Simply put, it IS the WWE's fault.
They have gotten lazy and unoriginal. They are stretching to come up with some of the most God awful stuff. As I mentioned before, Kizarny was pretty weak. Rumors claim it's his in-ring skills which are the reason he hasn't been on TV, but quite frankly I blame the ridiculous character given to him. Yet, you, based on how you continuously try to explain this, are essentially telling me that Kizarny is the result of Internet fans who have caused the WWE to become completely lazy with their writing and character direction/development. Yeah, good luck selling that to anyone on this site.
Story lines are becoming predictable....even for those who don't visit sites like these....they are either drawn out too long or cut to short. Here's a great example:
Remember when Viscera was fueding with Charlie Hass because Hass accidently knocked Lilian Garcia off the ring apron, thus hurting her? Now, remember when after three or so weeks of matches, they suddenly were friends? How did the WWE explain this? Well, during a backstage interview, when questioned how they could suddenly be friends after such a heated feud, they replied with....
"We could tell you.....but we won't!"
Wow....clever. So clever on the part of the WWE. Now how about the Kelly-Kelly and Kane angle? How would it unfold? Who would Kelly's secret lover be? Well when WWE changed their minds on the whole thing, they made it Randy Orton and for the sake of killing the angle before it really gained any interest or momentum, he axed her. Ironically enough, a few weeks later, Randy Orton mentions how he has recently become a father. So apparently this little trist with Kelly-Kelly has no consequences. Then, Kane just stopped caring. Great. Great story....man was I hooked.
It's quite sad that even storylines from the late 80s and early 90s (when much of the WWE was cartoon-like) were so much more developed, entertaining, and dare I say more unpredicable.
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Excuse me, as this will be a long opinion expressed by me. I don't know what percentage of internet wrestling fans there are. But I don't get the attitude, if he has it, that Vince scraps things because of the internet.
Take the Christian thing for example. So what if fans expected Christian to be Jeff's attacker. If I was Vince McMahon, that would make me want to do it more. You know why? Because I would think "If the fans expect this, and are very enthusiastic about it, it means that they will "buy" the storyline, leading to PPV buys, when Jeff Hardy and Christian feud, meaning fans will tune in to see them face off on Smackdown etc". It is actually a guarantee that your idea will be over with the fans, leading to buy rates for PPVs. I mean, doesn't Vince claim that he gives the "WWE fans (oh sorry, WWE Universe, what they want")?
I have heard that two examples of an internet rumour not being true, whether it was just a stir or was pulled, was that there was going to be a match between MNM and Matt Hardy and a mystery partner at "No Way Out 2005". It was heavily speculated that Matt's mystery partner was Jeff, who had just reopened negotiations with the WWE. It built and built, and everyone was craving an MNM vs the Hardys at "No Way Out". So, imagine the disappointment when Matt's partner turned out to be- Tatanka- the WWF Red Indian character from the 90's, and the match sucked accordingly, totally thanks to Tatanka's poor ringwork. It was specualted that Jeff was going to be the partner, but was pulled because everyone guessed.
Another example is that,after Vince fired Bischoff as "on-screen GM" , he said that he would announce a new GM the next week. The next week came, and he weakly claimed that the WWE fans were the GMs , as the matches were put on for them. Or is it because the internet guessed who his intended GM would be. It was rumoured to be JBL.
JBL was out injured, and was originally touted to go to raw to be GM (and he would have done a great job), but everyone guessed right, so instead JBL was moved to commentate on Smackdown (which he also did a good job of), and Raw had no GM. I heard too, that they made Mike Adamle GM for the simple reason that "no-one would ever guess Mike Adamle as GM".
I am not blaming the internet fans for this. I am saying that the fans would have not only accepted this, but being big into it. So why would WWE cut off its nose to spite its face, just to trick people? WWE should just do these things, and then swerve us elsewhere. Or have more than one possible idea (such as have three storylines for Jeff, with a different attacker in each, such as Christian, Matt and ? ! That way, no-one knows for sure which way WWE will go, but be creative enough that whoever the attacker turned out to be, people would be shocked.
ok heres my opinion.
