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Is it sad that my friends and I, some of which are indy wrestlers, can no longer watch this stuff WWE calls entertainment? Don't get me wrong we keep our Tivos on but especially an amazing website of your own can't make the recap or Raw or Smackdown sound like its worth a darn we just hit delete.
I think sad is a good word for it. It's also sad that Vince McMahon gets pointed messages from the fans, such as a big jump in the buyrate for Money In The Bank followed by a big drop for SummerSlam or fans leaving in droves as Raw progresses, yet he ignores them. Wrestling fans want to see wrestling, not some bizarre vaudevillian bastardized form of entertainment. But McMahon has always wanted to be more that "just a wrestling promoter" and giving us his bizarre version of the business is more important to him than giving us what we want. He is just really lucky that there is no competition on his level to deliver such a product or I fully believe WWE would find itself in the same position that it did when WCW passed them in the mid nineties.
Why does Eric Young, EY, not get a better push with TNA? He has done everything asked of him, always gets huge POP from actual LIVE FANS as there is no need to can any crowd noise for him, and actually seems like a fairly good wrestler. He is highly entertaining live and is lots of fun to watch, yet his actually ring and TV time is nothing compared to people who deserve little to no TV time, like Eric B and the old boys club. If Impact is actually about wrestling, why is he not one of those to lead the way?
He is lucky to get what he does to be honest. In the world of Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff, where size rules, he can either be a comedy character or nothing, so he takes what they give him. Yes, he is actually a very good in-ring talent, but that is something that the current regime chooses not to utilize in him. So instead he gets to play the goof. It's better than not working at all I guess.
Just wanted an opinion on why Benoit is viewed as a monster by WWE, considering the fact that his autopsy revealed that his brain tissue resembled that of an 80 year old Alzheimer's patient? Also since his death WWE has abandoned chairshots to the head. If Benoit was just a monster on his own, then such as change would have been unnecessary, and would not have been made at the time by WWE regardless of if it was dangerous to talent or not.
Why is he considered a monster? Because he killed his family. That makes him a monster. It's not a "fact" that he had the brain of an 80 year old demented man, it's an assertion. There is a big difference there. Also, Benoit wasn't so affected by the alleged condition that he didn't have the wherewithal to call the company and lie about why he would miss house show dates the day he killed them, no to mention showing up for work and conducting normal daily functions without incident. He was also aware enough to try and find a way out of what he did to his wife and son and only when he couldn't he killed himself too. WWE had already been working on minimizing damage to wrestlers' bodies long before Benoit murdered his family, due to all of the wrestlers that needed spine surgery, so there is no cause and effect there. Even if it were to come out that Benoit had serious mental issues, WWE still should not associate themselves with someone who did such heinous things. There is no good way to present a mass murderer to your fan base. I honestly can't understand how anyone can think otherwise. Frankly, it blows my mind that people can separate the wrestler from the murderer.
I would like to get your opinion on something. One of my biggest problems with both WWE and TNA is how any time there is a feud that involves a face vs. face or heel vs. heel they almost always turn one of the people involved. I personally hate this because it's refreshing to see competitive and more realistic feeling matches other than always getting heel vs. face where you get cheating and the same old finishes all the time. The most recent with turning Robert Roode heel seemed typical and very unnecessary. How do you feel about this?
They don't turn all of the time. During Roode's run up to his match with Kurt Angle at Bound For Glory he had matches with his stablemates and they didn't have turns. But I do think there is a problem with always swerving fans with turns that often don't make sense. Roode's turn absolutely fits that bill. They built him up very well as a babyface so his turn was ridiculous.
What is the one thing that you have learned from pro wrestling that has carried over to your real life?
The one that rings true in both places is this: There is no cure for stupid.
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