Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Nov 17, 2005 19:50:52 GMT -5
I've had this list in the 'Wrestlecrap' section for a few months. I think that now would be a suitable time to see if you think they are any good. Now it's a bit of a read so it might take a while.
As of 14/11/05
RAW Diva Search II - Back By (Un)popular Demand: Last year's version won the Gooker and gave Christy Hemme a job and a shot at WrestleCrap immortality (see Christy Hemme - Pro Wrestler). But this year's search wasn't overly bad. It didn't involve has many gimmicky contests, but a Sgt. Slaughter boot camp contest hasn't helped it's cause in regards to losing the Gooker. We now have a new RAW diva, Ashley Massaro, who looks to have formed a strong alliance with Trish Stratus.
Jillian Hall - Conjoined Fetus Syndrome: Brought in by tag team MNM to be their publicist, Jillian Hall has been vital in getting their victories in recent weeks. The only issue that WWE fans have with this talented women's wrestler, is the thing that creative is sticking on her face. It looks like either cookie dough or corn flakes and moves each week to various spots on her face. It is supposedly a mole, a 'facial deformity' if you will, and she has even tried to tell people to 'look past the mole'. She is presently aligned with JBL. My advice to Ms. Hall, get out while you still have some credibility!
Kurt Angle - American Pervert: During a No. 1 Contenders Battle Royal match, Kurt Angle eliminated Booker T with a chair shot, and vice versa. This set up what could have been a great feud, if only it didn't drag Sharmell, Booker T's on and off screen wife, into the equation. For the weeks leading into Judgement Day, Kurt Angle harrassed and demeaned Sharmell, by revealing his sick desire to have bestiality sex with the woman he calls a 'gutter****'. This all came to an end with a brutal post-match assault at Judgement Day, where Booker T handcuffed Angle to the ropes and Sharmell delivered a swift kick to the crown jewels.
Heidenreich - Single White Road Warrior: Heidenreich, on the heels of a recent face turn, started looking for some friends. He found them in Booker T and Sharmell, Michelle McCool, children at live events and people who applied on the Internet. But MNM did not want a part of it. They attacked Heidenreich and Michelle for a couple of weeks. Enter, Road Warrior Animal. Mainly there to plug his DVD, MNM asked him for a match at the Great American Bash. Unfortunately for the insensitive bastards, Hawk, Animal's partner, passed away a couple of years ago. Then Heidenreich came out and asked him if he could be his partner. Animal, reluctant at first, growed to like Heidenreich, and they won the titles at the GAB. Then the transformation begins. Similar to, although not as thrilling as the movie 'Single White Female', Animal started to gradually transform Heidenreich into something a bit more Road Warrior-ish. First a mohawk, then some facepaint, and finally, some spiked shoulerpads. Squashing jobbers left and right, this is gonna end in tears eventually.
(Note: The current storyline with Trish Stratus and Mickie James could end up the same way...)
Muhammad Hassan/Khosrow Daivari - How To Kill A Career: These guys were attracting major heel heat for telling the truth. That they were being discriminated against because of their Arab heritage. After a match between Daivari and the Undertaker, Hassan called out a group of masked men to beat down the Undertaker. Now, the show was filmed on Tuesday and broadcast on Thursday. However, tragically, the London terrorist attacks occured in between. Therefore, most people assumed that these masked men were terrorists. UPN had a b**** and whinge about it. WWE, unlike normal, give in to the criticism and Undertaker squashes Hassan at the Great American Bash, powerbombing him through the stage. Hassan has been released and Daivari is being re-packaged in OVW.
Big Show/Akebono - Sumo (Mis)match: During the WWE tour of Japan, Big Show called out sumo champion Akebono. People expected a confrontation to happen here, but it didn't. Only your standard staredown/shake hands. Then around the time of WrestleMania XXI, Big Show threw down the gauntlet to Akebono. A Sumo match at Mania. Akebono accepted. A SmackDown! weigh in had Big Show at 493, Akebono at 504. Now the only other time where Big Show was outweighted in a match was when he beat Viscera as part of a Survivor Series match.
