5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (March 1)
2. Bruce Prichard Is BACK
In a stunning development, Bruce Prichard is Vince McMahon’s right-hand man once again.
It is also an hilarious development, for WWE is in deep creative trouble. Vince doesn’t need the recently-fired Arn Anderson, who challenged his direction. He needs a yes-man to tell him that, yes, it is in fact a good idea to mute EC3 into Main Event oblivion. It is a good idea to say yes to everything Vince McMahon says. Why yes you should impregnate your daughter, Vince.
It tells a good story.
And Prichard is a yes-man, of that there is no doubt. On his Something To Wrestle podcast, he has spent the last few years working his way back to Stamford by refusing to criticise even the most demonstrably rank WWE storylines. He claimed there were no racist overtones to the massively, appallingly racist Triple H Vs. Booker T programme of 2003. By “people like you,” Triple H was just referring to “ex-WCW guys”!
Funny, Trips didn’t ask Goldberg to dance for him a few months later. He didn’t throw a dollar bill in Goldberg’s face. Ric Flair didn’t tell Goldberg to put a chauffeur’s cap and drop their bags off at the arena—“Something you are qualified to do.” They buried Goldberg underground, of course, but they didn’t lynch him. There was a difference, one Prichard refused to acknowledge because he is a jobsworth, and always was.
“But you weren’t there!” he claimed. “You weren’t in the arena, Conrad, so how would you know? He only called himself the Grand Wizard because he’s magic in the ring!”
So yes, we can look forward to more spin in about five years.