Does anyone else agree with me that this is the worst storyline on WWE.The way they are playing it out using thier language cery carefully because he's not dead and legal reasons etc...
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Vince McMahon's death
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What a bad week to be doing a storyline like this. I just found out that Sherri "Martel" Russell, a.k.a. Sensational Sherri, passed away on Friday. 
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feeball
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There's got to be a bigger story to this than what is currently playing on television.
They can't go through an extensive period of time with some type of "whodunit" garbage and they can't continue to play the "death" business for long either. The WWE was hoping for some type of major mainstream media coverage of this and it has backfired (no pun intended) on them. So far I have heard O&A mention it along with Max Kellerman playing right along with the story and even accusing Bret Hart as the killer. They were hoping for a much, much bigger payoff than this.
It will amount to nothing more than Vince faking his own death to avoid something which he should have considered when he was on trial. Considering the gang from Jackass will be involved in a match at Summerslam, I would contemplate faking my death also. If nothing else, this did get some people talking.
They can't go through an extensive period of time with some type of "whodunit" garbage and they can't continue to play the "death" business for long either. The WWE was hoping for some type of major mainstream media coverage of this and it has backfired (no pun intended) on them. So far I have heard O&A mention it along with Max Kellerman playing right along with the story and even accusing Bret Hart as the killer. They were hoping for a much, much bigger payoff than this.
It will amount to nothing more than Vince faking his own death to avoid something which he should have considered when he was on trial. Considering the gang from Jackass will be involved in a match at Summerslam, I would contemplate faking my death also. If nothing else, this did get some people talking.
feeball said:
I actually found it interesting. Problem with WWE is alot of people veiw it more as reality TV than soap opera. It is wayyyy to early to judge how this angle turns out, but its no different than undertaker dying, Paul Bearer being buried in cement, etc...it could be a really good storyline with a good payoff or could be stupid. By the way he(the character not the real person) may not be dead, if you are a fan of Smallville you know that others can survive similar fates (Chloe, Lana, Lex, etc.)
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Could this be his way of "announcing" his retirement, stepping down and passing the torch of the company to someone else in his family???
Just a thought (and I don't watch it anymore).
Just a thought (and I don't watch it anymore).
I find the whole thing sickening. Here's Sherri Martel legitmately passing away (God rest her soul) and on the WWE Website, her untimely death is taking a backseat to this ridiculous angle.
Now let's see..... What a great opportunity for Vince to shed his bad guy image by saying that the man you saw on WWF/WWE over the past few years was a "double". He will probably say (in the storyline) that he was held captive and escaped, co-incidentally with the demise of his "bad side". Ah, yes......, "wrastling" was sure a lot more "cut-and-dry" before these outrageous storylines came about over the past 15 or so years. It was only since the Steroid scandal in the early 90's did this manifest itself. I'll betcha Vince McMahon, Sr. is rolling around in his grave right about now.
"And my name is Joooooooe McCuen" (ding, ding, ding, ding!!!!)
"And my name is Joooooooe McCuen" (ding, ding, ding, ding!!!!)
I'm a WWE fan. While I don't listen to every word on its program, I don't think its Vincent Kennedy McMahon whose dead, but the character Mr. McMahon. This is one of WWE's biggest problems: realism. If Lex Luthor dies on Smallville, nobody thinks the actual actor Michael Rosenbaum died. This also reminds me of the Road Warrior Hawk and substance abuse storyline.
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brian4 said:
I completely forgot about the Hawk/alcohol and drug storyline. Last thing I remember with that one was that Hawk tried to "commit suicide" by leaping off the Titan-tron. A move that Shane McMahon can do effortlessly in a match when asked to. The more I think of the burning limo storyline, the more I think of all the times they set Undertaker on fire in the casket.
To be a real smart aleck I got to ask how do you like your McMahon: Rare, Medium or Well Done.
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I don't do this often, but I had an epiphany while sitting on the toilet and thinking about my previous post. I think I know where WWE is going with this whole thing.
It later gets revealed that there is a villain that tries to "kill" McMahon with the limo. What is not known to the crowd is that The Undertaker somehow "rescued" McMahon from the limo and McMahon becomes the new manager for The Undertaker who then goes after this new villain and his or her cronies.
By the way, it was Triple H who did it.
It later gets revealed that there is a villain that tries to "kill" McMahon with the limo. What is not known to the crowd is that The Undertaker somehow "rescued" McMahon from the limo and McMahon becomes the new manager for The Undertaker who then goes after this new villain and his or her cronies.
By the way, it was Triple H who did it.
