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*Blog post was started on May 3, 2021.

Shut Up! Your Bitching Did Not Fall Upon Death Ears.

Was our laughter too loud? Are we not taking your threats seriously enough? That is an attitude prevalent in multiple portions of my life.

You have morons on Facebook who post about their pride in being morons. This is not the stupid, "Back the Blue" frames on profile pics. At least you have genuine paranoia behind those. Criminal justice reform means that there will be more criminals in society. If they were sent to jail, they must be dangerous.

If you are from a place of privilege, I suppose you just want to feel safe. If you lock up all the have nots, then there will be none of them to threaten to rob you. Criminal justice reform means that we are no longer trying to keep up that standard. The end of cash bail means criminals only become accused, so they can skirt the system. This means the world will be more dangerous if they cannot be put in their place.

Prison is a place where the privilege fail to acknowledge that further criminal behavior is learned there. Do they only enjoy "Shawshank" for the tale of perseverance? Do they ignore Andy discussing how he never did anything criminal until he was sent to prison?

I say it is understandable paranoia, but anyone with a college degree who spouts it is probably just a racist. The criminal justice system made them feel like they were better than the downtrodden that were being trapped by it. If they are doing wrong regardless that our society makes it nearly impossible for them to survive on the straight and narrow, they deserve to be put away. They must accept that they will never be respectable.

People who think like the prior paragraph will claim it is not racism. It is just what needs to be done. This makes me wish there were a heaven and hell just so the ultimate wrong doers get sent to their appropriate place. In the end, these assholes at least came up with a long con to get what they want. The morons that I want to talk about did not take the time to come up with their stance.

The latest border I have seen on Facebook photos is "I would rather "poop emoji" in my hand and clap twice than take the vaccine." This one I saw was posted by a bartender from a bar in Peoria. At least I do not have to follow the bar's Facebook page any longer. Who would want to go in to a place that features people who promote unsafe work environments for its patrons? It is like, you are advertising your C grade from the health department.

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Is it about individual freedom? It is an attitude of, "I want the freedom to make my own mistakes." I can appreciate that, but when it comes to not getting a vaccine for COVID-19, the mistake is one of the options when it comes to your choice. Not taking it means you are an idiot.

At least when you experiment with drugs, you can try to mitigate the risk. If you do heroin with other people, it is safer because in the event of an overdose, the others can take steps to rescue you from the mistake. When it comes to taking any substance to escape, you can figure out when/what your limits are and take actions to avoid making further mistakes.

And I will acknowledge, there are better choices than turning to drugs. They are definitely pricier if you have your vices under control or never had them to begin with. But, if you feel the need to tackle feelings and thoughts you cannot handle, you can find a therapist who is right for you. Perhaps I really need to do that, but I have got my blogs and podcast that make me do things to better myself.

My belief is that as long as I am working towards being the best me, I am dealing with my problems in a constructive matter. It is just more fun at times to treat myself with half of a fifth of vodka.

Not taking the vaccine is a bad decision on all fronts. I am putting myself at risk and just being vulnerable to the disease makes me a risk to others. Being told by the wise that I cannot enjoy something because I am putting myself or others at risk, how am I going to enjoy my life? Yet, having that attitude makes me a commie because I expect others to show compassion or self preservation. I am a communist because I believe that people cannot be trusted to act in the best interest of society. It is not because I care about my fellow human.

"I have the right not to be vaccinated and that is what makes this country great." If failing to use your brain or care about other people, then America is not that great. Education is a total failure. Just because we have been saying that since Jim Crow does not mean we just need to accept that.

"The vaccine was made to quickly." Right, so you would not have taken the polio vaccine the moment it was deemed safe. Things move a lot faster than they did in the 1940's. Time is relative, so I think it took the same amount of time when you examine this further.

We are not making kids take the vaccine. Was it not the fear of autism the reason that anti-vax movement became a thing? Anyone over 16 can only be retarded by blunt force trauma and post traumatic stress disorder. You are too old to call the vaccine dangerous.

