This was
meant to be your ‘Money in the Bank Anthology’ edition of Review Corner, but
instead I would like to take a moment to talk you person to person, not
Wrestling God to person if you catch my drift. The ‘WWE Straight to the Top:
Money in the Bank Ladder Match Anthology’ Review Corner will be ready for you
on Monday November 11th, the day of the release because I need to get something
off of my chest. Something important to me, though it won’t be to anyone
reading this I imagine.
We’ve
been together for nearly two years now, since WrestleMania 28 and I have done
my very best to bring you the best insight I could on the wrestling world. Most
people have liked what I have had to say, other have taken issue with it but
then I subscribe to the theory that you can’t please all of the people all of
the time. The door has always been open for you to walk out of it at any time
and for those just discovering our little world here to enter of their own free
will. Apart from the wrestling world and my views of it, I realised recently
that you don’t know a lot about me as a person. You know I’m a writer and actor
who is looking for his big break but that’s about it. Whilst I don’t want to
give too much away because I believe it ruins the mystique about the person
writing this, I would just like to take this moment to ask you all for help.
I like to
think that I have given you everything I have during our time together, that I
have helped some people get through hard times in their lives, added to their
wrestling knowledge here and there and if it’s you that I’m talking about then
you have been most welcome. Right now, I need your guidance and advice on not
one but two issues I have going on in my life – don’t worry, the wrestling part
of this blog follows below. The last time we talked properly I was going on
holiday and it was a very good one. But something happened whilst I was there.
Something that very rarely happens to your WG. The holiday camp I was staying
on had a clubhouse with entertainers there. I’ve been before and never paid one
of them much attention, but this time was different.
One of
the entertainers at the camp I was staying at caught my eye in such a way that
she’s brought out feelings in me that I’ve only ever had one before in my life.
I won’t go as far as to say I fell in love with her on first sight but I
certainly fell for her the first time I saw her. Her name was Rosie and she was
so beautiful that it hurts just to think about her. After I saw her, the rest
of the holiday became immaterial. It didn’t matter because I knew that I’d
found someone special even though then, she didn’t know I existed. I tried to
talk to her throughout the week but couldn’t bring myself to do so thanks to a
crippling fear of rejection. You see this, the wrestling ring, writing and
acting is my world and love is something that I’m a novice at. Short of walking
up to her, putting her in a headlock and telling her how I felt – that never
happened – I was stuck.
I have a
fear of being embarrassed in front of women I like. It stops me talking to them
and telling them things that may lead to something better. Its part of the
reason why I’m still single, the other part is because I’ve concentrated so
heavily on my career. I want it to be different this time though. I can’t tell
you how much I want to be with her because she’s such a beautiful human being
and not just on the outside. Rosie struck me as the type of woman who when
you’re with her, everything in the world, no matter how stressful and horrible,
is perfectly fine. The type of person you want to be with all day, every day
and your Wrestling God just can’t get her off of his mind. I was genuinely
saddened when my time there was over because I fear now that I’ll never see her
again, but what can I do? I never even got to talk to her. The most I got out
of her was a smile to die for and an enthusiastic wave.
You can
see my problem right? I know her full name, I know she’s on Facebook but I
don’t know what type of reaction I’d get from her if I just message her out of
the blue. Hell, I don’t even know if she currently is in a relationship. The
distance between us is too far currently for me to go back in person and tell
her, but her home town isn’t that far from mine once her job there has
finished. I would gladly find the finances to go to her as much as I could if I
knew that there was the slightest chance of her saying yes.
My mind
works in weird ways, you see. Even though Rosie didn’t look at me the way other
women have in that ‘Go away loser’ type of way, my mind has convinced me that
was because she was paid not to and that if I approached her on Facebook out of
the blue she would laugh at me and tell me to get lost. But on the other hand
the thought of not trying and losing her forever if I ever got a chance with
her is too much to bear. Then my mind convinces me that as an unemployed actor
and writer I have nothing to offer her. I’ve done this once before. There has
only ever been one other woman your Wrestling God has felt like this about and
I didn’t act on it. By the time I gathered up the courage it was too late and I
lost her. Okay, time passed and wounds healed but is life really too short to
allow that to happen again? Certainly, women like her – if she is single –
don’t stay that way for too long.
I don’t
know if I’m in love with her because I don’t know if you can be in love with
someone you don’t really know. But I do know that this feeling is one that I
never want to go away and she’s someone I desperately want in my life. Sadly,
Rosie isn’t the only problem facing your Wrestling God at the moment. Apart
from Rosie, there was another reason I didn’t want to leave the camp. You see I
love it there. A lot of people who go look at it and think ‘what a shit hole’,
but actually, when you look past how small it is to what happens in the club
house with the entertainers then that’s the life I want right now. Don’t get me
wrong, I know my future lies in front and behind the camera making television
shows but being an entertainer at that camp for six – seven months is something
that I would love to do.
