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Thought: Why the Macho Man means so much to so many people…

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Some of you may ask, why is the Macho Man so important? Why is he a big deal in the news? Not only he is a favorite in the wrestling industry, he is also a favorite to a lot of non-wrestling fans as well. The Macho Man is a great actor, entertainer and live performer. He is the king of making memorable catchphrases that everyone can impersonate. He can make memorable catchphrases more than any other wrestler out there. He was also a phenomenal wrestler and a great bodybuilder. He had an amazing physique. He was still in great shape even in his 50’s. He was a very lean and muscular guy.

He is an inspiration to people of all ages, from children to adults. Why? Simply because, he is a love-able person. People are interested in his image. The full bearded look, sunglasses, long hair, and bandanna. He was also funny and entertaining. People also loved the clothes he wore when he performed in the ring.

In my opinion, it was the Macho Man that made professional wrestling mainstream, not Hulk Hogan. Many wrestlers over the years became wrestlers because of Macho Man. If there was no Macho Man, there would be no Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair or the Ultimate Warrior. Randy Savage means a lot to so many people. He was a hero, not just in the wrestling industry, Randy Savage was a hero to everyone in the world.

You would see Macho Man everywhere you go. I’m also sure you would hear at least one person say, “Ooooh yeeeeeahhh”, which is the most impersonated catchphrase. Macho Man was the king of the entertainment industry. The Slim Jim commercials and made a few cameos for a few films.

Lets hope Vince McMahon will let Macho Man in the Hall of Fame next year. I still can’t believe he’s gone. I’ve been a die hard Macho Man fan, for years. He did what he did, because loved to entertain people. He liked to make people smile and laugh, that’s what he did this for. He was one of the best entertainers in the world and no one could top him ever.

He maybe gone but the wrestling industry needs to keep his legacy alive by letting him in the Hall of Fame, release more Macho Man DVD’s, action figures, etc. Anything to keep him remembered. Yes, the wrestling industry lost a lot of legendary wrestlers over the years such as Eddie Guerrero and more. Macho Man was special and he’s gonna be missed.

In his honor, I plan to watch the Macho Man 3 disc DVD set this weekend.

Kev

TNA Impact, WWE news

Fellow wrestlers send out their condolences to Randy Savage on twitter…

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Here are all the tributes to Randy Savage by other wrestlers from twitter, enjoy:

From Hulk Hogan – “I’m completely devastated, after over 10 years of not talking with Randy, we’ve finally started to talk and communicate. HH”

From Eric Bischoff – “Very sad to hear the news about Randy Savage. Randy was as passionate about the wrestling business, as intense of…”

From Mick Foley – “I just heard the sad news about the Macho Man. Randy Savage was one of my favorites performers, and my heart goes out to his loved ones.”

From Kevin Nash – “I lost a close friend today. If anybody in heaven is wondering who the cat in the ugly cowboy hat is it’s Randy. Love you Bro. Never another”

From Chris Jericho – “Randy Savage was a true influence and inspiration to me and taught me some very important lessons,in and out of the ring. Rest in peace Mach”

From Beth Phoenix – “No words for this very sad day. Condolences to Randy Savage’s family, friends and millions of fans. #MachoMan”

From Trish Stratus – “Rest in peace Randy-my first inspiration in the ring. My prayers & condolences to the Savage family #RIPMachoMan”

From Bret “The Hitman” Hart – “I have no words to say. This one hits me hard. We lost one of the best.”

From Stone Cold Steve Austin – “Just heard about Macho Man Randy Savage…unmatched intensity in the ring. A hellacious performer and terrific promo. A real bad ass. RIP.”

From John Cena – “CeNation. The untimely passing of randy savage is indeed tragic. All true fans of wrestling will mourn this loss. One of the all time greats”

From Shawn Michaels HBK – “Greatest advice from “Mach”- I was angry & wanted to leave WWE. He said, Don’t take urself out of the game. If ur still here…”

From Val Venis (Sean Morley) – “Just heard the sad news. RIP to one of the greatest performers ever. Randy Macho Man Savage.”

From Al Snow – “R.I.P. Randy Savage you will always be remembered”

From Mickie James – “Ooh No! My childhood favorite! RIP Macho Man… *finger in the air* ”

From Amy Dumas aka “Lita” – “Even as a vegetarian, I feel the need to snap into a slim jim in honor of Mach. #RIPMachoMan”

From Stacy Karter aka “The Kat” – “So sad 2 hear about Macho Man.”