He held his own in the sumo match, actually getting Akebono off his feet, but the counter attack by Akebono led to the Big Show getting tossed out. Now I think this is only nominated because the core WWE audience aren't sumo fans. But then again, the sight of Big Show in a sumo thong... eww!
(Note: I only put this up for nomination because the majority of Wrestlecrappers did not see the point of a Sumo match at WrestleMania.)
Chris 'The Masterpiece' Masters - Did He Swallow The Key?: When Chris Masters made his RAW debut against Steven Richards, he unleashed upon the world his amazingly small arsenal of moves. A Polish Hammer and a Full Nelson, two of the classic moves of wrestling. The E wanted 'The Masterpiece' to look like the best thing since sliced bread, so they gave him a semi-permanent spot on RAW, offering money to 'crowd members' who could break his MasterLock. None suceeded. So he challenged the active WWE roster. Tajiri, Rosey, Val Venis, former IC champ Shelton Benjamin, Sgt. Slaughter, even Shawn Michaels couldn't break it. The MasterLock Challenge hasn't been done for a while, but at least the move is over with the fans as 'unbreakable'.
Matt Morgan - St-t-t-t-t-t-t-tuttering Fool: Former Tough Enough finalist Matt Morgan had previously made his debut around Survivor Series 2003, as part of Brock Lesnar's team. He even went in the Royal Rumble. Then he went missing for a year. When he came back, we were all supposed to believe that he had a speech impairment, when we all heard him speak normally. Not even one of the coolest finishers I've seen in years (lifting into a suplex position then into a Rock Bottom) or being aligned with Carlito could save this gimmick from failure.
(Note: Watch the exclusive interview with Carlito and Matt Morgan on the Judgement Day 2005 DVD, he takes like 5 minutes to say 'You're welcome'.)
Jim 'Ultimate Warrior' Hellwig - Warrior Gone Nuts:
(Credit to Molotov Mocktail for the details)
Warrior was set to give a speech at the University of Connecticut on his wrestling career and his conservative ideology. The latter part became little more than name-calling towards anyone he deemed "liberal", and he became particularly venomous when talking about homosexuals. He called them a derogatory term that the filters here won't let through, and said that they "don't make the world work." He took to insulting an Iranian student, telling him to "get a towel", stomped around onstage in wrestling mode, and called out anyone in the crowd he had a problem with (to be fair, though, some students did hurl insults at him during his planned speech, when they could have civilly asked him to clarify during the set Q & A session afterwards). The Campus Republicans, who had invited Warrior for the speech, issued an apology for his racist, homophobic diatribe, and Warrior, in turn, called them spineless, etc. on his website.
What was particularly bad about this was, it embarrassed me, and surely many others, as wrestling fans. Warrior was a hero during the cartoony era (say what you will about him now, but I know 95% of you marked for him back in the day), and now he shows his true colors. This incident gathered mainstream attention from major newspapers, not just from wrestling sites. People will look at Warrior and his idiotic (he made about as much sense here as did any of his columns), hate-filled speech, and say, "You rooted for him as a kid?!" This reflected poorly on the wrestling community as a whole, as once again our idols turn out to be complete and total jackasses.
Jim Ross - Slobberknockingly Shocking: The highly respected RAW commentator, Jim Ross, colloquially known simply as 'Good Ol' JR', had to have some time of to have some major surgery. But how would the E explain his absence? Easy, by turning Linda McMahon heel, and re-hashing a WrestleCrap Classic.
You may remember the Katie Vick angle (sorry if I've reminded you), where triple H commited necrophilia (um... intercourse with a dead person). In this case, Dr. Hiney/McMahon would be performing colonic surgery on JR. Basically it was the old joke of pulling objects out of his ass. Dr. Hiney then made out with his nurse.
Surey, they'd have learned their lesson the first time, but nooooo, they had to do it again. The only good thing to come out of this is that Joey Styles, the voice of ECW, is subbing for JR.
So, this is what I think the order will be in the Gooker results for the above nominees.
