Grimmas

How is the weekly (is it weekly even?) TV anyway? I hear a lot about big shows, but not much about week-to-week in smaller venues. I heard the weekly tv is just matches from the ppvs.

Another thing on "great" NJ booking. During the G1 I argued that it was insane that Honma did not get a win. A lot of people argued it was stupid to do it then and to save it for something bigger. Was a throwaway six man on the undercard of the Dome really a bigger deal than the G1?

I didn't get to see Sakuraba-Suzuki and I skipped the main event, because I had no desire to watch a really long Okada-Tanahashi match ever let alone that late. However, I did have one match over 4 stars and that was Nakamura-Ibushi at 4 3/4.

So all this talk of great NJ booking and how they set up the story beautifully for Okada to win. What happened?

I hated the Ishii-Makabe match. Just felt like the first half of the match was missing and they didn't deserve the epic ending, because there was no build to it.

Suzuki/Sakuraba is the match you're most interested in? It is for me.

No, NJPW World is Japanese. Only way to get JR is through Flipps app or ppv provider. By the way, just signed up for the NJPW World thing. I think I am going to go and get 3 or so hours of sleep and try to re-watch this one!

I need at least a few weeks to watch everything. Make the deadline the day of the Super Bowl or something. I watched the entire AWA set in 3 weeks, I can do this. If I knew this was coming, I would have no issue. Unfortunately I never go to DVDR anymore.

I read work that fits this description almost daily. You're talking about an idealized past that never existed. I'm not. Don't be patronizing. Go and read journals and broadsheets from 1830 - 1960. The standard of writing in my experience is much higher. There are good pieces today and there were bad pieces then. You still get good writers like Barney Ronay who would have been right at home in that era. I'm talking in general. Much more content is produced today and a good proportion of it is vacuous, uninformative, shoddily produced click bait. They are catering to an audience with lower attention span and who expects a lot of content to be produced daily if not hourly. Not an audience with fewer distractions who are buying a publication weekly and devote time and attention to reading it. As such, the overall quality has dipped. People used to cut clippings out of music publications and save them because they enjoyed reading them so much. When was the last time Rolling Stone or NME or Pitchfork produced a great piece of journalism? The problem with that is the best stuff is preserved and saved, while everything from today is available.

Thanks for the comments guys. As for veering too far off course, that is just too unrealistic. Nobody is going to come into the WWE and then all the sudden Cesaro is champion. Even if that is what you want, you should at least build to it. Unless, of course, you are Russo. I have WrestleMania planed out and I am curious how far off it is from the real version. I feel once Survivor Series is done, the plan for Mania can't change too much. Of course, we will see. I plan on doing this weekly until at least Mania, if not further.

Atlantis-UG is the best match of the last three years.

That ends week 1. I will put up Week 2 before January 12th, but I don't want to jump ahead too much in case of injuries or whatever. Here is the Royal Rumble 2015 card, so far: The Usos © vs Cesaro & Tyson Kidd (Tag Team Titles) Big Show vs Roman Reigns (Street Fight, winner enters the Rumble) Nikki Bella © vs Natalya (Divas Title) Brock Lesnar © vs John Cena (World Heavyweight Title) Royal Rumble featuring: Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, Erick Rowan, Luke Harper, Titus O'Neill, Bo Dallas, Curtis Axel, Bad News Barrett, Sami Zayn, Dean Ambrose & either Big Show or Roman Reigns.

