No ordinary TV series could get away with the disjointed plots that wrestling fans are subjected to on a regular basis. Yep, totally not racist at all. and it want a coincidence when booker did win the world title. It wasn’t the finish because Flair put HHH’s foot on the ropes. But ya know, Vince isn’t a racist or anything……. They have him introduce a masked group to beat down the Undertaker literally days after London had four Islamic suicide bombings killing over 50 people. Instead, King Booker, comically delusional cartoon character, would win the title three years later from a fellow WCW veteran who had somehow been booked as an even bigger loser than Booker, Rey Mysterio. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads. Triple H defeats Booker T after hitting one weak-ass Pedigree and waiting approximately 7 years before making the cover. So when some particularly egregious development happens on wrestling, there is a large portion of the fan base that freaks out, while there’s another, seemingly more mature segment of the audience that tells those other guys to calm down and keep watching, as it will ultimately work out for the best. Hopefully, this will be my first and last non-snarky post at Wrestlecrap, but we do need to call out stupid stereotypes when WWE – or any other promotion – sees fit to try to capitalize on race or ethnicity based nonsense … the sneaky Arab, the shiftless African American, and every other moronic brainstorm that passes for creativity at idea-starved Titan Tower. But it and likely nothing else will come close to this. Search, discover and share your favorite Tell Me GIFs. To be fair to Droz, it was long before the actual squash. Perhaps hoping to test that theory, one announcer from Memphis in a crown took it upon himself to act like a total jackass. It was rich snob vs. poor hoodrat, not white guy vs black guy. Kenny manages to insult Jim Ross, Jim Cornette, and WWE fans all in one tweet! At 27 Taker had to be carried out, but that seemed to be a long term thing to set up the rematch a year later where Taker decisively beat him. Let’s not forget Nathan Jones, who was SUPPOSED to be in the Undertaker/A-Train & Big Show match, but ended up doing a run-in before he was OVWed for retooling. It became almost laughably predictable. http://www.discogs.com/Frank-Booker-Tell-Them/release/2878308 The issue isn’t the racist allusions, it’s that the racist won in the end in dominant fashion. And DDP said in a shoot interview that this pissed him off. Velveteen Dream addresses WWE release, sexual predator accusations. One of the things he forgot was that he was supposed to kick out of the Diamond Cutter at the LAST SECOND. 60 likes. This is why I can’t watch it. Personally, I’m mostly with him on the first point. Naomi’s former faction-mate, and someone who’s had other issues with Booker T’s critical assessments of late, chimed in, too. WWE should have never used race if Booker was slated to lose. I hate to say this because I like Naomi, but as far as the business goes, you get it on your merit alone. Like many of the others above, still get angry at how much they ruined Booker T’s momentum with this one. I mostly remember this for Droz making a blog-post, to the effect of “Well, maybe it is racist… Hunter’s playing the heel, after all. But HHH had someone to cheat for him and Booker didn’t. BOOKER: Mr. Vice President, there's a saying in my community, you're dipping into the Kool-Aid and you don't even know the flavor. How do you know he was happy about it? Naomi is perhaps more athletic than every female in that locker room, but psychology and working are two different things. I think the guys over on the F4W Board had it best with this image: http://wrestlecrap.com/bookerthhhmspaint.jpg. Then the exact same thing played out in reverse. I think you overestimate their chances.”, “But Governor Tarkin, sir, the… Oh wow! The way that needs to be put out there is her advocating for herself and performing at a high level. Which takes me to this week’s induction: Triple H vs. Booker T. I don’t know whether the program was supposed to turn out how it did all along, or whether mid-way through the storyline somebody nixed the title change, but this Wrestlemania XIX feud and match turned out to be perhaps the biggest feel-bad story in all of wrestling and *the* prime example of how easily a story of Good triumphing over Evil can be transformed from inspiring to depressing simply by having Evil win. They did what they wanted to do as usual. Absolutely pathetic. It sucked for all of those guys, but they did it because they thought it still beat getting fired. 3. However, WWE Hall of Famer Booker T saw the hashtag, and he, as usual, had something to say about it during a recent episode of his podcast. Don’t nobody ‘deserve’ a chance. If you like, please include a brief comment about the book And it’s not like he had the choice to quit and go elsewhere, considering this was the only major wrestling promotion in town in America at that time. That was the difference in the match. during this period as world champ, HHH beat booker t, scott steiner, kevin nash, and goldberg. Triple H was the strong champion who was taking on an up-and-comer, and he buried him, and shat on him both racially and professionally, and set his career back so it’s never quite recovered. My favourite part of Sentenced to Greatness is that they act like Booker T won the title at WMXIX and don’t mention the loss. He’s going to lose now.” I thought. It’s always been that way. Well, you’re not holding me back anymore!”