7 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (May 5)
7. Jerry Lee Lewis Called...
Has there been a worse name for a WWE show - in its entire history - than Great Balls of Fire?
In Your House: Beware of Dog was so terrible that it missed the definite article, and even if that is the more widely used American phrasing, the show was built around the British Bulldog's challenge of Shawn Michaels' WWF Championship. The Washington DC-hosted Capitol Punishment was a risible pun, but even if it only murdered R-Truth's main event prospects, there was at least some connotation of violence.
Both are nowhere near as incongruous as 'Great Balls of Fire', the new name for the RAW-exclusive pay-per-view event scheduled for July 9.
You can almost picture McMahon orgasmically frothing at the mouth at the thought of the mooted Brock Lesnar Vs. Braun Strowman main event, channelling his New Generation carny bluster in a production meeting and using the last wider pop cultural reference he remembers to describe it. That's not me being facetious; we are discussing a man who scripted millennial babyface sensation Roman Reigns to say "sufferin' succotash!" in 2015. The phrase was introduced by a cartoon character in the 1940s. Great Balls of Fire was penned by Jerry Lewis in 1957, so McMahon has caught up on a decade in the meantime, at least.
Look out for Braun Vs. Brock II to take place on WWE Ain't No Mountain High Enough, coming to you live later this year.