In the year 2010, Raw had a pretty amazing and star-studded roster for the first time in years. Batista, John Cena, Chris Jericho ,Edge, Randy Orton, Sheamus(not that I consider him that big of a star, but still). Usually, we rarely see multiple men competing for a Raw title, unless if it's the Elimination Chamber. But in 2010, we got 2 big matches for the WWE title on account of this extra star-power. Fatal-4-way pay-per-view had John Cena, Randy Orton, Edge, and Sheamus battle for the WWE title, and few months later at Night of Champions, these 4 men combined with Chris Jericho and Wade Barrett battled in a six-pack challenge(somewhat of a rarity nowadays).
Overall, 2010 was a very flawed year for the WWE post-Wrestlemania because Shawn Michaels and HHH would retire permanently as regular active competitors and Undertaker would soon follow suit after his very underwhelming and untimly feud with Kane which never quite felt as epic and grand as it should have, considering they battled in not just the HIAC, but a buried alive match as well. WWE also lost for 4 years , a decent established star and world title contender in Batista. Chris Jericho's 2nd coming ended, and we saw him gone in September, and Edge was traded to Smackdown against CM Punk. And all of this happened within a mere six month stretch!
For what was gone was replaced by what was coming, in The Nexus gave us a handful of stars that we're used to right now, in Daniel Bryan, Wade Barrett, and Ryback, then known as Skip Sheffield, as well as Heath Slater and Darren Young. But the year 2010 in close will seem nothing but Wrestlers leaving or retiring as active performers, and big changes coming, and a lot of WWE's storyline was inconsistent. The WWE championship on Raw was traded between John Cena, Sheamus , Randy Orton, and finally in what was a huge abomination to anyone that had been a world champion, The Miz.
I'm not sure if someone else will agree, but the two big multi-man matches, despite involving stellar performers such as Edge and Chris Jericho never quite felt epic, and John Cena was playing his own role, Sheamus was once again despised as a heel champion, and Randy Orton as a face feuding with him in a series of matches including a HIAC never quite felt timely. Add to that, the fact that John Cena was feuding with an overrated rookie by the name of Wade Barrett. Before August 2010 , Nobody quite knew Wade Barrett. After being defeated at Summerslam, nobody quite knew Wade Barrett. And yet Wade Barrett was soon inserted into another untimely, ill-fated WWE title picture involving an awkward threesome between Randy Orton, John Cena, and Wade Barett. At least it'd have been a delectable threesome if the third man had been Shawn Michaels.
All of this seems like a clusterfuck and the only explanation is untimely departures(Jericho, Batista) and retirements(HHH, Shawn Michaels), as well as poorly written Raw episodes, no long-term direction or planning , and nonexistent foresight. It's one thing to make Sheamus the WWE champion at TLC '09, but The Miz??? Raw with Miz as champion was the biggest abomination to Wrestling after Rey mysterio as WHC and the fingerpoke of doom.
What I'd like to propose now is:- What if.
TNA(I know it just doesn't feel right to include TNA in such a humongous thread) had a storyline/faction where virtually all of its stars aligned in what looked on paper to be a very awesome/great assemblage of wrestlers together and truly the "main event" mafia.
Sting-Do I even need to say anything?
Kurt Angle-Do I even need to say anything?
Booker T, Kevin Nash, and Scott Steiner- all WCW mainstays and former being a huge success in the WWE as well.
The WWE's way of doing things over the years has been nothing short of retarded and absurd. If you want a group of angry young men, a new breed, or the Nexus to invade you, then what do you do? Clusterfuck a bunch of wrestlers together, call them Team WWE , and have them battle together in 7-on-7 awkward bothfest featuring rookies at Summerslam. Sure, the WWE was trying to shake things up with the big Nexus angle, blah blah but like that? It ruined everything , the WWE title pic, Chris Jericho, Edge. It ruined what could've been potentially a very amazing year for Raw but Raw in 2010 was anything but amazing. Sheamus-Orton feud, Cena-Barrett feud, and the closing of the year with MIZ as champion?? Seriously.
