Wrestlemania XXX predictions and fallout

We are almost there! Wrestlemania is shaping up to possibly be the biggest and possibly greatest of all time.

At this time of year, every year, I look forward to the show of shows and get as excited as a kid at Christmas time. Sometimes, it can feel like wasted happiness once that last match has finished and it's all done with. "That's it. Good bye. I'll be back for your money next year!" Kinda like Christmas some years.

But THIS year! This year is going to be big and as important a night as WCW's fold to the WWE. I feel like WWE has the potential to pull off something that will change it forever.

The matches on paper look great and every one has the ability to change the pace, direction and future of the Superstars involved if not the whole WWE. 

Will it all be as big as I hope? We have to wait and see but let's have a look as to why I think this Sunday could be so important.

Wrestlemania week and #SexyBoyNo1 is HERE!

We are on the road to Wrestlemania and I'm like a kid a Christmas! Tonight is the final RAW before the show of shows and the IWC is alive and loud.
With all the posts, podcasts, banter and excitement that is running wild on Twitter, Tumblr and Youtube this week is already panning out great for wrestling fans from all around the world.

Today also marks the start of the #SexyBoyNo1 journey. I am on a mission to get Shawn Michaels' WWE entrance theme into the charts, if not Number 1 for Wrestlemania Sunday.
So far the first day has gone great! Wrestling fans on Twitter have been spreading the word and buying the track to help achieve the boyhood dream.

You can download the track from these links iTunes, Amazon or any other purchasable mp3 service. The official charts company recognizes 99% of downloads for the chart. Official chart FAQ

Wrestling fans young and senior, new and old, casual and hardcore can come together and do something positive in celebrating one of the all time greats Shawn Michaels for Wrestlemanias 30. Not only could we all make history for WWE and sports entertainment but we can get them seen, heard and noticed by non fans everywhere.

From the time this is posted we will have just under six days to make the sales count!

Thanks for reading and hope you join us on the #SexyBoyNo1 campaign.

Bingus

Fast Three Count with Steve "@TopRopeElbow" Dawson

Long time real life friend and IWC gent @TopRopeElbow sent this Fast Three Count.

Jerry Lawler

During the early 90's I hated The King. He was just an old guy pretending to be a member of royalty by giving himself a fake King moniker, what a bell end!...On second thoughts...There's nothing wrong with that is there?

During the Attitude Era I loved him! He liked violence, I liked violence. He loved boobs, I loved boobs (still do! Tits are horrible and sound sharp, boobs are beautiful!). He enjoyed company of young girls, so did I!

But then came the day when I realised he was the Fonz of the WWE and it all went cack. Respect to his career and the legendary feuds  he was the forefront of but it's time to be a special guest now Jerry mate.

Elimination Chamber

Makes Hell In A Cell look like a Polly Pocket and is easily my most played match type of any wrestling it has featured on.

Maybe had one to many appearances too early in its life but and lost a bit of its allure and mystique.

I think HBK wearing the dodgiest unfinished tights and little girl bob haircut lifting the World Heavyweight Championship will be a wrestling memory that will stay with me until I forget how to put my socks on.

Mean Street Posse

Easily one of my guiltiest of guilty pleasures in wrestling! I was never sure if these guys were kayfabe or real, but I did know I didn't care. I just dug these guys.

As odd as it was cool reggae entrance music, cashmere sweater vests and believeable gimmick. How could you not get into these preppy and spoiled bastards! 

Also if they were around today I would bet left eyebrow that Jack Swagger would be in this dapper crew!

Give Steve a shout, he's a gent comedian who will talk wrestling until the internet switches off.

@TopRopeElbow

Fast Three Count with Miss Paige Martin

Thanks to Miss Paige for the #FastThreeCount.

Emma

With the potential to be a major player...ress? in the game, I hope to see her in something than a dance off or a copy and paste comedy couple.
With an influx of lady stars at the ready to make their way to the main roster and the success of Total Divas maybe just maybe the Divas Division will start making its own history and I hope the name Emma is all over it.
She is rather purdy to boot!

Title

There are probably enough wrestling title belts, real or replica, in the world to hold up the trousers of a large European city.

Speaking of titles and Europe. There's a picture of WWE's best looking title belt, yes I am a tad bias. But it was just so nice to look at. 

I don't own any replica belts, but I would love to make this the first if I ever do.

Hot

Hot? Molly Holly was hot. Molly Holly was proper hot as Mighty Molly. 

Hot.

Thanks again to @MissPaigeMartin a fellow follower and SegHead for the Sunday Segue podcast and one of the gooduns of the IWC.

