What's up beautiful people? Welcome to another edition of Main Event Plaza! This won't be a regular review blog, but I will express my opinion on a matter that requires some attention. Let's begin.
As you all know, last night on RAW, Mr. McMahon came to make an announcement. It was assumed that he was going to appoint a new General Manager for RAW since Vickie Guerrero quit last week (CHAMPAGNE, FIREWORKS, & CONFETTI!!!). Well, we soon learned that Vince was going to let another person make that announcement. He also proceeded to inform the WWE Universe that he was selling Monday Night RAW. Nobody expected Vince to say that, I certainly didn't. My immediate worse thought was that he sold RAW to Eric Bischoff. But we all had another thing coming. Something that Vince himself said that there used to be "no chance in hell" of.
RAW's new owner was going to be announced right after the WWE championship Fatal Four Way match. Vince came to the ring, and told us that he had sold RAW to none other than. . . . . . Donald J. Trump. Talk about no chance in hell! I didn't know what to make of it, but during his video satellite visit, the new owner of RAW began to tear into Vince. He told him that he was cheap, selfish, that he didn't care about the fans. He then told Vince that he was going to do something that Vince had been too cheep to do in 17 years. Next week, he said RAW will be commercial-free.
That being said, we proceeded with RAW, although many people (myself included) were still shocked that Vince sold RAW to Trump. After the 10 man Battle Royal to determine the No. 1 contender for the WWE championship, Trump paid us another satellite visit and said that instead of having the WWE championship match at The Bash, we were going to have next week on RAW's commercial-free telecast. As if that wasn't enough, it was going to be a Last Man Standing match.
As for how I feel about this, I really don't know. Vince came up with the concept of Monday Night RAW 17 years ago to prove to the world that WWE was on top. He turned it into a prime time event that was going to go head to head with Monday Night Football, a whole slew of sitcoms, and later on, Monday Nitro. RAW was Vince's brainchild and became the crown jewel of sports entertainment. It also became the flagship show of WWE. More importantly, I think it became a part of Vince himself, an extension of his vision.
To sell it, especially to someone like Trump, might as well be selling part of your soul. I can understand Vince's business reasoning, but what I can't understand is why it was Trump. True, RAW's gone through GM's like a car goes through gasoline, but I don't think selling was the best solution. If I was in Vince's position, I would've put Pat Patterson, Gerry Brisco, and Sgt. Slaughter in charge of the show until I found a decent GM. They work with the guys backstage and it would've made sense to put them in that position.
And I have a few things to say about Donald Trump. Here is a guy who wants to make money, and would buy anything. This man would buy Heaven from God and Hell from the Devil! He wants to own everything. My biggest fear is that he might buy the rest of the WWE. Four generations of McMahons have run the WWE, and that is the way it should stay. As far as I'm concerned, Trump should go back to Trump Tower, be with his trophy wife, and deal with the many misgivings and controversies caused by a certain Miss California and her nude pictures on the internet.
Well people, that's all I got for right now. Please remember, this is simply my opinion, it was not intended to offend or insult anybody. Thank you for reading Main Event Plaza. Take it easy.
