A Dumass Thought - You Think I'm Negative?
    Submitted by Dumass on Friday, September 10, 2004 at 12:53 AM EST




    Lately, I've been wanting to write something about the state of pro wrestling for quite some time. I haven't been posting many columns lately since I realize that most wrestling is garbage and it will be like this until late 2005 when business starts to pick itself up again. If you like more proof on this phenomina, look to the past. There is something about the last diget six (6) that makes people be interested in wrestling enough to watch it every week. There is something that compels regular fans into super-marks and creates regular ho-hum people into fans of a fake sport.

    Maybe it's because the number six (6) really does mean something. On the 6th day, God created people. In 1776, the Declaration of Independece was signed, giving the USA freedom from the British. The number six (6) has always been there for certain trends to either die or live on.

    Now, you may ask yourself "Dumass, why are you talking about the number 6? Where have you been these past few weeks?" Well, let's pull out answers one at a time.

    1) It's simple. Wrestling as a whole will not be worth wating until 2006. How can I come up with that? Because if you look at the trend of things in the industry, everything starts to pick up in the 6th year of the decade and it usually lasts until the end of the decade. 1986; Hulkamania and the Flair/Steamboat classics. 1996; the Attitude era and the NWO. 2006; who knows; I'm still hoping that Maven will be the next Rock.

    2) Fuck you; that's where.

    Recently, I was reminded why I wanted to write columns in the first place. That really changed for me to not write about wrestling in general since I'm sure you all are tired off hearing everyone and their mother bitch about Randy Orton and complain why Benoit doesn't have the title (even though I've liked Randy Orton since the arm breaking thing and I could care less why Benoit doesn't have the title), so I'm just going to go on a rant of sorts.

    If you don't want to read it, don't. It has nothing really to do with wrestling; just some things I really needed to get off my chest.

    Posted by Stanman; former LOP main pager, the mod for our Columns Fourm, and the guy whom I took the spot of:

    My motivation dwindled when the WWE product was going downhill. I just couldn't put forth a column without sounding fake...so I didn't write. I respected LOP enough though, that I wouldn't post anything unless it was column I WANTED to post. At one time, there was a span of five weeks between columns.

    I also noticed our columns forum was blooming. It was the second coming of the GOLDEN age. And for those of you who don't know, the first age had writers like Schwab, TCA, BlazingPhoenix, I Are Jason, Easy J, Sheepy, Impact PIayer, Juncti, Brendan Campbell, Dilbert, Valleyboy, myself and a few others all combining making that forum great.

    But towards the end of my main page column tenure, I noticed that the current group of writers we have NOW were doing a damn fine job of carrying the torch. I had no desire to go any higher in column writing since the LOP main page, in my opinion, is the pinnacle of column writing.

    But instead of posting columns for the sake of posting, I wanted to help those in the columns forum get to the main page and make their voices heard, so to speak. So I retired 'Stanman's Wrestling AfterThoughts'. Not being motivated and wanting to see new talent on the main page was my reason to step down. It's sort of like a 'kill two birds with one stone' kind of thing.


    I want to acknowledge and thank Stanman for refreshing me down memory lane.

    It is werid when you constantly find yourself running out of ideas for a column. You'd be surpirsed how easy it is to just review a TV show and BAM!, you have a column finished; which is what I remember seeing in the Columns fourm for awhile until people started actually using opinion instead of vomiting what they saw on TV. Hell, even Tito, in his special way, has diminished a lot in 2 years. I remember when Tito used to stick with opinion until he started review Raw and/or Smackdown. I guess with the product being subpar as it has is really killing the way certain columnists write.

    It's difficult to examine and showoff a point your trying to make when 100000 people have done it already. Yeah, it's hard to not write "Triple H sucks" in every sentence because that is what most of us have become. Guys like Stan, Schwab, Dillbert, and, even I never liked him, Cambell really got a lucky break with their writing. They were writing when everything was still fun and interestling. I remember when I Are Jason wrote a "column" on the Invasion of WCW to the WWF 2 years before it happened. I remember the responses of everyone saying that it couldn't possibly happen. Those times of writing columns were times that you really could just sit down and write. Unfortunately, those times and days are gone.

