Dethroning Moment of Suck (Darth Wiki)/Professional Wrestling: Difference between revisions

* [[Tropers/Kilgore Trout|Kilgore Trout]]: I took a break from WWE starting in 2003. There was stuff on the show that made me uncomfortable, such as the infamous Katie Vick stuff, and a sketch involving the Hurricane and Rosey where Rosey tried to rescue a cat from a tree as part of his superhero training and ended up killing it, but I kept watching...until the Iraq War began and [[Vince McMahon]] decided to crank the [[Patriotic Fervor]] [[Up to Eleven]]. I distinctly remember [[Jim Ross]] talking about how great it was that the U.S. was invading that country, taking time out of a pay-per-view to do it no less. And then came the [http://www.wrestlecrap.com/classic40.html debate between Scott Steiner and Christopher Nowinski]. Which, as I recall, was preceded a week earlier by Nowinski walking out with a mic to talk about how wrong it was for the U.S. to invade Iraq, prompting [[Scott Steiner|Steiner]] to run out and kick his ass on behalf of all "true Americans". And then came "La Resistance", who were heels because they were from France, which had objected to the invasion you see. There was only so long I could continue to watch a show that kept on villifying people with my beliefs and creating [[Strawman Political]] heels for the babyfaces to destroy. I really felt like Vince's message was "If you're not behind [[George W. Bush]] 100%, then you also deserve an asskicking like Nowinski's getting and like La Resistance are getting."

* clownishchimp: The whole [[Triple H]] as the COO angle. Before that the angle was about [[CM Punk]] shooting on [[Vince McMahon]] and WWE, taking shots at their behind the scenes activities and their attempt at a PG public image. As a result Vince suspended him and decided to give someone else a shot at the title until [[John Cena]] confronted him and demanded that Punk get his shot or he would walk out. Vince agrees but says if [[You Have Failed Me|Cena fails to beat Punk, he is fired]]. So Punk gets his shot, and despite Vince's attempts at another [[Montreal Screwjob]], Punk wins and escapes with the title. At this point WWE is getting a ton of praise over the angle and people can't wait to see what happens next. The following night they hold a tournament to crown a new WWE Champion, while Cena is about to be fired by Vince, making people wonder if Vince would actually do it or not. Then the angle goes downhill when [[Triple H]] shows up completely out of the blue and announces that the Board of Directors has relieved Vince of his duties (even though [[Vince McMahon]] is the majority owner of the company) and that he is the new COO. There's also the fact that this is [[Vince McMahon]] the man whose been running WWE since the 80's and brought wrestling to the mainstream and boom periods such as the [[Rock N Wrestling]] and {{Attitude Era [[Attitude Eras]]}}, and who has played the [[Big Bad]] of WWE programming since the [[Montreal Screwjob]], and yet he's just kicked out of his own company out of nowhere and dropped and forgotten about like a bad date, just to stop him from firing Cena. It gets worse when Cena simply gets the title back the next week and Punk shows up right after he wins it. This has lead to an extremely confusing angle in which HHH and Punk are feuding, yet neither wants to do a [[Face Heel Turn]], making it hard for the fans to figure out who to root for. Then at Summerslam Punk beats Cena to be undisputed WWE champion, but is then attacked by [[Kevin Nash]] so that [[Alberto Del Rio]], a heel whom WWE had pushed to the moon despite his lack of overness with the fans, can become the new champion. So Cena is now busy feuding with Del Rio for the title, while the angle turns into a three-way feud between Punk, HHH, and Nash(who is the one playing the heel), two of them being semi-retired from in-ring competition. There's a whole mystery over who sent the text to Nash, but he then reveals he sent it to himself, so HHH fires him. HHH and Punk finally face each other at Night of Champions, which has interference from [[The Miz]], [[Ron Killings|R-Truth]], and Nash, and HHH winds up winning the match, thus burying Punk. He then fires Miz and R-Truth and makes a Triple Threat match for HIAC between Punk, Cena (who beat Del Rio cleanly to win the title), and Del rio for the title. It ends with Del Rio winning the title despite just losing it weeks ago when Miz and R-Truth attack Punk. This incident leads to the entire roster becoming threatened by an "unsafe workplace"(yeah, they are afraid of the [[Smug Snake|MIZ]] of all people), and pretty much everyone on the roster walks out since they do not have confidence in [[Triple H]] and want him to step down. Yes, almost the entire roster pulls a [[Face Heel Turn]] because they do not support HHH, whom is being portrayed as the sympathetic face of the storyline. And there's no end in sight for this angle. To make things even [[It Got Worse|worse]], they are playing up [[Yes -Man|John Laurinitis]] as the [[The Man Behind the Man|the person, or one of the people, behind the conspiracy]], meaning that potentially the angles payoff of this whole storyline is a semi-retired [[Triple H]] fighting one of his [[Vince McMahon|father-in-law's]] former stooges for control over WWE. Alternatively it could also lead to yet another feud between [[Triple H]] and his wife [[Stephanie McMahon]] for control over their father/father-in-law's company. What would make the latter potentially worse is that it may extend to Wrestlemania 28, in which the Wrestlemania ten years earlier saw the last feud between HHH and Stephanie, which was terrible and the match that the feud was building up to, HHH vs [[Chris Jericho]], [[Epic Fail|somehow got to be the final match on the card over]] [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] vs [[Hulk Hogan|Hollywood Hulk Hogan]], one of the biggest matches of all time. And Wrestlemania 28 has Rock vs Cena as the schedule main event. [[Fridge Horror|Which means WWE could be repeating history by booking HHH and Stephanie's marriage problems over one of the biggest, most anticiopate matches of all time.]] So basically it looks like this whole thing is just to make HHH [[Creator's Pet|the center]] [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|of attention]] once again. And as big as this rant is, it still probably doesn't fully cover how bad this is, but I will leave that to anyone else who has something to say about it.

* GetterKaizer: I don't think I have to explain the [[Finger -Poke of Doom]]. Or David Arquette winning the WCW Heavyweight Title in a Tag Team Match.