skorpio17
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|  #1 Posted on 8.1.04 1122.43 | Instant Rating: 2.95 | I am now the casual fan. I haven’t seen a full episode of Raw or Smackdown in a year. I watch an average of 40 minutes of wrestling per week. Back in the day I was watching 5 hours and spending another 5 hours reading about it online. I planned my weeks around Monday/Thursday nights and Tuesday mornings. Now I no longer have a passion for being a wrestling fan.
This year I’ve only seen the big 4 PPVs (I would’ve seen a King of the Ring too if they still had one.) I only spent about $50 on them including my most recent $20 purchase of the Survivor Series DVD. I liked the card, especially the classic old-school matches. As a traditionalist I want all Survivor Series matches to be 5 on 5. I thought it was an OK PPV, like the rest of the ones I’ve seen this year. Yet now I have soured on it, because it seems to have had no impact. Quick Recap: Triple H lost his title match, Benoit and Cena survived, Austin and the Undertaker did not survive. Fast foward to today: Triple H has the title, Benoit and Cena are dicking around as a tag team, Austin is already back with the Undertaker soon to follow. It is funny how Bob Holly gets a big title shot when he was couldn’t even survive for 5 seconds. Since when is the Survivor Series a throw away PPV?
Now that 2003 is over it doesn’t seem like I missed anything. Sure I miss the online news...now and then I am left wondering what happened to Kevin Nash? Edge? Spike Dudley? Bill DeMott? I never did find out how Kain twice escaped certain death. Were there any big surprises this year? Any great storylines I missed out on?
All of the feuds this year bored me, except for one. It wasn’t Angle/Lesner, Austin/Bischoff, Goldberg/Triple H, or Kane/Shane. I had little interest in any of them. The only feud that had the juice to captivate my attention was Vince/Stephanie. It was a groundbreaking father/daughter storyline. I was reminded of that great In Living Color sketch where Jim Carrey is a dirty old man trying to make out with his hot blond daughter.
This was the only match that I regret missing. I can picture this match in my mind. Vince putting Stephanie over his knee for a spanking. Him saying his little girl is never too big to get spanked. Only she probably is too big for a spanking once she starts kicking her father in the groin. For the finish I see a ref-bump, a surpise run-in by Chyna, Chyna downstairs, Steph with a pedigree, a victory for Steph and for women’s rights. I’d like to see the real match, but I’m sure it couldn’t do justice to my imagination.
Back to watching my Survivor Series DVD, something is really bothering me. Everytime I put the DVD back in to watch a match I have this “Don’t try this at home!” promo popping up and it seems unskippable. I must’ve seen it 8 times and it really gets on my nerves. I understand they need a disclaimer to avoid responsibility, but it is so damn condescending. It is like “We are all highly trained and highly conditioned athletes unlike you fat couch-potatoes, so don’t even try to perform these risky moves.” After picturing the Vince/Steph match this seems like a joke. Me and my sister could have a better match in my basement. I know they don’t want people getting hurt, but lets get real. Do you see boys tossing their younger brothers into open graves and girls lining up to give pop a kick in the nads?
I’d focus on the real injuries to real backyard wrestlers. Show the real backyard clown in a hospital getting stitched up after his match. He can tell people not to be a dumbass like himself. It would be more effective and less annoying.
Anyway the thing I liked about this PPV is John Cena. He is finally getting a good push. (No thanks to the Undertaker who won’t put him over, but has no problem jobbing to Vince.) I hope they don’t water down Cena’s character too much. He can still cheat as a face just like Eddie “cheat to win” Guerrero. In today’s society there is nothing wrong with cheating. Wrestling fans don’t care if their favorite uses a chair or not. Goldberg’s character bothered the hell out of me for refusing to use the sledgehammer on Triple H. I was yelling at my tv, “go ahead and hit him you big pussy.” They made him so damn stupid. When Triple H put a $100,000 bounty on him, he could’ve just announced a $200,000 bounty on Triple H and solved the problem. This ain’t 1987 anymore when the faces were all squeaky-clean.
On reality tv, the faces are the cheaters. Look at Survivor when the finals came down to a nice boyscout uniform wearing lady and a Puerto Rican lady who admittedly lied and backstabbed to get ahead. Everyone voted for the cheater because she was honest in her dishonesty. In the Real World Gauntlet, they had a character named Matt who was a devout Christian promising to give all his money to a children’s charity. He was also one of the first guys voted off. People don’t want to be reminded that they are sinners. They already accept it and like to think that everyone else sins just like them.
Sorry for jumping around so much, but I’m just a casual fan with a short attention span. I’m outta here like Vladimir.
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| #2 Posted on 8.1.04 1535.58 | Instant Rating: 5.47 | Originally posted by skorpio17
When Triple H put a $100,000 bounty on him, he could’ve just announced a $200,000 bounty on Triple H and solved the problem. This ain’t 1987 anymore when the faces were all squeaky-clean.
That really threw me for a loop. I mean, yeah, why wouldn't Goldberg just up the ante on Hunter's head? I think there's a pretty simplistic theme that continues to exist in wrestling: Money = Greed = Power = Evil. It might be true that babyfaces aren't squeaky-clean anymore, but that's just on the outside. Stone Cold, as an example, isn't a typical babyface in that he's a Rattlesnake and can't be trusted. But, as best as I can tell, guys like Stone Cold and Goldberg stay true to the babyface mold because they *earn* their keep and aren't sell-outs. If you sell-out to the boss, then you're part of the machine, which means you take the easy way to the top, which means you value money and power and fame above all else. The good guys have a certain nobility about them - they're supposed to be able to relate to the common guy. Point is: Goldberg (the character), since he's "noble," isn't a millionaire and wouldn't have that kind of money to just throw around at the drop of a hat to buy people off (and he wouldn't even if he did). | emma
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| #3 Posted on 12.1.04 1647.37 | Instant Rating: 8.47 | Originally posted by skorpio17
When Triple H put a $100,000 bounty on him, he could’ve just announced a $200,000 bounty on Triple H and solved the problem. This ain’t 1987 anymore when the faces were all squeaky-clean.
Besides, simply stated, Goldberg (the character) just isn't bright enough to simply up the ante. |
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