WWE gave us a big turkey this week. Not the good kind that you eat at Thanksgiving, but a bona fide terrible leftover turkey of a Raw. Was it the worst episode of the year? Possibly. If nothing else, it was the biggest letdown of the year. Survivor Series ended with a great match and a hot angle, the next night was bursting with filler, bad comedy and potentially the worst cliffhanger in the history of television! But this is a time to be thankful, so hey, it was really cool to see Sting in a WWE ring. However, it was also bittersweet in a way. During the Monday Night War, seeing talent jump from WCW to WWF and vice versa was one of the most exciting things to see. Then WCW went out of business, and we had big names trickle in one-by-one like DDP, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Goldberg. Sting was the lone holdout (and Disco Inferno). Now, there's no one left. TNA is a fraction of the size of WWE, and if their talent came in they'd change from Bobby Roode to Roderick Bobby, and A.J. Styles to James Allen Smith. Simply, WWE wouldn't acknowledge their past history. It's the end of an era in a way. Well, now I'm sad. That wasn't what I set out to do. But it's time to get happy (or more depressed depending on how you think about it!) And Stinger Splash our way into wrestling's worst of the week!
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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