6 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (Jan 26)
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Peter Rosenberg is really bloody annoying - a supposedly impartial wrestling podcaster who buddied up to WWE, thus destroying his credibility. Not, on the evidence of this week, that he had any. To confirm this, he was the only person alive in favour of Stephanie McMahon taking credit for all 29 eliminations this Sunday.
The sight of Rosenberg rocking his Bobby Heenan jacket is infuriating. Pitched as a tribute, any rational-minded person would surely be wary of drawing a comparison - to the greatest wit the industry ever produced - and decide to perhaps just wear their own clothes. Rosenberg looks like either a Stan, or a prat, or both - which made Kevin Owens evisceration of him pure schadenfreude.
This week, despite being paid to observe the world of wrestling, he had no clue who the newly-recruited team of War Machine were. That's not a massive clanger in itself. There's too much WWE to consume, let alone the entirety of the worldwide pro wrestling scene. Everybody botches. What really grated on the nerves of wrestling fans was Rosenberg's toadying. The man actually went to the lengths of filming his phone streaming Owens' Talk Is Jericho podcast appearance, in which KO professed to not having the the time to follow Japanese wrestling.
Owens, in response, delivered a Knock Out blow of a tweet - which he didn't elect to subtweet, like Rosenberg.
"If my role for a certain company was to comment on things happening within said company and they had just hired some really talented wrestlers, I’d probably find a few minutes to learn who they are and where they come from before talking about them, though."
Rosenberg uses the hashtag '#WithALife' as a blanket with which to protect himself. Those who criticise him mustn't have one. It's beyond idiotic. The man is in the public arena. Critique is a fundamental aspect of that. He then spent 25 minutes of his life maintaining that he definitely wasn't bothered. The gap in logic was as wide as the gulf in class between the man and the jacket of the man he wears.
What a prize tw*t.