(Gustimania) A Two Cents Worth of WWE

22.5.2010 9.14 a.m

How things have changed so much ever since the draft that happened a month ago. I have to say that I only watched recent WWE programming for only 3 weeks into my semester break and had not watch it for a long time due to my studies. Let's not forget the pledge I made to not watch it until I had finish watching Wrestlemania 26. That review will be up soon. But now, it's time to see how the future holds for the WWE.

Wrestlemania marks the end of an era of both Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker. I do think that Shawn is done and the Undertaker will only have one last run in the WWE by the end of this year and culminates it at next year's Wrestlemania. With Triple H taking a long time rest (hence he was brutally attacked by Sheamus at Extreme Rules), one has to say that the old guards of the Attitude Era has gone and it is up to the current main eventers to step up to the next evel and be the so-called 'ring generals' that these people were.

The draft has established the status quo of WWE programming. Raw as the flagship show had so much star power in it with guys like Edge and Chris Jericho adding to the many main eventers that Raw has already had. Smackdown, though many people see as the loser of the Draft, seem to be the show whereby younger guys are given the opportunity to truly shine. Case and point Jack Swagger, who is now the World Heavyweight Champion heading into his second PPV as the top dog of the brand.

I do think that we will be going into a very interesting summer period of WWE programming. Out of the two brands, Raw seem to have so much potential with the current roster that they have. Hopefully the storylines will suit the guys on Raw because it will be such a disaster if it does not fall through in a right way. For Smackdown that is seen as the building blocks for the young upstarts such as Swagger, Dolph Ziggler, Drew McIntyre and many more, the programming would be solid as ever, but I do hope that they do not try and come up with experimental storylines that are very risky and not worth taking.

Well, that is a bit of my thoughts so far regarding WWE. There are many more to come, that is for sure.

Au Revoir.