Alright I know I don’t usually post wrestling news on here but last Sunday was WrestleMania XXVI and ESPN’s own Sports Guy decided to expense the $64 PPV purchase (64$, since when did PPV’s start hitting $64? good grief) and write a recap for ESPN. What follows is a casual fan’s highly entertaining recap of the festivities.
A few entertaining tasty bits to wet your appetite:
“R-Truth (a rapper/wrestler) and John Morrison (an entertaining Jim Morrison ripoff) challenging the champs, The Big Show and The Miz (carrying two belts apiece, for some reason). R-Truth came out prancing and singing his hit song, “What’s Up?” The lyrics go like this: “Shshshn cnbcnsbdb fhdehsh fhdhs dhdhan dbdjdndjd dbdbdbdbdb shshsnhs ffrhdhhjs xbcxbbffgfhhj WHAT’S UP? WHAT’S UP? WHAT’S UP? WHAT’S UP?” I don’t think he wrote that one with Burt Bacharach and Carly Simon.”
“I continue to be dumbfounded that The Miz — once upon a time a skinny “Real World: New York” roommate named Mike who referred to himself as “The Miz” and cracked his housemates up with fake wrestling speeches, then went on to a moderately successful “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” guy as he continued to refer to himself as “The Miz” — somehow became a WWE tag-team champion named “The Miz.” This is like Darryl Strawberry winning “Celebrity Apprentice,” then becoming a Fortune 500 CEO.”
“Effective use of split-screen there: They showed a replay of Ziggler getting knocked out of the ring in Screen 2 as Kane was choke-slamming Ziggler onto a ladder on Screen 1. So if you’re scoring at home, the WWE pulls off split-screens with ease during live events with 10 wrestlers, three ladders and eight things happening at once, yet CBS can’t figure out how to put two March Madness games on the same screen.”
Check it out at the link below:
Sports Guy’s WrestleMania XXVI recap on ESPN
