So with nothing to do tonight I was flipping channels and came across the replay of RAW. I haven't watched any WWE stuff in awhile so...
John Morrison vs Sheamus was in progress when I started watching. Sheamus is the whitest guy on the planet who isn't an albino. This guy makes Xandra Pale look African American.
Hmm, Cole-ostomy & King said something about Sheamus being the King of the Ring. Do they still do that? He pounded on Morrison long enough to think Mr Shitty Tights will pull off some super recovery and win.
Yep. Morrison with a knee to the head.
Some crap about the New Nexus that happened earlier. I didn't know the old Nexus. Black t-shirts. I know that much. Looks like internet smark darling CM Punk is the boss & he's getting the other guys to endure physical punishment to prove their loyalty to the group, or to him, or something. Meh.
I seem to recall a thing with Miz & some guy. I guess the main event is a tag between them and Randy Orton & Jerry Lawler. Don't remember when that played.
Lawler did a thing in the ring droning on about Hall of Fame inductees then a video played showing the first 2011 HOF inductee Shawn Michaels. Decent little vid. Then Shawn showed up and took forever getting in the ring where he held a mic but didn't say anything. Too busy dancing, posing etc.
Michaels was interrupted by a guy I'm guessing was his limo driver. He said something about needing more money for the parking meter and Shawn kicked his face off with some Sweet Chin Music. Then he left. Slowly.
Cole-ostomy got in the ring and said something about Cena but he was interrupted by CM Punk who was standing on top of the Titantron. There was a lot of bullshit about his initiation and we're all supposed to think he's gonna jump off the thing. Then he laughs and says he's wearing a harness and everyone who thought he was gonna jump is an idiot. Wow. Ya had us there Punk.
The 3 Nexus guys came to the ring and they showed the video clips of their initiations AGAIN and then Punk came to the ring and told us about the harness and not jumping AGAIN and then...
And I NEVER thought I'd ever say this....
Thank God John Cena showed up.
Well, on the Titantron at least. Cena called Punk "CM Sucks" and that was my first laugh of the show. (The groan count was off the chart already)Then Cena starts goin on about "As sure as I wear purple and the Sun rises in the morning" while telling Punk he's gonna kick his ass. (As I write this some wad on Right After Wrestling is going on about how stupid this Cena promo was. I personally thought it was the most enjoyable and entertaining part of the show.)
Oh, I almost forgot... there were 2 Nexus guys who didn't do their initiation test. Punk wanted them to beat each other with Kendo sticks. When they didn't do it he told them to hit him then. They dropped the sticks on the floor and walked out. Yawn. That probably didn't happen after the Cena/Punk thing. I don't know when it did. I know that it DID happen because it's way to stupid for me to have made it up.
None of that Nexus shit makes any sense anyway. What difference does it make what order I put it in?
The Main Event was indeed the tag match. I didn't watch it. Fucking Randy Orton and all his snake-like mat crawls, hiked shoulder threatening poses and glaring through his brows. Jesus. Just MOVE for fucks sake!
AND... That's why I don't watch much WWE these days.
Showing posts with label Ontario indy wrestling. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Banks vs Suave: A Feud Too Great Not To Get Noticed
Pro Wrestling has seen some great feuds, extended rivalries between combatants who for whatever reason target each other with a focus and intensity far beyond what they show to other competitors. A great feud often sticks in the minds of fans long after the participants have moved on to other things.
Ontario indy wrestling has seen its share of great feuds from back in the day when Soulman Ricky Johnson fought The Sheik to a few years back when Bloody Bill Skullion and Notorious TID tore each other apart to more recent feuds of note like Jake O'Reilly vs Cody Deaner and Tyson Dux vs Dangerboy Derek Wylde.
2010 saw a couple feuds gain major notice and attention in Ontario... Scotty O'Shea vs Josh Alexander in Alpha-1 Wrestling and Eddie Osbourne vs Super Kamikaze in the Pure Wrestling Association. Both of those feuds are in the running for Feud of the Year in the fledgling OWIE awards and will probably do the same in the most prestigious prize in the province, the Ontario Indy Awards.
