Opinion

Alexa, Mandy & Scarlett: Bringing Sexy Back

Published

6 years ago

January 18, 2019

It’s a hot button topic currently, yes HOT, no I don’t think this is a clever lead in…just read the sexy article, Cook is fantastic.

My most recent column here was a celebration of Scott Steiner. I assume you all know why I was compelled to write about my admiration for Big Poppa Pump. Steiner appeared on last week’s episode of Impact & got to take in the beauty of Scarlett Bordeaux up close and personal.

In case you missed it, or need another look, here ya go:

It was an easy thing to write about featuring people that most of us like. Scarlett has long been a favorite of those of us behind the scenes at The Chairshot, and everybody has loved the Big Bad Booty Daddy since the WCW days. My interest was piqued, and I wasn’t the only one.

Hopefully Eric Ames doesn’t get mad at me for stealing his gimmick, but he doesn’t do it for Impact so I think I’m in the clear. I was looking at some of the view numbers for clips of last week’s Impact episode, and it’s pretty clear when you look at them who #TheDraw for Impact Wrestling actually is:

Tempers EXPLODE Between Johnny IMPACT, Brian Cage & Killer Kross! – 90,023 views
Lucha Bros vs Rascalz – 41,967 views
Sami Callihan Offers Rich Swann a Spot in oVe! – 57,612 views
Willie Mack vs Sami Callihan – 33,874 views
Scott Steiner RETURNS for a Lap Dance from Scarlett Bordeaux! – 860,027 views
Tessa Blanchard Sends a VIOLENT Message to Gail Kim – 100,821 views
Rosemary’s DISTURBING Warning to Allie & Su Yung! – 54,588 views
Johnny IMPACT vs Killer Kross: NO DQ – 80,622 views

So people seem to dig the main event scene (probably because of Johnny), and Tessa’s stuff does real well, and HOLY SHIT THAT’S A BIG JUMP UP TO STEINER & SCARLETT. This is why I’ve been saying for awhile now that Impact needs to turn up the sexuality a bit. When you’re running your TV show at 10 PM on a Friday night on Pursuit & Twitch, you need something like that to get peoples’ attention.

Sex sells, especially on Friday night

Let’s be honest. If you’re sitting at home on a Friday night watching the Pursuit Channel or on the Twitch site or whatever, there isn’t much going on in the romance department for you. Hey, there’s nothing to be ashamed of. We’ve all been there. My Friday night memories started with ABC’s TGIF lineup when kids didn’t want to hang out with me in elementary & middle school. Then in high school when girls didn’t want to go out with me, it became all about TNN’s Friday Night ThrillZone. ECW Wrestling & RollerJam, bay bay!

None of that is important to my point, which is that Impact Wrestling should be trying to draw from this demographic that’s larger than anybody wants to admit. The shows I watched on Fridays certainly did. ECW & RollerJam were all about the T & A, and Boy Meets World had Topanga. The Impact brass knows this & they’re going down that road. As an added bonus, it’s a road that WWE doesn’t want to go down because of PG & sponsors & blah blah blah.

Or is it?

It’s no secret that WWE’s been looking for some answers to their ratings issues. One proven ratings getter over the years is sexuality. It’s not a 100% stone cold lock to draw interest & keep people around, but it’s a way to get people that wouldn’t otherwise be checking you out.

I haven’t really been keeping up with the gossip, but I do have a theory on this whole storyline with Naomi, Jimmy Uso & Mandy Rose. I have been operating under the assumption that it’s there at the behest of USA, in order to plug the new Temptation Island series that the network is running after SmackDown Live. WWE’s been keeping it PG at the behest of sponsors & networks. If the network wants things turned up a notch or two, well, you gotta keep the network happy, right? If Mandy Rose in lingerie keeps the network happy, who am I to argue with them?

A lot of people apparently find this offensive. I, for one, am offended by the poor story-telling. Mandy already has a WWE cameraman shooting the whole thing, why does she need somebody taking pictures? And who uses that type of camera in 2019? I appreciate Mandy going for professional-looking pictures, but it wasn’t really necessary. Sonya Deville taking pictures with her cell phone could have had the same effect.

I can defend Mandy/Naomi from the perspective that there’s a story involved. It might not be the perfect story, but there is an issue that will lead to a match or two. It’s not a complete waste of time. The T & A aspect is a bonus, not the only reason that the segment is there.

45 seconds that broke YouTube

This bit on Raw with Alexa Bliss…well, I got no real defense for this.

If you looked up “clickbait” in the dictionary, that thumbnail would be next to it. Forty-five seconds of somebody walking in on Alexa Bliss in the locker room got over five million YouTube views. Some are saying this means that the Attitude Era needs to return and we need to go back to the bra & panties matches. I don’t know about all that, but I feel like there’s one thing that we’re all overlooking here when we’re citing YouTube numbers as signs of interest…

We know people are watching these things multiple times, right? I mean, maybe the teenagers just need forty-five seconds of Alexa Bliss, but older folks need a little bit more, if you know what I’m saying. Hell, it wasn’t even that long. Alexa wasn’t actually in the clip for more than fifteen seconds. That’s not even enough time for some of us to take the proper notice.

