Does the End Justify the Means with Bret and Vince?
By pmd on Feb 27, 2010 in Wrestling |
Kinda hard to figure this thing out right? Bret Hart came back to the WWE after a 12 year absence. Needless to say we were expecting a triumphant result and I’m still confident that we will get that come Wrestlemania 26. The question now is how will the WWE make this thing pay off for the viewer that loves Bret and was already bitter about their treatment of him before this comeback?
The theme was ALREADY supposed to be Bret’s revenge. So was it necessary to make him look even worse week after week? He has been beaten ruthlessly by Batista and Vince. Vince Spit in the guy’s face, trash talked his persona, including insults that were based on actual criticism that Bret has heard his entire life.
If this is all a set up for a street match between Bret and Vince then I think the end does not justify the means. To balance out the kind of disrespect Bret’s character has been shown recently, the only thing justifiable pay-off would be championship gold. Sounds nuts right? Well so does Bret coming back to have Vince criticize him and spit in his face. I guess we’ll find out in a month.
Bonus – I got the official DVD of the Bret documentary “Wrestling with Shadows”. It comes with a bonus Owen Hart documentary that is INCREDIBLE. I found it on Amazon. Cop it!
I fux with Bret Hart….Thanks I will be getting the Doc!
DrPostALot | Feb 27, 2010 | Reply
Championship gold! I think it’d be quite awkward seeing Bret’s old ass with the title around his waist, especially if he isn’t going to be around for at least a season or two to build the character/story line up more.
But, with the way the WWE has taken a turn for the worst since buying out WCW and ECW, leaving them with no real competition, I’d welcome that change. It’d get me interested again. I haven’t truly been interested in the WWE or its horrible story lines since Mark Henry married Mae Young and they were supposed to be having that baby. THAT’S when I tapped out and stopped watching.
I’d welcome Bret getting the title though, if it meant he was going to actually be around for a while to compete.
WHUTUPDOE.COM | Feb 27, 2010 | Reply
I myself have en wondering how this shit was going to payoff… the street fight just seems corny, but when you think about it, the end result, aside from the reported $500K payday Bret got, looks like it might be Stu (and Owen?) being inducted into the Hall of Fame, which, for a family guy like Bret, seems like a bigger payoff. Just sayin’.
What bothers me more than all of this (because, really, the Montreal Screwjob stuff is old and most fans of today’s WWE could give a shit) is the fact that the Hart Dynasty, one of the better units on any WWE brand, has been noticeably absent. Why NOT use this perfect opportunity to align them with Bret, even as a personal bodyguard kind of thing. It’d allow them to get camera time, at the least… those 3 are on superstars AND smackdown weekly, winning, but you don’t hear one word spoken outside of the ring.
Confusing. It’s all confusing, really. We’ll see how this Monday works out.
Outside of this: Rosenberg, will you be doing more monday night wars podcasts come March 8th?
khal | Feb 27, 2010 | Reply
PS: there’s no way Bret will be wearing championship gold. I seriously see this as a one and done – he does this program and is swayze.
khal | Feb 27, 2010 | Reply
What do you think they’ll do with the broken leg story? It give him a bit of an excuse for looking so rusty if he does actually do some in-ring stuff at WM. And I know its a work but it seems ridiculous even by wwe standards for a guy wrestle a month after breaking a leg, so I wonder if that’ll be his superhero angle.
I don’t think we’ll see gold on him or any in-ring action after WM, at least I hope not. I’d like to see him pull off one good show but its hard not to worry about him. Dude had a stroke…
htsh | Feb 27, 2010 | Reply
Listen I agree guys…I highly doubt bret gets anything more than a win over vince, but I wish the payoff was bigger considering the shit he is eating right now….
Khal i couldng agree more about the hart dynasty..its nuts…
whutupdoe…i wasnt watching during that mark henry shit…but i heard about it and that would have led me to tapping out too..what a joke..that Owen documentary talks a lot about the WWE just losing control programming wise…
and as for podcasts..im workin on something kind of big wrestling podcast wise…there WILL def be a wrestling podcast of some sort come March 9th…
pmd | Feb 27, 2010 | Reply
I think bret will make it to wrestlemania to face vince, but championship gold… That would be far fetched… HBK never got a title reign after 2002. So after 1997, vince wouldnt give bret the chance to win it and then roll over to TNA with momentum behind them… Vince needs to take it back to the good champions like Bret, Shawn, and HHH. Cause this Orton, Edge, Batista championship reigns are very boring and predictable… I miss the monday night wars because Vince was hungry… So now that I think about it, Bret and the gold could be good… Vince should know that TNA is hungry so he needs to pull out the cards from back in the 90′s and early 2000′s if he wants to remain on top. And Bret could be his ignition starter…
TJ | Feb 27, 2010 | Reply
@pmd: Yeah, Eric Bishoff was KILLING them with the storyline concepts, then the WWF came back hard with DX going over to EVERY WCW event and buying tickets, sitting front row heckling. That was CLASSIC…
Then when DX drove that tank to a WCW pay-per-view event and tried to get in the loading dock with it? CLASSIC!
But when Turner told McMahon he could have the WCW for a mil, the story lines went down the toilet. McMahon’s ego wouldn’t allow him to retain Bishoff for too long.
I truthfully think that after he bough them, he should have continued to run them separately on the outside looking in. He should have merged ECW w/either WWF or WCW and then kept those two competitive. Monday nights could have been for Raw and Smackdown on Thursday could have been for WCW. WCW had some great pay-per-views, like World War 3.
Oh, what could have been!
WHUTUPDOE.COM | Feb 27, 2010 | Reply
i need to get that version of wrestling with shadows – i bought one off ebay a few years back, its just the original – need that owen!
khal | Feb 27, 2010 | Reply
i’m not into wrestling, but i enjoy your insight.
i’m looking forward to the wrestling podcast.
as for the race war with you and k foxx on the
morning show, that chick is a racist. but it’s all
good, when she finally gets her ONE, that ONE
will end cheating on k foxx, with a white girl.
that’ll be sweet revenge. peace.
p.s. i think there’s been a rape up there!
Turtles | Feb 27, 2010 | Reply
It seems like a questionable thing now… but this is how most Vince feuds are leading into Mania.
He always humiliates the opponent, disrespects them, constantly gets the upper hand, and talks shit about them… then he gets his ass whipped at the show. In fact, that’s the whole story of the ‘Mr. McMahon’ character… he always does the foulest shit to whomever he has a feud with, but ends up getting his (see: his feuds with Austin, Rock, Hogan, Michaels, DX, Lashley, etc.)
I don’t think it calls for Bret to get the belt or any of that. Bret gets his big revenge at Mania, and as usual, McMahon takes the L.
-D!
DANJ! | Mar 6, 2010 | Reply