By popular demand? Probably not. But
it is back nonetheless. This week I will provide you
with a few hypothetical questions that may or may
not be based on real life scenarios in the wrestling
world. Once done, I would like you to go to
the message board, specifically my section of
the board, and answer the questions to the best of
your abilities. Sound good? Good. Let us begin then.
1. My boss is crazy.
We established that in my last question column found
at http://www.worldwrestlinginsanity.com/dawgs2.htm.
Now recently, my boss decided to fire our play by
play announcer, Tim Rost. Good ole T.R. is the best
play by play man in the history of wrestling. The
only problem is, he isn’t very photogenic. My
boss wants someone who is handsome with movie star
like features to be the voice of his shows. Who cares
if T.R. only had about 5 minutes of TV face time per
broadcast per show? Who cares if T.R.’s replacement,
Jefferson Carman (a.k.a. The Car) isn’t half
as good as T.R. My boss wanted Tim gone and he is.
But instead of leaving well enough alone and letting
a sleeping dog lie, he has decided to kick the man
while he is down and do a distasteful, meaningless,
unfunny skit which mocked T.R. Not only that, but
he did the mocking while T.R. had a cancer scare in
real life. Why did he do it you ask? Cause he can.
That is why. Because he can and because he wanted
to. No other reason was needed for my boss. Fact is,
he is dead set against bringing T.R. back. T.R. isn’t
coming back to feud with my boss nor is T.R. going
to be on TV as a sympathetic babyface. So there was
no real reason for it other than pleasing my boss
and his sick sense of humor. Why does this make sense?
Is this normal behavior for a 60 year old, billionaire
mogul?
2. Last time I discussed
my feud with archrival Ledge. Well it turns out that
I got my ass handed to me by Ledge in a loser leaves
“Monday Night UNCUT” match. So basically
my whole “revenge” thing I had going for
me is gone. I didn’t manage to get “revenge”.
Instead, I got Punk’d.
So now I am on UNCUT’s step sister show called
“Friday Night Boredom. My whole comeback after
being fired was booked to make me look like a douche
and prop up Ledge. What is funny about all this though
is that Ledge is now injured and may miss a significant
amount of time. Rather than Ledge finally getting
his main event push rather than his usual upper tier
push, he might have to sit at home for a while and
recover. Seems like every time my boss is ready to
push Ledge to the moon, Ledge gets injured. My question
to you is, Does Ledge finally get a main event push
when he gets back from his latest injury or do you
just decide to throw in the towel and let him stay
in the upper/mid card tier for the rest of his career?
WE INTERUPT
THIS COLUMN TO BRING YOU A BREAKING NEWS STORY.
This just in folks, sorry to break away
from my questions but the following news has just
come across my inbox, thanks to Keith
Lipinski:
“WWE.com has learned that Smackdown
Superstar Christian has quit World Wrestling Entertainment.
Be sure to stay tuned to WWE.com as more information
becomes available.”
Now to say this news comes as a shocker
would be a lie. Jay Reso, known to WWE fans as Christian
has all of the potential makings to be a huge star
in professional wrestling. Several months back, he
was a major player on RAW being featured prominently
in angles involving both the RAW brand and Smackdown
brand champions. He was working RAW main events against
Batista while talking smack (no pun intended) on a
week to week basis to Smackdown champion John Cena.
After all the build up, Christian finally got his
big “grudge” match with John Cena. Christian
then lost. The following week, he was “drafted”
to Smackdown. Upon going to Smackdown, he was super
over with the fans and one night in Toronto, cut an
incredible promo that made him look like a huge star
to casual fans. Unfortunately WWE cut that short and
proceeded to job him to Batista (who later got drafted
to Smackdown), Booker T, the Mexicools and whoever
else they felt like.
In my opinion (JG NOTE: Fans,
please note that the opinions of Matt Dawgs are HIS
opinions and his alone. They do not represent the
opinions of James Guttman or those of the World Wrestling
Insanity staff in any way shape or form. Thus, should
Matt’s editorials get him sued, we are not held
liable. On the other hand, should Matt’s work
here get him a Pulitzer Prize, we will all reap the
benefits and glory) this is yet ANOTHER
example of WWE and Johnny Ace’s short sightedness.
For some reason they felt that Christian didn’t
have “it”. That he was too small or lacked
the mic skills to get him over. Never mind the fact
that fans were just begging for him to be cheered.
Never mind the fact that he had one of the hottest
selling t-shirts in the company before they inexplicably
stopped selling them. WWE however will still push
Big Show & Heidenreich. What makes matters worse
in this situation is WWE’s bullying of talent.
Apparently WWE does not consider TNA a threat like
they did with WCW in the peak years of wrestling.
The Christian story goes that his contract expired
last week. When he was presented with a new contract,
one not to his liking and didn’t represent what
he was worth, he was told to SIGN IT, ASAP. Christian,
not wanting to be bullied into something he didn’t
feel was to his benefit, said no and quit. He appeared
at the Smackdown taping on Sunday evening with the
intention of speaking to Vince McMahon personally
to try to negotiate something between them. I have
not heard if that meeting had happened as of press
time but being that he quit, if it did happen, it
didn’t go well. So Christian (SPOILER
ALERT, SKIP TO THE NEXT PARAGRAPH IF YOU DO NOT WANT
TO BE SPOILED WITH THIS WEEK’S SMACKDOWN RESULTS)
still did what was right for business on his way out.
He worked a 4 way match featuring himself, JBL, Rey
Mysterio, Matt Hardy with Bob Holly as the Special
Guest Referee. WWE booked Christian to lose and lose
solidly. He was hit with the 619, Twist of Fate, Clothesline
from hell and the Alabama Slam by the referee for
good measure. That will be Christian’s last
appearance on a WWE program. He is not going to appear
at the Taboo Tuesday pay per view event tomorrow night.
The funny things is, even though WWE
tried to low ball Christian on his new contract and
have pushed him poorly in the past few months, despite
his fan reaction, according to Dave Meltzer, Christian
is still a professional to the fullest. He is backstage
at RAW in Anaheim in case they need him to push the
Taboo Tuesday angle and he has told friends that he
plans on being in San Diego tomorrow for the pay per
view in the event that he is voted into the Smackdown
vs. RAW match. Does he have to be there? No. But he
is a professional and is doing the right thing. Chances
are that WWE is going explain that he is no longer
a part of WWE and remove him from the ballot for the
match so he doesn’t have to appear. It is a
shame as Christian is a talented worker who WWE just
missed the ball on completely.
But……WWE’s loss is
definitely TNA’s gain. Christian is the first
semi-big name that TNA has the chance of picking up.
Sure they had Matt Hardy but he chose to stay with
WWE. With Christian, WWE is not going to be an option.
I am sure he is going to TNA, especially after the
way he was treated both booking wise and contract
wise.
My feeling on this whole situation,
Johnny Ace is a dick. Plain and simple. Am I burning
bridges by mentioning this? Probably so. But the fact
is, Ace is f*cking clueless as to running the talent
department of WWE and is out to make political allies
rather than put on a good product with talented wrestlers.
Does anyone else wonder why the hell each and every
person who leaves World Wrestling Entertainment has
nothing positive to say about that scumbag piece of
sh*t? Bottom line, if you don’t believe me,
check into World Wrestling Insanity this Wednesday
and find out who will add to the next installment
in all this.
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