. While it’s hard to make clear judgement calls on Triple H (remember he WAS still just an employee, he even had to hump a dummy in a casket once), this angle is basically yet MORE proof that at least Vincent K. McMahon is a disgusting human being. The low point was the world seeing Johnathan Coachman’s underwear due to a pantsing. What you’re bringing up has no comparison to this angle. Hunter never did get his comeuppance from Booker or pay any price for his racist worldview. No one ever, ever won after that much hesitation and a weak cover. “This way of doing it will make fans get behind him.” These were my thoughts and probably the thoughts of many watching at home. Lots of people had a huge problem with the build to CM Punk vs Undertaker due to how far Punk went regarding the death of Paul Bearer. Omega chooses violence after JR says no one is better than Orton. After the match ended, in the back, DDP was like “What the fuck are you doing kicking out of my finisher at two, you trying to make me look bad?” Goldberg was like “Dude, I got knocked out, I don’t even remember the last part of the match, sorry if I did that though.” And DDP was like “Oh, okay, we’re cool then.”. Even though they had a superficial similarity they were all refreshingly unique. Brock Lesnar defeats Kurt Angle after hitting three F-5s. Yeah Lawler showed his worst throughout this version of bury a WCW guy because we’re petty as hell (now with added racial overtones). The message wasn’t so much that Triple H was great, just that Booker T just wasn’t that good, stumbling at the finish line, as it were, and getting beaten in a scenario that every single wrestler before him had survived. A wrestling fan ever since the days of Wrestlemania IX, Art graduated from college in the same building where Art Donovan called King of the Ring 1994. If you sign a WWE contract, you have to do pretty much whatever they tell you to, no matter how humiliating. He didn’t kick out at all. RVD/Kane vs. Storm/Morley was bumped to a Heat match and rebooked to accommodate the garbage of a D- level “celebrity.”. At least, Goldberg was Jewish. There was nobody to save Booker like HHH was saved. Angle was leaving for what was likely months to get neck surgery, and he was allowed to go down fighting. Booker could have even lost the next night on Raw. Even if that were true, this would still be wrestlecrap because of how weak it made Booker T look. So what did Booker T do while Triple H demeaned him and his accomplishments? Also, hey, the guy has “Punk” right in his name. This was an awful angle and the fact that it had such a lame payoff…damn near ruined that WrestleMania for me. Once it used there was only one way to end the match. Yeah this angle was dumb just to bring Race into it was obviously pathetic/pointless. What about Wrestlemania 20 where he tapped clean to Benoit? Find GIFs with the latest and newest hashtags! The point is that what Triple H did to Booker was WAY worse than somebody kicking out of a finisher right at two. So he would have done this same angle with… say… The Brooklyn Brawler? This time, the referee simply counted to three and the bell rang. Quote-tweeting the Yes Man GIF, Sasha Banks said: “Don’t feed into useless opinions, no matter who they come from. Funny you should say that, considering Race was managing Vader when he lost the WCW World Title to Ron Simmons. This had nothing to do with ethnicity. So anything Punk did might have been in poor taste, but it’s within reason. We gotta get that here if it hasn’t already been done. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. No strangers to evil, criminal profiler Reni Fisher and detective Daniel Ellis both still grapple with traumatizing pasts. It’s like in their circa 2003 HHH rage it goes right over people’s heads. They ended as follows: Hulk Hogan defeats Vince McMahon after hitting three leg drops. In addition to Keke Palmer and Charlotte Flair, it caught the attention of WWE Hall of Famer Booker T. During the Extreme Rules after-show edition of his Hall of Fame podcast with Brad Gilmore (transcription courtesy Fightful), Booker revealed what he thinks about things like the Twitter “uprising” that happened last Saturday, and Naomi’s overall potential. Taker v. Show/Albert was probably a *1/2 match, but it was still something that belongs on a wrestling show. Giphy Link A shame, too, cos it was a damn fine match before the bullshit ending. Any guesses why this match got cut from the Wrestlemania XIX documentary? The Death Star never loses.”