Jack Duckworth! Get the tables!!!! (WWE in General)

Member Name: triplecthegame

Product:	WWE in General
Date:	09/01/01 (129 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: all good fun

Disadvantages: real-injuries

Or I could have called this one D-Von! Get the Hotpots! Why because in my opinion the WWF and in fact the whole Sports Entertainment industry of wrestling is one great big Soap Opera, imagine instead of having long dull conversations in the local you could just throw characters like Mike Baldwin and Ken Barlow in a wrestling ring and watch them beat holy hell out of each other - it'd be a lot more entertaining in my ever so humble opinion!

Anyway onto the review itself, if you didn't know by now the WWF is a sports entertainment production where fully grown men basically beat 7 bells of the proverbial out of each other, if they have to use Tables Chairs or anything else to do it then 9 times out of 10 so be it!, Gone are the days though when it used to be 2 fat sweaty blokes in lycra tights throwing punches at each other and falling down even if their opponent missed by miles and now we have some (not all mind) characters you can believe in, theres the genuine bad-guys like HHH, Chris Benoit and to a lesser extent, Rakishi and of course you have the 'good-guys' such as The Rock, Chris Jericho and The Undertaker, but nowadays it seems that most of the characters have a good/bad side to them too - recently HHH was starting to become a fan-favourite because of his feud with Kurt Angle over his wife Stephanie Mcmahon-Helmsley, but of course now hes been revealed as the master-mind behind Stone Cold Steve Austin getting run over we're all supposed to hate him again, then theres the facts that before HHH was revealed as the mastermind the finger was pointed firmly at The Rock, a previously loved character who started to get heat from the fans after Rock-Bottoming Austin, so theres almost always another side to the storyline which more often than not happens like the twist in the tale at the end of a movie!

But lets look at the history, back when I started to watch in the early nineties there was a lot more 'fantasy' to the cha
racters such as Doink the Clown (I mean come ooooooooon whos ever heard of a fighting clown!), Jerry Lawler was still wrestling but claiming that he was a direct relative of our royal family at the time (The Queen would really love that wouldn't she!) and The Legion of Doom who were supposedly Bikers who strangely enough went around wearing foam shoulder-pads and no other kind of shirt! (Now I've never met a Biker dressed like that!) and the start of a feud wasn't like it is nowadays, it used to be more of bad-mouth somebody in an interview rather than interfere in a match with a steel chair!

However one of the benefits of the early years was that we had the more technical fights happening, in other words there were more 'wrestling moves' involved, we had fighters like Bret 'The Hitman' Hart and his family and it was all more to do with the wrestling rather than the storylines, but saying that we're coming slowly back to this style at the moment, theres fighters like Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko and Kurt Angle who are all fighting with proper wrestling holds instead of the brawling styles of people like Stone Cold Steve Austin and Co, so if I was to say how I saw the WWF now, then I'd be honest and say that we seem to have a good mix of brawling and technical all topped of with the high-flying style of The Hardy Boys, Edge and Christian and K-Kwik, with moves such as The Swanton Bomb, The 450 and hundreds of moves taking place off the top of ladders, fighters are now taking bigger risks to entertain the fans, with these risks though of course there are some very serious consequences - over the last couple of years we've seen Darren Drozdoff paralyzed from the waist down thanks to a Pile Driver going wrong (for the non Wrestling-fans out there its basically being dropped on your head) and even worse the great Owen Hart lost his life when a support cable went wrong and he fell 60 feet, all in the name of entertainment. r>
However when Vince Mcmahon started to notice that WCW was starting to take over the wrestling market, it was obvious to see that all of the old styles slowly started to disappear, Bret Hart was screwed (sorry allowed to leave) out of his contract and young fresh new talent was being slowly brought into the fray, we saw DX get formed dibanded and re-united only to be disbanded again, there was the Corporation/Ministry of Darkness alliance and all of this was done with the bright razzamatazz that all wrestling fans have come to expect, so now we have some truly great shows being put on by HHH and the gang, but there have still been some embarrassing storylines slipped the net, namely the stooges Patterson and Briscoe fighting in a hardcore evening gown match, good ole JR's flirts with being a heel character and the down-right ridiculous continuations of the Austin-Mcmahon feuds, now that gets onto my last point Austin, I have to admit I hate the guy, hence my following of HHH, maybe I'd start to like him if he were a heel (I've always followed the heels! - Undertaker/Hart Foundation/ HHH) but its just something about him I don't like!

So take this soap-opera as it is, its meant to be just a bit of fun, almost all of the injuries are fake, but its all there to be enjoyed!