From William Regal – “Just heard of the passing of Randy Savage.A one of a kind great performer.RIP.”

From Jim Ross – “Just heard Macho Man died this morning of a heart attack while driving his vehicle in Tampa. Condolences to all Randy Savage fans/family.”

From The Rock – “RIP Randy “Macho Man” Savage – you were one of my childhood inspirations and heros. Strength, love and prayers to the Savage/Poffo family.”

I’m sure there’s tons more.

Kev

WWE news

Report: Bret “The Hitman” Hart defends wrestling in WWE!!!

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Us wrestling fans are not the only people disappointed with Vince McMahon’s moves on ignoring “wrestling” in WWE. Look else disagrees with this. That’s right, the legendary, Bret “The Hitman” Hart. Bret explains that WWE will always be wrestling no matter how much Vince chooses to ignore it.

Read more on what Bret have to say about the WWE, here.

Bret brings up some valid points. As long as the WWE still has a ring, with wrestlers doing matches in ring attire, then it’s still wrestling, no matter what you think of it. I don’t really see how Vince could call it “entertainment” because it doesn’t make any sense to me.

Even if you don’t like TNA Impact, you should still give that company credit for staying true with “wrestling” though.

Wrestling is important, so it shouldn’t be ignored.

Kev

TNA Impact, WWE news

RANT: Why TNA Impact is better than WWE…

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I’ll admit that the WWE’s new direction is kind of crap. It’s getting worse. I don’t like how the WWE is ignoring wrestling and turning it into an entertainment business myself. I’ll always respect Vince McMahon and his superstars, but WWE shouldn’t be “Entertainment” for kids. The WWE started off as “wrestling” in the 80’s and early 90’s but in the 2000’s years, the company changed, big time. WWE really became childlike.

WWE doesn’t like calling their performers, “wrestlers”, they call ’em “superstars”. They don’t like calling wrestling matches, “matches”, instead they call ’em, bouts. Those are just examples of how WWE is trying to ignore wrestling completely.

A lot of fans are complaining that WWE is not wrestling anymore and that’s why a lot of them watch TNA Impact instead. It is why TNA Impact is getting more popular and bigger because fans want more “wrestling”. TNA’ s goal is not only to compete with WWE, what they are doing is that they want to give us wrestling that WWE doesn’t do anymore.

So why is TNA Impact better than WWE??? I can think of these reasons at the top of my head:

  • Wrestling – TNA’s main focus is on wrestling. Since WWE isn’t wrestling anymore, TNA vows to keep it wrestling. They are committed to giving wrestling fans what they want.
  • Better story lines – TNA has more impacting story lines than WWE, in my opinion. There is more intensity in the story lines than WWE would have came up with. Still though, the TNA story lines make true “wrestling” and staying away from the entertainment side.
  • Better main events – You don’t see John Cena and Randy Orton hogging up the main events in TNA do ya? No. That’s because TNA has a lot of main eventers over there, from AJ Styles, RVD, Sting, Ken Anderson, Kurt Angle, Matt Morgan, Samoa Joe, etc. We see different main events in TNA. It’s not always the same main events like WWE is known to having the same boring main events all the time.
  • TNA allows swearing, blood, and violence – There’s plenty of swearing, bloody matches and hardcore violence in TNA. Something that WWE would never have again.
  • Hotter women – TNA has way hotter women than WWE. More cleavage and more skin. Plus, TNA doesn’t call ’em Divas.
  • Better promos (or mic skills) – TNA wrestlers can pull off better promos and in ring speeches than WWE could ever do. All those guys are pretty amazing on the mic, I especially have been impressed with Ken Anderson lately. AJ Styles has great mic work too, same with Bully Ray.
  • Better backstage skits – You know how in WWE when a superstar is being interviewed by a WWE backstage reporter, and then they get into drama with other wrestlers? It’s not like that in TNA. TNA doesn’t do backstage interviews where they ask the wrestlers questions about what happened out there in the ring. TNA wrestlers just do their acting on camera continuing their story lines throughout the show.

I think that pretty much covers it. That’s why I watch TNA every week now because they focus on the “wrestling”. It really is sad to what WWE has become. I’ll still watch RAW and “Wrestlemania” of course, I just don’t watch WWE ppv’s too much anymore.

Kev

WWE news

I think Edge was one of the first wrestlers to retire at such a young age…

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Over the years of professional wrestling, when wrestlers retire from the business, most of them retire at such an old age. Many wrestlers retire around the age of 45 – 65. I’m pretty sure that Edge is the first wrestler to retire at such a young age. Edge, whose real name is, Adam Copeland, is only 37 years old. Yes, he’s surprisingly that young.

