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Here is a vid from this past weekend of me wrestling a short match. Notice anything different about me?

I was watching WWE programming, as I am wont to do, and I saw a series of segments promoting a new character; Kizarny.

Let me get this straight, he’s a freaky looking guy with a carnival gimmick who can only speak in shitty Snoop Dogg parody speech? How would he say ‘Off the hizzle fo shizzle’? Izoff thize Hizzizle fizo shizzizle?

Um, yeah, unless something drastic changes soon this guy is not going to get over.

Err, excuse me, thizis gizuy izis nizot gizoing tizo gizet ovizer.

-Ray

ps. Get it? He’s a Carney, but due to his speech problem, his name becomes KIZARNY!!! HA HA HA that WWE creative team, so freaking clever.

Ok, I’m just getting around to watching last week’s WWE RAW this afternoon, and I again have a few thoughts on the show;

Chris Jericho is just awesome. He has found the new Jericho character and is just crushing with it. The stipulation of picking Batista’s opponent and vice verse is a pretty good one.

Cyber Sunday is an interesting idea. And by interesting I mean ‘Way to bilk the viewers out of 99 cents per text they send in to vote’.

Charlie Haas sucks. He is not funny. The Hulk Hogan bit tonight was just sad. I mean, it might have been funny, if we had not seen it already done like 900 times before this. Not just that, but Haas did a Jim Ross bit a while ago, and was I the only one wondering why that was OK but the WCW ‘Oklahoma’ character was not kosher? It was the same damn thing!

Anyways, Haas needs to join Kenny Dykstra on the ‘People who need to get off my TV’ list. This impression of more talented wrestlers bit is not working, maybe it would with a more entertaining person doing it. But you can’t take crap in a bag, put a bow on the bag, and try to sell it to me as anything other than crap in a bag.

Might I also add that Michael Cole is not a good actor. That being said when he is made to say/do something not genuine to himself, it comes off as weak. So when he is forced to laugh at the Charlie Haas ‘Comedy’ and talk about how funny it is, it reads untrue. This only adds to the annoyance I feel while watching it, and makes Michael Cole look stupid. I understand that credibility is probably a silly thing to ask for in a pro wrestling announcer, but don’t piss on my shoes and tell me it’s raining.

Why is Johnny Knoxville on RAW? And why won’t he take off his sunglasses? Is it too bright inside in the arena? And way to get ‘celebrities’ whose star burnt out 4 years ago. Does he still even have a show anymore? And to pair him with The Great Khali? Seriously? That’s like throwing up on a puddle of urine. If we are all lucky Khali will kill him like he did that guy from his wrestling school.

ECW was the highest rated show on the Sci Fi network on Tuesday night! Oh wow! That’s like being the least retarded of Sarah Palin’s kids.

How do people watch this show without a FF button? In the last 20 minutes I’ve gotten a commercial break, a John Cena is injured package, and then a boring Randy Orton promo, followed by another commercial break. I cannot believe that that was the highest rated 15 minute segment of the show.

Maybe it’s old news by now, but I am so happy that Shawn Michaels came back. Ok ok that happened years ago, but I just started watching again this year, and it still has magic for me. There was a pretty long period of time back when I watched last where I thought that I would never see an HBK match ever again. HBK is a joy to watch, and saying that does not make me gay, I don’t think.

Hey look it’s William Regal as a lumberjack! Remember when he was a huge star on this show and the world title picture did not seem out of the question? No? Cause it was only like, a few months ago.

This HBK/Batista match is a classic example of one wrestler walking another through a match. HBK sets up Batista for his next move, Batista takes a moment to understand what is going on, then follows through, lather rinse repeat. How long have you been wrestling Dave? Isn’t it about time that you do not need your opponent to hold your hand and walk you through the entire match?

Random thought just hit me; WWE has WAY too many titles. I am having a hard time thinking of a program going on right now that does not involve a title, and come to think of it, there are titles out there that do not even have a program going on for them right now! Let’s think about this for a sec;
We have a World Title, a Secondary Title, a Women’s Title, and Tag titles FOR EACH SHOW. Add to that an ECW title and that makes 11 belts spread through 2.5 shows. I mean, there are what, 20 wrestlers on RAW and Smackdown, with maybe 15 more on ECW? That makes 11 title holders out of 55 wrestlers. so 20% of all the wrestlers are champions of some kind. This makes being a champion very not special, and the fact that it would seem everyone on the roster has held some title of some kind at one point adds to this effect. In wrestling, titles are a prop, this should be known by now. But that being said the prop has no effect if it’s passed around like the one chick in the D&D group. They at minimum need to cut it down to a singular tag team champion duo, and a singular women’s champion. Cause let’s be honest, people do not give 2 farts to the wind about the extra title holders. Can you name both show’s tag champs and women’s champs without having to think? That’s what I thought, it means nothing already, hack it down to make it special.

