In good news, Jamie Noble and Spanky are apparently being brought back in. Spanky hated his last stay in WWE, so it's surprising that he's agreed to come back. Hopefully he's been promised a push. They could help improve the Cruiser division, since they're both awesome in the ring AND have characters. Though Noble's very capable in the heel role, I'd like to see them help out London against the Mexicools.
In ridiculous news, WWE has hired some new writers, one of which is from Nickelodeon. She asked JBL backstage how they managed to make the 'fake blood' flow from JBL's head. Why do they hire these people?
bigmack said:
Oh Brock,now that would be a champ. One of my favorite feuds was brock vs. kurt angle. I've seen them wrestler 3 times at smackdown and PPV events,and those were some of the best matches i seen live.
Brock had a decent match with the Big Show. That's more impressive than walking on water.
Snowman said:
That Will Be Good Brock Is On His Way Back. Brock v Batista Battle of The Titans.
Brock Comes Out Champ.
I imagine Brock will come back as a face the way they're building it up. Most wrestlers who've been away for a long while come back face. However, they could play up the "sell-out" angle, saying he just came back for the money and doesn't care about wrestling or the fans. I think they'll probably have him come back face, on Smackdown, but keep him away from Batista on the whole. They can do a 'mutual respect' thing and maybe help each other out from time to time, leading up to a match (Lesnar wins the Rumble and chooses to face Batista). Face vs. Face, play up the respect factor, then have one of them turn on the other. One of them one of them cheats to win, or one of them wins clean and the other flips out and attacks him. Something like that. Build it up slowly.
Devious187 said:
Speaking of Brock, wwe.com has an article up about officially offering Lesnar a contract, and that he's going over it with his attorney. Although I'm pretty sure he's already got one. I'm assuming that he'll more than likely have a match at Summerslam, rather than just doing a run in since the surprise factor is gone
Yeah, I've no doubt he's already signed. This might be a way to make people think he's not quite signed yet, so he can make a somewhat shock debut. Or (this is farfetched, given WWE's booking) it could be a plot device; they could say he's stalling over signing because he wants more money leading to the "sell-out" angle described above.
TNA Gets The Spike TV Deal, The Only Thing Now Is They Need To Produce DVD's For The Company. Spike Gives Them A 1hr Time Slot, Do Good In The Ratings Then Spike Says "Hey Will Give Ya 2 Hrs. We'll See.
Thing is, as far as I know, TNA is paying for the timeslot. They need to make sure they have DVDs and PPVs widely available, because that's how they're going to make money from this (along with ticket sales). The TV deal will hopefully increase their exposure (depending on the timeslot) but it'll also increase their overheads. Could be a good move, but it could also kill them off.
JR/King An Coach Are Back At Ringside, Thats Good. They Hated Being Away From The Ring.(ie Monday Nitro).
I don't see the point of them being up by the stage, really. On a related note, I like them as a three-man team. Means King has to say less and so doesn't get as annoying. Plus, King isn't really a 'heel commentator' any more, so he had less to argue with JR about. Coach fills that role. I heard the only reason Coach was put there was to show King that he could be replaced and convince him to sign a new contract.
Illuminattile, Big Mack, Devious 187. Any Of you Guys Agree or Would You Keep The Tag Teams.
WWE only has three real tag teams; Hurricane and Rosey, The Heart Throbs and MNM (assuming and hoping Heidenreich/Animal is a short-term thing). When they let the Dudleys go, split up La Res and the Bashams they pretty much showed how little they care about the tag team division. I'm not saying it was good before, because it wasn't, but at least there were more than two teams competing for each belt. I think they really need to focus on building up some genuine tag teams. MNM and the Heart Throbs benefited greatly from debuting (redebuting in Nitro's case) as a team. Little things like having the same ring attire and a tag finisher make them seem much more like a tag team rather than two guys not good enough to win singles belts. So, bringing in proper tag teams like MNM (who rock) is imperative if they want to rejuvenate the division. But, in the meanwhile, creating a thrown-together/odd couple tag team consisting of a couple of established midcarders wouldn't be an awful idea. It would give the belts a bit more image, and help out the real tag teams by showing that, because they're such an effective team, they can beat guys "above them" in the pecking order. Problem there is, the WWE doesn't have much of a midcard any more, on either brand.