Scott's Blog of Doom

So after I noted that we don’t get NXT here in Canada, someone was nice enough to point out that indeed Global still carries the show, albeit two hours later than ECW was shown at.  Which means it’s on at 3:00 AM Saturday mornings.  I shit you not.  But that’s why DVRs were invented, as I decided to sample the show for the hell of it.  And as I suspected, I just can’t wrap my head around this show and what it’s supposed to accomplish.  Having guys go out and give scripted comments like “I should be eliminated” and then having them get eliminated for saying it is just…I dunno.  It’s like, HELLO, it’s 2010, we know it’s fake already, you don’t have to rub it in our faces.  More annoying to me is that it’s a TV show that isn’t trying to sell anything or build anywhere, and that feels wrong to me as a wrestling fan.  I watch weekly TV to be captivated by the personalities and then watch them fight.  Here we got two guys being sent home at the start and then “Oh, and here’s a random match between two guys” right after that.  Also, “Skip Sheffield” sounds like the name of a Marvel comics sidekick in the 60s, not a giant bald musclehead from Texas.  There are some really bad wrestling names on this show and that doesn’t help matters.  I do like the different main camera angle.  That’s neat.   

Here’s what I’d like to see, and you can tell me if this is a stupid pipe dream.  I’d like to see a redone version of the classic World Championship Wrestling format from the 80s, with these guys. Small set, intimate crowd of hardcore marks, let them talk about how great they are and how many women (or men, it’s the 21st century, whatever) they’re gonna fuck when they’re World champion.  Oh, and by the way, [insert wrestler here] is a dirty shithead and I’m gonna kick his ass.  Then they fight.  Maybe some weeks the World champion actually does stop by and defends the title against someone from the show, just to emphasize that it’s a shared universe (see what I did there?) and show what they’re fighting for. 

Because as it is, I have no fucking idea what they’re fighting for.