5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (March 15)
2. A Very Convenient Item Of Merchandise
On Monday’s edition of Monday Night RAW, Charly Caruso interviewed Braun Strowman backstage, and asked him to address his actions last week.
Some goof walked up to him, on behalf of SNL host Colin Jost, and handed him the keys to his new ride—a quite beautiful convertible. He wasn’t best pleased—because he just guessed that he could not fit inside of it—and destroyed the thing, as if appearing on Street Fighter II’s bonus stage. Once Zangief, a super-powered pro wrestler with a mohawk, his character, stretched far beyond the point of credibility, is now Dhalsim.
And wouldn’t you just know it?
In another, far more astounding spot of prescience, WWE’s merchandise department guessed that this was going to happen a few weeks back, and created a toy reproduction of it: the WWE Slam Mobile Vehicle!
Exposing the whole show as a predetermined sham—at least when Ronda Rousey does this, it is perversely entertaining—WWE just does this arbitrarily now, without any regard to suspension of disbelief.
Can you imagine the WWF doing this, back in the day? Can you imagine Vince advertising a warehouse full of BRET SCREWED BRET t-shirts on the eve of the Montreal Screwjob?
“Hey, Vince, what are they?”
“Erm. Bret, your last match was so great that it brought tears to my eyes.”
“Thanks, Vince.”
“Phew.”