Thank you, Brian Zane, for that wonderful line from your Worst Of 2023.
And yes, it fits.
So, for those who need further context, the above shot is taken from the aforementioned NWA Samhain PPV that took place last October and in case you need further clarification, that is indeed the Sinister Minister himself, Father James Mitchell, doing some of the coke live and in barely living color on Pay-Per-View. It served no real purpose in context to the rest of the show and in a vacuum, it was something that made you go “Why is that even a thing?”
So you’re probably wondering “Why is this even a thing?”
Well, you see, shortly before this PPV took place, Billy Corgan had announced that he reached a deal with the CW Network to air the weekly NWA Power show (as well as another show) onto their TV network, which seemed like a pretty big step forward to them. And then the spot above happened, someone posted it on Twitter, and all of a sudden, the CW were signing a deal to bring NXT over to the channel, while the NWA stuff was relegated to the CW app, which is almost as bad as having to watch two AEW shows on a shitty TSN app.
So yes, because of that spot, the NWA went from going on TV to being stuck on another app that fewer people use… but to label this entire show as god awful because of this one spot is being a bit unfair. After all, this show had plenty of other reasons that it sucked. And the few who did give the show a fair shake even went so far as to call it as bad if not worse than Heroes Of Wrestling from 1999.
That, my friends, is a bold statement.
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