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RAT BASTARD MONDAY What's a rat bastard? Who's a rat bastard? Where's a rat bastard? Let me tell you. A rat bastard is anyone in our beloved sport of professional wrestling that has gone out of their way to do something so heinous that it just really crawls under my skin. If after the course of a week it still remains under my skin on Monday, then they get on the list. The Rat Bastard Monday list that is.... Got it? Good, now on with the listing, because I've got to get this off my chest and get on with reality..... 1. Diamond Dallas Page: What you say? DDP? Yes, DDP. Sure the guy put Chris Benoit over at Road Wild. Sure he put him over strongly in quite a surprise to most internet "smarts". DDP even booked the match. You didn't know that?=20 Yep, he booked the match. That's exactly why he's on this list. What in the name of God and all that's holy is DDP doing booking his own match at a pay per view? It's this kind of stupidity that has WCW looking over its shoulder at ECW to see if they are going to get passed by yet another wrestling promotion. Perhaps DDP shouldn't be the target of this anger. Perhaps WCW in general should be called onto the carpet for this type of thing. =20 Maybe, but it was DDP that got under my skin. But, while we're on that subject, how hard is it to understand why the WWF is doing so well? It's really simple. They have a unbiased, unattached group of writers who weave storylines. That's it. They throw out a bunch of stories and go with what works. Sure they stumble occasionally, everyone does, but they put business first. They don't book for personal reasons. Friends of the writers aren't given priority in storylines, or handed titles, or given cushy slots on Monday Night programming. Instead they book based on fan reactions in the arenas and through tv ratings. What a novel concept? Right?=20 Wrong....it's simple. Memo to DDP and the rest of the WCW booking committee: Since you're having them on Nitro on the 23rd, follow the advice of KISS. Keep it simple stupid. 2. The Road to Road Wild: Let's see, a PPV booked because the talent and the management like to ride Harley's. Ok, the fact that the event is taking place on a Saturday, is outside in front of a non-paying audience, and in front of hordes of non-wrestling fans could piss me off enough to call this entire event, and its existence a rat bastard. It almost did. What makes Road Wild a rat bastard, however, was the idiotic "Road to Road Wild" that WCW held. What an ingenious idea. Let's take the WCW creative team, a good portion of the upper card wrestlers, and let's go riding Harley's for over 1000 miles risking injury, illness, and who knows what else along the way. In the words of Mark Madden, it's too easy to draw an analogy to fiddling while Rome burned here. 3. The Big Show Just to show everyone that this isn't a total WCW bash job, I give you the Big Slow, er Show. As well as the WWF has debuted Chris Jericho, I think they've screwed up that much with Paul Wight. Does anyone care about this guy anymore? If so, please raise your little fat hand in the air so I can see you. In the meantime let me count the ways this guy has been reduced to WWF also ran. He's been overshadowed by much more talented WWF big men like Undertaker and Kane. The athletic ability of both these men have showcased what has always been Wight's Achilles heel. His relative lack of speed and effort in the ring. If Wight can do that moonsault he'd better bring it out of mothballs, and quickly. That chokeslam just doesn't get the job done anymore with two other more impressive versions already in the federation. This is also a guy that has been outclassed in the ring, charisma wise, by Bob Holly as well. That's right, working with the Big Show Holly has finally gotten over. What's that say about The Big Show? Not a lot. 4. Sunday Night Heat: Maybe they are getting us ready for Smackdown or something, but does this show just suck or what? Granted it's no THUNDER!, but then again what is? Give me back some good action on this show or do away with it in favor of Smackdown. So, there you have it. Four rat bastards, or more depending on how specific you're being. Four rat bastards in only one week. Will anything change, will things improve? Will I be happy this week? That's the great thing about wrestling. Somewhere among the Jericho interviews, and Benoit title reigns, and Vampiro/Guererro feuds there is always something to piss you off. I'm sure I'll be back with more next week. Enjoy wrestling...I do! Greg Dillard WrestleArena Mail the Author Visit WrestleArena |
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