Yes, wrestling isn’t the most respected form of entertainment available but it used to be entertaining in a campy sorta way.
Now it is no longer entertaining due to Vince McMahon.
First, last Halloween, there was a painful ten to fifteen minute bit where Triple H showed proof that another wrestler involved himself in necrophilia. It was just Triple H wearing Kane’s mask pretending to hump a CPR dummy then grabbing brainlike material and slapping it at the camera.
I stopped watching Raw.
The week before last there was a confrontation between Vince and his daughter Stephanie where she does bad acting and reveals how she helped her father “close” a few business deals with clients when she was seventeen. Wink wink nudge nudge in case the quotes aren’t enough.
Last Thursday took the cake where Vince apologized to her then said “It was as if I personally deflowered you”.
I told my friend to turn that shit off, grabbed a book and sat quietly for the rest of the night. You can have five star matches with Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Rey Misterio Jr. and Brock Lesnar set up for the rest of the WWF’s existence but I’m not going to watch your show ever again.
If I want tasteless, I’ll go on the internet and check out goatse, tubgirl and other sites but I don’t want tasteless in my mindless entertainment.
This just in: The acting and story lines in wrestling suck.
Film at 11:00.
And for only $39.95, you can watch the 11:00 film on Pay-Per-View.
Too bad you turned the TV off, as a few minutes after that “personally deflowered you” bullcrap you would have been rewarded with the sight of McMahon getting socked in the nuts, having a cane thrown at him, and subsequently rolling around the ring with his pants around his knees.
Basically, wrestling is a soap opera for guys. You can’t tell me the plotlines from midday soap operas are all that much better. At least wrestling has some stage combat!
- No fooling? I guess that you learn something every day!
*This post colored for your pleasure :rolleyes:
While I do enjoy wrestling, I have to agree with the OP. Sometimes things just go too far. At least a few years ago it was entertaining, if sophomoric. It’s gone from a guilty pleasure to a bizarre spectacle. I’d stop watching if it didn’t feature sweaty, half-naked men. 
I also agree with Dragonblink’s statement about the storylines. The storylines and acting on Raw aren’t all that different from the ones on General Hospital. The plausability of both is about the same. I recall vividly walking in on my mother watching an episode wherein two female characters had just escaped from prison by crawling through a storm drain, and both emerged with perfect hair and makeup. :rolleyes: And let’s not forget the ever-popular “possessed” storyline from One Life to Live a few years back. Compared to that, a man writhing in pain from a crippler crossfase doesn’t seem all that silly.
“Personally deflowered?!” Oh my god that is hilarious! I could picture McMahon saying that too. Damn that show is funny.
I haven’t seen Smackdown in so long. Is Edge back yet? What happened with that duel between Brock Lesnar and the Big Show? Did Brock hold onto his title and avenge Mysterio and Benoit?
Calling TV wrestling on its fake-ness is like… Shit, how can you think that they’d expect anything to pass as convincing to anyone over the age of nine?
Raisinbread, you are a tool, if only because your posts are purple. You’re so fucking irritating.
Not so. My brother interviewed for a job as a WWE writer back in the day.
Apparently they take great glee in stealing plotlines from the classics and mythology, and they sometimes give it away by quoting the source.
C’mon half the time Vince is Agamemnon, the other half he’s Lear.
Classics for the masses, man. Classics for the masses.
Someday in the distant future, schoolchildren will be forced to what tapes of Brett Hart playing Julius Ceaser to the Heartbreak Kid.
Et tu, Vinceus?
Seriously, Scylla? When did your brother do that? It seems now that the plots all consist of various “cliques” of wrestlers getting into feuds while “control” of things like the championship belt gets passed around among them periodically.
'Course, I could have just been whooshed. :o
At this point, I’d be happy to never again watch Vince be “entertained” by one of the divas.
It’s gotten to the point where I rarely watch wrestling anymore, and when I do, it’s after I’ve recorded it first so that I can skip the skits.
No. He really did it. Sometime around '97, or '98.
That’s really cool. Do you watch? I’m curious as to where some of the plots from the last year or so are taken from.
I always knew the powers that be for the show are shrewd entertainers, but this is quite impressive.
I lost heart when Mick Foley left.
A-freakin’-men. That man is everything good about the industry. Did anyone see the tribute to him last Monday? Very well-deserved, I thought.
In a similar vein, what with the WWE bringing Mick back (if temporarily), what’s with Vince bringing back wrestlers from the past? We now see Sable, The Legion of Doom, even Sgt. Slaughter in the ring. What gives?
Don’t forget Hulk Hogan – I mean, um, Mr. America. Cuz you know, that’s such an excellent disguise he’s got on, with the mask covering a good three quarters of his blonde hair and perhaps a whole inch of his trademark moustache/whiskers! “Gee Mommy, Mr. America rips his tee-shirts off just like Hulk Hogan used to!”
Again, like the “Mysterious man oh golly who could he ever be?” device hasn’t been used in daytime soap operas. 
The storylines of a couple years ago were REALLY intriguing. Sure, there were some stinkers - like the thing with Mark Henry and the Baby Hand (I’d better stop right there before I start quoting 90% of Wrestlecrap.com) - but sometimes they’d get a really cool feud going. Like Mick Foley vs. Triple H… who didn’t drop their jaw and scream “HOLY FUCKSHIT!” when Mick took off his Mankind shirt and re-emerged as Cactus Jack?
Gosh, I don’t think that involvement in necrophilia is going to cause a wrestler to lose face. It might even make the fans like him more!
I think Triple H could have done a lot more damage by providing proof that another wrestler was involved in, say, learning calligraphy or knitting.
feh, most fans will forget the bad angles as soon as the next storyline comes along.
Vince plays a great bad guy.
but noone expects Oscar willing acting or storylines.
Hell, no one even expects soap-level acting or storylines. Just that they are enough to keep a feud interesting.
I actually screamed “Cactus!”
The last time I screamed (in a good way, instead of out of pure frustration) was during the Invasion. Seeing Rob Van Dam and Tommy Dreamer run down the ramp made this ECW fan happy. Too bad the story was totally blown, Dreamer no longer wrestles and RVD resides in the midcard.