http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/blog.php?8067-Sucram-MaI Wrestling News and Discussion - eWrestlingNews.com Community en Tue, 21 May 2013 09:12:53 GMT vBulletin 10 http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/blog.php?8067-Sucram-MaI http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1470-WWE-s-biggest-mistakes-a-recap Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:40:39 GMT After reading comments on this page from the readers about how TNA was so awful and WWE was the best thing since sliced bread. Let's recap some of WWE's greatest failures that we've lived through:

1) The Montreal Screwjob: Enough has been said about this that it's way past old news, but before this we weren't seeing behind the scenes documentaries and how the matches were put together. Vince and Bret slapped wrestling in the face when they publically argued and debated year after year about who screwed who on that deal. So for one angle back in 1997, we lost decades of credibility of those that knew wrestling was scripted but never needed to admit it or talk about it. Imagine if they did this in the movies and put out documentaries all over showing the villain who just got shot in the movie getting up and the director yelling cut


2) The WCW/ECW Invasion: Another clearcut screwup by Vince. You owned the 2 biggest wrestling federations and bought out the contracts of some of the best WCW stars, then hired the biggest WCW stars (outside Sting) years later. Can you please tell me any WCW vs. WWE feud that was memorable for good reasons? The whole thing ended in a survivor series style match that nobody cared about, because let's face it, we all know Vince was going to buy this guy and that guy just so he could play action figures with his booking and let his guys beat out the stars made in other territories


3) Wrestlemania: You can say what you want about it, but watch one of the original wrestlemania shows on DVD or VHS, then throw in a video of this past year's wrestlemania, or any of the others from the past few years. The WWF would have never had 2 (soon to be 3) rematches like we see with HHH and Taker at their biggest show of the year, they would come up with new feuds and roles. Take Andre and Hogan for example, you had the 2 biggest stars at the time and at Wrestlemania 3 they put on arguably the biggest Wrestlemania of all time, the next year they met in a tournament match and that was the end of it. The writers today don't have the skills to shock us, even with a Live broadcast. They have the roster, they have the venue, so someone please explain to me why Snooki and Trish Stratus were headlining this year's wrestlemania when neither are even fulltime wrestlers?


4) The Hall of Fame: This is one of the biggest jokes yet. Look at the baseball hall of fame, look at football's hall of fame, any sport you like. Does anyone else put in a one-time shot Celebrity in with their greatest talents as an homage? Pete Rose, Refrigerator Perry, Drew Carey, the list goes on and on. We want to be taken seriously as wrestling fans or at least respected. Look at WWE's wall of fame and who's on it and tell me that we deserve to be respected if these are our greatest athletes


5) Outrageously stupid angles: Not the ones that only a few of us think are stupid and the rest think are great. How about Katie Vick with HHH dressed as Kane having sex with a fake corpse in a casket? How about the Vince McMahon Kiss My Ass club, How about Vince Vs. Stephanie in a street-fight?, How about Vince in any match at 60+ years old against a full-time wrestler and us being expected to take it seriously? How about Mae Young giving birth to a hand, How about Rikishi the fat samoan guy with assless tights rubbing his butt in people's faces, the list goes on and on. No wrestling company is perfect in this area but come on, some of these angles make you wonder if the WWE thinks of us as mentally retarded or an extremely low education level


6) Trademarks: How many times have we seen a wrestler come into WWE with their own unique gimmick, WWE tosses a few catchphrases in their vocabulary and suddenly WWE "made" the gimmick according to them. It's funny how in Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, any sport you see people trade teams but get to keep their name and attitude. Just look at how many of the 80's and 90's wrestlers can't even go do an indy show with their own gimmick that they created because Vince owns them


7) Linda's politics: It's amazing how much the WWE changed since Linda entered politics. Her career choice changed the direction of the whole WWE (which she supposedly wasn't that involved in already) All of a sudden certain moves were too dangerous, certain phrases were too controversial, let's turn blood and fighting into hugs and teddy bears right Linda? Didn't help her anyway, people saw through her lack of knowledge and experience and she got blown away in the election


8) The term Wrestling: It's amazing how Vince's dad goes decades promoting wrestling, Vince goes decades promoting wrestling, then after going publically traded and not wanting to have to cover employees' healthcare like a sport would, let's change the term to "sports entertainment" and call the wrestlers "sports entertainers"
Gee Vince, for as much money as you and your family have made off the fans with your WRESTLING, it's amazing how quick you turned your back on the product you claim you created