For the past year or so, Edge, keep teasing wrestling fans that a retirement is up ahead. Turns out that this is serious and real. It’s not a storyline retirement. The most iconic wrestlers are leaving us like crazy: Stone Cold, Ric Flair, Mick Foley, Shawn Michaels, etc. Triple H is also planning a future retirement. They’re all leaving us. The wrestling world.

I was never a big fan of Edge. Never cared for his wrestling and gimmick. I also thought he was kind of overrated, but I did respect him as a performer though. He did have some pretty memorable matches. I think the best match he ever did was the first “Money In the Bank” ladder match in which he won that one.

This is why the WWE keep shoving John Cena and Randy Orton in our faces, because most of the top guys are gone. There’s hardly anybody left anymore. It’s sad really.

What’s next for Edge? Will he stick around WWE but as a performer and not as a wrestler or will he move on from the wrestling business for good and start a new career? He might be another wrestler to start a full time movie career. Edge can’t wrestle anymore, he was forced to retire out of that. He’s been diagnosed with spinal stenosis, so if he continued to wrestle and if he got injured again, he could end up on a wheel chair for life. He had a long history of injuries over the years. That’s why Shawn Michaels and Stone Cold were forced to retire because of their long history of injuries. Shawn always had a problem with his back, and Stone Cold had a problem with his neck.

While WWE is fake and scripted, injuries do happen for real in professional wrestling. Accidents happen just like any other job. I think Edge should be the special guest referee for the John Cena vs. The Rock match at WM-28, that would be his perfect final appearance in WWE.

Edge had a great career with many classic moments. I wish him well in his future. In honor of Edge, check out the video below.

Kev

WWE news

Not a Cool Video: I don’t like what Scott Hall have become, it’s so sad!!!

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Charlie Sheen should take note. Sheen should look at what Scott Hall is going through. If you don’t know who Scott Hall is, he is a former WWE/WCW star who used to go under the name of Razor Ramone in old school WWF, plus he was one of the founders of the nWo group in WCW.

Here is Scott Hall, performing at some Indy wrestling event in Fall River, M.A. He felt sick and was hospitalized that night. Scott tried to walk to the ring and climb through it but he couldn’t. You can see he has a group of guys helping him to the ring. It’s sad.

You still have to give Scott credit and kudos though. It’s obvious he didn’t care if he was feeling like that, he was committed to performing. He had a lot of guts performing that night even if he was a mess. The show must go on, I guess.

I wish him well. He is an incredible performer, I always admired him in the wrestling business. Get well soon, Chico!

Watch the video, here.

Kev

movies, WWE news

Triple H…the next action movie star?

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I just got done watching the movie, “The Chaperone”, starring WWE star, Triple H. I’d have to say that this was the first bad movie I saw on Netflix. It was horrible. Bad acting, bad writing, just an all around bad movie. If I had one positive thing to say about this flick is that when I saw Triple H in this film, I immediately thought to myself, “This guy is going to be the next action movie legend”.

“The Chaperone” marks, the acting debut of Triple H. It’s a family comedy about a father just getting out of prison for robbing banks, and he reunites with his thirteen year old daughter. He gets a job as a “Chaperone” with  a group of kids going on a field trip to a Dinosaur museum. Other bank robbers try to hunt them down to get their money back. Very simple plot. It’s kind of like, “Kindergarten Cop” with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Yes, Triple H does have the looks and the potential to be an action movie star. Will Triple H ever star in a violent action movie with a hard R rating? Yes. One day he will, but he needs to be out of contract with WWE in order for that to happen. WWE is family friendly PG so WWE Films have to make family friendly films from this point on. Triple H said in interviews said he had plans to retire from wrestling to focus on an acting career for movies.

Seems like all wrestlers are doing that these days, The Rock and Steve Austin for example. Triple H could be a huge action movie star, if he chooses the right films. Triple H will never be bigger than Arnold, but I can definitely see him topping The Rock and Steve Austin easily in films.

I’d love to see Triple H get casted for the next, “Expendables” movie. Him and Sly would make a great team up. While, “The Chaperone” wasn’t shown in theaters, it was a straight to DVD release, it’s still a nice way to get Triple H’s name out there in the movies, a nice start, even though the film wasn’t any good.