The morons I admire are the ones who refuse to argue. Basically, they are the ones who would rather physically fight you instead of argue. Might equals right I suppose. If you kill the ones who are looking to avoid death, then you are right by default. If no one is around to call you a moron, then ignorance is truly bliss.

Sadly, these idiots need someone to cheer them on, so they turn to imaginary friends. These friends need stories to make them believable. That is how you get terrorism and WWE NXT referees.

Drake Wuertz is so fed up with having to concern himself with other people that he has gone off and said that COVID-19 was a hoax to allow for child trafficking. If we where masks, we cannot be identified. If kids are forced to wear masks, those who are kidnapped cannot be identified. Has this been a problem? That is irrelevant because it can be.

Why is his health solely his responsibility while teaching a child about stranger danger is the government's? It is supposed to be the responsibility of a government that he obviously does not trust. I suppose its god will as he says, so anyone who questions his logic is evil and wants to bugger his kid.

I suppose not wanting to get vaccinated is a clever means of having the government sponsor you. Drake Wuertz obviously does not care about the health and safety of the wrestlers whom he is responsible for, so he is no longer qualified for that job. If you do not care about other people's safety, you are not qualified to work in the service industry. You have to be concerned about the safety of others when you work in industry or entertainment. 

Being anti-covid vaccines is the new mental handicap. It is true because people refuse to acknowledge that you are not qualified to hold any job. I guess the solution should be if you are not vaccinated, you cannot govern. At least you have me acknowledging that I am not cancelling capitalism.

 

More Championships: Better Cards and/or Merchandising

The most common thought about championships in wrestling is that there are too many. Because there are too many, they lack meaning. It takes away from people just beating each other up over personal issues like:

• NWA Hollywood Wrestling's Roddy Piper versus the Guererros in the 1970's
• WWF's George Steele versus Randy Savage in the 1980's
• WCW's Chris Benoit versus Kevin Sullivan in the 1990's
• WWE's Mick Foley versus Randy Orton in the 2000's
• ROH's Kevin Owens versus SCUM in the 2010's
• WWE's Rusev versus Bobby Lashley 2020

With 2020's first prominent personal issue being a cucking angle, I think we might want to step away from personal issues. Were the feuds listed above the best of each decade? No (I cannot actually judge Piper's [which did involve trophies and bets...research].), and I know that. Because most feuds need a championship to create the personal issues or further emphasize how important it is for the challenger (in most cases) to dethrone a champion. The latter being the basis for ECW's Raven character.

Raven made it a point to ruin Tommy Dreamer's life for alleged past indiscretions. ECW's fans knew that whoever the summer camp bully was, it was not the Dreamer they knew. To make matters worse for Dreamer was that Raven had become the heavyweight champion, so Raven reigned the Land of Extreme as a tyrant and it fell upon Dreamer to come up with a way to save the promotion. Raven's most heinous actions were at the expense of Dreamer's best friend, The Sandman. He stole his wife and child in order to make it nearly impossible for him to win his title back. The belt elevated one feud and was the center of the drama for the other.

You can argue that the championship's sole purpose is to instruct the fans which feud is suppose to be the headliner. That was definitely the case in the organizations that did not belong to the NWA, but in the NWA, every territory needed their own sets of belts. The fans needed to know who the best were when they went to the smoke-filled venues, and the promoters needed something to kick off the feuds.

It also promoted the wrestlers who had the belts on the national stage. A title reign just looks great on a resume.

As roster sizes grow, more championships give wrestlers more to do. Bookers cannot come up with a personal issue for every pairing. If somebody has a championship, they motivate wrestlers to become challengers. This is a play on the original premise of professional wrestling. Two would fight just to get the winner's purse. There is no reason to take it personally, until someone takes shortcuts to secure it.