WWE Smackdown, 1/9 Taped from Laredo, TX Video recap of the week in the WWE. 1) NXT Showcase: Sami Zayn defeats Justin Gabriel. Dolph Ziggler is interviewed backstage and will revenge his loss tonight. 2) Brock Lesnar vs John Cena from Extreme Rules is shown to hype up the Rumble. Dean Ambrose does an interview mid ring to talk about finally getting rid of Bray Wyatt and his goals upon entering the Royal Rumble. Luke Harper appears and brawls with Ambrose. 3) The Ascension squash Los Matadores. The Usos are asked about Cesaro and Kidd and talk about facing them at the Rumble. 4) Natalya defeats Alicia Fox in a solid match up to prepare for the Rumble. Event Center with Renee Young. Same as Raw & Main Event, except Sami Zayn is entered into the Rumble after three straight wins. He is interviewed backstage after his earlier win. Also Dean is added to the list. 5) Dolph Ziggler defeats Titus O'Neill to keep the IC Title. The show ends with Dolph celebrating with the title.

I think Atlantis-Ultimo Guerrero and Wyatts-Shield is a good as anything from any other year.

WWE Main Event, 1/6 Live from Laredo, TX 1) The Ascension squash The Bunny & Adam Rose. Raw recap & preview, Triple H will be back on Monday and wants answers. Rusev defends the US Title against Ryback. 2) NXT Showcase: Sami Zayn defeats Curtis Axel in a fun match. The Royal Rumble Event Center is shown from Raw. Cesaro, Tyson Kidd & Natalya are interviewed backstage. Tyson & Natayla are married and both top contenders. Life is good. 3) Cesaro w/ Tyson Kidd defeats Jey Uso w/Jimmy Uso in a long and very good match with a roll up. A brawl between all four breaks out post match.

We'll start this off with Raw. WWE Raw, 1/5 Live from Roanoke, VA Video package highlighting the return of the Authority and the Ambrose-Wyatt match. The Authority (w/ Kane, Seth Rollins, Stooges) come out with balloons, confetti and it's a huge celebration. JBL is so happy all the pomp and circumstances to cover their big return. Triple H and Steph ramble on about how they were missed and things sucked without them, etc.. They finally get to the point where they will be booking some revenge matches, but then the lights go out. When they come back on Triple H is laid out with a baseball bat laying beside him. Steph and everyone else freaks out. Paramedics come out and commercial. Come back from commercial and Triple H is put into an ambulance, Steph puts Kane in charge. Video hypes NXT on the WWE Network. 1) Sami Zayn the NXT champion has a showcase match and defeats Fandango in an impressive win. The announcers talk about all the great things you can see on the Network and do not mention the price, but they air a video package showing Steve Austin hooking up a Roku and watching the Network on his TV. 2) Cesaro & Kidd defeat Miz & Mizdown, Goldust & Stardust & Los Matadores in a winner gets a shot at the Royal Rumble. The Usos talk about facing Cesaro & Kidd at he Rumble. 3) Natalya beats Brie to get a title shot at the Rumble after Tyson Kidd stops Nikki from interfering. On the Main Event tomorrow on the Network it is announced that Cesaro will take on Jey Uso. Shot promos by Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, Erick Rowan, Luke Harper, Titus O'Neill and Bo Dallas are shown talking about them winning the Royal Rumble. 4) Luke Harper, Titus O'Neill & Bo Dallas defeat Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger & Erick Rowan after Harper lays out Dolph and Titus gains the win. Kane books Dolph vs Titus for the IC Title on Smackdown. Video package of the great moments of TNT is shown, only available on the Network. 5) Bad News Barrett defeats Curtis Axel, both are in the Rumble. Barrett gives us Bad News which is 29 other guys will lose at the Rumble and he will win. Videos are shown hyping the Show-Reigns and Rusev-Ryback feuds. 6) Big Show & Rusev battle Roman Reigns & Ryback to a no contest. Rusev and Ryback battle to the back and Show-Reigns battle through the crowd in a crazy fashion including weapons. Kane annouces Rusev vs Ryback next week on Raw for the US Title. While Reigns-Show will square off at the Rumble in a Philadelphia Street FIght with the winner entering the Rumble and the loser not. Event Center with Renee Young. Royal Rumble so far: Brock Lesnar © vs John Cena (World Heavyweight Title) The Usos © vs Cesaro & Tyson Kidd (Tag Team Titles) Big Show vs Roman Reigns (Street Fight, winner enters the Rumble) Nikki Bella © vs Natalya (Divas Title) Royal Rumble featuring: Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, Erick Rowan, Luke Harper, Titus O'Neill, Bo Dallas, Curtis Axel, Bad News Barrett & either Big Show or Roman Reigns. 7) Main Event is Dean Ambrose vs Bray Wyatt in an Ambulance match. Kane changes it to a Last Man Standing match, since the ambulance took Triple H to the hospital. Crazy out of control brawl and in the end Dean gets the win fairly. The show ends with part 1 of the John Cena-Brock Lesnar 24/7 video hyping their Royal Rumble match followed by a graphic showing Rusev-Ryback next week for the US Title. By the way, the ticker across the bottom appears from time to time to hype announced matches.