Fast Three Count with @WrestlingChron

My good pal Erik from the The Wrestling Chronicle sent me this Fast Three Count.

Paul Heyman

Possibly wrestlings 2nd biggest genius behind McMahon. I gotta believe that his only downfall with the business is his love for the business. I get the impression he's too much of a purist and actual wrestling fan to achieve what McMahon has done business wise.
On screen he is easily one of the best talkers and knows exactly how to tap into a audiences head. Heel, face, manager, commentator, promoter or writer I love what he does.

Bobby Heenan

Never understood how great this man is until the internet came about. Yeah I'd seen him on the commentary table and managing but I was too young and simple minded to appreciate the brains behind The Brain. 

A truly magical wrestling personality and just as entertaining as anyone who has stepped foot in or around the ring.

Now in a loud clear voice say with me "We the Weasel!".

Jim Cornette

Watching Cornette as youngster I knew he was different from other on screen characters. I never knew it at the time but it's because he works from the hip and shoots the script. 

Looking back he seems to have been a bit of a line blurrer. 

I still find him awkward to watch be it on a show or shoot interview, he's never caught my interest and he held a tennis racket for some reason.

Thanks to @WrestlingChron for giving me the #FastThreeCount. Go and check out the thewrestlingchronicle.com for the latest Piledriver Podcast and a knowledge for US independent wrestling and WWE. 

If you have a #FastThreeCount just drop me the hashtag and your three wrestling thingys, doodahs and whatsits on twitter.com/KingBingus.

Happy Birthday @SundaySegue

This week Kinny Killa and Sugs over at Sunday Segue podcast celebrated their 52nd weekly episode... quick maths... That's a year! Happy first birthday!

Yeah the guys invited me on their birthday show, which as always was genuinely happy accept so if you have already listened to the show have heard me give all the box ticking birthday pleasantries. But now that I've listened to the episode... Yeah I listen to myself. It's a way of trying to get better at the podcasting malarkey.
Anyways, now I've listened to the show and had a chance to think about things I really want to give a big thank you to the lads.

Fast Three Count

This Fast Three Count comes from @TheMCook

Cena

Like Hogan but younger.

Hogan

Like Cena but older.

Wyatt

A strange Kane/Raven hybrid that has been spawned by an accountant. 

This guy is super hot as far as response and appeal go and has the potential to forge a very remembered career and become someone we talk about for years after his last Sister Abbie. (We're cool like that, she just calls me King Bing)

Fast Three Count

This Fast Three Count is from @JamesPowers33

Bell

Louder than Vickie Guerrero and makes more official wrestling history than any champion ever. Once the bell rings we get to see wrestling. Mics down and wrist tape up time!

Some great things have happened between bells but no one wants to hear it toll ten times.

Fight

Every so often, not so much since the Attitude Era , we get to see a fight in wrestling. Be it a match, a boiler room brawl, bar room brawl invitational or a straight up slugfest of a segments like Edge and Matt Hardy or JBL and Blue Meanie from One Night Stand.

Me? I do love a good fisticuffs betwixt honourable gentlemen!

Pin

In 9.9 out of 10 times the 1-2-3 means Goodnight Irene. The other .05 refers to Sean Waltman's old character and the last .05 refers to a shady call to stop Bryan from winning and keeping the gold.

This part of the match brings on emotions ranging on a huge scale from disappointment, anger, happiness and a almost shameful love.  

Q&A with Kendra Creek

IWC? You know that thing right? It's pretty much a big deal to you if you're reading this. Internet Wrestling Community..... Community. Nope, not a nod to Kennedy Anderson but an emphasis on community. 

Since "joining" the IWC I've been amazed on how many people I've had the chance to talk with via keyboard or Skype. Whether people actually take in, listen or even care what I say, I just love being able to be a part of something like this.

The people that make up the IWC are just like a real physical community. Each person has their own life, story, experiences and I want to personally get to know some of the IWC pillars better. I do what I can on twitter but it can be quite impersonal and always very short, so I've started reaching out, tapping a few shoulders and trying to get know you all. Podcasts, interviews even plain emails I love taking part.

Kendra Creek is one of the people I reached out for a short interview. I'm very grateful and happy she took the time to give it a go. 

If you wanna find out a little more about the Miss @kendra_creek please read on and give her a shout! She would do disgusting things with Ric Flair, if you dig that kinda thing.

Name: 
Kendra Creek

Age:

26

Where are you?

I live in Evansville Indiana, which is a town of about 100,000 people. I grew up in a small town in southern Indiana, with about 800 people.