The Wrestling Compadres Slamcast started to lose my interest after Wrestle Kingdom 13. Two of the current three host (only one of which was a founder) complained about eight of the nine bouts being for championships. They thought it was poor creative. They also failed to do the research to understand what the Kenny Omega entrance was, so it was not like they had a clue about how personal some of the issues were. Eventually, the cracks in the pod eventually made it Jake Lloyd's WWE-schilling opportunity as the year went on. Should someone remind Jake that Peter Rosenberg already does that?

If you want to say WWE has too many championships, you should be focusing on the lousy creative. People forget about championships because writers are told to do the same. With five belts of meaning (WWE/Universal, IC/USA, Womens', Tag Team, Women's Tag Team...sorry 24/7), should we not have at least one title defended each week? If not a title defense, than a number one contendership match for a secondary championship? This will let people remember them and it allows you to save your primary titles solely for pay-per-views.

And when you have two rosters (sometimes three), what makes more sense about who should be on the card? The one vying for the biggest prizes or those trying to resolve a wife-swap angle?

If bringing back honor into wrestling is too novel an idea, then what about the merchandising? With a little market research, you can figure out the toy replica production numbers and you have more products to sell. Do I ever visit WWE? No. Do I visit WWE Shop? Well, I only have so much content to write when the customers are not about.

If you do not want to have more titles, then why not introduce a new belt design after each WrestleMania? If the new look gets a backlash, your sells for overpriced replicas of the old belts will increase. It makes more sense than Superstar Highlighter sets.

You may say that all my ideas only apply to major promotions, and you are right for the most. If there are indie promotors out there who can mass produce belts, how the hell are you still indie? This does make me reminisce about my early days in the indies when there were NWA affiliates, but that is now studio wrestling's acronym. But for the aspiring indie promotors, the more belt designs out there, the easier it is to pass them off as your own instead of "wasn't that the" remarks from the marks. It is definitely more affordable than Dave Millican.

I guess I have just discovered the fault to my idea. Vince McMahon is not out to help the fans or the indies. What he produces is solely to get his name out there.

This has been an exercise for an audience of 900 when the wrestling world is an audience of one. It is great to know that my blog is doing better than wrestling is. If you want to increase my influence send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com and ask for a treatment of my pro-wrestling zombie comedy, "Main Event of the Dead". I would love suggestions on how to get this product out of development hell to development purgatory.

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CM Trump and NXT's Developmental Talent

What would the Monday Night Wars have been if there was accessible social media? My go to website was Bill Apter's 1wrestling.com, which was maintained by the same crew who handled Extreme Championship Wrestling's web presence. The reason I found that was because of ECW, so as far as I could tell, straight from the promoters' mouth was the only way to obtain any news. This kept the war limited to TV, so unless a wrestler came on to a Canadian sports program, it was relatively drama free. Neither of the three sides seemed to make it personal.

Social media has definitely changed that perception. On one front, these are allegedly independent contractors. Thus, everyone has got to make a name for themselves. The only way to sell yourself is to display that you are the best regardless if you believe it. So it started with Seth Rollins claiming that bank account trumps the admiration of experts, the industry, and compassionate wrestling fans.

This was a poor decision since no one was out to take food from his table. The IWC was only inspired to see people stealing bread from decadents. They were not going hungry thanks to The Elite, but they felt like the rich kid was out for their lunch money. I realized the Black Days were over.

The trolls wanted to be fed and CM Punk has better things to do...

Like paying Colt Cabana's legal fees. The courts may not agree with me, but it is what a well off person should do for someone who can see everything go to shit in an instance. Sorry if I am under estimating Cabana's worth. My experience is you can keep pressing on and only be a credit score. The only problem I am having with that is a lack of resources to get a Matt Classic tattoo to offset my Punk montage. But more importantly, the courts allow for the rape culture in this country, so just settle out of court.

All Elite Wrestling are more than happy to fulfill the demand. For the most parts, these guys know how to cut promos, unlike a babyface Rollins. Dominik Dijakovic needs to develop that. Hence why he is NXT, WWE's developmental brand. In a way, his Twitter response to Kenny Omega's interview saying that NXT talent would be doing dark matches or opening the Dynamite is a fairly valid opinion.

