Introducing the Worked-Shoot Era of WWE

[zrinkill]

Vince McMahon's demotion and what lies ahead for WWE

"I love you, Pop, and I'm sorry."

With those unspectacular words, Triple H relieved his real-life father-in-law, WWE chairman Vince McMahon, of his duties. It was a storyline, obviously, but the way it was delivered spoke to a larger theme: For the first time, Triple H, the WWE Board of Directors' on-screen representative, made unveiled reference to the facts that he's married to Vince's daughter and part of the WWE brain trust. John Cena threatened to leave for rival promotion TNA Wrestling if Vince lived up to his promise of firing Cena. Both lines were knee-deep in scripted histrionics, but they also stood as examples of the somewhat real, worked-shoot style that CM Punk brought back into vogue in June.

Despite the fact that he wasn't even present for the proceedings, Punk's spirit filled the arena.1 Physically, Punk — your putative WWE champion — was in Chicago, cavorting offscreen with the championship belt. If that seems unusual, well, it is. Allow me to recap.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/...rked-shoot-era


This is a good article.

[DallasGirl50]

Good article but HHH & Orton worked a story several years ago where Orton was terrorizing Steph & HHH was there to save his wife. And they had him going to Randy's house and his "wife".....

[zrinkill]

Originally Posted by DallasGirl50

Good article but HHH & Orton worked a story several years ago where Orton was terrorizing Steph & HHH was there to save his wife. And they had him going to Randy's house and his "wife".....

That was not really a worked shoot ..... nobody thought that was real.

Well ..... maybe some kids.

[Romo 2 Austin]

Originally Posted by DallasGirl50

Good article but HHH & Orton worked a story several years ago where Orton was terrorizing Steph & HHH was there to save his wife. And they had him going to Randy's house and his "wife".....

Yup. Everyone knows he is married to steph.


And btw its been dubbed realERA

[DallasGirl50]

They both married well. Vince gets a son in law who knows the business inside and out..he married into the job of a lifetime

[big dog cowboy]

Call it the "Worked-Shoot Era"

I like that. Great article BTW.

[Romo 2 Austin]

Originally Posted by big dog cowboy

Call it the "Worked-Shoot Era"

I like that. Great article BTW.

Which has been the backbone for tna booking since hogan arrived btw

[zrinkill]

Originally Posted by big dog cowboy

Call it the "Worked-Shoot Era"

I like that. Great article BTW.

Yup ...... glad WWE is doing something great, nobody has done this type of thing in 10 years ...... at least not successfully.

[Romo 2 Austin]

Originally Posted by zrinkill

Yup ...... glad WWE is doing something great, nobody has done this type of thing in 10 years ...... at least not successfully.

I'm sure being a profitable company and being #2 in an industry in 9 years is considered successful.

[zrinkill]

I take what I said back ...... Ring Of Honor will be successful doing it ...... of course they are about to restart a working relationship with the WWE.

[Romo 2 Austin]

Originally Posted by zrinkill

I take what I said back ...... Ring Of Honor will be successful doing it ...... of course they are about to restart a working relationship with the WWE.

Ok a company that used to pull .06 ratings vs the company that pulls 1.2s-1.4's, I wonder which is more successful?


Freaking homer. Weren't you the one who asked what Ring of Honor was 4 months ago? Do you even know 5 people on the roster? Have fun googling it! Whos the top 2 workers? Harder to google that, and it's not a matter of opinion its a fact. TNA>ROH in ring, and ROH has 1 storyline, and they repeat it all the freakin' time which is tag team breakup and feud for 2 years. and I'm a huge ROH fan, probably more so than TNA or WWE at this point.

[zrinkill]

Hey ....... does anyone remember who it was that bought the CM Punk is leaving angle hook line and sinker?

What was that marks name?

[zrinkill]

In other funny news

John Laurinaitis Legitimately Punched by John Cena

http://www.wrestlingnewssource.com/feed_news-20270-John_Laurinaitis_Legitimately_Punched_by_John_Cena .php

[BraveHeartFan]

Good work by WWE.

I know from what I've watched, and read, about TNA that they've attempted to do this type of thing for a while but they fail miserably at it. It's the people they have running their company though, and not so much their wrestlers, that can't seem to work it right.


I've seen their silly little backstage, after show, promos where they're always trying to make it seem more 'real' but those come off as so hokey and stupid. But, again, it's because of who they have running the show and calling the shots. If they had quality management I believe they'd pull it off very well as well.


Unfortunately for TNA Eric Bishoff doesn't have a nWo, shock the world when Hogan turns out to be the bad guy leader, deal he can pull out of his *** in order to make TNA become the #1.


Also I've heard, and seen, people here bragging about being the #2 company in the wrestling world and how that is something.

Being #2 out of a whole 2 companies only means you're last. It's that simple.

ROH doesn't count yet, as they've not got national, and the Mexican and Japanese companies aren't shown in the states, and such, to be part of the deal. Otherwise one of those companies would likely be beating all of them.


But, yeah, TNA drawing the #2 ranking out of 2 is not something to hang ones hat on.

[DallasGirl50]

I was the one who had never heard of ROH & posted that...I don't know a thing about them...then and now.