Bret on RAW, Hogan/RVD on Impact, who is watching what?

[ShawnHartXXX]

Oh yeah... who the **** is that pasty asshole with the stupid facial hair carrying the WWE Championship around? This is the first time I've ever flipped on wrestling and NOT recognized the champion. Of all the potential mid-carders I could have seen carrying that belt -- John Morrison, especially -- they put it on this ginger kid I've never heard of?

ROFL!!! I had the exact same reaction myself when I flipped RAW on last week! I've actually been pretty good about keeping up with WWE, but they lost me for 2 or 3 months here recently... and I guess in that time Sheamus debuted, ran roughshod and is suddenly #1?! Weird. So many deserving guys have been toiling for years..

 

[ShawnHartXXX]

Oy.. about Bret - I love the guy, and loved seeing him. I liked the opening segment, but didn't like the close as much. However, given the real-life ramifications of the situation, I think almost any wrestling angle they could've played here would have felt a bit forced. Could they have handled it better? Yes... but I'm going to give them a pass. What's important now is what they do with it going forward.

 

[QueenOfTheRing]

You kids need to leave the jacked-up Ron Weasley alone.

I DVRed Raw and watched it after the TCU/Boise State game. This was the first time I've watched any live WWE TV in the longest time. I loved Bret Hart as a kid and seeing him last night...was really sad. He's aged a lot since the stroke (not surprising, though), and the long hair makes him look even older on top of everything else. You're over 50, Bret...I know the stringy strands were your thing back in the day, but now? No.

Hated his music remixed too.

I liked the opening segment with Michaels, even though I don't really care for Michaels all that much. I fast-forwarded through the rest of the show that didn't develop Hart's being there, except for Miz's entrance (wanted to see what he was about) and a little bit of Sheamus/Bourne (curiosity, and oh hai Bourne is a good looking man). The in-ring at the end was lame, but served the purpose for what it was, I guess.

All that being said, nothing on the show held my interest enough to make me want to return to watching wrestling full-time.

 

[PlanetOfHats]

No ripping on Sheamus. He's my happy ginger Satan.

I expected to be flipping back and forth a lot, but we ultimately ended up watching more Impact than Raw because it was so much more compelling, Nasty Boys or no. Yeah, Raw started strong with the Bret and HBK segment, but then it was just another Raw. I could see the lineup coming from a mile away because it's the same thing every week: start with a women's match, then an utterly disinteresting MVP match, Hornswoggle/DX bullhonkey, Legacy not blowing their load on their damn breakup and Jericho getting buried yet again. Basically aside from Bret WWE did nothing to make me care. TNA started slow with the abortion of a cell match, but then they started debuting guys left and right and you knew the shiznit was on.

Whatever direction TNA does decide to go, their show was a lot more captivating to me. I did get a huge WCW 1997 vibe watching it, I admit, but it was a good kind of WCW 1997 vibe.



If anything the best part was flipping back and forth between two wrestling shows and actually feeling like I had a choice. In the end I went with TNA because they went balls-to-the-wall to try and make their night a huge night. WWE phoned it in.

 

[jediPREZ]

Bret's signed till 2 weeks past Mania, Vince Vs Bret is pretty much a given for Mania, so the ball kick will lead somewhere.

I like Sheamus, Vince is always a mark for big guys, and he's HHH's work out partner, so he's going to be around for a while..

Interesting on the Bret contract.

I'm hoping Vince is the only guy he gets in the ring with and it lasts maybe 2 minutes. Something about a guy who landed on his head and had a stroke...well, I don't think he should be in the ring at all.

 

[LQJT86C]

The only disappointing aspect of last night, was that Bret forgot to say: "And there's ONE MORE person I have to call out here tonight. Somebody who I feel needs to bury the hatchet...JOHN RIVERA, COME ON OUT HERE!"

 

[John Doe]

The only disappointing aspect of last night, was that Bret forgot to say: "And there's ONE MORE person I have to call out here tonight. Somebody who I feel needs to bury the hatchet...JOHN RIVERA, COME ON OUT HERE!"

Pssshhh, you're damn right about that! Owes me an apology for being rude and such.