It’s about that time again, for the next installment of 10 Storylines of the 2010s WWE Ruined On Their Own, this time it’s the year 2013, and this one really hurts me because it lead to the the Wrestlemania that I attended, Wrestlemania 29. We were in the middle of the longest and strongest titleContinue reading “10 Storylines of the 2010s WWE Ruined On Their Own Part 4: 2013”
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10 Storylines of the 2010s WWE Ruined On Their Own Part 3: 2012
Every once in a while we get a match in WWE we never thought we’d ever see, The Rock versus Hulk Hogan was that match in the 00s. In 2011, the night after Wrestlemania 27, The Rock who had just hosted Wrestlemania the night before, as well as cost John Cena the WWE championship, wasContinue reading “10 Storylines of the 2010s WWE Ruined On Their Own Part 3: 2012”
10 Storylines of the 2010s WWE Ruined On Their Own Part 2: 2011
So these days CM Punk is seen as a hero of the wrestling business he can do no wrong and never be wrong. In a sense that is true, for years he’s been the guy who gets a chant regardless of whether he’s on television or not. However before all this, CM Punk was anContinue reading “10 Storylines of the 2010s WWE Ruined On Their Own Part 2: 2011”
10 Storylines of the 2010s WWE Ruined On Their Own Part 1: 2010
WWE has spent years of putting great storylines together, the Attitude Era was a hell of an era, because of how outlandish the storylines, and characters were. Guys like Steve Austin, The Rock, Undertaker, Kane etc. all carried that era on there backs because people cared about what they were doing. Later when the MondayContinue reading “10 Storylines of the 2010s WWE Ruined On Their Own Part 1: 2010”
The Importance of Continuity and Matches Telling a Story
Think about this, Imagine six men spend an hour to try to tell the story of “earning a United States championship opportunity”. Now Imagine, they spend that hour performing that match only to be told, it means nothing and someone who wasn’t even in the match is getting the opportunity they were fighting for, byContinue reading “The Importance of Continuity and Matches Telling a Story”
Sweet Freedom
Luke Harper, Sin Cara, and The Ascension, four men who broke the glass ceiling in WWE, they were released from their contracts and are actually happy about it. Now if you don’t know by now, these men all wanted to be released from their contracts because they were unhappy with their position in WWE. TheyContinue reading “Sweet Freedom”
Destined For Greatness, Somewhere Else?
So if you’ve watched WWE in the last few months, you’ve seen the “saga” if you can even call it one between Rusev, Lana, and Bobby Lashley. I think I can speak for every true die hard wrestling fan when I say, this storyline isn’t for anyone. A lot of times there’s storylines that attractContinue reading “Destined For Greatness, Somewhere Else?”