So we all understand the view count is inflated by old people hitting refresh like twenty times, right?

The bottom line

Here’s the thing. I’ll freely admit this clip did nothing for me. I’m a fan of Alexa, don’t get me wrong, but I’m at the point in life where I need a little bit more than that out of a video. It’d be easy for me to cast the people that watched this over and over and over again aside as sorry so & sos. However, I remember being a teenager during the Attitude Era that I was a sorry so & so that wore out his VHS tape of Armageddon 1999. You old schoolers will know why I was doing that. I was even lending that tape to my friends in school, because that’s what we had to do back in the day.

You have to keep in mind that those young boys that grew up on John Cena are now growing up & going through the same things we went through. They’re having the same feelings about women in spandex that we did. Presumably, their parents are keeping an eye on things & the kids aren’t all over the the porn sites.

So I’m not going to judge the folks repeatedly watching the Alexa Bliss segment on YouTube. Once upon a time, that would have been me.

This is the next step for the Women’s Evolution. Has WWE & pro wrestling as a whole evolved to the point where serious women’s wrestling can main event on the same show with random scantly clad activity backstage & storylines with women trying to steal each others’ husbands?

We have to find out at some point. It might as well be now.

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Chairshot Staff Picks: Money In The Bank

Extra, extra read all about it… Chairshot Staff picks are in!!!

Published

15 hours ago

June 6, 2025

PC Tunney

Sing it with me… money money money money moneeeeeeeeeyeeeeee… everybody’s got a price! MONEY IN THE BANK is here!!! How money will our staff picks be?!?

AJ – Roxanne Perez
Andrew – Stephanie Vaquer – *Bubba Sparxxx Impression* I don’t tell stories, I let them tell theyself.
Dave – Guilia – A stacked field but I just like her here.
DJ – Naomi
DPP – Roxanne Perez
Jason – Alexa Bliss
Patrick – Roxanne Perez
Rey – Naomi – If Naomi loses, we riot!
Rob – Naomi
Greg – Alexa Bliss – Bliss has had huge reactions since returning and is moving a ton of merch. While I can see them wanting to build Roxanne Perez, Giulia, or Stephanie Vaquer, I think Alexa Bliss.

Tunney’s Take: Rhea Ripley – I’ll make my case short and sweet… Mami in the Bank! You can’t leave that money on the table.

Chairshot Pick – Tie – Naomi 3 & Roxanne Perez 3 (Alexa Bliss 2, Giulia 1, Rhea Ripley 1, Stephanie Vaquer 1)

AJ – LA Knight
Andrew – El Grande Americano – Feels correct given his push and the fact he’s over.
Dave – Seth Rollins – Got to push that new faction.
DJ – LA Knight
DPP – El Grande Americano
Jason – LA Knight
Patrick – Solo Sikoa
Rey – LA Knight – Looks like another push, and he does have history with Cena.
Rob – Solo Sikoa
Greg – Seth Rollins – This company is extremely high in the El Grande Americano gimmick, but this match comes down to Seth Rollins or LA Knight. Given the Rollins storyline, it’s his briefcase to win.

Tunney’s Take: El Grande Americano – Picture this: Chad Gable wins the AAA Mega Championship and El Grande Americano wins MITB! WHAT A SATURDAY in LA!!!

Chairshot Pick – LA Knight 4 (El Grande Americano 3, Seth Rollins 2, Solo Sikoa 2)

AJ – Becky Lynch – Sadly
Andrew – Becky Lynch – I still don’t care about Lyra.
Dave – Lyra Valkyria – Starting to warm up to her and Becky has a lot to do with that.
DJ – Lyra Valkyria
DPP – Becky Lynch
Jason – Becky Lynch
Patrick – Lyra Valkyria
Rey – Becky Lynch – Put some fire on the Irish Beef.
Rob – Becky Lynch
Greg – Becky Lynch – I don’t think you do a rematch here just to have Becky lose again. Unless Bayley shows up to help Lyra.

Tunney’s Take: Becky Lynch – A big part of me feels that winning this title checks off a major box for Becks in her HOF career.

Chairshot Pick – Becky Lynch 8-3

AJ – Cena & Paul
Andrew – Rhodes & Uso – Easy way for Cena to lose without eating the pinfall.
Dave – Rhodes & Uso – Get the QB back on the winning track.
DJ – Rhodes & Uso
DPP – Rhodes & Uso
Jason – Cena & Paul
Patrick – Cena & Paul
Rey – Rhodes & Uso – Heels usually lose these kinds of matches. Logan takes the pin.
Rob – Cena & Paul
Greg – Rhodes & Uso – I hope Jey isn’t an afterthought here like Cody was last fall when he was paired up with Roman. I think Cody pins Cena to set up Cody-Cena 2 at SummerSlam.

Tunney’s Take: Cena & Paul – I don’t think Cena is involved in another loss until he loses the WWE Championship. I also think Logan Paul is NOT done trying to capture Jey Uso’s World Heavyweight Championship. …Travis Scott in the house?

