CHEAP HEAT, SOUTH OF THE BORDER

If there is one thing I hate in pro wrestling, and no i won't call it "sports fkn entertainment" , I don't care what Vince says, ...it's cheap heat....a description I use is this -  when a wrestler honestly can't be stuffed to work hard for a crowd reaction OR the booker cant be stuffed to think of anything clever and tells the boys to wing it

 Some examples that come to mind and i'll use some aussie examples i've seen,  is a wrestler who was the AWF champ in the recent past, who in my opinion, couldn't be stuffed cause it wasn't their home base show, told a lady in the audience to "get back in the kitchen"...please, what is this the fkn 70's ...you lazy bastard, another one was a PWA guy I saw at a Campbelltown Cube show, who obviously was feeling a bit "can't be bothered" calling people fat, lazy slobs unlike himself on his way to the ring....cheap heat , in my opinion anyway

 NOW to something, that as a lucha aficianado has got me more than slightly fkn annoyed....anyone who knows the premise behind lucha knows that the mask is (alledgedly) sacred and the only time you lost the mask was the right way...in a mascara y mascara match, sorta like what the WWE did recently with Sin Cara Azure and Sin Cara Negro, although the storyline usually goes wayyyyy longer than what the E did with the Sin Cara's....although there was a mask stealing by Hunico on Sin Cara on a Smackdown just prior to the mask v mask match....of course, there has always been mask destruction, but it was a rare occurence...some guys used to do it on purpose, I know when Ricki Chosu was booked against a luchador in Japan, he felt it a given that he should destroy the mask, because he didn't consider them wrestlers( no seriously) and did so with out stopping until Alberto Del Rio's dad, Dos Caras  beat the shit out of Chosu in a shoot at a Budokhan show, needless to say the ripping suddenly stopped.

SO anyway, I watch a fair bit of Lucha, mostly CMLL and AAA,  and in the last, say, 2 years, I've noticed that a real crappy habit has been exploded into plague proportion's...MASK RIPPING ....

 
  The worst example's I'd seen up til recently was Mistico (Sin cara) and Volador Jnr, they started the feud after the 2010 incredible tag tournament, you know where one face (tecnico) and one heel (rudo) get teamed together for the tournament... Mistico(tecnico) had been teaming with Averno (rudo) and Mistico eventually turned rudo himself...Volador took umbrage apparently and him and Mistico spent the next while ripping, stealing and yanking off each others masks,hell,  they even swapped philosophy's...and it didn't end up in anyone losing their masks, it was mask vandalism for the sake of a cheap pop only.

 and it don't stop there, Dr Wagner and La Parka mangled masks hand over fist and CMLL champ Ultimo Guerrero has ripped more masks recently than i've ever seen him do, mind you he has had his hood ripped a few times too, the most memorable was when he went against Atlantis, their faces were barely covered less than 1/2 way into the match

The most violent mask ripping i've seen in recent times was at most recent big show of the year for AAA, Triplemania in the "Battle for the Name" match between LA Park and La Parka, 38 minutes of  blood, run-in's and wanton mask destruction...it was a cross between ECW and the nWo, there was that many people in the ring attacking L.A Park and de-masking him...exciting , yes..needed..NO

Like I said it's fkn lazy by the bookers and wrestlers, I've heard the argument that its because the modern generation don't care unless something shocking happens, well, I can sorta accept that...BUT...the mask ripping appears in nearly every fkn match nowadays...its like smashing through tables, everyone popped when Sabu did it first, then all of a sudden every promotion on the planet had table smashing as a regular part of the show, same thing with the mask's, people were shocked the first time, then all of a sudden, the promotion needs its own mask makers backstage to repair the nights cheap heat getter's...it flat out sucks !!

Santo would be rolling in his grave

SEEYA