Vince Lays into TNA and Awesome Kong Lands in ROH

McMahon Interview Courtesy of the Torch

Kong News Straight from the Horse's Mouth

A couple of wrestling news and notes for your perusal. Firstly, Vince McMahon recently spoke to Acorn Newspapers in Connecticut, and two things of note came out of it. One, McMahon criticized TNA's move to Monday nights, calling them "not [their] competition" and their product "tawdry and blood-soaked". Again, he infuriatingly said he wasn't in the "pro rasslin" business either. I agree with the sentiment that TNA isn't competition to them, but here's the thing - what's so wholesome and family-oriented about Big Dick Johnson? Or about a segment implying that one of Bella Twins was a transvestite and Kelly Kelly a huge slut? Or an act whose biggest catchphrase is telling authority figures to "suck it"? I really wish McMahon would come off his high horse and just level with people. I could even live with him never referring to the WWE as "pro rasslin" forever, but just quit the charade of being this family friendly program when it's not the case. You can't half-ass market to the kids and to the hormone-washed adolesecent-to-young adult male crowd at the same time.

The second interesting note is that McMahon said that the Bret Hart match could be his final one. Of course, he says here that he claims that after every match, but if it's the case this time, how historic would WrestleMania be if it had the last matches ever for Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and Vince McMahon?

Finally, Awesome Kong has signed on to wrestle in ROH for the time being. She'll debut in New York on May 8th against Sara del Rey. I like the signing not because ROH really has a kickin' women's division. It doesn't, and it would be importing a whole lot of talent from SHIMMER to feed to Kong as challengers. That is, unless their idea of having Kong on the roster is to go through SDR, Daizee Haze, MsChif and Rayna von Tosh over and over again. That would be stupid. Especially throwing Rayna in there. Not because she's a bad wrestler - I can't claim to have watched her - but because she's smokin' hot and I would rather see her be ROH's SoCal Val than get used up by the constant bumping of the pro wrestling lifestyle.

What I'd like to see is Kong challenge the men. It's time for this to happen at a level above Chikara. ROH is pseudo-national, it would be a huge angle. For the love of God, please do this, let Kong throw around Right Leg Ridge and trade strikes with Davey Richards. PLEASE!

And just so you can't say I never gave you anything, Rayna von Tosh:



Rayna von Tosh Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein - Please visit his site to view the plentiful amounts of pictures he's taken for DGUSA, ROH and other indie feds: Get Lost Photography