Guilty Pleasures
By Scott Keith on January 30, 2013
Hey Scott,
What are some of your guilty pleasures in wrestling? This could be a particular wrestler, match, angle, etc.
Personally, mine is the Survivor Series match with several wrestlers playing the part of Doink (Men on a Mission and such). A friend of mine coined the term “Bizarrecore” because it was just so ridiculous. Similarly, I enjoy the Oddities vs. Kaientai match for the same reason. Are they good? Oh, LORD no. I agree with the star rating you’ve given each. But I can’t help be entertained by them.
It’s probably the same reason why I enjoy Chikara so much, though at least there, the quality of wrestling is much higher.
Oh man, there's nothing I love better than constantly breaking into the house of someone who has a restraining order out on me and then getting arrested for it multiple times.
Sorry, that's Tammy Sytch, my mistake.
Anyway, although the matches you listed above are utter bullshit and you should be ashamed of yourself for even admitting to watching them, I've always been a proponent of the sub-genre I dubbed "entertaining crap". This would fall under the category of WCW's garbagy ECW-style brawls like the DDP/Kanyon/Benoit stuff, or the Vince Russo-booked hardcore 24/7 rule Crash Holly series. I'm also an unabashed mark for silly Memphis comedy angles and the ridiculous stuff that they'd have the Cornette/Dangerously/Bruno types parade out to challenge Jerry Lawler with.
By the way, on a related note, apparently Are Your Serious has been cancelled, inasmuch as a YouTube show can be cancelled. ARE YOU SERIOUS? Guess that million dollar Youtube partnership isn't quite working out to be the cash cow that either side hoped for. Frowny face.
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