Smackdown hits an all time low

 

 

I'm not just referring to the pathetic excuse for a show that was on last night. I didn't watch, but I did read a write up of the show online, and that was just as bad. Last night's show was just another example of how little the WWE currently cares about Smackdown. Here's what I haven't understood for a long time, and continue not to understand. If the WWE doesn't have any interest in putting any effort in to the show, why keep it around? Much the same way as, if the WWE doesn't have any interest in the World Heavyweight title, why keep it around? It makes no sense. They just seem to be going through the motions with some stuff. It's clear that certain wrestlers are never, and I mean never [okay perhaps once a year] on Smackdown. Obviously they're deemed too important to appear on a half assed, horrible written show like this. 

Last night was bad, but it wasn't that much worse than usual, it was just a much worse version of the crap you normally get. The card was cut in half [or even in to a 3rd] and most of the show was filled with re-caps and Wrestlemania promotion. Smackdown is often used as a re-cap show for Raw, but this time it was used to keep hopping over to fan Axxess for pointless segments and promotion of their big Pay Per View. Type in #WWEsucks on twitter, you'll see I'm not the only one complaining. It really was a horrendous show, but it just stuck the nail in the coffin to what was already a pointless show if you ask me. Any arguments that Smackdown has a purpose have evaporated. If there is a purpose, it's to annoy fans. I've seen better Heat shows back in the day. Oh and dear WWE, what about the fans who paid to be there? Do they deserve to sit through a show that is just used to promote another show? This calls for some refunds to cheated fans, and while they're added, how about giving them their wasted time back?  

Overrated wrestler of the week

Lex Luger

 



Whenever I'm a little stuck, wondering about who to stick in here, all I need to do is have a look at a list of champions and pick somebody who clearly did not deserve a title reign. That's why this one is easy, and to be honest, it's not just because he is a former champion, it's because he somehow passed for being a wrestler, when he wasn't one.

Luger is one of those bodybuilders who managed to get in to the wrestling business, quite simply, thanks to his physique. This is a 2 time WCW World Heavyweight Champion and a man who headlined multiple WWF PPV's back in the early 90's. Have you ever seen him in the ring? I know I have and I now wish I had spent my time better. It's not that I watched him and thought, he's no Bret Hart and Chris Jericho. It's that I watched him and thought, when is this guy going to actually, you know, wrestle? He spent most of his fairly short matches posing in the ring, taunting [by posing] and trying to lift the crowd [by posing again]. The occasional kick or punch was thrown in, with perhaps a suplex if you were lucky [it didn't always happen]. Then, his traditional submission finisher, and it was over, unless of course he lost, then there was no traditional submission finisher. He and Batista are two absolutely perfect examples of muscle men who have shown that even if you have zero wrestling ability, you can still make it to the top [more or less].

 

Who's driving this flying umbrella?

 

Does the WWE have anyone in charge. You'd think it was the big, greasy, egotistical self loving Vincent Kennedy McMahon, but by the way things are unfolding in the company, perhaps he's taking a lot of time off from the helm of the company and leaving the running to Mr Helm-sley? Perhaps not. Stephanie? Doesn't seem like it. Okay so one of the three has to be held responsible, but I'm actually going to pay them a compliment. I believe they have all been involved in wrestling too long to be making decisions as stupid as the most recent one I heard about. If I had to pick somebody though, my money's on Vince. Despite creating the biggest wrestling promotion [although he likes to call it an empire] in the world, I have seen more than enough loony ideas in the past to believe that he has just thought this one up as well.

What's the decision? Alberto Del Rio's super face push actually. No I don't have any problem with him being heavily promoted as a top baby face. It's the way that they intend to do it. This is what I have a problem with. I have a problem with the fact that someone in the WWE was stupid enough to actually make the serious suggestion of bringing in a writer from a Spanish 'telenovela.' Yes you heard [saw] right. There's no mistake in the sentence. If you didn't know, the WWE want to hire a writer from one of those awful Spanish soap opera's, to write Alberto Del Rio's storylines, because the Spanish writer should be more plugged to the Spanish audience of today, at least, more than the ordinary dim witted people who currently make up storylines in the WWE.

No! Si! No! Si!

The writing is bad enough as it is, why make it worse? Then again, the storylines in the WWE are currently horrible. The acting is about as wooden as wooden gets. This guy should fit right in. He/she going to be working with the same type of oily air head bimbos and muscle-men on steroids, as he/she does in the telenovela shows he writes for. I can just see it now. Love angles, lots of intense camera pans, zooming in and out of Alberto Del Rio's face to show his true emotionless, emotion. Doesn't it make you laugh? It used to make me laugh. Wrestling, I mean. I used to find it funny in a positive way. This was many, very many, looooong years ago. Now I only laugh because the alternative would be to cry.

I don't know, perhaps it's just that I'm older, so I now see just how lame the WWE is, but then again, it can't be. When I stick in an old tape and watch a show from 10, 12, or 14 years ago, I still enjoy it. Something was better back then. Now it's ruined. It could be that it was just a unique unrepeatable era. Perhaps there was something in the air during those years, it was wrestling's high time. Now, I think, if only there was something in the air, to wipe out most of the roster and writers with them, we might get better shows.