http://www.thewrestlingpress.com/mag.html
Issue #2 sees another list from me, “16 Unlikely Professions for Pro Wrestlers”, as I explore the world of goofy gimmicks. As well, Charlie Reneke defends John Cena.
Check it out!
http://www.thewrestlingpress.com/mag.html
Issue #2 sees another list from me, “16 Unlikely Professions for Pro Wrestlers”, as I explore the world of goofy gimmicks. As well, Charlie Reneke defends John Cena.
Check it out!
My piece was the cover feature. Booyah.
Congrats dude, good article.
I will say this, not long ago on a separate thread, the majority of the posters here agree that it would be good for the WWE title and for business to simply have Cena demolish Orton and be champ for at least a year. I don’t think any of us “smarks” (God I hate labels) would say that if we absolutely hated Cena. The guy can put up good matches against almost anyone, unlike Orton.
My only beef with Cena is the forced promo work at times. A good example was his “intense” face to face with Orton a month ago. It was lame and came off as phony. I actually hope he’s reading off a script and not coming up with these promos himself, because when he was rapper John Cena, he was awesome. Long story short, I don’t think the writing team is doing him any favors. Like you mentioned his 4 month long feud with Big Show or even him having to squash Miz after the latter built a feud out of nothing. Some anger towards Cena is just misdirected frustration at the booking.
Thoughts?
Well, the booking for EVERY Raw wrestler, top to bottom, has been substandard. There has not been a single watchable episode since the Donald Trump buyout episode.
And yeah, his promos seem forced. But that’s the WWE for you. He got over and came up with his gimmick after an improvised skit during Halloween on Smackdown that didn’t use a script and had nothing pre-planned. The WWE’s attitude when such a thing happens is “if some lame wrestler can come up with that and get over, we can hire professional writers to expand upon it and do even better!”
But they can’t. And you’ll hear that story time and time again.
You know the Dirt Sheet on WWE.com? The show that had Miz and Morrison? No script. Totally improvised. Very entertaining.
The Miz and John Morrison during Raw/Smackdown/ECW? Boring, bland, horrible promos, totally devoid of emotion, etc.
The Miz’s best line he’s had on television was at Judgment Day when he mocked the fans for chanting “What?” “You sound like a bunch of ducks. WHA WHA WHA!” Great line, huge heat from the crowd. He comes back from the promo and gets yelled at because that line wasn’t in the script. It’s fucking outrageous.
I couldn’t agree more about Cena’s promos recently – but I just saw Raw and his ‘I won’t quit’ promo was fantastic – really good stuff. I’m willing to accept that the cocky and awesome 2003 Cena promos are a thing of the past (at least until he turns heel or WWE breaks its PG rating) but if he keeps doing stuff like last night then it’s fine with me.
I thought the Ultimate Fighter was a pretty cool gimmick, that WWF creative botched. I agree with Bischoff that if Shamrock was booked the same way as Goldberg, he could’ve been a legit main event star in pro-wrestling.
I’d rather eat a turd than read anything written by Charlie. Every “guest” writer that reviews shows is way better than that hack
Oh well, my piece was still the cover feature anyway. Who wants to rub my nipples?