. Here was a character whose backstory was that he had grown resentful of Americans because he had Arabic lineage and, in the post-9/11 landscape, Americans had become distrusting of him. I believe the build up also had a few racial undertones, but in the end, justice prevailed. Even series with the most notoriously convoluted stories made up as the writers went along, like The X-Files or Twin Peaks or Lost, can’t hold a candle to the inconsistencies, plot holes, and revisionism found on a month’s worth of Raw. But it only took one Pedigree to beat Booker T.”. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Tell Me. A real low point for the WWE, as if there haven’t been enough. So they try to shrug off the racist overtones of the angle with the lamest of lame excuses, but then GO AHEAD WITH THE RACIST ANGLE ANYWAY. She hasn’t had as many opportunities to do that as some others. I like wrestling. Over the years, R… Sure, no one’s allowed to get up a second or two after the Pedigree (unless it’s 1996 and you’re The Ultimate Warrior… or Freddie Joe Floyd)…. They got #NaomiDeservesBetter trending, and attracted some high-profile support from inside and outside WWE, and even the wrestling business. Terry Taylor did not make an ass of himself as the Red Rooster because he wanted to. Oh really, because that’s SO much better? If it happened tomorrow, someone blessed Naomi with the World Championship, trust me, it would not feel like she did it on her own. It may not happen overnight. Did you not listen to the sound clips? In no way does that make the message of the match that “Booker just wasn’t that good”. The fact she has fans passionate enough to point that out is testament to her skill at at least one key element of a pro wrestler’s job - connecting with the audience. HHH during this time period truly was in full blown burial mode! And finally, Tony Atlas didn’t play Saba Simba because he wanted to. I think the most pathetic thing of all was the way WWE booked a BLATANTLY racist angle, then when they began (justifiably) receiving flak for, you know, BOOKING AN APPALLINGLY RACIST ANGLE they tried to make pathetic excuses about how “guys like [Booker]” means WCW guys, not nig-um, black guys. There was no “dreams do come true” moment of redemption for the lifelong underdog. As previously reported, the hashtag began trending on … Cageside Seats, for Pro Wrestling and MMA fans, Booker T slams #NaomiDeservesBetter trend; Naomi, Sasha fire back. Why Booker Agreed to this angle, as it went a long, is beyond me (he wasn’t some rookie fighting for a spot obviously). Lawler was actually worse then than he was in the midst of the Attitude Era. Let’s just say that you were actually right and race wasn’t even a factor. The end of this match and feud was and is the total embodiment of Wrestlecrap. Once they went the terror route, they represented absolutely no decent human beings. Naomi’s former faction-mate, and someone who’s had other issues with Booker T’s critical assessments of late, chimed in, too. To paraphrase Booker T from the Wrestlemania XIX The Video Game Commercial, Tonight you gone see something special and complain about it on the internet :V. You mention annoying commentators – when is Tony Dawson getting his overdue induction? It was in poor taste and moronic. Share the best GIFs now >>> With the unrelenting bickering between announcers distracting from the match, you’d be forgiven for thinking you were watching a current Raw telecast. So yeah, looking back at it, and not even being particularly bothered about the racial undertones of this angle (I don’t see how you can get offended by something designed to be so over the top, and if Booker was happy to go along with it then it’s not up to Art or anyone else to be insulted on his behalf – enough of this PC false empathy liberalism junk) this was by far the worst booked angle and match on the entire card, and Booker never really recovered. I do enjoy hearing JR go full shoot angry on the King, though. I played with Cropper many times in the studio. It should be noted that in addition to this match, WM XIX featured three other main-event caliber matches (four if you count Y2J vs. HBK, but it won’t help make the point I’m making here). hogan beat vince with 3 leg drops. other issues with Booker T’s critical assessments of late, Charlotte’s serving Head of the Table-meets-The Queen’s Gambit realness, Dana Warrior slams Dark Side of the Ring doc on her late husband, nZo thanks fans after scary incident at indie show, Kofi’s second title reign needs a better story than his first. Giphy links preview in Facebook and Twitter. This is a new Wrestlemania 31 shirt that says "The California Conflict- Man Vs. Bear".