10 Plain Wrong Wrestling Myths Perpetuated By The IWC
You still suck.
Let's start by defining the Internet Wrestling Community:
If you're reading this, you're a part of it. You may not like that. I'm writing this, so I'm definitely a part of it, but I don't like it much either. One of the reasons I resent the classification is because by its nature, it also doesn't exist. We're not a sect, all subscribing to the same set of beliefs. I only need look at the comments in my articles to know that certainly isn't the case...
And yet, there does seem to be some sort of collective conventional wisdom amongst our warring ranks - not a jot of it wholly true.
It's difficult to determine exactly how these untruths have become so pervasive. By definition, they're not untruths. They are subjective opinions. But still - they're wrong.
This phenomenon happens everywhere. Some music fans, even discerning ones, will tell you that jazz is self-indulgent. It isn't. Some film fans will tell you that American Beauty has retained its status as a classic. It has in fact aged pretty badly.
The growth and acceptance of a myth can't be explained. But it can be debunked...
10. Vince McMahon Is A Terrible Genius
With apologies to Adam Blampied...
Vince has dropped a few clangers in his time. That might be an understatement, come to think of it; we are after all discussing a man who once proposed a mercifully-jettisoned incest angle with daughter Stephanie yet approved the Katie Vick angle.
Vince, however, is responsible for the tiniest minutiae of what makes WWE great.
Disregarding his status as the finest star-creator in the history of wrestling and one of its greatest storytellers, examples of which are too legion to state here, Vince in conjunction with Kevin Dunn revolutionised the way in which wrestling television is produced.
When you were awed by the otherworldly presence of André The Giant and the Undertaker as a child, that's because Vince made the subtle yet ingenious decision to transpose cinematic techniques to his sports entertainment product, shooting them from low angles and rendering them literally larger than life.
His time has come. One need look no further than his scripting Roman Reigns to utter the words "sufferin' succotash" onscreen in 2015 for evidence of that. But he is a man who, even if under duress, has changed with the times time and time again to stay ahead of and brutally slay his competition.
The IWC are correct in deeming that he might be a racist genius. He might also be a perverted genius. He might be a flawed genius. But he's not a terrible genius.
Having said that, his creative team recruitment policy is decidedly thick. He could actually do with hiring someone like our very own BX leader, who would have done a much, much better job of booking Damien Sandow's Money In The Bank cash-in...