Someone get that T-shirt off of Bam Neely, he looks freaking horrible with it on. Look, you are either a menacing, impressive presence or you are not. You cannot be a bodyguard if you need to be hidden by a T-shirt. So either get him into the gym so he can take his shirt off without embarrassing himself, or get him the hell off my TV.

Santino Marella is a joy. His pairing with Beth Phoenix is inspired. The character of the wrestler who needs his girlfriend to beat people up for him is always an entertaining one, and these 2 pull off the angle with style and grace and artistry.

Oh my God, Johnny Knoxville sucks. Can’t even take a bodyslam??? I taught an improv comedian how to take one in 2 minutes at a party once. Granted when it finally came to fruition and I slammed him in a real ring he needed time to recover from the impact. But don’t worry about that, Knoxville sucks at life and now he adds to that by sucking as a wrestler.

And now we have man junk from untalented douchebags all over the ring. Remind me again why this is a good idea?

HOLY SHIT IT’S THE M’FING BOOGEYMAN!!! OMG!!! LOL!!1 11!!1111

And now he is gone and replaced by the black hole of fan interest: The Great Khali.

And Knoxville bangs his head violently on the canvas taking a bump. What a dumbass. Who ‘Trained’ him for this bit? The year 2003?

Crime Tyme is crazy over with the live crowds. PT Barnum once said that ‘Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American People‘.

Miz and Morrison rule. Jillian might have a stupid gimmick with the bad singing thing, but it does get over, so no shame there.

Remind me again what the difference between Kelly Kelly and Michelle McCool is again? Cause I can’t tell one from another without buying a program first.

WTF was the point of that move??? Kelly Kelly just grabbed Jillian by the right hand, beat her with kicks and punches before taking her to the corner where she jumped up the ropes one at a time to land on the top rope, do a back flip, then reverse the hold (which she was applying) into a clothesline. Couldn’t she have just simply given her a clothesline without all that needless jumping around? FUCK, that is what’s wrong with wrestlers today in one short breath.

15 years ago Crime Tyme would have been the biggest heels in WWE(F), today they are crazy over as faces, just to show where wrestling crowds are at nowadays. It’s the same reason why my dick cheating heel character I do keeps getting over as a face with the crowds so I have to turn everywhere I go eventually. I think someone smarter than me could write a thesis on this.

Seeing Jericho with that gigantic title belt around his waist makes me tear up a little each time I see it.

Does Role Models look like the shittiest movie since American Pie: The Naked Mile? I mean, give me one reason why I am not supposed to see that little black kid as anything but a colossal asshole? He talks shit, breaks things, ruins people’s days, then lies about it to their face. I guess in today’s society that makes him a babyface champion. Ugh.

Hmm, CM Punk? I like CM Punk, but I guess I was hoping for some ‘out of the box’ booking here. No offense, but Ultimate Warrior would have popped the crowd more. And Batista is special guest ref? Huh? Why? I get why Jericho was able to change up his hand picked match earlier, but why does Big Dave get to make his own stipulations again?

Holy crap, I get it, Batista has a wycked tattoo on his back, but do I need him to wear a ref shirt with a giant hole in the back to remind me? The damn thing looks like a hospital gown. And might I add that there is NOTHING in this world more manly and menacing than a hospital gown!!!

CM Punk VS. Chris Jericho was entertaining, despite Batista as ref. Who knew that if you take 2 talented wrestlers and let them wrestle, that the result would be something worth watching?

THE END

Show is over, thumbs wavering down on the whole show, there is just too much stupid and pointless to overtake the awesome and brilliant going on right now.

-Ray

So, I’m trying to watch my DVR recording of WWE Smackdown tonight, when my viewing felt very short.

Maybe because there was very little to actually watch on the show.

