Welcome one and all, to my debut column. It’s good to be here writing for the bleacher report and I certainly hope that this column will be as much fun for all of you as it is for me. My intro will be short and sweet, but rest assured that any pro wrestling column written by yours truly will most certainly not be.
From now until I can no longer write or the pro wrestling business dies altogether, whichever comes first, you can expect to see a column every weekend from me. Each column will take a unique and hard hitting view at whatever happens to be going on in the world of professional wrestling.
So I suppose you could say that this opening statement is in fact the mission statement of this column. This column will make no excuses, take no prisoners and leave no stone unturned. It is my objective that you will come here every week and see something that you’ve never seen in pro wrestling journalism before, which sadly is not something you can say about either the WWE or TNA products right now.
Without further ado, let’s end this opening promo before it starts sounding like another long winded 20 minute Triple H show opening promo and move forward.
Heading into one of the big shows of the year, the news hasn’t exactly been great for the “E.” Stocks are floundering in the upper nine, lower 10 dollar range and there have been reports of the company losing money in recent weeks, which isn’t exactly shocking news given the current condition of the economy.
After watching every hour of television produced this week by WWE, it isn’t hard for me to understand why people just aren’t tuning in to watch the show or spend their hard earned money on a Pay-Per-View. Vince McMahon and his creative team are more out of touch with the modern day television audience than an Amish man living in the country up in Lancaster County Pennsylvania.
Furthermore, they’ve proven to be completely inept in regards to the quality of the product they are currently producing. Let’s take a glimpse at some of the events that have gone down both on and off the camera recently in the WWE that prove these points.
Goldust appears set to return to the WWE: News like this makes me wonder just what the hell is going on during the creative meetings up in Stamford, Connecticut. Think about this for a second…you run the WWE. Your stocks are plummeting, your profits are vanishing, the ratings are scraping the bottom of the barrel, and your answer to this is to bring in none other than…Goldust?
I'm exaggerating here…I know that WWE isn’t brining in Goldust to build the company around, but they probably have some likely unfunny angles they’d like him to be apart of until they invariably fire him once again.
8 comments Last one added 7 months ago — Leave a Comment
Hulk Hogen 7 months ago
The Last Man ..SHUT UP !! if you want short boring Articles go somewhere else..like wwe.
Jason Le Blanc me and th rest of my friends LOVED your article..oops i mean novel. the stuff you write about hits the nail on the head, i agree with you 100% looking forward to your next 10 page articel. Great read. keep up the great work.
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Shane H. 7 months ago
Well, after that intro I was expecting greatness. 5 star article, although many of this has been beaten to death here. Great read. I didn't mind the length. I blazed through it actually.
I loved that line about Dollar General.
I'm a Jamaican myself and although Kingston isn't really Jamaican, I was happy to see him on TV. I was hoping the WWE would go deeper into his character but that was not to be.
Good debut. Keep them coming.
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Gabe Mambo 7 months ago
Solid job, there. I think I'm ready to start writing my own articles...in basketball, but still, you're an exemplary sports writer, even in the kayfabe world of wrestling.
I really liked the part about CM Punk and the lack of pushes for others. CM Punk should still be a contender for the World Heavyweight Championship, and the Next Generation Stable push is long overdue. MVP is jobbing to "Kung Fu Naki" while trying to get a stupid incentive bonus, and Triple H is still WWE champion. Vladimir Kozlov is a Russian Brock Lesnar, yet more bland. The Brian Kendrick's tag team partner should be The Paul London, but unfortunately, he was future endeavored. Elijah Burke is also gone, and Gail Kim is yet to be seen. The Creative Staff is becoming ultimately stupid, and we have to deal with their stupid crap, every stupid week. I am not going to deal with this crap every stupid week for the next few years. The Creative Writing Staff should just think about things for a while and actually make some action. If not, I'm going to stab them to death...and when I do that, they'll be dead from stabbing.
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Shane H. 7 months ago
" If not, I'm going to stab them to death...and when I do that, they'll be dead from stabbing."
roflol, well I would assume they would, but hella funny anyway
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WWE Fan 7 months ago
The whole US/world economy is in trouble, and you blame WWE's stock drop on their creative team?? LOL Good one.
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Jason Le Blanc 7 months ago
People will ultimately find a way to put money into a product they deem worth their money. I guarantee you that if the shows were really worth people going out of their way to see...they'd go see them and/or they would buy the pay-per-views. In a sturggling economy, you better have a kick ass product that'll get people reaching for their wallets...and the WWE doesn't have that...and the people responsible for that product are in fact that people that book, produce, write and put together the shows. If the product sucks and no one cares about the characters on the screen, they'll find something else to do with their cash.
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monkey house 7 months ago
Jay, nice read. i agree with you that tha wwe doesn't know what to do with some of thier talent. punk is a great example.
the booking over the last year has been awful and i end up skipping through most of raw, smackdown is unwatchable, and it's a crime what that clown vince has done to the three most sacred letters in wrestling...ECW.
i'm not an economist, and i don't know the ratings and buy rates. however i do know that a shitty product never helps the bottom line
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Daris Brown 7 months ago
uh-oh. One of the many causes of death for WCW was the fact that they didn't know what to do with talent, i.e. the radicals and even bret hart.
Will the WWE fall to the same fate?
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