You should talk about the Boogey Man - who really should make an appearance on the show. I'd have bought the show if I knew he would pop up
Considering Lashley has already squashed both Regal and Burchill, I'm not even sure I'd bet on the PPV squash making 5 minutes.
Rey/Batista vs Kane/Big Show might be decent. An added bonus is that in their attempt to protect Batista, even though Rey is the Ricky Morton, they've had to book Rey as a guy that can hold on in a handicap match against both Big Show and Kane. While Show and Kane themselves are being booked in strong monster mode rather than perineal loser (even though Batista can take them both out in under a minute.) They've already had Rey survive when JBL left, in order to get Batista into the match. The WWE can't book a straight squash, as they can't justify Batista just standing outside the ring watching Rey be squashed.
Given that way you describe the utter trainwreck that apparently is the modern WWE, it's a wonder how you've maintained interest for so long, much less plunked down money for PPV matches.
I would start watching wrestling, but I think I'd be missing something.
The Boogeyman will doubtless make his regular cameo, but I doubt they'll want him wrestling on PPV for some time to come, if ever. The character is a real problem - bluntly, he's wrestled about 15 proper matches in his whole life, and according to people who've watched him in OVW, he's seriously awful. Those one-move squashes on Smackdown? That's it. That's as good as it gets. So he needs to be kept to a bare minimum of cameo appearances. Put him in a full-scale feud and he'll be exposed immediately.
Of course, that's not to say it won't happen anyway...
There's no point in buying this show. Seriously, you will not miss anything except a perhaps-passable Orton/Taker match that will in all likelihood be marred by a stupid finish. Save your money for the Bret Hart DVD instead.
What impressed me about the Undertaker/Mankind match was that, as I recall (and this may have been a different match-I don't really follow wrestling closely), Foley remained the showman throughout, and although visibly hurt by the fall through the cage, kept the act going. The match itself I remember little of (in fact, I don't think I saw it all), but Foley's professionalism there stuck wth me.
I do remember the Undertaker's first appearance, during a Royal Rumble I think. I remember that when he first started, he had this vaguely ridiculous gimmick of being actually dead or something like that, so he could not be stopped. So blokes like the Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan would be thrashing at him, and he'd be cool and impassive throughout. Quite ridiculous, as I say, but somehow cool when you're a youngster watching this on Sky.
I also recall that when Channel Four started their Sunday morning WWF show, a number of years after I'd last seen any wrestling on Sky, I couldn't believe that this hulking brute was the same Undertaker that appeared back then, as he used to be tall, but quite thin and wiry.
Steroids are an amazing thing.
Contrary to rumours that occasionally circulate, the Undertaker has always been Mark Calloway.
Yeah, I'm sure it's just a combination of the mystery that came as part of the character in his early years and the staggering change in his size over the years. It's clearly the same man if you put them side by side, but it's a big change.
Foley was visibly hurt? Foley was knocked out. He didn't even remember finishing the match afterwards.
The annoying thing about the Dead Man gimmick is Vince and Calloway haven't realized it doesn't need to make him unbeatable. After all, you only need a three count to win a match, and he's been down for longer than that at times. Have people get a pinfall win and then have him get up and go after them. As is, an Undertaker feud is almost the career killer that a Triple-H feud is. (Almost no one benefits from either except close friends of HHH, but HHH opponents have more damage done to their careers.)
Not that I want to leap on the "defend Triple H" bandwagon, but the "Triple H ruins careers" thing hasn't really been true since the Booker T travesty. Who lay down at Wrestlemania in order to make Batista champion? Who then lost twice more to establish Batista as a champion? Who tapped out the year before to make Benoit champion?
Yeah, he was a power-mad arsehole for 2001-2003, but he does seem to have gotten better. Really.
Batista is a friend of HHH. As well, he was quickly shipped to Smackdown to sink or swim (considering his popularity in the WWE came pretty much entirely from his interaction with HHH.)
Benoit is one of the guys that HHH respects. Benoit also had something of a reverse situation, in that he tended to lose to everyone except HHH.
As for career destroying, it likely isn't entirely HHH. The Katie Vick necrophilia angle that helped bury Kane was supposedly something Vince wanted, for example.
As for power mad, HHH has gotten a little better. After all, he hasn't destroyed Cena's career yet. Even though he was bad-mouthing Cena's potential only weeks before Cena was shifted to Raw. (Though Cena/HHH at next Wrestlemania has been rumored since nearly the last.)
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