May I say this is one of the worst ideas since Who Shot JR/Bobby It was all a
dream/Lynette Hanging. That's pretty much it in a nut shell. I'm sad to hear
about Sherri Martel, then again since she died on Friday, I think, there was no
way the WWE couldn't mention it in time on Smackdown which look like
a deboctary for all the times they paid such great tributes to fallen wrestlers.
I hope the writer gets fired (Stephanie McMahon me thinks pulled this off ;D)
for thinking this would work. This is their worst storyline in 5 years (Look back
into 2002 and you know what I mean)!
dream/Lynette Hanging. That's pretty much it in a nut shell. I'm sad to hear
about Sherri Martel, then again since she died on Friday, I think, there was no
way the WWE couldn't mention it in time on Smackdown which look like
a deboctary for all the times they paid such great tributes to fallen wrestlers.
I hope the writer gets fired (Stephanie McMahon me thinks pulled this off ;D)
for thinking this would work. This is their worst storyline in 5 years (Look back
into 2002 and you know what I mean)!
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Katie Vick never crossed my mind because back then, WWE Raw was horrible. The talent roster and the shows looked like two hour versions of the current ECW. Whereas Smackdown back then had the depth and the talent to look damn good on TV, so Katie Vick was a small blip in the radar.
Of course with Smackdown airing on Friday after being taped on Tuesday, the show was already in the can way before Sherri passed away. What shocks me about Sherri passing is that nobody ever heard of her doing anything deemed wrong, immoral, or innapropriate. Never heard of any type of painkiller, drug, or severe alcohol addiction problems. Maybe the occasional drink or two, but nothing done at dangerous levels.
This type of event would have really been horrible if an active superstar such as Umaga would have passed away unexpectedly. Talk about P.R. nightmares.
Of course with Smackdown airing on Friday after being taped on Tuesday, the show was already in the can way before Sherri passed away. What shocks me about Sherri passing is that nobody ever heard of her doing anything deemed wrong, immoral, or innapropriate. Never heard of any type of painkiller, drug, or severe alcohol addiction problems. Maybe the occasional drink or two, but nothing done at dangerous levels.
This type of event would have really been horrible if an active superstar such as Umaga would have passed away unexpectedly. Talk about P.R. nightmares.
Once again, those of you who following what to me is considered "entertainment"
should realize that Pro Wrestling is all "scripted", but in the last two decades,
some of this has gone too far...
I use to be a fan of this, and knew how this worked all along, but i don't care for it
anymore.
should realize that Pro Wrestling is all "scripted", but in the last two decades,
some of this has gone too far...
I use to be a fan of this, and knew how this worked all along, but i don't care for it
anymore.
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C414B
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I don't know about anyone else, but I find it disturbing that the WWE would go through with this angle/storyline in light of the fact they're such ardent supporters of the military. I say that because of the risks that our boys and girls face daily of having their humvee blown up by a roadside bomb. Unfortunately, those GIs claimed by those evil cowards' devices won't be able to step back onto the stage and proudly proclaim. "I'm baaaaaack!"
I long for the day wrestling (rasslin' if, like me, you're from Texas) would return to the "olden days" when the Von Erichs were wrestling the Fabulous Freebirds and Chris Adams et al. were squaring off in the ring.
FWIW, I'm thinking TNA has wrestling more like the olden days. Comments?
I long for the day wrestling (rasslin' if, like me, you're from Texas) would return to the "olden days" when the Von Erichs were wrestling the Fabulous Freebirds and Chris Adams et al. were squaring off in the ring.
FWIW, I'm thinking TNA has wrestling more like the olden days. Comments?
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C414B said:
TNA is good, but World Class Championship Wrestling was the absolute best and I only got to see the action on ESPN during the 80's and 90's. Chris Adams vs. Jimmy Garvin, The Von Erichs vs. The Freebirds, Iceman Parsons, Bruiser Broday, Wild Bill Irwin, Black Bart, Rick Rude, Butch Reed, this was pay-per-view caliber wrestling before the days of pay-per-view wrestling.
I was brief with TNA because there are some question marks for them right now. The future of the company rests on guys like Samoa Joe and A.J. Styles and they have a great line-up of established veterans. They need more than a one hour show to showcase some of the others who get lost in the shuffle. If they had a two hour weekly show and had title matches featured on television, then TNA could really become an interesting promotion.
The whole McMahon storyline was a way to catch some of the heat from the season finale of The Sopranos on HBO. The whole thing was planned out for at least 2 weeks before it aired.
It was used as a way to write McMahon out of current story lines. McMahon had been wrestling with his son Shane and Umaga against former ECW Champion Bobby Lashley. Vince has been working for at least 4-5 months, not only as an on-air charater but also wrestling on a regualr basis.
