At 6/2/09 09:24 AM, TheD-LucksEdition wrote:
Disagreed entirely. It was anything but awesomeness. For one thing, it was called a 'Fight to the Finish' to avoid Flair 'dishonouring his retirement'. Flair used Irish Whips, submissions and took bumps in this 'fight'. Yep, he really wasn't wrestling. It's just sad.
It is, Flair needs to just get into the ring for WWE and they need to get him working and make as much off of him as he can before the fans lose interest completely. It's a shame Flair never saved his money so his story book retirement won't stick and he's going to be prostituting his name here and ultimately overseas with Hogan, but WWE might as well make what they can off that now and try to get some benefit.
Secondly, Orton being made to look incredibly weak at the expense of Flair, a 60 year old man not even on WWE's active roster working full time who should be RETIRED, does absolutely nothing to make Orton or the WWE Championship look strong at all. And then when you add Rhodes and DiBiase saving the champ into the equation, it just makes Orton look even worse. Plus Rhodes and DiBiase get the shit knocked out of them on an almost weekly basis by Batista or whoever Orton's feuding with at any point, so for them to save Orton from a SENIOR CITIZEN just makes Orton look horrendously weak. In kayfabe, if Orton struggled to survive a fight with Ric Flair without help, what does it say about his chances against Batista on Sunday?
I agree, yes Orton is the heel, yes I'm not personally a big Randy Orton fan, but they believe in him. The office thinks Randy Orton is going to be a savior in that company and he's the WWE champion so again, yes, why is a 60 year old man who hasn't worked a match in a year and 3 months whipping his ass? What does that do for Orton or the belt? Orton should really have been able to control much of this fight I feel, with Flair doing dirty tricks when ever he needed to get the momentum back, like ball shots, eye pokes, or what have you. Maybe Flair could have picked up some objects along the way. They really need to remember Flair is an older guy and really shouldn't be able to hang with their young champion. But this is the insanity of WWE RAW these days and why I've basically given up on that brand.
Nothing was achieved with the Flair segments on Raw other than Orton being made to look even weaker than he had even been previously booked, which takes some doing in itself. And then Vince wonders why Raw isn't achieving ratings as high as they used to be? Logical booking would be a good start Vince. That's why Smackdown is a consistantly good show every week; it has feuds and angles that MAKE SENSE. Even ECW puts ona good solid hour of logical television a hefty majority of the time. If only Raw followed Smackdown's example, then perhaps we'd see some improvement in the state of the ratings.
But that'll sadly never happen, and what's worse is that I do believe when RAW is garbage, the apathy trickles over to the other brands, and that's just not something WWE wants, especially when you consider Smackdown! is on a network that may not exist in a year or so. I'm fine with the idea of Flair being built as the babyface that wants respect and didn't want to retire and all that, but don't suspend logic to do it, and don't continue to sacrifice three guys you fully expect to need to carry your company in a few years to do it.
On the plus side, good match between MVP/Kofi for the US title. Just a shame it was one good thing amongst two hours of poor booking and weak angles.
Yep, and even worse that belt matters so little, as does those two guys or any sort of program they'll have. It just goes back to the fact that RAW does an absolute shit job of getting the young talents anywhere near elevated or ready to play at the big level.