1. Jim Ross - Slobberknockingly Shocking
2. Jillian Hall - Conjoined Fetus Syndrome
3. Jim 'Ultimate Warrior' Hellwig - Warrior Gone Nuts
4. Kurt Angle - American Pervert
5. RAW Diva Search II - Back By (Un)popular Demand
6. Big Show/Akebono - Sumo (Mis)match
7. Muhammad Hassan/Khosrow Daivari - How To Kill A Career
8. Matt Morgan - St-t-t-t-t-t-t-tuttering Fool
9. Chris 'The Masterpiece' Masters - Did He Swallow The Key?
10. Heidenreich - Single White Road Warrior
These ones were originally nominated, but now would not be deemed Gooker-worthy.
John Cena - Pimp My Belt: After his US Championship defence at Armageddon vs Jesus (Aaron Aguilera), John Cena revamped an already devalued US Championship to a spinning, blinging atrocity. JBL blowing up the thing and returning the old one is the best thing he's ever done. But, no, the fun and games didn't stop there. After his WrestleMania XXI victory, he blinged up the WWE Championship like there was no tomorrow.
Cena may be one of the most over people in WWE today, but even that doesn't give him the right to blasphemise the holy grail of sports-entertainment.
Juventud Guerrera/Psychosis/Super Crazy - Mexican Gardening Team: These 3 men are probably some of the most celebrated cruiserweights in the history of wrestling. They finally get to WWE and they become Latino Landscapers. Riding to the ring on customised 'Juan' Deere lawnmowers, they proclaimed themselves as the Mexicools. They usually spend their time gatecrashing various segments on SmackDown!. When they do get in the ring, however, they do pretty good under the WWE 'safe style'. But seriously, this is not how you treat some of the greatest cruiserweights in history.
Rob Conway - Missing Village Person?: After two years of playing as a French/Quebec sympathiser, Rob Conway turned on his partner and beat him in a match on Heat. After the trade, where Sylvain Grenier was traded to SmackDown!, Rob re-emerged with a new gimmick. As a Buff Bagwell type who does things his way, the Con-way. The Conman totally changed his persona. Coming with out with a hat and sunglassses, with see-through tights, fortunately not 100% see-through. He now resembles someone from the Village People (the Montreal crowd took to singing 'YMCA' during his match against The Hurricane). How did the crowd react to this? They didn't. Everytime Rob makes his entrance to a Randy Newman-like theme (left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot...), he comes out to silence. This is now known as a 'Conway Pop'. But, believe it or not, he's finally over as a heel, as RAW's 'Legend Killer'.
Christy Hemme - Pro Wrestler: The product of the 2004 Gooker winner, Christy Hemme wanted a match against Women's Champion Trish Stratus, to gain revenge on an assault the previous week. Not just anywhere, but at WrestleMania XXI. She revealed that she was receiving training from Trish's main rival, Lita (pre-Edge). Over the next few weeks, we watched her basically kill Molly Holly's WWE career, by having her job to the fiery redhead. At WrestleMania XXI, thankfully, Trish Stratus retained her title. Now she's been traded to SmackDown!, where she can no longer touch the title, she has actually improved slightly. She is now aligned with LOD 2005, planting a Doomsday Device flying clothesline on Melina of MNM at No Mercy.
(Note: Unlike most people, I have faith in Christy Hemme's wrestling ability, Trish Stratus was in the same boat in 2000-2001, look where she is now. Besides, I don't see anyone dissing Michelle McCool for trying to wrestle...)
Viscera - Love Machine: After the Hemme/Stratus feud, Lita started to act all affectionate towards Kane. This was because Kane had started to harass Trish. A match was scheduled for Backlash between Kane and Viscera, who had saved Trish from another Kane assault. Trish would be in Viscera's corner, while Lita would be in Kane's corner. Somehow, Viscera saw Trish's belief in him to take out Kane as a sexual advance. This lead to a date in England, involving XL condoms, a poor attempt by Trish at an English accent and a bit of 'persuasion' by Trish to keep Viscera on the job.
After he lost the Backlash match, he assaulted Trish and she has not been seen in the ring since. He then set his affections towards RAW ring announcer Lillian Garcia, to the extent where they were going to get married, only to dump her at Vengeance.