Had the WWE had even little foresight, they could've made the Nexus angle huge, and the entire angle huge. What TNA looks great on paper but fails to produce on TV, WWE could've done it with tenfold impact. How?
First, why the fuck someone would include Bret Hart, a non-wrestler in a match featuring 7 hungry dangerous rookies? Anyways, and R-truth and John fucking Morrison? A heel Chris Jericho with the American Hero John Cena? and Rated-R Superstar Edge?? What a clusterfuck of a team.
WWE should've united the most unique temporarily organized faction in years. Studded with stars. John Cena, Randy Orton, Edge, and Chris Jericho. Have sheamus be champion of not. But imagine those 4 in the ring, or even the 3 minus Cena, as the WWE 's Main Event Mafia, or call them what you will. Edge and Jericho uniting again would've been shocking. Randy Orton, again shocking. Maybe add some decent mid-carder or tag-team of beefed-up idiot to it. It'd still have been main-event mafia for containing within it Randy Orton, Edge, and Chris Jericho. Nexus can still invade. But as faces. As "little boys". Have heel edge, jericho and Orton make fun of them. Call them short, fat, misfits.
John Cena would've aligned himself with the Nexus. Either ways done right , WWE would've given us an year of a two-faction war and it wouldn't have gotten boring until Survivor Series. What had instead happened was an abomination of a year and very boring Raws. After the likes of Batista, Edge , Jericho left Raw, look at what happened. The likes of John Morrison, R-truth and Miz were in the main events. It is no one but CM Punk who saved Raw for a very bleak time for the WWE in 2011. Imagine what would've happened without the Summer of Punk? John Cena would still be defending the title against the likes of R-truth. or John Morrison. or Miz. or Zack Ryder.
We'll never get to see something of a main-event mafia in the WWE. Without stars like Edge, Jericho, Orton(which was only possible in 2010 when they all had already been established as bonafide main-eventers), it can't be. You can't create a main event mafia using Wade Barrett or Damien Sandow. Why did TNA fail? It's main event mafia really looked gigantic and awesome. Kurt Angle, Sting, Booker T, Kevin Nash, and Scott Steiner in the same ring! TNA should've been a lot more today. Unfortunately, WWE will never have it.
Overall, 2010 was a very flawed year for the WWE post-Wrestlemania because Shawn Michaels and HHH would retire permanently as regular active competitors and Undertaker would soon follow suit after his very underwhelming and untimly feud with Kane which never quite felt as epic and grand as it should have, considering they battled in not just the HIAC, but a buried alive match as well. WWE also lost for 4 years , a decent established star and world title contender in Batista. Chris Jericho's 2nd coming ended, and we saw him gone in September, and Edge was traded to Smackdown against CM Punk. And all of this happened within a mere six month stretch!
For what was gone was replaced by what was coming, in The Nexus gave us a handful of stars that we're used to right now, in Daniel Bryan, Wade Barrett, and Ryback, then known as Skip Sheffield, as well as Heath Slater and Darren Young. But the year 2010 in close will seem nothing but Wrestlers leaving or retiring as active performers, and big changes coming, and a lot of WWE's storyline was inconsistent. The WWE championship on Raw was traded between John Cena, Sheamus , Randy Orton, and finally in what was a huge abomination to anyone that had been a world champion, The Miz.
I'm not sure if someone else will agree, but the two big multi-man matches, despite involving stellar performers such as Edge and Chris Jericho never quite felt epic, and John Cena was playing his own role, Sheamus was once again despised as a heel champion, and Randy Orton as a face feuding with him in a series of matches including a HIAC never quite felt timely. Add to that, the fact that John Cena was feuding with an overrated rookie by the name of Wade Barrett. Before August 2010 , Nobody quite knew Wade Barrett. After being defeated at Summerslam, nobody quite knew Wade Barrett. And yet Wade Barrett was soon inserted into another untimely, ill-fated WWE title picture involving an awkward threesome between Randy Orton, John Cena, and Wade Barett. At least it'd have been a delectable threesome if the third man had been Shawn Michaels.
