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REES' PIECE OF MIND
A Late Night Multi-Piece Snack.

Bad case of insomnia tonight, so I figured I'd whittle the hours away on a few thoughts.

1) WCW's HOT POTATO CHAMPIONSHIP. Put me in the minority here, but I think it's a relatively good idea. Look at all the guys on that roster who are considered or have been World Champions. Jarrett, Hogan, Flair, Nash, Goldberg, Hart (if he comes back), Luger (not a candidate, but a past champ), DDP, Sting, Funk (NOT A CANDIDATE), Sid, and Awesome and Douglas in ECW. Now throw in potential candidates like Big Poppa Pump, Vampiro, Kidman, GI Booker T, and Brian Clarke (if he gets put back in singles), and you have a ton of potential champions. For me, it certainly makes Nitro and Thunder worth watching if the Championship has the potential to change hands. I'd like to see it make booking sense, and so far I would go out on a line and say they have recently. Flair pinning Jarrett was great from the standpoint of Russo's Chosen One losing to his most hated enemy. Flair's injury gave Russo the chance to get back the belt. Jarrett beats Nash via New Blood interference, Nash beats Jarrett when Jarrett's stuck in a 3-way versus Nash and BPP. Nash gives belt back to Flair, because he didn't think it was right to have it (don't forget, Nash jumped out of Flair's casket the week before.) And last, Flair loses to Jarrett do to Russo and David's cheating. All make storyline sense, and gives Nitro an anything can happen feel to it.

Besides, which is worse: Having the championship change hands in your main event, or not even running your main event (aka RAW for two weeks).

2) X-PAC at RAW. What the hell was he thinking, wearing overalls with a T-shirt? Isn't this guy supposed to be cool? Christ, give him a straw to chew on and he would have looked like Hayseed Calhoun, Haystack's illegitimate son. As it was, he looked like he was ready to play Hide the Salami with Patterson.

3) CANADIAN DUMBAS. Let me get this straight. On how many occasions did the Vancouver Raw crowd chant "U.S. Sucks!" on Monday? So why were they cheering the Undertaker and Kid Rock's "American Badass"? Did they think they meant North American? And what was with the loser in the front row with the Canadian Flag with the Rock's Brahma Bull instead of the Maple Leaf? He should have been shot.

4) MARK MADDEN: WHO'S BETTER OFF, AWESOME OR TAZZ? One guy is selling T-shirts at record pace, the other is jobbing to Karl Malone. You decide.

5) INTERNET FUEDS. I really enjoyed the Keller/Scherer debate over when the ECW main event was officially decided to be a three-way dance. I was waiting for one of the two to say, "Well, I implanted a secret microphone in Paul Heyman's butt, so I'm right" and the other to follow with, "Well, I implanted a secret mic in Lance's butt, so I'm right." Course, I'd like to plant something in Dawn Marie's... never mind. Denoit's gonna kill me.

Russo versus the Internet has been good, too. Not quite Bobby Knight versus the press, but pretty close. The Torch has been keeping up with that well.

Notes From Bob have been damn good rants lately, if you ask me. Scherer and him have recently ganged up on Meltzer, which has made for good reads. Bob took J.R. to task, too. Course, Bob should be making sure Madden's not writing out right lies in his column, but that's another rant.

6) BOB RYDER SHOULD BE MAKING (Just kidding).

7) ECW PLEDGE DRIVE: $2,000. Thanks, ShadowLongKnife, for matching my contribute. JBR23 is threatening to steal my idea. Hey, does that mean it's a good one?

8) BOBOB'S WRESTLING BABE OF THE WEEK. Bob says you gotta go with Torrie Wilson from Nitro. Did you see that Dress? Good Lord.

9) BOBOB'S SICKEST WRESTLING MOVE OF THE WEEK. Bo says Tony Mamaluke's Twisting Asai Moonsault Bang Your Head and Neck on the Guardrail While Landing in the Front Row wins hands down. Course, Bo says if he keeps it up, Tony might not be around by July.

10) SEX AND THE CITY IS BACK! Guys, is it just me, or wouldn't you just like to bang the hell out of Kim Cattrall? Nice shot of her boobs today while that fireman was pounding her.

11) ANYONE ELSE NOT SHOCKED TO SEE THE BLAZERS LOSE TODAY? Although to be honest, I don't think the refs screwed them. When you give up a 20-2 run late in the game, you deserve to lose. Lakers in 6 over the Pacers.

12) AND, IN CONCLUSION, THE BRIAN PILLMAN MEMORIAL. I think it's great that the wrestlers came together to raise money for Melanie and her kids. That said, I'm disgusted that they combined Brian Hildenbrand fundraising effort with Pillman's. Brian Hildenbrand was a 100% class act, who gave everything he had to the business. His dying request was to have his ashes shot off in the Revolution's Pyro. His death was a real tragedy, and people who have read my earlier comments know I don't use that term lightly.

Brian Pillman was fun to watch on TV, and was a great athlete before his accident, but he died from complications from drug use. Remember him, sure, but don't disgrace Brian Hildenbrand's death at the same time.

Scott Rees
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