What those feuds share with the others I've mentioned (and a whole bunch of others I didn't) is that they generally take place in one promotion in front of fans who get to witness the action and drama as it builds from one successive card to the next until the final blow-off match. Rarely lasting longer than a year at best, these feuds capture the interest and emotion of fans enough to be lauded and long remembered.
But there is another type of feud, a rarer but no less intense rivalry that may start unnoticed in one promotion but plays out across numerous feds over long periods of time. Years of battles that thrill fans who often think only that they saw a great match because the history between those in the ring hasn't been noticed, precisely because it happens in so many different promotions. Fans witness a single slice of a picture with a scope far greater than they know.
Such a feud has been happening between two Ontario indy wrestling stars for over FOUR years. A feud that has seen the combatants clash in over 20 singles matches and even more tag and multi-man contests in numerous promotions....
Brent Banks vs Sebastian Suave is the best feud in Ontario that hardly anybody is aware of and I'm of the opinion it's about time it got noticed.
Banks and Suave went through training together at the Squared Circle Training facility in Toronto. They wrestled their first BSE Pro Wrestling dark matches against each other. Right from the start there was something that drove them to perform just a little harder when they stepped into the ring with each other... a spark of competitiveness that compelled them to seek victory with a little more intensity than normal... savor each victory as a little sweeter for having been over that foe... every loss a reason to challenge once again and perhaps turn the balance of their competition in their favor.
Banks vs Suave isn't a blood feud. It hasn't featured specialty matches like No DQ, Steel Cage or other stipulations designed to allow for the legalized spilling of bad blood because there IS no bad blood.
This feud isn't about two guys not like each other. In fact it's hard to get these guys to say anything bad about each other...
"Brent Banks is the ying to my yang, no questions asked." - Sebastian Suave
"Sebastian Suave is a great wrestler" - Brent Banks
Brent Banks vs Sebastian Suave is one of the greatest feuds in Ontario indy wrestling because it isn't about some storyline. It's not an angle. It's never been booked. In other words...
This feud is all about competitive nature and for over four years Suave and Banks have jumped at every opportunity to best the other. They don't care what promotion it's for... or where on the card the match is... or if it's them one on one or there are others in the match. All they care about is getting one more opportunity to test their skills against the other.
It is REAL competition in the so-called fake realm of simulated combat as entertainment. All one has to do to validate their love for pro wrestling is see one Suave vs Banks match. It is unmistakable, palpable, as solid as the ring posts.. what these guys are doing is special.
Suave's in-ring personality is anything but respectful to his opponents but the snobby aristocrat admits his respect for his longtime foe Brent Banks...
"I personally believe, Brent Banks is one of the best in Ontario and finally getting his recognition. However, as good as he is and as good as he will ever become...I will always be better. And it drives me crazy anytime he has a spotlight that I desire.
We can read each other likes books. I can't tell you how many times I came at him outta nowhere with something and he knew exactly what I was doing. You can tell in the way he braces himself for it or when he counters my moves.
Every time I wrestle Brent Banks, I become a better wrestler. I think we do that for each other." - Sebastian Suave
Easy going fan favorite Brent Banks is equally generous when discussing his long time foe...
"Sebastian Suave is one tough cat. He's one of the fastest rising wrestlers in Ontario and any time I face him in the ring I know I'm in the fight of my life.
We get it done, we always have ever since our first sparring session at Squared Circle.
I don't care much for his attitude sometimes but I'll take any chance I can get to match skills with Suave because beating him is a major accomplishment wherever it happens." - Brent Banks
It's interesting to note that neither Banks or Suave are particularly willing to call their career long history with each other a feud. They don't see their competition in simple pro wrestling terms. It transcends the parameters of words like "work" or "angle". It is personal competition as real as the air they breathe and THAT makes the Sebastian Suave vs Brent Banks feud pure pro wrestling magic.
Brent Banks and Sebastian Suave... the men behind this incredible rivalry... the men who created what MUST be regarded as one of the greatest feuds Ontario indy wrestling has ever seen... did this on their own... with no thought whatsoever about anything but testing, using and expanding their skills by pushing each other to the limits every single time they step into the ring...
These men have given Ontario indy wrestling something golden, something valuable, something with the power to uplift, strengthen and exult one's love of pro wrestling.
