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Featuring ME.
http://www.thewrestlingpress.com
Kind of in the same area as my work with Fighting Spirit Magazine, but FREE. Check it out, won’t you?
Featuring me too next month… I actually had a piece defending John Cena from smart marks but it was written before they jobbed the Miz out to him like a total bitch and I didn’t feel it anymore, so I told them that they’ll wait until next month.
So I’m left without a column idea. Anyone?
I loved the #3 choice on the list of over complicated finishers. See ROH.
I don’t like to double post, so bear with me. Earlier today, I was reading how maybe Kurt could get the book in TNA and maybe Russo could possibly be replaced. I thought this would be good, since Russo will never change.
So, i’m flipping through the channel’s and I turned on Spike just in time to see that there is a “keys on a pole” match tonight between Angle-Foley.
Wow…just wow.
You missed:
1. Traci Brooks returning to her post as referee in a Knockouts Battle Royal where the winner gets to join the Main Event Mafia…only Traci SHOCKINGLY eliminates Kong and Victoria to win.
2. Heel Eric Young swears he was seen the error of his ways and vows to remain loyal to TNA…only to SHOCKINGLY turn on AJ Stlyes and join up with the evil foreigners.
3. Bobby Lashley returns to TNA as the MEM is beating up Mick Foley. The MEM hold Mick up for Bobby…only for Lashley to SHOCKINGLY hit Kurt Angle and fight off the rest of the Mafia.
Between the pole match, long promos and shocking swerves Impact was quite Russorific tonight.
I’m probably one of the 10 people who still watch TNA weekly and even I have a hard time watching this obvious nWo rehash on a weekly basis. Apparently being apart of a group with three titles, one of which is a fake title that has no real power, somehow allows you to book the matches of the roster now, even though you have no real power or office to do so.
Nothing is sadder than watching Mike Tenay get over the importance of a fucking office. “Mick Foley – the 20×20 office is his LEGACY!” What a joke. Foley has that same face about him in his days with the WWE during the invasion – just pure, utter, disgust in the booking surrounding him.
I barely even recognize Kurt Angle from his WWE days now – I mean I don’t like to see people juiced up or anything but the goddamn belt was seriously falling off his waist last night and he actually, legitimately looks crazy in his eyes. Though given his personal life I guess I can’t blame him.
And I love that at the end of the day, the glorious former-WWE star rode in on a white horse to save the useless TNA original jobbers from the big, bad former WWE stars. Wouldn’t expect anything less.
They should just name the show TNA Thunder and be done with it.
Regarding Scott’s article, the “Invisible Cameraman” thing… you know, I don’t think the camera man is invisible. I think the wrestlers are simply brain damaged or self absorbed.
I actually had this idea for the “Wrestler who didn’t get Pro Wrestling”
It would be funny. Someone who doesn’t understand things like promos, entrance music, etc. They see the cameras and tell the people that everyone can see them plotting. They are aghast at cheating, and call 911 when they see someone use a chair.
“Hello, 911? Yes, I would like to report an assault with a weapon. I’m at Madison Square Garden. The weapon? It was a chair.
Why yes, I’m at the WWE show. Hello? Hello? Damn dropped calls”
I hope Russo doesn’t read this blog or this idea will be on the next Impact. It’s just the smarmy insider crap Russo likes. It would be funny; but like anything exposing the business on the actual show, it throws immersion out the window.
Well maybe not the ’sees the invisible camera’ stuff, but all the other stuff. They were kind of heading that way originally with Kurt Angle.
You can take it a lot of directions. Guy goes nuts from constantly getting cheated out victories, finds someone inept to school him in the ways of professional wrestling, like, say, Hacksaw Jim Duggan.
Hacksaw: OK, the random assault. It’s a good way to get attention. Just grab a weapon and hit someone that’s a major name with it. Then you’ll end up settling it in the ring, and that’s where you make the big bucks.”
Dumbass: Oh, I get it. *grabs a chair and hits the first person he sees with it… turns out to be Vince McMahon or the Undertaker or something*
Hacksaw: … I would run if I were you.
That’s gold, Charlie, gold!
I agree that the invisible cameraman concept is pretty ridiculous. I think WWE is trying to make these backstage scenes something similar to a movie or television show, where there is not supposed to be a camera man in the room, we are simply looking in on something happening. So much of wrestling is about suspension of belief, is it really that hard to just pretend there is not really a cameraman in the room?
I can’t. It looks so stupid and is one of the many things I hate about modern wrestling. That, and when people are in the ring cutting promos on each other, and they each have a mic. I miss when someone like, say, Okerlund, would be standing in the middle of them and would move the mic over to whomever was talking.
Here’s one that belongs on the list—-
A wrestler who wasn’t supposed to be there makes a “surprise” appearance. Miraculously, his entrance music, Titantron video, and sometimes pyro are all cued up and ready to go. How spontaneous!!!
Maybe the WWE Titantron works using some kind of optic sensor, like in the movie Minority Report.
*Insert obligatory smark joke about Triple H using the optic sensor to see who was going to get over next so he could kill the push before it happened…*
You fool! You need the Precogs for that. All the optic sensor would do is give you a custom advertisement while you wait for the red marble to spit out.
So who would the Precogs (2 male, 1 female) be named after then? Vince Shane and Stephanie come to mind but I’m sure someone can be more creative than that….
From Wikipedia’s Minority Report entry…
“She explains to Anderton that the three precogs—the children of drug addicts”
Thusly we have Jesse (son of Terry Gordy), Joe Hennig (son of Mr. Perfect) and Lacy Von Erich (daughter of Kerry Von Erich).
If I knew how to use image tags here, i would post a gold bar for that one!