DrW...Time to Play the Game?
Posted on Jun 8, 2009 by Doctor Wrestling
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Finally, the Doctor has come back to PWRESTLINGNEWS...Naw, just kidding. Like HHH, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, and Kane, I've been absent a while from the world of Professional Wrestling. You may have noticed or you may have forgotten. But I am here tonight because Raw did something tonight that wrestling in general has failed to do for several months now: It captured my attention and my imagination. Vickie Guerrero resigns, Dave Batista is written out of the storyline, and the Game returns to Monday Night Raw. This night just kept on coming. Let's take it from the top. Best Wishes Dave, see ya real soon...
As everyone of Pwrestlingnews' regular readers knew over the weekend, Dave Batista had torn a muscle going into Extreme Rules and so no one expected him to win the match against Randy Orton. But in a night where Vince's one edict seems to have been, "just shock 'em all", nothing expected was to be expected. So in a very short cage match that left much to be desired in action and left a multiple time World/WWE Champion looking like a local town jobber, "the Animal" picks up his first ever WWE championship. But now, the creative team has a problem. Their new standard-bearer for Monday night Raw is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday. What they came up with was great theater. Not terribly original, but incredibly entertaining. Remember when Andre suffered an injury skiing and so they published that he got hurt in a match...a match that never even happened? Oh, Vince you may be learning. It isn't originality that keeps us tuning in. Just tell us a good story. Even if we've heard it before, we still love be "marked".
And onto the resignation of the worst GM in WWE history, Mrs. Guerrero-Copeland. It's not that I don't enjoy a good heel manager. Far from it, I think the most entertaining period in the history of Raw was the reign of Eric. The Boss you love to hate is a good story. But Vicky never came off as a force to be reckoned with. She just couldn't make me tak her seriously. Her character never had any depth. I tried to suspend my disbelief and let her be the wicked witch of the WWE. I really did. But the most entertaining segment of her career was her resignation. I admit though, I saw it coming. When she came out with a "message to change Raw forever" I said to someone in my living room, "she's about to resign". You prolly saw it on the radar screen too. But still, I loved the segment. Only one thing would have made it better. Edge, should have led the audience in singing the traditional "goodbye" sendoff from WWE.
And then there was the Main Non-Event. I predicted this one too. But I thought they could have done it better. You all saw what did happen. Now sit back and visualize it the way it should have been: Scenario One: Batista comes out of the Ambulance and puts up a noble effort only to succumb to the pain and lose the WWE championship in a very dramatic fashion by actually tapping out to Randy Orton who is only using an arm bar. As Legacy jumps in to beat the living daylights out of Batista again, "On Your Knees Dog" echoes through the arena. But instead of a sledge hammer...HHH comes out with a microphone, wearing an Armani Suit like in the Old Days, and announces that Randy Orton will be facing the Game for the WWE title on next week's 3-For-All Raw Special. When Randy demands to know who HHH thinks he is, Triple H, replies with a Hunter Helmsley Grin, "I am the Game, The Cerebral Assasin, the only man to hold the WWE Championship 8 Times and the first man in the history of this company to hold the World Heavyweight championship 5 Times. I am that Damn Good. And with Vicky Guerrero's departure, I just got off the phone with WWE President Linda McMahon, Hi Mom, and she has announced the new General Manager of Monday Night Raw is a guy I am on pretty good terms with. Paul Levesque."
Don't like that one? How about this? Scenario two: As the Referee counts out Batista and the Bell sounds another sound echoes through the Arena..."Whoooo"...And as the "dirtiest player in the game" makes his way out to the entrance ramp, he announces that he is here to accept the position of Raw General Manager and that Randy Orton will be in a match on Next week's live three hour show. And his opponent will be none other than...."Time to the play the Game" out comes HHH.
Or Maybe, Scenario Three: Stephanie comes out before the bell sounds and says, hold it right there Randy Orton. You want a match for the WWE title tonight? Well it just so happens you are not alone. Someone else recently lost the WWE championship and has not yet received his contractually mandated rematch yet either. And since Batista is not able to compete tonight, as Executive Vice President of the WWE, and in the absence of a General Manager, she is making this match a triple threat match. Whether Batista comes out to the ring or not, this match will officially be, Batista, Randy Orton, and...HHH!!! And then the game comes out to stand beside his wife...and the McMahon Helmsley era has arrived again. And just to make it interesting, let's take a timewarp back to the eighties...the show ends before the match does and we go off the air not knowing who won.
It's good to be back in the Clinic, diagnosing the body of wrestling. Whether you agree or disagree, I can't wait to hear from you.
The Doctor is: IN
At: Doctorwrestling@yahoo.com
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