Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2013 12:27:43 GMT -5
So i've started watching Raw Smackdown and ppvs from September 1999 (i wanted to watch all of the year 2000 but I decided to start from a few months earlier out of curiosity) and man must I say it sucks. if you think todays booking is illogical it's nothing compared to this time period, they had a big storyline of Vince being forced to relinquish control of WWF to Shane a few months prior then Austin says to Vince "you diddnt read the contract properly I can make you the boss again" and that was that.
I don't know how this year can follow 1998 and be before 2000 which were a good and one of the best years.
I guess this was Russo at his worse (when Russo speaks about wrestling alot of what he says I agree with and thinks make sense, but when he books wrestling it sucks)
Also Vince wins the title and relinquishes it on the next show, but no one ever seems to gives WWE any shit for this, yet when It's Eric Bischoff and David Arquette-Cox in WCW it's a different story.
But the worse thing about this period is Taker (bear in mind this is at a time when Big Bossman kills Al Snows dog then pisses on its grave and Val Venis stealing Steve Blackmans bag of weapons and replacing it with a bag full of dildos at least those are so bad they're funny). He basically started transisitoning in to the American Bad ass gimmick slowly around this time
When he's backstage he dressed in his street biker clothes and cuts promos like a regular person (really badly) But When he was in the ring he does all the mannerisms associated with his Ministry run and wears eyeliner and stuff
He even joins the announcers a few times and he is doing really bad, It's like he was so used to cutting ominous promos off a certain style that when he was told he had to talk like a normal person he couldn't get in to it.
He cuts one promo where he calls The Rock out on all his promos being written by "tv script writers" and I'm kind of wishing Taker had someone writing his promos
And that entrance music for his tag team with The Big Show was awful.
And he still has Mideon and Viscera hanging around him and they still make references to darkness and stuff.
It was a really wierd time where Taker was stuck doing 2 different gimmicks at different times in the same night. Part of me wonders if they were going for a slow build change to the American Bad Ass if he didn't get injured.
I don't know how this year can follow 1998 and be before 2000 which were a good and one of the best years.
I guess this was Russo at his worse (when Russo speaks about wrestling alot of what he says I agree with and thinks make sense, but when he books wrestling it sucks)
Also Vince wins the title and relinquishes it on the next show, but no one ever seems to gives WWE any shit for this, yet when It's Eric Bischoff and David Arquette-Cox in WCW it's a different story.
But the worse thing about this period is Taker (bear in mind this is at a time when Big Bossman kills Al Snows dog then pisses on its grave and Val Venis stealing Steve Blackmans bag of weapons and replacing it with a bag full of dildos at least those are so bad they're funny). He basically started transisitoning in to the American Bad ass gimmick slowly around this time
When he's backstage he dressed in his street biker clothes and cuts promos like a regular person (really badly) But When he was in the ring he does all the mannerisms associated with his Ministry run and wears eyeliner and stuff
He even joins the announcers a few times and he is doing really bad, It's like he was so used to cutting ominous promos off a certain style that when he was told he had to talk like a normal person he couldn't get in to it.
He cuts one promo where he calls The Rock out on all his promos being written by "tv script writers" and I'm kind of wishing Taker had someone writing his promos
And that entrance music for his tag team with The Big Show was awful.
And he still has Mideon and Viscera hanging around him and they still make references to darkness and stuff.
It was a really wierd time where Taker was stuck doing 2 different gimmicks at different times in the same night. Part of me wonders if they were going for a slow build change to the American Bad Ass if he didn't get injured.