    Everyone nowadays is so busy trying to get everyone to read their column or to promote the work they feel is worthy to be read that they'll come up with stupid things to get to people to read. They'll do shoots and works and all this shit just because they want that provervial one hit point on their counter. It's obvious everywhere. 411 hasn't put out a decent column since Scotsman gave the royal 'fuck you' to the internet fans. LOP was in a tank until some changes were made. I'm not saying that Stanman and a few others were sucking the place dry; in fact, Stanman is one of my column-writing heroes; but this column writing thing has been shelved from real creativity for a long time. I'm trying to think about writing a column and suddenly I hear that Scott Keith, that fat fuck, is retiring from writing for 411. Right after that, and couple of weeks later, Chris Hyatte, who's a fucking degenerate, is leaving also.

    Now, both of these guys have been hyped up for no reason. Suddenly Scott Keith is knowledgeable and trustworthy enough with his Raw Reviews that he gets a book deal?! That's horseshit! Now, the column writers are suddenly head fucking honchos because we are what people read and base some opinion on? Why? Why the fuck is some moron sending me a hate email hoping that my mother stab herself in the uterus so that she can't have anymore kids being sent to me? When the fuck did I suddenly adear to a set piece of standards and practices that tells me that I can't say what I want and I should be more like Tito? Fuck the public. They don't know shit about column writing.

    Now, I've been referred to as negative. Hell, I'm all for it. I think that the IWC needs some negativity. I'm the best at what I do and no one is going to call me a liar on it. I can make you love me and hate me. It really is that simple. I've recieved tons of emails telling me that I shouldn't be so negative and I've apparently garnered some type of reputation for being a little less nice to the people on the LOP Columns Fourm. Here's something; the only way you can be a 'little less nice' is if you were nice in the first place. I've never been nice. I've never been polite to a new, up-and-coming columnist because I feel that if the work is bad, then the guy who was doing it is also. Now, some people have used this to say that I'm not that great either. Guess what? I'm not here to impress you. For you column writers, I'm here to make sure you actually get somewhere on this venture you have come to for column writing. Live with it.

    There are other people who actually do something with the criticisim that I give and run with it. I've left feedback in 3 columnist first columns and all of them became COTM winners; back to back to back if I'm not mistaken. Is it because what I said motivated them? I would like to think so; but it's probably because they did feel like they shouldn't be intimitated by a guy they probably will never meet in their life; so they kept going and improved. I applaud them and others who do the same thing.

    Now, with me being as negative as I am, I've made some people on this fourm not like me. Guess what? I don't like you either, but if you do something I like, I'll call you on it and give a congrats. Hell, if it's something I love, then I might bend over and you can fuck my ass while I call you the king or something; but that'll have to be something amazing.

    Now, I might be negative (which I will never apologize for), but everyone here has to admit that I'm fair. I've promoted certain columnists based on the work they do and I showcase them as much as I can. I brought a few guys to share the main page because of their talent of writing and from what I hear from the fans they were well-accepted. It's nice to rag on me because I'm on the main page and I'm an asshole and everything, but you have to admit, I do give you guys a chance at the spotlight every chance I get; in fact, if memory and stats serve well, I'm the only guy on the main page that's giving you that chance; and I don't even have a banner for this Project Random everyone is getting wet for.

    I've debated on closing down my column. I've actually have come to much of a crossroads between writing this or any column (hell, even being part of LOP entirely) and continuing on a legacy. If I do go, I'll want to go out with something more. I don't want a real sucessor; like Stanman didn't want for me to be with him. If I leave, I want it to be someone I know will be good for the job and will have everyone forget about me. I used to Search the board, looking to see if anyone mentioned me; now I'm getting sick of reading my name in lots more message boards.

    Of course, that's if I do quit.

    But I'm aiming for the Brian Pillman way out.

    "You quit everything Shane! You quit WCW, you quit the WWF!! I'm a real man; I don't quit; I get thrown out of town!!!" - Brain Pillman to Shane Douglas, ECW 1995

    If you decided to do so, thanks for reading. Something better will be here next week.

    Dumass


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