Ok, so just a short post today about a little wrestling fact I found out today that’s annoyed me considerably.

A few years back a young female Canadian wrestler named Gail Kim got her big break in the WWE and managed to capture the WWE Women’s Championship in a pretty quick time (in her debut match I think) but lost it four weeks later and basically spent the next two years losing constantly and being sporadically involved in rather pointless storylines. Basically she became just another person lost in the mix in the WWE like so many are, and then bam, they fired her in 2004 for no reason apparently giving the reason they “wanted to take the Women’s division in a new direction”. What other direction for a women’s wrestling division is there but women’s wrestling? Whatever it was apparently it meant firing probably one of the top women wrestlers in the world. Bravo WWE.

So in 2005 she popped up in TNA and initially didn’t do much. She joined Planet Jarrett, as every former WWE employee did around that time when they joined (probably to make Jeff Jarrett feel special that he got to boss around people who used to get paid more than him) and became the manager of both Jeff Jarrett and America’s Most Wanted. Eventually she stopped managing Jarrett and continued on with AMW, getting massive ovations from the fans for some of the high-risk stuff she’d do to help them win matches. Whether heel or face she worked great with them, and when AMW eventually broke up she broke out on her own, and eventually TNA began to build a women’s division around her. She was the centrepiece, the top face and the first ever TNA Knockout’s Champion (in TNA women are “Knockouts”, in WWE they’re “Divas”).

Even when she lost the Knockout’s Title to Awesome Kong she remained the top face, the most pushed woman in the company and even when injured remained in storylines and was involved in every pay per view that I can remember. I don’t ever recall her NOT being at a pay per view event. To me that says she meant a lot to TNA Wrestling and that they were giving her plenty of television time and, I’d imagine, quite a nice contract. More importantly she meant a lot to the TNA fans, who cheered the building down for her.

Earlier this week she left TNA to rejoin WWE.

Now I don’t know what happened with TNA, I’ve read that her contract expired but I can’t believe that TNA wouldn’t try everything they could to keep her and offer her a new contract. Apparently however the money that Vince McMahon could throw at her to be eye-candy and a serial jobber on Raw or Smackdown means more to her than being a successful, innovative and headline performer in a smaller company like TNA. What does that say about her, honestly?

All I can say to the woman who helped establish the Knockouts division in TNA (which is fifty times more interesting than anything WWE do since most of WWE’s matches, even now they have half-decent wrestlers, are still hair-pulling and shitty, botched moves done by girls without two brain cells to rub together who are hired just because they look good – and I’ll contradict myself in the future when I talk about Mickie James, Katie Lea or Beth Phoenix, all of whom can actually work, but still the many talentless outweigh the few talented) is so long, good riddance and don’t come back when you’re fired in six months, ala former TNA wrestler who joined WWE Chris Harris. His career in the WWE went so well, he made about 10 television appearances and was then kicked to the curb. And yet Gail Kim, who used to manage him in AMW, still wants to work for them.

*sighs*

TNA will most definitely go on without her and in all honesty they’ll probably give more opportunities to those who were held back so that she could have as much of the spotlight as she did, which will only help TNA grow. So yeah, her leaving is probably a good thing but the fact that she’s going back to Vince McMahon because of the money just sickens me. Thank god for AJ Styles, one of the few men who have told Vince where to go, and Christian Cage, who actually left WWE to join TNA rather than sign a new contract. Long live the few wrestlers who care more about the fans and their careers than the money!

That is all.

Ok, I have come to the conclusion today that people are dumb.

I come to this conclusion after the evidence has just mounted up beyond belief. Earlier today I was chatting with a guy on AIM who showed me a video on YouTube where a McDonalds manager was tricked in to stripping down one of her employees and leaving the room while the girl was sexually abused because she thought she was talking to a police officer on the phone who was telling her to do it. I’m sorry but what the fuck kind of police officer would tell a manager to strip-search an employee and make her do naked jumping jacks to prove she’s not stealing? That woman should just be killed for being too dumb to live.

Adding to that was then a picture posted on a forum of a birthday cake for a four year old that had GTA-based logos and characters on it, and a discussion broke out about little kids playing GTA online and swearing up a storm. Simply put that just shouldn’t be allowed. Ok so I know that I played video games that were rated above my age when I was a kid and I saw the film Die Hard when I was about ten and I haven’t turned in to a serial killer, but the way the world works nowadays rather than raising your kids the right way to know things are bad parents are too weak and too stupid to teach their children morals, and too cowardly to admit they fucked up when their kid goes on a killing spree so the solution is apparently to blame video games.

So if the video games are apparently meant to be making kids kill people, why are four year olds celebrating GTA? And most importantly if Microsoft and Sony know their online services are being used by kids to play games they’re not meant to be playing why aren’t they suspending accounts and levelling parents with massive fines to stop their kids from playing games like that online, if those same parents are then going to blame Microsoft and Sony for the violence that they’re too dumb to stop?

Of course I know the reason they don’t – they want the money. That’s what makes the world turn, but it doesn’t stop it being stupid.

So I have the solution to both these problems: selective breeding. Simply put you’re not ALLOWED to have children unless it’s approved by a doctor from a medical standpoint and a psychiatrist from a mental standpoint, not to mention approved by somebody somewhere to say that yes you’re capable of caring for the child financially. This would then stop the parents who have seven kids so that the government gives them a nice wad of money and a council house and most important of all it would stop the complete idiots from breeding and dragging down the human species. We got to where we are by being the dominant species on the planet but with the level of idiocy in the world to go any further the only damn solution is to kill off half the population of the planet solely for being too worthless and stupid to be allowed to live.

And yes, this is a very hate filled rant but I’m in a bad mood. I just struggle to believe how dumb some people are…

That is all.

Yes, the rumours are true, I do in fact have a brand new blog. I know what you’re thinking, “but Pete, what was wrong with the old blog?” Well the answer to that, loyal reader, is that my old blog is no more. It was located on the server where I used to host this website, which was hosted by the most annoying and unreliable of companies, and so being that I’m not the sort of person who grins when none of his websites are available and given that I shall soon be creating a website for my mother’s business, which obviously will need to, you know, NOT go down every ten minutes I definitely need something more reliable.

So welcome one and all to the Pete Ebdon [Dot] Com blog, version two. And this one I might even update more than once a month. But only if you’re lucky and you ask me REALLY nicely! And I mean REALLY nicely, I’m talking puppy dog eyes when you speak and that quiver in your lip that just screams love.

Of course I’ll also settle for you asking AT ALL, that would be fun. Because aside from two loyal readers, who shall remain nameless so it seems like I have more than just two friends, most didn’t even so much as comment on the previous blog. Aside from that time when one of my lecturers took something I said wrong and thought that I’d insulted him. That was funny. Lucky for me it happened AFTER that part of the course was over or that could have been really awkward.

So yes ladies and gentlemen (mostly gentlemen since most ladies don’t like me much), the Pete Ebdon [Dot] Com blog is back. Rejoice!

That is all.