Sitting in my rocking chair last night, with a glass of Geritol in one hand and my remote in the other, I did something I rarely do now days. I watched an episode of Raw completely. Honestly, my curiosity was piqued about the rumored "Big Ending" that would have everyone talking. I wondered what could it be and truthfully if it would manage to do as the rumors said or would it be, like normal with WWE the last few years, a let down.
When CM Punk walked out with the title still and there being so much time left in the show, I was wondering what the big finale would be, then I heard that Punk was coming back out. When Punk started going into his tirade my face was reminiscent of the same one I had when Punk sat Indian style at the top of the entrance ramp. I loved that he called the fans out for being lemmings, for letting the "faces" of the company, his included, lead them all around like stupid children. He was right; they do, he does.
Then of course that led to the Great One coming out to speak his peace. Rife with cock and doody jokes, lame insults and childish name calling. Is the Rock's lameness something new? OR has that era passed by? Where once we laughed and cajoled along with Rock, now we roll out eyes and wait for him to Rock Bottom someone and leave the ring.
Is CM Punk that good of a promo man, that he just makes the Rock look silly by comparison? (Much like he did to Kevin Nash some months back, where Nash looked like a slack jawed buffoon unable to respond with nothing more than what was pretty much a "Oh yeah, you are.") Or better yet is it that after being forced fed John Cena's cock and doody jokes for so long that it has made us realize that the Rock really wasn't all that great to begin with. The days of rivalries are long gone. There are no more feuds based on words slung, and clandestine assaults. Now feuds are based on ships passing in the night, or the next meal to the John Cena super hero machine.
There are very few people on the current roster who can promo with the strength that CM Punk has. Is it because they just aren't that good? I doubt that's the reason. More likely it's because very few of them have the "stroke" to come out and say half of what he does. If anyone else came out and questioned Little Jimmy getting more air time then Tyson Kidd or questioned Daniel Bryan being turned into a joke instead of the submission and mat master that he is, they would lose their much coveted air time.
We've lost something in our modern wrestling era of almost nightly wrestling and monthly-ish Pay Per Views. We've lost the thrill of the fight. We've lost the slow burn for fueds. We've lost the battle of words leading up to the big fight blow off. Looking at the roster now, I only see a handful of either group of wrestling talents that will have remembered promos like Jake "The Snake", Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair, Michael Hayes, Roddy Piper, Ted DiBiase,Jim Cornette, Paul E., Mick Foley, Terry Funk, and I could go on and on. It makes me sad to think that my kids won't learn to love the "Sport" of professional wrestling, the gist, the jive. They will just know the rapid feuds and their fast payoffs. Then again, we live in a society of short attention spans and MTV style editing. Should I really expect any different? My Rasslin' is long dead, replaced by the entertainers of the squared circle.
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