and I see Rey Rey being attacked by some big Uncle Elmer lookin' fuck. I do some channel surfing for a while and come across Raw again, where I see Shawn Michaels and Triple H are still doing the D-X thing. I do some more channel surfing and then on Raw I see "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan. I'm wondering if I keep flipping around and back will I eventually see Lou Thesz?
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He has Haystacks Calhoun in a Hell in a Cell at the 10:48 spot.
You know what? I'd watch that. This crap? Not so much.
I know. I decided to flip it over and see what was on after you posted that. This nonsense on here now is lame.
I watched most of Raw tonight so I'm going to flip the script and talk about the positive. Or at least what I feel to be the positive here. Prior to Rey getting beat down by Mike Knox, Rey's opponent was revealed to be Sim Snuka, son of Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. I thought that was pretty cool. The DX promo featured Triple H plugging various WWE merchandise including the Shawn Michaels "Village People Era" Teddy Bear, complete with "a button on the back you can push and the hair falls out." Also Chris Jericho was scheduled to wrestle Hacksaw Jim Duggan but came to the ring and refused on the grounds that he is the 2008 superstar of the year and wrestling the likes of Hacksaw is beneath him. Classic. We also have a new angle where Shawn Michaels has been forced by the tough economic times and the recession to work for JBL. This sounds pretty bad but I was cracking up when Michaels cut a promo, tears nearly welling up, about how he will never be another wrestling tragedy. He'll never be the HBK who bags groceries at the supermarket or the HBK who hobbles into a high school gym to wrestle. I'm interested to see how this will play out. Yeah I know that none of these highlights included any actual wrestling, but I guess that's a sign of the wrestling times we live in.
That's all fine and well for the most part, but the D-X skit would have been amusing say, eight years ago and Shawn Michaels doing an angle where's he's essentially mocking 95% of the wrestling superstars of the eighties is pretty funny. But there's no reason that when I flip by Raw at random three times, what I see on the second two times are increasingly older scenes that give me the impression that if I tune in again later I'm going to see Frank Gotch going at it catch-as-catch-can style with George Hackenschmidt for a leather belt with flattened tin cans nailed to it.
Oh, "SIM" Snuka.
I only caught part of what he said, and I swore that he said his name was "SLIM" Snuka.
"What?"
"My name is ..."
"Who?"
*wiki, wiki* "Slim Snuka."
(There, now you can go through your day with that stuck in your head, too, and I won't be the only one.)
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