RAW is Jericho .... again

Chris Jericho is back. I'll post my thoughts on this sometime later.

EDIT: Okay, I have to get around to getting things done. Enough of procrastination in my life already.

Coming to Jericho .... well I won't say I'm not glad he's back. Things had been getting pretty stale of late. I think it all started with Eddie's untimely death. He was a genuine star. Somebody who could not only wrestle, but make people want to see him in action. Since then, it's been one unfilled void after another.

Benoit went, Edge went, Cena's out with injury. No more RVD.

Just look at the roster now .... Triple H, Shawn, Batista, Jericho himself, Orton, the Hardys - all of 'em good wrestlers, but all of them a generation old. Okay, maybe Orton belongs to the present, but who else?

Is there anyone to match the charisma of The Rock, the appeal of Austin, the brute power of Goldberg or the finesse of Bret Hart. No one. None at all.

And instead of investing time & money into developing new characters, all McMahon is doing is going back to the older guys such as Jericho with incredibly attractive offers of money & somehow plugging the holes here. For the time being only.

I think I can see what's missing here. It's the competition. WWE's zenith was during the 90s. They had The Rock, Austin & so many others. But they also had to contend with Nitro & ECW. That is what drove them to give out their best. And now that both these brands are done for good, the pathetic attempts at setting up RAW & SmackDown against one another with ECW running like a sideshow are only gonna come a cropper. Like they deserve to.

WWE could learn a thing or two from TNA. They've somehow survived this far, but the new talent on display there is truly impressive. I can only imagine what being in WWE could have done for Samoa Joe, Daniels, Styles, Dutt & company's popularity. Let's hope Vince & his family come up with something good soon enough. Else they stand to lose a lot of recognition from today's generation.