*sigh* Tell me they aren't bringing religion into WWE...

[Ultra]

HBK turning to God?

Fuck. MORE SHIT, PLEASE!

[Arthur_Tuxedo]

As for wrestling apealing to the "lowest common demoniator" its an action movie. Being a fan of it is certainly no more stupid to dedicating mountains time and money to a series of sci-fi movies.

Except that it's the dumbest action movie ever made in the history of mankind.

It's more of a soap opera than an action movie, so it's pretty good if you judge it by those standards

[ElBlanco]

As for wrestling apealing to the "lowest common demoniator" its an action movie. Being a fan of it is certainly no more stupid to dedicating mountains time and money to a series of sci-fi movies.

Except that it's the dumbest action movie ever made in the history of mankind.

Are you new to Earth? Have you seen the shit Hollywood cranks out these days? At least the WWE has a few personalities. And you do get to see a few nice matches which are a hell of a lot more convincing than any heavyweight fight we've seen for a while.

[Arthur_Tuxedo]

Are you new to Earth? Have you seen the shit Hollywood cranks out these days? At least the WWE has a few personalities. And you do get to see a few nice matches which are a hell of a lot more convincing than any heavyweight fight we've seen for a while.

Hmm... maybe it's because I do jujitsu, but high school improv is more convincing to me than most of the WWE matches.

[Lord_Xerxes]

*sighs* When do you think was the last time that the wrestling-bashers actually watched any wrestling?

That's just it, I haven't seen Michaels in the ring for a while. The last time i watched Raw there were no references to god or religion. They did talk about puppies quite a bit!

Ah, the good 'ole days *sniff*

In response to the wrestling basher's comment, is that directed at the people that don't like wrestling and don't watch, or the people who do watch and aren't satisfied with what they see?

If it's the later, I do watch wrestling regularlly. But not as frequently as I used to. Basically because it's been shit, and instead of watching 2 hours of shit, I decided reading the results in five minutes is a more efficient use of my time.

And no, the religion thing isn't just a wrestling schikt. Shawn Michaels has indeed found god IRL. That was known for a long time before his recent return to the WWE. And they even talked about it in a recent interview with him in either Raw or WWE magazine.

Unfortunately, Mike's comments are all too true. There are however a great deal of us who like it that fall outside of that demographic as well. The seemingly mythical intelligent wrestling-fan.

[Einhander Sn0m4n]

Pro Wrestling+Religion=Enough stupidity to create a rift in spacetime and possibly break the Third Seal of the Apocalypse... ACK! It's almost worse than putting chastity belts on teenage boys (Yes there are barbarians who get their jollies torturing teenaged boys by forcibly denying them sexual release. They're called Christian Fundamentalists. I think www.PortalofEvil.com lists websites of a few chastitybelt makers and a few of these unnatural, cruel, and sadistic bastards, use POE's search... OUCH my crotch is hurting just THINKING about what those boys go through at the hands of such inhumane barbarians!!)
**Correction** It doesn't hold a fucking CANDLE to the chastitybelt-on-teenagers thing but you get the point... I think

[Lord_Xerxes]

Pro Wrestling+Religion=Enough stupidity to create a rift in spacetime and possibly break the Third Seal of the Apocalypse...

Agreed, Eihander.

Someone mentioned the Jesus Saves shirt? HBK, with exception to I believe the last two Raw episodes, has been wearing shirts with religious phrases or passages on them. His match with HHH at Sumer Slam he was wearing a shirt that listed some passage name on it. Don't remember though.

The simple fact is, it's a stupid idea. If HBK wins the belt, he'll thank god. Just like when basketball players or football players get the winning shot/goal, they thank god. It's ridiculous. I don't have a problem with him believing in his own abilities, I think he's one of the greatest wrestlers ever. But it seems like a shady way to usher religion into wrestling and perhaps sneek it down our throats.

Someone mentioned Devon's angle. Yet another example of this happening lately. It's just a shitty angle. It doesn't work. The Ministry of Darkness angle, with Undertaker as a satanist as someone said, was intresting with all the ceremonies and "sacrifices" just because it was furthering this whole Undertaker being more than human thing, and the whole WWF plot was sort of twirling around him and the stable. It was surely a lot more intresting than listening to HHH yack for 20 mins on how good he is...Plus it gave a lot of lower-card talen the ability to stand in the spotlight next to a man guy and shine a little. Think about it. The Brood was fused into the Ministry, and Edge started out that way. One might say a lot of his fan apeal might have something to do with being able to get into that light? But the MOD got shitty when they united it with the Coporation.