He must have really hated them

I have thought this for a long time. In fact, I might have even said it to some of you who are my followers before I started this blog. But I figured hey, I have a blog, I might as well voice it to the world. With that said..........Vince McMahon must have hated WCW. Let's study the facts. WCW pretty much started the Monday night wars, by starting Monday Nitro and going head to head with the WWE and RAW. In the beginning, Nitro was there as competition, but later on, when they were winning the Monday Night Wars, WCW was trying to put WWE out of business. Eric Bischoff makes that abundantly clear in most the interviews he has done since the demise of WCW. These are good reasons for Vince not to like that company (or Bischoff for that matter), but the reason I am making this point in this blog is, 2006 Vince resurrected ECW. Now, I was not a huge fan of ECW (neither on their own, nor in WWE). I didn't think they had a good product, and I don't think most of their wrestlers were very good. Hell, I still think they’re not that good now. I have never, ever liked RVD. I have always thought he was one of the most overrated wrestlers in the business (which I may do a blog on soon). The "innovator of violence," Tommy Dreamer, is not good either. And don't get me started on The Raven, The sandman, and Sabu. HORRIBLE! The only good guy they had was Taz, and he broke his neck before the world could see just how good he was. But with all of that being said, Vince still chose to bring a version of ECW to WWE, even though everything was pointing to adding WCW. He even tried to incorporate WCW early in the 2000’s with the members “invading” the company. But of course that concept ran on too long. Too many wrestlers, and not differentiating WWE and WCW stars. Then he tried the brand extension, and you thought you would have 2 different companies. But again they waited too long, and let the concept get stale. Then you bring back the World Heavyweight Championship belt. You make it the main Championship for RAW. This is the same belt that Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat, Dusty Rhodes, Sting, and Goldberg all wore and made famous in WCW. This was the time to recreate WCW in his own image. But instead, he kept the brand extension, even though both brands are WWE. Why not call them WCW, and WWE. Keep the "companies"(not brands) split. Have separate pay per views. Bring some of the WCW favorites like The Great American Bash (hey, they tried), Starrcade, and Halloween Havoc (which was just to have something in October), and have them compete against each other (or at least make it look like they are) to keep us, the fans, interested. He even brought back the US title (a title that was used in WCW) to be a 2nd tier championship in WWE. But Vince didn't do any of this. And the reason why… because Vince Hates WCW! But Vince didn't do any of this.

AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A sign of things to come.......? I hope not.

So the next WWE pay per view is here. The name of it is Night of Champions. For all of my non WWE close followers, this is a pay per view where all of the championships in WWE will be defended. Now, 10 years ago this would have been a quick show. But now you have six major titles. Some people say there are too many titles. I don't necessarily agree with that. Before I say that, I think I should be honest with all of my followers. I love title belts! I love title belts so much, I have bought a few online (and I plan to buy a few more).  You can see how my love of belts could make me a little biased toward keeping all of the titles. The titles are a way to let a wrestler know that they are good enough to carry the company; either as the main champion, the 2nd tier champion, or as a tag team champion. This was always a way for young wrestlers to come up and make a name for themselves. It was also a way for the company's to show faith in the wrestler they put the belt on. Recently the WWE has decided to consolidate their titles. They unified the tag team titles, and they are going to unify the Woman's and Diva's titles at the pay per view. I hope this is not going to become the trend. Since acquiring WCW in 2001, the WWE is pretty much 2 Wrestling companies. That is why you must keep either separate championships for both brands, or you have to unify all championships, and make the champion work on both shows like they did back when they had an undisputed WWE champion. I think it’s possible to have champions that can travel to both brands and make the new guys coming up look good. But WWE won't do that. If they unify the titles they will forget about the 2nd tier title just like they have forgotten about the tag titles. I have told you guys in a past blog about how important those titles are. You need them for the guys who are not quite popular or in good with the fans to get respect and gain a following as an up and coming superstar. If they unified the titles, how would we respect Dolgh Ziggler on Smackdown as the IC champ!? What about the Miz on Raw? With only one 2^nd tier champ would he get his chance to be a top heel? Unify the woman and divas, and let them and the tag champs battle it out. But keep the other titles separate and give the new comers a shot at fame.




