It’s an action packed time for WCW fans, the main-stream media is
crawling all over the place.
World Championship Wrestling has brought in major basketball and
football stars into the mix with professional wrestlers.
It’s such an exciting time in WCW, except to me. Whgy not you ask?
Well, it’s simple, I’ve already seen all of this from WCW before.
Kevin Greene will team with an ex-football buddy of his. For those of
you who don’t know, that ex-football buddy of Greene’s is his former
L.A.
Rams roomate, Bill 'Don’t Call Me Bill' Goldberg.
Another hot issue, especially to Jay Leno, is how 'The Mailman' Karl
Malone will team with Diamond Dallas Page to wrestle none other than
Hollywood Hogan and Dennis 'Rodzilla' Rodman.
So what we’re going to do now is hop into our SilkySmooth Pro
Wrestling Time Machine and travel to the 1996 Great American Bash.
We’ve come here to watch the now-hostage Ric Flair team with his
best friend, 'Double A' Arn Anderson to face Kevin Greene and an
ex-football buddy of his, Steve 'Mongo' McMichael. For those who never
saw that match, that was when Mongo turned his back on Greene and joined
the 4 Horsemen.
Wow, that match sounds oddly familiar. Anyway, let’s climb back
into the SilkySmooth Pro Wrestling Time Machine and travel to the 1997
Bash At The Beach.
We’ll now watch the match in which 'The Total Package' Lex Lugar
teamed up with the biggest goof in wrestling, The Giant, to face
Hollywood
Hogan and.....you guessed it, Dennis Rodman.
Do you see the point I’m trying to make here? You could travel back to
every match in history and you would never find the First Blood Match. I
always like to comment on the predictability of the two promotions.
The World Wrestling Federation pulled a curveball with this First
Blood Match. Every fan of the WWF thought there would be no way they
would let Austin lose the title so early in his reign as champion,
they were
sitting on a gold mine having him as champion. Yet, how was he
supposed to
make Kane bleed, seeing as how Kane wears that leather mask? Well, it
was
simple, Austin lost. The fans were stunned,(no pun intended) however,
they
were equally suprised when Austin regained the title the very next
night.
Yet, with the whole Rodman and Malone thing over in WCW, I can
only see 3 general ways that this match will end.
There’s the 'Good Guys Always Win' approach, where Malone and
DDP will win by just plain out-wrestling the two black and white goons.
(Hogan and Rodman for those who don’t understand the lingo I portray)
Then there’s the 'Bad Guys Only Win By Cheating' approach, in
which Hogan and Rodman will win by some sort of cheating. Like, use of a
foreign object or NWO-Hollywood will interfere in some fashion.
Then, there is my favorite, the 'Wow, I Never Thought Of That
Approach' approach, which is when someone who is not involved in the
match in any fashion, interferes in the match. Which for this match
wouldmost likely mean that the Wolfpac would interfere resulting in the
match being ruled a no-contest or someone in the match joining the
Wolfpac.
(DDP for the absent-minded)
Those are about the only ways I can see that match ending, unless
WCW and Eric Bischoff sprung and got some other high-name basketball
star to come in and interfere in the match. However, being a fan of
wrestling
for many years, I tend to study the ways of certain owners and
presidents and
the like, and I doubt WCW and Eric Bischoff would actully reach into
their
pockets to do such a thing.
My main point of this whole article is that WCW is just
too-predictable, especially in the summertime. Which is just one
reason that I
always have and always will prefer the WWF over WCW.
WCW supporters constantely talk of how WCW has tradition and the
WWF does not. Well, doing the same types of matches and feuds each
summer is not the type of tradition that I want to see.
The type of tradition that I would like to see is great traditional
wrestlers like Ric Flair. Oops, sorry, I guess I’m not really supposed
to talk
about how WCW is screwing Ric Flair. Yet, I just think that if WCW brags
about their tradition, don’t you think they would actually treat there
great
traditional athletes with respect and honor?
So, with that I guess I’ll end this issue of Smooth Words with saying
one last thing........
FREE RIC FLAIR
