WWF King Of The Ring 1995

For most old-school fans of professional wrestling or “sports-entertainment” as some would prefer to call it, the 1995 edition of the WWF King Of The Ring event ranks up there as one of the worst wrestling cards ever conceived. Held in the wrestling hotbed of Philidelphia, Pensylvania, which was home to an underground cult promotion that was making the waves, King Of The Ring 1995 was pretty much a showcase of everything that was wrong with the WWF at the time… and pretty much an example of a company ignoring all the warning signs thrown at them and staying the course when it would’ve been wiser (and smarter) to jettison the load and try something else…

Perhaps that was a poor choice of words…

Since I got the WWE Network back in February, I’ve been mostly fond of catching some of the older PPVs and shows. I’ve seen a bunch of Clashes, a bunch of good PPVs… and then this comes along. Well, it was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? And since I’m sorta blowing through these KOTR events for the sake of this challenge, I might as well get it out of the way. And let me tell you something (brutha)… considering a lot of the other 1995 WWF stuff I’ve witnessed thus far, I am not looking forward to this one bit.

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WWF King Of The Ring 1994

Apparently, the inaugural King Of The Ring PPV event in 1993 was such a resounding success that they decided to have another one and make it something of an annual thing. This would last until 2002 for those keeping count, when Brock Lesnar won and killed the event. Longtime voyeurs of Wrestlecrap will know this show for being the one with football great Art Donovan doing commentary and such a bang up job he does, as well… although poor guy should do a little more prep work. After all, shouldn’t he already know how much these guys weigh?

Sigh… how sad is it that all three members of the announce team are now deceased?

Oh, well. On with the show, I guess.

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MMPR Movie Bios Leaves Me Depressed…

Snipped this from someone’s Tumblr somewhere, who apparently snipped this from some site citing Collider as a source, so the legitimacy of this information is somewhat questionable… but if this is a real deal… yeah, this is really depressing.

Is there any reason why we absolutely need to give these characters drab, disturbing backstories? I can understand, maybe, one or two to keep things interesting, but ALL OF THEM? Is there any reason why we can’t (for once) have a movie featuring superpowered teens have a bit of levity to it? These character bios feels like every other worthless teen-angst wankfest that are bereft of anything resembling charm or creativity, almost as if they looked to shitty “fan films” that have gone down paths that in no way fit the material you’re trying to make a movie out of.

Look, the new Fantastic Four movie tried to re-imagine everything from the original comic and IT SUCKED BADLY. Critics blasted it, moviegoers are ignoring it like the plague… why repeat the same mistake with this movie? Are we really looking forward to the day when the movie comes out, people watch it, and then will go, “Yeah, I liked the first movie better.”

This depresses me greatly.

And, just to get it out of the way, I know the original show’s characters were relatively paper-thin in personalities. Yes, I’d want something a little more developed than what the show offered. But this doesn’t feel “more developed” or anything. It feels like a bunch of character traits concocted from a randomizer and tossed together without rhyme or reason. It feels… meh.

Well…