From the Washington Post it’s a boisterous beef ballet of love!
I saw them on the Today show this morning. They admitted that it was all an act and they are not gay. It’s too bad because they are terribly cute together.
I’d like to watch the consummation.
Several times over. With Kurt Angle…in the dark.
See that it’s arranged.
J
So it IS true! I saw an ad for this week’s Smackdown, and thought “Oh, that’s so sweet, but it can’t be for real - it must be some kind of trick!” I thought wrestling was a much more deeply closeted phenomemon. One of those obviously-gay-but-would-never-fess-up things. Like Rush Limbaugh.
Clearly I was wrong.
Kn(Go Gay Pride!)ckers
Just Vinnie Mac (WWE head honcho) getting his product some media coverage - The ratings for Raw and Smackdown are pretty bad at the moment (Raw last Monday got it’s lowest ratings in 4 1/2 years, even with ‘HLA - Hot Lesbian Action’*)
The show was taped Tuesday, so if you wanna find out what happens pop along to any wrestling website (pwtorch, 1wrestling etc) and read the spoilers.
*Yep, HLA was the major attraction on Raw. They had their own dressing room with ‘Lesbians’ on the door and everything, the whole show hyped the upcoming ‘HLA’ until they arrived in the ring, made out a bit, then got beat up (including a really stiff kick to the ribs for one of 'em) by a couple of big guys.
Sometimes it’s hard to justify myself as a wrestling fan.
Just stopped in to say, “Love that thread title!” 
I am devastated to learn pro wrestling has involved itself with cheap publicity stunts, 
You know thousands of homophobic young men watch wrestling constantly. And what they are watching is a bunch of sweaty, muscular men in tight, skimpy clothing rubbing all over each other. This is the real irony in the rise (forgive!) of professional wrestling.
You forgot Cena.
Gee, there’s never been anything remotely gay, or homoerotic about wrestling until this happened. It’s just a whole new world out there.
It was pathetic and just another chance for the WWF/E to poke fun at homosexuals in the warm and friendly environs of a stadium full of redneck hicks.
I tuned in with hopes of seeing a surprise, that it would a) be at least a legit pretend gay wedding/bonding and that b) the crowd would not behave like jagoffs.
I actually used to like pro wrestling but stopped watching when I got tired of all the retarded antics (like the whole Eddie Gurerro GED plotline, because god knows all Mexicans are HS dropouts). I momentarily thought that they would even get tow actual gay men to play the roles (statistically there have to be at least a few).
This crap was just sad and made me unhappy to have ever been a fan.
A number of years ago, my wife and I happened upon a wrestling show that had a bad feed/tape and the video would “skip” and then freeze 1 image on the screen for about 3 seconds, skip and freeze, skip and freeze…
Anyway, the number of times that it happened to freeze with some guys crotch within 6 inches of the other wrestlers face, or somebody grabbing gnads or butt was too… common to be coincidence, you know?
So I’ve thought for years now that there was a homo-erotic element to professional wrestling.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 
And Edge. Mmmmmm baby!
I’m glad they’ve finally done it, featured openly gay wrestlers and not made them out as a couple prancing pansies or weirdos like Gold Dust (and I think Gold Dust is one of the coolest characters around, I’m just glad that they’re not saying that gay=weird). And the gay community was a vast untapped market that pro wrestling had never catered to before now.
Will the acceptance last? WWE couplings haven’t lasted very long for quite a while, so I give this plot a life of less than 6 months.
:smack: Jeeze, one week I watch Smackdown, there’s the proposal. The next week when the wedding is supposed to happen, I miss Smackdown & it’s all a farce within a farce. That’ll teach me to post before I read the linked page.:smack:
kack@ass: There was no “acceptance” of the two supposedly gay wrestlers. The ceremony was rife with catcalls, an interruption by “The Godfather” and hi “Ho Train”, and culminated in a renouncement of their homosexuality by Billy and Chuck, claiming it was “only a PR stunt”.
It was all a swerve by the Raw GM Eric Bischoff and Rico, Chuck and Billy’s stylist. Considering the state of WWE booking, it worked out pretty well.
The people who tuned in just for this were lost. The people who follow rasslin liked it. :shrugs:
I got a tape of Smackdown & saw the “wedding”. Bischoff was good. It was interesting, in a Shayne-behind-the-Corporate-Ministry kinda way.
I wonder what Stephanie’s gonna do to follow this one?
The wedding was light-years better than “HLA”. Gag, Jerry Lawler is an annoying git. Rico has been a lot of fun though.
Go read at.Dean Rasmussen’s workrate report slashwrestling.com’s message board…now THATS homoerotic humor.
Jerry Lawler needs either the Three Minutes or the Women’s division to shoot fight him into a bloody pulp.
And Sam? I write for Slash
And since we’re here talking about it I see that Gool Ol’ JR has been doing some thinking about his role. Saying something like he’s not sure if sitting in that chair is where he’s meant to be.
After watching Raw and hearing Lawlers constant harping on about HLA I’m wondering if JR’s comments are more to do with who he sits beside rather than what he’s watching. He sounded quite pissed off the few times he tried to get Lawler back to talking about the matches. Hell, that’s what they do tho’.
For what it’s worth I thought the SmackDown cermony came off far better than it could have done (seeing the mess they’ve made of so many other angles lately). I’ve no idea what they’re going to do now, and it’ll be interesting to see if there’s any backlash to B&C not being gay (in an not-even-pretending-to-be-gay-on-tv anymore sort of way).
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