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Hello there, good job on the site. You recently answered my question about the Steph TV character and the “hitting women†thing and you got me totally wrong on that one. Maybe it’s my fault, as English is my second language and I may have worded it wrong. Let me rephrase my question. In no way is it OK for a man to hit a woman, no matter how she talks to him or what she does. I was raised the right way, and that was never acceptable to me. That being said, it is also not acceptable to hit your neighbor with a steel chair or to curb stomp his head in a cement block. Wrestling is a make-believe world and, just ten years ago, men would sometimes put their hands on a woman, and I for one took it for what it was: Something that happens in a TV show. Wrestlers are quite often booked as beasts. Brock Lesnar sure is. Not too long ago, Randy Orton decimated the whole McMahon family in an angle, including Steph, if I remember correctly. Having these beasts or brutes or whatever stand there and take a verbal beating without reacting seems like an odd way of booking characters you want to make seem as strong, but that may just be me. Just thought I would clarify that, and seek your opinion on a clearer point. I get that WWE now evolves in a very corporate world, and that it has an impact.
I get your point but you said something above that is the answer: Ten years ago. Yes, a lot of things got by in wrestling then that wouldn’t fly now. Blood for one. Hitting women is another. Yes, WWE is a TV show, but it’s reality based. It’s not NCIS. It’s 2015 now. WWE is a publicly traded company with a TV-PG rating and deals with companies that market to children. They, on one hand, can’t be promoting Susan Komen, Be A Star, Women Empowerment, etc., and on another have men beating up women, especially since it is hot button issue in the sports world (as it should be). I do agree that they shouldn’t let Steph get away with emasculating the guys, she needs to get her comeuppance, it just can’t be in the form or a man hitting her.
Did the hair vs. hair match between Spud and EC3 remind you of an old school UWF match or am I just being nostalgic for those glory days?
It did seem like something from that era. As I said above though, the excessive blood was a bit disturbing to me. I love it as much as anyone back in the day, but once we learned what we have about blood borne diseases, it’s just irresponsible to do it in 2015.
The Rusev/Cena rematch is a gimmick match just so Cena doesn't have to take a clean loss, right?
We will find out this weekend. It wouldn’t shock me if that were the case. I will hate it if they do it that way though. Rusev needs to win strongly to ascend up the card.
What is backstage like in the WWE? From time to time they show us the "locker room" but how does everything actually go on back there.
There are locker rooms, catering, meeting rooms, production areas, offices, etc. WWE conforms to the particular building.
So is there anything more ridiculous than John Cena's springboard stunner?
Yes, men who feel the need to wear thongs.
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