Brock Lesnar
Moments ago, WWE ran a promo on RAW announcing Brock Lesnar will make his WWE RAW return on next week’s show.
Michael Cole also referenced the return, and said it will be interesting to see what Brock might have to say about Randy Orton’s comments he made at WWE Battleground.
Related: Watch Randy Orton’s WWE Battleground Return
Bo Dallas
According to reports from tonight’s show, Bo Dallas was back to working his ‘Bo-Lieve’ gimmick. Dallas worked a match against Sin Cara taped for this week’s WWE Superstars.
Cracked
Cracked.com‘s “5 Advocate Groups Who Are Shockingly Angry For Dumb Reasons” features an entry about ‘wrestling site commenters’, in a funny look at some of the comments from groups that get angry for ‘dumb reasons’. The list featured a screen shot from some of our own Wrestlezone posters; you can read the entry below and click here for the full list.
Go to the comments on any wrestling site, and you’ll find fans accusing each other of being fans. Which you’d think was the entire point of the comments section, website, and multi-million-dollar industry. There could only be more layers to this imaginary world in which fans aren’t cool if M.C. Escher advertised air conditioning.
“You’re just a Cena mark!” one will cry before claiming that HHH is objectively better, as if wrestlers grappled with fundamental forces of the universe. But wrestling can’t be objective. Physics can’t prove a DDT is definitely better than a Tombstone Piledriver, because Physics is too busy wondering why they don’t just repeatedly hit each other with chairs if they’re allowed to do that, until its granddaughter, Biology, explains, “Because it’s more fun, duh.”
It’s this bizarre inversion where athletes are paid to pretend to fight physically, but the fans end up hating each other for real. If I like Alberto Del Rio and you like Cesaro, we’re done! That’s our entire requirement to enjoy all the matches! And we’ll both enjoy one particular match even more! Discussing their relative strengths is fun, but criticizing people for being biased toward one wrestler over another is the most dangerous game a fan can play. Once you start examining the reality of wrestling, it collapses like a Spanish announcer’s table. But that’s what we end up with on every single wrestling comments section. Every comment, no matter how innocent or meaningless, ends up breaking down into this:
