Scott's Blog of Doom

Hi, Scott. I've been a reader of your blog going all the way back to the Rantsylvania days. I wanted to drop you an email and see if you'd pimp out my YouTube channel. There's only two shorts on it so far -- a pilot for a comedy webseries called Project Hollywood (kind of like Entourage, but with lots and lots of failure instead of success for the characters) and a film noir short we shot for the 48 Hour Film Project -- but we've gotten some funding and will be shooting more webseries shows and some more shorts this fall. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/CouchSurferProd?feature=mhum
Any kind of plug would be appreciated as we're trying to drive more traffic to the YouTube channel. Keep up the good work!

 

Good luck!

I just read this morning on some site that the Women's Title unification match at Night of Champions is going to be starting the process of Merging all the titles again.  The plan seems to be to keep the WWE Title, IC, Tag (been merged) and Womens.  What is your take on this?  If this is true how will the juggle the champions?  Will the WWE title be the Raw title and IC be the Smackdown one or is the Brand Extension finally coming to an end.

 

I think they’re finally getting smart and trimming the fat from the title scene, because they realize there’s just too damn many belts. Unless Smackdown does really poorly on Syfy, they’re still gonna need two strong touring companies, so I wouldn’t say this is the end of the brand extension by any means.  But given that I don’t even know who the IC and US champions are right now, that’s a pretty good sign that they don’t need two midcard belts.  Maybe back in the day they could draw a house show off a US title defense, but this is no longer “the day” and it just doesn’t mean anything.  My only hope is that we finally get to ditch the stupid fucking spinner belt once they get merged. 

Hey Scott, long time reader, first time emailer...
A couple of quick questions if you have the time:
1) What do make of WWE's current 'transition' period (now that a significant proportion of the last decade's stars are either part-time or retired)? How do you feel their efforts to build up new talent is going, and who do you feel - booking whims excepted - will be the breakout stars of the next few years?
2) Discounting the five-star rating system and revised opinion, what is the most enjoyable match you've seen live?

 

1.  I think it goes fine when they actually pull the trigger on someone (ie, Sheamus) and get behind them.  It’s the half-assed stop-and-start pushes (Kofi and Morrison, Drew McIntyre) that make it hard for fans to really get behind anyone solidly.  If you, as a fan, don’t know that Sheamus is backed by HHH, you’d have no real reason to think that he’d have any better chance than anyone else.  It’s too hard to play the “breakout star” game because the sport is so completely random with who becomes a big name sometimes.  Really, just bet on Cena and Orton and Edge and HHH dominating until injury or the zombie apocalypse forces them to push someone new.

2.  I saw RVD win the I-C title from Eddy in a ladder match at a RAW taping in Edmonton in 2002 and that was pretty awesome, and the Benoit/HHH/Michaels rematch at Backlash 2004 was great, too, so I’d vote for one of those on sheer quality.  Probably the most fun I’ve had was a house show in 2000 at the height of D-X’s powers, with a double main event of Rikishi & 2 Cool v. HHH & NAO in a super-hot fan-friendly romp, plus Jericho v. Benoit for the I-C title in a crazy good match to end the night.  Plus I’m pretty sure Rock did a match in there and tore the house down as well.  It was a great night. 

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Unfortunately I don’t deliver to Oklahoma. 

Hey Scott.  I'm finishing up my Over the Limit 2010 Way Too Long Review and I'm adding the tangents and gags and stuff to the structure of the review.  I'm doing a bit on Serena being released and how stupid it is that they chose a girl who is not straight edge to play a straight edge character, then fired her for not keeping kayfabe.  And it got me thinking: is Serena truly the first person since Jim Duggan and the Iron Sheik way back in 1987 to be fired by the WWE for breach of kayfabe? 
I've really racked my brain trying to think of anyone else.  I think she really is the first in twenty-three years.

 

There’s gotta be some other stupid reason besides breaking kayfabe.  I just don’t buy it.  But other than that, no, I can’t personally think of anyone getting canned for similar reasons since 87.