5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (May 19)

Rip Rogers - OVW's secret training weapon and old school curmudgeon - has sparked an age-old wrestling debate this week by posting a missive sent to him on Twitter describing, sequence for sequence, a parody of an independent wrestling match.

Suddenly, the word "dive" has replaced "flippy sh*t" as the most controversial phrase in the wrestling lexicon, and half of the industry has weighed in - most notably, Randy Orton. Randall has taken Rip's side on the matter, suggesting that it was his chinlocks and not WWE's brand popularity that enabled SmackDown's European tour to rake in $5M.

Orton bragged about his wealth to sign off, and it was fitting; his criticism of the dive craze is a bit bloody rich, given that he performed in that traditional bastion of proper wrestling, the House of Horrors, almost a fortnight ago. Basically, it's OK for Orton to perform in a heavily stylised match set at night but performed during the day - and to no-sell a fridge - but a dive is some transgression of what wrestling used to be.

Whether or not excessive use of diving is a good or bad thing is almost irrelevant. The Undertaker used to dive. On that basis it's firmly established as fair game; the Dead Man is difficult to argue with. Besides, wrestling is an art form as eclectic as music, film, theatre, whatever. It should be celebrated for that fact. The modern indy style was criticised for being formulaic, but didn't Hulk Hogan - the most lucrative and safe act in all of wrestling - do almost the exact same thing in all of his matches?

Orton might be laughing now, but his WWE Title run, already a dud, is going to capsize on Sunday. Meanwhile, over in Japan, Will Ospreay has just wrestled a Match Of The Year candidate for the world's foremost emerging wrestling company.

It saddens many, your writer included, that moves don't mean as much as they used to. Wrestling used to make sense and was once easier to buy. But there is surely room for everything...