Post by Meng Lao on Jul 30, 2006 0:23:19 GMT -5
Well it's that time again! Time to go another round with Meng Lao in the Meng Dynasty!
Tonights eddition is going to cover a number of topics including..The Ultimate Warrior..The state of the WWE and what needs to be done to fix it and last but certainly not least my thoughts on the passing of Eddie Guerrero...so lets get to it
Recently I purchased and watched in it's entirity "The Self-destruction of the Ultimate Warrior" Also I have read both of Warrior's commentaries concerning the DVD and I gotta say the Warrior is without a doubt the biggest asshole professional wrestling has ever seen! I'm not basing this solely on the DVD in fact I base it mostly on Warriors comments on his website! Warrior being the piece of nuts that he is, is actually happy that Bobby Heenan had cancer and went so far as to say Heenan deserved it! Then theres the comments he made about Droz reffering to him as a cripple! Warrior I hate to break it to you but both Bobby Heenan and Droz had more wrestling ability in their collective left testicles then you had in your entire body! You had an entrance and thats it period! Warrior also made comments about Triple H's possible steroid use..now I don't know for sure if Trips is using roids..chances are he's on something but you Warrior were most definately on the juice..All you have to do is look at Wrestlemania 8 I believe it was..when Warrior made his first return..The WWF had introduced a strict drug testing policy after the steroid scandel and when Warrior made his return he was so shrunk up that the fans didn't believe it was him! Hell he couldn't even do the gorilla press anymore! Finally Warrior called Todd Grisham a homo! Thats..oh wait never mind..Grisham is a homo..bottom line Warrior had zero skill and never should have made it as far as he did in wrestling. He wasn't in it for the love of the business..he was in it for the money and nothing else.
The WWE is currently mired in a funk..ratings are down..house show attendance is down..Lets face it the quality of the WWE's product is in the crapper right now. Here are a few things that need to be done to improve the WWE..
1. Direction...currently the WWE has very little direction..The only titles that get any focus lately are the WWE and World titles..it seem like nothing else matters..there is very little direction on the Intercontental title..hell last night at Survivor Series the IC title wasn't even apart of the Last man standing match between Trips and Flair..Long gone are the days of the IC title being viewed as a steping stone to the world title..how many former IC champs went on to become World champs..hmmm...Randy Savage, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Steve Austin, The Rock..and the list goes on..now the title is little more than a mid carder title...The US title? It has had very little direction since the WWE brought it in..I mean how long did they leave it on Orlando Jordan..something like 4 months or something then he jobbed it off to Benoit in less than 30 seconds follow that up with several rematches that didn't go any longer! Now that makes the belt look good doesn't it! a champ loses the belt in under 30 seconds then loses 3 return matches in about the same time..WOW the US title can be won by any jobber! Who's next? Gillberg? They have at least begun to create a storyline around the US title with Benoit VS Booker T best of 7 and they are doing something they should have been doing all along..paying tribute to angles and stories that have worked in the past..for those who don't know Benoit and Booker T had a best of 7 series in WCW for the TV title and produced some great matches! I'm not saying the WWE needs to copy old story lines but use stuff that worked in the past as a base for some storylines now. Lets see..Women's division..practially dead! there are maybe 4 possibly 5 good women wrestlers in the WWE right now and 2 of them are on Smackdown Melina and JBL's chick with that big..whatever it is on the side of her face. She didn't look as though she were out of place in the wrestling ring in the Eddie Guerrero tribute diva battle royal. Bottom line no wrestlers..no storylines. Tag Team divisions..now thats a laugh..there haven't been any storylines or real tag teams of note in the WWE since 2000 or 2001..nowadays they throw 2 guys together..have em win the tag belts and hold them for a month or so then they turn on each other and start a feud of their own..the story line never revolves around the tag belts..period.
