So Are You "Buying" Summer Slam?

Oh yes, every month, before a PPV for wrestling, the internet is a buzz with the big question, "Did WWE sell  the PPV enough on their shows leading up to it, for you to buy it?"

It is amusing watching all the editorials come out many often complaining about the lack of build up, to be interested in purchasing the PPV.  Then reading the comments from internet fans soundly agreeing and then joking how they haven't bought one for years.

It is these same people, the fans who come up with all sorts of rational excuses as to why the PPV ratings are not as high as they should, with the one except of pointing the finger to themselves.  The ones who are stealing them by watching the PPV's on internet streams are part of the problem.

I find it annoying when I see wrestling sites and writers joking on twitter, about finding these free streams and being serious when asking people to message them where there is a good free stream to watch the show on. NOT ALL SITES OR WRITERS DO THIS! I have never seen, Wrestlezone, nor PWTorch ever do this and therefore I want to make mention of their integrity on this matter.  (Now some of the fans who comment on twitter or in articles on these sites do, but those running and writing on these sites, do not ask for free streams publicly from what I have seen.)

Why do I find it odd and amusing for all these internet fans aka IWC to discuss if WWE creative did a good job of selling the PPV to them?  HELLO?  Why would the WWE or even TNA try to sell the PPV to the IWC when they openly admit to not paying for them.

Yes I know they are expensive.  However that is no excuse to be stealing something.  Just because it is easy to do and you feel safe doing it, because you won't get caught or into any trouble, it still does not make it right. Still the main point I want to make is, complaining about something you weren't going to buy anyway and still watch.

If it is important for you to see and talk about it with friends, find ways to save money to watch it.  Don't buy so many latte's or forgo buying a game that month.  How about get a bunch of friends together and see how much everyone can scrape up and then buy it.  Get creative!

Yes my family enjoys watching these PPV's and guess what, we pay for them.  We have put it in our entertainment budget and cut out things so we can do this.  To help out friends, we invite them to watch it with us.  We make a party out of it and have a BLAST!

Here's the thing.  If you are not going to buy it no matter what, and be watching online from a stream, just remember, WWE is going to focus on those who pay and that is what they have been doing for quite sometime.

Also before a bunch of you start going on and on about the Attitude Era and how the WWE has been ruined and that's why you won't buy it. BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF!  You are watching WWE, right?  You still hold some interest in it, then.  Plus if it wasn't ruined as you feel it is, would you really be buying it, when you have such easy access to get it free, legal or not?  For many IWC, being able to get something so expensive free through a hack is just too tempting.

So until the attitude begins to change in the IWC, the WWE isn't going to be bending over backwards to cater to your wants.  It just is NOT going to happen.

And YES MY FAMILY WILL BE PURCHASING SUMMER SLAM ON SUNDAY!!!

Wrestlemania, The Rock, Cena and Brock

I had meant to write this weeks ago but unfortunately life caught up with me and only now can I sit and write.

Minus The Rock even being a part of Wrestlemania, I rather enjoyed the PPV and feel like it was money well spent.  A few curve balls were thrown at us and HHH and The Undertaker were truly epic.  For me I would have not purchased Wrestlemania, if it weren't for my desire to see everyone other then The Rock.

I admit, that I have never been a fan of The Rock as a wrestler.  Now Dwayne Johnson the actor, I like and rather enjoy watching him on the big screen.  I just wish he could take that dynamic from the big screen to the wrestling ring.  Please understand I love a good heel.  I love hating a character so much that you enjoy watching their every move and hearing their promos.  However The Rock does not stir up those feelings of excitement.  Even as a face he bored me.  He is one of the few WWE Wrestlers out there that just get under my skin and not in a good way that a heel should.

I was truly disgusted and disappointed that The Rock won the match against Cena.  Of course that probably is of no surprise to you.  Whether or not you like Cena, he is there and works hard.  Cena has proven his dedication to the WWE and the fans.  I loved how he has stayed true to himself and didn't let anyone bully him into changing.  Sure there are fans wanting him to become a heel, but he comes across as a strong man of integrity, by "Rising Above the Hate".

Listen, if The Rock wasn't such a douche and actually wrestled more often, then I would not be so angered by him winning.  Cena deserved to win and earned it with his intense and sometimes even fun promos and working everyday with the WWE.  The Rock couldn't compete with Cena on the mic, nor does he wrestle much if any with the WWE.

It was a bad decision to allow The Rock to win.  Was it Dwayne's ego that pushed for this win or did WWE Creative get drunk on the job when making such a bad decision?

Since John Cena's lose to The Rock, he has had to deal with another wrestler "returning" to the WWE.  I am withholding my judgement on Brock Lesner and giving him a chance to excite me and draw me in.  His promos are hit and miss.  He has intensity but is slow when speaking.  His slowness ruins the build up.  I am sure this is something he can work on.  Oh, and perhaps Brock should re-think walking around with his sponsors on his clothes, this ain't Nascar, man!

I am amused that like The Rock, Brock is being allowed to not be so PG.  Here is the thing, if WWE is going to allow them to show blood, drop the f-bomb and other choice words, then the other wrestlers should be allowed to also.  Oh my I know a parent of a lil dude who loves wrestling, saying this can be shocking.  Seriously though, the WWE needs to figure out a balance between PG, and R.  Give me some PG-13 with a touch of R and I think people will still watch it and others may return to watch it!  In other words "GIVE ME BLOOD!", give me the nitty gritty WWE with out the "Sexual Chocolate."

Oh and I have much to say about this "Lord Tensai" and The Funkasaurus but I will save that for next time.