WWE: Potentially Great Story Rejected for Old Standard

Very rarely does a wrestling company do something that catches the entire IWC completely off guard. It's these moments that wrestling fans live for; the ones that catch us off guard, and have us waiting on the edge of our seats for what they will do next.

Remember when the Nexus debuted? It was an incredible moment that stunned the entire WWE fan base, and is considered by many to be one of the best beat downs in wrestling history.

We couldn't believe that these talented rookies would band together, and we most definitely couldn't believe that management would allow Cena to be slaughtered.

It's moment like these that wrestling fans live for.

Last week we were treated to another great moment in "the walk-out." WWE had done a fantastic job of building to that point; The Miz and R-Truth were running wild, and it honestly looked like the whole company was spiraling out of control under Triple H's reign.

To me "the walk-out" will be one of the biggest "holy crap" moments in recent WWE history. The sheer fact that everybody walked—including the commentators, referees, lower-card faces—and that Jerry Lawler was the one who put the final nail in the coffin was a fantastic moment.

Everyone was buzzing with excitement when Raw started, and it began with a very good opening promo followed by a very interesting (four men running the show) concept.

Then Vince McMahon killed the angle. So much for the new WWE.

The moment he walked out, I honestly feared that something stupid was going to happen, and it did. He basically fired Triple H in the middle of the ring, and Triple H just walked away without a word.

That was the first b.s. moment of the night: Triple H (The Game) walking to the back like a little kid who just got a spanking from daddy.

Then Vince kills the angle completely by giving Laurinaitis control and bringing the entire locker room back from protesting outside (the protesting was a nice touch). So Vince just threw away a genuinely interesting storyline in order to give us Heel GM version No. 2546. WTF?

Now I have no problem with a good heel GM (it's the old standard for a reason, it works), but it's the kind of angle you put on when you haven't got anything good going, and the WWE had something great going with the walkout/strike.

This sentiment was shared by the viewers as well.

In the first hour of RAW there were 5,375,000 viewers; in the second hour that number dropped down to 4,667,000. That means 708,000 fans turned off RAW because of what they saw.

Wasn't WWE supposed to be listening to the fans in this "new era?"

The Hiring of John Laurinaitis wasn't even the worst thing. Laurinaitis fired Jim Ross in OKC (sound familiar? It should) without informing Ross beforehand, and then hired back Miz and R-Truth, effectively destroying their whole "rebels against the conspiracy" gimmick by adding them to the conspiracy.

That was hands down the worst RAW I have ever witnessed, not because the matches were terrible, but because the writers destroyed what was a very promising storyline, and replaced it with the same old stale booking that fans have been complaining about.

Bravo WWE, I have never seen a promising storyline killed so brutally.