Evil Ste vs. Michael Cole
ES - Not much to say about a pretty middling show, except to offer comment on the disgrace that was the Cyndi Lauper segment. Let me just be clear on something here; I was not disgusted by the segment itself, but rather the way Michael Cole absolutely buried it from start to finish. That unbearable little Kevin Dunn creation wouldn't even have a job today if it wasn't for the contributions of Lauper. I don't think Cole even realises what a huge deal the Rock N Wrestling thing was. WrestleMania and everything that followed, including being a billion dollar company at one point, was in part due to the mainstream publicity Lauper helped generate with the MTV link. This could have been a genuine touching moment, and hell, if any celebrity deserves to go in the Hall of Fame, it is her, nevermind some throwaway segment on Raw. But you take what you can get with WWE, and this should have been memorable and could have been classy, but instead that ignorant little rat was (presumably instructed) to bury the entire thing. I guess it begs the question of why Vince agreed to let it happen in the first place, and what exactly Piper and Lauper had done to deserve being assassinated in such a way. The WWE is remarkable in that it buries its own history and tries to erase it from history and memory, but then releases a slew of DVD's that champion eras past, along with their aforementioned money spinning HOF. Having watching the original Lauper-Piper-Albano stuff recently as part of the reviews for our new book about the WWF and it's tape releases, those classic memories were once again fresh in the mind. For Vince McMahon and the talentless and universally hated Cole, to proverbially piss in my mouth like that, made me feel almost sick. A wrestling fan can only have their intelligence insulted a finite number of times before they move on. You would think after that 2.7 rating a few weeks ago, they would do everything they could to keep their audience, not alienate it further. The subsequent refusal to use the super-over Zack Ryder in his hometown, was equally dumb. Listen to me WWE: Very few of your guys are over, and business is on the cusp of a major collapse outside of WrestleMania. If someone gets over, fucking PUSH THEM! Try that instead of burying them for not being the guy your corporate bullshit machine wants to push. Also, where was Vader? The guy was more over than any of the cookie cutter nobodies on the roster last week, bring him back and let him teach your bland, generic, devoid of personality "sports entertainers" how to work.
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