9) WWE to WWF: We used to always think of the WWF as being this indestructible force, all the media, all the money, all the big names. Who would have thought that they would job out to an Animal Rights group and change the whole name of the company to save their asses. When the Panda bears carry more power than you, you just lost my faith in your company. You're supposed to be a huge company packing 10s of thousands of seats in arenas all over the world, and an animal conservation company made you their bitch? No wonder Vince walks so funny


10) The Tape Library: Vince owns all the wrestling footage outside of ROH and TNA, so 10 years ago it was only natural to get excited when he was going to put on a tv network with 24 hours of wrestling footage so we could relive the good days. 10 years later what we got was a paying online membership to watch edited video clips. How many matches got edited off tapes, how many botches covered, how many controversial footages just vanished into thin air. One man owns the history of wrestling and he decided to retell it with his versions of the stories



There's 10 for you out of the list of millions of mistakes we have WWE to blame for and will never see justice on.

Thanks for Reading,

-Sucram MaI ]]> Sucram MaI http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1470-WWE-s-biggest-mistakes-a-recap http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1439-10-that-make-up-the-Internet-Wrestling-Community Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:09:30 GMT After reading some of Bischoff's rants about how the internet is such a small minute part of the puzzle, I would like to take the chance to show you a few examples of why Mr. Bischoff or anyone would be wrong to dismiss the IWC so quickly......

1) Matt Hardy: Long before the story hit WWE airwaves about Matt Hardy/Lita/Edge, it was all around the net. So if the IWC only makes up a small percentage of the wrestling fanbase, how did the fans know enough to start up the "You screwed Matt" chants before anything was discussed on TV?

2) Goldberg vs. Lesnar: You'd think if you put the 2 Supermen of wrestling in a match at Wrestlemania that it would be a success right? Long Before Wrestlemania the IWC knew about Lesnar and Goldberg planning on leaving WWE which led the fans to the "Na Na Hey Hey Hey Goodbye chants" Again, nothing mentioned on TV, but the IWC's presence was enough to start a chant going through the whole arena at the biggest show of the year.

3) Chris Benoit: If wrestling fans only went by what they see on WWE programming, they'd be pretty puzzled about what happened to Chris Benoit other than he passed away. The IWC however were googling the hell out of Benoit the day that it happened and are the reason that wrestling fans really know what happened, or at least part of it

4) ECW: In the ECW days, we could name tons of examples where the fans knew what was going on before it was announced in the ring about who would be leaving, who would be coming in, the IWC knew the info sometimes as quickly as the talent. Even in the old days they used to post the ECW shows online before broadband quality was even here. You would be seeing a choppy ECW show on Realplayer, but it was still an ECW show when they didn't have TV exposure. Out of Paul Heyman's own mouth, the network didn't promote ECW, so if you were watching, you HAD to be a fan to know when they're on. Hello IWC with all the information

5) Wrestling Magazines: Remember back when WWF magazine, or Pro Wrestling Illustrated would be must-haves every month? Running down to the store or news-stand to pick up the latest issue and find out everything we could about wrestling. All of that's gone with cassettes and VHS. When the Internet came in, we saw a LOT of wrestling magazines fall to the floor and crumble because it was easier for fans to google something and get the info free than to wait 2 months for something to be reported on in a magazine and have to pay for 2nd hand news


Twitter: Have you ever noticed the percentage of wrestlers that now have a Twitter, Facebook, or Myspace page? That's direct interviews with unfiltered questions, that's first-hand information sometimes quicker than the wrestling companies receive it, That's True Power!!!
Ever notice the way that TNA and WWE keep a close watch on Twitter and make sure that nothing's said that could jeopardize things? Seems kind of silly if you believe them and the way that they portray the IWC to be such a small piece of the pie.


In conclusion, these are just a few examples of why the IWC presence is more powerful than people would assume by what the federations would like you to believe. Let's hope wrestling companies start paying closer attention to what the IWC really thinks and wants before we see another 2001.

-Sucram MaI ]]> Sucram MaI http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?1439-10-that-make-up-the-Internet-Wrestling-Community