Wrestling Angles that worked

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For some reason I keep getting drawn back to this thread. I maybe watched wrestling somewhat for a year or so on and off. One night when I was getting all the cable channels (and PPV) for free for some reason there was a PPV (WCW I think) on.

Hulk Hogan was supposed to be fighting Jeff Jerret (sp?) for the title (this was six months or a year after Owen Heart died, and Jeff bailed to the WCW). At any rate, Jeff lays down (litterally) and gives up the title, Hulk gives a speach about how pathetic the WCW is now, and leaves.

The owner of the WCW (Russo? I never really wathced WCW and I had stopped watching wrestling all together by this time) comes out and goes on a tirade about Hulk Hogan then has an impromptu match between Jeff and Booker T. I think he (Russo) knew he was going to do that, and maybe Jeff Jerret did, but I don't think anyone else did. It looked genuinely spontaneous, and if Booker T knew it was coming and that he was going to win, he is one hell of a good actor. There were tears of joy in his eyes after the match, which IIRC didn't have either wrestler pulling an heel cheep shots.

I thought that was a pretty good angle, and I think the reason it worked so well was that most of what was going on was not really acting.



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Nope that wasn't an angle but simply the result of the WCW back stage politics AKA the biggest joke in wrestling at the time.

Russo was basically the writer for WCW, and he wrote to have Hogan lose the jarret. But Hogan had a creative control clause in his contract and basically said no I'm not going to lose. Hogan was really holding WCW back in during this time. So Russo had Jarret just lay down for Hogan, basically making it clear what was going on and showing Hogan for the ass that he was. Russo then created another World Championship and had Jarret and Booker T wrestle for it. It was a suprise to everyone that Booker T was picked and that he won. He was known as a great worker but had never really been a maineventer at all.