I fast forwarded until 34 minutes into the show to finally find something worth watching. I mean, I could watch a 30 minute HHH promo where he puts himself over instead of the people he’s supposed to elevating, but why bother? He’s been doing the same promo for like a decade now, if you can’t paint it by the numbers, I question how long you have been watching WWE. I thought I saw Jeff Hardy in there somewhere, let me guess, HHH was snarky to him. I did not watch it, I just assume that happened, and somewhere in there Jeff tried to talk but failed.

Let me also say that I watch the matches, I could give a crap less about the same old promos that they shove down our throats each and every week. So every time I see someone in the ring with a mic, I usually just FF them unless their name is Chris Jericho.

Anyways, i skipped the same boring HHH promo and for my own sanity I skipped over the womens match because they are also universally unwatchable. I swear to God nothing exposes the business like a WWE women’s match, especially one that involves anyone not named Beth Phoenix or Mickey James. In this case it is the team of Maryse, Victoria, and Natalya vs. the team of Auto Zone, McDonalds, and Pirates of the Caribbean Online! Oh wait, it’s the team of Michelle McCool, Maria, and Brie Bella. In other words FAST FUCKING FORWARD!!!

For the record, I did not think anyone could be more horrible than Maria in the ring. . . then I saw a Brie Bella match. Dear God, if they care so little about the business why don’t we just show the workers talking about the matches ahead of time on TV as well? that would expose the busniess less than Brie Bella in the ring.

Now here we are, 34 minutes in, and the most watchable thing so far is a match between Chavo Guerrero and R (Don’t call me K-Kwik even though I suck like him) Truth. And that match while entertaining goes to a lame DQ. Now Bam Neely turns on Chavo! Now I hit the FF button!

Hey look it’s HHH making snarky comments towards Shelton Benjamin! God willing he puts him over as real competition, I mean, who’d want to see HHH in a match that contains fan interest? Obviously not HHH.

FF.

Now we are 45 minutes into the show, and Jesse and Festus show up to be actually entertaining. Let’s see Kenny Dykstra cut a promo! Yay! Remind me again why they give a mic to jobbers again? And we get a squash match that ends with no decision, cause who wants that? Jesse and Festus duct tape Dykstra to a movers dolly and they cart him off. Umm, Ok, people get paid to write this correct? I guess monkeys need work too.

Wow, now we get a whole segment devoted to flashbacks of a PPV that I was not interested enough to buy. Yay!

FF.

Wow, I hear there will be a fatal 4 way match to determine who will face HHH at the next PPV! Hmm, 3 midcard heels and Jeff Hardy, wonder what will happen?!

Here we are at 1:09 into the show and we finally get something actually watchable. Vladamir Kozlov is awesome. He is an old school style wrestler who crushes people and does not need 20 minute promos to get over. The rest of the roster should take notes. Sadly I am guessing this is the highpoint of the show, and when the highpoint is a squash, you gots you some problems.

Hey look, it’s HHH acting snarky to The Brian Kendrick! God willing he put him over as legitimate competition, or anyone for that matter. Ah well he owns the company in a few years, let him do what he wants.

Wait, the tag team champs are seriously Edge’s jobber friends? Wow, that makes me sad. And they are facing Carlito and his less interesting, less talented brother? Well, I got 2 letters for this match; FF.

Hey look, it’s HHH acting snarky towards MVP! God willing he make any up and coming performer look like legitimate competiton. Hey wait, have I made similar comments before? Wow, major Deja Vu!

Now we have a fatal 4 way match that I am guessing will take about 10 minutes more to get started! And we go to commercial before it does.

And now the match starts! And now we go quickly to ANOTHER commercial. Awesome, just once I’d like to see them go to commercial in the middle of one of the many boring HHH ‘I’m so much better than you’ promos so that the matches could get full time, that would be the day.

And we’re back! And it’s a midcard heels beat up Jeff Hardy match! If only the 3 heels involved were not so much more talented than Jeff Hardy. I mean, they might have more talent and future, but at least they don’t cause as many problems outside the ring as Jeff Hardy! Hey wait, why are they pushing Jeff Hardy instead of any of these 3 again?

MVP vs. Shelton is highly watchable and interesting, sad that nobody in the crowd seems to care.

I like how when Jeff Hardy goes for one of these lame high risk moves that are pretty much all he does, JR has to inform us that the move connected EVERY TIME. You know, cause our own eyes that saw it clearly miss are obviously not working.

Oh, what are the odds? Jeff Hardy won! Congrats Jeff, I hope you have a good time putting HHH over on the next PPV, that is if you can stay off the meth long enough to not get suspended first.

