WhyTravisFelt
Pre-Show Stalwart
I'm putting this in the TNA thread, because, well, does Mark Madden have anything better to do than to sit at his computer for a half an hour every week or so and make fun of TNA?
The sad thing is that I really enjoyed Madden's commentary in WCW. If Cole is a poorman's JR, Madden was like a poor man's Joel Gertner. And it worked. But, come on, how much of his "editorial opinion" can you really get through anymore?
It's taken me reading at least ten of his posts, but I'm officially sick of Mark Madden, and will not, from here on out read anything he has to write and I think any wrestling fan should start exercising this option.
He always prefaces with something about not caring about professional wrestling or what wrestling fans think of him, says none of it matters because he has his sweet radio job, and then goes into an exorbitant fashion of lambasting whatever it is that TNA happens to be doing at the time. If he doesn't care about wrestling and doesn't need to talk about it (on account of his sweet radio job), why does always seem to have to talk about the SAME EXACT THING once a week?
And he almost seems to brag about TNA's troubles like he has something to do with it, laughs about their 1.0 rating (a million homes, by the way) as if he himself went about adjusting people's television sets, and remarks self-indulgently as to why they'll never be as good as the WWE. The nicest way to say it is that Mark Madden is kind of like a Hyena enjoying a lion's kill. But since TNA is still alive that isn't quite appropriate. A more appropriate way to look at it is as a bully's smart-ass friend who heckles the nerd while Vinnie-Mac gets his kicks in. But Vinnie kicks TNA's ass about as much as Charlie Brown does footballs. No, the MOST appropriate way to look at Mark Madden is as a guy who honestly has nothing better to do than to find faults in an underdog wrestling promotion and gloat about their failures as if it is some mark of respect for himself, like he was the great soothsayer that said "David couldn't beat Goliath if he had three swings."
I guess what I mean to say more than anything, does Madden, beyond all the pomp and circumstance of himself, beyond the dogging of already dogged ratings and promotional aspects, have any ability at all to discern between a great wrestling match like a non-title Anderson-Hardy at Sacrifice and a ho-hum Cena-Batista color-by-numbers Title match at Over the Limit? Does he have any clue about the difference between actual good wrestling versus bad wrestling? Or is he all about the product and profit over good matches with stagnant profit margins? And should we really care about the point of view of someone who so honestly could give a rat's backside about an actual quality wrestling endeavor?
The sad thing is that I really enjoyed Madden's commentary in WCW. If Cole is a poorman's JR, Madden was like a poor man's Joel Gertner. And it worked. But, come on, how much of his "editorial opinion" can you really get through anymore?
It's taken me reading at least ten of his posts, but I'm officially sick of Mark Madden, and will not, from here on out read anything he has to write and I think any wrestling fan should start exercising this option.
He always prefaces with something about not caring about professional wrestling or what wrestling fans think of him, says none of it matters because he has his sweet radio job, and then goes into an exorbitant fashion of lambasting whatever it is that TNA happens to be doing at the time. If he doesn't care about wrestling and doesn't need to talk about it (on account of his sweet radio job), why does always seem to have to talk about the SAME EXACT THING once a week?
And he almost seems to brag about TNA's troubles like he has something to do with it, laughs about their 1.0 rating (a million homes, by the way) as if he himself went about adjusting people's television sets, and remarks self-indulgently as to why they'll never be as good as the WWE. The nicest way to say it is that Mark Madden is kind of like a Hyena enjoying a lion's kill. But since TNA is still alive that isn't quite appropriate. A more appropriate way to look at it is as a bully's smart-ass friend who heckles the nerd while Vinnie-Mac gets his kicks in. But Vinnie kicks TNA's ass about as much as Charlie Brown does footballs. No, the MOST appropriate way to look at Mark Madden is as a guy who honestly has nothing better to do than to find faults in an underdog wrestling promotion and gloat about their failures as if it is some mark of respect for himself, like he was the great soothsayer that said "David couldn't beat Goliath if he had three swings."
I guess what I mean to say more than anything, does Madden, beyond all the pomp and circumstance of himself, beyond the dogging of already dogged ratings and promotional aspects, have any ability at all to discern between a great wrestling match like a non-title Anderson-Hardy at Sacrifice and a ho-hum Cena-Batista color-by-numbers Title match at Over the Limit? Does he have any clue about the difference between actual good wrestling versus bad wrestling? Or is he all about the product and profit over good matches with stagnant profit margins? And should we really care about the point of view of someone who so honestly could give a rat's backside about an actual quality wrestling endeavor?
