I cant do WHAT anymore?

The BBQ Pit
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I write a online column about wrestling. I’m a huge fan, sheesh my username is a wrestling reference.

Over the years, I’ve endured some storylines I thought were bad. I take that back. This was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. I can’t believe someone thought this up and had the balls to submit it as a storyline idea. And the fact someone greenlighted this…Vince, what the fuck where you thinking?

Sublight, Mick Foley backed out of an appearence on a WWE show because of this. Good for him.

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I’m glad you jumped in here, hardygrrl. I was waiting for someone who really knows wrestling to weigh in on the subject, and whether or not this sort of thing is going down well with its target audience. Yuck. :frowning:

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I am not your “typical wrestling fan”
This segment did embarass me, its not the kind of thing that gives wrestling in general a good name.
Im a smart person, im in the highest Maths and Science classes at school and am going into advanced English next year.

I am always trying to educate people on Pro-Wrestling, that it isnt all the ‘soap opera’ that it has been made out to be, but things are taking a big turn for the worse.

And about the comedy thing, the way the segment was portrayed is was not Wrestler X aving sex with Dead Body Y.

It was Wrestler A (The cheap heel/ad guy) portraying wrestling X having sex with a plastic doll portraying Dead Body Y.
Sure it is not the kind of funny you find in Loony Tunes (which i also love), but its like black comedy (a very black comedy) it IS a disgusting thing to be doing/talking about, and i must admit if i was my mum the TV would have gone off at that moment.

After a long think i am considering dropping down my wrestling viewing, maybe i will, maybe i wont. But i am considering it.

I know this post is taking a different point of view to my last one, because i have thought about it since and i dont want to give myself a bad name in my first 10-15 posts.

I am an educated wrestling fan, my 8 or so years watching it, and several years on the internet has taught me many things.
This isnt the kind of thing i want on WWE programing everyweek.

Im sorry for making it seem like i was defending this, and for the abuse i sent out to anyone (mum). I was merely defending my wanting to contine watching RAW but i took the wrong approach.

Geez im not that good in the Pit am i?
Both of my topics in here have had me come back and apologise for everything… :slight_smile:
(and by the way, im giving yet ANOTHER vote to my mum)

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Good Lord! Really?

Hint: the use of I’m and won’t might better help you achieve this goal.

But seriously, well done for thinking about the issue, and perhaps altering your perceptions.

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Thats a little… disturbing.

I dont really watch wrestling, but I have observed over the years that it has become more showy. nuff said.

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Okay, I am going to defend Lou here.

Yeah, the segment was dumb (I don’t call it “disgusting” or “disturbing”, just REALLY REALLY dumb). But to say “No more wrestling, ever!” based on this one instance - despite this one instance being REALLY REALLY dumb - is going to extremes. I can even understand the rationale behind the scene… “Ooh, we can have one character mock another by calling him a necrophile!”… it’s just that the execution of the scene was REALLY REALLY dumb.

Did I mention that it was dumb? REALLY REALLY dumb? Well, it was.

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Sorry, no sympathy from me. I’ve never let my kids watch professional wrestling ever, and that included when we were overseas and had only one channell and it was the only thing on.

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You want to watch you don’t hit anything backpedaling like that, chief.

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As a wrestling fan, I have to say that even this is too much.

christ… what is going on, vince?

If you are that desparate for ratings, perhaps you should get some good writetrs, not the idionts you have at the moment.

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Sometimes, I used to let my son watch WWE.

Used to.

Regards,
Shodan

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Good God. I remember when this kind of thing was only found on freaky fetish porn sites.

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: raises hand:

I’m volunteering. And I’ll bring my friend Hyatte

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Lou E., I’m with you on this one.

Of course I see your mother’s point of view too. I’m probably older than your mother and I’ve watched some form of pro wrestling on and off since I was a kid, and that is the most tasteless, vulgar storyline I’ve ever heard of.

But, you sound like a bright person, who can tell what’s going on in this world. Don’t stop watching if you still like it (unless your mother says no). But send a letter to the WWE. Tell them you’re a fan, but they went too far.

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hardygrrl, I’m all for Hyatte pitching in, but isn’t he a little too unpredictable? He disappears for months at a time, I’m convinced he’s also Flea, and half the Net hates him.

On the upside, at least you didn’t pick Scott “Scooter” Keith or Dave “Please, Vince, let me work for you” Meltzer.

