7 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (March 24)
It's been a cold week in hell.
The phrase "never say never" is bandied about with some frequency in wrestling.
Money talks. That's why Vince McMahon and Eric Bischoff created one of the most shocking moments in wrestling history by embracing one another on the July 15, 2002 RAW. The two men flung sh*t at one another in their personal war for business supremacy, but there was money to be made when the dust settled on the Monday Night War.
Vince McMahon ruined Bret Hart's career when he screwed him at the infamous close of Survivor Series 1997, but the Hitman eventually returned to the fold. Money talks, and so too does legacy. Paul Heyman's return in 2012 was arguably more shocking, given that unlike Hart, McMahon never particularly cared for him, but Brock Lesnar held enough sway (and was sufficiently abysmal in the mandated long-winded promo department) that he was welcomed back after the toxic events of December To Dismember 2006. McMahon even posthumously inducted Randy Savage several years after he took his daughter and [REDACTED].
One such unfathomable reconciliation sent shockwaves throughout the wrestling world this week. It wasn't as seismic, but was arguably more inconceivable.
7. Megadeth "Fan" Dolph Ziggler Went To Watch The Backstreet Boys In Concert
At Money In The Bank 2015, Dolph Ziggler wore a new studded denim ring jacket to the ring. He presumably rocked it in order to better appeal to the adult males in the audience, but the tactic backfired. The name Megadeth had been misspelled Megadeath. His credibility had been shot. The metal community tore him a new one, but see, it wasn't Ziggler's fault!
He explained when reached out for comment by the Metal Injection website that the error wasn't his fault but the fault of his costume designer. "This guy made this elaborate chain and patch jacket in 12 hours so I could walk out with it and by the way, he was so bummed out. But he fixed it like 30 seconds later. I said "Hey, I lost all my street cred with the metal guys, but it doesn’t matter." Ziggler had enough time to pose with the jacket, so he had enough time to proofread it.
It exposed Ziggler as a try-hard, a manufactured act, and those colours were revealed when it emerged that he went to a Backstreet Boys concert last week, showing everybody the meaning of being disingenuous. His attempts to curry favour with the metal set were incomplete. He had revealed the true shape of his teenage girl heart.
Broadcasting the enjoyment of a concert performed by a boy band was near-suicidal on the part of Ziggler and Zack Ryder, especially when it is clear through their booking that the office already perceives them as total geeks. This is hardly going to alter that perception, which means we're probably in for another year of Ziggler banging on about being "held back" and "too damn good", even though he has demonstrated all the character development nous of X-Pac circa 2001.