Brent Banks vs Sebastian Suave has been a hidden gift to Ontario indy wrestling that should be unwrapped so it can be seen for what it is... history in the making... proof positive that real pro wrestling will endure and survive no matter how many "sports entertainment' trappings the world drapes on it.
This feud started before their official pro debuts. It has raged unheralded across Ontario for over 4 years. It has no end in sight. As long as Sebastian Suave and Brent Banks cross paths they will inevitably add more chapters to this incredible story.
And it IS incredible...
A fantastic, exhilarating, emotional pro wrestling reality created in the purest form possible... the competitive desire of two men to test each other on common ground. It took root, grew and has flourished without angles, storylines or even kayfabe because it is REAL.
The fact the competition between Brent Banks and Sebastian Suave takes place within the predetermined constraints of a pro wrestling match can't take away the reality of that competition.
And you don't need to have seen their whole feud or even been aware of it to know how real it is to them. All you need to see is one match and you'll know...
Banks vs Suave is a feud too great not to get noticed
~~*~~
Ontario indy wrestling has seen its share of great feuds from back in the day when Soulman Ricky Johnson fought The Sheik to a few years back when Bloody Bill Skullion and Notorious TID tore each other apart to more recent feuds of note like Jake O'Reilly vs Cody Deaner and Tyson Dux vs Dangerboy Derek Wylde.
2010 saw a couple feuds gain major notice and attention in Ontario... Scotty O'Shea vs Josh Alexander in Alpha-1 Wrestling and Eddie Osbourne vs Super Kamikaze in the Pure Wrestling Association. Both of those feuds are in the running for Feud of the Year in the fledgling OWIE awards and will probably do the same in the most prestigious prize in the province, the Ontario Indy Awards.
What those feuds share with the others I've mentioned (and a whole bunch of others I didn't) is that they generally take place in one promotion in front of fans who get to witness the action and drama as it builds from one successive card to the next until the final blow-off match. Rarely lasting longer than a year at best, these feuds capture the interest and emotion of fans enough to be lauded and long remembered.
But there is another type of feud, a rarer but no less intense rivalry that may start unnoticed in one promotion but plays out across numerous feds over long periods of time. Years of battles that thrill fans who often think only that they saw a great match because the history between those in the ring hasn't been noticed, precisely because it happens in so many different promotions. Fans witness a single slice of a picture with a scope far greater than they know.
Such a feud has been happening between two Ontario indy wrestling stars for over FOUR years. A feud that has seen the combatants clash in over 20 singles matches and even more tag and multi-man contests in numerous promotions....
Brent Banks vs Sebastian Suave is the best feud in Ontario that hardly anybody is aware of and I'm of the opinion it's about time it got noticed.
Banks and Suave went through training together at the Squared Circle Training facility in Toronto. They wrestled their first BSE Pro Wrestling dark matches against each other. Right from the start there was something that drove them to perform just a little harder when they stepped into the ring with each other... a spark of competitiveness that compelled them to seek victory with a little more intensity than normal... savor each victory as a little sweeter for having been over that foe... every loss a reason to challenge once again and perhaps turn the balance of their competition in their favor.
Banks vs Suave isn't a blood feud. It hasn't featured specialty matches like No DQ, Steel Cage or other stipulations designed to allow for the legalized spilling of bad blood because there IS no bad blood.
This feud isn't about two guys not like each other. In fact it's hard to get these guys to say anything bad about each other...
"Brent Banks is the ying to my yang, no questions asked." - Sebastian Suave
"Sebastian Suave is a great wrestler" - Brent Banks
Brent Banks vs Sebastian Suave is one of the greatest feuds in Ontario indy wrestling because it isn't about some storyline. It's not an angle. It's never been booked. In other words...
IT AIN'T FAKE!
This feud is all about competitive nature and for over four years Suave and Banks have jumped at every opportunity to best the other. They don't care what promotion it's for... or where on the card the match is... or if it's them one on one or there are others in the match. All they care about is getting one more opportunity to test their skills against the other.
