03/26 Velocity and 03/27 Heat

Velocity was good. Somewhat. I was really disappointed when they says Heidenreich was wrestling next in the second half of the program. Not as much because it was a bad match, because I can ignore bad matches pretty good, but because I was hoping we’d get two segments of the closing tag match instead of just one.

I think, on SD!, Eddie should tune up for Rey by facing London.

Heat‘s really in a cycle of awful lately. The good thing on the RAW side is they’ve cycled most of the worthless guys out of the main event picture, but that means it cycled them right to Heat. Add in the guys who seem to have been doing the same things forever (Val, Hurricane, La Resistance, Rhyno) and it’s so

What does it say about the creative side when their big idea characters are flopping, though?

• Simon Dean – huge investment in buildup, not a single meaningful feud: complete failure
• Gene Snitsky – got over by accident, gotten less over every moment since, to the point where Coach and Grisham were wondering how long he’d last in the WWE on Heat
• Chris Masters – on Heat. Closer to being over in ROH than WWE
• Mumahhad Hassan – over? Close enough. But if he’s losing to HBK (like one would expect unless Angle shows up – and they’ve already done that), and getting beat up by Hogan (like everyone assumes), I dunno if we’ll be saying the same thing next week.

The one trend I’m noticing is the new characters don’t get feuds to work with.. Christy has a chance to be intersting – a slim chance, granted – because she’s actually involved in a feud with a wrestler. Can’t really say anything more about the other people here right now. They’ve got to do a much better job of sticking people in feuds right off the introduction. If you don’t have any rival, you’re going to be on and off of RAW, and if you’re on and off RAW, you’re meaningless. Why invest the time in before they come on the show when you’re not willing to invest it after they’re on.

Not these ideas were great to start with, but you’d like to cut down on the problems.

There’s probably going to be a whole truckload of new people come post WM. Hopefully they’ve got better ideas.