Rey Mysterio/Eddie Guerrero - Two Men And A Dominick:
(Withdrawn in memory of Eddie Guerrero)
This feud, set up after WrestleMania XXI, was pure gold until after their match at Judgement Day, where Eddie told everyone that he knew something, something that would kill Rey inside. He told everyone that he would reveal this secret if he won at the Great American Bash aginst Mysterio. He didn't win, but he told the secret anyway. The bombshell was that Rey's son, Dominick, was actually Eddie's! Over the next few weeks, he would reveal the story bit by bit. Dominick is in now in Rey's custody when he won a ladder match against Eddie for custody papers at SummerSlam, but Eddie finally got Rey's number, when he won a cage match on the first Friday Night SmackDown!.
Now this one I don't think will be nominated for a Gooker since a) it is a real life situation and b) the wrestling storyline isn't that bad, but it deserves a special mention.
Matt Hardy/Edge/Lita/Kane - My Best Friend Took My Girlfriend!: If these guys weren't wrestlers, it would only get as far as Jerry Springer. But we have had it play out for months on RAW.
Going back to last year, Lita was forced to 'marry' Kane due to a match stipulation. Matt Hardy tried to stop this, but was chokeslammed off the stage. He needed this time to recover from a knee injury, so he couldn't travel with Amy Dumas (Lita), his then real-life girlfriend. So he put all his trust into his best friend Adam Copeland (Edge). All this time together spread into a romance between the two. Matt found out and told all on his website. In fear of a confrontation, WWE released Matt Hardy from his contract. To further rub it in, they transferred this into the wrestling storyline, where Lita would turn on Kane, and align herself with Edge.
They teased a Matt Hardy run-in during their wedding and flaunted their romance each week. Until a few weeks ago, Matt started interfering in Edge's matches. WWE tried to ignore this, but the fans wouldn't let them. Finally, Vince McMahon offered Matt Hardy a new contract and a match at SummerSlam vs. Edge. Edge got the chocolates there. Then to a cage match at Unforgiven. Matt got the win there. It all ended with a 'Loser leaves RAW' ladder match on the 'Homecoming' RAW, when Lita swung the balance of the match Edge's way. Matt is now a SmackDown! superstar.
Thanks,
EoE
As of 14/11/05
RAW Diva Search II - Back By (Un)popular Demand: Last year's version won the Gooker and gave Christy Hemme a job and a shot at WrestleCrap immortality (see Christy Hemme - Pro Wrestler). But this year's search wasn't overly bad. It didn't involve has many gimmicky contests, but a Sgt. Slaughter boot camp contest hasn't helped it's cause in regards to losing the Gooker. We now have a new RAW diva, Ashley Massaro, who looks to have formed a strong alliance with Trish Stratus.
Jillian Hall - Conjoined Fetus Syndrome: Brought in by tag team MNM to be their publicist, Jillian Hall has been vital in getting their victories in recent weeks. The only issue that WWE fans have with this talented women's wrestler, is the thing that creative is sticking on her face. It looks like either cookie dough or corn flakes and moves each week to various spots on her face. It is supposedly a mole, a 'facial deformity' if you will, and she has even tried to tell people to 'look past the mole'. She is presently aligned with JBL. My advice to Ms. Hall, get out while you still have some credibility!
Kurt Angle - American Pervert: During a No. 1 Contenders Battle Royal match, Kurt Angle eliminated Booker T with a chair shot, and vice versa. This set up what could have been a great feud, if only it didn't drag Sharmell, Booker T's on and off screen wife, into the equation. For the weeks leading into Judgement Day, Kurt Angle harrassed and demeaned Sharmell, by revealing his sick desire to have bestiality sex with the woman he calls a 'gutter****'. This all came to an end with a brutal post-match assault at Judgement Day, where Booker T handcuffed Angle to the ropes and Sharmell delivered a swift kick to the crown jewels.
