to the finish with a terrible December but the rest is filled with some of the best moments in Raw history from Austin, Vince, Rock, Triple H, Undertaker, and a hugely fun mid card.
ReplyDeleteDo you call yourselves movie critics?
ReplyDeleteAs Nick said, Twitter is great for building an audience and networking. Far better than FB as I've found that people are more likely to follow someone than accept a friend request. It's pretty benign and easy to get out of if you end up not being interested in the person's tweets. I hated unfriending people on Facebook. It was always awkward and I felt like I owed them some sort of explanation as to why I unfriended them. It's even more awkward when its someone you work with or see regularly.
ReplyDeleteTwitter is GOLD for businesses, too. Companies of any size can position themselves as a trusted authority in their specific industry and end up having a positive effect on the company's bottom line. It's great for customer service/interaction as well. An interaction is the company and whoever tweeted them instead of the initial contact from the customer and then 349874597 people adding their two cents as things frequently unfold on Facebook.
Once a week? It'll definitely fly as that, daily might be a bit much for the sheer amount of content.
ReplyDeleteAs for today's World Cup Matches:
ReplyDeleteArgentina break Iran back, make them humble old country way. 4-0.
Ghana will make it a game, but come on, it's Germany. 3-1.
Bosnia-Herzegovina beats Nigeria, 2-1.
Yeah, once a week for sure. It'd be pointless to do a daily one since most indy stuff is usually restricted to the weekends anyway. They'll end up varying in length, essentially dependent on how much is going on. This initial one is pretty long (I actually removed some stuff) but there was significant stuff going on last weekend and numerous big shows this weekend/next weekend. I think it's still pretty easy to navigate through though. Looking forward to Scott posting it and getting everyone's feedback.
ReplyDeleteI think you guys will like it. I cover several promotions that are blowing up right that don't get a lot of coverage from "mainstream" wrestling sites and inject a fair bit of snark as well.
That crowd must have felt... strange, the next day. And especially by the week after.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Ghana beat Germany like, 4-2 last time?
ReplyDelete2010 World Cup, group stage:
ReplyDeleteGermany won 1-0.
I'm @stevenferrari
ReplyDeleteI very rarely tweet about wrestling, mostly retweet work stuff, with the occasional comics and baseball talk.
You're nuts.
ReplyDelete2005/2006 ROH was light years ahead of 2008.
I'd say you're biased here because 2000 was much better. 2001 actually doesn't look so bad in comparison (each year seemed to get progressively worse for a while), but it was also a year that saw a lot of people I knew who loved wrestling, quit watching.
ReplyDeleteI would throw 1997 into the mix for the WWF. It was getting slaughtered by Nitro in the ratings, but from about WrestleMania until Survivor Series, WWF was incredible. I didn't realize how good it was until I rewatched it on Classics on Demand a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteI would also put 1985-1986 in for NWA/WCW. 1989 had some great wrestling but 85/86 had much better overall booking.
1998 was definitely great. It unfairly gets limped in with the bad parts of the Attitude Era because Russo wrote both 98 and 99, but 98 has aged way better.
ReplyDeleteHuh. What a weird false memory.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find any more recent scores... maybe they did play a friendly in between the World Cups.
ReplyDeleteBut using a friendly as a gauge... well, the U.S. beat Germany 3-2 last time they played. Not something I'd trust in making a prediction.
And then I find an article. Germany and Ghana have played twice:
ReplyDelete1993 friendly: 6-1 Germany
2010 World Cup, Group Stage: 1-0 Germany
We need to brainstorm things for Roman Reigns.
ReplyDeleteSingin' in the Reigns
Roman Showers
Why does it always Reigns on me?
Reign O'er Me
Roman Reigns: Supreme
Do the Reigns dance
Roman the red-nosed Reignsdeer
No pain, no Reigns
The Roman will make you speak Greek
Hey Niko, it's your cousin, Roman!
Reigns in Blood
@elmomachete, imaginative I know. My Dad convinced me to make it just to tie down the name on various websites (some I had no interest in using, like Twitter) just in case I ever needed it for marketing purposes. Marketing WHAT, I still don't know. Haven't used it in like a year or two.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I checked it out of curiosity one day recently & found that Andrew W.K. had tweeted (ugh) the picture of the custom LEGO figure I made of him, which is awesome.
