This upcoming week I will not be here

[Coco]

Luck is for losers. Or so says some guy we both love.

A shame he looks embarrassingly soft on his new DVD cover.

 

[Wicked Valentine]

I haven't seen his dvd cover so I don't have an opinion on that.

Do you have his dvd?

 

[FlexAmerican Dynamite]

I haven't seen his dvd cover so I don't have an opinion on that.

Do you have his dvd?

Spoiler

 

[Coco]

Still buying it on the first day.

 

[Wicked Valentine]

Mucho gracias guys

How does he look soft?

 

[Coco]

The children on the internets wished they'd have photoshopped in some abs.

 

[Wicked Valentine]

Ehh. I think he makes up for it with his tattoos. They look pretty damn good.

 

[Coco]

I agree. Dolph Ziggler looks all the sissier for not having any.

 

[Wicked Valentine]

You make Dolph look badass though

 

[Coco]

Someone has to. Lord knows we'll have to tolerate him as a headliner soon enough, and he certainly isn't going to make it look good.

 

[Wicked Valentine]

I cringe at the thought of his world title reign. I mean, I don't particularly dislike Dolph, but I don't exactly like him either. He just seems like more of a mid carder to me.

 

[Coco]

He has a look, sells, and wrestles the way the internet likes. In the mind of your average smark, being a "total package" and meeting all of the predetermined criteria we have for stardom makes one a star. That's what's at work with Ziggler. People are taking some who's perfectly adequate in many ways and little showy and imagining that makes him main event material. What they've lost sight of is that Ziggler doesn't really have presence. As you alluded to, he's just there. But the internet would rather "think things through" (using that phrase very loosely, as real thought would lead to a different conclusion about Ziggler than the one the internet has reached) than feel. It's asinine. And I'm afraid to imagine the effects it will have on the industry as smarks become more and more common.

 

[Wicked Valentine]

Smarks are the bane of the wrestling community

 

[Coco]

Some good has come of them. If they didn't lobby for the people they liked, Punk, Christian, Bryan, and a lot of other guys I liked never would have reached the level they did. So I'm trying to be happy for Ziggler fans. Trying. But if a wrestling company was every booked the way the majority of smarks want it to be booked, it'd be the most tediously boring shit of all time. Think of Ring Of Honor's worst excesses and super serious "let's pretend we're MMA" bullshit with terrible characters. As smarks not only become a larger part of the audience but become decision makers in the business, I really think this shit will be a problem that needs overcoming. Of course at that point, it will once again come down to good natured dissenters restoring balance to the force. That's essentially what Kevin Steen fandom is about in my eyes. It's a protest vote. And there will always be that protest vote when things get bad and the smark vision turns out not to be paradise. So how angry can I be about smarks?

A post like that and I haven't had a drink in three weeks. Who's the man?!

 

[Wicked Valentine]

You are, of course, always and forever <3 <3

 

[Coco]

As usual, you're too kind.

 

[Wicked Valentine]

And as usual bitches be jealous of our love

 

[Coco]

Stop it, you. I'm going to start blushing.

 

[Wicked Valentine]

Good! You're adorable when you blush!

 

[Coco]

D'aww.

 

[Wicked Valentine]

 

[Pepe Silvia]

Someone has to. Lord knows we'll have to tolerate him as a headliner soon enough, and he certainly isn't going to make it look good.

Not everyone can be Bully Ray.

 

[Wicked Valentine]

Way to kill the mood Charles

 

[FlexAmerican Dynamite]

I can't imagine the PM's you and Coco send to each other Valentine.

 

[Wicked Valentine]

mmmmmm PMing Coco...