All right, it’s been a long ass hiatus. No doubt about that. To be quite frank, I’m not sure that the wrestling business, as far as the big two go, is even worth writing about now that I have the time again.
Today’s topic is, surprise surprise, bad booking. This time let’s talk about bad booking in WWE, since almost all booking in TNA sucks, we won’t even bother with them.
A few months ago, WWE signed Bryan Danielson, the self-proclaimed and very arguably “best wrestler in the world”. After he had signed his contract, it was made known that Danielson would be skipping the developmental FCW federation and going straight onto main WWE programming. I assumed that Smackdown would be a good fit for Danielson. He’s not exactly young, but his style of wrestling fits better with the style of Smackdown, which feels a bit more young than that of Monday night Raw’s cavalcade of old geezers. But no, that wasn’t their choice. Instead they let Danielson sit at home and collect a paycheck. Well, more accurately they let him train at Randy Cotour’s dojo in Las Vegas and collect his paycheck. When the word finally came around that Danielson was to show up on WWE programming, I was extremely excited. And then there was NXT.
Let’s digress to talk a bit about NXt right now. NXt is made up of a bunch of guyhs who have little to no experience under their belts, and it shows. I’m not sure who half these guys are. They sure as hell haven’t had any kind of tenure in the indies. The only established wrestler, and multiple time champion, is Bryan Danielson. These other guys aren’t even in his league. Yet David Otunga gets better friggin booking than Danielson because he’s dating Jennifer Hudson, and Vince wants to get her to work with WWE on some horrible Hollywood angle. What’s friggin new. WWE hasn’t been about wrestling for quite some time now.
So, up to this point, I don’t believe Danielson—or Daniel Bryan if you prefer—has even won a match on NXT. Hell, he hasn’t even gotten enough time in the ring to have a decent match, with the exclusion of his debut against Chris Jericho. So here’s a guy that’s wrestled and defeated guys like Jushin Liger, Takeshi Morishima, Nigel McGuinness (who isn’t being booked a whole hell of a lot better than Danielson is right now), CM Punk, and about a thousand other great guys, yet he’s being booked as a total loser.
Am I the only one who’s feeling the outrage here. Shaimus has the fraggin World Heavyweight Title and Bryan Danielson is losing every match. Shaimus is boring as hell. He’s not fun to watch, and he’s not a very damn good wrestler either. But still, he’s the push that Danielson deserves.
All I want, is for once, just once, to have the bookers in WWE get their heads out of their fat lazy asses.
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