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If I didn’t watch wrestling…
Much has been said about wrestling companies wanting to reach a bigger audience. The problem with that is they don’t seem to understand that to get a bigger audience, their product should be interesting to people who don’t normally watch it so they want to watch again. Bearing that in mind, I wonder what people who have never watched wrestling would think about this week’s shows. It might go something like this…
Monday Night Raw
Is it a bad sign when the building catches fire before your show starts?
So the “YES!” guy was going to marry the GM just to have her committed?
Wow, this first hour probably had fifteen minutes of recaps from last week’s show. So why exactly are they bragging about having an extra hour of TV time when they’re filling it with nothing new?
And with the show going that extra hour, are the people who have to work more now getting a raise?
So the three choices for the #RAWactive match” are (1) a match with no rules, (2) a match that can end outside the ring, and (3) a match with no rules that can end outside the ring. Wow, what a diverse variety of options to choose from, I don’t know how I will ever decide which one to vote for.
Are you kidding me? They just recapped the champ’s speech on the announce table from earlier in the show before going to this commercial break, then came back from commercial and recapped it again?
Is kicking an imaginary kid in the face supposed to make the “YES!” guy a badass?
So now the GM is forcing the “YES!” guy to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, and the medics are going along with it, when he’s standing right next to a guy who was talking to an invisible child?
And why is the GM and her ex and their drama the main focus of the show? Is it supposed to be interesting? If they’re going to put something in every other segment, it should be a lot more compelling than this.
Tell me I did not just hear this sports agent guy compare his wrestler to “Kobe Bryant in a Colorado hotel.” That can’t possibly go over well with the parents with young kids watching this.
If the One Man Band has routinely gotten his ass kicked by a bunch of old guys, what makes him think he would be able to beat anybody on the current roster?
What exactly is the point of a referee reversing the decision in a match just because the winner is being a dick and awarding the win to a guy everyone just saw get his ass kicked?
I kind of feel bad for older Southern announcer because the champ is verbally beating the hell out of him on commentary and making him look very bad.
After three hours of this show, I don’t know what I’m more sick of, the constant recaps or the constant “GM drama” segments.
Friday Night Smackdown
Is the fat guy with the face tattoos supposed to be intimidating by speaking Japanese?
So the United States champion didn’t know that having your foot under the rope breaks up the pin-count? And he’s a champion in this company? Is he their Donovan McNabb?
And speaking of the US champion, he’s now lost to the same guy twice in two weeks, but neither was a title match and the announcers are talking about whether or not he deserves a title shot? Just how many times do you have to beat a champion one-on-one to earn a title shot in this company?
Boy, this guy REALLY gets into yelling “YES!” and “NO!”
Although I have to admit, him getting in little kids’ faces and screaming “NO!” at them is pretty funny.
When the crazy bald guy started talking about life in the jungle and the food chain and whatnot, and he finished by saying “Welcome to the…food chain!” I really thought he was going to say “Welcome to the Jungle” and start singing the Guns n Roses song.
Wow, the guy who compared his client to a rapist into a live mic on national TV on a PG-rated show on Monday still has a job, and they even gave him a mic again?
Could they not find Touts from anyone more intelligent than the chuckleheads they’ve shown? Are these really the best, most intelligent-sounding Touts they had?
What the hell is Shazam? Is that another computer thing I don’t use?
IMPACT Wrestling
The FCC has to love this crowd chanting “Sh*t Factor!”
Why is the bald guy with the martini in the locker room wearing a scarf inside…in August?
So this little guy who’s apparently a woman’s tag team champion can’t defend his title against other women because he has a fishing show? And my teachers thought I came up with some excuses.
A baby shower on a wrestling show?
And fittingly, TNA merchandise was given as a shower gift. How thoughtful. Wrestling merchandise is one of those important things that you tend to just forget to ask for in the craziness of having a baby, and then you’re scrambling to find it when you get home from the hospital.
Did the cowboy guy really just tell the sound people to play the music for the guys who don’t work for the company that have been interrupting the show recently? Why would they give such people music?
Ring of Honor Wrestling
Does this guy have stars tattooed on his back? Is that supposed to be intimidating?
Didn’t I just see this guy with the tag team belt in a match on IMPACT?
When the security team came down to the ring to try and get the guys who want to challenge for the tag titles who beat the holy hell out of the champs, why did they attack them one at a time instead of all going in at once?
I like the look of this upcoming PPV main event because it’s two guys who look like they should be sitting on their couches drinking beer, eating Doritos, and watching a wrestling PPV, not wrestling in the main event.
The Final Verdict
Based on this week’s shows and this week’s shows only:
I would be MOST likely to tune in next week to watch Friday Night Smackdown.
I would be LEAST likely to tune in next week to watch Monday Night Raw.
Running Total Score:
Monday Night Raw: 5 Most 11 Least
Friday Night Smackdown: 4 Most 9 Least
IMPACT! Wrestling: 13 Most 3 Least
Ring of Honor Wrestling: 5 Most 4 Least