2001 had two very damaging botches (not in the technical sense, in the booking sense): Austin turns heel (although he TRIED to make it work, it never felt right), and the InVasion (no excuses there).
ReplyDeleteNo Morishima in 05/06.
ReplyDeletePunk totally buries that match on the blu ray they made about him.
ReplyDelete@robmck3898
ReplyDeleteAngle was feuding with Cena, and, shockingly, the crowd was cheering Angle over Cena. So they did every thing short of having Angle molest children to try to get people to cheer for Cena.
ReplyDeleteFacebook is stupid too. Now get the fuck off my lawn and turn that God damned music down!
ReplyDelete"Crazy or not, I might need you"
ReplyDelete"To do what?"
"To be my brother."
O'Reilly might be my favorite fictional character ever.
1995 wasn't that bad, the workrate wasn't bad outside of some shitty Nash main events (and in his defense, they always paired him with people even worse), though that might just be nostalgia, 1995 was when I started watching. 2010 and 1993 were way worse, and 2013 is up there too. Really, 2013 sucked ass for WWE, TNA, and ROH.
ReplyDelete@jfinan1987
ReplyDelete@SilentVolume
ReplyDeletesince i'm a fair guy, after i made the post, i read through the comments and saw that justin henry posted cambot
ReplyDeletehe's different!
ReplyDelete(but only after season 8)
WCW's 1999 was worse, if you were watching. By the summer of 2000 the ship was slowly righting. And those three 2001 ppvs weren't bad.
ReplyDelete@crankyvince
ReplyDeleteWait...no.
FREE PLUG FOR MAFFEW!
ReplyDeleteI think 2000 was worse, but we're having the kind of conversation like "Hey, would you rather get punched in the face or kicked in the balls?" Obvious answer is "none of the above", unless you're into CBT.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, those last 3 PPVs were OK, and IIRC Starrcade 2000 isn't a bad show either. Fuck man, it has Evan Karagis (sp?) in a ****+ match! And Cult, go ahead and call me an idiot, but I liked tha better than any of the TLC trilogy. And yes, I know there was 4 (5, really) of them, but I don't know the word for that. Quartergy?
@AwelCruiz
ReplyDeleteIt's really telling how bad 1999 was when it gets people to hate the attitude era but if you judge the Attitude Era as 1997-2001 that is an INCREDIBLE stretch of wrestling. 1997 was their comeback year and one of their best, 1998 was consistently entertaining and a great year with Austin kicking ass on top, 2000 is my favorite year for any wrestling company ever, and 2001 from the Rumble-Mania features the greatest stretch of PPV's WWF ever ran and some quality TV.
ReplyDelete1999 is the only year of the Attitude Era that sucked, but it sucked so fiercely that people sometimes assume the other years were the same.
Now I don't wanna romanticize because every year I listed also had some down points as well.
That's the clip from the old Botchamanias with the chick throwing the awful slaps, right?
ReplyDeleteHe was a writer for the company and his on-screen character was a fat male stripper called "Big Dick Johnson".
ReplyDeleteNo surprise, it was Vince's idea.
@Place2BeNation
ReplyDelete@mfreemanwriter
ReplyDeleteI'm here but I never post anything interesting so I'd be happily surprised if anyone followed me: https://twitter.com/DTHitman
ReplyDeleteI'm fine with that. Morishima was (is?) a good wrestler, but nothing from 2008 can match how deep ROH's roster was in 2005 or the incredible ROH vs. CZW feud from 2006.
ReplyDeleteI also think it helps, for certain fans at least, that 1997 had ECW still hot, WCW firing on all cylinders (popularity-wise) and the WWF's rebound. Even in 1998, ECW was getting more popular and the booking hadn't completely fallen off a cliff yet, WWF was great and WCW had Goldberg. But by 1999, ECW started to really decline, WCW was getting REALLY bad and Russo was at his WWF worst.
ReplyDeleteBasically what I'm saying, is that because wrestling was really hot in 97 and 98, not just the WWF, that I think it made those two years more fun overall than they normally would have been if only one company were doing anything noteworthy.
@raycornwall
ReplyDelete@Peyton_drinking
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