Last month I was searching online for the New Years Revolution final results like any other day that I don't pay for the event the past week. I stumbled onto the main event on the card, the Elimination Chamber. Instead of looking at the match details I was compelled to glisten my eyes towards the victor of the match. Triple H. An odd really arose from my bowels when I saw that name as the champion once again. A feeling that I've never felt before while observing that Trips again reclaimed the title and that was the feeling of nothingness. I could no longer be shocked and dismayed by Triple H's victory like months past when I'd work myself up into a complete frenzy by hearing that he claimed gold again. I didn't get on new medication, nor did I change my diet. I just wasn't shocked at all by that result. I felt that it was inevitable that he would come out the winner even though you had five other evenly egotistical names in the same match. Inevitability is something I never want to see in my writing towards the WWE because it's such a lagging, negative word. It says to me that Trips win was unexciting, uninteresting, distasteful; and yet over all of that it was almost 100% certain that he'd become the new champion once again. In an organization that likes to be spontaneous in giving its heavyweight belt to almost anyone I find it mind numbing that they keep giving it to Trips. For Gods sake, you have JBL of all people holding the belt on the Smack Down side, yet you quince at the fact of giving the RAW title to somebody other than Trips that deserves it.
Months ago there was widespread controversy of if JBL deserved the belt. You had a tag team mid-carder wrestler for almost his entire career suddenly rank as high on the food chart as Kurt Angle, Eddie Guerrero, and The Undertaker out of nowhere. Many people (including me) still believe that JBL doesn't deserve that title, but Vince and others are dead set on making this guy a Cinderella story. It takes balls to give somebody an entirely new gimmick in just weeks and have him main event with such stars that he would get mauled by with the in-ring status he had. JBL was doing freakin' dark matches on Velocity mere weeks before he won his coveted championship. Now you can't say ten wrestlers on Smack Down without pausing to say "JBL."
The point I want to get across is a pretty complex question. Is it better to take a chance and have a fresh-faced mid-carder rise from the ranks to become a underdog champion or have the same boring champion each and every month that is a known star with years under his belt? It seems as if the WWE is using both RAW and SD! as guenni pig shows to see which formula draws more acclaim. On one side of the WWE brands you see major stars claiming the belt and keeping that belt for months at a time. Smack Down!, on the other hand, considers trying to pioneer unknown talent into the main event mix as quickly as possible in hopes of a quick fix. I for one hate both ideas with a passion (go figure- I hate the way that WWE runs their shows.) Both measures result in the fans feeling a sense of incompetence towards writing. Having a vet hold a belt like a bomb strapped to his waist that will go off if he tries to take it off gets old fast. Month after month we hear the same exact promos and see the same exact storylines. Batista is getting a main event spot at Wrestle Mania against his former el compadre, Triple H. Doesn't that seem eerie similar to Randy Orton getting a title shot against Trips a few months ago? I've used the word dejavu almost too many times in my columns, but that word sticks in my head each and every month I look at a card on RAW. They go to the same formula PPV after PPV of a former friend pissing off Triple H to a boiling point, or having five others in a Elimination Chamber. It's become a joke to me. I can literally progress through all of RAW's dumbfounded storylines in a matter of minutes.
Seriously, quote me on this next statement. If Trips wins in Wrestlemania he will go on to face Batista again at Backlash in a special match. The same applies to Batista winning. Either way we get screwed by having a PPV card made by novices. Get some new blood holding the title. I loved when Orton had it a few months ago and I enjoyed Benoit and his long deserved, but short title span.
Smack Down! is something I hardly watch anymore. One reason is because of the O.C (yes, a teen soap opera is actually more entertaining than a star wrestling program.) The other reason is because JBL is still the titleholder. Months ago many were saying that he would only go a couple weeks before Eddie G. would take back his gold. The never happened and we're stuck with JBL in a Wrestlemania title match. Last year we get an amazing triple threat match and an equally anticipated match between Angle and Eddie G. Now for some damn reason we get JBL vs. Cena. JBL vs. Cena? My god, it hurts my gut to even say that. A year ago that wouldn't have even been good enough for a Heat match before WM, now its going to be highlighted as a "must-see" match. My God how the mighty fall in one year? A dream card from last year is turning out to be a dream card straight from the bowels of hell itself. But I'm not hear to talk about a lackluster card, I want to talk about how stupid the WWE can actually be. They love to piss us off as much as possible, don't they? We've contemplated for years at the fact of having RVD hold gold. Some said that he was a spot-fest wrestler that doesn't deserve the heavyweight prize, but I'm sure most would surely settle for him instead of a bum such as JBL. It's all good to have a rags to riches wrestler such as JBL, yet Vince distastefully optioned to have JBL play the role of SD!'s savior. We could be having stunning talent heat the mat up month after month for SD!. For some odd reason though, we're still stuck with JBL. Yes, he's gotten better in the months that he's held his belt, but it's still not good enough in my book and never will be. I want real athletes, not middle age no-talent guys who only get success because of their size. It's not fair how many stars put life and limb on the line every day for a company (Eddie, Rey-Rey, RVD) and still get no respect. JBL is the centerpiece of lackluster big men getting their way in the WWE just because they can pick a 100-pound wrestler up and act. If that’s the case than you'll be seeing me in a matter of weeks as the champion of the WWE. SD! needs to make classy decisions to who they give the belt to. Its demeans the bizz to have have a classless bum such as JBL, who has done nothing for the product except hold it down to low expectations.
I'm sorry again for the prolonged column. I just had nothing to right upon for an extended period of time. I think I'll spend some time talking about the history of Wrestlemania next. That should be fairly interesting for you, the lovely viewers and me. Keep an eye out for it in the next couple of weeks. Thanks again for reading and...And Thats What I Think!
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