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Originally Posted by BryanBusby
-General thought: There's just too many PPVs. Too many performers are being recycled for the same set of matches over and over and the booking quality is dropping at a tremendous rate. It really is not surprising PPV buy-rates are tanking.
They need to cut out about a 3rd of the overall amount of PPVs. Work out deals with advertisers and sprinkle around some commercial free "supershows." Feels like I've watched 3 of these PPVs around a month of time.
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This. Even if I wanted to (I don't) order all these PPVs, there's no way I could afford it. Hell, I even forgot Vengeance was Sunday night until 3/4 of the way through after Punk tweeted something about fake tanner being for pussies...
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Originally Posted by keg in kc
That was the flattest, lamest way possible to introduce the Rock tagteam at Survivor Series.
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Originally Posted by keg in kc
So, the CM Punk angle has killed wrestling for me.
I watch, if I feel like it, the first hour of raw, and then the last 5 minutes, since my dvr is locked out at 9 pm to record a couple of primetime network shows. And I don't feel like I'm missing anything. At this point, I can just save myself the time and read a recap. They're usually awful programs anyway.
But back to Punk...
The timeline of the angle, best as I can remember, is this:
- Punk cuts one of the best promos of the last decade, ostensibly about wanting to change the WWE
- Punk, with interference, beats Cena in Chicago, leaves with the belt
at this point it looks awesome...
- Punk appears at Comic-Con, HHH is inserted into angle as COO
- Punk returns after a single week
...tailspin engaged...
- Angle continues to be about change, building toward Punk/HHH
- Kevin Nash appears, build slants toward inexplicable Punk/Nash match, Nash takes out Punk
- Nash has mysterious medical condition, Punk/HHH match hotshotted
- HHH beats Punk
- Punk teams with HHH
What?
- Nash interferes, Punk loses tag team match to Miz/Truth
- Now we have Nash/HHH and Punk/Del Rio at Survivor Series
So somehow we've gone from Punk championing change to Punk being generic babyface number 4 (behind Huntor, Cena and Orton), apparently okay with everything as long as he gets his ice cream bar. He's losing repeatedly on PPV, now he doesn't get revenge on Nash, who thanks to his "medical condition" doesn't have to job to anybody but his good friend HHH (who already has a win over Punk - because Huntor really needs the rub... this is classic Nash/Cliq behavior...), and now Punk's almost certainly going to lose to Alberto Del Rio at Survivor Series. Which I'm actually okay with philosophically because they need to stop tossing the belt around.
But jesus, this has been handled almost as poorly as Nexus.
And it's got me tuning out. To the point where I feel stupid about ever buying into the angle at all to begin with. |
Eh, you shouldn't feel stupid for buying in, because the MITB PPV was an epic story IMO. But yeah, as soon as he came back 8 days later, that was pretty much the beginning of the end. I'm hoping they've got some epic plans for him for Mania, because I can still see him being mega-over, either as a face or heel. But yeah, my faith has taken a huge hit in the past few weeks/months.
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Originally Posted by Renegade
So I take it you will watch the muppets next week instead of the Chiefs kicking the tar out of the Chargers?
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I forgot about the Muppets. But seeing as how Raw sucks lately, I'll be watching the Chiefs sucky QB. I'm sure most everyone in here will be as well.