…, Silicon Valley, CA – Garret Dorsey, a 33 year-old app developer, officially declared bankruptcy following…, Ever since John Cena began his 15th world title reign after winning the WWE World…. After all, practically no one remembers “Our American Cousin,” and if they do, they know it only as the play Lincoln was watching when he got shot by John Wilkes Booth. All match long, Lawler incessantly harped on the fact that. As for the racist, arrogant Triple H? The only thing I remember about Nathan Jones was the story about him being on so much gas that he began lactating. It seriously was pathetic and overshadowed what was a good match. But as a viewer, I have enjoyed her work when she’s actually had a chance to play a character and tell a story in the ring, and that’s where I’d disagree with him. Please subscribe to my channel?Booker-T knew he messed up as soon as he said it. All rights reserved. Of course, that would have made sense, but let’s not forget who the opponent was. I never would have wanted the World Title if it was given to me that way. The way the racial angle went unresolved was definitely a bad look. She tweeted a Jim Carrey GIF and wrote, “Will do @BookerT5x ” Sasha Banks also chimed in about Booker T’s recent comments. “Even in a utopia, someone has to clean up the mess. To this day, this match still makes no sense to me. ‘Well, such and such has a buddy and that’s why they’re doing it.’ That might be true, but life is not fair. GOod job on re-establishing a damaged talent, Vince. DON'T TELL MY BOOKER is a member of Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Yeah Lawler showed his worst throughout this version of bury a WCW guy because we’re petty as hell (now with added racial overtones). Ok, that’s fine. I agree the way it was booked was bad but Lawler made it so much worse. This match, and the Kane vs Triple H match at No Mercy 2002 when Kane was supposedly a murderer, ruined my opinion of Lawler on commentary. It’s simply in bad taste. While I personally do hope to have kids one day, two of my close friends revealed they don't want them at all. You have to earn a chance and your spot on the roster, this is not some kind of movement just to pull somebody up just because. As much as I like Booker T, his main event run in WCW seemed kind of lacking due to the ridiculous booking (I’m mainly basing this on what I’ve read about WCW’s dying days being as I wasn’t watching it at the time sadly). When you do that, you cannot be denied. The only reason HHH wasn’t pinned was because Flair cheated and saved him. When Hunter and Flair’s(Lawler too) horrible comments were made I said to myself it was OK. “Booker T will win the World Title.” I told myself. Booker T valiantly fought to overcome the odds — symbolic of the great odds he had had to surmount just to get into the wrestling business — shaking off Ric Flair repeatedly and finally delivering a Houston Hangover to Triple H. Of course, he took way too long to go for a cover, and when he managed that, he could only muster the strength to cover Triple H with one arm, so obviously this was not the finish of the match. Booker hit him with TWO finishers, and still wasn’t able to put him away. Remember that in a minute. The Muhammed Hassan butchering was worse than this. This spot essentially resets the match, meaning it’s anyone’s ball game as the two opponents each desperately try to put the other man down for the count. I remember while watching WM19 and getting angry because King wouldn’t let the racist angle go through the whole match, along withe the jailbird bit. Oh come on, WWE actually brought up the fact that lots of things Hunter and Flair said sounded racist. There was no kickout. Booker T, African-American symbol of redemption and hope, would never become World Champion. Knowing Booker T, he’ll probably comment on this, so stay tuned for that. And he lost. It was a shatstorm of poor ideas, poor writing, poor execution, tone deaf, stupid, arrogant and the highest sin of all in entertainment, NOT FUN. Instead, he kicked out of the Diamond Cutter right at two. That was truly Triple H at his worst. WrestleCrap.com, © 2013. In the meantime, give us your thoughts in the comments below on Naomi’s potential, the concept of wrestlers “deserving” opportunities, Jim Carrey’s career, or anything else touched upon in this latest adventure across the wrestling web. A lot of people are(or were) mad about the likely outcome of this Sunday’s main event. I’d rather he’d just refused the handshake instead, it would have got the same message across. There was arguably another blemish – Stacy Kiebler vs. Torrie Wilson vs. But Booker didn’t have someone like Flair to cheat for him. The best GIFs are on GIPHY. What does Naomi think about Booker’s take? He eventually lost his title to Goldberg, at last proving that a WCW guy could win the big one…, "Induction: Booker T vs. That’s gotta count for something, right? “Hoodrat”… wow. The funny thing is that WMXIX was the fact that this PPV had several matches in which the loser took three finishers before staying down for good (or for 3 seconds, whichever comes first). Understand that there should have been no way the match would end here. Booker T. & The MG's opened this Creedence Clearwater Revival concert at the Oakland Coliseum, 1/31/70. I played with Booker throughout the years, I played on records he produced, I played on a Bill Withers record (Booker produced). Tell us what you are reading and give a simple 1-5* rating...1 means Hated It, 5 means Loved it. I’ve always been of the William Munny/Snoop from The Wire school of thought on folks “deserving” things. No, it wasn’t the finish. Why? Its just another for of