10 Things You Need To Know About Shotgun Saturday Night
7. Shotgun's Wacky Chryon
Chryon is the technical name given to the informational graphics that fill the lower-third of a television screen. Willing to experiment with just about everything in the show's early era, Shotgun's chryon wouldn't announce a wrestler's hometown or weight, but rather it would be used to give some sort of left-field yet anecdotal information about him. Savio Vega's "having a bad day" certainly adds a note of levity to a program, and maybe not for the WWE, but for a less "traditional" wrestling presentation (like say, indie favorite Chikara) it's an idea that has a certain novelty and charm.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
