Well, it was indeed the "Summer of Edge," but as Jim Morrison once famously crooned, "Summer's Almost Gone," and now the Raw Heavyweight Championship is once again, quite properly in a Jane Austen sense of the word, around the waist of THE MARINE.
Harrogate took especial delight in seeing Kevin Federline (now known as "K-Fed," it would seem)come out and flaunt his "A List" creds with Johnny Nitro and his skank ho sidekick Melina: the delight comes mainly from the fact that to a fan, "K-Fed" was getting robustly booed the moment he hit the aisle and started making his way to the ring. Now, many of the thousands who visit The Rhetorical Situation like to posture as intellectuals, and would perhaps fain have everyone believe they don't know who "K-Fed" is, let alone why he was getting booed. But that's a lie. All of you know exactly who he is and exactly why he got booed, "K-Fed" got booed because of who he is.
Anyway, Cena rolls out and after dealing with some Inter-Cable Rivalry stuff involving the Smackdown Champion King Booker and ECW Champion The Big Show, Cena was left alone to share the stage with the hapless "K-Fed," and after "K-Fed" offered to jaw THE MARINE, THE MARINE FU'd him. Thus the depiction above. One of Uhmerrikah's great cultural moments, to be sure, right up there with the elimination of the Geneva Convention (did Harrogate blog that out loud?)
Depicted above are the two New Testament-style visionaries behind the inimitable Jackass franchise, Steve-O and Chris Pontius, both of whom got their asses kicked by the figure Harrogate has already established as what would have been Walter Ong's
idea of a provocative wrestler, Umaga. That's right, Harrogate said it. Umaga. Perhaps some of you want a little of Umaga? Just keep laughing, you'll see. Harrogate saw. He no longer laughs.
But anyway, to wit: Word on the hard core wrestling blogosphere has it that Steve-O's continual laughter while getting pummeled by Umaga showed a lack of respect for the WWE. But Harrogate sides with lets wrestle, who with all the braggadocio of a Judith Fetterley, succinctly observes
The segment with the two guys from "Jackass" was also pretty funny. Having Steve-O get beat down by Umaga was great. I know that the on-line freaks are all mad that Steve-O was laughing during the whole thing, but come on, if you've ever watched or seen the JA movies, you know that these guys take beatdowns for a living and keep coming back, so this was pretty well done. Give Umaga credit as well for handing out some pretty stiff shots as well.(lets wrestle 3:16)
Anyway, that's wrap for this edition. Join Harrogate next week as he resumes live blogging Raws, which is intended as a reward to Vince McMahon for finally starting to get this show together a little bit.
Works Cited
lets wrestle 3:16
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