As a fan (and more thanks to me
actually working in the business) who's been watching for longer than
I care to admit, there are times where I just find shit, fucking mind
boggling. Mind boggling that the very people who put certain things
together actually thought, at the time they booked it, wrote it or
whatever, that it was a 'brilliant' idea. When in reality if they
actually thought it thru all the way with some real thought process
put in there? They'd see how fucking stupid certain ideas are.
Acouple cases in point here. The first
one is the most blatantly obvious one that no other wrestling
columnist or writer has even thought about it, or just they just
don't have the balls to mention it because they need to keep kissing
certain people's asses so they get their media calls and interviews
for their podcasts and “VIP” membership deals. Something I don't
have to worry about because I don't need that shit to have a
successful wrestling site. That's the difference between 'them', and
I.
Hulk Hogan debuting back in WWE At
Crown Jewel.
Now I know all about Hogan using the
“N” word, read and heard all sides of the argument about WWE
using him again. This is not about that. Hogan for better or worse
has been and will always be, one of the biggest drawing names in
wrestling history, especially for the WWE. But here's where the WWE
has had this long pattern of fucking things up when they have a
golden egg. Just like when they screwed up when they had the NWA, ECW
and WCW to make a great splash with, they totally fucked up when it
came to re-debuting Hogan back into the mix.
Think about this, long and hard. You
have Hulk Hogan, highly regarded as an “American Hero” debuting
back into the company that made him such a big star... On a show
in... Saudi Arabia...
If you don't see what's wrong with this
picture? Reread what I just wrote above and then think about it. I'll
wait.......................................................................................................................................
Still don't see it? I'll explain it for
you then. If you have this big star who is an American Hero, then why
the fuck would you debut him back on a show in another country? The
biggest pop you could possibly get, cheers boos or whatever would
easily have been gotten by debuting him back on a show, IN THIS
COUNTRY! That is basic booking 101 and a blind man can see how that
is more effective than having him re-introduced on a show put on in a
country that's under a lot of controversy and that most fans didn't
want to see put on there to begin with. It was one of the most ass
backward ideas the WWE could've done and in the end, like having
Brock as top champ again and Vince's son win the World Cup, made no
damn sense at all.
Now before the WWE loyalists whine and
cry at me that I don't know what I'm talking about? Here's where I
do. I've been around people who actually know (Or in the case of the
late Walter 'Killer' Kowalski, KNEW) how to book matches and angles.
Guys who have experience booking like Sylvano Sousa, Dory Funk jr.
Jim Cornette, even a former WWF Referee named Fred Sparta had that
classic point a to point b to point c, etc booking philosophy. I saw
it first hand for the indy groups I worked behind the scenes for, saw
it, asked questions and learned a lot from it so if there is a
wrestling writer who DOES know what the fuck he's talking about, it's
this guy writing this article right here.
WWE with the Hogan debut back, couldn't
even get “Point A” done right. Point A would've been do it on a
show here in the states to get him over for when he did go to Saudi
Arabia or even better yet, kept him off that for all the reasons why
the show shouldn't have happened there in the first place. If there
was ever a way to totally screw up a debut back into a company? WWE
found the way with this Hogan deal. There's no logical explanation
that can ever be believable for why you would re-introduce one of
your biggest American stars on a show that's not even held in
America. That is booking stupidity at its most obvious. And another
example of why I don't and won't, watch current WWE shows. This
blatant disregard to basic and proper booking which seems to be the
norm now in WWE is something I no longer allow to insult my
intelligence with. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it. It's
pretty fucking sad when indy companies can book better and more
logically than the major federations airing on TV in this country,
and WWE doing this with this Hogan debacle has only proved me correct
yet again.
And it's not like Impact Wrestling is
any better, they're not. Which brings me to point number two.
Something that I, have been consistent on which is calling out Don
Callis for what he claimed he was going to do (many times on his own
Burning The Town Podcast and other interviews) and what he's actually
done. Dave Scherer & Michael Johnson haven't had the balls to do
this, Wade Keller won't and Dave Meltzer doesn't seem capable, so I
guess I'm the only wrestling writer/columnist that has the balls to
keep asking this question. How is it Don Callis that you claimed you
were going to 'get rid of the silliness that has plagued Impact
Wrestling' when YOU and Scotty D'Amore are the very ones booking and
writing the silliness now?
I find it funny how every time I ask
both of them that question ( and I have on Twitter, a few times) they
never seem to have an answer for me... Imagine that.
The latest example of this silliness is
the Allie story line. She 'has a demon' living inside her? What the
fuck, is that shit? I know you're supposed to 'suspend your belief'
when you watch a wrestling show, but really? Callis really thinks
that THIS isn't the kind of silliness he swore he was going to get
rid of? I'd love to hear him try to explain to me, how? Just like
when Su Yung was having 'Casket Matches'? Funny how that happened as
soon as Callis took the booking job in Impact Wrestling. How
'Undertaker' was that? Now we have Allie dealing with 'a demon'
living inside her. But yeah, that's not silliness at all, huh.
I believe it was Dave Scherer at
PWInsider that said in a reply to a letter (I can actualy find it if
need be for proof) that it's of the opinion that Callis feels he
can't book a straight ahead wrestling show and have it get over.
REALLY? SERIOUSLY? Obviously Callis hasn't seen many Defiant
Wrestling shows, PROGRESS shows or even World of Sport Wrestling
shows because all three of them UK companies, along with AMW in
Kentucky, WWA in Kentucky, Reality Of Wrestling (Booker T's promotion
in Houston), West Coast Wrestling Connection in Oregon, Even New
Japan Pro Wrestling that Callis works for, ALL THESE GROUPS book,
what? OOOHHH yes, they book straight ahead wrestling shows that get
over. The latter indy groups I mentioned do this on a weekly basis
and have been for years.
So this begs the obvious question that
no other wrestling writer or columnist seems to have the balls to
ask, so I'll keep asking. If all these groups I mentioned can do it
on a weekly basis, then why can't Callis and D'Amore do it? What's so
fucking hard about it? And why is it they don't seem to have any
answer to that question?
Mind boggling? Indeed, It is.