2. Green newcomers...Stop bringing up guys before they are ready to be on TV..give them time to develope a character and develop their skills..hell use the character they develop in OVW if the fans like it then go with it if they don't then change it..over the past couple of years WWE have been bringing in way too many green horns from OVW who just aren't ready..Batista..when he first came to the WWE he was horribly green, John Cena he has practically no wrestling skill at all he can talk and thats it..fans are starting to realize this and are constantly booing him out of the building but Vince and the WWE are just to stupid to realize this and get the belt off of him. The only people cheering for Cena now are a bunch of little teenage girls. Carlito.. another guy who can talk and has no in ring skill and now I hear that he may be in an Elimination Chamber match at the next RAW PPV going for the WWE title? WTF? Lets not forget Bobby Lashly..the guy is huge and he has a ton of power but he is sloppy as hell and easily gets lost in his matches causing him to be looking around wondering what he should do next. Then there are guy like Orlando Jordan, Shitsky..er Snitsky and Tomko these guys are simply not ready to be on TV. There are however a lot of very talented wrestlers out there that could help WWE..Kid Kash.The WWE has him but they aren't doing a damn thing with him..Vince watch some NWA TNA tapes of this guy!..I haven't seen a guy rile up a crowd like Kash did in TNA in years! There were times I didn't think he would make it out of the arena alive! Kanyon is still out there The WWE really dropped the ball with this guy..1. he's a fantastic wrestler and 2. they had a fantastic story line dumped in their lap and didn't do anything with it! Kanyon suffered a shoulder injury..an infection got into it and d**n near killed the guy..The WWE could have pushed him as the come back story of the year! instead he made his big return jumping out of a wooden box singing to the Undertaker "Do you weally want to hurt me..". Is the WWE insane? There others but thats 2 that stick out for me.
3. I mentioned it above..dig back into the WWE library and look back at some of the WWE best storylines from back in the 80's and early 90's...hell you've got both the WCW and ECW libraries as well look back through those too..dig out some of those great storylines from years gone by and re use them again today! Nobody except for wrestling fanatics like myself, Krull and Bonesaw will remember these storylines so use em!
4. This is the last one I promise..When you bring in a guy from another fed..someone who has name recognition from ECW or WCW or even NWA TNA use that recognition don't change it. From things I have read ol Vinnie Mac likes to take a guy from another fed and repackage him so he can say he made him a star. Yes Vince has created many stars this way..Diesel, Razor Ramone, Steve Austin, Undertaker and Mick Foley to name a few. However I speak from experience when I say this..it doesn't always work..because I'm sure I was one of a great number of people who were pissed off when you brought Cactus Jack into the WWE and changed him into Mankind..sure Foley got over as Mankind but he was already over as Cactus Jack and I thought Cactus would have made a better opponent for Taker back then than Mankind..sure they are the same guy but they're 2 different characters.
My final topic for this edition of the Dynasty is a sad one for me...Eddie Guerrero...I have put off posting my comments until now..I don't know why..I just did. I never had the opportunity to see Eddie in person but I sure as hell enjoyed watching him perform in ECW, WCW and the WWE over the years..He was one of the greatest performers to ever grace the squared circle..Krull was the one who called me up and told me that Eddie was gone...I couldn't believe it..it was only a day before his death that I read that the WWE was planning to put the World title on Eddie because Batista was injured..I couldn't wait to see the title switch go down...One day later any thought of the title switch was gone I could only think about what Eddie's friends and family were going through...I pulled out my Eddie Guerrero DVD and relived some of his greatest in ring moments one last time..I even did a few image captures for a possible Eddie Guerrero tribute AVI..but I suck at making AVI's so I have left that job to the only man capable of making an appropriate tribute AVI..Bonesaw...We came up with an idea as well..We want anyone who reads this to come up with a name for the character and post it here..we will pick the one we like best and it will become AWX's tribute to Eddie Guerrero.
I can't help but be a little selfish when I think of the great feuds we will miss out on because of Eddie's passing..feuds with guys like Shawn Michaels, Triple H or even a great world title feuds with Chris Benoit or Rey Mysterio...
The world has lost not only a great wrestler but a great man as well....Rest In Peace Eddie Guerrero..
