6. The Authority Dominates All
Stephanie McMahon and HHH were easily involved in more than half of the opening segments on Raw this year. Theyd close the show, theyd take up many pointless, self serving and indulgent segments, theyd belittle wrestler after wrestler without getting theirs. No one else on TV got to talk as much as they did and they arent wrestlers! If you go to a house show, Hunter and Steph arent going to be there. If you buy a WWE action figure for your kid, its not going to be of those two. They ate up TV time, they buried talent, and all they did was portray evil authority figures in a wrestling trope that was played out at the end of Austin vs. McMahon. By the end of the year, they were off TV, but still a part of major storylines. The announcers and wrestlers couldnt stop talking about them even though they were gone! With ratings continuing to fall, management needs to come up with a different idea. Hey, how about this: Wrestlers finally being the main attractions of a wrestling program again!
Andrew Soucek
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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