All of this seems like a clusterfuck and the only explanation is untimely departures(Jericho, Batista) and retirements(HHH, Shawn Michaels), as well as poorly written Raw episodes, no long-term direction or planning , and nonexistent foresight. It's one thing to make Sheamus the WWE champion at TLC '09, but The Miz??? Raw with Miz as champion was the biggest abomination to Wrestling after Rey mysterio as WHC and the fingerpoke of doom.
What I'd like to propose now is:- What if.
TNA(I know it just doesn't feel right to include TNA in such a humongous thread) had a storyline/faction where virtually all of its stars aligned in what looked on paper to be a very awesome/great assemblage of wrestlers together and truly the "main event" mafia.
Sting-Do I even need to say anything?
Kurt Angle-Do I even need to say anything?
Booker T, Kevin Nash, and Scott Steiner- all WCW mainstays and former being a huge success in the WWE as well.
The WWE's way of doing things over the years has been nothing short of retarded and absurd. If you want a group of angry young men, a new breed, or the Nexus to invade you, then what do you do? Clusterfuck a bunch of wrestlers together, call them Team WWE , and have them battle together in 7-on-7 awkward bothfest featuring rookies at Summerslam. Sure, the WWE was trying to shake things up with the big Nexus angle, blah blah but like that? It ruined everything , the WWE title pic, Chris Jericho, Edge. It ruined what could've been potentially a very amazing year for Raw but Raw in 2010 was anything but amazing. Sheamus-Orton feud, Cena-Barrett feud, and the closing of the year with MIZ as champion?? Seriously.
Had the WWE had even little foresight, they could've made the Nexus angle huge, and the entire angle huge. What TNA looks great on paper but fails to produce on TV, WWE could've done it with tenfold impact. How?
First, why the fuck someone would include Bret Hart, a non-wrestler in a match featuring 7 hungry dangerous rookies? Anyways, and R-truth and John fucking Morrison? A heel Chris Jericho with the American Hero John Cena? and Rated-R Superstar Edge?? What a clusterfuck of a team.
WWE should've united the most unique temporarily organized faction in years. Studded with stars. John Cena, Randy Orton, Edge, and Chris Jericho. Have sheamus be champion of not. But imagine those 4 in the ring, or even the 3 minus Cena, as the WWE 's Main Event Mafia, or call them what you will. Edge and Jericho uniting again would've been shocking. Randy Orton, again shocking. Maybe add some decent mid-carder or tag-team of beefed-up idiot to it. It'd still have been main-event mafia for containing within it Randy Orton, Edge, and Chris Jericho. Nexus can still invade. But as faces. As "little boys". Have heel edge, jericho and Orton make fun of them. Call them short, fat, misfits.
John Cena would've aligned himself with the Nexus. Either ways done right , WWE would've given us an year of a two-faction war and it wouldn't have gotten boring until Survivor Series. What had instead happened was an abomination of a year and very boring Raws. After the likes of Batista, Edge , Jericho left Raw, look at what happened. The likes of John Morrison, R-truth and Miz were in the main events. It is no one but CM Punk who saved Raw for a very bleak time for the WWE in 2011. Imagine what would've happened without the Summer of Punk? John Cena would still be defending the title against the likes of R-truth. or John Morrison. or Miz. or Zack Ryder.
We'll never get to see something of a main-event mafia in the WWE. Without stars like Edge, Jericho, Orton(which was only possible in 2010 when they all had already been established as bonafide main-eventers), it can't be. You can't create a main event mafia using Wade Barrett or Damien Sandow. Why did TNA fail? It's main event mafia really looked gigantic and awesome. Kurt Angle, Sting, Booker T, Kevin Nash, and Scott Steiner in the same ring! TNA should've been a lot more today. Unfortunately, WWE will never have it.
