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  1. The only way and I mean only way that wouldve worked is if they they Booked Raven super duper strong in that angle and have him do nothing but cut promos for 6 months (of course teasing physical altercations throughout) until him and Austin finally met one on one in the ring. With Raven, you would ideally just have him cut promos and evade contact with ANYONE. Smart booking is that you have Raven as The Undertaker's puppet master and turn the Corporate Ministry into The Flock/Nest. I'm not sure how long Russo would let it drag out, but the eventual Austin/Raven match would be huge, as well as Taker's eventual face turn and beat down of Raven. Raven doesn't have to be booked to be physically strong, the Higher Power was supposed to be manipulative.
  2. The biggest issue with the Higher Power was finding someone who could credibly have power over The Undertaker. Vince is probably one of the few who could put over that idea. if Jake had been sober, he could've worked. What if the WWF had brought in Raven to play the Higher Power?
  3. No, next week's Raw hails from Green Bay, Wisconsin. The crowd will hijack it to chant for Mr. Kennedy............ ............Kennedy
  4. The sad thing is - anyone who attends a TNA house show is not only there willingly, but they paid money to be there. I'm ashamed to live in a world where such people exist.
  5. TNA needs to go out of business so Vince can buy it, take its library and release a "Rise and Fall of TNA" DVD. I can only imagine what/who Vince would include. To "rise and fall" you first have to rise. TNA's DVD would more likely be called "The History of The Decline and Fall of TNA Wrestling" or something. I am just picturing an Ultimate Warrior DVD style slam job, complete with Brooklyn Brawler randomly appearing to tell us how bad TNA was.
  6. ^ This is a good example of revisionist history. In 1999, Jarrett was very over as Intercontinental Champion. He had just come off a tag team with Owen Hart that was pretty over and had feuded with Edge and D'Lo Brown over the summer. The woman beater gimmick only really started in the last 2 months of his run in the WWF. I honestly can't think of a time when Jarrett was given a chance to work in the upper card during his WWF tenure. In 2000 WCW, Jarrett was one of the few bright spots and get shafted because he's so closely associated with the shitstorm that was WCW 2000. As for Chyna, she was briefly the #1 contender for the WWF Championship in August of that year and went on to feud with Chris Jericho after the Jarrett feud. The whole point of that feud was Chyna rising above the patriarchy and defeating the asshole. Special on the Network perhaps?
  7. TNA needs to go out of business so Vince can buy it, take its library and release a "Rise and Fall of TNA" DVD. I can only imagine what/who Vince would include.
  8. I'll defend Jeff Jarrett here and point out that his main event runs came whenever his respective promotion was the drizzling shits and there was really nothing he could do about it. He did do some solid work with Booker T in 2000 though. Jarrett never really had a chance to main event in a company where everything around him wasn't completely terrible. Jarrett/Christian at Against All Odds 2006 was a very good match and helped put Christian over.
  9. I've always been an unashamed Jeff Jarrett mark. It's a shame that he left the WWF in 1999, because I would imagine that his legacy would be much better if he hadn't left. It's also a shame that he and Austin had heat. I wonder how JJ would've worked in 2000 WWF.
  10. But, buuut ....now, wait a sec, follow me on this one ... what if they *didn't*? Hunh? Hunh? What if, then? Yeah ... what if, indeed ... Then Evan Bourne likely doesn't achieve the notoriety needed to get into WWE since IIRC he got A LOT of attention from his work in WSX.
  11. That was well after MTV starting a wrestling promotion would've been interesting. "The War To Settle The Score" was actually a big deal in 1985, but no one really cared about the WWF's return in 2000. The limited options on cable in early 1980s changes the landscape dramatically.
  12. And since Triple H won, it failed at even that. I disagree insofar as the match was obviously a showcase for BLARGGGH nefarious mastermind Triple H to wipe his cunning prick BLARGGGH all over Goldberg's veneer of invulnerability. Goldberg taking out three other guys in rapid fashion beforehand just made Triple's prick all the more glistening once his devious machinations came to fruition. It's like nothing was learned at all from the cattle prod ripoff dipshit Nash perpetrated as booker. Allegedly. "YERPA DERPA....we have no idea how to end the streak so why not just do this insipid bullshit that immediately leads nowhere the very next night? Just as well." The booking was made even more narcissistic by the fact that Goldberg won the belt the next month anyway. Other than making Triple H look like a God among men who can outsmart anyone, there was literally no reason for Goldberg to lose. If I recall correctly, HHH was even injured going into the SummerSlam match. I may not be remembering this right, but I think Triple H's injury was the reason he won. I don't think he could bump properly enough to get destroyed by Goldberg. He didn't do much in that match. If I recall correctly, he only appeared for a couple of minutes total. If HHH couldn't bump, there had to be a way to get the belt off of him without having Goldberg take a fall. Writing the injury into the storyline and having HHH not be able to compete in the EC would've probably been the best move. Goldberg still wins and then goes on to defeat Triple H at Unforgiven.
  13. And since Triple H won, it failed at even that. I disagree insofar as the match was obviously a showcase for BLARGGGH nefarious mastermind Triple H to wipe his cunning prick BLARGGGH all over Goldberg's veneer of invulnerability. Goldberg taking out three other guys in rapid fashion beforehand just made Triple's prick all the more glistening once his devious machinations came to fruition. It's like nothing was learned at all from the cattle prod ripoff dipshit Nash perpetrated as booker. Allegedly. "YERPA DERPA....we have no idea how to end the streak so why not just do this insipid bullshit that immediately leads nowhere the very next night? Just as well." The booking was made even more narcissistic by the fact that Goldberg won the belt the next month anyway. Other than making Triple H look like a God among men who can outsmart anyone, there was literally no reason for Goldberg to lose. If I recall correctly, HHH was even injured going into the SummerSlam match.
  14. (Since I'm stuck in class and bored, I'll take a stab at fleshing the idea out): Assuming the idea succeeds, it would probably have had a profound impact on wrestling working conditions. Since it's a company started organically by a TV company and not a takeover of a wrestling company (like Turner did to Crockett), it would likely have a different business model than your typical wrestling company. I imagine that an MTV company would be focused on TV ratings and not attracting live gates. Given that, I wonder if we would see more of a model that would come 12 years later with Nitro with big matches on TV. The house show schedule would be lighter and pay would be higher than what anyone could get on the territories. If MTV could lure a wrestling guy to run the wrestling side of it, it would be interesting to see how it develops. It would exist purely as a profit generator or time slot filler for MTV so I imagine they'd be like Turner and almost completely hands off. in terms of raiding, I assume they'd grab Hogan and make a play for Flair and other top territorial stars. MTV figured out how to spread their network nationwide and air videos that appealed to different groups of people, they might have been better at most than figuring out which wrestlers would appeal to enough people to make this idea a success. The biggest question would be the fate of the company when MTV got tired of it. The best case scenario is that MTV just sticks it on VH1 when the fad dies and it continues to function.
  15. Does it change McMahon's plans? At the time, I would imagine that its failure would be attributed to a national wrestling company not being a viable model. I wonder if there's any chance that MTV would actually convince a good booker/wrestling guy to work for them.
  16. And since Triple H won, it failed at even that.
  17. Here's a big "What If?" What if MTV or TNN or some other newer cable network in the early 1980s had decided to start a wrestling company as a means of generating revenue through cheap programming? For the sake of argument, let's say that MTV just skipped the middle man and scooped up Hulk Hogan to start a company in 1983. I would assume that MTV would've raided the territories to build their roster. What becomes of the wrestling world in a situation where national expansion is done by a media conglomerate and not Vince McMahon?
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