Heidenreich - Single White Road Warrior: Heidenreich, on the heels of a recent face turn, started looking for some friends. He found them in Booker T and Sharmell, Michelle McCool, children at live events and people who applied on the Internet. But MNM did not want a part of it. They attacked Heidenreich and Michelle for a couple of weeks. Enter, Road Warrior Animal. Mainly there to plug his DVD, MNM asked him for a match at the Great American Bash. Unfortunately for the insensitive bastards, Hawk, Animal's partner, passed away a couple of years ago. Then Heidenreich came out and asked him if he could be his partner. Animal, reluctant at first, growed to like Heidenreich, and they won the titles at the GAB. Then the transformation begins. Similar to, although not as thrilling as the movie 'Single White Female', Animal started to gradually transform Heidenreich into something a bit more Road Warrior-ish. First a mohawk, then some facepaint, and finally, some spiked shoulerpads. Squashing jobbers left and right, this is gonna end in tears eventually.
(Note: The current storyline with Trish Stratus and Mickie James could end up the same way...)
Muhammad Hassan/Khosrow Daivari - How To Kill A Career: These guys were attracting major heel heat for telling the truth. That they were being discriminated against because of their Arab heritage. After a match between Daivari and the Undertaker, Hassan called out a group of masked men to beat down the Undertaker. Now, the show was filmed on Tuesday and broadcast on Thursday. However, tragically, the London terrorist attacks occured in between. Therefore, most people assumed that these masked men were terrorists. UPN had a b**** and whinge about it. WWE, unlike normal, give in to the criticism and Undertaker squashes Hassan at the Great American Bash, powerbombing him through the stage. Hassan has been released and Daivari is being re-packaged in OVW.
Big Show/Akebono - Sumo (Mis)match: During the WWE tour of Japan, Big Show called out sumo champion Akebono. People expected a confrontation to happen here, but it didn't. Only your standard staredown/shake hands. Then around the time of WrestleMania XXI, Big Show threw down the gauntlet to Akebono. A Sumo match at Mania. Akebono accepted. A SmackDown! weigh in had Big Show at 493, Akebono at 504. Now the only other time where Big Show was outweighted in a match was when he beat Viscera as part of a Survivor Series match.
He held his own in the sumo match, actually getting Akebono off his feet, but the counter attack by Akebono led to the Big Show getting tossed out. Now I think this is only nominated because the core WWE audience aren't sumo fans. But then again, the sight of Big Show in a sumo thong... eww!
(Note: I only put this up for nomination because the majority of Wrestlecrappers did not see the point of a Sumo match at WrestleMania.)
Chris 'The Masterpiece' Masters - Did He Swallow The Key?: When Chris Masters made his RAW debut against Steven Richards, he unleashed upon the world his amazingly small arsenal of moves. A Polish Hammer and a Full Nelson, two of the classic moves of wrestling. The E wanted 'The Masterpiece' to look like the best thing since sliced bread, so they gave him a semi-permanent spot on RAW, offering money to 'crowd members' who could break his MasterLock. None suceeded. So he challenged the active WWE roster. Tajiri, Rosey, Val Venis, former IC champ Shelton Benjamin, Sgt. Slaughter, even Shawn Michaels couldn't break it. The MasterLock Challenge hasn't been done for a while, but at least the move is over with the fans as 'unbreakable'.
Matt Morgan - St-t-t-t-t-t-t-tuttering Fool: Former Tough Enough finalist Matt Morgan had previously made his debut around Survivor Series 2003, as part of Brock Lesnar's team. He even went in the Royal Rumble. Then he went missing for a year. When he came back, we were all supposed to believe that he had a speech impairment, when we all heard him speak normally. Not even one of the coolest finishers I've seen in years (lifting into a suplex position then into a Rock Bottom) or being aligned with Carlito could save this gimmick from failure.
(Note: Watch the exclusive interview with Carlito and Matt Morgan on the Judgement Day 2005 DVD, he takes like 5 minutes to say 'You're welcome'.)
Jim 'Ultimate Warrior' Hellwig - Warrior Gone Nuts:
(Credit to Molotov Mocktail for the details)
Warrior was set to give a speech at the University of Connecticut on his wrestling career and his conservative ideology. The latter part became little more than name-calling towards anyone he deemed "liberal", and he became particularly venomous when talking about homosexuals. He called them a derogatory term that the filters here won't let through, and said that they "don't make the world work." He took to insulting an Iranian student, telling him to "get a towel", stomped around onstage in wrestling mode, and called out anyone in the crowd he had a problem with (to be fair, though, some students did hurl insults at him during his planned speech, when they could have civilly asked him to clarify during the set Q & A session afterwards). The Campus Republicans, who had invited Warrior for the speech, issued an apology for his racist, homophobic diatribe, and Warrior, in turn, called them spineless, etc. on his website.
