Monday Night Open Mic

Howdy Blog O’Doomers

Been sort of a nice, quiet week with my husband and kid out fishing for much of the time.

I watched “Forever Hardcore” on YouTube a couple of days ago. Nothing shocking that hasn’t been covered in the “official” ECW documentaries. New Jack laughing about trying to kill Vic Grimes is a little haunting and Terry Funk explaining why he chose Shane Douglas’ Hardcore Reunion show over a much more lucrative contract from the WWE to do One Night Stand was a very appropriate way to end the doc and spelled out this connection some guys had to the organization despite all reasons (financially speaking) to do something else.

Of course Funk did the show a year later and was part of an awesome six-man with Dreamer and Beulah vs. Foley, Edge and Lita. Certainly worth a watch if you’ve never seen it before.

Oh yeah and Francine’s voice is quite annoying and I think Shane Douglas is generally a liar.

My other issue comes from the Mark Henry interview Scott posted here a while back and my question of how to book this guy as a face.

The wrestling world screwed up booking giants as faces when they started letting them suffer clean pin falls. Andre the Giant never got pinned as a face, at least none I’ve ever seen. He would let you cut his hair and bust his sternum and obviously more than a few people slammed him (http://youtu.be/WY41wT2DjSI) but he wasn’t being pinned clean. And the WWF actually did a good job with Earthquake in the early 90s but later Vader’s horrible face run ended with him being pinned right and left after no one of importance put him over as a hell in the WWF. This was one of those times when the WCW actually booked a guy a million times better. Yokozuna as a face didn’t get pinned as often but he looked horrible…of course he was also near 700 pounds at the time.

Obviously in today’s wrestling giants job more than guys named ‘Horowitz’ or ‘Lombardi’ (just look at the Great Khali) but it would be nice to protect Mark Henry a little this time around given the fact that after 15-16 years he’s finally found his niche and people really buy him as an ass kicker. So they should work at protecting his ability to kick ass and put in positions where he doesn’t look weak. The first time they did this 3-4 years ago he looked strong for about two weeks after the turn and then he was selling like Sin Cara for everyone. Maybe they have seen the error of their ways and things change this time around but unfortunately something tells me he is going to eat a pinfall.

Anyway, enjoy the show and come out swinging but try to keep it clean.