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bedsitter23As I said yesterday, the WWE's racist character Zeb Colter is hot.
The WWE launches dozens of characters in a year, and most won't take. I am not sure that Zeb would have (although it did have the talent of Dutch Mantell behind it).
It would never have reached the big names, but the WWE just needed one person to take the bait, and Alex Jones of Infowars stepped up.
Knowing that Vince McMahon is the man who turned Sgt Slaughter into an Iraqi sympathizer and tag team partners Billy &Chuck into a gay couple, maybe you shouldn't encourage him.
Yesterday, Zeb's notoriety was enough to get him on Keith Olbermann's radar.
Yesterday Fox blamed liberals for wrestling character called "Tea Party." WWE is family property of failed CT Senate candidate Linda McMahon
Keith's tweet is slightly wrong. Vince is a bit more subtle than calling the character "Tea party".
It was a good day for wrestler Jack Swagger. Swagger is a talented amateur wrestler who has an unfortunate lisp. Teaming him with Zeb/Dutch was brilliant. He had started his wrestling career as a can't-miss pick to be a main eventer, but instead in recent months, relegated to losing matches against the WWE's resident leprechaun.
Swagger had the best Tuesday one could have.
And the worst.
At the high point of his career thus far, Swagger was arrested on a DUI and possession of marijuana.
So what's next?
One assumes Zeb will end up ditching Swagger for someone else, who will then take the momentum and push that goes with it.
Still, if you know the WWE, their Wellness Policy goes relatively easy on pot; with a real stress and emphasis against painkillers. A suspension might not be the obvious answer.
In fact, with this such a hot angle, things may work out to Swagger's favor.
Pro Wrestling's most well-known insider Dave Meltzer suggests that the plan is to work this into the storyline with Swagger's on-screen story that it was the WWE shareholders that are framing him to shut him up.
BRILLIANT!
The WWE launches dozens of characters in a year, and most won't take. I am not sure that Zeb would have (although it did have the talent of Dutch Mantell behind it).
It would never have reached the big names, but the WWE just needed one person to take the bait, and Alex Jones of Infowars stepped up.
Knowing that Vince McMahon is the man who turned Sgt Slaughter into an Iraqi sympathizer and tag team partners Billy &Chuck into a gay couple, maybe you shouldn't encourage him.
Yesterday, Zeb's notoriety was enough to get him on Keith Olbermann's radar.
Yesterday Fox blamed liberals for wrestling character called "Tea Party." WWE is family property of failed CT Senate candidate Linda McMahon
Keith's tweet is slightly wrong. Vince is a bit more subtle than calling the character "Tea party".
It was a good day for wrestler Jack Swagger. Swagger is a talented amateur wrestler who has an unfortunate lisp. Teaming him with Zeb/Dutch was brilliant. He had started his wrestling career as a can't-miss pick to be a main eventer, but instead in recent months, relegated to losing matches against the WWE's resident leprechaun.
Swagger had the best Tuesday one could have.
And the worst.
At the high point of his career thus far, Swagger was arrested on a DUI and possession of marijuana.
So what's next?
One assumes Zeb will end up ditching Swagger for someone else, who will then take the momentum and push that goes with it.
Still, if you know the WWE, their Wellness Policy goes relatively easy on pot; with a real stress and emphasis against painkillers. A suspension might not be the obvious answer.
In fact, with this such a hot angle, things may work out to Swagger's favor.
Pro Wrestling's most well-known insider Dave Meltzer suggests that the plan is to work this into the storyline with Swagger's on-screen story that it was the WWE shareholders that are framing him to shut him up.
BRILLIANT!
