It's Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Sting!

Last weekend marked a historic time for the professional wrestling. No, it wasn’t me live tweeting SummerSlam, although that was nothing short of revolutionary. What was so historic was the news that the WWE, the major league of wrestling, has its first openly gay wrestler.

Meet Darren Young. I say meet because I’m assuming that of the 12 people that read this blog only one or two give wrestling the occasional 15-second pause when flipping the channels Monday night. And none of my Back Yarders watch enough wrestling to see a lower mid card talent like Young who, along with tag team partner Titus O’Neil, are stuck in a glut of uninspiring tag team talents who aren’t deemed necessary enough to get a match on a PPV. But hey, there’s always WWE Superstars.
Not sure what channel it airs on though, or what day.

But for one day the full focus of the WWE universe was not on John Cena, CM Punk or The Rock. It was on a member of the Prime Time Players who opted to test the durability of the WWE’s Reality Era by telling us all something honest about himself. It was a brave act even in a time enlightened and liberal enough to earn Young universal praise amongst his peers on Twitter because, when the fanfare dies down, the locker room will still have its inherit bravado and tough guy nature.

Young will be tested on the other side of the curtain as well. He will most certainly be pushed and packaged differently now and his sexual orientation will be used in dialogue, if not storytelling altogether. Here’s just hoping they don’t have some wrestler play a hackneyed homophobic heel. But this is Vince McMahon so that’s probably coming once they run out of any ideas that don’t suck. Just please, no Billy and Chuck reunions.

Wrestling With Insanity

I know wrestling is a topic much dearer to my heart than anyone who could possibly stumble onto this blog but I had to link to this great story about the life and struggles of The Iron Sheik. 

The Iron Sheik was a popular draw in the 80s, most notably as the heel to Hulk Hogan’s ultra babyface character and as the tag team partner of Nikolai Volkoff. Sheik, who was from Iran, and Volkoff, originally from Croatia but portrayed as Russian, were wrestling’s Axis of Evil. 

Aside from having an interesting career filled with drugs, painkillers, alcohol and antics The Iron Sheik also has one of my favorite Twitter feeds. It’s good for a quick laugh as long as you enjoy poor sentence structure, crazy comparisons and outrageous threats. 

Amanda Bynes win American Idol for biggest dumb bitch whore
— The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) June 23, 2013

Paula Deen i see you i am going to suplex you put you in camel clutch fuck your ass make you humble never insult the black people #pauladeen
— The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) June 23, 2013

North West already have cheeseburger ass
— The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) June 22, 2013

Jimmy Rollins Has Two Words for Ya!

I love it when athletes emulate wrestlers. You see it every Sunday when some defensive end gets a sack and does the John Cena "You Can't See Me" hand gesture. Colin Kaepernick's meme was lifted from Big Papa Pump Scott Steiner. Now outfielders are doing the DX chop after walkoff homers. If someone does the CM Punk watch move I'm losing it.