W.W.W. featuring Dusty Rhodes and Brock Lesnar/Rey Mysterio vs Big Show/A-Train

On Wednesdays, we here at LOL, Wresslin' like to really pull out the stops and offer up a double shot of righteously killer content. Why Wednesday? Well, we could impress you with market research, work habit studies, and human psychology tendencies to show you there's a scientific reason the middle of the week is the best time to bring your A-game. However, truth be told, we don't have any of that stuff and settled on Wednesday because that was the only day that didn't have any content scheduled.

So, here you have "Watch Wresslin' Wednesdays." Please feel free to suggest a better title, because we are woefully uncreative when it comes to naming stuff.

Better at naming stuff then us

The idea of W.W.W. is we each send the other a video that is related to wrestling (a match, promo, interview, guest starring spot, etc.). The only restriction is that it cannot be user-created, so your skit of TNA stars beating WWE stars using action figures ain't gonna fly here, pal. Neither of us know what kind of video we're going to get that day.

After viewing, we each write a response. This could be anything we choose: a straight commentary, a philosophical enlightenment, or classless ridicule. Just as we don't know what kind of video the other will select, neither do we know what the other will write or how they will write it. What you end up with is a mash-up of styles, which in our book equates to two-blogs-in-one, and we can take the rest of the day off.

Adam's video to Matt - Dusty Rhodes "Hard Times" promo



Matt's response...

Pop quiz LOL fans, who said these words?

"It's about folks who are losing their jobs and their health care and their homes that were their foothold on the American dream. Your machines plow the farms that feed our families, build the towers that shape our skylines. Small businesses can’t get loans. If they can’t get a loan, that means that they can’t make payroll. If they can’t make payroll, then they may end up having to shut their doors and lay people off. Half of all private sector workers have no paid sick days and the problem is worse for employees in low-paying jobs. It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores."

Ok, time's up. Have a guess?


Nope, sorry. Sure it sounds like a pretty good Dusty promo, but that's not who said it.

I was listening to that promo from Mr. Rhodes from way back in the mid-80s, and I thought to myself "This sounds very familiar, like something we may have heard in the past year." So I did a little digging through the internet archives and found those quotes there.

So who practically copied the American Dream?


That's right. Our current president, Barack Obama.

Now, he didn't say those all at once. That's a mash-up of quotes from the election trail and during his time at office. Apparently, he's never needed to cut a promo about winning the World Heavyweight Championship, and I'll give him a pass on that. But I think it shows that wrestling, no matter how silly or cartoony or broadly drawn it may be, still has a pretty good finger on what's going on.

Not THAT many fingers, Dusty.

I will, however, give the President this much. I think he has a little more ability to give those people back their jobs through policy than does an overweight wrestler by winning the strap. Damn it if I didn't wish that were the other way around though.



Matt's Video to Adam- Brock Lesnar and Rey Mysterio vs Big Show and A-Train



Adam's response...

I suppose Matt thought it'd be real topical and funny if he sent me a Brock Lesnar gem like this. And why not? He's all over the sports news after his win at UFC 100. Now granted, we've only seen one side of Brock Lesnar on the site and I'd beat he likes it just fine that way (you know the interview I'm talking about.) But let's go in the way back machine and remember a time when Brock loved the cheers and loved the fans.

But not yet.

No, first let's look a LOL, Wresslin' favorite Paul Heyman and LOL, Wresslin' not favorite The Big Show (thankfully his only two words in this video were "No way!"). The basic gist of Paul's promo is that Brock and Paul had a bit of a lover's spat, so Paul rebounded with the biggest bear he could find. And then he mentions who else is in his crew. The dangerous men that are Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin.


Now, listen (read?). We love Charlie Haas here at the site, and I'm a fan of Shelton as much as anyone is. But let's not kid ourselves. At this time, they weren't a threat. Paul then continues to mention "their friend, A-Train", which is not as insulting as you'd think. Seriously, I know you're all expecting me to be like "A-Train's not even good enough to be in that stable! What a maroon! LOLOLOLOLOZ!" But think about this for a second:

We all love Destro from GI Joe, or rather Cobra. But get this. He wasn't in Cobra. No, he was actually a free agent. Destro was an international arms dealer who just hung out with Cobra. He also had this:

Black leather. Go-go boots. Chic glasses. Thick accent. Long black hair. Killer bod. Conversations with Destro. If you ask for anything more out of a girl from G.I. Joe then you're asking for too much.

So who's the stupid and fat one now?

Anyway, Brock comes out and reminds me how much I loved the old Smackdown graphics that used to play the Titantron videos above the wrestlers' names. But wait! Who's that jumpin' out the sky? R-E-Y? Mysterio? Here I go?

Then that happened.

Of course, we shouldn't be surprised by all this. The "team" of Show/Train would later lose a handicap match to the Undertaker. And this was all during his American Badass garbage. So that shows how tough those two fats were.