Thats it for this edition of the Meng Dynasty and as always feel free to respond to anything you read here.
Meng F'N Lao
Tonights eddition is going to cover a number of topics including..The Ultimate Warrior..The state of the WWE and what needs to be done to fix it and last but certainly not least my thoughts on the passing of Eddie Guerrero...so lets get to it
Recently I purchased and watched in it's entirity "The Self-destruction of the Ultimate Warrior" Also I have read both of Warrior's commentaries concerning the DVD and I gotta say the Warrior is without a doubt the biggest asshole professional wrestling has ever seen! I'm not basing this solely on the DVD in fact I base it mostly on Warriors comments on his website! Warrior being the piece of nuts that he is, is actually happy that Bobby Heenan had cancer and went so far as to say Heenan deserved it! Then theres the comments he made about Droz reffering to him as a cripple! Warrior I hate to break it to you but both Bobby Heenan and Droz had more wrestling ability in their collective left testicles then you had in your entire body! You had an entrance and thats it period! Warrior also made comments about Triple H's possible steroid use..now I don't know for sure if Trips is using roids..chances are he's on something but you Warrior were most definately on the juice..All you have to do is look at Wrestlemania 8 I believe it was..when Warrior made his first return..The WWF had introduced a strict drug testing policy after the steroid scandel and when Warrior made his return he was so shrunk up that the fans didn't believe it was him! Hell he couldn't even do the gorilla press anymore! Finally Warrior called Todd Grisham a homo! Thats..oh wait never mind..Grisham is a homo..bottom line Warrior had zero skill and never should have made it as far as he did in wrestling. He wasn't in it for the love of the business..he was in it for the money and nothing else.
The WWE is currently mired in a funk..ratings are down..house show attendance is down..Lets face it the quality of the WWE's product is in the crapper right now. Here are a few things that need to be done to improve the WWE..
1. Direction...currently the WWE has very little direction..The only titles that get any focus lately are the WWE and World titles..it seem like nothing else matters..there is very little direction on the Intercontental title..hell last night at Survivor Series the IC title wasn't even apart of the Last man standing match between Trips and Flair..Long gone are the days of the IC title being viewed as a steping stone to the world title..how many former IC champs went on to become World champs..hmmm...Randy Savage, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Steve Austin, The Rock..and the list goes on..now the title is little more than a mid carder title...The US title? It has had very little direction since the WWE brought it in..I mean how long did they leave it on Orlando Jordan..something like 4 months or something then he jobbed it off to Benoit in less than 30 seconds follow that up with several rematches that didn't go any longer! Now that makes the belt look good doesn't it! a champ loses the belt in under 30 seconds then loses 3 return matches in about the same time..WOW the US title can be won by any jobber! Who's next? Gillberg? They have at least begun to create a storyline around the US title with Benoit VS Booker T best of 7 and they are doing something they should have been doing all along..paying tribute to angles and stories that have worked in the past..for those who don't know Benoit and Booker T had a best of 7 series in WCW for the TV title and produced some great matches! I'm not saying the WWE needs to copy old story lines but use stuff that worked in the past as a base for some storylines now. Lets see..Women's division..practially dead! there are maybe 4 possibly 5 good women wrestlers in the WWE right now and 2 of them are on Smackdown Melina and JBL's chick with that big..whatever it is on the side of her face. She didn't look as though she were out of place in the wrestling ring in the Eddie Guerrero tribute diva battle royal. Bottom line no wrestlers..no storylines. Tag Team divisions..now thats a laugh..there haven't been any storylines or real tag teams of note in the WWE since 2000 or 2001..nowadays they throw 2 guys together..have em win the tag belts and hold them for a month or so then they turn on each other and start a feud of their own..the story line never revolves around the tag belts..period.
