10 Dumbest Ways WWE Promoted WrestleMania Matches
1. Edge Vs. Booker T - WrestleMania X8
Money.
Fame.
A body of work you can look back on, after your own body has given out, with a sense of accomplishment. "Achievement is its own reward," as a character once said in a TV show exponentially better than the bullsh*t that was RAW in 2002.
This is why a professional wrestler becomes a professional wrestler, unless you are Booker T and Edge, who feuded in 2002 over the right to star in a Japanese shampoo commercial - as if it isn't something American actors do with as little fanfare as possible so as to disguise their craven money-lust. No, in WWE, Booker T and Edge did this very publicly and enthusiastically, as WWE under Stephanie McMahon's putrid creative direction elected to dispense with traditional wrestling narrative. Instead, WWE TV was reimagined as an "action adventure" series in order to recapture the casual audience.
"We make movies."
No, you make the things movie stars are embarrassed to make.
"Yo, Japanese people!" was an acknowledged boy-popper of an opening gambit from Booker T, but elsewhere, this stakes-free b*llocks, a dismal attempt to portray its stars as "real" stars, not your antiquated wrestling acts, was putrid, corny, and a risible abandonment of Chris Kreski's excellence.