Category: Wrestling Musings

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

STONE COLD! STONE COLD! STONE COLD! To Host Tough Enough… WHAT?!!!

Apparently, WWE has tapped Steve Austin to host WWE Tough Enough… I honestly don’t know why they thought Austin was the absolute best choice for this. Personally, I think he should just be a trainer on the show and stun everybody.

In any event, good for me. Nice to see him get another TV show that he could make entertaining… sadly, this isn’t going to be a Nash Bridges where the show is still entertaining without him, but who knows what could happen? It’s Tough Enough from USA Network and not MTV.

Then again… maybe I shouldn’t raise my hopes here.

40 Men In A Royal Rumble? I Can Barely Sit Through 30!

So the word went out that this year’s Royal Rumble match will bump up the number of participants from the usual thirty to the big fat FORTY Superstars. That means more filler than ever before. Hurray.

I would probably reserve judgment until the actual Rumble match itself and assume that this is just a one-off thing to see if it would work. I don’t really see it taking off, though. Would they have enough talent to fill all the slots?

Look, the Royal Rumble match has worked just fine with thirty guys. And in all honesty, a few of them could be hard to sit through… like the 1999 Royal Rumble, for example. You know, the one that Vince McMahon won. Why bother adding another ten guys who don’t have a fucking chance in hell of winning to the mix?

Super Junior beats John Cena and SpoonyOne in MASHABLES

Super Junior, a Korean boy band whose name could easily pass for a luchador’s name, won the Mashable Awards’ Must Follow Personality award, beating the likes of John Cena and Noah “SpoonyOne” Antwiler. While Cena couldn’t overcome the odds in this category, he can take solice in two things:

1 – He still won the Mashable Award for “Most Influencial Social Good Champion Sponsored by Yahoo.”

2 – Spoony didn’t win. Therefore, no inane victory speech from him.

Oh well. Back to not caring.

Miz As WWE Champion And Demon Girls. Truly WTF Material…

A week without workable Internet and what happened? Miz becomes WWE Champion and the latest target of the DEMON GIRL FROM FUCKING HELL. Seriously, where did they find this girl and why is she so angry that she wants to shoot death rays from her eyes?!

Hey, Mizzles. Don’t watch your back for RKO. Watch your back for evil girls with stares of INSTANT FUCKING DEATH!!!!

Yo.

The TNA DVD BOARD GAME?!! WHAT THE FUCK?!!!

(2024 Update: I’d link you to the page, but said link no longer works.)

Here’s some of the awesome praise that this game is getting on ShopTNA.com

Chris from the United Kingdom declares:

I LOVE this game! You can play out all your wrestling dreams that TNA would never bother with in real life! You can hire a bunch of old, broken down WWE rejects if you want! Then, you can completely bury all your young, promising talent in favour of using these guys 15 years past their prime who can’t wrestle anymore! You can turn everyone heel for no reason and make your faces look incompetent and pathetic! You can even reform the nWo and recreate the death of WCW, in a board game! Watch as your PPV buyrates hit rock bottom and your pointless swerves and horrible booking lead you to slowly spiral out of business, taking with you a whole bunch of really talented wrestlers. I would love it if TNA did all of these things, but sadly, I don’t think they would do any of them… 😦

Joe from England comments:

Not content to merely market their poorly booked “wrestling” and completely ludicrous storylines. The fine former coma patients behind TNA are now offering a completely moronic board game, complete with DVD. Relive all those exciting moments like the time Abyss tried to brutally murder a man with a nail covered bat, without being arrested! Or the time Surge valiantly ran into the ring to, get his ass kicked. Or the shocking moment where Abyss began kidnapping paying audience members. This game will make all your TNA dreams come true, with a proper fire source.

And a couple others apparently wish Noah “Spoony One” Antwiler would get his hands on the game and make a review out of it… or something. Spoony reviewing a TNA board game and being completely driven insane? Yeah, I’d watch that.

It’s a good thing WWE doesn’t have a DVD Board game… oh wait. They do.

Jeff Hardy’s the new DIVAS champion now?

From a taping of TNA Impact comes Jeff Hardy’s new World title… shortly after the one one was thrown in the trash. I don’t know if this is suppose to cause an emotional reaction, because it’s not working… especially since it looks more like a DIVAS championship than a world title. If the title is supposed to be menacing, then it failed miserably… especially with the pinkish color scheme.

Hey, Uncle Eric. Pot Called To Tell The Kettle It's Black

Eric Bischoff was recently asked on his Facebook what he thought of WWE’s recent Nexus angle. Here’s his short and simple reply:

Boring as hell.

Yes, Eric. Nexus is getting rather stale, but that’s okay, because I’ll just tune into TNA and watch you rehash the same shit you did in WCW shortly before that company went out of business… because THAT’S funny.

Bite me, Uncle Eric.

By the way, I lied about tuning in to TNA. I’m not that desperate for entertainment… unless it’s Xplosion.

Stand Up For WWE? No, Thanks. I’ll Stay Seated

No RAW rant this week… I did catch it, but there’s nothing really notable to bring up and truth be told, it wasn’t anything really great. No, I just want to touch on the Stand Up For WWE campaign that WWE is throwing around – essentially a public relations tool to encourage WWE fans and sheep to defend the company by stating all the positive that the company has done. It’s essentially something that was thought up after WWE has been getting blasted by media or political rivals to Linda McMahon’s Senate run.

The campaign is a gigantic waste of time and money. And I’m not talking about Linda’s Senate run.

I understand the intention. I might even applaud it, but any campaign that WWE attempts in order to bolster their image from what is perceived by the media is going to simply add more fuel to the fire. This Stand Up For WWE campaign is already being attacked by Democrats because it’s seems almost similar to Linda McMahon’s own campaign. And when you consider that McMahon is a former WWE CEO, who happens to be running for the Senate seat, it’s hard to believe that these two aren’t the least bit related. No matter what WWE does to eliminate the negative stigma and beliefs that plague it like the elephant in the corner, it will never truly go away.

But if they go forward with this, best of luck to them. I just hope it doesn’t result in their main product’s quality deteriorating further down.