Wrestling – Why Am I Still Watching?

I ask myself that very ques­tion each week. Mind you – I watch nei­ther WWE nor TNA pro­gram­ming live. DVR all the way – then to boot, I fast for­ward through pretty much all of it. So why do I bother at all, you ask? I will admit, I am a glut­ton for pun­ish­ment. The happy-go-lucky girl in me thinks, “maybe it will get bet­ter”. But friends, the real­ist in me, which is the larger part than the happy-go-lucky one, knows it won’t.

I pose a ques­tion to you– does any of this sound famil­iar? Stale, rehashed sto­ry­lines, dis­mal, pre­dictable matches, reliance on writ­ers who can’t come up with any­thing worth watch­ing, wrestlers with real tal­ent being con­stantly buried, and to top all of this off, g–damn geri­atric old WCW tal­ent that keep on being pushed into the spot­light. Yes, I am sure it does. We call this WWE Raw, WWE Smack­down and TNA Impact. The sad part is, with all the money these shows gen­er­ate, I can pretty much guar­an­tee it will be this way for the imme­di­ate future. Money > Qual­ity folks. It is what it is.

Here are my main gripes. Matches are pretty much the same every other week. If you’ve seen John Cena wres­tle Wade Bar­rett once, you’ve seen it a mil­lion times. Kennedy ver­sus RVD? Yup, have seen that too. Don’t even get me started on the bull­shit that is the Divas and Knock­out Divi­sion — seri­ously, that’s a post for another day. Come on peo­ple! I hereby pre­dict that the Raw on June 7^th will be 65% the exact same as the Raw show from last week. Please, give me some new stuff, new sto­ry­lines that aren’t shi­teous, and some new tal­ent. Why do you bother hav­ing a Tough Enough series when you will most likely bury whomever wins to either Mason Ryan or Maryse? Unac­cept­able. I hon­estly sit through these shows with Rich and say what will hap­pen next. Like clock­work. “Wait for Nexus run-in”…..and there’s Nexus music. I say it every week – I should get paid to write for WWE.

Fin­gers and toes to count how many times we’ve seen this

Oh, and hey TNA – what the frack hap­pened to you? We went to a house show on Long Island a few years back, right before TNA went more main­stream, and I must say, that show was bet­ter than any WWE event I ever went to. Real wrestling, no stu­pid drama, and a meet and greet with tal­ent right after – for free! This I can guar­an­tee will never hap­pen again with this Hogan/ Bischoff shit. They have taken a com­pany that had so much poten­tial, and made it a car­bon copy of WWE. I can­not express in words how dis­ap­pointed I am in the change that has gone on in that com­pany over the past few years. The TNA-born ros­ter, in my opin­ion, is more tal­ented than that of the WWE, yet all we see each week are the guys WWE has fired. Don’t get me wrong, I like Angle, Mr. Ander­son, RVD and the Hardy Boys. How­ever, I started watch­ing Impact for guys like AJ Styles, Motor City Machine Guns, Jay Lethal, Samoa Joe, Amaz­ing Red, Christo­pher Daniels, LAX, Beer Money, etc. Those guys went hard week after week and out­per­formed any­one on any other show. TNA was about WRESTLING. I liked that – small sto­ry­lines that were real­is­tic – not this overblown shit they have going on now. Plus, they took away the six-sided ring!!! One of the biggest things they had to make TNA stand out. They TOOK IT AWAY?!?! I am dumb­founded – and wish that Dixie Carter would mag­i­cally make the com­pany how it was. I do not want to see Hogan, Bischoff, Flair, Sting. Sting as Cham­pion = 1996. Stop it. Plus, now they are try­ing for Gold­berg?! I just puked on my floor. Bot­tom line — give Hogan and Bischoff the boot. Their ship has run its course.

Andrea

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