So I bought tickets to attend a pro wrestling pay-per-view.
If you follow me on Twitter, this probably doesn’t come as a huge shock, but pro wrestling is definitely one of my guilty pleasures in life. The hilarious irony though: pro wrestling was banned by my mother in my house until I was a teenager. I got sucked in around the seventh grade when I was flipping channels and saw WCW Monday Nitro on. Somehow Hulk Hogan was a bad guy and Sting was dropping from the rafters beating the nWo off with a bat, making me a Sting fan for life.
When college started though, cable went bye-bye. It was likely good timing anyways as the WWE started to lose me. Most of the “Attitude Era” guys like Stone Cold and the Rock were on their way out and the John Cena show bored me.
Then senior year came at ND and so did the glorious cable. Once again, wrestling hooked me while flipping channels and I landed on Spike TV. This time there a six-sided ring grabbed my attention along with a guy named A.J. Styles flying around the ring. Then there was a near 300-pounder in Samoa Joe running around the ring and flying around as if he was under 200 lbs. To cap it all off, somehow Sting came out of retirement and was with this little promotion called TNA Wrestling (get your heads out of the gutter, it stands for Total Non-stop Action).
Now branded as Impact Wrestling, TNA will be celebrating their tenth anniversary by coming to the Dallas area for the first time with their annual Slammiversary PPV. Oddly enough, Sting will wrestling for the title, meaning it will be the first time I ever see my all-time favorite wrestle for a title live. Despite his age, Sting’s still got it. So the match should be some good fun as he takes on new top heel, Bobby Roode, who now has the longest title reign in the promotion’s history.
Some other familiar names of WWE fame will be wrestling as well: Kurt Angle, Jeff Hardy, Mr. Anderson (formerly Mr. Kennedy), RVD (also of ECW fame), The Dudley Boyz (now separate heel and face single competitors Bully Ray and Brother Devon), and Gail Kim. Mixed in with other TNA talent like A.J. Styles, Samoa Joe, Austin Aeris, and Christopher Daniels, they put on a rather great pure wrestling show. Even Hulk Hogan’s near crippled ass will be appearing (he’s the “GM”).
Somehow I’ve convinced my girlfriend to go with me as well (keeper). It should make for a great, guilty-pleasure-filled evening of fun.
Biscuit will probably be wishing for baseball tweets by the end of it.
The Roundup
Needs a whole lot of guilty only. So the Sandusky trail is about to get underway. I’m sure there will be many revelations that will just simply creep everyone out. It’s a good thing though the jury will be impartial–nearly all of them are connected to Penn State, but it’s ok, they promised to be fair!
Speaking of law breaking, the Meyer effect is still alive and well in Columbus.
Remember that time when Randy Shannon sued Miami? Well, that’s all settled.
Law & Order: Ann Arbor. Tommy Rees escaped a felony charge after his drunken limb failing, but Michigan Campbell somehow got a felony charge for trying to do a Duke’s of Hazzard style slide across a car hood while being a large man. Seriously.
Tweeting recruits should never be a guilty pleasure. Nothing good can ever come of it–especially, when it spirals out of control and DEATH THREATS ARE ISSUED.
Don’t piss off Bob Stoops. I really want to know what team rule was broken. Going from the mystic “indefinitely suspended” to “kiss your scholarship goodbye” surely can’t be a minor issue.
The only good dadgum idea to come out of the dadgum playoff talks this week. When Bobby Bowden becomes a voice of reason something has gone horribly wrong.
Attempting to chronicle the defining moments of ND football is a tall order, but that won’t stop One Foot Down from trying in their new series.
I have no other comment than: “must read.” It’s impossible to define this article in any other fashion.
The Beer
So guilty pleasures, huh? Might as well just call this week’s beer “crappy beer that Tex actually enjoys” because that’ll more or less sum it up.
Goes well enough with wrestling as well. I mean, you can’t pull a Stone Cold Steve Austin with finer beers after all.
http://youtu.be/2oMTsfJsMe8
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Mark G.
I read part of the Journal of Education article about Dasmine Cathey (I printed it out and read the it entirely and closely this weekend). I do not know whether to scream or cry.
Given the absolutely ridiculous graduation rates at essentially most schools, given the NCAA’s impotence and utter lack of effort, given the wide disparity between white and black GSRs, and given the indifference the sports press shows to issues like this, I wish I could figure out a way to sue the NCAA, ESPN, the SEC, etc., in some kind of RICO conspiracy suit for … oh, hell, something. Violation of the 13th Amendment?
NDtex
Crimes against humanity works for me because they are seriously screwing these kids over.
NDEddieMac
This post, it’s so cold.
Matt Q.
Coors? You’re fired.
NDtex
Oh so you want to play Vince, huh?
/gives MQ double-bird
/kicks MQ in gut
/stuns MQ
/climbs to middle turnbuckle
/chugs two Coors Lights
NDEddieMac
Maybe this will make MQ feel better: http://bit.ly/lnNAIZ
trey
I think this would be more him…
http://tiny.cc/zjklfw
apsteig
Sometimes the quantity of a beer equals the quality. I think I drank about 20 CLs last night after a bad afternoon in court.
Trey
Ive been to Royal Rumble and a few episodes of RAW live. Id prefer to just watch PPV on tv because theres so much going on outside the ring that u miss in the arena. The episodes are great in person tho.
And that’s the bottom line….
Cuz Stone Cold says so!
NDtex
I went to a couple WCW Nitros and one RAW. Never any PPV.
Usually for the TNA PPVs, it’s just straight up matches and too much insanity that would be too hard to track live. I’ll find out soon enough though.
The Ref
TWO
NDtex
Took me a while to get this. Genius.
The Biscuit
I might have to take over the Roundup. WRESTLING? This after all the Baseball, Tex?
CMON NOW.
NDtex
Hey, there has been no baseball in the Roundup…yet…