7 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (June 2)
6. This Is Your Life Is Also Aptly Named...
...because it took approximately 81 years to recede into the sweet embrace of death.
Alexa Bliss was one of the best things in wrestling until about a four days ago. What a selfish woman, ruining one of my articles like that. She channelled Mick Foley by exhuming the massively acclaimed-and-watched segment of 1999, This Is Your Life. To confirm that WWE has gone completely, utterly backwards, this was the absolute worst segment of the year on the second lowest rated episode of RAW of all time.
Bliss did some awful prop comedy early on. It was mostly terrible stuff, but nothing WWE writers wouldn't inflict on a main event act. Bayley still plays with dolls and yoyos. She was childlike in NXT, and now she is a child. Vince McMahon just doesn't grasp nuance. He also doesn't grasp comedy, as Alexa's next zinger confirmed.
"Bayley: most likely to...apologise! Actually, I do get that one, because Bayley's been apologising her entire life." What? How hard is it to say, "Actually, I do get that one. She's a sorry son of a b*tch!" That's hardly Mamet, but it at least resembles the vague construction of a joke.
If there's one thing McMahon does grasp, it's incest. He loves it. He once he even tried to pitch an incest storyline with his daughter, which might explain why Bayley's poor dad was cast as a weirdly overprotective figure whose absence caused Bayley to pitch a fit. The segment reached true WrestleCr*p territory when the ghosts of her past entered the segment. Tommy Wiseau wouldn't have cast these goons in The Room. This all led to Bayley's former best friend and boyfriend kissing for an uncomfortable amount of time.
Bayley eventually came out to gain her retribution...only to get caned within an inch of her life. That's understandable. They're saving the spot for Extreme Rules. But now, nobody will give the faintest whiff of a sh*t.