*Blog post started on December 3, 2020.
I like to use the "Rule of Three" when it comes to titling blog posts. Perhaps that is just a need to feel clever. It is also a lifesaver when the posts are more observational instead of critical. Throw a "Fuck, Marry, Kill" implication about the topics, and it presents the illusion that everything will make sense.
I think having some really oddball to throw into a title as a means to spur interest. When the default is "Fear of Impact Wrestling and Becoming an AEW Blog", it is not going to encourage any of my non-wrestling-fan readers to check it out. What else do I fear right now? My parents' fate when it comes to COVID? That seems a little too soon to take a comedic spin on.
It sounds like they are doing fine. They are still driving my once infected sister to her job at the hospital. I feel like everything will work out for the best. But without any certainty of how things will turn out, making jokes is tough. The best effort came from my little brother's response to mom's recent positive test with how we will be avoiding "Rona House". My poetic brain replied to the message with the alliterative "Call it COVID Casa", but then the Patrick Swayze/"Family Guy" reference to the 1989 classic was apparent. Or at least I hope it was.
Humor is something that I must always have at my side. It is tough for me to be immediately humorous when coming off a significant day in pro-wrestling. Things were so much easier when it came to wit and grappling. My time as heel commentator in Peoria Wrestling when my wrist was broken or when I had to write articles for Next Generation Wrestling's website about their knock off WWE storylines. With the latter, wit was needed to make sure that we were not appearing to be a sample of WWE light. Thanks Paul Heyman and Joey Styles for showing me how to be hip.
All Elite is not my product, so unless there is crap wrestling, I cannot make jokes. That is a statement to the brilliance of the product. The only joke that has been made about the product is, "has anyone filled out a missing person's report for the AEW Women's Division". Is it really a valid comment when they have the top female performer in the Western Hemisphere and perhaps Japan?
The Current Undisputed Disgruntled Real Championship Wrestling Champions:
For those who claim "Championship Wrestling Champion" is redundant, remember that WCW and ECW would have to write it out the same way. Now I realize that Xtreme Professional Wrestling did one think wiser than Paul Heyman.
Return of the SuperClash or The Invasion???
The NWA is letting the United Wrestling Network feature their top prize, the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Impact has been trying to maintain alliances through out its entire existence. These companies are just trying to stay relevant like World Class Championship Wrestling, the American Wrestling Association, and the Continental Wrestling Association were when the WWF was going national and the Jim Crockett Promotions was purchasing the failed territories that would make of Ted Turner's WCW base. This leads me to feel like AEW developing a working relationship with Impact Wrestling as a desperate move.
AEW is the top wrestling show in the U.K. and would probably be the top wrestling show on cable television if WWE NXT would like to increase their numbers and move to Tuesday or Thursday. I would prefer Thursday because YouTube-based shows are running on Tuesday. You would say the NFL would make Thursday a tough sell, but that product is also simulcasted on one of the major networks. The commentary is the same, so why worry about the NFL Network as a competitor?
AEW has had solid booking through out its existence while having a roster that might be considered too deep for its own good. What sense does it make for them to align themselves with another promotion that will only throw in more talent that you need to find things to do with? People are going to be asking for dream matches and that may have them become less patient with the angles that are currently being run.
The only positive this alignment can immediately have is to make Kenny Omega an even larger heel that he already is. For this to really work though, it will have to be Jon Moxley needing to run through the Impact Wrestling roster. I doubt this will work because the fans of Impact are going to embrace Omega as their own. Moxley is going into enemy territory as the enemy.
The only reason for Impact fans to not get behind Omega is because his belt outshines all of theirs. Granted, Impact has been screwing up the prestige of their "world" championship since the belt's inception and Moose calling himself the TNA World Champion, so with an outlaw champ currently present in the promotion, this seems redundant. Omega is now the target of all wrestling promotions, so him jumping ship does not make any sense.
I think back to when Jerry Lawler led a WWF invasion of ECW. That worked because it was not about titles. It was about destroying the lesser promotion. What is AEW going to get out of destroying Impact? Whenever the smaller promotion tries to invade the larger, the smaller always fails. UNFi did not beat New Japan. WCW lost to WWF.
An invasion angle works when it happens from within. The Bullet Club was initially all foreign wrestlers, but they were all NJPW talent. The beauty of the New World Order was the fact all of the members were the only months removed from being top stars in the WWF. It was an illusion that the NWO was an infiltration unit. Once the fans figured out that WWF did not want this to succeed, wrestling fans wanted to rebel againt McMahon. Wrestling became tribal on a national level.
Currently, wrestling is already tribal on a national level. This is obviously where my fear of this blog (DRCWwrestling.blogspot.com) becoming all about All Elite Wrestling. I do not watch NXT at this time because I want to say that WWE is wasting their best product. Also, how much wrestling do you expect me to watch? I also like to write movie reviews and rant about the worst people on Twitter like: @synapsize, @bp22, @pithyjoe, @SkipMcQ, @WillieGreenUSMC, @2holden2, @lit_fam_bro, @grimaldo123, @truthtruncheon, @realscottritter.
Being
of a redneck variety, certainly some of them are wrestling fans. If
they believe in QAnon, I would be shattering their world with my
theorizing about the dismantling kayfabe. Dislike them or not, I have to
let them have a fake world that is acceptable to believe in.
This invasion is something that I feel I will need to follow up on next week, but if there is not a title change on Smackdown, how does this help a blog that is themed around rankings?
What I should have done last night was caffeine up and watch my current Netflix DVD, "John Carpenter's Vampires". This would have given me a better blog post title. "Fear of Impact Wrestling. Fear of Becoming an AEW Blog. Fear of James Woods." Since I purchased "Videodrone" from Barnes & Noble's Criterion Collection sale, I suppose it will be better to run a "Fear James Woods" angle next week for my blogs. My "Once Upon a Time in America" has to be opened up at some point.
In the end, AEW better be getting a blog next week. I will need reprieve from @sfewp's favorite actor.
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