slimmshady
Pre-Show Stalwart
Looking back over the last decade, a question that pops up in a lot of people's minds is how could the wwe have built such an enormous platform of success, only to let it collapse in the space of 2-3 years.
One obvious reason that you would say is, the loss of some of the greats. The rock, austin, hogan, lesnar and the list goes on. But when you add a question over how some of these guys were lost, I'm talking about the rock more specifically, you would see that it was all about fame, recongntion and more importantly the money. The fame and money that the wwe gained when the rock starred in the mummy returns as the scorpion king was enormous. However, as we all know there is always a consequence to fame and that was the rock, arguably, left the business he once worked so passionately for, in order to make a lot of money over at hollywood (don't get me wrong, I probably would have done the same thing. Having said that I would still return to the business occasionally in which dwayne has competely abandoned).
A similar story could be told of how brock lesnar used the wwe to build his reputation and fame in order to pursue his dream at UFC.
Another reason why the wwe has gone downhill over the last 5-6 years is due to the failure to produce new main eventers to replace the older ones. In my eyes, in the last 5-6 years wwe has produced and kept three new main eventers - Cena, Orton and to a certain extent, Batista. These 3 were the only guys I could think of that made their debut in the early 2000's and achieved main event status. In contrast look at the number of main eventers during the attitude era, the rock, austin, triple H, michaels, undertaker, kane, angle, jericho and the list goes on. What went so wrong?
My final reason why wwe has failed is the lack of variety and depth to the tv matches. Looking back at some youtube classic matches, I saw one that stood out to me and that was the 7 man tlc tag match for the world tag team titles on raw 2002. If you haven't seen the match then luckily I have some links for all three parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkVObtRkAA8 part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q2PpRsx2Ow part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhTQyBT7-nM part 3
Watch the match and tell me when was the last time wwe staged a tlc match for the main event of raw? We rarely ever see this kind of excitement at a ppv let alone monday night raw. Week in week out we see the same main event matches over and over again - against the same two or three opponents. Then the wwe have the nerve to call them main events. For example, we always see cena vs orton or legacy vs triple and cena etc. Now to me, a main event match is meant to symbolize something different and special from the rest of the matches during that show. Correct me if I'm wrong but I can recall only ONE COMMERCIAL BREAK throughout the ENTIRE TLC MATCH. Something that the wwe would never allow today.
You see a star is born when people can remember one thing about them that stays in their memory for eternity. For example, when the undertaker threw mankind off the hell in a cell cage years ago and when jeff hardy performed a swanton bomb from the top of a 20-30 foot ladder.
In concluding, I want to say that the fans are the ones to judge whether someone is a wwe main eventer or another failure. So by providing us with spectacular moments that stick in our heads, vince will gain new stars that he has been craving for ever since the loss of some his greats.
P.S. I highly recommend everyone to watch the entire tlc match. Your eyes will be glued.
One obvious reason that you would say is, the loss of some of the greats. The rock, austin, hogan, lesnar and the list goes on. But when you add a question over how some of these guys were lost, I'm talking about the rock more specifically, you would see that it was all about fame, recongntion and more importantly the money. The fame and money that the wwe gained when the rock starred in the mummy returns as the scorpion king was enormous. However, as we all know there is always a consequence to fame and that was the rock, arguably, left the business he once worked so passionately for, in order to make a lot of money over at hollywood (don't get me wrong, I probably would have done the same thing. Having said that I would still return to the business occasionally in which dwayne has competely abandoned).
A similar story could be told of how brock lesnar used the wwe to build his reputation and fame in order to pursue his dream at UFC.
Another reason why the wwe has gone downhill over the last 5-6 years is due to the failure to produce new main eventers to replace the older ones. In my eyes, in the last 5-6 years wwe has produced and kept three new main eventers - Cena, Orton and to a certain extent, Batista. These 3 were the only guys I could think of that made their debut in the early 2000's and achieved main event status. In contrast look at the number of main eventers during the attitude era, the rock, austin, triple H, michaels, undertaker, kane, angle, jericho and the list goes on. What went so wrong?
My final reason why wwe has failed is the lack of variety and depth to the tv matches. Looking back at some youtube classic matches, I saw one that stood out to me and that was the 7 man tlc tag match for the world tag team titles on raw 2002. If you haven't seen the match then luckily I have some links for all three parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkVObtRkAA8 part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q2PpRsx2Ow part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhTQyBT7-nM part 3
Watch the match and tell me when was the last time wwe staged a tlc match for the main event of raw? We rarely ever see this kind of excitement at a ppv let alone monday night raw. Week in week out we see the same main event matches over and over again - against the same two or three opponents. Then the wwe have the nerve to call them main events. For example, we always see cena vs orton or legacy vs triple and cena etc. Now to me, a main event match is meant to symbolize something different and special from the rest of the matches during that show. Correct me if I'm wrong but I can recall only ONE COMMERCIAL BREAK throughout the ENTIRE TLC MATCH. Something that the wwe would never allow today.
You see a star is born when people can remember one thing about them that stays in their memory for eternity. For example, when the undertaker threw mankind off the hell in a cell cage years ago and when jeff hardy performed a swanton bomb from the top of a 20-30 foot ladder.
In concluding, I want to say that the fans are the ones to judge whether someone is a wwe main eventer or another failure. So by providing us with spectacular moments that stick in our heads, vince will gain new stars that he has been craving for ever since the loss of some his greats.
P.S. I highly recommend everyone to watch the entire tlc match. Your eyes will be glued.
