January 4th 2010 will go down as the biggest night in professional wrestling and sports entertainment. Almost 10 years after leaving the ashes of the Monday Night Wars in which wrestling fans strolled through the corpses of WCW and ECW, we've unnoticibly found ourselves recycling to a new era in wrestling entertainment battlegrounds.
Modern wrestling fans will chant their throats out and bang their hands to a bloody splash for the passionate, hungry upstarts in Ring of Honor while some of them will also find pride in siding with a more futuristic version of WCW in Total Nonstop Action - which is now headed by wrestling superhero, Hulk Hogan. However, those who have lived on wrestling since their childhoods know better than to stay on Spike TV or HD Net when their favorite technical wrestler before they knew who great in technicality he was - Bret "The Hitman" Hart - is coming back to host WWE Raw after being gone from the company for about 13 years because of the infamous "Montreal Screwjob."
This puts us in quite the predicament. Not since 2001, have we been put in a situation where we hold our remote controls waiting for the extensive commercials to see what's going on in the other federation and see who's doing what. But once again, we have reason to go back and forth and see who's overshadowing who? We've already seen the battle lines drawn out and which soldiers are siding with each army, so the final question is...
How long will it take for WWE to crush the competition again?
At this point, any one of us smart marks could be standing in a TNA office telling Dixie Carter, Jarrett, or whoever's the actual leader of this headless chicken of a company and tell them that the risk of going Monday primetime against the giant known as McMahon and the WWE can either go very well for them...or very very bad. Most likely they'll fall back on their Thursday spot or just show weekly encores in that same spot while attemping to compete with the sports entertainment "titans."
As for ROH, they seem to be positioning themselves in the spot ECW held for almost a decade as the revolutionary upstarts that are trying to make a name for themselves. In this war, though, I seriously think that it should be ROH going for the huge risks because in this era of wrestling, there are many 'little guys' and can get on top of each other to topple over the Gigantor of sports ent./pro wrestling. This may seem like a quacky idea, but never have I seen so many indy competitors associated with each other. In past eras, the only hearsay of indy promotions that had any association with each other were those in the National Wrestling Alliance. Although that still may be true today, it's the new hunger-filled daredevils whose passionate adrenaline overcomes them in this sport to show that they're definately the future who want to show off their skills to the world and get the worldwide credit they deserve NOW. So why not have Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Guerilla, Full Impact Pro, Chikara, and all the other innovators in wrestling including the fans who head and promote the companies all come together and build a megaforce of an organization and not only bring the independent spirit of wrestling together, but also a legion of fans whose proud love for the sport tends to get the best of us and lead us to forget why we loved this sport to begin with. We were in it for the wrestling. So let's all bring it together, topple over sports entertainment, and bring back the natural, epic drama we love to watch in Professional Wrestling.
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