So it turns out that Raven, the WWE wrestler, is a big fan of “Captain Marvel” and he offered me tickets for the next time they were in town. Being a firm believer in the notion that you should try anything once that won’t cause you or someone else to be harmed, Monday night found Ariel, Kathleen, a co-worker of Kathleen’s named Chris, and myself out at the Meadowlands Arena at the live broadcast of Monday night Wrestling on TNT.
It was loud. Reeeeeal loud. And Raven lost, which bummed out Ariel no end. But the showmanship of the whole thing was pretty amazing. I had no idea what to expect, not being a wrestling fan, and was unaware of the whole storyline aspect. No wonder so many wrestlers are comic book fans; it’s like actually living in an actual comic book. Your life is scripted soap opera twists and punctuated by choreographed physical conflict.
We were there from 8 to 10 (they also taped “Heat”) and by that point we’d had enough…particularly when we considered that the parking lot was going to be filled with several thousand people, all of whom had been drinking beers for three hours or more. So we lit out in relative privacy.
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Heh… seems like Raven always loses. Being miserable is a central part of his WWE persona.
The thing that always impresses me about wrestling is the skill involved. People go on about how its not a real sport (which of course it isn’t) but that rather misses the point. These people perform some very sophisticated stunts largely unscripted.
And as you say the storylines are kind of like a superhero comic book. I don’t think last Monday’s RAW, which must have been what you were attending, was one of ttheir better shows though. A little too much talking and too many of the fights were rehashes of the previous few weeks.
Ðámņ it just sounds more and more like comics doesn’t it? 😉
….particularly when we considered that the parking lot was going to be filled with several thousand people, all of whom had been drinking beers for three hours or more. So we lit out in relative privacy.
PAD
I would think that the only way to watch wrestling would be to be drinking beer for hours.
During the mid-90’s wrestling boom, one could always count on Raven to be a walking billboard for whichever Vertigo/Marvel Knights property had put out a t-shirt that week. Sandman, Transmet, Daredevil, Inhumans…if it was on a t-shirt, he’d wear it to the ring eventually. He even adopted the ankh-over-one-eye look from DC’s Fate for a month or so.
If you really want to be amazed at the correlation, Peter, watch some Mexican wrestling sometime.
as an addendum to the comment about raven and his fetish for comic t-shirts, there’s a whole inventory of most of the ones he’s worn over on his website, I think the address for it is http://www.scottlevy.com
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