One of these days, that jacked up freakazoid of a human (Vince McMahon) is going to blow a gasket and drop dead from a stroke right in the middle of a booking meeting or a live show or an interview.
I’m not wishing death on him, but he’s headed that way. If I was a betting man, I’d put him in my Dead Pool for the next 18 months.
And some day, one of these wrestlers is going to be filing a lawsuit against the WWE, alleging sexual harassment or something similar. God help the WWE if the suit is filed in Alabama, where the civil awards don’t necessarily have anything to do with rational numbers.
(“Your honor, we award the sum of one frooptillion dollars”)
Just look at all the things they’ve made people do, especially the Divas. Man, I’d think that Molly Holly has a good case based just on the two months they tried that “fat ass” bit. Damn, but that was just plain mean. And surreal watching fat asses Lawler and Ross harping on -her- ass.
As far as WWE booking, they desperately need to get Vince out of the picture. He’s the poison.
Some notes from someone who considers wrestling a guilty pleasure:
WWE was sued for sexual harassment. By Sable. Whom Vince recently rehired and is doing a sexually charged storyline.
Vince makes a great bad guy, but he doesn’t know when to wind down a bit that he’s in.
Hulk “Mr. America” Hogan is an old, tried and true wrestling storyline. Babyface wrestler gets banned, suspended, fired and returns under a mask and no one can prove who is really under the mask.
The fans brought Hulk back into such prominence. The ovations he gets are surreal. He has the charisma and knows how to connect.
I love watching RVD as much as any ECW fanatic, but the man cannot ‘work the stick’ (interview) for crap.
You know, I still really enjoy WWE. In fact, I thought that Kane taking his mask off last week was one of the best bits I’ve ever seen them do (non-wrestling related). I had recorded it and I must’ve watched the last five minutes a dozen times or so.
Although, I really hate this storyline going on right now with Vince and this retard named Zach Gowen. I don’t want to see this crap. Lucky for me, there’s a few wrestlers on that show that make it all up for me (Angle, Benoit, Lesnar and the like).
By the way, any one have a word on when/if Paul Heyman will be back on TV?
Yes, something purple! I just see the purple text, and it irritates me everytime. It’s annoying an gimmicky. Sorry for the hijack, but I didn’t think it was worth a thread.
While it may be rather harsh to do so, I would state that it is appropriate. The poster in question has had this brought to his attention before, and (chances are) will have it brought to his attention again.
Look, we are a society. One of the things about society is that you expect a bit of feedback for your actions. If you refuse to alter your behavior based of the feedback that you receive, you are not doing your part as a member of the group.
This is not to say that we should all march in lockstep. Far from it, as part of the culture of the SDMB is our dissenting points of view and (above all) our willingness to examine those points of view critically as part of the fight against ignorance.
Another part of the SDMB culture is that we tend to be more articulate and intelligent that your average person. Also, the board itself tends to have a more dignified look than others. This is why we don’t have avatars, JPEGs directly in our posts or blink tags. Just a few thoughts.
Avatars would be ok, as long as they’re pre-approved by the thought police. The purple text is distracting. It really takes away (in my mind) any gravity of what raisinbread might say.
This IS the pit, and so long as the moderators think it’s ok, (s)he can post in purple, and I can bitch about it.
I quit regularly watching WWE when HHH did that necrophilia skit. That was just utterly revolting. I try watching a little bit now and then, but it’s hard to stay awake honestly.
I say, bring back Heyman, less HHH, more Angle, Benoit, Guerrero, and get Vince McMahon off my damn TV!
I have one question.
What the fuck is up with that hole in his chin?
It’s the freakiest, most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen…creeps me out so bad. I can’t stand to look at him.
KarmaComa, it actually stands for Your Milage May Vary meaning you might see it differently.
I used to watch WWE, back when it was WWF, I loved the Ultimate Warrior (gimme a break, I was, what, 13?)
I seen some more of it recently, and while the “cut scenes” still generally piss me off, it can be quite amusing in the fact that it is so unbelievably poor.
They did that on OLTL too? That was an old plot on Days from a couple years before I started watching the show.
On topic, me and my buddies do like the wrestling, but we agreed that the Triple H / Kane / necrophilia thing was in veeeeery bad taste.
McMahon was only good when he played the smirky evil boss entering just to provoke the “asshole” chant from the crowd. Basically that’s what Bischoff does a zillion times better nowadays, so leave it to him.
I would like to see more Heymann, and in fact I’d like it if they brought back more guys having managers.
Vince can and should be a little more succinct. But it actually should be “Shut up, Ric Flair and Triple H.”
Man, can their tirades go on forever.
Though, with TiVo, I just fast forward until someone comes out and responds/interrupts the speech.
As for the over-the-top plotlines: These are pre-determined athletic ‘competitions,’ what’s more over-the-top than that? If the ‘fake’ in fake wrestling is unpalatable, then why are your panties bunched up over fake plots?
Geez, if you can accept the fact that private conversations are filmed and broadcast…
The Future Mr. Nuff watches wrestling and I was so determined to avoid it because it’s so stupid. But I started watching with him and now if I miss a show I’m like, “What? He took his mask off? What did he look like?” Argh!
At least if someone asks I can say I watch it ironically. I know it’s supposed to be stupid and we’re supposed to know it’s fake. Plus my future FIL does the HVAC for the WWE building in Stamford and he’s met a bunch of the guys. Apparently, they’re all pretty nice and down-to-earth with good senses of humor. I guess you need that to be in the WWE.
Definitely a guilty pleasure. And the Vince McMahon-as-evil-daughter-seller storyline is too creepy. I wish they could take that back. There’s just no reason to stoop to the level of your average Jerry Springer guest.
I think it began back in the day when WWF fell behind the ratings with WCW and were willing to anything to get back on top…and they eventually did, thanks to the Steve Austin/Vince McMahon feuds. I think in so doing though, Vince fell in love with the scumbag role he assumed and now makes it part of everyday life.
I think Vince is looking towards completing a dark pact-type coup of getting back people who despise him with every inch of their lives, like Bret Hart, just so he can have another over-the-top angle to boost ratings.
Certainly. I assume everyone knows who the Undertaker is. For a while, his gimmick was that he worshipped the Dark Side (basically he was a Satan worshipper). It was revealed that he was so evil that when he was a kid, he burned down his house with his family still trapped inside, presumably killing them all.
About five years ago, Paul Bearer (the short, obese guy who spoke for the Undertaker for a long time) revealed that Taker’s brother, Kane had survived the fire, but was horribly burned. Out comes this huge guy who’s entire body was covered in wrestling tights except for one arm, wearing a mask.
Over the last five years, Kane went from wearing those tights to wearing a tank top type thing, and eventually they gave him a new mask with the bottom half removed so he could properly talk on the mic. They revealed that one of the reasons Kane never talked before was because he was still getting over having killed his first girlfriend while driving drunk (like raisinbread said).
Triple H decided that Kane was a threat to his title, so he offered him a spot in his new stable called Evolution. Co-GM Stone Cold came out and said he could either join Evolution or get a title shot the next week. Co-GM Eric Bischoff came out and added the stipulation that if Kane lost he would have to take off his mask and reveal what he’s been hiding for the last five years.
To make a long story short (little late for that, isn’t it), Kane lost. He pulled off his mask, and his hair went with it. Most of his face was blackened, and the top of his head was covered in what was supposed to be a horrible scar (fairly bad makeup job).
Anyway, I watched the demasking of Kane a bunch of times just because I thought that Glenn Jacobs (the guy who plays Kane) did a really good job of acting in that role. Imagine that…decent acting in wrestling. Who’d have thunk it?
