WWE And TNA: 7 Worst Moments Of The Week (March 20)
6. Can We Pretend This Is Real?
Stephanie McMahon telling us how Connors Cure is going to be a nationwide campaign during the middle of Raw was amazingly self-indulgent and foolish. Yet somehow, she never, ever learns. Good cause, terrible way of going about it. Sorry, another long slide here, time to rant a bit. Okay, heres the thing. The more people that watch wrestling, the more people there are to contribute to the charities that WWE promotes. But WWE has lost hundreds of thousands of viewers over the past few years due in part to them not treating their own narrative seriously. They do not allow us to get wrapped up in their storylines, to get hooked, and wait in anticipation for next weeks show. Because the company takes the insane approach to repeatedly show us that what were watching is all a big fake, because these bad guys really arent so bad. Twenty minutes prior to the charity video airing on Raw, Stephanie was threatening to fire Dolph Ziggler. Twenty freaking minutes. We cant hate Steph when shes fighting cancer! Cancer is the ultimate heel. The same theory goes with Hunter. On Raw, hes portrayed as the evil guy who savagely beat Roman Reigns. On NXT, they aired a segment of him introducing Arnold Schwarzenegger (yeah, because no one else could possibly use that publicity), and then he pointed to young children in the crowd to flex their muscles, and had a good laugh. Now please hate him again! Yes, Daniel Bryan can appear in charity videos, absolutely. Yes, any babyface on the roster can be in them. Yes, Steph can be in them if her segment is left off the actual show and saved for online or corporate events. Game of Thrones is coming back next month, and Im excited for it. But I dont want to see Ramsay Bolton in a charity video halfway through the damn show. Get over yourself WWE.
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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