Chairshot Pick – 6-5 Rhodes & Uso

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Opinion

Chairshot Staff Picks: Backlash St. Louis

Chairshot Staff picks!!!

Published

4 weeks ago

May 9, 2025

PC Tunney

May is upon us and with that, so is Backlash from St. Louis! What does the first PLE after WrestleMania have in store for the WWE Universe? Let’s see if the Chairshot Staff can properly interpret the crystal ball of rasslin’ future.

AJ – Pat MacAfee – Gunther has to start losing control and who better than an announcer.
Andrew – Pat MacAfee – Goldberg getting involved does seem correct here.
Dave – Gunther – He’s not losing to a broadcaster.
DJ – Gunther – Pat is sent to the shadow realm until football season is over.
DPP – Gunther – Post match beat down leads to Pat time off.
Jason – Gunther – One massive spot and or bump from Pat.
Patrick – Gunther
Rey – Gunther – RIP MacAfee, t’was a good life.
Rob – Gunther
Greg – Pat MacAfee – Why? Goooooldbeeerrrrrgggggg!

Tunney’s Take: Gunther – Seems like the right pick here. Pat may be getting some time off and Gunther needs more heat.

Chairshot Pick – GUNTHER 8-3

AJ – Lyra Valkyria – Becky’s hopefully putting her over, still mad about Dakota.
Andrew – Becky Lynch – I have no real interest in Lyra currently.
Dave – Becky Lynch – Lyra is boring AF!
DJ – Lyra Valkyria – Bayley interferes.
DPP – Becky Lynch – Becky cheats and steals the title.
Jason – Lyra Valkyria – Bayley costs Becks.
Patrick – Becky Lynch
Rey – Becky Lynch – Story needs to jump up a bit, Becky Charlotte’s Lyra.
Rob – Lyra Valkyria
Greg – Becky Lynch – It’s been fun, Lyra. (It kinda hasn’t)

Tunney’s Take: Lyra Valkyria – Bayley’s interference should set up some type of program with Becky as we head towards Summer(Slam).

Chairshot Pick – BECKY LYNCH 6-5

AJ – Jacob Fatu – Great way to put him over w/ two former WHCs and LA Knight.
Andrew – Jacob Fatu – He’s Jacob Fatu!
Dave – Jacob Fatu – Too soon to pull the belt off him.
DJ – Jacob Fatu – Priest and LA can’t decide who’s is bigger.
DPP – Jacob Fatu – Your hardcore match, tables and chairs involved.
Jason – Jacob Fatu – The Champ retains due to or in spite of Solo.
Patrick – Jacob Fatu
Rey – Jacob Fatu – All gas. No brakes. Ain’t losing.
Rob – Jacob Fatu
Greg – Jacob Fatu – Someone from The Samoan Dynasty ain’t winning a title just to drop it.

Tunney’s Take: Jacob Fatu – Uncle Mo is on Fatu’s side and other than Knight, I don’t see Drew or Priest holding the US title in the current circumstances of this title’s landscape.

Chairshot Pick – JACOB FATU 11-0

AJ – Dominic Mysterio – Judgement Day shenanigans just leading up to Finn turning on Dom later.
Andrew – Penta – Dom’s fine having a short reign, could also work for pushing AAA.
Dave – Dominic Mysterio – He’s probably more over than Penta.
DJ – Dominic Mysterio – Dirty Dom takes home the gold and the girl.
DPP – Dominic Mysterio – Big Head helps Dom pull out the win.
Jason – Dominic Mysterio – By hook and crook.
Patrick – Dominic Mysterio
Rey – Dominic Mysterio – Latino Heat keeps burning. Finn gets closer to the edge.
Rob – Dominic Mysterio
Greg – Dominic Mysterio – Someone from The Guerrero Dynasty ain’t winning a title just to drop it.

Tunney’s Take: Dominic Mysterio – That belt looks good with the king of chicken tendys. I can see Penta and Rey reforming as a tag team sooner than later.

Chairshot Pick – DOMINIC MYSTERIO 10-1

AJ – John Cena – Why? Cena wins, lol.
Andrew – John Cena – Shenanigans ensue so it’s not a clean win.
Dave – John Cena – The last time is now.
DJ – John Cena – Randy hears voices telling him he needs an Attitude Adjustment.
DPP – John Cena – Cena tries to cheat but the ref doesn’t call for a DQ.
Jason – John Cena – Nefarious means, Randy not ready for Evil John Cena.
Patrick – John Cena
Rey – John Cena – Cena just counting down the dates. Should be fun though.
Rob – John Cena
Greg – John Cena – You know they want Cody to be the hero in the end.

Tunney’s Take: Randy Orton – Once upon a time Randy got himself intentionally disqualified and it cost John. Saturday, history repeats itself with a 180-degree twist. Cena retains via Orton DQ victory. This time, Travis Scott’s appearance takes care of that task.

Chairshot Pick – JOHN CENA 10-1