I can't have the most clear opinion in here since I haven't watched all the ppvs during 2010, but from what I have seen so far(including Wrestlemania, HIAC, Elimination Chamber) I am not 100% satisfied. The past decade, as well as the previous one, WWE has had some memorable matches and in almost every PPV it was entertaining to watch because there was something new about it. Nowadays, besides HBK vs The Undertaker at Wrestlemania I am not sure if everyone will be remembering this year as a good year for wrestling.
Also the only thing that they can remember is Bret's return, who finally put water into his wine and decided to come back to the WWE after 13 years. Although their match wasnt good, their promos before wrestlemania were getting repeated and repeated every time(who screwed who and blah blah), seriously I was waiting for Bret's return for many many years and when I witnessed it, it was a big disappointment. Seems like WWE can't meet the expectations anymore.
After all, they made us having so big expectations by them, right? Something that I am curious about and I can say that I don't really like it, is the fact that the same matches happen in one particular ppv. Why to put all the Hell in a Cell matches in one ppv?
All the chambers in one? I disagreed with that even when they had two of them in the New Year's Revolution ppv. The eyes of the viewers and the crowd are getting tired when they watch 3-4 hell in a cells at the same day.
Back in the day, WWE offered us a singles match to warm up, then a divas match to trick us, then a good gatal 4 way match where you didn't know who had more chances to capture the win, then a championship match for one brand, singles and finally, when it was the time to bring down the demonice structure of hell in a cell, the crowd was going nuts about it. I miss the good ol' layouts of the ppvs. Not all the gimmick matches in one ppv. It sucks in my eyes.
WQ2: As you can see above, I totally agree with their terrible booking. I don't think they did it on purpose. They know that fans might be disappointed, and not interested on subscribe the ppv and that's a loss of money, sthn that Vince doesn't want to, even in his worst nightmares.
The only reason that WWE would have done that, is like...decreasing the expectations of the crowd for the years to come? But why to do that? That would be a loss.
Possibly it is their lack of creativity. They probably wanted to do something new and different but it turned out to be such a crap booking. Hopefully they will improve that in 2011-2012, if not...they are either dumb, or too selfish to accept their mistakes.
I totally agree with you. The worst thing has got to be the gimmick PPVs, I do business in collage and I learned from the beggining that it is never good to over expose you product or concept to the market or over saturate the market. WWE had a good thing going with the Money in the Bank ladder match at Wrestlemania but then they go and create a money in the bank PPV?
Are they intentionally trying to kill the concept. Hell in a Cell matches used to be rare and as a result were a huge deal when they happened. Now they barely generate interest just like Cage matches barely generate interest due to overexposure.
And the quality of matches was poor. I will say this though, when you said about Wrestlemania 26, Cena vs Batista failed to eclipse Rock vs Austin. Come on man, that match was never intented to eclipse austin vs rock and no one expected it to because we all knew it wouldnt.
And the Bret vs Vince match was never gonna be good, Bret isa stroke victim and Vince is an old man, no one expected it to be good and it didn't need to be. Just the build up, the 12 years in the making was the whole point of the match. Everyone just wanted to see vince tap out to the sharpshooter for what he did in montreal.
WQ2- They never did it intentionally, such is the confusion in the creative department they probably thought the PPVs were good ideas.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.