Sci-Fi channel to air wrestling... and the remotes go click...

POSTED BY: Dayve
UPDATED: Thursday, June 15, 2006 18:47
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THEREALME

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:56 PM

Perhaps the SciFi channel can adopt a reality show line of programming... Like the Surreal Life, but with old SF actors.

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AGATSU

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:03 PM

Yeah, have them put the BDHs in character on the set of Serenity and make it a Sci-Fi reality show.
I'd watch that one for once.

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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:06 PM

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Originally posted by TheRealMe:
Perhaps the SciFi channel can adopt a reality show line of programming... Like the Surreal Life, but with old SF actors.

TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree

They already did that once. I think it was called Mad, Mad House, or something to that effect.

For those that have been watching Sci-Fi for the past eight years or so, we're all well aware of the boneheaded decisions they're capable of making.

*cough, Good Vs. Evil, First Wave, Invisible Man, The Chronicle, Farscape, cough*

That being said, however, I am somewhat surprised that they would sink to this level. If anyone's familiar with the current state of WWE wrestling, then you know what a god-awful move this is. So much for quality programming.

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BROWNCOAT1

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:28 PM

By what stretch of the ruttin' imagination is wrestling sci fi???

Maybe next they can do a "Dancing with the Stars" show.

I really am starting to hate tv.

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DAYVE

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:49 PM

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CHRISMOORHEAD

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 5:37 PM

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i remember one match... these dudes were supposed to be arch enemies... they hated each others guts, right... well, later that night after the "fight"... a cop pulls over a car driven by one of the wrestlers (don't remember the stage names..), and there in the seat right next to him, chugging a beer was his sworn nemesis... they must have come to some sort of agreement....

Would you expect Nathan Fillion and Mark Shepherd not to share a beer because Malcolm Reynolds and Badger are enemies? The "wrestling is fake" arguement is done to death, kayfabe died in the late 90's and even the wrestlers don't kid themselves anymore. Just stage actors in a different kind of show.

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That being said, however, I am somewhat surprised that they would sink to this level. If anyone's familiar with the current state of WWE wrestling, then you know what a god-awful move this is. So much for quality programming.

This much is true: WWE is crap. TNA wrestling is where it's at right now. That being said, anyone who knows what ECW was knows that there is potential in it being brought back, especially if they put Paul Hayman in charge again and bring back some true greats. Rob Van Dam, Sabu, Tommy Dreamer... unfortunately, a lot of these guys are and have been retired for some time, but ECW is the house that they built, and the freedom that was alloted to them and everyone in that company was paramount to exactly why it was a superior brand of entertainment.

I would urge anyone who thinks that they "know" what pro-wrestling is to check out a couple of these links.

- Sabu vs. Terry Funk
Terry Funk was nearly 50 years old at the time of this match, and learned how to do a backflip (moonsault) specifically to show that you can teach and old dog new tricks. Sabu... one of the craziest wrestlers of all time. There's a part of this match where Sabu gets dropped crotch first on a barbed wire rope... and yes, it's REAL blood, and REAL barbed wire.

The Dudley Boys vs. Sandman and Tommy Dreamer. Just a bunch of rough and tumble guys, lots of beating each other senseless with hard objects. Dudley Boys also do some nice double team moves.

- This is where pro-wrestling crosses from huge brutes mutilating each other into a legitimate stage performance. Light weight match between two very agile guys known as Super Crazy and Tajiri. Very acrobatic with some flashy looking martial arts.

I tried like hell to locate this one clip where Cactus Jack (Mick Foley) and Terry Funk beat Public Enemy in a tag team match. The match wasn't the best part. The best part was that at the end, when Public Enemy is laid out in the middle of the ring, Terry Funk request a chair from the audience. One fan throws him a chair. Then two more fans. Then five more. Then the ENTIRE CROWD proceeds to hurl steel chairs into the ring, completely burying Public Enemy in a mound of steel. The ring announcer, Joey Styles, was pleading the entire time for them to stop... oh man, that was freggin hilarious.

MORWEN112

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 7:56 PM

I don't have a problem with TV wrestling in general. The gladiators of the Roman culture weren't all that different, when you think about it (except that wrestlers don't set out to actually kill each other these days...I think). Just because I find it personally distasteful doesn't mean I'm going to burn someone else who enjoys it.

But Sci-Fi Channel? Please...

There are plenty of actual Science Fiction shows that they could be putting on there that would draw just as many people...Firefly (duh...), maybe Star Trek (I think it's G4 that's doing something with that now), Twilight Zone, Lost in Space...the list goes on.

Having said that, I will say that I'll continue to watch SciFi for one reason- Ghosthunters. Anybody with me on that one?

Mine is an evil sugar high laugh! Bwahahahaha!

Morwen

ANONYMOUS1

Thursday, June 1, 2006 2:29 AM

Zisker,

Maybe it really is "robots wrestling with big chainsaws!"

How about with flame throwers??

Lightning?

ZISKER

Thursday, June 1, 2006 3:07 AM

I don't think Battle-Bots allowed for flame throwers or lightning . . .but sure, why not? Still beats WWF.

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Thursday, June 1, 2006 4:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Zisker:
I don't think Battle-Bots allowed for flame throwers or lightning . . .but sure, why not? Still beats WWF.

Oh yeah, the flames would just come out of
the trap doors.

Maybe there will be trap doors!!!! And
after the wrestler fell in a monster
would roar and there would be screaming.

And then some special effects footage only
visible from monitors.

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