Scott’s Blog of Doom

…Once again, my gift to the webmaster Scott Keith, a proud Canadian, as I randomly (very randomly) jump from match to match of his favorite Canadian (and non-Canadian) wrestlers and angles. There’s a little Bret, a little Owen, a little Rock and even something from my favorite decade (the 80s) featuring the wonderful Midnight Express.

Otherwise I’m not going to say much on the current news surrounding professional wrestling. As the mother of a child, it always tugs at my heart to see this young boy caught in something he couldn’t control. His parents had chosen their lives for better or worse but he could’ve been anything and that was taken away from him and it’s unfair. Also remember there are two other kids who now have to live with the stigma that their father was a disturbed man who murdered his family and left them without a young brother. For the rest of their lives they will have questions to ask and no one to answer them.

Professional, most of you know I’m a proud Floridian and Nancy was a big part of the Florida wrestling scene for most of the 80s and part of the 90s. She, along with Sherri and Miss Elizabeth were the true women of wrestling and they set the stage for women like Trish Stratus to follow. They were able to be both attractive and dangerous and they could enhance whomever they were with but didn’t overshadow them. Now they are all gone.

Nonetheless, we move on and I hope you enjoy this year’s Canada Day rant.

Canada Day Rant

From the inbox…

“I’ve been a long-time reader of your rants, and I’ve always looked to you as the most trusted recapper in wrestling. Anyway, I have a question for you regarding the nWo. I read somewhere that Sting was originally supposed to be the 3rd man at Bash At The Beach 96, before Hogan suggested himself. If that is true, and if it WAS Sting who turned heel, what would have happened with the nWo? I can’t see it being around for too long, because either Hogan would have had to chase Sting for the title (which I couldn’t see lasting more than 1 PPV), or the nWo never would have been booked to have dominant (much like the InVasion angle).”

They had a lot of ideas for who the third man was, and it depends who you ask and what time of day they were being asked.  At times everyone from Sting to Bret Hart to Davey Boy Smith to Lex Luger was thrown out as a serious candidate.  I wouldn’t say that Sting was ever “supposed” to be the third man, because lots of others were as well. 

   ”Also, in your WM 2 recap, you referred to Davey Boy as the “Marty Janetty of the Bulldogs,” saying that he wasn’t supposed to get a singles push, but did by default. I’d wondered if you meant Shawn Michaels, because I don’t remember Marty getting a singles push (at least nowhere near Shawn’s).”

My rambling sentence structure failed me there.  Let me explain. 

The British Bulldogs = The Rockers.  Dynamite Kid was Shawn Michaels, the crazy bumping machine who everyone assumed would be the singles star of the future.  Davey Boy was Marty Jannetty, who was basically just the other guy in the team, but ended up getting a big singles push later on because his partner was retired and he could still ride the name of the team.  He was still a great worker, just like Marty was, but neither one would ever match up to their partners.  That’s what I meant. 

    ”Finally, I was just about to ask you to do a rant on Backlash 04, because I wondered what you thought of the Triple Threat match. Of course, given that life has intervened, I would understand that you would never even watch that show again, and I wouldn’t blame you. If you could, though, what did you think of the Triple Threat match?”

Already did a rant on it after the show, in fact.  That’s the source of my semi-famous Shane McMahon $100 bill story. 

At any rate, here’s the match review.  Blur out Benoit in your mind if you like.

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