Have we been here before?
I’m pretty sure we’ve been here before. HHH, standing in the ring to end the show. We’ve been here before. HHH, posing with the hottest thing in the company to end a Raw. We’ve been here before. HHH, taking centre stage once again in the biggest angle on the show.
It’s funny that I’m getting so much Déjà-vu when only a few months ago, everything had looked like it had changed. At the start of this year HHH was nowhere to been seen, only to turn up and do a Wrestlemania program with The Undertaker, before disappearing again.
It was reported that he was pretty much retired from full time competition. He got a promotion and was seen as the number 2 guy in the company behind Vince. Then the show started to improve, some very talented Indy wrestlers were signed, internet favourites like Christian, Daniel Bryan and Alberto Del Rio all received pushes and the product seemed to be on the up.
Come June, CM Punk started a program with John Cena and became the hottest thing in the company. There was buzz about the business again. Buzz that hadn’t been felt for a few years. Some cynics said it wouldn’t last, but I thought this time it was going to be different. Wrestling was going to be great again. Oh how wrong I was.
Then HHH came back, Vince got fired (in the story) and HHH became the new COO. A new era needs a new man in charge right? But nothing changed, not in the way the product looked and not in the way the product was booked.
Punk got screwed out of the title by a returning Kevin Nash who pretty much disappeared straight after so Punk started a program with HHH. I wanted this at Wrestlemania, not know. It needed a slow build with HHH turning heel and the feud becoming the new Austin vs. McMahon.
It was not to be. It was rushed into a babyface vs. babyface match where HHH beat Punk due to interference. Then things got really bad. Johnny Ace, A.K.A John Laurinaitis got involved into the story. The Miz and R truth got fired after attacking HHH and Christian, Cody, Swagger and Dolph formed a conspiracy coalition. With all this going on, Punk’s conspiracy claims fell by the waist side.
The person, who instigated the change, became another babyface on the roster. However, the shift off Punk became to a shift towards HHH. The story essentially became about him being COO, culminating in a group walkout and HHH getting fired from Raw, with John Laurinaitis becoming the new Raw GM.
A story about CM Punk fighting for change turned into yet another HHH story line. A story with so much potential ended up dead in the water due to one man, HHH. For someone who was apparently taking a back stage role from now on, he seems to be pretty prominent on TV at the moment, doesn’t he? But, it seems like we’ve been here before.
It’s not the first time HHH has done this either, he has robbed the spotlight from more deserving participants than him in the past. He beat Austin then joined forces with him to become the two man power trip, he returned to the ring and crushed Chris Jericho, and he’s notoriously famous for burying talent after talent. He even did it this week on Raw, claiming that a broom could give him a better match than anybody else on the roster.
The reason why the WWE won’t improve in the near future. Because HHH won’t bow out. The WWE is in desperate need for change, it needs to be fresh again. It doesn’t need to change much to feel like that. There is top talent throughout the roster. Guys like Punk, Christian, Dolph, Cody and Zack Ryder could change the product for the better. But, with the main angle at the moment centred on HHH, everything is just the same, stale product that has been here for years.
This article could be too harsh; I’m just pretty disappointed at the moment. I think back to June and how much potential the story had. How much of a bright future the company had. That’s gone now. It also could be premature, they could turn it around and make me stand up and take note. However, with HHH being in the main event, it just feels like we’ve been here before.
Thanks for reading. Really appreciate the feedback.
Until next time, enjoy the show.
Daniel Morris
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