When and how did you become a fan of WWE?

I became a fan of WWE in April 2012. My brother has always had a love for wrestling, and I just started watching one day.

How did you get involved with the IWC?

I started an account on Twitter in February 2013. I saw something Martin Dixon tweeted from the bunny suicida account and started following him. He was hilarious and introduced me to everyone at 4CR. 

To Benoit or not to Benoit - @HulkingLungfish

This post comes to you from @HulkingLungfish on Twitter. He's a great follower of mine and someone I consider to be one the good ones. Lungfish has a great mind for wrestling and is like many of us is frustrated with the 140 limit. 

I'm honoured to have been asked by HulkingLungfish if he could post something on KBW and without further a do, here is his thoughts on Chris Benoit and his inclusion on the soon to be WWE Network.

To Benoit or not to Benoit 

I'm going to discuss possibly the most controversial issue in the history of professional wrestling. 
On WWE TV a couple of weeks back, a very brief shot of someone being pinned was shown on an advert for a WWE DVD. That man was identified as Chris Benoit. 

Chris Benoit murdered his wife and child and then killed himself in 2007. That is a fact that can not be bent or changed in any way. That is the truth and there is no getting away from it.
He was also an exceptional professional wrestler, World Champion and participant in some of what rightly should be called the greatest matches of all time.

Monday Night Carlo

This week over in Twitterland I've stumbled upon on someone new. Yeah sure we find all kinds of new stuff all over the internet daily, hourly if not quicker but this fella is one the good ones. One of the good ones of the IWC.

Carlo is a gent and a great wrestling fan. As per many of my fellow IWC members he's a friendly guy and just wants to join and build wrestling communities. It's such a great quality to have anywhere in life but here in the IWC I honestly do feel a little more positivity is needed to actually help celebrate what we love rather than berate it.

TNA. Try Harder or Stop Trying So Hard.

You know about TNA. It's that wrestling show you hate.

That statement is true for many, however some of us...(well me at least) just want TNA to strive to thrive and move upward and onward. Why? 

Well firstly and probably most importantly, I don't wanna see dozens if not hundreds of people lose their jobs. We need to remember that there are real people behind the facepaint, masks and baby oil and not to mention all the office jobs involved with running a partially global wrestling promotion.

On top of that REAL stuff I would love TNA to become a true number 2 company and give fans more reason to celebrate them rather than constantly bash them. You see for many, especially UK wrestling fans, TNA is actually easier to watch than WWE.

Most digital TV subscriptions in the UK come with Challenge TV as a standard, where as WWE's UK home is on Sky Sports and costs in the region of £20-£30 to add to your subscription. So in the UK TNA should really have more support, but it's hard to support something when everybody is knocking it from left to right.

There is no pleasing some

To paraphrase the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln,

You can please some of the people some of the time, All of the people some of the time, Some of the people all of the time but you can never please All of the people all of the time.

Right now in within the IWC this is true in regards to the WWE and it's a great shame. 2013 has shaped up to be a truly remarkable year for WWE with the use of new talent, making good use of established names and heading in a new direction. Keeping well within their PG shackles they have proved they can still make for brilliant TV and top flight action.

Prior to 2013's momentum the IWC and the Universe was up in arms, screaming for a new face to take over from Cena. Of course we had the Summer of Punk but Cena was still taking charge in most of that, champion or not. 

Many of us felt disgruntled, feeling like the WWE was ignoring its "key & most important" fan sector. Truth being WWE was just doing what its always done in cycles and thats pull in its new fan base. The future fan base, without which they wouldn't be able to entertain anyone let alone the "key & most important" fan base.

If you're a twitterer there's a very good chance you've seen a tweet or two today professing that the Attitude Era needs to come back and use "real" wrestlers.

Let's Talk. The Undertaker vs Cena.

John Cena squaring off against The Undertaker has already happened a few times through the mid 2000s but John Cena vs The Undertaker at Wrestlemania has never happened. 

Will this ever happen? Could this ever happen? 'Taker may not have too many matches left and with the somewhat ambiguous situation involving The Shield, the white hot Daniel Bryan and Brock Lesnar looking for trouble there could be some other opponents for 'Taker to go for.

Would WWE or its fans benefit from pitting super Cena against The Deadman?
I believe given the right angle it could be oh so more than epic.

Personally I would love to see this match happen and have spent a few commutes to work thinking about how this could go down.

Respect

Hustle, Loyalty and Respect. It's what Cena is all about and it could play a part in this match up. If Cena decided to take the challenge to Undertaker he say it's all about respect and wants to have the honour to try and beat the streak.