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This is what is happening. I am going to try to do this from now until at least WrestleMania 31. The concept is, after this week of TV I take over the WWE's booking. Full control to do whatever I want (with the current talent, not bringing in others, so somewhat realistic?). I will put up Raw, Main Event & Smackdown before Raw airs every week. I am currently working on week one and it will be up by 8 PM Monday. This is just a hype first post. If you are in for shitty fantasy booking and an alternate WWE, get excited.

That is bizarre, because Regal-Steamboat, Austin-Dustin and Rude-Boss all should had stole votes there. It's not like the rest of the show stunk or anything. EDIT: From Wikipedia, OK, I see why, but that is bullshit and wrong.

From last year: For WKO matches stayed ontop of for first 3/4 of year, not too shabby. Wrestler Snapshots continued and I started a podcast, so that worked out well. Did the Rumble article and the only other one I did was top 25 of first half of the year. The lucha set still didn't get finished So, for 2015. I HAVE to finish the lucha set. Then any other sets that come out. Continue with the 97 yearbook and as much GWE viewing as possible. Current product (outside of ppvs, NXT and highly touted matches) are being ignored for the GWE project.

You know Matt that is an excellent point. In anything that people train you to do you know how to get from A to Z by the way you're trained. Your brain is wired to do it that way. A lot of times it takes someone new to shake it up and get you outside your comfort zone to get from A to Z differently. You know it works one way, and you keep going back to that way. It's a real shame, because that is my biggest complaint about the WWE since 2001. I hate that aspect and it makes everything else worse. That and the secret camera, which they don't do as much at least.

Old rules, yes, not anymore.

Any Vince Russo raw, especially one with incest and/or miscarriages. I could never come up with anything as dumb as incest or miscarriages in wrestling.

So, nothing should be a surprise anymore because they might lose money? Yet, wrestling has done fine for the past hundred years by having surprises. It's one of the best parts of watching, especially in the internet age, where true surprises are harder to come by. There is merit to what you're saying, don't get me wrong, but does that mean we should never have surprise returns again because it might affect the bottom line? This kind of thinking is exactly why the WWE has become such a bland, sterile, corporate, and completely unwatchable product. They're leaving money on the table now by being that way. EDIT: Just saw your edit. Yeah, I probably went overboard in my wording. But the lack of surprises, the lack of fun, has just really weighed the product down. Everything is pre-planned, pre-packaged, homogenized, bland. Glad you saw my edit. There is room for surprises, but Daniel Bryan's return in this situation is not it. You hype the shit out of this one, because it is a big deal.

Yep. If it was so "FUCKING DUMB," Grimmas, how come it worked so flawlessly for Cena? How much money did it make compared to a scenario where it was announced in advance that Cena would make his return? Sure, it was acclaimed for being a surprise, but it did not generate a single new ppv buy. Therefore, it was dumb. EDIT: You can do it from time to time, but proclaiming the WWE is doing something "Fucking dumb" as you put it, because they announced Bryan would make his return to the ring after a year long almost career ending injury is insane.