AND THATS THE BOTTOM LINE!

Maybe you are kid, maybe you are!

I have been meaning to write this blog for the last 2 weeks, but I had other pressing matters (you can read my earlier blogs, to figure out what I am talking about). Finally I have a chance to give someone credit for working hard. Basically working his way up through the ranks of WWE and becoming, believe it or not, a top superstar in that company, if not in the entire business. And I am sure some of you are going to be upset when I say this, but Miz, you are AWESOME! At first I, like all of you, looked at the Miz as some dummy who went from being on the real world for 30 years, to trying to be a WWE superstar. I remember watching him on a lot of those MTV shows, and him doing wrestling impressions. When he made it to WWE "Tough Enough", the WWE's reality show about giving aspiring wrestlers a chance at being in WWE (basically the old NXT), I thought, "oh this kid is serious about this". But I also looked at him compared to the other guys on that show and thought, "this kid is too small to make it in the big leagues". But he paid his dues. He went to Ohio Valley Wrestling, which is the WWE's minor league wrestling company, where they send wrestlers to get them ready for the "Big Leagues". After he spent some time there, working on his craft, he was "called up", to Smackdown! On Smackdown! he was not used as a wrestler much. He had these horrible segments as the "host" of smackdown, or some crap. It was awful. Then he was moved to the now defunct ECW. There he had a chance to work on his microphone skills, which are fantastic, and his in-ring wrestling ability. He was paired with John Morrison, and they were very successful, winning both the WWE, and World Tag Team Champions (at different times).  After that he was moved to Raw, and turned on Morrison. Since then, he has feuded with John Cena, wrestled Against Kofi Kingston, and had another run as Tag Team Champion, with the Big Show. All the while have some amazing matches for someone who did not have a lot of the wrestling back ground that some others have had. Miz is a two time United States Champion, and after the "Money in the Bank" pay per view, he is next in line to become the WWE Champion. Again, at first I would have thrown up little bit in my mouth thinking this. So you know back then, there is no way I would have said it. But time changes a lot of things. HE IS THE MIZ....................................AND HE IS AAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE!

Wait.............. That was it!?

So I was watching the big huge 900th episode of Raw last week. I thought I would see some of the guys who made Raw the show to watch on Monday night, if not in all of pro wrestling. But last week, what I got was just a big dud. Again, you had 17 years and 900 episodes of Raw, where were all the stars that made Raw. Where was Stone Cold(I know I know, he is my boy, so I had to start with him), the Rock, Shawn Michaels, Vince, Stephine, and Shane McMahon( I know you are wondering about Linda, but she is in politics, so I am sure she will not be on TV for a while, if ever again). I know these guys are pretty much retired, but I thought this was a big deal. It was made out to be a huge event. So where were all of the people. And not just that, it was a regular episode of Raw. Why go through all of the dramatics, if you are gonna have a normal episode of Raw. You didn't even see Triple H, who is not retired, where was he. We all know he is the heir to the WWE throne, and he has been out since right after Wrestlemaina, but come on, no Triple H. No son-in-law, future hall of famer, no 13 time champion? You mean to tell me, he couldn't show up, and say something. He could have even brought the kids. I just don't understand why have such an underwhelming show for such a monument event. Kane, Undertaker, John Cena, Randy Orton, Edge, Jericho, and even Nexus, were all there. And they did there best to make the show ok. But WWE, could you have brought back all of the HOFers for this big show. Where was J. R.? Ross is Monday Night Raw! Could you not find him to at least call the "main event". All I'm saying is I think the WWE should have come up with a lot better effort than this. Truth be told, this sucked!!!!!!! Maybe next week!

AND THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!