World Wrestling Entertainment
According to the news feeds,
many people feel offended by the way the WWE has been using sick sex storylines,
from necrophilia to the lesbian angle
between Dawn Marie and Tori Wilson to the incest overtone involving Vince and
Stephanie McMahon. It's true that sex sells, but there should be a limit to
these silly storylines. Instead of relying on sex, the WWE should support an
independent promotion or resurrect WCW or ECW (both owned by the WWE). A
promotion that can be controlled, yet be left to be independent, can be
healthier competition and would persuade wrestling fans watch. I don't refer to
the stupid branch division. There is no true competition between RAW and
Smackdown. When the WWE and the old WCW had the Monday night wars, there were
great matches. When ECW got the contract
with TNN,
wrestling on television was even better.
Don't take the previous
opinion wrong, I don't mind my children watching women beating each other up.
I'm actually glad that female wrestlers are back.
Some things are good and
silly at the same time. The WWE has hired Zack Gowen (the so-called biggest fan
of Hulk Hogan). It's good that this kid, who lost a leg as a child, is living
his dream. At the same time, how can he wrestle? Who can he wrestle fairly? What
will happen if a wrestler hurts him? His first big fight is against Vince
McMahon who can fight (mostly not an act). The WWE must be ready to answer the
latter question in the event of an accident. After all, the fight on which he
teamed up with Stephanie McMahon against the Big Show (Paul Wight) was fixed
(more than usual). Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar beat the Big Show and Gowen only
pinned him (Smackdown, 07.03.03).
By the way, Hulk Hogan has
left the WWE again. Who's next to leave the promotion? What happened to the
Legion of Doom?
There are some wrestlers that are not being used properly as of late like Kevin
Nash and Bill Goldberg.
As usual every time someone
leaves WWE, he/she ends up in another promotion like TNA, and vice versa (that
took the place that WCW and ECW had in the late 1990's). Will Sting ever come to
the WWE?
Does anyone care about the
push that the WWE is giving Kane? It is a gimmick that is being stretched too
much. The whole story of the man burnt by his brother (the Undertaker) was
boring then and is still nowadays. Kane is allegedly beating other wrestlers
(RAW, 07.07.03) and has burnt Jim Ross with bad taped screams in the background
(RAW, 07.14.03). This storyline will give Jim Ross some time off from
television. To continue this stupid storyline, Kane even attacked officials
(including Arn Anderson). Kane even gave a pile-drive to Linda McMahon (RAW,
07.21.03). This whole soap-opera is a bad move from a company that is a monopoly
(just like Microsoft).
Stone Cold and Eric Bischoff
were given the night off (RAW, 07.21.03). Steve Austin is on probation and has
to decide whether he would continue as a co-general manager. This storyline has
escalated from Austin's continuous fights with wrestlers. Does anyone really
care about this storylines? The WWE should drop all these stories? I dare to say
that most fans want to watch fights, not soap-operas.
The fight between Shawn
Michaels and Chris Jericho was simply amazing (RAW, 07.21.03). Although Ric
Flair and Randy Orton interfered in the match, the fight was as good as the
fight between the British Bulldog and Bret Hart for the Intercontinental
Championship (SummerSlam, 1992).
Total Non-Stop Action
TNA is following some of the
steps that the "old" WCW did years ago. TNA sponsors or owns a
NASCAR race
car. I understand that any type of advertisement is good advertisement, but I've
never understood if there's relationship between race cars and wrestling.
Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling
The following are the results
from Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling's latest event, entitled Burning Glory held
07.19.03 at the Polish Hall in Niagara Falls, Canada.
Kris Chambers defeated Mucha
Lucha (Los Jalapeno and Suicide Sean Ball) via pinfall after Chambers hit his
patented flying elbow.
There was a contract signing
between J.T. Playa, "Showtime" Eric Young and "Dangerboy"
Derek Wylde that saw Wylde get a crack at the winner of the Grand Championship
tournament (final held later that evening between Young and Playa) on 08.16.03
at the Polish Hall.