Last time I checked, Vince is 61 years-old and trying to be "The World Champion" of ECW?? Come ON!...I wanted to hit him on the head with a sledge-hammer! Then to see Lashley STRIPPED of the ECW World Title?? Yeah, Um?? Hello??
The "angle" is slated to end very soon due to the death of "Sensational" Sherri Martel and the eventual announcement to the public WWE will have to make on their television episodes. As soon as Monday on RAW.
Personally, I used to be a huge fan. A lot of the deaths in professional wrestling has also made me question what is right and wrong in the wresting business and how some of these companies do not treat talent with common due respect. In fact, most all professional wrestlers are just contractors who very rarely have or are able to pay for health insurance.
I then think of all the other wrestlers who have pasted on while active with WWE, most recently Eddie Guerrero. I also think about how WWE used Eddie's death as an angle. I think this shows a horrible amount of disrespect to every fan who actually cares about the quality of life these men have outside of the ring.
I used to work at a UPN station as an operator and have aired at least 200+ episodes of Smackdown. I've seen a ton of good and bad wrestling. This current product of WWE RAW is very bad. WWE Smackdown seems to have more wrestling per episode while RAW is just way too much garbage.
The ECW Product needs to go into the production and creative talents of Paul Heyman and Dusty Rhodes with a complete, second-tier, house show type of a road crew and run three times a week with One Hour LIVE, as is on the Sci-Fi Network.
Leave them alone. Let them produce a product.
TNA Wrestling's product back in the Nashville, two-hour PPV's on Wednesday days had some very good matches before the six-sided ring. Today's TNA product needs more time to sell the stories. One hour episodes really suck. If they ran LIVE on Wednesday's again but on SpikeTV in Prime-Time, they would be successful.
It was used as a way to write McMahon out of current story lines. McMahon had been wrestling with his son Shane and Umaga against former ECW Champion Bobby Lashley. Vince has been working for at least 4-5 months, not only as an on-air charater but also wrestling on a regualr basis.
Last time I checked, Vince is 61 years-old and trying to be "The World Champion" of ECW?? Come ON!...I wanted to hit him on the head with a sledge-hammer! Then to see Lashley STRIPPED of the ECW World Title?? Yeah, Um?? Hello??
The "angle" is slated to end very soon due to the death of "Sensational" Sherri Martel and the eventual announcement to the public WWE will have to make on their television episodes. As soon as Monday on RAW.
Personally, I used to be a huge fan. A lot of the deaths in professional wrestling has also made me question what is right and wrong in the wresting business and how some of these companies do not treat talent with common due respect. In fact, most all professional wrestlers are just contractors who very rarely have or are able to pay for health insurance.
I then think of all the other wrestlers who have pasted on while active with WWE, most recently Eddie Guerrero. I also think about how WWE used Eddie's death as an angle. I think this shows a horrible amount of disrespect to every fan who actually cares about the quality of life these men have outside of the ring.
I used to work at a UPN station as an operator and have aired at least 200+ episodes of Smackdown. I've seen a ton of good and bad wrestling. This current product of WWE RAW is very bad. WWE Smackdown seems to have more wrestling per episode while RAW is just way too much garbage.
The ECW Product needs to go into the production and creative talents of Paul Heyman and Dusty Rhodes with a complete, second-tier, house show type of a road crew and run three times a week with One Hour LIVE, as is on the Sci-Fi Network.
Leave them alone. Let them produce a product.
TNA Wrestling's product back in the Nashville, two-hour PPV's on Wednesday days had some very good matches before the six-sided ring. Today's TNA product needs more time to sell the stories. One hour episodes really suck. If they ran LIVE on Wednesday's again but on SpikeTV in Prime-Time, they would be successful.
The ECW Product needs to go into the production and creative talents of Paul Heyman and Dusty Rhodes with a complete, second-tier, house show type of a road crew and run three times a week with One Hour LIVE, as is on the Sci-Fi Network.
Oh i hope he does gain control of that show agian vince messed it up
Oh i hope he does gain control of that show agian vince messed it up
Some thing come to mind:
Supporting the storyline:
Why is it so bad, that a character (who happens to be played by himself) dies with a
controversial(?sp) surrounding details, to give credit to the 'story line'
Also,
"happy 4th of july" from '_ d X ' !!
Next time, let us in the building !
Supporting the storyline:
Why is it so bad, that a character (who happens to be played by himself) dies with a
controversial(?sp) surrounding details, to give credit to the 'story line'
Also,
"happy 4th of july" from '_ d X ' !!
Next time, let us in the building !
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