DISCLAIMER: The
following column is a day late so normally Matt would
apologize to all you who were waiting next to your
computer anxiously awaiting his column. But being
that Matt’s gimmick is that of a heel, he is
not going to apologize. If you don’t like it,
too bad cause you are here reading this now. HAHA)
What a difference a day makes?
Apples and Oranges. Two fruits that
people across the world love yet two fruits that have
completely different tastes. That is exactly like
Total Nonstop Action wrestling and World Wrestling
Entertainment. On Sunday, October 23, 2005, TNA presented
their “Bound for Glory” Pay Per View.
On this show, they had several solid wrestling matches
complimented by some decent promos and angles. Unfortunately
for us, 24 hours later, World Wrestling Entertainment
presented their weekly “Monday Night Raw”
program.
Sure WWE had their usual good match
or two. But other than that, the show was marred by
a horrible, distasteful, unfunny, not amusing skit
perpetuated by a billionaire who gets his giggles
from jokes about crap. Literally. He laughs at sophomoric
humor like flatulence, poopie, doo doo, excrement,
sh*t, crap, and necrophilia.
It is incredible to watch a young, upstart
company like TNA produce a skit that has been adored
by critics involving mostly people who have not been
seen on the “Big Stage” like America’s
Most Wanted, Team Canada, and Abyss all showed poise
and charisma in their skit that aired on Impact last
week involving the Dudley’s Team 3D funeral.
When on the flip side of that coin, a billion dollar
wrestling and entertainment conglomerate can produce
such a low brow, horribly acted skit. Why Vincent
Kennedy McMahon thought that ripping on JR with poor
taste, comedy genius is mind boggling. Never have
I been ashamed to be a wrestling fan. Not through
Katie Vick. Not through Owen Hart’s tragic death,
not through Mohammed Hassan, not through the Gobbeldy
Gooker. But last night, I came dangerously close.
What makes it worse is that with all the hoopla being
made over this, people are talking. And when people
are talking, whether good or bad, Vince McMahon loves
it. Something gets peoples blood boiling, then Vince
thinks it must be good. So expect more junk skits
like that in the very near future.
The Crippled? Chris Benoit.
You break some vertebrae in your neck.
Understandable considering you have been wrestling
since the age of like 15 or something. Wear and tear,
no matter how tough you are, how much you work out
or how careful you try to be is inevitable. But for
goodness sakes, taking risks like Chris Benoit took
on this past week’s Smackdown is ridiculous.
For the two of you that didn’t see it and haven’t
heard about it yet, I will try my best to explain
it. Chris Benoit was facing Booker T for the United
States title. Booker was outside the ring and Benoit
was inside. Chris Benoit then proceeded to do a tope
through the top and middle ropes to dive on Booker.
Booker moved. In mid air, Chris Benoit kind of flipped
over a bit and his back slammed into the announcers
table and made a sickening thud. He then fell to the
floor. How he didn’t manage to break his back,
re-injure his neck or flat out die is beyond me. Are
risks like these really necessary? Normally, stuff
like this is done by someone working their first pay
per view match and they want to get a buzz about them.
Or some indy guy working his first main event against
a former ECW standout. But not a 20 year veteran,
coming off a neck injury, working on a program that
is barely watched anymore. Chris, please, for the
love of god, don’t try this again.
Televised Match of the week.
Hands down the best match of this past
week has to go to “The Phenomenal” AJ
Styles vs. “The Fallen Angel” Christopher
Daniels in a 30 minute Iron man Match at TNA’s
“Bound for Glory” pay per view. Once again
these men showed why they are really the best wrestlers
currently in TNA. 30 minutes of solid wrestling. 30
minutes of innovative moves. 30 minutes of crowd pleasing
action. Only 1 fall. AJ Styles retains and these two
men add another classic TNA match to their resumes.
Good stuff from two men who really deserve their shot
in the WWE. If only the powers that be coughmcmahonfamilycough
realized that BIGGER isn’t always better. While
I admit that Chris Masters is a guilty pleasure of
mine, I’d take AJ, Daniels, Low-Li, London,
American Dragon, Homicide, Teddy Hart, Samoa Joe,
Jack Evans, Roderick Strong, CM Punk, Jamie Knoble,
Spanky, Austin Aries, Alex Shelly, & Petey Williams
any day of the week. And twice on Sunday’s.
Non televised match of the week.
Jersey All Pro Wrestling’s main
event of their 8th Anniversary show. For an independent
federation to travel about 2 hours away from their
usual location and still manage to draw 900+ people,
that is incredible. Incredibly enough, not only did
JAPW do that, they managed to have a main event that
was on par with the TLC matches that featured the
Dudley’s/Hardy’s/Edge & Christian.
The main event of that show featured bitter rivals
Homicide & Teddy Hart being forced to team up
to take on the teams of Mark and Jay Briscoe, Joel
and Jose Maximo & Trent Acid and Johnny Kashmere
in a four way Tables, Ladders and Chairs match for
the JAPW tag team titles. This match was filled with
innovative high spots, blood, sweat and tears. Fittingly,
the match was won by Hart and Homicide who during
the match, also worked on each other as well as their
opponents. Hart and Homicide were both climbing the
ladder at the same time to receive the belts when
Hart pushed his partner off the top of the ladder,
grabbed both belts himself and celebrated. He then
teased shaking hands with ‘Cide only to blindside
him and leave him laying. Intrigue is what WWE is
lacking in their main feuds.
And Finally Taboo Tuesday
Can WWE be anymore obvious when it comes
to this stpid concept of a pay per view. Do you all
really think you are making a difference? Honestly?
WWE is consciously swaying the voting to go in the
favor that they want. Did you not notice during RAW
that each time they plugged the main event match between
John Cena vs. Kurt Angle vs. ????? that Shawn Michaels
name was the first one on the list, right next to
Kurt Angle’s? The other possible names were
beneath Shawn’s. Do you actually believe thatg
in the “Stone Cold” Steve Austin vs. Coach
match that a debate or arm wrestling match has any
chance of beating the street fight option? Ric Flair
came out and begged the fans for a cage match against
HHH. Why? And what the hell is a “one fall to
a finish match”? Why not just give the option
of “regular match”? What the hell is the
fancy name for? I just don’t get “it”
sometimes. Go to the message board to discuss further.
Regards,
Matt Dawgs
Matt Aponte considers himself a
Quasi-Celebrity due to the fact he moonlights as an
independent wrestler/manager in the North East of
the United States. His USA
Pro Wrestling is based in NY, however he does
float around in some smaller New Jersey feds. Matt
also writes columns - if you want to call what he
does writing - for the leading Independent Wrestling
News site on the planet, at the
Declaration of Independents as well as being the
“diamond in the rough” for the funniest
wrestling parody site on the internet, Gumgod.com
If you happen to live in the borough of the Bronx,
home of the best professional baseball team ever assembled,
you can watch Matt on his very own low budget public
access show called "Matt TV" on Bronxnet
Channel 68.
Matt, the self-proclaimed king of self-promotion and
whoring out things for his own benefit, plans on bringing
a new and unique style that he likes to call laziness
to World Wrestling Insanity and resting on his laurels
is something he loves to do. Matt hopes that this
infectious writing style and laid back attitude rubs
off on the rest of the World Wrestling Insanity staff.
Matt Aponte a.k.a. "Matt Dawgs
Da Infamous Angry Young Man" can be reached at
matt@worldwrestlinginsanity.com and you can read
his blog at http://aymsinsanity.blogspot.com.
