Category: Wrestling Musings

All posts related to pro rasslin’ that isn’t covering specific shows or events.

Everything Impact Touches Turns To Shit

Interesting article on Deadspin covering the Anthem era of TNA… and yes, I’m still calling it TNA. I don’t care what stupid name they have this week. It’ll always be TNA to me… and the only true positive there is to say about TNA that has always been a constant is that they’re still alive somehow. And believe me; at this point, that is the ONLY thing worth talking about.

Read the article here if you want.

A Bit Of A Conundrum Tonight

On the one hand, there’s the latest WWE PPV featuring Bork Lazer defending the Red Toy Belt against Brauny Man Strawman in what looks to be three minutes of interesting stuff paired up with two minutes of lazy-ass suplexes as well as the long-awaited encounter between Roman Reigns and John Cena in WWE’s latest attempt to get people to care about Roman Reigns as “da big dawg, yo.”

On the other hand, the new Star Trek: Discovery is debuting tonight and despite my less than excited lack of anticipation, it’s still new Star Trek.

Such a difficult decision indeed…

Except it’s not…

Because one will be on the WWE Network.

The other will be on CraveTV… or CBS Access if you’re American.

Oh well… I guess the answer is obvious.

Back to Quarth!

You Know…

No matter how much you try to put out a compelling product – and fail somewhat at it – you’ll never get over the sad reality that the biggest story in your company is its financial standing. As much as I am against good people losing their jobs through no fault of their own, I can only say…

Please, for the love of Dixie, let it die already.

Either sell it to someone who gives enough of a shit to give it a new start or just let it fucking die.

Global Force Gold Network!

Quick note: I’m writing this on a Tablet using the Blogger app, which apparently hasn’t heard of a common little feature called “spell check.” Thus, if any typos show up (especially in regards to some BIG words), I’ll fix them later when I’m back on the computer.
With that out of the way…
So Global Force Gold has decided to start up their own Global Force Network, where people can watch over thirteen years of wrestling pay-per-views and television programs featuring their former stars who are currently participating in solid matches over at WWE. This bit of news broke out amid rumors that Anthem Sports Network is looking to sell off Impact Wrestling because the business is hemorrhaging money.
I don’t want to comment on the whole “Anthem wanting out” business until there’s something a little more concrete to read into, but as far as this Network idea goes… sure, why not?
Mind you, it’s not something I’d be interested in all that much as the WWE Network more than satisfies any wrestling urges I might have these days… but for the diehard TNA fan who wants to relive better days, this wouldn’t be a bad way to go about it… depending on how it’s executed and such.
Now with all that being said, my only question remaining is… when do I get my gold bars, Jeff?
Yeah, that is all I have.
Sorry.

Live RAW On Christmas And New Year’s Day… WTF?

WWE announced recently that Monday Night RAW will broadcast LIVE on Christmas Night and New Year’s Eve for the first time ever… because that’s precisely what I want for Christmas is more mediocre sports entertainment… that I won’t even watch. And please spare the “Oh you don’t watch, but you will.” Motherfucker, I haven’t seen a full episode of RAW in years. Besides, I’ve got better things to do those days; family get togethers, Christmas dinners, and watching bad Christmas specials like Alpha’s Magical Christmas.

Yeah, that’s right. I’d rather watch a shitty Power Rangers X-Mas special than an episode of RAW and I’ve would said this even during the prime days when the show had stuff that was worth a damn on television… actually, you know what? Fuck that. Why watch a three hour snorefest like RAW when there’s a new Doctor Who that night? You think I’m dropping Peter Capaldi’s last outing as the Doctor so I could see Roman Reigns get booed or the eventual return of the Queen of Ear Rape herself?

People barely watch these things when they’re taped. They had a Tribute To The Troops one Christmas and nobody cared. And now these fucking clowns think that because the shows are LIVE, people are going to care? Is it really worth depriving all the poor folks of quality time with their families for a live show almost nobody will watch?

Dude, how about putting together a product that’s worth caring about outside of the three-month stretch that leads up to Mania, brother? Then, I’ll sing your fucking praises. But until then… no thanks, I’ll just stick with the PPVs that you’re putting on the WWE Network since that’s where the worthwhile content is coming from these days and even that’s a MASSIVE stretch these days.

Is Seth Rollins A “Real-Life Power Rangers?” (No, he isn’t.)

(You know what? I might consider making this into a video… just to gauge some kind of reaction to this reaction.)

WWE sometimes comes up with the stupidest shit. Not just in terms of their on-screen feuds and storylines, but also their website content. Not a major media event goes where WWE isn’t doing some stupid thing like photoshopping lightsabers into action shots or having wrestlers fight dinosaurs in poor mock-ups. Sometimes, stuff like this is cute, but then there are times when you just roll your eyes.

Case in point, WWE.com’s most recent article in which they try to sell readers on the idea that WWE Superstar, current RAW tag-team champion, former WWE World Champion, and Wrestlemania 31 savior Seth Rollins is a real-life, honest-to-goodness Power Ranger.

No… really.

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WWE 2K18 Coming To Nintendo Switch

Now this is good news. WWE 2K18 will not only be brought over to the usual suspects of Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC, but it will also be gracing Nintendo Switch this fall. Reportedly, it was retain all the new features of the latest edition despite the lower specs of the Switch; among them matches with up to eight Superstars at a time… took ’em over a damn decade, but they finally managed to get TWO more people on screen. I’m amazed by their great accomplishment here.

Now, details on the new edition of the game itself can be found elsewhere; I’m not going to dwell on that too much, but in either case, this is good news for Switch owners who have been clamoring for more third-party support that isn’t just indy titles. And… say what you will about the WWE games; they may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but when you consider that the last WWE video game to grace a Nintendo console was WWE ’13 on the Wii – not one WWE game ever graced the Wii U throughout that system’s life span – seeing one on the Switch has to be a nugget of encouragement.

Now, all that being said… when is Donkey Kong making an appearance? We’re not that far off after the ridiculous PPV name.