You Idiots!

Odd title? Or is it a statement made by the bookers of the E, who are force feeding us a bunch of bull week after week? Don't know if anyone noticed this, but over the last two weeks the "Raw" ratings have dropped. It's supposed to be rising, remember they're building to WrestleMania.

Take a look at what you're seeing on television right now. With Jericho/Legends, HBK/Michaels, and Hardy/Hardy leading the way as most interesting, that leaves a pretty big void in the rest of the card. Please notice something about those matches.

With the exception of Taker's streak nothing is on the line.

Finally, the unified WWE Tag Team Championships will come to fruition at WrestleMania. Smart move would be to put it on the team that is over, marketable, and has legs. That would be MnM. Carlito and Primo will get the belts, that's just how it works now.

Let me cut to the chase, here's the card, so far. WWE Title, Triple H vs. Randy Orton, World Title Edge (c) vs. John Cena vs. The Big Show, Jeff Hardy vs. Matt Hardy, Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker World & WWE Tag-Titles The Miz & John Morrison vs. The Colons, 3-On-1 Handicap Match Chris Jericho vs. Roddy Piper, Ricky Steamboat & Jimmy Snuka (w/ Ric Flair), Money in the Bank Ladder Match and a 25-Diva Battle Royal. A 25 Diva battle royal? Was the ECW title not available?

WrestleMania dammit. It should be like I was ten years ago. I should be on the verge of getting backhanded by my mom because I'm getting on her nerves about buying a PPV that won't even be on for a few more weeks. Instead, I'm sitting here writing an article about what's wrong with the show. I don't want to be negative. What choice do I have?

This is just bad. Don't get me wrong, the card isn't a terrible card. That's the problem. It's just a card though. Any card, for any show, 364 days a year. Yes I left out a day, but that's the day of WrestleMania. It's right there with the SuperBowl and Tapioca day.

Here's the thing I'm ponderizing. Yes, it's a word, just don't check. Why in God's name would you have the same thing end "Raw" each week on the way to WrestleMania? Give us a cliffhanger. Not a cliffhanger with the same guy or guys. How many times can we see John Cena in one situation or another. It's still John Cena.

Not that it is John Cena. It really isn't that. It could be Shark Boy they've done this with for five years, and that'd be boring now too. It's the fact that it's the same thing week after week time after time. Sometimes in life the hero doesn't win. Sometimes in fiction the hero doesn't win. In wrestling John Cena wins.

Even John Cena fans aren't excited by this anymore. They know he's going to win. They know they won't be surprised in any way. Like was said in the comments of the "Raw" report. Cena took things that would make a normal worker nearly dead. He just sat there and coughed a few times.

Who will leave Mania as champ? Most likely John Cena. There is a 99.999% chance it will be Cena. Nobody wants to see that. Sure it'll get a pop, but what was gained? What can be gained? Nothing, it's happened so many times before, it can't be done any other ways. Which leads me to my next point, although a controversial one.

Get the belt off of Triple H. Keep the belt off of Triple H. He's feeding his ego, he wants to pass Flair, he's going to pass Flair. It will go down as one of the biggest bastardizations of a meaningful wrestling record. Unless you ask Vince Russo, but I don't think anyone cares.

Flair's championships had meaning. Flair as a worker had meaning. Triple H is an incredible worker. He just isn't that entertaining. He's a terrible actor. He can do DX humor. He can do badass intimidator. What he can't do is anything else. He can go into epileptic shock when he's pissed though. The man can do that.

On his own he merrited a few World Championships, but why more than Flair? I won't answer, I'll let you do that. I know this H/Orton angle has some legs, but the build was too late to let it build enough, and if you're playing on the past, you're going to far and not for enough.

The two World title matches shouldn't be world title matches. They should just be matches on the card. Orton should be in the title picture yes, and maybe even for this event, Triple H just shouldn't be his opponent, at least not as champion. Chris Jericho could be putting the belt on the line against one or all of these legends.

Sure the legend wouldn't win the belt, but he could. It would be that last gasp chance for a true wrestling legend, a great champion (or not champion) to regain, or finally gain the glory he worked so hard for in years gone by. That's something people would want to see. There's one more title(actually two, but whatever) so what could be done with it?

You have a brother vs. brother match where one is so incredibly over it's unreal, the other was, and went heel, and now he's a great heel. These two have worked this into a pressure cooker of issues. Matt should have instead of "costing" Jeff the belt helped him win or retain it, so at WrestleMania the brothers could go at it and see who really is the better man. This time with a title on the line.

I'm not going to get into fantasy booking, because I like to be somewhat rational with that. With what's going on in the WWE Universe right now there is nothing rational about it. I'm going to leave the comment section wide ass open. Comment on my article, do your own fantasy booking. Tell me how your mom's doing, or your mom's mom. Actually, I'm really interested to know how your mom's cousin's daughter's best friends sister is doing, and if she's single and built nicely.

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