2. Green newcomers...Stop bringing up guys before they are ready to be on TV..give them time to develope a character and develop their skills..hell use the character they develop in OVW if the fans like it then go with it if they don't then change it..over the past couple of years WWE have been bringing in way too many green horns from OVW who just aren't ready..Batista..when he first came to the WWE he was horribly green, John Cena he has practically no wrestling skill at all he can talk and thats it..fans are starting to realize this and are constantly booing him out of the building but Vince and the WWE are just to stupid to realize this and get the belt off of him. The only people cheering for Cena now are a bunch of little teenage girls. Carlito.. another guy who can talk and has no in ring skill and now I hear that he may be in an Elimination Chamber match at the next RAW PPV going for the WWE title? WTF? Lets not forget Bobby Lashly..the guy is huge and he has a ton of power but he is sloppy as hell and easily gets lost in his matches causing him to be looking around wondering what he should do next. Then there are guy like Orlando Jordan, Shitsky..er Snitsky and Tomko these guys are simply not ready to be on TV. There are however a lot of very talented wrestlers out there that could help WWE..Kid Kash.The WWE has him but they aren't doing a damn thing with him..Vince watch some NWA TNA tapes of this guy!..I haven't seen a guy rile up a crowd like Kash did in TNA in years! There were times I didn't think he would make it out of the arena alive! Kanyon is still out there The WWE really dropped the ball with this guy..1. he's a fantastic wrestler and 2. they had a fantastic story line dumped in their lap and didn't do anything with it! Kanyon suffered a shoulder injury..an infection got into it and d**n near killed the guy..The WWE could have pushed him as the come back story of the year! instead he made his big return jumping out of a wooden box singing to the Undertaker "Do you weally want to hurt me..". Is the WWE insane? There others but thats 2 that stick out for me.
3. I mentioned it above..dig back into the WWE library and look back at some of the WWE best storylines from back in the 80's and early 90's...hell you've got both the WCW and ECW libraries as well look back through those too..dig out some of those great storylines from years gone by and re use them again today! Nobody except for wrestling fanatics like myself, Krull and Bonesaw will remember these storylines so use em!
4. This is the last one I promise..When you bring in a guy from another fed..someone who has name recognition from ECW or WCW or even NWA TNA use that recognition don't change it. From things I have read ol Vinnie Mac likes to take a guy from another fed and repackage him so he can say he made him a star. Yes Vince has created many stars this way..Diesel, Razor Ramone, Steve Austin, Undertaker and Mick Foley to name a few. However I speak from experience when I say this..it doesn't always work..because I'm sure I was one of a great number of people who were pissed off when you brought Cactus Jack into the WWE and changed him into Mankind..sure Foley got over as Mankind but he was already over as Cactus Jack and I thought Cactus would have made a better opponent for Taker back then than Mankind..sure they are the same guy but they're 2 different characters.
My final topic for this edition of the Dynasty is a sad one for me...Eddie Guerrero...I have put off posting my comments until now..I don't know why..I just did. I never had the opportunity to see Eddie in person but I sure as hell enjoyed watching him perform in ECW, WCW and the WWE over the years..He was one of the greatest performers to ever grace the squared circle..Krull was the one who called me up and told me that Eddie was gone...I couldn't believe it..it was only a day before his death that I read that the WWE was planning to put the World title on Eddie because Batista was injured..I couldn't wait to see the title switch go down...One day later any thought of the title switch was gone I could only think about what Eddie's friends and family were going through...I pulled out my Eddie Guerrero DVD and relived some of his greatest in ring moments one last time..I even did a few image captures for a possible Eddie Guerrero tribute AVI..but I suck at making AVI's so I have left that job to the only man capable of making an appropriate tribute AVI..Bonesaw...We came up with an idea as well..We want anyone who reads this to come up with a name for the character and post it here..we will pick the one we like best and it will become AWX's tribute to Eddie Guerrero.
I can't help but be a little selfish when I think of the great feuds we will miss out on because of Eddie's passing..feuds with guys like Shawn Michaels, Triple H or even a great world title feuds with Chris Benoit or Rey Mysterio...
The world has lost not only a great wrestler but a great man as well....Rest In Peace Eddie Guerrero..
Thats it for this edition of the Meng Dynasty and as always feel free to respond to anything you read here.
Meng F'N Lao