So I was watching Monday Night Raw last night, and last night was their "power to the people" show where people could vote on matches or stipulations. Well, last night, there was a match between Evan Bourne, and the people had a choice between 3 potential opponents in Jack Swagger, Mason Ryan, and Sin Cara. It was pretty obvious that the fans in the audience wanted Sin Cara to win, and no one wanted Mason Ryan to win, but Mason Ryan some how actually won the poll. The fans gave a clear and audible boo to this decision. You were only allowed to vote via text messaging, and standard texting fees applied. A lot of people believe that this particular vote was rigged, especially since Mason Ryan won the match. He wouldn't have won unless it were planned out ahead of time. If it truly was rigged, could WWE face legal problems over it due to the text messaging fees?
Have to prove they did rig it, but show any judge a tape of Mason Ryan "wrestling" should prove why no one would pay money to see that. Evan Bourne is one of the only guys on the roster who could keep up with Sin Cara, if you're going to rig it, rig it to have a good match.
Quote from: FSBlueApocalypse on June 21, 2011, 09:13:12 AM
Have to prove they did rig it, but show any judge a tape of Mason Ryan "wrestling" should prove why no one would pay money to see that. Evan Bourne is one of the only guys on the roster who could keep up with Sin Cara, if you're going to rig it, rig it to have a good match.
I figured as much. Not to mention WWE could simply claim that they had 3 separate endings planned out depending who won. Still, the loud audible boo, and the fact that we all thought Sin Cara would win that poll no problem is not a good sign on their part. The crowd was the only redeemable thing about that fiasco. I lol'd hard when they were chanting Batista's name during that match.
Well, WWE released a statement today on the matter.
Source. (http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/power-to-the-people-technical-problems)
QuoteMonday's "Power to the People" edition of Raw gave the WWE Universe the ability to choose what they wanted to see on their television screens. Unfortunately, technical difficulties created by an influx of heavy voting traffic resulted in not every one of the more-than 697,000 recorded votes to be properly counted.
As a part of this interactive event, WWE fans were given the option to text A, B or C to 46993 (GOWWE) in order to decide what they wanted to happen during Raw. Things went perfectly at first when text votes selected Kelly Kelly (option B) to take on Brie Bella for the Divas Championship. However, our vote tabulating provider's system became overwhelmed, resulting in these votes to spill into later polls. This technical mishap soon led to Mason Ryan (also option B) being voted into a match against Evan Bourne — even though, as it was later discovered, Sin Cara had received 90 percent of the total votes in WWE.com's Live Chat poll, and should have been Bourne's opponent.
In other words, Sin Cara is too much of a botch machine on live television, so we'll give you the match on the taped show that is edited.
Also, they constantly stated that voting could only be done through text messaging a certain number, nothing was mentioned about WWE.com's "Live Chat Poll" during the show.
Honestly, I think too much is made about Sin Cara being a botch machine. He had the notorious one when he was first introduced, the weird redo finisher in his first match, and the one in London that was Cena's fault, but those are the only egregious ones I can remember.
Also, WWE has a good amount of blame on them as well. I think Sin Cara did a grand total of 2 house shows and no stint in FCW before being brought up to the main roster. Very different style of wrestling in WWE than in CMLL. Hopefully as WWE signs some more guys from Mexico and Japan that process won't be duplicated.
Either way, he goes for 11 no matter what kind of move he does, which is commendable.
Quote from: FSBlueApocalypse on June 21, 2011, 02:54:40 PM
Honestly, I think too much is made about Sin Cara being a botch machine. He had the notorious one when he was first introduced, the weird redo finisher in his first match, and the one in London that was Cena's fault, but those are the only egregious ones I can remember.
Also, WWE has a good amount of blame on them as well. I think Sin Cara did a grand total of 2 house shows and no stint in FCW before being brought up to the main roster. Very different style of wrestling in WWE than in CMLL. Hopefully as WWE signs some more guys from Mexico and Japan that process won't be duplicated.
Either way, he goes for 11 no matter what kind of move he does, which is commendable.
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Eh, that seems to be on Chavo there for not getting the right grip.
WWE has signed Cara's main rival from CMLL so if things don't improve than I'll definetly reevaluate my opinion. You know the WWE is dying for a Rey Mysterio/Sin Cara "passing of the torch" match at Wrestlemania.
That Sin Cara dude has the worst entrance music, seriously. I mean WTF is that shit, use something more upbeat. Makes him look as exciting as picking your nose.
Quote from: VectorM on June 21, 2011, 09:52:07 PM
That Sin Cara dude has the worst entrance music, seriously. I mean WTF is that shit, use something more upbeat. Makes him look as exciting as picking your nose.
I can think of worse. Much worse.
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Quote from: VectorM on June 21, 2011, 09:52:07 PM
That Sin Cara dude has the worst entrance music, seriously. I mean WTF is that shit, use something more upbeat. Makes him look as exciting as picking your nose.
The entrance music is fine, the funky lighting during his matches isn't.