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Fearful asymmetry
Scott Hall was taken off life support after complications from hip surgery. I didn't watch his rise to popularity on WWE as "Razor Ramon," but I liked him well enough on WCW, where he and his partner Kevin Nash were part of the disruptive NWO. Nobody gets much time on this planet, and the lives of wrestlers are especially short... the candle that burns twice as brightly burns out twice as quick, I suppose. He'll be missed.
This one hurts. Razor Ramon was my stepdad’s favorite wrestler, and wrestling was how we bonded when he started dating my mom. Scott Hall was such a big part of my childhood, and he was always the coolest guy in the room. I’m glad he got his stuff together and got to see people appreciating him in the end. I’m absolutely gutted. There’s never been and never will be a wrestler who personified “cool” like he did.
Hall orbited around so much wanton ego in the business throughout his career but you never got a sense or heard of him being anything but giving and insightful toward the industry and profession he loved. He's one of those undervalued icons of his era that reached what we term "success" relatively but still for all that he gave, should've been venerated even more than he was. I'm thankful to DDP and everyone else involved in making his later years better than they otherwise might've been. Goodbye, bad guy.
Yeah, this one hurt, for sure. Not as big of a gut punch for me as Mr. Brodie Lee (mostly because of the age difference, I suppose), but similar aftermath. No one saying a bad word about the guy. I guess if he was takin' a little survey, everyone would say they came to see Scott Hall.
Vince looks like Dollar Store John Waters. Also, by all accounts he's basically decided he's taking creative back in light of the merger, so RIP Good Wrestling for a while.
Also, Jesus, I can see this professional sex pest being able to use his own company, but once it's fully and legally someone else's, I really hope they just push him into a closet to collect the checks on the 2-year contract he gave himself without having any influence over anything or being near any women who work there.
Also, Jesus, I can see this professional sex pest being able to use his own company, but once it's fully and legally someone else's, I really hope they just push him into a closet to collect the checks on the 2-year contract he gave himself without having any influence over anything or being near any women who work there.
I know I'm necroing this after a few months but my understanding is Vince's involvement was the dealbreaker for a sale in the first place. So I'm sure they'll keep him around in a position of power until he dies.
At least we have AEW? (Though outside of the Punk drama it really has not been doing anything for me lately, though Jeff Jarrett of all fucking people has been in some of the most compelling moments that company has had this year so far.)
AEW has great matches that frequently don't have more story than "what if these guys had a match, that would be good, no?" Which isn't as good as it could be, but WWE outside the Bloodline stuff has basically been like "here's some mediocre matches paired with stories that you don't care about."
For very petty and childish reasons I will not elaborate on here, I am an avid WWE hater, so I'm in that weird space between "coping with the fact that AEW will not be the WWE-killer I hoped for" and "well if the shows are good why should I care?"
I'm certainly nowhere as invested in this stuff as I was 25 years ago, and surely a lot of that is in the fact than I am 25 years older than I was back then, but a lot could also be said about the current booking model being a variation on "let's just put these matchups together for the same of having a matchup." That kind of stuff works in MMA and other sports, but pro wrestling as a whole seems stuck on whether it wants to be seen as a real sport or as a live-action anime soap opera with physical combat, and it can't be both.
I'm certainly nowhere as invested in this stuff as I was 25 years ago, and surely a lot of that is in the fact than I am 25 years older than I was back then, but a lot could also be said about the current booking model being a variation on "let's just put these matchups together for the same of having a matchup." That kind of stuff works in MMA and other sports, but pro wrestling as a whole seems stuck on whether it wants to be seen as a real sport or as a live-action anime soap opera with physical combat, and it can't be both.
I hear that. WWE is practically teflon right now, so I'm just glad to have another place to go that gives me the kind of thing I'm looking for on an approachable scale.
Ghoulish to chime in only when someone passes away, but this cannot go unmentioned: the incomparable Terry Funk has died, and this is one of those cases where the magnitude of a single person on the profession cannot be measured. He was amazing to watch work at any stage of his incredibly diverse and beyond lengthy career, and I personally consider him a rarity in the business because I at least cannot think of anecdotes, road stories or a general reputation that indicated a failure of character in him on a personal or professional level--that for once a genuinely legendary figure does not need to be understood through a series of mitigating caveats overshadowing and contextualizing their body of work. Funk gave everything he was to wrestling, and I choose to believe that overwhelming commitment and love for the trade allowed him to endure as long as he did, and will continue to, forever.
Rest in Piss, you won't be missed
I'm telling my kids Brad Garrett was Hulk Hogan.
So I'm really excited. Back in the day I was a huge fan of an east coast inde pro wrestling promotion called Chikara Pro Wrestling. Lots of future big name stars got their start or spent time here. It empasized comic-book inspired lucha libre and was super super big on keeping things family friendly. Like no swearing aloud was, uh, allowed (leading to chants of "Holy Poop!") and the wrestling was a nice mix of technical, high flying and comedy.
During the MeToo-era, it turned out that behind the scenes the owner was pretty awful. One day nearly every person working under the owner, from the current champion on down, walked out and stuff came to light and it imploded.
However, right under my nose for the past two years, a spiritual successor with all the good folks and none of the bad has popped up in Power Pro Lucha! I'm gonna attend both two days-- that's right they were doing 2 day mania like events before it was cool.
Up for grabs in a three person (trios) tag team tournament is the gold! And the name of the event this year?
...Chrono Trios.
SO pumpedfor the destruction of humanity to see a bunch of indie faves I haven't seen wrestle in person in years. Except for Ryan Reeves, whom I saw wrestle in a local NJ show a few weeks ago.
Edited to add that if you wanna see the lineup and can't make it they're doing a live ppv stream too here:
independentwrestling.tv
During the MeToo-era, it turned out that behind the scenes the owner was pretty awful. One day nearly every person working under the owner, from the current champion on down, walked out and stuff came to light and it imploded.
However, right under my nose for the past two years, a spiritual successor with all the good folks and none of the bad has popped up in Power Pro Lucha! I'm gonna attend both two days-- that's right they were doing 2 day mania like events before it was cool.
Up for grabs in a three person (trios) tag team tournament is the gold! And the name of the event this year?
...Chrono Trios.
SO pumped
Edited to add that if you wanna see the lineup and can't make it they're doing a live ppv stream too here:
Power Pro Lucha is on IndependentWrestling.tv
Power Pro Lucha and hundreds of other independent wrestling promotions in one place for one low price!
independentwrestling.tv