It looks
tremendous fun apart from the small pay. Getting up in the morning, doing
activities with the guests until around half three when you return to your
chalet for dinner and to prepare for the evening. Then going back to the club
ready to entertain in the evening with music, dancing, team shows. I love the
thought of doing that and it’s something I would love to do. So imagine my
surprise when I find out that camp is holding auditions in January for next season’s
holidays. The problem is those auditions usually involve a dance or song number
as part of the audition and I can’t really do either of those, however I can
provide comedy in the form of stand-up and I can dance if given enough time to
learn the steps.
So the
second part of the help I need from you is deciding whether or not to go to the
audition. There’s a chance that I may get the job but there’s also the chance I
could embarrass myself beyond recognition. If I was to attend and come out the
other side successful then I may have to put this blog on ice for six months if
not more. There certainly wouldn’t be time to do both. Though if I was to be
successful I would like to think you all would understand and give me your best
wishes. It’s just so confusing at the moment. On the one hand if I took both
chances on Rosie and the job then I’d have everything I wanted out of life so
far, but at the same time with that job I would lose a lot as well. I’ve worked
so hard for so long without reward; I think I’m owed a little something back. I
think I deserve something nice for once and I want her so bad.
Leaving
the wrestling alone for a moment I would like to hear from you. All of you, any
of you who have gone through the same thing in life where women or a partner or
love is concerned. Whether you took the kind of chance I want to but am too
afraid to take or whether you jumped in and decided it was better to chance it
than wonder for the rest of your life. If it worked out for you, if it didn’t,
if you didn’t bother and then regretted it afterwards. Please write and tell
me, because this is unchartered territory for me. The comment box is open for
any and all of your thoughts on both matters. Should I at least try and see
what she thinks or should I just leave it as something special and forever
wonder ‘what if’?
I would
rather have thirty minutes of something beautiful than a lifetime of nothing
special.
Discworld
After
that little outcry for help, let us move on to the reason we all came here. In
2013, WWE’s DVD and Blu-ray output has been very good, barring a few little
niggles here and there. By far, as of the end of October 2013 WWE’s worst
outputs have been ‘The Attitude Era’, ‘Top 25 Rivalries’ and ‘Goldberg: The
Ultimate Collection’. You will probably have your own to add to that list but
they are by far two of the worst the company have put out in 2013.
Now,
looking into 2014, WWE have been sending out surveys to members of WWE.Com in
order to grasp what titles we would like to see in the forthcoming year. The
question I would ask would be why just WWE.Com subscribers - fans who are
usually marks for the talent and don’t know bad from good – and not the whole
world? Doesn’t the opinion of those who aren’t members count all of sudden? Do
we just have to put up with what others decide they would like to see and still
be expected to shell out money on it upon its release? WWE should have opened
up the survey to everyone who visits WWE.Com in order to grasp a wider range of
opinions.
For those
that haven’t heard already, WWE will be producing yet another release on Shawn
Michaels in the new year which will be released in the UK around March time,
chronicling ever one of his WrestleMania matches. The rest of the suggestions
in the survey were as follows:
- A documentary on Paul Heyman
- Where Are They Now?
- The Best of WCCW (hosted by Michael Hayes)
- A documentary on Bruno Sammartino
- A Nexus DVD
- Best of Sting
- International wrestling matches from around the world
- Top 50 OMG! WCW moments
- Best of Ultimate Warrior
- Best of John Cena
- Best of WrestleMania
- A "Big Man" DVD on Andre the Giant, Big John Studd, etc.
- Best of WWE PPV
- A dark matches DVD
A lot of
those releases such as the Bruno Sammartino and Paul Heyman documentary, the
dark matches, where are they now, international wrestling matches, best of
Sting, Ultimate Warrior and WCCW sound like good choices. The rest though, not
so much. Hands up anyone who wants to see yet another release dedicated to John
Cena or WrestleMania. A whole nine hour output on WWE’s big men who were mostly
poor wrestlers no one wanted to watch or the Nexus who were famously destroyed
by John Cena in an amazing display of selfishness? Whoever thinks up these
releases needs a reality check. In case anyone was wondering these are the
releases WWE really should be putting out:
- ‘Everybody Has A Price: The Life and Times of The Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase’ (Documentary and matches)
- 'Rule Britannia: The Best of The British Bulldog' (Documentary and matches)
- 'The Best of WCW's Cruiserweights' (Match compilation)
- 'The King of Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart' (Documentary and matches - though thanks to Owen Hart's widow's sour relationship with WWE this is unlikely to happen)
- Jake 'The Snake' Roberts (Documentary and matches: a better one that the last offering)
- Scott Hall Documentary and matches
- Kevin Nash Documentary and matches
- Jerry Lawler Documentary and matches
- Lex Luger Documentary and matches
- Vader Documentary and matches
Those
titles, done right, could be a huge smash for WWE. Much better than yet another
release detailing the best John Cena or WrestleMania matches. Everyone listed
above has done enough in the wrestling industry to warrant a release and now
Hall and Roberts are clean, WWE have no more excuses as to why they haven’t got
those titles in the works, let alone why they’re not both in the WWE Hall of Fame.
WWE need to prioritise what they have and haven’t already released in the past
in order to get the most out of that extensive video library.
More
repetitive releases will see a downturn in profit for the company. It’s time to
put personal feelings behind them and do what’s best for business.
Onwards
and upwards...
