Well I have been slacking for awhile on the workrate reports (just like everyone else 'cept Schneider). The WWF hadn't been Crappy! Crappy! Crappy! Stinky! Stinky! Stinky!. I first started slacking after the 4 hour Rock/Mankind NAFTA debate and WCW had been bringing the wrestling hence more WCW watching = not interested in WWF. So I am going to do a workrate report analyzing the whole WWF and then I will start back up with the *cough* on time reports. Here ya go. What works and what doesn't work in the World Wrestling Federation.
Well pretty much everything that the Hardys, Edge and Christian touch is turning to gold. (I saw more highlights of the ladder match and to recap for the new readers: Matt Hardy - 2005 WWF Heavyweight Champion. Jeff Hardy - Wheelchair). The big problem was that since they were wrestling each other, the WWF was, in at least the wrestling department, a one trick pony. Now it seems that the two teams are going to branch off into other feuds and if Smackdown was any indication, there is a ripple effect of good wrestling taking place. With the two teams in separate feuds, it means that the chances of 2 good wrestling matches increases. Therefore, if they can start lifting some lazy asses to work, these formely lazy asses in start lifting other lazy asses to work. Then we would all be happy.
The Hollys stopped pissing me off long enough to start being a solid heel tag team that brings the wrestling. Erin O'Grady is an excellent little worker and he now will start having some matches where he can show off his skills. Bob Holly suddenly seems like he wants to get back to concentrating on the in ring action and he is quickly moving back up the ladder of the good wrestlers in the WWF. Of course, the downside to this is that instead of having them feud with the Hardys or Edge/Christian, they are going to have the New Age Outlaws take the titles again and it will be back to catchphrase and crotch-choperific.
D'Lo Brown is the best wrestler holding a belt in that federation right now and no one knows it. He is relegated to Heat and Jakked and he cranks good matches out all the time. Brown and Chris Jericho have the best match on Heat in ages and 7 people switched over from the All Century Team to watch it. D'Lo busted out the superfreaked out Top Rope Rydeen Bomb (A Sky High Low Down?) and all was right. Jericho (more on him later) wrestled his best match in the federation and showed that the WWF could right its ship if it gave more guys like this time to wrestle.
Well Val Venis is getting HOTSHOTTED right to the top of the federation. Hey, I got no real problem with Venis. He is ranks about 12th on the WWF'S TOP TEN WORKERS rankings but he is an improvement over The Rock, Triple H, Vince McMahon, The Bulldog and a whole lotta other wrestlers. I'll put him here and see what happens.
Hey, we are the WWF. We are sleazy enough to run a cancer angle. Run it around a guy who's dad died 8 years ago. They are hardcore. Which reminds me. Where are all those people who were saying that the Bossman didn't like working the Hardcore division? For a guy who is unhappy, they sure like to give him a lot of title runs and goofy, tasteless angles to be in.
Hey, we are the WWF. We are sleazy enough to have two 300-year old women wrestle for one of our belts. Now I am going to say that the WWF is burying the women's title because I never considered it a title in the first place. Once you bring Aja Kong back in to crush some orbital bones then you can call it a title. Mae Young may bump like a freak but she isn't going to carry anything into the top half of the column.
That whole Stephanie McMahon soap opera continues. My girlfriend doesn't make me watch them anymore because she is now my finance and there is no reason for her to drop hints anymore.
I really still haven't heard a good reason for why the WWF let Jeff Jarrett go but resigned Mideon. I mean besides the fact that Jim Ross was spreading those ass cheeks wide.
Mr. Chris Jericho needs to get his ass in gear and start wrestling. He's dropped the ultimate deadweight in Curtis Hughes, who at last I heard was trying to audition for a spot in Mungo Jerry. Now of course, in the WWF's infinite wisdom instead of booking him in a feud with D'Lo Brown (see above) they are going to push him with Chyna. Woo-Hoo! Boobies. Kitty! Mountie jokes!
I love Mick Foley. But the whole Rock N' Sock thing stunk. Especially the marathon This Is Your Life segment, which I still believe, was the WSEF ultimate insult to WCW. That was the "We know we are killing you in the ratings. Let's see how bad we do it without showing any wrestling" experiment. Anyway, Foley has gotten away from what made him really great. Giving the boss, edgy playing to the back of the room interviews. Now it's. I'm Mick Foley. Aren't I funny. Foley the wrestler is also annoying because he has not only eliminated the big insane bumps (which is fine. If anyone deserves to take it easy it is Foley) but he has pretty much done away with his wrestling. Ooh, a people's elbow. Mr. Socko. Now, the old Mankind showed signs of life on Smackdown. Maybe this will go somewhere good.
The Chyna/Gillberg feud is going to be OFF THE CHART.
Triple H is horrible. The Rock is horrible. Steve Austin is hurt and is a shell of his former wrestling self. Let's play musical title belt amongst the three. This will be fun. Look at all the work on THE STICK these three can do. IF YOU SMELL WHAT THE GAME IS COOKING GIVE ME A HELL YA!
The Other Phil
