That Wrestling Blog 01/20/2019

7^rth Edition – January 20, 2019

The Return of the Attitude Era?

The answer to the above question can be found in the lyrics from Vince McMahons theme music “no chance, no chance in hell.” I mean shit, if you actually go back and take a look at some of the stuff they were doing, showing a little bit of Miss Blisses shoulder seems like absolutely nothing. Mandy Rose actually wears less in the ring than she did in that hotel segment on Smackdown. Get back to me when there are pillow fights, playboy magazine covers and old grandma titties (watch my latest insta post, you’ll see what I mean). The funny thing is, that Alexa clip has been one of their most viewed videos in recent history, racking up almost six million views in under a week. You know what the second most watched video is in the last two years? When Eva Marie had a wardrobe malfunction on Smackdown. It just goes to show that wrestling fans are just a bunch of perverts who like looking at half naked women. Who would have thought?

RAW however, did have an “old school” kind of feel to it with the destruction of limousines and dramatic title changes. I think the general consensus amongst the smarks is that it was the best RAW in a long time. The highlight for me was seeing Fergal Devitt AKA Finn Balor get highlighted in a big way. Finn always gets a great pop wherever he goes, and I am excited about the match with Brock at the Royal Rumble. You may say I’m a dreamer, but the Demon, I think, has a chance of coming away with the title. I will go into a little more detail next week about why I think this might happen, but if he did, then it would truly be Fergalicious (see what I did there?).

Now for the negative, and this goes across both shows. The call ups from NXT were scattered across both shows this week with explanation of “hey we don’t know where to put them, fuck it, we will just have them on both shows until we figure it out.” Now to me, the way they went about this is incredibly stupid. To others, it might seem like they are adding intrigue by having them show up in random spots. Here’s my problem with it all. It makes them look like fucking jokes, especially what they did with Heavy Machinery. To have them come out randomly after that women’s tag titles were announced, was completely ridiculous. First impressions count, they count even more when it comes to introducing new characters onto the main roster. Fuck up a debut and it’s a long way back, I mean just look at the Shockmaster, he never recovered. Odus didn’t have to come out looking like a fucking idiot, maybe they could have been backstage or even had a match, but definitely not after a big announcement like the women’s tag belts. It took the shine away for what should have been a truly historic moment.  As for EC3 well, him doing stupid poses in the mirror isn’t helping things either.

The Smackdown Live Women’s Division as we know, is killing it at the moment. The women usually either open or close the show, which is awesome. Now, I love Asuka, I love what she does in the ring, I love her presentation and her look, basically if I was closer to Asuka and could speak Japanese, we would be married. I do cringe however when they give her a microphone. I know how incredibly difficult it is to learn a new language, I failed at trying to learn Spanish and German, but when they give her a mic I feel bad because I know the crowd is going to shit on her by chanting the most annoying chant in the world, which some reason won’t fucking die, the “What?” chant, it’s the only bad thing that Stone Cold ever did in his career and we are still paying for it today. I know you have to be able to talk in this business, but I don’t think The Empress needs to talk at all. Her facial expressions and demeanour say more about her character than any broken English ever could. Keep her away from the mic and keep her away from those fucking awful chants.

I am going to end this award winning blog on a rare positive note, my 3 readers don’t like when I am positive and to be honest it makes a little sick inside when I am. You can’t help but be positive when you see the 44 year old Rey Mysterio and the newly named Andrade go at it for 15 minutes. It was honestly better than watching my favourite porn video, two girls, one cup (yeah that’s right, Australians like real nasty shit). Anyway, my girlfriend did question my sexuality when I sneakily tried to grab a pillow to cover my boner when this match was happening, and to be honest, maybe I did turn a little gay, because I was watching two absolute professionals deliver a world class match. Effortless is a word I would use to describe this match, it was all so effortless. And the timing, the fucking timing, it was a thing of beauty. Now they have announced that they will be having a 2/3 falls match on next week’s show! If I was booking the show, I would let this match go for the whole 2 hours. Just let them go, fuck it, you know it’s going to be incredible. My only concern, is that they won’t get enough time because after all, it is the “go home” show before the rumble.

Either way, I know I am going to need a spare pair of underwear and some tissues on hand because things are going to get messy.

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That Wrestling Guy xoxo