Monday Night Open Mic

Howdy Blog O’Doomers! I hope everyone had a great weekend and stayed warm if you were in an area that got chilly or down right cold.

Before I got all sickly I remember we were talking about promos and naturally some Jake Roberts stuff, especially his promo from Wrestlemania VI where he just completely broke down everything about his feud with DiBiase in 90 seconds and ended with “wallowing in the muck of avarice.

And then I watched the Roberts-Savage stuff at this Tuesday in Texas, his awesome hell promo after slapping Elizabeth and Savage’s EVEN BETTER disheveled rambling about how “it was my fault”.

There’s something to be said for passion. I find that even the most mundane promo can work if there’s passion behind it. I remember another promo from Wrestlemania VI and one that’s really kind of hidden in the background because, let’s face it, there were some great pitchmen on that card. But the Big Bossman was about to have his blowoff match with Akeem and he cut a promo about how he was proud to walk alone without Slick and be his own man and proud that he couldn’t be bought and he was proud to be an American.

It wasn’t a great promo but I remember the passion in which it was delivered and as a teenager it sold me on wanting Bossman to win. Because he made me feel like it was more than just a match to him, it was the final step in him being liberated from his past and if he was proud of who he was, damn it I’m genuinely happy for him. Hell Bossman-Akeem was a total filler match that lasted three minutes but damn if Ray Traylor didn’t make me watch those three minutes.

Passion, pass it on. And enjoy tonight’s post-PPV RAW or the Ravens-Lions if you care about NFL games with playoff implications or have some fantasy guys going. Whatever you do, come out swinging but make sure to keep it clean!