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Gazmission
Welcome to the 5th edition of
Gazmission written for Wrestling Envy by Gary
Griffiths.
This column will be followed by my
special WrestleMania column to be posted on 26th
March. Leaving a few days space before
WrestleMania itself. That column should include a
review of every Mania, the best matches from the
show, and much much more…But now here’s
my latest column, so here she blows...
Heroes
When Bret Hart announced his
retirement on October 26th 2000 he said this in
his statement.
“Every hero becomes a bore at last”
Now this statement made me think…Are there
any heroes left in wrestling?
When I started watching wrestling in the early 90’s,
every face was a hero, I looked up to every good
guy as a role model, and my hero was Bret Hart,
if he told me not too be bad, I wasn’t bad,
if he told me smoking was wrong, smoking was
wrong. Bret was just becoming the main star in
the WWF, and I was more happy than anyone. When
he won the title in October 1992, I was 7 years
old, and every 7 year old needs a hero. Millions
of children just like me had Bret to look up to,
and as he says ‘Your kids are pretty safe
watching me on TV’, and that is very true.
Bret was the ideal role model of the early 90’s.
He never swore, he’d rarely use illegal
objects, and he always played by the rules. Now
many people shoot me down for saying this, but I
prefer wrestling the way it was in a way. No
glitz and glamour, just stories told where they
should be, in the ring. There are no wrestlers
that can do that now (Not even Benoit!), I couldn’t
name a single wrestler who could tell a story in
the ring. Sure every WWF superstar can make you
believe he is in pain after he’s taken a
move, but no wrestlers can actually make me go
through emotions. You know Austin’s gonna
eventually hit the Stunner and then drink a few
beers, you could predict that Rock is going to
eventually hit either Rock Bottom, or Peoples
Elbow for the big win. And that is one of the
reasons the WWF’s ratings are slowly moving
down; The product is stale. There isn’t a
hero in the WWF. Rock I admit is the closet kids
are going to get, and as the age of WWF viewers
are getting younger, Vinnie Mac needs to get them
a hero. That would make there parents more at
ease for them to tune in to Raw or Smackdown. A
positive image means a positive review by the
pricks at PTC. My final message in this category
is that every 10 year old needs someone to look
up to, and if that isn’t given to them,
there gonna do the bad thing, the wrong thing,
the damndest, sickest thing ever, there gonna
watch Pokemon…urrrrggghh.
WrestleMania XXIII (23)
As we approach WrestleMania one
question keeps ringing in my mind, where will the
WWF be at this time in 5 years. Now let’s
look at this logically, which could be confusing.
Now 5 years ago the main matches on the
WrestleMania card were:
Shawn Michaels Vs Bret Hart
Diesel Vs The Undertaker
Ultimate Warrior Vs HHH
Steve Austin (Ringmaster) Vs Savio Vega
Now lets see where all of them wrestlers are now
then. Bret is retired, HBK is retired, but now
coming back for a final hurrah. Diesel is no
washed up Kevin Nash in Dubbya C Dubbyah.
Undertaker is struggling along in the WWF, and
Warrior is working independants. And there’s
the HHH, and Austin, they are now two of the most
popular WWF stars at the moment.
So let’s compare that to today. One of the
main eventers in this years WM wasn’t even
in WWF at this time, and the other was working
fueds with mid card jobbers. So lets assign this
position to Test. So Test is our future star, and
the Rock role in my view belongs to Jeff Hardy.
Who is the nearest we’ll get to the future
HBK, his route to the top if he splits with Matt
will be much like that of the incomprable Shawn
Michaels. Lets just now hope injuries don’t
ruin Jeffs career. So now we’ve got a Test V.s
Jeff Hardy WM main event. Can’t imagine it
can ya, well you better believe it buddy. And the
mid card match mmmmm, now that’s a tough one.
But I’d go with, maybe a Rhino V.s Kane
match. Two big guys going at it, just like Diesel
V.s Undertaker. But here were relying on Kane
having the same lasting affect that Deadman has,
which has a chance of happening if you ask me, as
so much can be done with his gimmick. No who
knows what will happen in them five years, most
likely the WWF will get unpopular again, then get
popular again. Because pretty soon WWF is gonna
be out of fashion and then only the true fans are
gonna be left, which to me will be better. But
whatever happens in that time Im sure it’ll
be one ‘Helluva’ ride.
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