Thursday, March 18, 2010

WWE: No More Weapon Shots to the Head

Courtesy of Deadspin

No more of thisThe WWE is poo-pooing shots to the head taken from foreign objects. No chairshots to the head. I think this is a good idea, albeit it's being brought about for the wrong reasons. This decision was made solely to help Linda McMahon's Senate campaign. I hate this rush to clean up the product because it'll help Linda's image. Fuck that, make the reforms because you care about the wrestlers or because you WANT to market to a different audience, not because of your vanilla wife's political aspirations.

The truth is, had chairshots to the head been banned all along, maybe He Who Shall Not Be Named might have been a bit better off. Then again, it wasn't just the chairshots that turned his brain to mush, as we reference all those Germans with sloppy self-protection and the dangerous-to-perform flying headbutt from the top. Still, a chairshot to the back produces the same sound and really has a similar effect as one to the head. Keep going with that.