Terry Taylor's Perspective 10/8/02 Hello all, I trust you had a lovely week and made the most of the time you’ve been given, I certainly have. I told you a few weeks ago that the carpenter ants made an all-you-can-eat buffet out of the right front side of our house. Well, I’m here to tell you – I may not have won many of my wrestling matches, but I won this one! I won the victory with Total Annihilation! The few stragglers that weren’t home when I blasted the nests are wondering where everyone else is. Look down, pal – they’re dead courtesy of Terry “the Ant Terminator” Taylor. I finally went over!!!! Yea!!!!
Before I could get the champagne uncorked (What do you mean there is NO cork in good champagne) our septic tank EXPLODED! I won’t go into the details, but suffice to say it blew up at 5:00 on Friday. We called a repair man (is there such a thing?) and SURPRISE – we got the answering service. I remember when my Dad was an Ob-Gyn in Florida delivering babies – he had an answering service, now septic tank doctors do. It’s too much! The “doctor” could make it to our house TUESDAY! Needless to say our weekend was…interesting.
OK, let’s move on.
Last week, I threw out a challenge to you to come up with a main event for the WWE PPV NO MERCY. You sent in thousands of emails and dozens of ideas. It was a lot of fun hearing what you, the fan wanted to see. Sometimes when people are so deep in something – they can’t see it clearly. The old saying – couldn’t see the forest through the trees – applies to almost anyone under the pressure to meet deadlines and there are definite deadlines for live events.
This means the people involved in producing the product are so busy producing – they can lose sight of the objective. The objective is to give the consumer what he wants. The best way to give a wrestling fan what they want is to see the product as a fan.
The writers in WWE have been under the microscope a lot lately and it seems the microscope hasn’t been too kind. When writing for WCW, I found out the audience doesn’t care if you’ve had a bad day, or you’re sick, or any other excuse. They want (and deserve) a quality product – PERIOD! It is the obligation and responsibility of the whole television machine to deliver what the audience wants – or they’ll look elsewhere.
We have this opportunity to look at WWE as fans and make suggestions as to what we’d like to see. The great thing is we’re not under any pressure to come through in the clutch. All we have to do is pitch ideas and let someone else worry about making it happen. With all this being said, you put your heads together and came up with some really good ideas.
The top three suggestions were:
All these are all good suggestions because they are signature matches favoring the Undertaker. This creates a favorable environment for the Undertaker and increases the chances for a title change. Some other ideas were 2 out of 3 falls, amateur rules, No DQ, 60 minute Iron Man Match, Falls count anywhere Match, First Man to break the rules – loses, and many more.
Any one of these matches will work in the right circumstance, but you, the reader have spoken.
May I have the envelope, please?
And the winner is…..HELL IN A CELL!!!!!!! (crowd roar)
The main event of No Mercy will be a Hell in a Cell!
Congratulations and where are our royalty checks?
Until next week,
Terry Taylor