And now Vladamir Kozlov comes in to make me happy and just BRUTALIZES Jeff Hardy!!!

Well, that was a just God awful show with a happy ending.

Why do they call Smackdown the B-Show again? Oh yeah, this is why.

-Ray

Just finishing watching WWE RAW here, I’ve sobered up a little, and I had a few thoughts on the show tonight.

Chris Jericho’s new gimmick is awesome. I love what he is doing, it is really hard to honestly go from being a fan favorite to hated heel organically. Jericho has taken all the flash and brash out of his act, and the new character tweak is really fresh. Usually when people go from face to heel, they still cling to their old stuff (Catchphrases, attitude, demeanor) and they never truly get over as bad guys. I look at HHH, Batista, and Shawn Michaels who all did the heel try over the past year. All 3 of them got cheered anyways, and then went back to their old roles. Jericho has cut his hair, changed his ring attire, took the flare out of his entrance, and cuts promos completely differently now. Only one more change left to make, he’s gotta change his entrance music. His music still has the rock star good feelin vibe that he is trying to kill. I don’t know how he should change it, but it’s gotta go, and I love his music. But anyways I finally noticed that the crowds are not cheering for him anymore, and that is truly an awesome feat.

If Matt Stryker is on permanent jobber duty, then why is he getting mic time? They don’t give Super Crazy, Jimmy Wang Yang, and Val Venis mic time anymore now that they are not featured performers. Why does Matt get it? Do they seriously think that he’s actually going to get over with the same song and dance that hasn’t gotten over despite years of trying?

Oh yeah, back to Jericho, they did the right thing putting JBL over and giving him the alone title shot at Summer Slam. Jericho can use this defeat to get more bitter, and let it really build and build as he gets ’screwed’ out of title shots one time after another, until finally he gets his shot at a big show like Royal Rumble or dare I say it, Wrestlemania. The longer they screw him in the meantime, the better the eventual match will be.

John Cena vs. Batista could go down as one of the best matches on paper that will suck goat balls. I do not want to say that either is a terrible performer, but they both are limited as to what they do. Both guys follow basically the same formula, punch punch punch kick clothesline. This works fine in most of their matches cause they only need to be on offense about 20% of the time, as the heels dominate them for most of the time. However, when they are matched up against each other, somebody is going to have to do a wrestling move somewhere. So unless one of them steps it up and suddenly acquires HHH’s moveset, this is going to be 16 minutes of punch punch punch kick clothesline, while 7 minutes into the match people go and buy hotdogs and use the restroom. I have the solution, and it’s not one that fans are going to like. You have to book this match short, like 8 minutes or less, and make the ending unsatisfying. This will serve to not expose either performer, allow both to retain some heat, and set up a hopefully more satisfying rematch somewhere down the line. Of course this does not actually solve the problem of how to make a good match between these 2, but it does delay the problem til a later time and who knows what will happen between then and now.

I am convinced that the only reason that the Great Khali is getting a title shot against HHH is because HHH thinks that he can be the guy to get a watchable match out of him. Maybe he is that guy, then again maybe Khali will kill him in the ring like he did that guy from his wrestling school. Hope not.

I like Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase Jr. alot as performers. But watching their main event match tonight told me that they were not ready to carry the straps. Them losing the titles tonight was for the best. I think that they will rightfully get the titles back, but they are just not main event performers yet, and your tag title holders need to be ready for that main event. But when the champs are in the main event and are almost an after thought, and treated like jobbers, and not able to get their personalities over, that is a problem. Good move getting the titles off of them. They will in future be really good, but they need more time and seasoning to establish themselves and their act before they really should wear those belts again.

I am so very glad to see William Regal on my TV again. He rules, and I hope that his push will continue now that he is back. His heat still seems to be there, if he was to break through and win the title, that would pwn, given time and the right push, he could carry that strap proudly.

Ok, there is probably more, but that is all I got for now.

-Ray

So Rob Van Dam is training with the Ultimate Warrior to get him ready for a return to the ring. And thusly we get this video as RVD does his impression of UW, and then UW comes in an interrupts him. Funny stuff.

A little sparring from this past weekend.

Please please please get Maria off of my TV.

She is an embarrassment to the entire industry.

I appreciate that she posed nude in Playboy. Good for her. This does not make her good on TV.

What do i enjoy more? Her promos where a 12 year old acting student could be more believable, or her matches where a 12 year old acting student could be more believable? Every time she steps foot in the ring she exposes the industry.

