I'm actually very sceptical about ECW as well. Not so much because I may not like the idea, cause I do, however ANYTHING the WWE has tried to bring back has failed... deliberately.
All of the old WCW wrestlers were held back and broken. The nWo story line WWE came up with was pathetic. The WCW "invasion" was bullshit. The whole cruiserweight devision WWE took over from WCW is a joke now. The cruiserweight title has been disgraced over and over, it's even weaker than the Women's title now. And I could probably go on for a while longer if I really put my thoughts into all that went down since 2002.
The only reason ECW was brought back onto television is cause One Night Stand had better ratings than any WWE PPV in a long time. It even beat WrestleMania, heh. I see ECW's comeback on TV as an act of desperation on WWE's part. The release of the Dudley's and the title "One Night Stand" also suggest it wasn't planned.
I think that as soon as the ratings are better, and they will no longer need it, ECW will be disgraced too, i.e. the storyline tells how WWE wrestlers will beat it and send it to hell -- long live the almighty (bias) of the WWE.
For Cena, I believe his character is much too repetative. I see it as a lack of creativity. Remember how HHH had the title for way too long as well. They're just streching it with transparent little stories just so that they can make the fitting PPV's. (i.e. we want to put Cena in WM main event with HHH / yay cool idea lets do it / now all we need to do is fill up the time in between / balls yeah oh well we'll think of something), etc.
Booker T might still be held back because he's originally from WCW too. The only reason I think he hasn't been released yet is cause he works the crowd way too well in everything he does that not even WWE's blindness can justify them letting TNA roll with him.
I don't have an opinon on Randy Orton, really. Not too sure what went on with him.
Rey. If you think about it, it says a lot about SmackDown's current roster that a cruiserweight is running around with the heavyweight title. Rey is the best cruiserweight they got, and with nothing worthy of a division he can wrestle in, he's kind of obsolete. Using Eddie as a springboard, they finally made the risk to put him in the heavyweight scene, and I think it wasn't a good move. They should have used him and people like Juventud and Kidman to build the cruiserweight devision to something meaningful.
All in all, the WWE personifies what Vince McMahon is all about. And what Vince McMahon is all about is what his producs represent:
1. The death of Owen Hart: THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
2. The Montreal screwjob in 1997
3. The Montreal screwjob still used to base feuds on in 2006
4. The Monday Night Wars DVD portrayed in WWE's favour. Bias to the max
5. The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior. Mockery and bias to the max
6. The use of Eddie's passing milked out to death (pardon the pun)
7. ... |