If It's Monday, It's Raw and other news
By Brady Carlson - Posted on June 29th, 2008
Some wrestling news to tide you over until everything is not underwater anymore:
*IT'S A SHOOT BROTHER: Bret Hart went to Iowa to accept an award for Stu, and then turned heel on SLAM! Wrestling columnist Greg Oliver, who ranked him the 14th best Canadian wrestler ever. Lest you think that Bret is acting irrationally, here is Oliver's list of the best Canadian wrestlers ever, in its entirety:
#1: Shawn Michaels
#14: Bret Hart
#29: Iron Mike Sharpe
Oliver's account of the dinner is a little sunnier - in this version, Bret tells a touching story about how much Canadian wrestling journalism meant for Stu, and how he used to read the Wrestling Observer with one hand while putting Brian Pillman in excruciating submission holds with the other.
*IMPORTANT WRESTLING NEWS FROM IMPORTANT WRESTLING JOURNALIST: "I took my girlfriend to the movie WALL-E last night. Great flick. If you enjoy the Pixar movies then you should love this film."
*The UK Sun wrestling interviewer is out as Chris Jericho's opponent at Night of Champions. The Ultimate Warrior will squash Jericho and then forfeit the belt. It should be noted, though, that by getting Warrior to do a hiptoss Rob Van Dam has instantly earned the title of greatest wrestling trainer of all time.
*Mick Foley outs Tim Russert as a secret Wrestlingist and himself as a Tim Russert stalker. Sure, Mick - you "ran into him" at a Springsteen concert, and at the Today Show, and at the gym, and at the side windows outside Russert's house.
*Actually, Russert is not the only Wrestlingist in the Beltway - as our informant TexasYojimbo points out, Marc Ambinder is no stranger to the ways of the squared circle:
This column almost broke kayfabe last week and insinuated that Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida reversed himself on off-shore oil drilling because he wanted to curry favor with John McCain, whose vice presidential ticket he covets.
Actually, the average WWE viewer is middle class, and if you happened to watch, as I did, Monday Night Raw this week, you'd see that every commercial hawked expensive consumer goods to the show's younger male devotees with money to spend. So there.
