Category: Wrestling Musings

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

"Because The World Was Clamoring For An XPW Revival," He Lied.

Original source: http://www.wrestlenewz.com/wrestling/wwe-news/vince-congratulates-cena-xpw-returning-divas-dressed-up-last-night/

The newsbit of particular note and facepalm worthiness is as follows;

The infamous Rob Black will be bringing back his XPW promotion on October 31st in Los Angeles. The event will feature a 12-man tournament for the XPW Title with names being announced soon.

For those who don’t know, here’s a very brief and very truncated primer; X-treme Pro Wrestling was a wrestling promotion that was first started in 1999 by porn producer Rob Zicari a.k.a. Rob Black. Apparently, Black presented XPW the same way he allegedly presented his porn: it was garbage, bullshit wrestling with plenty of nonsensical violence and plenty of trash in both the literal and figurative sense of the word. You know how some people liked to refer to the old ECW as Extremely Crappy Wrestling? XPW lived up to its moniker as X-tremely Putrid Waste. The company “supposedly” got better in its later years when it moved to the East Coast and Shane Douglas was champion, but from I saw of one of the XPW compilation discs released in recent years when the footage was under the control of one of those DVD companies, I saw nothing of the sort to confirm that conception. It was still pretty crap.

Somewhere along the way, Black got busted for obscenity charges and XPW was subsequently shut down in 2003. Black served his time and is now back to restart the company and run regular shows and stuff…

So… yeah. XPW is coming back, huh? Um… yeah, color me uninterested. Oh, I’m sure there are some mutants that’ll be happy to see this crap come back. But… bleh. No thanks.

Technicolor Tommy Challenges CM Punk To A Fight… WHAT?

Source: http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/288203/Original-Green-Power-Ranger-Challenges-CM-Punk-to-MMA-Fight.htm

Yeah, so Jason Frank wants to challenge CM Punk to a MMA match. Just digest that for a minute… and then let’s follow that up with this.

Boy, oh boy, talk about your delusions of grandeur. Seriously, man, what the fuck is wrong with you? Jesus Christ, man, why don’t you just shoot a challenge over to Bozo The Clown or something?

I guess this clip sums up my feelings on the matter.

And he SPEAKS the truth.

Random Thoughts On… Random Stuff

Couple topics that don’t merit their own individual posts, so let’s shoot them out in one post right now…

– Last night’s RAW was… meh. Apparently, the newest Paul Heyman guy is Joe Hennig with a new name, Curtis Axel… Well, it’s a step up from Michael McGillicutty, that much I’ll say. And how nice was it of that HHH chap to put this guy over in his first night by making a complete ass out of him before stumbling to a really WTF ending. Who won the match? They never said a thing on that… Oh, and Ryback wants an Ambulance Match with Johnny C… god, this show hurts my head sometimes.

– Actually, I’m just glancing at WWE.com and it turns out Axel won by forfeit… that’s what happens when you don’t announce your wins. Lame.

– So Irate Gamer uploaded his latest video episode and it’s on the NES Star Trek… meh. That was my only really reaction. This was just meh. Nothing about the video was particularly funny in either an intention or unintentional sense. I was just… meh. I’ve got nothing.

That’s it. I’m done for now.

Later.

Random Thought About… Under Siege

Last night, Space channel was showing an old Steven Seagal flick from the 90s called Under Siege. What a damn good movie that was and I might actually consider picking up a DVD or BluRay if I come across it for dirt cheap. Light on plot, but the action was top-notch for the time and it was a thrill watching it. No complaints in that regard; I was thouroughly entertained throughout the film.

Anyway, it just occurred to me some time later that the name of Seagal’s character in that movie is Casey Ryback and that he’s a cook. Interestingly enough, in WWE, there is a character called Ryback whose catchphrase involves feeding him more… stuff.

So work with me here. In the 90s, a character named Ryback is a cook. In the 2010s, a character named Ryback likes to eat… go figure.

I wonder if there’s someone on the creative team who was a fan of Under Siege and… nah, that’d be giving those monkeys too much credit.

VIDEO – Wrestlemania Set Reveal…

Apparently Vince stole Shredder’s shrink ray to steal the Statue of Liberty for Wrestlemania…

As well as the Brooklyn Bridge…

And the Empire State Building…

Of course, I wouldn’t have known any of these if Vince hadn’t announced it so bombastically.

Set looks nice, but where’s DDP in this? He’s a Jersey boy, too.

Foley on HOF broadcast after much bitching done

From Figure Four Weekly:

Largely due to numerous complaints, Mick Foley is apparently going to be on the Hall of Fame broadcast on Tuesday. Foley credited the change to Santa Claus talking to Vince McMahon. I can’t confirm that was the real source of the change, and it’s more likely the negative reaction the company has gotten over it the past two days.

Good idea: Dedicating your one hour broadcast to Bruno Sammartino, Donald Trump, and Trish Stratus.
Bad idea: Leaving Mick Foley out of it.
Good idea: Adding Mick Foley to broadcast.
Bad idea: Not cancelling the HHH/Brock Lesnar snorefest… or the Rock/Cena snorefest… or not shitcanning babyface Miz.
And why do the… Nope, not gonna bother.