Hey everyone! This isn’t really a column, per so, but it is a copy and paste of two conversations that I had with two of this site’s very own workers.
It’s a little different because it doesn’t follow a specific form or function, but I think that I get my point across, feel free to e-mail me with your thoughts at joe1897@gmail.com
Matt Healing: how was summerslam, i didnt watch it, the shane vs bischoff match looked interesting though
Joe Balrog: The matches themselves were awesome – but the wrong people were winning
Joe Balrog: HHH won
Joe Balrog: And it was so pathetic, too.
Matt Healing: yeah?
Joe Balrog: Yeah – I was really high on the show until that match – and really until all HHH did was “wrestle” for 1 minute and pin Goldberg
Matt Healing: i know, you hate him
Joe Balrog: Yeah, but he really didn’t do anything in the match
Joe Balrog: That was the most upsetting part
Matt Healing: interesting
Joe Balrog: I can actually remember what he did – Goldberg ripped him out of the cage, threw him into the steel cage twice, then Goldberg picked him up, but HHH countered and began to swing Goldberg into the post, but Goldberg countered with a nasty clothesline – HHH was laying in the middle of the ring, Goldberg got ready to spear him, he hit Goldberg with a sledge, pinned him 123 and the match was over.
Joe Balrog: That’s ALL he did.
Matt Healing: lol hes such a cocksucker
Joe Balrog: THAT is why people hate him – because he has control of the booking via Stephanie McMahon and he can do something like that at the second biggest event of the year – he broke his 5 year SS losing streak and pinned Goldberg because he has control of the booking. It’s pathetic.
Matt Healing: he had a 5 year losing streak?
Joe Balrog: Yeah. You see, the thing with HHH is that he’s smarter than all of the manipulators who came before him (except maybe Hogan) – he knows that he is a bore and that he’s not a good speaker so in order for him to create a legacy for himself he has to control the booking.
Joe Balrog: And in his mind he is becoming a living legend because he keeps on winning, but what he neglects is that guys like Steamboat, Flair, Hogan, Savage, even HBK – they are all legends because the fans loved to watch them (heel or face) – the fans do not like HHH. I mean he has his core group, but other than that, the majority of the fans don’t like him at all – they “X-Pac” hate him.
Joe Balrog: That was one of those endings that makes you not want to be a wrestling fan
Eddie: Oh lol
Joe Balrog: You should have seen how that crowd reacted to Goldberg…
Eddie: The Chamber was booked very well. It put Goldberg over (he eliminated almost everyonebut ur bud Nash), and he lost due to a sledgehammer.. it’ll be EVEN BETTER when Goldberg pins H next month one-on-one.. It’ll just mean so much more. If that doesn’t happen, then you’ll be absolutely right for everything.
Joe Balrog: The place was absolutely on fire. I mean the roof really must have blown off of that place – Goldberg could have won that match and gone on a “fan high” for the next two months without doing a thing.
Eddie: Oh well it’s a shame it didn’t happen tonight, but booking-wise I don’t think it’s a bad move, plus you never know before the show how the crowd will react.
Joe Balrog: Yeah, but think about all of the fans who scrapped their money together to buy the second biggest PPV of the year – the event where titles change hands – the BIG show of the summer! What did they get? A horrible ending to a great event. And these people are not satisfied – they had to put their money together to get this event and they might not have the money to get it the following month. So at the “biggest event of the summer” did they get their payoff? Did they get their change? Did they get anything? No, just more of the same…so in their minds – why should they go and order another PPV? What? To get more of the same?
Eddie: i heard fans went nuts for Goldberg… AZ is a good place to win the belt (West) but PA might not be cuz they’re more “north-oriented” for wrestling
Eddie: That’s a good point as well, I can’t argue that.
Joe Balrog: That’s my problem
Joe Balrog: I can take the booking
Joe Balrog: But what about Bob Smith who saved to get this event because it’s the biggest show of the summer?
Joe Balrog: No one cares about him.
Eddie: I guess the way I look at it, the old values (such as being the biggest show of the summer and being second biggest of the year and all that) aren’t as important as the booking to me
Eddie: Interestingly enough WWE didn’t hype it up that way this year they just kept pushing the name ‘slam but never said ‘second biggest event of the year’ as far as I remember.
Joe Balrog: And the problem with WWE’s “brain trust” right now is that they don’t care about Bob Smith or Johnnie Average who has to break his ass to get the 40 bucks to order the show.
Joe Balrog: When they have a mutual respect for their fans – then they have an increase in ratings because the fans get what they want.
Eddie: That’s true, but on the other hand once in a while they do the right thing and have a title change (not the major title) on free tv
Eddie: Think about it though… The original plan was for Goldberg to win tonight (one-on-one) it’s just because of H’s injury that things got changed.
Joe Balrog: Yeah but when you buy a PPV for that kind of money (that isn’t even 3 hours anymore – they’ve consistently been 2 hours and 45 minutes) – you expect SOMETHING and with an event with the history of SS, you have to deliver.
Eddie: I agree yeah. Not one title changed hands tonight, all 4 remained champs
Joe Balrog: WWE did not deliver to those fans – and those fans are the majority. All you had to do was listen to those fans react to Goldberg. Watching the show – there was this great surge of “HELL YEAH!” while watching it and then after that 2 minute debacle with HHH and Goldberg that feeling got completely flat. I mean the entire show just died – the crowd died, the feeling died – it was horrible.
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