racism. Remember that in a minute. The night comes and with my still hopeful friends and I watching that abomination went down. I also vividly recall the rebuttal promo, where Booker T admitted “some of that stuff may be true”. Now that I think of it, was there any time when Lawler was actually good, and not merely less bad? But this was none of that. I seem to recall commentary being completely unlistenable pretty much from Lawler’s return in November 2001 all throughout the period in question. Instead, Booker T lost where no man had lost before. It’s not like he was HHH or The Rock or someone who has the ability to complain about an angle and actually be taken seriously. I think it took place in a conversation between Flair and HHH in the locker room? Why Booker Agreed to this angle, as it went a long, is beyond me (he wasn’t some rookie fighting for a spot obviously). The Miller Light Girls ate up 4-5 segments and 15 minutes of PPV. Rumor Roundup: Edge absence, John Cena note, WWE road return, more! Tell me all about it here! Great job on this induction, Art. The latest rumors, including what’s going on with Edge, a note on John Cena’s possible return, WWE keeping some leaks to a minimum, and more! To the guy several posts earlier who said “Well, Booker went along with it, so clearly he didn’t have a problem with it,” that’s not how WWE works. The whole angle was terrible though. Tell Me - Ebook written by Joan Bauer. Working On Myself… 2019 Reading #1 – Ghost Boy; Bombas – THEY ROCK! This was a standard double-down: the part of the match where both men are knocked to the mat and struggle to get back to their feet. “Oh ****! I entered the comments section fully expected people to deny this obviously being racial and was not mistaken. The point is: in any normal work of fiction, a disturbing turn of events in the story, like, say, the protagonist encountering terrible adversity and blatant racism, does not ruin the work but makes it better, because it all gets resolved at the end and makes the culmination of the hero’s journey all the more satisfying. It Is Copyrighted To Their Owners. ”. “‘Naomi deserves a chance.’ They can go to hell with all these hashtags I’m tired of hearing about them. If memory serves, there was a story out in 2003 that Trips was supposed to lose, but hade the finish nixed. Even Vince McMahon was allowed to go down fighting. Since I’m not a trainer, I can’t speak at the same level as Book on Naomi’s professional skillset. Tell me, who the fuck takes ONE finisher, and still can’t kick out after 20 seconds? Lawler was so obnoxious during this match. A top aide to Republican New Jersey Senate candidate Steve Lonegan suggested yesterday that Lonegan's opponent, Cory Booker, is gay. Booker T. & the M.G. That latter portion of fans, of course, forgets that they’re talking about pro wrestling, where the notoriously flaky writers have shorter attention spans than the audience. Patrick Clark confirms he was let go by the company, and provides his side of the story regarding two of the allegations against him that led to his termination. Tell Me About That Book. First, Triple H interrupted Booker T’s victory speech and proceeded to look him up and down like a slave on the auction block. In wrestling, a disturbing turn of events in the story ruins the angle half the time because nothing gets resolved. That next move was, as expected, a slow, weak cover by Triple H, who, after 23 seconds of rest time, draped his arm over his opponent just as Booker T had done a minute earlier. There’s not been a single Wrestlemania (with the exception of 23) that Triple H hasn’t put himself over in or at least injected himself into a high profile feud/spot that could’ve gone to someone much more deserving. Then again, I remember screw all about XIX aside from Brock Lesnar piledriving himself trying to do a shooting star press. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Please Tell Me animated GIFs to your conversations. No one will ever say you were given anything. Maybe IS would jerk themselves off to them but nobody who lives in the real world. And Booker had to go along with this. By all rights, Booker should have won. Actually, that’s not fair, I also remember the fairly cool promos they aired about the guy before we finally got to see him stink up the ring. Yes those were all high profile matches, but the fact is he was a legit main event guy, so he’s bound to get used high up the card. Get caught up on the debate that led to the AEW champion’s fiery tweet right here. Yeah, and I remember looking back after this feud ended, and realizing that Booker T’s big comeback from dealing with racism and being told he was a loser, was getting to beat up Flair on RAW. Maybe that was the usage of the term “uppity”? As opposed to what happened here. Ricky Steamboat didn’t put on the “dragon” costume because he wanted to. Particularly at WrestleMania, where lots of matches have multiple finishers used as mentioned above? I remember this being the only blemish on an otherwise good WrestleMania. “B*******!B*******!
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