This'll likely be my last posting before the New Yea's Eve hits. Finally, we won't have to hear anyone grumbling about it not being the true Millennium yet!

I saw WCW Worldwide through my Aunt's digital cable hookup today. The show reminded me just how sad the prmotion has become, on so many levels.

1. They had several "Behind the scenes" vignettes during the show. Too bad they were just footage of people pressing buttons in a TV studio, with no explanatory dialogue of any sort. As a result, it just came across as time filler, instead of adding flavor to the show.



2. The "Where are they now?" segments had the potential to be interesting. Too bad they just showed us Alex Wright, The Cat, and Goldberg in what were barely more than squash matches. All 3 of them have major roles in the promotion already, but have been around 5 years or less... plus, the matches didn't build up on anything interesting about them either. If anything, they just reminded us how boring the matches were.

Taken from the "How pathetic is THIS?" category, courtesy of the Wrestling Online newsletter:

MARK MADDEN FIRED

- Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer is reporting that Mark Madden is history from WCW, getting fired from the federation effective immediately. Meltzer reports that the reasons are due to the on air comments Madden have been doing during WCW shows and for giving an unauthorized interview where he made negative comments towards WCW. Although Madden definitely needed a lesson for what he did in the past few weeks, getting fired wasn't exactly fair since most of the WCW superstars do what Madden did (Nash, DDP for example) and no action was taken against them.

OK, I'm not a fan of Mark Madden as a commentary person... but on top of the way that Dallas Page and Kevin Nash are mentioned above, what's been done about Scott Steiner when he goes over the line on the mic? What about Lex Luger when he blows his interviews? They might be suspended for a short time - but with pay.

No Madden didn't do anything wrong. He was annoying, true, but he didn't do anything wrong.

Chalk this up as another example of the "WCW Implosion" we see more of each day.

I just read in a newsletter that Ed Ferrarra - the booker who plays Oklahoma - has actually been the head booker in WCW for the past 5-6 weeks.

Ed came over from the WWF with Vince Russo, but unlike Russo actually works with the talent, instead of telling them what to do. In part due to this, they actually like him, unlike Vinnie Roo (Bill Goldberg has mentioned his dislike for Vince' style of booking in a lot of interviews lately).

Keep him booking, instead of on TV I say! The show has actually been watchable of late!

Circa - WrestleLine is your Professional Wrestling WWF WCW ECW PPV resource. From the Circa column on Wrestleline. It's just too funny... you have to read this. :]