Trips will star in a huge blockbuster movie someday. When wrestlers star in blockbuster movies, them becoming a superstar in film doesn’t happen over night. The Rock made his film acting debut in a CGI character as the Scorpion King, for “The Mummy Returns”, the Rock’s popularity in film grew from there. “The Scorpion King” got his own movie and it became a major hit. Steve Austin made his acting debut as a cameo for the Adam Sandler movie, “The Longest Yard”. Then Austin starred in mostly direct to DVD movies with only one big screen movie, “The Expendables”.

I wanted Triple H as Conan for the “Conan, The Barbarian” remake but that didn’t happen. Maybe Trips will one day, get his own Conan film.

Kev

TNA Impact, WWE news

Report: Vince McMahon changes name for his company to WWE, taking the word “wrestling” out completely…

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The WWE has changed it’s company name to, um, WWE. It will no longer be called, “World Wrestling Entertainment”.

Read more on the story, here.

While I do support WWE and wrestling, I do hate how Vince is trying to ignore “wrestling” and turning it into entertainment. As we all know, WWE started out as “wrestling” in the 80’s and 90’s, but in the 2000’s years, the company changed to strictly family “entertainment”.

This is one reason why I’m starting to watch TNA Impact, weekly because they concentrate on the “wrestling” more than the “entertainment” side. WWE is aimed toward family entertainment and TNA Impact is aimed toward the adult audience. TNA Impact is trying their best to reinvent, the “90’s attitude era” of WWE. During the 90’s of WWE, it used to be wrestling with violence, blood, sexy women and all that stuff. TNA wants to give us all that which WWE doesn’t have anymore.

I’ll admit that I am pretty hooked to TNA Impact, I find myself watching it every Thursday. TNA Impact is getting bigger and better with their storylines and wrestling. TNA will never get bigger than WWE, but they are getting pretty close. TNA have been having shows in bigger arenas and their TV ratings are going up weekly. So TNA is doing something right. Some of the storylines in TNA Impact are pretty intriguing and interesting. They do things over there that WWE could never do. I’m enjoying Ken Anderson’s feud with the guys in Immortal, Sting and RVD. TNA is having Ken Anderson feud with at least 10 wrestlers at once, and it’s almost like the whole company is on to him. Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff have took control of the company “storywise” and I’m sure Dixie Carter will get her job back somehow in a big way. I’m also enjoying Kurt Angle’s feud with Jeff Jarrett which is pretty intense stuff. While TNA tries to compete with WWE, they try to keep their storylines different than WWE. I also think AJ Styles is a phenomenal performer.

Anyhow, back to WWE, even though I still watch and don’t like their “family entertainment direction” myself, I continue to watch because I still respect their performers. It’s sad that “Attitude” is dead in WWE, I miss the old days.

Kev

WWE news

Wrestling topics getting more popular in this blog…

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For the past couple of weeks, all my wrestling posts in this blog have been getting the most views lately. It’s usually like that around Wrestlemania time, people will start looking at blogs and google for Wrestlemania information.

Why do I enjoy talking wrestling so much? It’s just my way of trying to get new people into it. My way of trying to get people to respect the wrestling business. That’s why in Facebook, twitter, and this site, you see me talk about wrestling so much. People have criticized the wrestling business so much. There are still people out there that don’t watch wrestling yet they still talk negative about the business. You know the usual attacks people make about the wrestling business: “they are a bunch phonies fake wrestling”, “they’re just guys in undies in the ring”, “wrestling is gay porn”, “wrestlers are a bunch of steroid monkeys”, etc. You know the deal. When people make those attacks, I’ll have no problem telling them that what they say is wrong and you can betcha I will defend the wrestling industry.

These wrestling guys NEED TO BE RESPECTED! I look at wrestling as theatre, that’s what they are. Theatre performers like in Broadway. These guys work very hard, traveling on the road 280 days a year, with no seasons off. These guys don’t have much time for themselves and they’re willing to be away from their families for a long time to perform in front of thousands of fans. That’s why they need to be respected. If people will continue to talk shit about wrestling, then they must watch MTV reality shows or soap operas or something.

I love the wrestling business. I may not like certain storylines or wrestlers but I will always support the wrestling industry 100%. They’re good at what they do, better than anybody. If people hate wrestling, then they have to look at some of the fake stuff they enjoy watching like, “American Idol”, “The Biggest Loser” or “Survivor”, I can’t stand those shows and I know they are very popular. Wrestling is where all the true talent is, in my opinion. The wrestling industry has a lot of guts to do what they do, and I respect them for that.

Kev