I have seen Donovan Dijak live and know that he is uber talented. The issue is that an indie promotion like AAW, there is no time for promos. Your actions are your words. And this is the same when it comes to a Ring of Honor TV taping. If you have a great match, you will be talked about. Since it is difficult to know when and where to watch ROH (before Fite TV), that was enough to make sure the world knew who you were. But...

The televised product does not tell the world who you are. NJPW answered that with the press conference-style post match interviews. With Fox wanting a sports-based product, maybe they should have moved NXT to Friday to go and give hot indie talent under that roster the developmental answers. Once Dynamite debuts, to probably a big number than NXT, Triple H will do the wise thing and mimic the AEW format to hide the underdeveloped weaknesses.

It is too early for anyone to start calling something AEW lite, and there are definitely marks who will buy the WWE narrative. I doubt "WWE 2K20 "sales will decrease due to a protest of them highlighting their "Women's Revolution." Since I am a wrestling fan who feels another narrative needs to be out there, here are the NXT performers who should be satisfied with being in Tony Khan's "handshake and a hot dog" matches.

NXT's Developmental Talent

Aliyah

Arturo Ruas

Boa

Bronson Reed

Cezar Bonomi

Damian Priest

Dexter Lumis

Dominik Dijakovic

Forgotten Sons

Humberto Carillo

Joaquin Wilde

Kona Reeves

Mansoor

Raul Mendoza

Riddick Moss

Street Profits

Taynara Conti

Tino Sabbatelli

Vanessa Borne

Xia Li

When I look at this list, a lot of the talent need gimmicks or angles to make them ready for WWE TV. Much of the talents had never been established themselves as winners on the WWE Network, so an a good angle could make them ready, especially in the women's division. Kona Reeves will not be AEW ready since they have MJF and the Street Profits are not as talented as Private Party. As for the Forgotten Sons and Moss and Sabbatelli, they just look live Vince McMahon hires, so there is no place for them outside WWE.

After doing the math, NXT's roster is still comprised of more ready for TV talent than not. Neither side in the war will be booking NJPW style, so NXT has enough depth. The advantage AEW has though is they are not relying on soon-to-be ready for TV talent. If you are on Dynamite, you are a star. WWE has a lot of guys and girls who need pushed to eventually fill in, but with only so much time, 15 of those listed may only be sitting out contracts that will leave them without a name.

This leads me to think that the age of developmental territories has passed. Sorry Kenny Omega had to remind us of the not ready for prime time players to make me realize that.

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Wagging the Wednesday Night Wars & the Real Heavyweight Championship

War! What Is It Good For? Ratings?

I am a wrestling fan, so this will turn into a wrestling blog, but I have an observation outside of the business. Is Donald Trump shuffling troops and abandoning the Kurds away to distract from the impeachment inquiry? He is going to get impeached, but if we are suppose to further invest our hopes and prayers towards our troops who are getting stationed in Saudi Arabia to attack Iran, Americans will have more patriotic things to worry about. And should we not respect the president for his "victory" over ISIS?

My subheading was the first title that I came up with for the blog. In it was two question. After the last paragraph, it turns out that that war just results in more questions. Why my original title suggest ratings is not about Wednesday Night Wars, it was that people will tune in for war. This at least tells us that Trump is an expert in reality TV. He will get people to pay attention to what he wants us to, even if that puts thousands at risk.

Now I further appreciate my preference to being a cord cutter. It keeps me away from most live broadcasts. And I know Hulu will not inspire me to change the channel when Fox News/Fox Nation try to sell their message on the NFL or Smackdown.

Then again, how am I going to watch All Elite Wrestling? If you are not watching live, how are you helping AEW's side? Maybe Comcast will make it easier once they get back to me about our dispute over DM's (or lack of DM's) about why I still have a shitty modem, why they did not follow up with me as promised, and why I must repeat information the I provided in the DM's to @comcastcares multiple times?

