Sunday, April 17, 2005

Secrets of the Ring with Raven and other stuff

I was excited this week when I checked my mail and my latest addition to my wrestling video collection arrived, another in the ROH Secrets of the Ring series, this one is with Raven! A very entertaining and informative dvd. From what I understand Raven will be doing a series of these discussing different aspects of working, this one in particular is how to work as a babyface. He goes into detail of match psycology and the 'lost art of selling' talking about how most of today's young stars, (namely TNA and ROH workers) are great performers, but cannot work for shit. Ironically, he went into a big spiel about performing vs. working, which had a lot of the same points of a column I wrote a couple of years ago(i'm gonna try to find it and re-post it here) Perhaps most amusing though was his analogy of how the pace of a wrestling match is very simular to "jerking off", I won't go into the whole thing here but some VERY funny shit and strangely he makes a lot of sense. Everyone should check this out, either at ROH.com or email me and I can bring some copies with me to the show in Amory. If anyone whose going is interested in buying any dvd's from me that night email me for my list.


Before I forget, since I didn't get around to writing about it in my column I just wanted to comment and say I thought Wrestlemania was pretty good this year. Although I really don't think the timing was right to put the belt on Cena OR Batista at least it's a change of pace (temporarily anyway) What can you say though, as I most figured Angle and HBK stole the show with a hell of a match, which wasn't shocking after the awesome match Angle had with Marty Jannetty a couple weeks prior on Smackdown. The only real complaint I had with the whole show was the fact that I paid $50 to see the Big Show in a thong.......very disturbing. Am I the only one who was a bit let down by Piper's Pit?? I've always loved Piper's Pit (another reason I'm so stoked about the Cheap Heat Interview segments) but I really expected more, I thought Piper did pretty well but Austin just seems stale, almost like a parody of himself. Probably just me though, I do have to say Carlito's character is growing on me.

As for TNA, I don't think an ENTIRE PAY PER VIEW of Cage matches is a great idea, I predict "Big Dust" will be out of the driver's seat pretty soon. They have a ton of great talent if they could just get it together........

I think firing Matt Hardy is a crock of fucking shit, I can only hope this is some kind of elaborate internet work but probably not..... Looks like a Hardy Boy Reunion soon.....At least we won't have to watch Jeff flounder as a single much longer.

That's all for now, I will try to post that 'Working vs. Performing' column soon if I can find it.

Thanks for reading

GENE

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