5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (Oct 12)
1. Austin Aries Is Back On His Bullsh*t
Somewhat ironically, Austin Aries has a notoriously high opinion of himself.
Simply unable to reconcile the idea that, while he is a phenomenal pro wrestler, he isn’t megastar material, this defensive ego often leads to misjudged outbursts. “Difficult to work with,” is the euphemism used most in conjunction with him. “He’s always miserable and complaining about something,” as Jim Cornette once said of him. “And not even in an endearing way, like me.”
Aries did not endear himself to much of the wrestling fandom recently by taking John Morrison to task over his “short-shaming” of him. Aries thinks he’s The Rock, so it’s little wonder that he made another false equivalence here.
“If I joked race, retards, your gay look…if I fat-shamed your husky wife, INSTANT OUTRAGE! But you can predictably cut on me over my height.”
Your writer stands at 5’ 7”. So with authority, I can state that being short is simply not the same as being marginalised for the colour of one’s skin. My short ancestors were never f*cking enslaved, for one.
As for the “gay look” comment, we get that Austin is trying to prove a point, but he missed the mark—likely because it was six feet in the air, and he needed a degree of tact to reach it. “Retard” is a truly disgusting word to use, even under the thin veil of satire. Also, Taya Valkyrie once battled an eating disorder, so way to promote a predetermined pro wrestling match by making somebody incidental to it feel absolutely worthless.
Anyway, this whole thing may have been approved by Morrison as some sort of worked shoot scenario, but Jesus Christ.
Shouldn’t the Greatest Man That Ever Lived not be this insecure?