The FCC promised me they would. Too bad we must return to phone calls to do so. My next day off is Columbus Day, so wish me luck in returning their call.

If we cannot work something out, knowing my luck, the feds will read my anti-Trump and anti-Trump supporters blogs and tell Comcast they did their best. Best not to piss off Google then. If my assistant is ease dropping, GITMO may be in my future.

You would think I ought to be more afraid of my girlfriend's Alexa, but she uses it primarily for Christian radio, so it would need to navigate the orders to get me in trouble. The most extreme thing I ever asked it was, "Alexa. Play Ministry." There is a chance that might confuse it as well.

It surprised me that I would have anything to blog about this week. I have been busy enough with my downtime trying to preserve my seventh anime-related website that I have not drafted another NFL fantasy team, forgot to draft a replacement tight end for one of them, or read any comic books. My Saturday shift might be dedicated to binging "Peaky Blinders". Which reminds me, my better half and I best start "Fleabag" tonight.

With nine anime reviews sitting in my drafts a long with eight other blogs to be released, I was fearing that I would lose track of wrestling blogs to move over to my site dedicated to the nuances of "No Holds Barred" and THE REAL heavyweight championship of wrestling. Then I realized that my back-and-forth structure for "Rip 'em System" posts was going to be a blog short. If only there was a title change that demanded debate to determine who the Real Heavyweight Champion was?

2019's Disgruntled Wrestling Fan's Real Heavyweight Championship Title History

The 85th Real World Heavyweight Champion:

IWGP's Kenny Omega (January 1 to January 4)

(To see how we got there, check out "A Wrestling Weekend Past and All the Corrections").

Pretender(s): NWA's Nick Aldis; ROH's Jay Lethal/Matt Taven

Since Matt Taven was claiming to be the Real ROH World Heavyweight Champion, it would not be fair to Flair (1991 throwback) to discount him as being in contention.

The 86th Real World Heavyweight Champion:

WWE World Heavyweight Champion: The New Daniel Bryan (January 4 to April  7; 4th reign)

Pretender(s): IWGP's Kazuchika Okada; ROH's Matt Taven

Okada was the first IWGP champion to hold the Real Championship, but because Hiroshi Tanahashi and Jay White failed to defend the championship after Kenny Omega lost it, conventional wisdom dictates that a true champion is one who can defend their title.

The 87th Real World Heavyweight Champion:

WWE World Heavyweight Champion: Kofi Kingston (April 7 to October 4)

He has never got to wrestle the style of matches that the five prior champions have, but he has been able to stay with the same company for eleven years and be the best performer at times during it. He may be too good to ever allow to face the likes of Okada or Omega

The Current (Oct 11) and 88th Real World Champion:

AEW's Chris Jericho (October 4 to at least October 16 [Darby Allin's challenge], 2nd reign)

Pretender(s): WWE's Brock Lesnar, NXT's Adam Cole, ROH's Rush

I know this comes across as an AEW mark's opinion, but the Ring of Honor's roster is not what it was when any of the former Real Champions who represented the title had to contend with. With AEW taking most of the Being the Elite cast, the gaijin element in NJPW went with it (At least in terms of those who identify as North American. Chase Owens is an honorary Tongan). Brock Lesnar's WWE Championship victory has only added to the disgruntled's need for another championship option. The Universal Championship ruining Bray Wyatt's Fiend does not make that an option.

Chris Jericho had to defeat Kenny Omega to be in contention for the title. Pac's one pinfall loss and a victory over Omega shows how stacked the AEW roster is. The challenger that all eyes are focused on, Cody, is a former Real World Champ. And speaking of eyes, not since World Championship Wrestling did another World Championship have so many looking at it. 

The AEW World Heavyweight Championship cannot help but be the top title despite such little history behind it. It could be argued since the WWWF title was in primarily contested in the country's most influential city, it was reasonable to say it was the only other important American version of the world heavyweight championship. When Chris Jericho is the first champion, all seems right with the wrestling business. The Invasion was over by that point.

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