When you get older, you become more rigid and less adaptive to change… Vince is nearly 70 years old and he still thinks he knows what’s best for the business despite the sweeping changes the business has seen even in just the last three or four years.
He has a great heir apparent in Triple H, but is hesitant to give him the reigns(lol pun) because they aren’t “Vince McMahon” style ideas…
I think it’s safe to say that the biggest sign of how much the business and WWE has changed in the past 10 years is that instead of us begging for Triple H to have absolutely no backstage say, we’re now all praying for some news article next week that says Trips and Steph have full control of the company.
The bad thing about HHH having backstage say 10 years ago was that he was an active member of the roster. Someone with his ego will use his creative influence to put himself over whenever he had the chance. Now that he’s semi retired from the ring and in a position to inherit the company he doesn’t have to stroke his ego anymore. He needs to do things that is good for the company as a whole and not for himself.
Watching the Hart edition of the Monday Night War and I gotta ask the big question: is it universally accepted that Michaels’ leg injury going into Mania was bullshit?
edit: Another thing; they should also talk about Sting in the Monday Night War. People try to make it seem as if it was the NWO as the only reason why the angle worked. That was bullshit. The reason why it worked so well was because of the waiting game between the Sting and Hogan clash that took place until Starrcade 97.
Plus Starrcade 97 was also the moment when the fans truly started to revolt against the company.
I feel so. As Bret said, Shawn was dancing, jumping around and doing a bunch of other stuff a someone with a leg injury shouldn’t be doing. He pull anything out his ass to not drop the title to Bret.
Can’t talk for RoH but people hate it for TNA as they have the habit of bringing in an ex-WWE guy, put him in a major angle and push them over their own home grown talent.
From people who are good friends of mine, they just don’t get it. They will love the product when they go to a live show, then later they’ll forget how great it is. They’ll say that they didn’t do it on a big stage, or that their style doesn’t work in WWE etc. Shit that just isn’t true but they read dirtsheets or are too lazy to actually watch a different product so they look down upon it. They don’t get that some guys just don’t get a fair shake.
December to dismember 1996
November to remember 2000
Wcw new blood rising
Any 1995 clash of the champions, particularly the one with honky vs johnny b badd
WCW uncensored 1995
King of the ring 1995
Slamboree 2000