I would rather watch Kris Sprules vs Cage Tyler on repeat for 10 straight hours than watch 2 minutes of a Maria ‘match’.

Well, if she has a good theme song, has a good pose, and looks attractive, who cares if she looks like utter shit in the ring? Well, most people, that’s who. Need I mention that the Maria ‘Bunnymania’ match at WM24 was the time when most people went to the bathroom? Both in the arena and at home, they went away til that garbage was over.

Maria = Good for concession stands across the nation.

I’m not sure what is more fun to watch, Maria throwing her shitty kicks, or her one ‘highspot’ where she tries to be Sonya Blade from Mortal Kombat and does a shitty handstand, leading to a more shitty hurricanrana, unless her opponent gets the idea to kick her unset hands out from underneath her, thus negating the entirety of her patented shitty offense.

Please get her the hell of of my DVR fast forward button. That time could go to someone worth watching. As I said before, every time she is on air, it exposes the industry, and pisses me off cause I actually have respect for the industry.

-Ray

So since coming back into the wrestling fold a few weeks ago I decided that I wanted to get caught back up on all that I missed for 5 years.

Part of that has been getting caught back up on all the internet smarkdom that I came to have huge following for before I went to wrestling school and started training. Know that by ‘Smark’ I am referring to a breed of fan who knows it’s all a work and thinks of themselves as smarter and more knowledgeable than the average fan. Despite having never stepped in the ring themselves, they think they have the business ‘figured out’.

I pretty much stopped bothering with those writers and those sites once I graduated from wrestling school. Around that time I was more interested in the stuff I was doing than what was going on in the TV world. It stands to reason that since I wasn’t watching the TV product, I wasn’t reading the smark sites which follow them either.

So it came as a huge surprise to me that after I found a bunch of the old internet writers still had sites going, they also all had one thing in common; They were all totally full of bullshit.

Holy crap! How did I eat the words of these people for so long? I actually thought they had good opinions/ideas and had some clue as to what they were talking about. Boy was I wrong!

for example, I was recently watching a DVD of an old WWE PPV from a few years ago where HHH was facing Randy Orton for the world title. About 3/4 of the way through the match they F up a spot (Still not sure who’s fault it was, willing to bet Orton) and Orton takes a header straight into the mat. It didn;t seem like much of a fall at the time, or even on replay, but it was obvious that Orton was in legit trouble. When something ugly happens and one wrestler lies on the floor outside of the ring, and the other wrestler spends 2-3 minutes showboating for the crowd and doing a big sell job, know that something is amiss. Here HHH did his thing for seemingly EVER away from Orton while ref Earl Hebner tried to get Orton up, even saying, ‘Randy if you don’t get back in the ring I’m going to have to count you out’ while standing about 3 inches away from his face. Anyways they somehow finish the match, Orton could barely stand up, and after giving it the old college try HHH just calls it in and barely gets Orton on his feet to take the Pedigree and end the match. It was ugly ugly ugly, the match was decent to that point, but it got all jacked up after the concussion.

I was curious to see what the internet writers back in the day had to say about the match, so I found a review of the show. The writer in question, who was named ‘The Rick’, totally blew the monkey trying to review the match. Here is a linked quote from the review;

“I have NO fricking idea where they go with the Orton/Head Injury thing, if in fact they go anywhere. It might have just been a one-night gimmick to explain HHH’s ability to beat Orton because of a flukey bump. But here’s the thing: if so, they COMPLETELY failed to get sympathy from the fans. And also: the match was laid out that HHH never once cheated during the ref bump. He TRIED to use the sledge, but never did. Evolution never came out. He just straight-up beat Randy Orton, fair and square. Which sends the subconscious message to fans, “HHH is just that damned good. Feud over.” Which is also fine with me. Another one in the same area as the opener: very good, thanks to an excellent final half.”

