Even when Brock Lesnar and Eddie Guerrero were champions, WWE was pretty fun to watch. Whenever there was a Brock Lesnar vs Kurt Angle match up and you didn't read the spoilers, you honestly wouldn't know who would be going over and they had fantastic matches too. Whilst the late 90's and early 2000's were undoubtedly great there were some great moments too in 2003.
Yeah, though I dont really have too much of a problem with Cena his title reign was extremely tedious, unless they turn him heel (which is extremely unlikely I would have thought - due to all the kids merchandise etc..) he should stay well away from the mainevent scene for a good while now.
Yeah indeed, I remember there was a Kurt Angle vs Undertaker match on smackdown (which ended in a DQ when brock interfered incidentily) when I genuinely thought it could go either way, and tbh there were serval occasions between 99 and 04 in which I thought that could happen, in fact it was a regular thing. For me the mainevent scene only really began to get predictable after WMXX, when JBL took the WWE title from Eddie I pretty much boycotted the whole thing for a few months, and ever since I started watching again its not been the same. Ironically the feud for a world title that I have enjoyed the most since is probably Y2J vs Cena leading up to Summerslam 05, though again credit to Y2J for making it interesting and carrying Cena, and actually making Cena over with the fans.
It could be a whole lot better though. London and Kendrick are doing nothing, absolutely nothing. Cryme Tyme has some value in being an entertaining comedic tag team, but apart from the odd backstage skit they are doing nothing. Jessie and Festus are also entertaining to an extent.
Cryme Tyme should be given some sort of solid program over a course of weeks imo, not only are they entertaining in terms of comedic value, but they are also decent ring workers, both of them could make decent singles competitors one day. London and Kendrick also need a program, instead they spend most of their time being squashed by Umaga, who in turn will go on and job to someone higher up on the card, ala Mark Henry (who for some reason hasnt been laid off by the company).
Yeah I agree, I saw a lot of the angle where Kurt and Tomko had a falling out and Styles had to referee one of their matches, was impressed with his work there, hope he goes over Angle when they face off, imagine he will as well.
Taker actually jobs a lot less than guys like Trips and Shawn. The thing however that makes him different is that he very very rarely ever buries anyone in the way that the two mentioned do.
yeah, good points. Pretty much why Taker is universally liked by smarts/marks and just fans in general.
Angle was only second to The Rock in this IMO. I mean FFS he made Shane McMahon look like he could be a title contender, such was his ability to put people over, both during promos and especially in the ring.
The Smackdown Six era was my favourite period in wrestling. Heyman building the show around some incredible guys with some believable storylines clinched it. That the workrate was off the hook doesn't hurt, either.
The Jericho situation is interesting. The feud with Michaels still could continue, but with the draft coming up I'd love to see him on Smackdown and take on Batista and then Edge. Edge vs Jericho for the World Title would be a dream match up for me.
Would love to see Jericho on Smackdown, would be so awesome to see him live in November, that would probably make my year!
is there any news on how long his injury will keep him out for? as like you say this is a real shame, as he was beginning to do a great job and was looking very credible. Much as it would be good to see Kennedy step up to face off against HHH it looks unlikely, esspecially with Cena owning JBL last night.