London & Kendrick, ECW Tag Champions?
Published by Matthew March 16th, 2007 in WWE, Wrestling Miscellany
If you saw my latest Till My Head Falls Off over at Pulse Wrestling, along with the news from Dave Meltzer that Dusty Rhodes pushed for ECW to add a tag team division, you shouldn’t have been surprised by the title of this blog entry. I still feel that WWE should unify the two current (RAW’s “World” and Smackdown’s “WWE”) Tag Team Championships into one set of straps, and I haven’t given up on a possible MNM/Hardyz feud eventually happening on Tuesday nights. But Aaron Glazer made a great point: Paul London and Brian Kendrick are a perfect fit for ECW, and just the tag team that can breath some needed life into the brand.
After tonight’s Smackdown it’s even more apparent that Joey Mercury, Johnny Nitro, Melina Perez, Paul London, Brian Kendrick and Ashley Massaro are at their most exciting when in the ring against each other. London & Kendrick haven’t lost a title match since beating MNM almost a year ago — in fact, they’re in the top four WWE tag teams of ALL TIME when it comes to length of their championship reign. MNM, on the other hand, have more of a “star aura” than the HooliganZ, yet seem to be mired in the mid-card until WWE has a workable plan to get at least Nitro into a spot further up on the card.
So why not just pull the trigger and put John Cena and Shawn Michaels’ titles on MNM, and then let the new RAW champs go up against the HooliganZ Mania? If they want to include other teams in the mix, I’m fine with it. But there’s no reason these four talented workers should be left off the card… and unfortunately right now they absolutely are.
If they DO go forward with ‘my plan,’ they should put the straps on MNM, have them jump to ECW to stir shit up and feud with the HooliganZ (who would also have to make the jump — something WWE can easily do within the storylines). At some point, you get Mick Foley involved, playing off of his history with Mercury and Melina, and use Foley as a distraction that causes MNM to drop the belts back to their rivals, break up, and go their separate ways. I donno, it just makes sense to me to have Mercury head over to Smackdown to be in the cruiserweight division or stay in ECW as a midcarder, and Nitro can go over Foley in a big match before either challenging Lashley in ECW or heading back to RAW. But what do I know? Can’t hurt to try.
This was originally posted on my ECW blog at wrestlersnotvampires.blogspot.com.
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Matthew and his silly ideas lol
ECW is the biggest waste of time, talent and air time I have seen since WCW Thunder. Even reading recaps of the show makes me fell like I wasted two minutes of my life.
I’m all for intermingling Raw and Smackdown performers, but putting people on ECW just so the show can stay somewhat above water is a waste of time. Guys like RVD, Lashley, Cm Punk, Montey Brown, and Tommey Dreamer would make Smackdown and Raw rosters much better. Its sad when your talent is so thin that you can’t fill a decent PPV card.
I miss the days of guys going back and forth from Raw and Smackdown every week. I wouldn’t do it with everybody these days, but I would have one tag divisoin as well, and more competion being displayed on a weekly basis. The U.S and IC title divisions would be stacked, and you would still be top heavy for the big belts.
I see no negative coming from that cause you could still run your two seperate brands for house shows and PPV’s, but with better talent on every PPV. They would get better buyrates and sell more tickets cause fans would know they are getting the best talent every night. It would be smart for business.
My fear is that by “best talent every night” it would turn into “HHH, Taker, Micahels, Cena, Batista and Orton EVERY NIGHT.”
Whats wrong with HBK? AT his age and in his condition and he has still been on fire. I could watch HBK every night.
By best talent everynight, I mean the best talent everynight. Its been done before and was very sucessful.
I grew up on wrestling that was built that way, and I enjoyed it. There was no PPV I did not order untill the brand extenstion turned into bullshit. Cards with two maybe three PPV quality matches on it is not worth a buyrate.
But if you have good storylines and focus up and down the card, from both Raw and Smackdown, its whats best for the product and the fans. This years Wrestlemania is very top heavy, but the undercard is still pretty weak to me, because enough focus has not been given to every title division.
To me, if you have title divisions stacked and good stories built within those divisions, you can have enough storylines and matches to last you all year. But lines have to be drawn.
The WWE posses so much talent, but the talent is too scattered. Thats why instead of C.M Punk going after the I.C title or U.S title right now, he’s in a MITB match that he’s not going to win. Thats why Benoit is stuck defending the U.S title against MVP at Wrestlemania. Cause the divisions are not built correctly and the talent is scattered over three shows instead of one pool of talent being used properly over two two shows a week and one PPV a month.
