I’ve long thought that Nigel McGuiness had the potential to be a huge star with a better name, and TNA has actually FOUND it: Desmond Hawke. Kind of like an 80s action movie name. That, ladies and gentleman, is MONEY. It sounds cool, tough, and passes the Howard Finkel test for wrestling names.
Of course, being in TNA sets him back about 100 steps right out of the gate, but I wish him the best.
Michael's Extreme Review #15
October 20, 2009
Columbia, SC
-Kind of excited, due to the fact that ECW/Smackdown hails from my hometown of Columbia, South Carolina tonight. I know, I know. "Michael, why aren't you in attendance"? Well, at $60 a pop for a decent seat, and the fact that this is the last show before a pay-per-view, I decided to skip it. Although I am getting early reports from friends in attendance that the main event for ECW tonight is worth the price of admission and that Superstars is an hour long piss break; so par for the course, I guess. As for Raw last night, I gotta say I was amazed again. Something about DX's sophomoric humor and Snoop Dogg's marijuana innuendos that had me laughing out loud. Oh and the "Technical Difficulties" sign complete with Michael Cole and Hornswoggle has made the cut as the new background on my phone. Now let's head down to the ring and WRESTLE!!!!
http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2009/10/19/geeks-love-lists/
I actually have almost no arguments with this list. Indeed the “Homer travelling through time” bit is insanely funny and Willie getting brutally murdered three times is funny each and every time. I might switch around some of the lower entries, but the top 5 is right on.
Hey scott,
Longtime reader here. The wide array negative comments about Bret Hart in one of your threads (What If.... I think) really made me have an epiphany of sorts. I am (or was) a pretty big Bret Hart mark back in my youth, and reading comments regarding his "tendency to dog it at house shows", how he should "get over montreal", and how he "always showed up late to shows", and other criticisms that are completely irrelevant in regards to what I saw on my tv screen for two hours a week in the 90s made me realize the price I personally paid when I started reading dirt sheets and the like. The enjoyment I used to get when i watched wrestling is severely diminished now, and i was never a super mark or anything. I always knew that the results of the matches were pre-determined, etc., but I was just better able to appreciate the "theater" of wrestling much more before i knew about all the behind-scenes, he-said-she-said, no-this-worker-is-holding-this-guy-down kind of stuff. I'm jaded. So, I guess my question is, do you think you would enjoy wrestling (even the classic stuff that you like) even just a little bit more if you didnt know (or care) about all the dirtsheet kind of stuff? I mean, when it comes down to it, isn't it just about what you see (the angles, the matches, the characters, etc.) instead of that kind of stuff? I don't think it's so much of a stretch to infer that some supremely gifted actors in Hollywood are probably jerks, like Jack Nicholson, but I still love the Chinatown, so why should wrestling be any different? They're actors putting on a show. Just wanted to know what you think mate.
Mike
By that same argument, I shouldn’t watch TMZ because I’d enjoy Lindsay Lohan’s movies more. Wrestling is generally bad, lowbrow “theater”, no matter how many press releases WWE puts out saying otherwise. I love the sport for what it is, but basically the best wrestling writers in the business tried to make a movie and the result was “See No Evil” so it kind of shows you what we’re dealing with quality-wise.
Really, had I not been online in the 90s, I probably would have gotten so bored with the product in 2002-2006 that I would have permanently shifted to MMA and not given wrestling much thought after that. The “inside” mentality gives the viewing experience a whole different dimension, not to mention that a bunch of stuff is specifically catered to people who get the inside joke.
So for me, no, I wouldn’t enjoy it any more or less given less knowledge. That genie was out of the bottle a long time ago.
Loading ...
|
|
wwe wwf 2003 dvd lot US $49.25 |
|
|
THE HART FOUNDATION SHOOT INTERVIEW WWE TNA ECW DVD US $3.95 |
|
|
WWE Best of Raw Seasons 1 2 DVD 2010 NEW US $15.50 |