What was particularly bad about this was, it embarrassed me, and surely many others, as wrestling fans. Warrior was a hero during the cartoony era (say what you will about him now, but I know 95% of you marked for him back in the day), and now he shows his true colors. This incident gathered mainstream attention from major newspapers, not just from wrestling sites. People will look at Warrior and his idiotic (he made about as much sense here as did any of his columns), hate-filled speech, and say, "You rooted for him as a kid?!" This reflected poorly on the wrestling community as a whole, as once again our idols turn out to be complete and total jackasses.
Jim Ross - Slobberknockingly Shocking: The highly respected RAW commentator, Jim Ross, colloquially known simply as 'Good Ol' JR', had to have some time of to have some major surgery. But how would the E explain his absence? Easy, by turning Linda McMahon heel, and re-hashing a WrestleCrap Classic.
You may remember the Katie Vick angle (sorry if I've reminded you), where triple H commited necrophilia (um... intercourse with a dead person). In this case, Dr. Hiney/McMahon would be performing colonic surgery on JR. Basically it was the old joke of pulling objects out of his ass. Dr. Hiney then made out with his nurse.
Surey, they'd have learned their lesson the first time, but nooooo, they had to do it again. The only good thing to come out of this is that Joey Styles, the voice of ECW, is subbing for JR.
So, this is what I think the order will be in the Gooker results for the above nominees.
1. Jim Ross - Slobberknockingly Shocking
2. Jillian Hall - Conjoined Fetus Syndrome
3. Jim 'Ultimate Warrior' Hellwig - Warrior Gone Nuts
4. Kurt Angle - American Pervert
5. RAW Diva Search II - Back By (Un)popular Demand
6. Big Show/Akebono - Sumo (Mis)match
7. Muhammad Hassan/Khosrow Daivari - How To Kill A Career
8. Matt Morgan - St-t-t-t-t-t-t-tuttering Fool
9. Chris 'The Masterpiece' Masters - Did He Swallow The Key?
10. Heidenreich - Single White Road Warrior
These ones were originally nominated, but now would not be deemed Gooker-worthy.
John Cena - Pimp My Belt: After his US Championship defence at Armageddon vs Jesus (Aaron Aguilera), John Cena revamped an already devalued US Championship to a spinning, blinging atrocity. JBL blowing up the thing and returning the old one is the best thing he's ever done. But, no, the fun and games didn't stop there. After his WrestleMania XXI victory, he blinged up the WWE Championship like there was no tomorrow.
Cena may be one of the most over people in WWE today, but even that doesn't give him the right to blasphemise the holy grail of sports-entertainment.
Juventud Guerrera/Psychosis/Super Crazy - Mexican Gardening Team: These 3 men are probably some of the most celebrated cruiserweights in the history of wrestling. They finally get to WWE and they become Latino Landscapers. Riding to the ring on customised 'Juan' Deere lawnmowers, they proclaimed themselves as the Mexicools. They usually spend their time gatecrashing various segments on SmackDown!. When they do get in the ring, however, they do pretty good under the WWE 'safe style'. But seriously, this is not how you treat some of the greatest cruiserweights in history.
Rob Conway - Missing Village Person?: After two years of playing as a French/Quebec sympathiser, Rob Conway turned on his partner and beat him in a match on Heat. After the trade, where Sylvain Grenier was traded to SmackDown!, Rob re-emerged with a new gimmick. As a Buff Bagwell type who does things his way, the Con-way. The Conman totally changed his persona. Coming with out with a hat and sunglassses, with see-through tights, fortunately not 100% see-through. He now resembles someone from the Village People (the Montreal crowd took to singing 'YMCA' during his match against The Hurricane). How did the crowd react to this? They didn't. Everytime Rob makes his entrance to a Randy Newman-like theme (left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot...), he comes out to silence. This is now known as a 'Conway Pop'. But, believe it or not, he's finally over as a heel, as RAW's 'Legend Killer'.
