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Welcome..
This is my new column named: (drumroll)........ The Mandible Column.
Now this column will have me talk every week about WWF happenings, pretty much just my opinions on things. Now it's named the Mandible Column because that sounded the coolest and will not necessarily focus on Mick Foley. Well this week I will talk about Fully Loaded and this week's Raw.
*Fully Loaded has potential to be a better than average Pay-per-view, or it could go down horribly and be one of the worst. First, WWF is trying to test out the newer talent with the triple Main event of Angle/Taker, Rock/Benoit and Y2J/HHH. Now these matches are somewhat strange, you have Kurt Angle who's developed incredibly in the past few months in the WWF, going up against the Undertaker. As Billy wrote in his Fully Loaded predictions, if we are to believe Angle can feud and fight with HHH, then he'd have to beat a big player in the WWF, and the Undertaker just may be that person. Undertaker has been known to job in the past, so he just may do that at Fully Loaded.
For HHH/Y2J, this is a toss-up, HHH is injured so he may lose and take some time off. I hope this will be the final match between the 2 for a while as they've fought a lot of times already.
The Rock/Benoit Match is interesting, especially that stipulation where if Rock is DQ-ed he loses the belt. This could mean 3 things. 1) Rock wins anyway 2) Rock has Benoit up for the rock bottom then he spies Shane with a chair right in front of him, thus dropping Benoit and going over to Shane. Shane has the chair and surprises the Rock as Shane hits Benoit with the chair. The ref sees this and DQ's the Rock, and Benoit is the Champ. or 3) Rock is in the crossface (maybe) and Big Show returns to exact revenge on Shane and ends up attacking Benoit, for the DQ and Rock loses again. Benoit wins the title! But for how long? I think if Benoit does win the strap, he'll lose it the next night on Raw.
Speaking of Raw, I'm sure the powers that be on the WWF are dissappointed with the ratings on Monday, going unopposed, and still drawing dissappointing numbers. This means that WWF is becoming stale, which they really shouldn't be with all the great talent they possess, especially a very strong midcard. I think the major problem is the first 25 minutes where it is nothing but talk-talk-talk. There should be a way to have Mick come out and get together matches in maybe 10 minutes, and thus have more time to showcase their midcarders, instead of being banished to Heat, or even Metal. Cutting interviews in half(especially the long ones at the beginning), will give you possibly 10-15 more minutes of actual wrestling.
*On to this week's Raw. WWF should try out some new angles here, pretty much start all over. Continue the Angle/HHH feud, have maybe a Benoit/Big Show feud, start a Rock/Undertaker feud, and maybe even have Y2J/Rikishi feud for the IC belt. Have Hardcore matches with a great champ going against anybody, have Malenko actually defend his title, have a feud involving Kane and anyone, have The Accolytes fight the Dudlyz and T&A...anything, just not more of the same old things we have seen done to death before, like HHH/Rock, who've fought at more PPV's than I can remember. I think this Raw is where WWF should start new angles, which brings them up to Summerslam and an iminent return of Stone Cold Steve Austin. That's what I am hoping for in this weeks Raw following Fully Loaded. WWF needs now to put out a great product that will make the WWF's ratings finally be insurmountable to the WCW. This is the time when the WWF could finally see where their future lies, and could finally put WCW down for the count.
*Next week I plan on talking about my WWF PPV/Raw/Smackdown impressions.
Until then.... Have a Nice Day
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