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Getting Over
Welcome to the 1st edition of
Getting Over written for Wrestling Envy by Lewis316.
Welcome
Firstly I'll start off by saying
welcome to my first ever online column and I
thankyou for choosing to read it. Hopefully my
first attempt will make your mouth water for the
2nd edition coming soon. Right, that's enough
chit-chat..let's get down to business..
How Times Have Changed
Just a few years ago you have the
likes of "Stunning" Steve Austin and a
snobby Hunter Hearst Helmsley performing in the
mid-card of the WWF. The most these would achieve
then would be a Caribbean strap match with Savio
Vega, or be in matches where every time your
valet would be 'stolen' by another mid-carder.
You look back and think, is this the same
wrestler I consider the top face, or top heel in
the company today? To be honest I find it very
amazing that these two examples show how such a
star can go from jobbing week in, week out on
past shows like Shotgun Challenge - to main
eventing pay-per-views every month - and at the
grand-daddy of them all - Wrestlemania. It
certainly does start you thinking who would be in
the main event of Wrestlemania 22 come 2006? If
"Stunning" Steve Austin created the
attitude era back in the mid-nineties and boosted
his status in the WWF, who says that someone like
Test or maybe Jeff Hardy can't do the same? It
seems really strange now to think of Test Vs.
Jeff Hardy main event, but back in 1995 would you
have expected to see Triple H vs. Steve Austin.
The answer would have to be NO.
Hardcore Heaven
I am very pleased to say that the
hardcore matches that we have seen in the past
are back. It wasn't long ago when we saw title
matches spill out into the crowd, parking lot,
and even the Mississippi River. But after a long
period of entertaining matches came a series of
very poor matches that barely reached the top of
the entrance ramp. From seeing a hardcore match
being won via a forklift truck, to Steve Blackman
retaining his title by doing his usual "It's
Party Time!" routine really disappoints the
blood thirsty hardcore lover. As for the 24/7
hardcore rule - I really think this sucks. It was
great when it was first introduced but it lost
it's edge of excitement immediately after Crash
Holly won while the champion was sleeping. If I
was in charge of the WWF I would definitely stop
this 24/7 hardcore title defence as it's lost all
interest from me indefinitely. But quite simply,
I am pleased that we are starting to see the
hardcore matches of old return. Not only have we
got great hardcore matches, but the WWF are even
writing in better storylines such as "Who is
Raven's mystery driver?" which really does
improve the hardcore division greatly. But of
course there is always one down side to the
hardcore division. It's not that big which means
we are seeing the same match combinations of
matches - Raven Vs. Steve Blackman, Raven Vs.
Hardcore Holly, Hardcore Holly Vs. Steve Blackman
- and then the next PPV we see the predictable
triple threat hardcore title match between, yes -
you guessed it - Steve Blackman Vs. Raven Vs.
Hardcore Holly. Still we can't complain, the WWF
is trying to improve the hardcore division and I
hope that it does return to it's full former
greatness.
Old School
The Undertaker. You ask anybody
who has watched wrestling in the past and they
will know of The Undertaker in some way or form.
They would probably describe him as the
personification of evil, or the phenom - or
something to do with the man from the darkside.
If those same people watched a broadcast of Raw
is War or Smackdown and saw today's new American
Badass Undertaker you can guarantee they wouldn't
like it one bit. If I was to be totally honest I
would have to say that I do not like it at all
either. Much like the 24/7 hardcore rule above,
it was good at first but a few months later it
just doesn't have the same appeal as it did on
day one of the Undertaker's return. The biker
image was really cool at first - along side his
new 'rocky' American Badass theme music by Kid
Rock - everyone was loving it, because it was new
and very exciting. But, for me, it has literally
taken until now that I realise - this really does
suck. Now that 'Taker is getting really slow when
he moves in and around the squared circle, I
think that a return to the darkside would better
suit his ever decreasing ability to move with any
speed around the ring. Also, Undertaker's 'new'
finisher "The Last Ride" is not ideal
as he struggles to execute it on other stars -
one example was The Rock just the other week. It
was much better before - The Tombstone could be
performed on the heaviest of opponents - with
some ease. I am waiting for the WWF to make the
Undertaker the Deadman again - not just giving
him a t-shirt to wear saying "Deadman Inc."
- because it would be better, even if it did mean
a heel-turn, it would get him out of this
lethargic feud with The Island Boys - Rikishi and
Microphone (Haku).
Until Next Time
Well that concludes my first ever
online column. I hope you enjoyed it and I will
hopefully write another one when I get some
material to write about. So if you really think
this column sucked ass, please take in mind that
this is my first ever column - and that the next
one will be much worse than this :) So until next
time, Lewis316...
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