10 Early Internet Wrestling Outrages
6. WWE Should Push [Wait For It...]
As much a part of the industry as the actual industry, the "smart mark" is very much ripe for parody in 2019. It is the least we deserve, on the following evidence. You know that old Vince McMahon line, the one we've used to bury the old bastard for years?
'I know what people want better than they do'?
He was right. He was right, and from this point forward, we resolve never again to piss and moan that Buddy Murphy or Cesaro or Chad Gable are not headlining SummerSlam, or whatever, because time will inevitably induct us into the Kiss My Ass club. Time has inducted an 'AC Slater' of the, for f*ck's sake, 'Freakin' Awesome Network' because he once implored WWE to push...
...Viscera.
We cannot believe we're not making this up.
"I dont (sic) care I just wish WWE did something out of the ordinary instead of the same predictable BS that we've been getting for the past few years. Viscera's been there long enough have him chase the gold or something."
Viscera.
You know what's funny about this, besides everything? The thread is titled 'Give Viscera a push for god sakes". This was a plea to the actual heavens above - a plea to push a guy woefully unequipped to go 25 minutes in the main event of WrestleMania - and somehow, his fellow posters agreed. They agreed, and this is eerie, using the same language we still use to this day.
"They toned down [the World's Largest Lover gimmick] because it was getting too over and taking attention away from the main eventers."
We pick on this specific example, but the 'net' was as full of this sort of tripe as it was hardcore anal pornography. Push Rob Conway! Matt Morgan! Paul Burchill!
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