# Shut Up Vince McMahon **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 30, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282 "2003-06-30T03:10:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/101 "2003-07-06T06:20:22Z")
I should point out for those who didn’t see the latest, Rico’s character has undergone a… bit of a change. Shiny facepaint, an unnerving bit of heterosexuality in addition to the now _extremely_ direct homosexuality. It very much reminds me of WCW Goldust. But we’ve only seen him once, so who knows. I may be overanalyzing. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/102 "2003-07-06T06:21:47Z")
WCW Goldust? ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/103 "2003-07-06T11:43:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by imthjckaz \* > \*\*You forgot about your love Heyman. > > And his scullet. > > 😛 \*\* Excuse me, Mr I Fantasize About Mae Young? Can you catch this folding chair I’m tossing at you? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/104 "2003-07-06T11:45:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KCSuze \* > \*\* Interestingly enough, “Goldust”, or rather Dustin Rhodes, was recently called for jury duty. I have a mental image of a black-and-gold guy serving as foreman. \*\* As long as he controls that little _problem_ of his 😉 … ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/105 "2003-07-06T12:56:50Z")
WWF Goldust. I’ll be over here banging my head against the wall. Just got Star Wars Galaxies, playing too much sleeping not at all. ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/106 "2003-07-06T15:28:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rolandgunslinger \* > \*\*HOLD IT …JUST HOLD IT ONE DAMN MINUTE!..WRESTLINGS FAKE?..:0 \*\* Wrestling’s not fake, it’s _choreographed_ ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/107 "2003-07-06T15:29:05Z")
Eh, it’s more like improv theater. ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/108 "2003-07-06T19:47:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KCSuze \* > \*\*By the by, part of what made Rico’s moves so great was Maven’s reactions to them, especially the hotel key. > \*\* Very good point. That Maven kid has a real future - if they ever decide to give him a push that is. I’m still waiting for them to give Booker T the push he deserves. However with the current storyline Booker is in, (always almost winning only to get screwed in a different way each time) I think its only a matter of time (and likely PPV) before he finally wins the IC Title. Whats sad though, is that Booker deserves to have held the World Title. Think theres any truth to the rumor that they don’t want to make Booker Champ because he won’t be able to do the “five time five time five time five time five time” if he wins number six? ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/109 "2003-07-06T20:48:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by raisinbread \* > \*\*You can have five star matches … set up for the rest of the WWF’s [sic] existence… \*\* Isn’t five-star match-up and WWE an oxymoron? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/110 "2003-07-06T21:10:55Z")
Not with Angle, Jericho, Benoit, and both Guererros on the roster, it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/111 "2003-07-06T22:56:55Z")
Lots of the wrestlers have great potential for a career but most of them have one strike against them. Vince McMahon likes big men and he believes that big men help sell for a wrestling promotion. The little guys are meant to be jobbers, featured in squash match after squash match to make the big, lumbering lummoxes come across as fearsome and strong even though they have a limited moveset that ends up being stale. The cruiserweights tend to be all over the ring and work their hearts out to give a good match that’s made up of something more than rest holds. That’s why guys like Angle, Brock, Benoit and others are so good because they wrestle and make it look good. Other big guys like Undertaker, Big Show and Albert are boring because they’re stiff, get easily tired out. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/112 "2003-07-06T23:07:32Z")
And a lot of big men have one strike against them with 'net fans… that they’re big and smarks are prejudiced against them. I am not going to argue that people like Rosie, Jamal, and the Big Show, to a certain extent, are crappy wrestlers, because they are, but people like Kane, Test, and a few others aren’t bad wrestlers but get shit on because they’re over 6’6". If they were 6’2", they wouldn’t get it as bad. Then there’re big men that’re actually above average, like Albert, that’re constantly trashed _only_ because they’re tall. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/113 "2003-07-07T03:28:47Z")
> [@](#): > > As long as he controls that little _problem_ of his … I can just see it now. “So you see, your honor, we are hopelessly deadloc…dead…dead! DEAD! SHOT HER IN THE HEAD! G-G-GUILTY! GUILTY! FRY HIM!” > [@](#): > > Very good point. That Maven kid has a real future - if they ever decide to give him a push that is. The TE kids seem to be doing better than they were, though Maven has yet to find a gimmick. Linda (now Sheniqua) has her Dominatrix angle, and Nidia (along with Jamie Noble) has her “trailer trash suddenly rich” angle. Jamie did make me laugh when he told Nidia, “We’re going to Applebee’s, baby!” But what of Chris Nowinski? He had a good thing going, but now he’s in limbo. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/114 "2003-07-07T03:52:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KCSuze \* > \*\*I can just see it now. > > “So you see, your honor, we are hopelessly deadloc…dead…dead! DEAD! SHOT HER IN THE HEAD! G-G-GUILTY! GUILTY! FRY HIM!” > > \*\* Umm, I was referring to his propensity to get umm, excited, during matches. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/115 "2003-07-07T04:01:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Umm, I was referring to his propensity to get umm, excited, during matches. Oooohh…:smack: In my own defense, I never saw that. Or at least, I don’t remember it. I started watching WWE (then WWF) a few months before DX broke up for the first time. And then, they were the reason I watched. And can I help it if I’m too sweet and innocent to get the dirty connotation? Stop laughing! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/116 "2003-07-07T15:47:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KCSuze \* > [B > > And can I help it if I’m too sweet and innocent to get the dirty connotation? Stop laughing! 🙂 \*\* Stay away from the wrestling boards then - except [wrestlingclassics.com](http://wrestlingclassics.com). 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282/117 "2003-07-07T16:44:44Z")
Nowinski is still injured, isn’t he? Although I gotta say that the whole “knock them out by hitting them with a clear plastic face mask” crap is beyond stupid. Maven needs a few years in a tag team. I just keep picturing the Judge and Lawyers looking over at Golddust in the Jury box.:dubious: :eek: 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shut-up-vince-mcmahon/185282.md?page=5)