DANGER ZONE

It must be pay day, as I find myself sitting at a computer on a Sunday evening when I could be making the phone calls and leading the charge to bring about a peaceful resolution to this "Fiasco" that myself and my client have been in for about two months, ridiculous as it is. Well here I am, making a living somehow, thanks to Tony Awesome, no thanks to Andrew Fiasco, and I got some strong opinions on what I just witnessed as I watch my Tivo'd edition of cWo Driven.

Chris Michaels?

CHRIS MICHAELS? We're giving him a job now? Any average buffoon would ask, are you SERIOUS? and leave it at that. But I'm no buffoon, someone has to read between the lines and now that it's my job to do exactly that, that's what I'm gonna do. This exclusive contract signing is huge not because it's the Hotshot Chris Michaels stepping back in a cWo ring after dipping his feet in a different pool, and don't get me wrong, Hotshot has his place in cWo, but let me tell you what's really big about this. What's big about this is that Andrew Fiasco is playing into the EXACT thing I was talking about in my column last week. Instead of taking a progressive step forward he takes a counter-productive step backwards.

What I'm saying is Michaels had his day in the sun, he had several days under the cWo sun, until one Troy Turley stepped in and brought us innovation, with a merger of talent from the defunct PWR, and miscellaneous other new names that the cWo audience weren't familiar with but were willing to give the benefit of the doubt, and were blown away. While opposing owner Kyle Kash's philosophy was to remind the fans of yesterday, while Turley gave everyone a sample of tomorrow, and what happened? The future won out, and, just as a mere example, the future, Nick Dangerous, stepped foot in the ring against yesterday, Chris Michaels, and yesterday's news left the ring that night with a broken arm.

Where'd The Money Come From?

Now I know typically if a journalist such as myself catches wind of a big story, its in said journalist's best interest to put it in writing and share it with the world, but I'm gonna pose a question, see if the reader can find the answer, or if Fiasco himself can tell the fans(or the cWo Board of Directors would be even better), exactly where the money to sign someone like Chris Michaels? Because I find it just a little hard to believe that Chris Michaels settled for anything less than a president's salary, you don't go from running a multi million dollar campaign for United States presidency to wrestling for quarters, no, what I gather from Chris Michaels is he's the type of guy who isn't content simply doing what he loves. He's the kind of guy who would love something else if he wasn't getting paid enough to love what he's already doing, why do you think he was running for presidency to begin with?

So the question that comes from all this comes with a reminder that Nick's contract was terminated, and why? Because it was simply, as was explained to us, too "cost-worthy" to keep paying him what was on his contract, which begs the question, what's Chris Michaels' catch? Surely he's being paid a boatload more than what Nick is asking for, right? So what's Chris Michaels got that Nick doesn't? Last I recall it wasn't Chris Michaels breaking Nick's arm, it was the other way around, and as good as he may be there was nothing he could do to stop it. If you weigh your employment options on the scale you have a man in Chris Michaels, who's in it for the fame, notoriety, the money, and the story, against Nick Dangerous, who's in it for the passion, is only asking for what he deserves, and is very good at what he does, and Fiasco hires Michaels?

This Is A Two Way Street

It wouldn't be objective journalism for me to address the fact that Tony Awesome also had a hand in hiring Chris Michaels, which is where I have to stop myself and admit that Chris Michaels is a good hand to have under your sleeve. He has experience, there is a market for him, the fans for better of worse love him, and he has media attention after his presidential campaign, so it's understandable that Awesome agreed to his hiring, if I were owner of a wrestling promotion I would do the same, so I'm not knocking Awesome for having agreed to his re-hiring, all I'm saying is this adds even more fuel to the flame that Fiasco is keeping something from the cWo fans. I already know what it is but I'm only gonna go there if I have to. I'm gonna leave this topic with one sole ultimatum in that Fiasco has to open his mind to my client and best friend's demands or things are going to get ugly, the brass tacks here are that the fans want Nick Dangerous back, Johnny Serious and Josh Cantrell, two of Nick's worst enemies want Nick Dangerous back, all under the false pretense that he has a beating waiting for him at his destination, there's money to be made and Fiasco is opting out, tell the story Fiasco, I don't wanna be the one to do it.

Changing The Subject: Women In Wrestling?

You see if you're all paying attention, the one thing I admire most in this business should be very clear. Progressive thinking. Mary Joe Wolf is a progressive thinker, she's exposing the cWo audience to something they're not accustomed to, bringing about ideas that Andrew Fiasco would rather have brushed under the rug and forgotten. Society as a whole might think women's rights are fully fleshed out and coming into fruition, but the professional wrestling industry has always been much like Thaddeus Walker, stuck in the twenties, and women don't get treated as equals, which is understandable because the women that have made it through cWo doors are usually tramps, classless whores shilling out their body or making fools of themselves.

Then comes Mary Joe Wolf, a sole diamond in the rough in her own right, showing us that not all women in this industry are rats and bringing us Chastity MacGavin, who has been running roughshod over women in the cWo and showcasing a display of wrestling that warrants equal treatment. Much like yours truly, Mary Joe Wolf catches fire for simply showing the world something new, something top of the line, something better than the rest, if for any reason at all it's because it reminds the world how truly mundane everything else is.

Before you throw your half full cup of coca cola at her when she says something controversial you should instead think of this. Think of women's wrestling before Mary Joe Wolf came in, Stephanie Bliss? Punk rock woman with a heavy dose of penis envy and a drinking problem. Jen Diamond? One of cWo's most successful ring rats, and perhaps the business all together, friends in high places never meant more to anyone else, with such little dignity that she'll dress as the Hulk to stay relevant. Tiffany Tolberg? Her half assed idea of what journalism is all about sets women back a few solid decades, the finest detail you can add to her resume is a knack for stupid questions.

I know Nick Dangerous has his own opinions of women in wrestling since so many women set the standard so low, but Mary Joe Wolf has made a case of her own and so far I'm listening, but it's the other women in this industry who should really be paying attention. Until next week, this is John Pilchard, leading the charge against the corruption that that lies beneath the covers of the cWo.