The All Knighters (Joey
Knight and Robin Knightwing) defeated Ruffly Perfect (Marco Malaquias and Ruffy
Silverstein) via pinfall.
Robb "The Reff"
Myers and PeeWee Kastles brawled to a no-contest in an Incredible Hulk Rules
match as PeeWee's cornerman Jace Fury kept interfering causing this match to be
thrown out.
"Completely" Cody
Steele defeated Jace Fury via pinfall.
The Italianos (Primo Scordino
and "Stickball" Tony Carbonie) defeated Team T.J. (T.J. Harley and Ash) via
pinfall to become new Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling tag team champions.
J.C. Owens defeated Lazzerus
via pinfall to retain the Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling Independent championship.
"Dangerboy" Derek
Wylde defeated The Hacker via pinfall. This match included a powerbomb into the
second turnbuckle by Hacker onto Wylde, and The Hacker also drove Wylde through
a table with his finisher The Firewall (A.J. Styles finisher) to the arena floor.
J.T. Playa defeated
"Showtime" Eric Young with help from The Hacker and Jace Fury to
become the first ever Grand Champion title holder.
The following are the
results of the Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling show, Overdrive, held in St. Catharines,
Ontario on 07.26.03.
"Suicide" Sean Ball defeated
Los Jalapeno via pinfall after unmasking Jalapeno. Los Jalapeno, in fear of
having his face seen in public, took the pin and immediately covered his face
with his cape after the match, and issued a challenge to face Ball in a mask
against mask match next month (08.16.03 at the Polish Hall, Niagara Falls, ON).
"Picture Perfect"
Marco Malaquias defeated T.J. Harley via pinfall.
Shawn Spears defeated "The
Specialist" Randy Vaughn via pinfall.
The Italianos retained the
Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling tag team championship by beating the returning
BodyCount by disqualification as Commissioner Pee Wee Kastles overturned the
decision of referee Matt Young citing BodyCount threw a member of The Italianos
over the top rope while Young was knocked out. Throwing an opponent over the top
rope in Neo Spirit Pro is illegal and therefore Kastles had no choice but to
overturn the official.
J.C. Owens retained the Neo
Spirit Pro Wrestling Independent Championship, defeating "Dangerboy" Derek Wylde
via pinfall after interference from The Hacker.
Kris Chambers defeated
"Completely" Cody Steele and Lazzerus via pinfall to earn the final
spot in next month's battle royal, where the winner will obtain an Independent
title shot in September.
The Hacker and Jace Fury
defeated The Original Sinn and Crazy Steve via pinfall.
"Showtime" Eric Young
defeated J.T. Playa by disqualification in a Lumberjack match after Playa struck
the official Robb Myers with the Grand Championship title. As a result of the
disqualification, J.T. Playa remains the Neo Spirit Grand Champion as the title
cannot change hands on a disqualification.
Border City Wrestling
The following are the
07.24.03 results sent for the BCW vent at the Ciociaro Club in Oldcastle,
Ontario, Canada, Tenth Year Anniversary.
Johnny Bravo beat Kris
Chambers. Jaime D came out and speared Bravo afterwards.
Joe E. Legend and Larry
Destiny defeated Bobby Rude and Ruffy Silverstein with Tracy Brooks.
Dyson Pryce pinned Big Chuck
Wagon.
Scott D'Amore,
"Irish" Mickey Doyle and "Irish" Bobby Clancy beat Cyrus,
Denny Kass and "Smooth Mover" Chris Pillon in a special legends match,
with Coach Kurt as the special ring announcer.
Alex Shelley pinned Petey
Williams.
The Hacker and Gutter beat
El Tornado and Tyson Dux with Angel to retain the BCW tag team titles.
"The Future" Chris
Sabin retained the BCW TV title over "Showtime" Eric Young.
D'Lo Brown retained the BCW
heavyweight title over Johnny Swinger with Miss Natasha and A-1, and "The
Franchise" Shane Douglas.
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