Remember when Nitro was clicking on all cylinders? The talent was plentious but everybody got to be showcased in one way or another and the PPV’s were always stacked.
Then Thunder, AT THE BEGINNING, came along and more talent was showcased their but you still had a mix of top talent presented as well. And your World champion could just do promos on both shows and wrestle every once in awhile.
One roster and two shows could be very good for angle developement, and instead of rushing an angle together for three shows after the previous PPV, you could have six to build it up. It could only be good for wrestling and they would get better buyrates for all PPV’s not just the big ones. There is no disputing that to me.
This is a different point altogether but we need to get those morings with dave radio shows back up, those rock.
Whats up with the new post? Who’s running this joint now? Who is not taking advantage of their author ability, cause I would be more than happy to take it off your hands.
We’re still trying to get the word out that the site is back and I’m trying to get the word out that it really really really won’t crash this time.
If you know how to contact anyone, please do. If you know any of the old writers, get them back on board, too.
I agree with Bigdaddy… we can work to rebuild the site but we have plenty of capable peeps who could take up the reigns right here. I nominate myself and Bibdaddy! lol
“Bibdaddy”
This tickled me.
I’ve been meaning to put something up about this for about the last week. I’ve been coming to this site almost since the very beginning, although I’ve been more of a lurker than a regular poster.
The WrestlingBlog was always at its best when it had lots of writers creating new topics regularly, giving the rest of us a chance to make comment. Clearly at the moment there is no-one putting up new topics for the rest of us to discuss. We need some way to get new regular topics up, and it seems to me, giving some of the regulars a chance to create new topics seems to me to be the best way. Given that you now have to be registered to post I think there should be a greater level of trust given to regulars. There is also a hard core of four or five people who have been contributing as posters for at least 18 months so they have a track record that shows they can do it (BDB, MRob, LT3, etc).
Having said that, I don’t think anyone who registers should be allowed to make new topics (otherwise this place will end up just like Sherdog with 50000 stupid threads going at once). But we need to get the site back to something like its former glory.
In its day this was hands down the best wrestling website going and it would be good if it could be again.
I went to Blockbuster to get a few UFC dvd’s the other day and I noticed that are carrying WWE dvd’s again. I saw that they had Royal Rumble last month, but I thought it was just some kind of special, but they had No Way Out this past tuesday.
I read bad reviews on the show, but I wanted to see it for myself, and with my Blockbuster rewards, I didn’t pay a dime.
The show itself overall was pretty strange. They were at the Staples Center, but the crowd was dead for most of the night.
The main event was one of the best planned mega star tag matches I have seen in years. The execution wasn’t great, but I could tell that it was written to be great. There were two maybe three hot tags, and the crowd was on a roller coaster ride on who to cheer for the whole match. Of coarse Taker and HBK worked their asses off, but Batista and Cena held their own pretty well. Batista even pulled some new moves out his hat.
In the beginning, Taker and HBK had the crowd fully behind them, but as the match went on Batista had them in his hand, then Cena, then Taker, then Hbk, then jsut when you knew somebody was going to turn on somebody, Batista struck back and got his revenge.
It was a great story. Not hearing Cole on the mic really hepled as well, but thats another story.
That match really got me pumped for the WM manin events, and I hear they are running a rematch next week. I know it won’t the time to develope, but for a free rental at Blockbuster, I enjoyed the first one.
That’s cool that Blockbuster is featuring WWE PPVs again, BD. Renting wrestling DVDs and music DVDs is the main reason I signed up for NetFlix and I’m loving it! Netflix has a nice selection of WWE PPVs… they don’t have every release from 01-02, but starting in ‘03 they have just about every month’s event. I’ve been going back and ripping the matches that I really like and making compiliation DVDs. Good stuff!
Does Netflix feature other wrestling dvd’s like ROH for rental. I don’t like buying dvd’s anymore cause I have too many of them and I download alot, so its a waste of money. But renting gives me my fix for cheap and I can send it back. Plus, I taped almost every wrestling event I have watched since the early 80’s.
There’s no ROH on there yet but I do believe they carry some of their little brother (FIP) and sister (SHIMMER). I wouldn’t be surprised if TNA will be on there eventually, but I haven’t looked yet so I don’t know their status.
I buy most ROH DVDs… if you’re seriously interested in checking out some of their stuff then maybe we could work something out. I can copy DVDs and I’d be more than willing to send you a few shows to see if you like it. Just let me know! I’m not looking for cash either… just offering to share some great wrestling. :)