As for what is officially “The Worst Idea in Wrestling, Ever” (dethroning most of WCW in the early 90s), I blame it all on Brian Gerwitz, Kevin Dunn, and Stephanie “Billion Dollar Princess” McMahon.

-brianjedi

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Trust me, he’s not Flea. Hard to have separate AIM’s with both at the same time :smiley: . He just gets bored and leaves when he realizes he’s phoning it in.
Scooter? Be a love and catch this chair I’m tossing at you, m’kay?

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Well hardygrrl is taking over?
Look out for Jeff (or is Matt your true love?) to be given a GOD LIKE push!
:slight_smile:
…not saying its a BAD thing.

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No, because that’s a setup for the Van Daminator, and I like having all my teeth.

Now, why all the anger?

-brianjedi

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Because as much of an ass Hyatte is, Scooter is half assed.

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Thank you, Twisty.

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Forgive me for posting a little late in the topic. I had been looking for this thread but I assumed by the title that someone had lost their driving privelages.

Now, I have been watching wrestling for quite some time. Since about '85 or so. I am also a responsible adult with no traffic violations, a pure blood stream and the least number of contusions in my graduating class. GO ME!

And so, Pollo Boyo feels the need to climb on his high horse, or rather his Mystical Donkey (patent pending). Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, or an ass.

First, as a fan:

I think what the OP fails to realize is that it was quite before this instance that the core fans of the WWE began to get frustrated with the recent Kane / Triple H storyline. I’m going to do everyone a favor and spare the tragic continuity errors that span from this recent revelation.

It’s first disturbing that Vince McMahon is attempting to appeal to the audience by having their top Face (read: good guy) viewed as a murderer. Then to continue the angle, Kane is accused of being a necrophiliac. First, this is never denied, thus I have to hear Jerry Lawler continuously reference that allegation, as well as the word “semen” on my television screen through the night.

To follow up, we get the infamous Triple H video that the OP references. This spawned a plethora of complaints both directly and indirectly to WWE by core fans. A writer for the Pro-Wrestling Torch even went so far as to eliminate his weekly column titled “the Raw hitlist”, which showcased the positives and negatives of the television show until it once again deemed viewable.

However, the show did not end at that point, though many did change the channel. There was a post-main event segment in which Kane locked Triple H in the trunk of a rental car, and threatened him by saying he would ‘screw Triple H’ just as he screwed the supposed victim, then making the suggestion of murdering Triple H.

This angle has received so much negative backlash that it’s not even funny. Stephanie McMahon heads the writing department, and somehow finds a way to justify this footage. Vince McMahon owns the company, and allows such footage to be aired.

Of course, if you had read the Stephanie McMahon / Howard Stern interview, you would see just how twisted the family can be.

Now, as a responsible adult:

I used to babysit my friend’s children while he worked a late shift. They used to sit with me while I watched Raw and Smackdown, and damned if I didn’t educate them about every little thing they saw. I did this so they understood why I enjoyed watching pro-wrestling, as well as to sway them to thinking that it was ‘un-entertaining’ rather than stupid. (Though I always did let anyone carry their opinions.)

If I had been watching this edition of Raw with them, that channel would have been blocked off of the damned television set faster than Jeff Hardy orders extra biscuits from KFC.

What WWE put on the air was not a wrestling-broadcast as Smackdown is. It was not a soap-opera as they claim it to be. It was a snuff film worth of Rob Black! It was disturbing, disgusting, and I can not believe that anyone would take part in this storyline at all!

Raw has been a downward spiral of moral decay. In fact, I’m thankful for the roster split so I can still watch some decent cruiserweight action on the other broadcasts.

I have seen the Montreal Screw-Job. I have seen “Pilman 9mm”. I have seen Stone Cold Steve Austin hold Vince McMahon at gun point in the middle of the ring. I have seen Austin crucified! I have seen some Kubrick-esque stockholm syndrome involving Stephanie McMahon and Triple H. I have seen the Mae Young pregnancy angle. In short, I have sat through quite a bit of crap in order to get to the good stuff, and that’s decreasing greatly.

All I can really say is that if your parents won’t let you watch Raw anymore, then they just went off the scale on my respect-o-meter! You should be thankful you have parents who care about what you watch, especially since it’s so easy to place responsibility on the ratings system.