Opinion

Cook: Come On WWE Fans, Get Happy!

Are you not entertained???

Published

4 years ago

April 9, 2019

Steve Cook

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Steve Cook reminds you that WWE gave you what you wanted–you should be happy!

WWE is usually all about making us mad. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not criticizing the strategy. Not at all. If there’s one thing I know about people in the Year Of Our Lord 2019, it’s that our natural setting is “pissed off”. We’re always mad about something and we’re always mad at somebody. Yet, we rarely do anything useful about it. We continue to consume what we typically consume, whether we like it or not.

WWE fans had plenty of reasons to be mad heading into WrestleMania. Brock Lesnar had held the Universal Championship hostage for most of the past two years, leaving Raw without a regular presence on top of the card & rendering most of the Universal Championship challengers ineffective. Kofi Kingston had been held down by the man for eleven years. Becky Lynch was the peoples’ choice among the female Superstars & won a Royal Rumble match, but she couldn’t even get a one on one match because ol’ Charlotte Flair had to shoehorn herself in there. And don’t even get me started on the whole business with Charlotte beating Asuka for her title like a week before the show.

Plus, WrestleMania was going to be way too long and contain way too much. I’m a fat kid that loves cake, but even I get sick of cake after eating enough of it.

(OK, that’s a lie. I always love cake.)

WrestleMania wasn’t perfect, though God Bless you if you think it was. The show was so long that most fans couldn’t get the heck out of New Jersey once it was over. (I made the call of going to bed at 10 & watching the rest of WrestleMania after work on Monday. Not popular with my online bosses*, but it was the right decision for my physical & mental state at work on Monday.)

(*Editor’s note: This didn’t bother Greg or Andrew here at The Chairshot!)

Baron Corbin won a match. Over Kurt Angle, no less! You better go to our ProWrestlingTees store & get your “Baron. Corbin. Sucks.” shirt now, because I think you’ll be getting a lot of usage out of it over the next few months. They got plans for that guy.

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Shane McMahon beat The Miz. Triple H winning is more excusable, Triple H having the longest match on the card yet again…not so much.

That’s all I can find to complain about after seven & a half hours of programming. People that know me know that I typically do a lot more complaining than that. The road to get where we are may not have been perfect, but the main things people wanted to happen last night all happened.

Seth Rollins sent Brock Lesnar running back to the Las Vegas territory & took the Universal Championship.
Becky Lynch won the Raw & SmackDown Women’s Championships in the match that went on last.
Kofi Kingston won the WWE Championship in an epic match with Daniel Bryan.

Most of us wanted these things to happen. Most of us didn’t think they all would. We may have expected two out of three at best. Surely WWE would throw a curveball at some point. Heck, considering how much the company loves heat, maybe just one would win, or even zero.

They all won.

They weren’t the only feel-good stories either:

Curt Hawkins won his first match in 269 attempts, and gained the Raw Tag Team Championship for Zack Ryder & himself in the process
Billie Kay & Peyton Royce made the Women’s Tag Team Championship Iiconic
There’s some stuff that I’m forgetting about (Joe destruction, Cena interruption), as we know, it was a long show.

One of the reasons WrestleMania gained the status it holds to this day as the biggest wrestling show of the year is the fact that it sent the fans home happy, without fail, for fifteen years. It presented the one thing that their fans wanted to see most. For most of the 1980s, it was Hulk Hogan coming out on top over a dastardly bad guy. Towards the back half of the 1990s, it was Stone Cold Steve Austin stunning some fool on his way to another title reign. Even through the years where people were split on the merits of John Cena, WrestleMania would present classic matches that made fans happy & built up the brand name.

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The most fondly remembered WrestleMania events are the ones where heroes we never thought would climb to the top did, and where monsters we never thought would fall fell. WrestleMania 35 saw both of these things happen. I’m sure the happiness won’t last forever. WWE constantly has shows, and we will soon have new stories to get all up in our feelings about. But for at least one night & morning, WWE fans could actually be happy if they chose to be.

I hope you all take advantage of it.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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King’s WrestleMania Rewind: Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka from WrestleMania 34

Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!

Published

2 months ago

April 2, 2023

Chris King

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Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!

We look back at Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka at WWE WrestleMania 34. ‘The Empress of Tomorrow’ put her unprecedented and historic undefeated streak of 914 days on the line against ‘The Queen’s’ SmackDown Women’s Championship.

For years, this was considered a dream match while Asuka dominated the roster in NXT, while Flair won numerous championships on the main roster on both Raw and SmackDown. The Empress made her long-awaited debut on the September 11th episode of Raw and began to tear through the competition.

Asuka outlasted all twenty-nine other women in the historic first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble match to challenge for the title of her choosing. At Fastlane, she made her choice.

The WWE Universe was so excited for this match myself included. Both superstars delivered a fantastic performance on the Grandest Stage of Them All executing counter after counter. Asuka showed off some nasty-looking kicks to her opponent, and Flair hit a thunderous Spanish Fly off the top rope. Flair was seconds away from defeat at the hands of The Empress but she locked in Figure Eight and Asuka was forced to tap out.

I can’t even begin to explain how shocked I was at this outcome, as nearly everyone expected The Empress to continue her undefeated streak and walk away with the women’s title. This controversial decision was the downfall of Asuka’s momentum. She would ultimately win the SmackDown Women’s Championship at the 2018 TLC pay-per-view in the triple-threat ladder match.

Fast forward to this year when Asuka has recently returned with her Japanese-inspired persona Kana. Kana is dangerous and ruthless and is heading into a championship with Bianca Belair at WrestleMania 39. The Empress has regained all her momentum and is highly favored to walk away with the Raw Women’s Championship. Let’s hope that Asuka and Belair can tear the house down and deliver an A+ grade match both women are fully capable of.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

Opinion

King: Dominik Mysterio Needs To Do This At WrestleMania

Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.

Published

2 months ago

April 1, 2023

Chris King

Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.

On this week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Rey Mysterio finally snapped and beat some sense into his disrespectful punk-ass kid Dominik. The member of the Judgement Day came out to push his father again for a match on the Grandest Stage of Them All, this time with his mother and sister at ringside. The ungrateful punk told his mom to “Shut Up,” as a father even I wanted to jump through the screen and whoop his ass.

Back in October of last year, Mysterio made the emotional decision to possibly quit the company but, instead, Triple H persuaded the Lucha libre superstar to move over to SmackDown to avoid his son. This came after Dominik shockingly turned on his father at Clash at the Castle. Mysterio did everything he could to refuse his despicable son’s challenge for Mania but, a man can only be pushed so far. Mysterio will be inducted into the 2023 WWE Hall of Fame and I expect Dominik to embarrass his father during his speech to further this personal feud.

Yes, the WWE Universe hates Dominik and wants to see him get the ever-loving crap kicked out of him but, this feud is missing a special ingredient to capitalize on the biggest heat possible. Throughout this feud, Dominik has made mention of the legendary Eddie Guerrero on several occasions going back to the “iconic” 2005 feud.

I know WWE might not want to go this route but, Dominik MUST come out to Eddie Guerrero’s theme at Mania. The disrespectful punk needs to come out in a lowrider to garner nuclear heat. It doesn’t matter if The Judgement Day comes out and causes interference for Dominik to get the win, all that matters is that both superstars get the biggest payoff of this nearly year-long feud. Just imagine the Roman Reigns heat after he defeated The Undertaker and multiply that by ten. Dominik portrays the perfect heel and he truly is the missing ingredient that The Judgement Day needed to grow and evolve into a top faction.