Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Last night's WWF Raw Tenth anniversery show was a real disappointment. It had been hyped up as a big event, with past superstars and present. Unfortunately, the past superstars were Classy Freddie Blassie and Mean Gene Okerlund.

Bobby "the Brain" Heenan had been advertised along with Mean Gene, but when it came time, it was Pat Patterson on stage with Gene.

Of the guys nominated for the Man of the Decade, only Shawn Michaels was there. No Undertaker (who's with the company but out on injury), no Mick Foley (who won something else earlier, and who lives 30 minutes from New York City), no Bret Hart (ultimately not surprising, but think of how great it would have been for Hart and McMahon to bury the hatchet)...no Rock (except via satellite)...and no Stone Cold Steve Austin...arguably the man who turned the WWF away from bankruptcy and eventually lead them to beat WCW.

I know it's wrestling, but just once, I was expecting something really cool, and they failed to deliver.

It was more like a scaled down Slammy show. Lose the award show angle and just play it like a retrospective.

The opening montage was good and the piece saying to goodbye to all those guys who've died was pretty good....though Andre wasn't technically a Raw wrestler. He died not too long after Raw came on the air in 1993, and (I think) never appeared on the show. I could be wrong about that. Still, it was good to include him.

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