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TI0 
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(5/6/02 9:22)
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Re: Lesnar, Michaels, & the nWo - RAW Spoilers.
If you can actually spoil a piece of crap.
Watching RAW is a BORE last night, was impressed by how stiffly Lesnar was working and how well he was being sold - very reminiscent of the Rocky IV Rocky-Ivan Drago match. Both Bubba (shocking new gimmick) and RVD sold appreciably without depreciating themselves.
I think this has to be the future of wrestling; the stock moves have no effect anymore, so it's going to require a shift and refocus from "Sports-Entertainment" and back to "Sports", with competitors working stiffer. We can no longer find moves everyday fare.
Awhile ago, on Rocket's Moonsault Central I believe, I suggested in relation to Goldberg that instead of bringing him down to everybody's (mortal) level, bring everybody up to his echelon. Make everybody stronger, tougher, and more resilient. After watching Lesnar/Eddie versus RVD/Bubba, I'm convinced this is the way to go.
Sean Michaels - have long-long-long touted he's the logical successor to Hogan as leader and the focus of the nWo. Have read that physically he's ready, but mentally he's been apprehensive about where he'll sit in the pecking-order with the likes of Austin, Rock, and Tripe all now ahead of him.
Somebody must be reading me somewhere.
I was about to suggest a new nWo angle for the hell of it, involving an nWo Red & Yellow and Hogan gradually but inevitably taking over SLACKDOWN and ousting McMahon. Hogan and his nWo would be doing it for "the good of wrestling."
Invariably, McMahon would be foisted out but return with a handful of credible heels and fight to regain the Company. However, maybe he'd come through RAW first, using the Black & White, and leading to a proper nWo showdown.
Then again, that'd involve good writing - so for the benefit of the Worst Wrestling Entity, I'll propose a Michaels-Austin feud. They won't have to write that one.
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Hugemon 
Posts: 209
(7/6/02 10:19)
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 Re: Lesnar, Michaels, & the nWo - RAW Spoilers.
Good observations, SILK...but I still have a few reservations.
Like we were discussing in an earlier thread, you can have the greatest cast in the world, but if your script BLOWS GOATS, your production will fail, ultimately lowering the market value of the very same names that you recruited to help bolster your own flagging production values.
Let's face it...McMahon is incompetent; hiring family members like it was his obligation, instead of hiring professionals that both know their jobs & perform them at well above an average level of proficiency.
By ALL means, let Shane do his death-defying leaps off the buckle- the fans LOVE to see it, but keep your butt-ugly wife off of my TV, & get that stupid little Steph-infection off of the damned writing team!!! I think she's even the HEAD writer...
ROTFLMFAO...that would explain a lot. I hope her head is better than her writing, but she probably phones that in, too.
I like the *stiffness* that you mentioned. One of the things that Russo used to mention, that I fully agreed with, was that more "reality" was needed...
So many of todays fans KNOW that everything in pro wrestling is scripted & choreographed beforehand...at least give them a convincing show of the violence that they came to see.
Benoit's return was excellent...Shawn Michael's HUGE return was totally out of the blue.
But neither of them are really wrestling yet, so that leaves everything up to the writers of the Worst Wrestling Ever....
God help us...we're F-ed again.
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