COOPER-YOUNG FESTIVAL! Wooooooooo!
Apologies for not posting my mayoral pick yesterday as promised. I meant to have one beer at the Saucer and then come home and post, but you know how that “one beer” thing usually turns out. I’ll save my mayoral endorsement until Monday since I tend to have a couple hundred more readers on weekdays.
Almost forgot to mention a Downtown event happening tomorrow: The WWE Unforgiven pay-per-view. Allow me to type up a quick summary of what’s going on in the WWE these days:
- About a dozen wrestlers were suspended last week when they were found to have purchased drugs from an Internet pharmacy, in violation of the WWE’s Wellness policy. This messed up pretty much every storyline they had running, but they had no choice but to put the suspensions in place due to media scrutiny.
- One of the main guys on the Smackdown brand is Finlay (formerly Fit Finley in WCW), a tough Irish guy who likes to brawl. WWE wanted to emphasize his Irish heritage, so they gave him a leprechaun who hides under the ring and runs out to cheat and help him win matches. Last month the leprechaun won the WWE cruiserweight (220 lbs. and under) championship.
- WWE chairman Vince McMahon plays the evil “Mr. McMahon” character in storylines, and last month it was revealed he had a bastard son who was on the WWE roster. This was supposed to be the beginning of a big push for rising star Ken (“Mr. Kennedy”) Kennedy, who was going to be revealed as the illegitimate McMahon. But Kennedy was one of the dozen who got suspended for buying drugs online. So instead, the illegitimate son was revealed to be the leprechaun.
- The ECW champion was John Morrison (formerly Johnny Nitro, doing a Jim Morrison gimmick). They were building toward a long run of fan favorite C.M. Punk chasing him for the title for months and months before winning it. Then Morrison got caught in the Internet drug purchase scandal and had to drop the title to Punk only a month into their program, in order to serve out his suspension. Tomorrow, Punk defends against Elijah Burke, who no one gives a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the title.
- The Smackdown brand’s World title match was supposed to be champion The Great Khali (7’3″, 412 lbs.) vs. Rey Misterio (5’6″, 150 pounds, not much bigger than the leprechaun). Someone in the back had the good sense to realize what an ass-whoopin’ Misterio would take, and added Batista to the match, making it a three-way.
- The Raw brand’s World title match is John Cena defending against Randy Orton. Orton is a third-generation wrestler and potentially the most talented guy on the Raw roster, but he keeps doing stupid stuff backstage – recently he almost got fired for taking a dump in the purse of one of the female wrestlers. There’s no way WWE will take a chance on putting the title on him.
My verdict: This PPV is going to suck. Why anyone would waste time going to it is beyond me. Well, Undertaker’s entrance is kinda cool (he wrestles “World’s Strongest Man” Mark Henry) and possibly worth seeing live at least once, but the rest of the card is just awful. Don’t waste your time. Join us for brunch instead. We’ll be at McGuinness first and then the Saucer.
Heading to Cooper-Young in a little while and will be there ALL DAY.