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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2019 5:29:36 GMT -5
It gave us Khali as World champion. Nooot really? That was Edge getting injured. It gave us Morrison as ECW Champion.
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Post by darbus alan on Mar 30, 2019 11:15:47 GMT -5
Yeah, definitely, I agree the writing itself is the direct culprit. What I wonder is whether they went even further down the road of "let's try to make ourselves more like a real, respectable TV show!" than they would have without all the negative attention Benoit brought. And with that came worse writing: more outsiders from the TV industry involved to try to dilute what was left of the old-school carny vibe. I'd actually highly disagree with all of that because the show's have kept to the same exact format since The Attitude Era with how matches are made and show's are structured. The key difference is that talents aren't allowed to shine, Vince has control over absolutely everything and surprises aren't there to grab viewers, they're there to get one weekers to talk about it and then watch football/Netflix/play video games after they heard about it regardless and that sure as hell wasn't a sudden post 2007 thing. The TV writers have also always been there. And it's not like the likes of Bruce Pritchard or Road Dogg are doing anything better compared to them. You want someone to blame for the poor quality of product lately? Blame Vince McMahon, not just the writing team, or Chris Benoit, or a freakin' television rating. The buck stops with Vince, especially since he's such a big control freak.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Mar 30, 2019 12:21:24 GMT -5
It gave us Khali as World champion. Nooot really? That was Edge getting injured. It gave us Morrison as ECW Champion. Yes but to stop PR backlash? The World champion is a gigantic ethnic minority who gives part of his earnings to his poor village in India.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 30, 2019 15:21:41 GMT -5
On its own it was never going to kill the business but it did lasting damage that WWE still hadn't completely course-corrected from.
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Post by Loser troll. Please ban me on Mar 30, 2019 16:39:54 GMT -5
I'd say he helped it to a small degree if only as a grim reminder of the damage concussions can do.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Mar 31, 2019 6:09:53 GMT -5
Nooot really? That was Edge getting injured. It gave us Morrison as ECW Champion. Yes but to stop PR backlash? The World champion is a gigantic ethnic minority who gives part of his earnings to his poor village in India. Something they never promoted at all because at the time he was a heel.
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