It is REAL competition in the so-called fake realm of simulated combat as entertainment. All one has to do to validate their love for pro wrestling is see one Suave vs Banks match. It is unmistakable, palpable, as solid as the ring posts.. what these guys are doing is special.
Suave's in-ring personality is anything but respectful to his opponents but the snobby aristocrat admits his respect for his longtime foe Brent Banks...
"I personally believe, Brent Banks is one of the best in Ontario and finally getting his recognition. However, as good as he is and as good as he will ever become...I will always be better. And it drives me crazy anytime he has a spotlight that I desire.
We can read each other likes books. I can't tell you how many times I came at him outta nowhere with something and he knew exactly what I was doing. You can tell in the way he braces himself for it or when he counters my moves.
Every time I wrestle Brent Banks, I become a better wrestler. I think we do that for each other." - Sebastian Suave
Easy going fan favorite Brent Banks is equally generous when discussing his long time foe...
"Sebastian Suave is one tough cat. He's one of the fastest rising wrestlers in Ontario and any time I face him in the ring I know I'm in the fight of my life.
We get it done, we always have ever since our first sparring session at Squared Circle.
I don't care much for his attitude sometimes but I'll take any chance I can get to match skills with Suave because beating him is a major accomplishment wherever it happens." - Brent Banks
It's interesting to note that neither Banks or Suave are particularly willing to call their career long history with each other a feud. They don't see their competition in simple pro wrestling terms. It transcends the parameters of words like "work" or "angle". It is personal competition as real as the air they breathe and THAT makes the Sebastian Suave vs Brent Banks feud pure pro wrestling magic.
Brent Banks and Sebastian Suave... the men behind this incredible rivalry... the men who created what MUST be regarded as one of the greatest feuds Ontario indy wrestling has ever seen... did this on their own... with no thought whatsoever about anything but testing, using and expanding their skills by pushing each other to the limits every single time they step into the ring...
These men have given Ontario indy wrestling something golden, something valuable, something with the power to uplift, strengthen and exult one's love of pro wrestling.
Brent Banks vs Sebastian Suave has been a hidden gift to Ontario indy wrestling that should be unwrapped so it can be seen for what it is... history in the making... proof positive that real pro wrestling will endure and survive no matter how many "sports entertainment' trappings the world drapes on it.
This feud started before their official pro debuts. It has raged unheralded across Ontario for over 4 years. It has no end in sight. As long as Sebastian Suave and Brent Banks cross paths they will inevitably add more chapters to this incredible story.
And it IS incredible...
A fantastic, exhilarating, emotional pro wrestling reality created in the purest form possible... the competitive desire of two men to test each other on common ground. It took root, grew and has flourished without angles, storylines or even kayfabe because it is REAL.
The fact the competition between Brent Banks and Sebastian Suave takes place within the predetermined constraints of a pro wrestling match can't take away the reality of that competition.
And you don't need to have seen their whole feud or even been aware of it to know how real it is to them. All you need to see is one match and you'll know...
Banks vs Suave is a feud too great not to get noticed
~~*~~
Monday, December 27, 2010
MARK and Proud Of It
... I'm still waiting for that t-shirt.
2010 is drawing to a close and looking ahead into the new year I see many things about pro wrestling I plan to discuss in this blog. From Ontario indy wrestling to the WWE to TNA to women's wrestling to... a whole bunch of stuff that you may or may not agree with.
If respectful Ontario indy pro wrestling is what you're after I suggest Ontario Wrestling's Indy Elite because it's likely that Pro Wrestling Brain Salad will be a lot more opinionated (and probably sarcastic.)
By the way, nobody died in the ring during 2010 in Ontario, but not for lack of trying. For Christ's sake, be careful out there!
2010 is drawing to a close and looking ahead into the new year I see many things about pro wrestling I plan to discuss in this blog. From Ontario indy wrestling to the WWE to TNA to women's wrestling to... a whole bunch of stuff that you may or may not agree with.
If respectful Ontario indy pro wrestling is what you're after I suggest Ontario Wrestling's Indy Elite because it's likely that Pro Wrestling Brain Salad will be a lot more opinionated (and probably sarcastic.)
By the way, nobody died in the ring during 2010 in Ontario, but not for lack of trying. For Christ's sake, be careful out there!
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