Revival of real feuds?

[Guest Kilgore Trout]

One of the biggest problems in US wrestling for the last couple of years has been the lack of real feuds. Wrestlers would just get involved in a rivalry for a few weeks leading to a PPV match and then forget about it and move on to fighting someone else. Even Eddy/JBL last year didn't have a real conclusion as it ended with Eddy being cheated out of a cage match on free tv by the man he was facing in his next program.

 

This year it seems to me there's been some sort of return of good feuds. In WWE JBL/Cena and HHH/Batista, while they both had problems, did at least have a beginning, a middle and end with the face going over on PPV.

 

The best example is, of course, the Rey/Eddy feud. I was worried they were going to treat last week's match as the blowoff but luckily they aren't. They've made it more personal so both wrestlers still have a reason to fight. Unless something insane happens this should easily be the best feud of the year.

 

The best completed feud so far this year, however, has been Punk/Rave in RoH. This was well booked, went just the right amount of time, was over with the crowd, achieved everything it set out to and the blowoff cage match I just watched is awesome. Homicide/Danielson was also excellent though, as a feud, not as good.

 

 

So have I imagined this shift back towards feud based wrestling?

Is it a coincidence?

Any other feuds I've missed?

Is this the right way forward?

[sek69]

I was loving the Eddie/Rey feud, but getting kids involved made my Wrestlecrap sense tingle. That's a line wrestling companies shouldn't cross, getting young kids involved in angles. Especially the way the WWE works, it just paints them in a corner. Either it's going to be something horribly offensive that a kid shouldn't be involved with, or it'll end up having a lame cop-out payoff when WWE gets afraid of bad publicity for getting children involved in storylines.

 

The moment they aired that footage on SD! of Eddie in the playground, I channeled the spirit of Han Solo and had a bad feeling about this.