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Bragging Rights? For What?

Date Added: October 29, 2009
Story By: Rio Ashley

Welcome my fellow old school fans! Rio is back, and I'll get back to my "What wrestling is missing" column later. But now I have to get a bad taste out of my mouth. We just had a PPV called "Bragging Rights". I guess it was to showcase the best of the best from each show in matches competing against other and a final 7-on-7 match. Now my problem, what was there to brag about? they're both Vince shows (I refuse to acknowledge that godawful ECW mess). When you have something like that, you expect to see matchups that you see on a rare basis; but how many times have we seen Big Show in the same ring against HHH? or Chris Jerico vs Shawn Michaels? I understand that the WWE had to show off their new stars (isn't Jack Swagger the weirdest-looking person alive? But don't act like that it was the only way that it could happen! Now being the " Master of old school" you know that there is a tie- in here. Let's go back to the 1980's; back then there were three World Champions The NWA, the AWA and the WWF, back then there was a question of which of the three champs was the best? There would've matchups made in wrestling heaven to determine that with Ric Flair vs. Rick Martel vs. Hulk Hogan in a round robin tournament. That topic was actually debated back in an 1985 issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated magazine. That would've been true "bragging rights" and rightfully so because it was about which league was best. Now, it was almost done when the AWA and the NWA had a combination show called Pro Wrestling USA where not only did both programs have their own cards but in that show a MAJOR rivalry was born when the NWA tag team Champs the Russians (Ivan and Rookie Nikita Koloff) took on the AWA champs The Road Warriors, which led to the warriors being signed to the NWA. We can even go back further in 1977 when there was a true "bragging rights match when World Champs faced off as Superstar Billy Graham (WWWF) took on Harley Race (NWA). Back then bragging rights matches though not acknowledged were common place because the territoy you were most identified with was the one you represented when you went to another. When you look at the last PPV, you saw matchups that you saw before the 6-person diva match and some that you wouldv'e seen eventually (Miz v. Morrison). As long as Vince has a monopoly on the business it will never be the same; simply because you can never have dream matchups again after all, everybody has been to Vince already.

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