Maybe the reason for the weird Orton/Head injury angle was due to Orton suffering a head injury! Call me crazy, but sometimes the most obvious answer is the correct one. And then at the end of the tag I listed, he calls the final half of the match ‘excellent’. What is excellent about one wrestler losing his shit, while the other one tries his best to cover for him and work with it? I’d rather watch 2 guys at their best both bring it for the whole time! See Jerry Lynn/Rob Van Dam for another example of a dude suffering a head bump and having trouble in a match. The idea that the WWE had it prewritten that Orton would take an ugly mistakey shot to the head, and also that Orton would be a good enough to actor to fake the after effects that well insults my intelligence. Once again gotta chalk it up to another online smark trying to offer commentary from something he knows nothing about.

but bad internet reviews of shows aside, the worst offender of retarded smarkiness has got to be the fantasy bookings. Basically in the world of internet idiocy smarks try to wear the hat of the booker and write about how they would run the show! Yay! It’s the wrestling equivalent of fan fiction. You know, those lengthy stories that someone who still lives in Mom’s basement wrote about Chewbacca’s heroic adventures as a lone wolf bounty hunter that you never wanted to read. Those same people that write Sailor Moon sex fantasy stories also want to rewrite their favorite wrestling shows to make them awesome!!!~well, in their own eyes.

Basically the smarks out there grab a hold of their favorite wrestler, and then write out a series of events/matches/interviews that will eventually result in their favorite midcarder/curtainjerker winning the title at Wrestlemania. These fantasy booking segments are usually lengthy and always lame. I’m not trying to say that the big TV shows always do a great job of creating compelling television, but I will say that the internet writers for sure do not.

Again the idea of fantasy booking insults my intelligence. The writers who put their fanfic online have once again, no idea what they are talking about. They do not understand any of the backstage stuff that goes on, they do not understand the personalities of the performers involved, they do not understand what will go over with the fans, they do not understand the basic mechanics of a pro wrestling match, they do not understand the basics of how promos work, they do not understand a whole lot about the business. Other than those small details they have some really great things to say!

The whole thing reminds me of sports talk radio, when someone calls up a show in Atlanta with his big 4 team trade that will get Kobe Bryant traded to the Hawks for just a second round draft pick. ‘But it will work, I don;t understand why it wouldn’t work!?’ They say as they get laughed off the air. On the internet, there is sadly nobody to laugh you off the air. So you are free to write 10,000 word bookings about how you will get CM Punk the world title in 3 months. Or how you’ll work Raven back into all the major storylines, or how bringing back The Rock and Hacksaw Jim Duggan together in a tag team title angle will be the saving grace of Monday Night Raw.

I just read an interesting video review of the Shawn Michaels DVD from one of my previously favorite internet smarks, Scott Keith. I was with him for much of what he was saying, even though he doesn’t quite understand how matches work. Anyways, the review of the DVD was going along pretty well until he got in to how he would have rebooked the entire King of the Ring 1998. Which would have taken out the Jake the Snake vs. Austin match. Which would have negated the whole ‘Austin 3:16′ thing, which would have really hurt Austin becoming a huge star. Of course in his mind and I paraphrase, ‘Austin could have faced Jake the Snake the following night on RAW and done the Austin 3:16 thing then, so no big deal.’ Other than the fact that the muse that struck Austin that night at that moment that created ‘Austin 3:16′ might not have struck at any other time on any other show. I suppose if you’re foolish and think that the whole ‘Austin 3:16′ thing was scripted and prewritten before the show that would not be a big deal. In the real world though this is not the case. To fantasy rebook lightning in a bottle in the name of slightly better matches is to mess with something that was shown through time to really work, and that makes no sense.

To those who think that their skills as a booker are strong, I suggest you test that for yourself. It seriously does not cost a whole lot to run an independent show, you could easily pull it off for under a grand, so go for it! I bet you’ll have no problem finding workers for a guaranteed payday. I guarantee they will be willing to do whatever booking crap you want to do as well! Go out there and put on shows in your neighborhood, and if you can grow your audience and not go broke then congrats, somebody will notice that.

Anyways, I’ll keep reading these internet smarks so that I can learn a little bit of their backstage information and research, but I’ll also continue to laugh at them for writing stupid nonsensical things at the same time. A word of advice to you fans out there, read everything those folks say with a huge grain of salt, they don’t know nearly as much as they would have you believe they do.

-Ray

ADDENDUM: Mr. Scott Keith was nice enough to post up here telling me that he did not write the rant that I was calling in to question. Relooking back on it, that rant was posted on his site, was written in a style very similar to his own, but does say that it was written by someone else. Well, the official title is ‘The Princess Rant for Heartbreak and Triumph: the Shawn Michaels Story’. I thought that was just a clever name for it, but I guess that someone named ‘The Princess’ actually wrote it. So there ya go, I’ll have to find something else to complain about in regards to Scott Keith. Shouldn’t be too hard, I’m good at finding things to get annoyed at.