David Arquette winning the World Heavyweight Championship. Ric Flair in an insane asylum. Judy Bagwell on a forklift. A bunny wrestling. The first three came from the dying years of WCW. The fourth came from WWE this year, and I would gladly argue that its worse than all of the other ones combined! Someone who doesnt like wrestling tunes in and sees Arquette holding the big gold belt? They may stick around for a minute and see whats going on. They may not understand the significance and multiple layers of what an awful business decision that was. But if they see a man in a bunny costume wrestling on TV while the announcers howl with laughter? Its only going to reinforce their idea of how awful wrestling is. The bunny is not funny. The bunny is not cool. No one likes the bunny. Its truly one of the worst things to come out of WWE in years, and it just will not go away.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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