Christy Hemme - Pro Wrestler: The product of the 2004 Gooker winner, Christy Hemme wanted a match against Women's Champion Trish Stratus, to gain revenge on an assault the previous week. Not just anywhere, but at WrestleMania XXI. She revealed that she was receiving training from Trish's main rival, Lita (pre-Edge). Over the next few weeks, we watched her basically kill Molly Holly's WWE career, by having her job to the fiery redhead. At WrestleMania XXI, thankfully, Trish Stratus retained her title. Now she's been traded to SmackDown!, where she can no longer touch the title, she has actually improved slightly. She is now aligned with LOD 2005, planting a Doomsday Device flying clothesline on Melina of MNM at No Mercy.
(Note: Unlike most people, I have faith in Christy Hemme's wrestling ability, Trish Stratus was in the same boat in 2000-2001, look where she is now. Besides, I don't see anyone dissing Michelle McCool for trying to wrestle...)
Viscera - Love Machine: After the Hemme/Stratus feud, Lita started to act all affectionate towards Kane. This was because Kane had started to harass Trish. A match was scheduled for Backlash between Kane and Viscera, who had saved Trish from another Kane assault. Trish would be in Viscera's corner, while Lita would be in Kane's corner. Somehow, Viscera saw Trish's belief in him to take out Kane as a sexual advance. This lead to a date in England, involving XL condoms, a poor attempt by Trish at an English accent and a bit of 'persuasion' by Trish to keep Viscera on the job.
After he lost the Backlash match, he assaulted Trish and she has not been seen in the ring since. He then set his affections towards RAW ring announcer Lillian Garcia, to the extent where they were going to get married, only to dump her at Vengeance.
Rey Mysterio/Eddie Guerrero - Two Men And A Dominick:
(Withdrawn in memory of Eddie Guerrero)
This feud, set up after WrestleMania XXI, was pure gold until after their match at Judgement Day, where Eddie told everyone that he knew something, something that would kill Rey inside. He told everyone that he would reveal this secret if he won at the Great American Bash aginst Mysterio. He didn't win, but he told the secret anyway. The bombshell was that Rey's son, Dominick, was actually Eddie's! Over the next few weeks, he would reveal the story bit by bit. Dominick is in now in Rey's custody when he won a ladder match against Eddie for custody papers at SummerSlam, but Eddie finally got Rey's number, when he won a cage match on the first Friday Night SmackDown!.
Now this one I don't think will be nominated for a Gooker since a) it is a real life situation and b) the wrestling storyline isn't that bad, but it deserves a special mention.
Matt Hardy/Edge/Lita/Kane - My Best Friend Took My Girlfriend!: If these guys weren't wrestlers, it would only get as far as Jerry Springer. But we have had it play out for months on RAW.
Going back to last year, Lita was forced to 'marry' Kane due to a match stipulation. Matt Hardy tried to stop this, but was chokeslammed off the stage. He needed this time to recover from a knee injury, so he couldn't travel with Amy Dumas (Lita), his then real-life girlfriend. So he put all his trust into his best friend Adam Copeland (Edge). All this time together spread into a romance between the two. Matt found out and told all on his website. In fear of a confrontation, WWE released Matt Hardy from his contract. To further rub it in, they transferred this into the wrestling storyline, where Lita would turn on Kane, and align herself with Edge.
They teased a Matt Hardy run-in during their wedding and flaunted their romance each week. Until a few weeks ago, Matt started interfering in Edge's matches. WWE tried to ignore this, but the fans wouldn't let them. Finally, Vince McMahon offered Matt Hardy a new contract and a match at SummerSlam vs. Edge. Edge got the chocolates there. Then to a cage match at Unforgiven. Matt got the win there. It all ended with a 'Loser leaves RAW' ladder match on the 'Homecoming' RAW, when Lita swung the balance of the match Edge's way. Matt is now a SmackDown! superstar.
Thanks,
EoE
