So next Monday Bret Hart will be the GM of raw beginning what Dave Meltzer at wrestlingobserver.com says will be a feud to Wrestlemania (Wrestlemania of course being a rip off of the title of my blog). Bret's return is the reason I'll be watching Raw this Monday for the first time in 2 months, maybe more. When I got into wrestling Bret was my favorite, even when they did the whole boyhood dream angle leading to the iron man match and I was supposed to root for Shawn I stuck behind The Hitman.
Now the question is how will it all turn out? Will the angle be engaging? Will Bret be able to work with today's crowds? Do people still care? Will this be the proper pay off for a 8+ year build?
I remember when they had one of the Raw anniversary shows or 500 show celebration or whichever one of the hundreds of self congratulatory editions of raw they've had and the WWE advertised a bunch of people including Bret Hart. Of course they screwed us. It was the end of the show, Vince McMahon was laid out in the ring by a Stunner I believe, we hadn't seen the promised Bret Hart yet outside of some clips, and the crowd was frothing chanting "we want Bret" over and over. Then....Cena came out. In hindsight you can argue for them not blowing off the angle in a one shot deal on free T.V., but then why advertise it just to screw over fans who for some reason trusted they would deliver? Now to say I trusted them isn't true, I mean it's Wrestling, bait and switch is the name of the game, but a part of me was pining to see Vince get put in the sharpshooter there. When they didn't deliver, I stopped watching again. Why bring this up? Because again I'm stuck trusting that they will deliver the angle I want of Vince Vs. Bret and not change the whole thing week to week so that he ends up facing a newly rehired Bogeyman. And laugh at that idea, but it can happen, it's pro wrestling.
Here's the thing, the payoff for the angle is Vince in a Sharpshooter at Wrestlemania, preferably with blood running down his face like Austin. It's really simple. Just get us there. That's all the writers have to do, get us to that moment. And god help them if they try to switch things up to swerve us, it'll kill the interest of anyone who is tuning back in to see this.
Also, I'm indifferent to the 10-year-olds who don't remember this or "won't care what's happening" according to Meltzer. This angle isn't for them.
Regarding the whole kids won't get it thing, you have Bret Hart, Vince, and even Shawn in a smaller capacity, involved...you can get the angle over. I really have no doubt Bret will show up on Raw and get people into the angle. Granted, he wasn't God (read: The Rock) on the mic, but he was better than people gave him credit for, which he proved during the Hart Foundation run.
So I guess I'm stucking trusting that the WWE can execute this storyline exellantly. HA! That just came to me, look at that! We can only hope the WWE writers are half as clever.
Case Closed!
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