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Update: VCR still broken. No TNN Report. Instead, you get to hear my rant.

The whole smart pro-wrestling community is abuzz. Vince Russo is out as WCW's leader (Although Bill Busch is the #1 guy in the company, it is plain to see he doesn't do much in the day-to-day operations). While a select few are disappointed (espicially those named VINCE RUSSO), many rejoice. Why do they rejoice?

Because it's back to the days of Kevin Nash. What days were those?

  • Midcarders KNOWING THEIR ROLE! (in the kitchen midcard)
    However, though, at least the matches in the midcard were good then.
  • NASH vs. SAVAGE! NASH vs. SID! NASH vs. A CONTORTIONIST! NASH vs. A HUMMER! NASH vs. a BUCKET OF SHIT! (Although some would say that's just a bucket of shit versus a bucket of shit)

Nash's booking has a distinctive high and a distinctive low. 

The high: Spring Stampede. An all-around great show, with a stunning title win by DDP in the main, a heel Horsemen putting on a **** match with Raven/Saturn in the semi-main, and a kickass Blitzkrieg/Juvy match to start the show off. 

The low: Great American Bash (some would say Road Wild, but he had lost some of his power by then). A clusterfuckish main event, nothing of note up and down the card, except for Tank Abbott helping a heatless Rick Steiner attack Sting with the RABID DOGS THAT MIGHT JUST HUMP YOUR LEG! 

Now, where will his booking end up? I say he's never going to get the book. 

What? He's never going to get the book? You say I'm insane?

I am most certainly not. I have a lone prediction:

This is a work

Think about it for a minute. Isn't it convienient how Nash, Jarrett, and Hart have ALL gotten concussions over the past three weeks? Hart getting a severe concussion from a Goldberg kick seems a bit fishy, even if it understandably got worse over the next couple of weeks. Jarrett got a concussion from Snuka's splash. Now, I'm no concussion expert, but looking at the tape on WCWSN, Snuka didn't hit Jarrett in the head, he hit him in the chest. It looked like Jarrett may have got the wind knocked out of him, or, at the very worst, have broken a rib. But a concussion? I think not. And as for Nash's concussion? They were too lazy to even come up with a reason for Nash's concussion! (Nash? Lazy? I've never seen those two words in the same sentence!)

As for Russo getting fired, well, it's not hard to spread rumors out to the right places to get it to become fact. It's not as if WCW has released a press release or anything about it yet; if they did that, then I'd consider it likely fact. However, with Russo being such an Internet fan, wouldn't he love to conquer them? Wouldn't he like to show them who's boss? He'd consider that his ultimate accomplishment in WCW, I assume. 

The third and final reason I think this is a work? Well, mainly because it's gotten me much more interested in Souled Out; in fact, if I wasn't watching it at a friend's house for free, I'd probably be enticed to actually BUY the freaking thing now! This could be a one-time trick to try and pop the buyrate of Souled Out and ratings of Nitro for WCW. 

Remember: This is WCW we're talking about.
Remember: If you believe EVERYTHING they say without taking it with a grain of salt, YOU'RE being Remember: worked.

Bill Barnwell
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