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The man who says "GET OFF MY LAWN" here at LordsofPain.net / WrestlingHeadlines.com is back and better than ever... It is I, Mr. Tito, and I'm just sitting back and enjoying the sour grape being devoured by individuals upset at (a) Election Results a few weeks ago and (b) Bill Goldberg defeating Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series 2016. I'm just sitting back and laughing at the hysteria of both. Sure, one case is our Government while the other is a form of entertainment, but how everyone is getting worked up at both has been a bit much. Life goes on and to quote the Terminator films, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves. But I do want to talk about Donald Trump today... No, I'm NOT going to talk about the 2016 Election Results, his politics, or how he'll run the country in the next 4 years. I get it, you come here to read about WRESTLING STUFF and not politics. What I want to suggest, however, is because of Donald Trump becoming President-elect of the United States, he has opened the door for OTHER celebrities to walk through and possibly run for President. Donald Trump has never run for public office but we've seen him in the public eye for over 30 years. While there are many individuals in the real estate business, Donald Trump used his personality to become a widely know celebrity. There wasn't a camera and microphone that Trump didn't love and he cashed in on his celebrity to create greater opportunities for him. Trump made himself a brand name and that made him easily defeat the GOP Primary candidates. Furthermore, he broke down many, many barriers on baggage and words that would hurt any normal candidate. Like a pro wrestler, he kept cutting promos that would create current news that would offset anything in the past. We've seen non-public servants who are celebrities try their hand at bigger offices... Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger made it to the Governor jobs of their respective states but the President of the United States is a much bigger office. In the past, a LACK of public service was used as a liability against a candidate. Majority of candidates in history have been in Congress or were Governors. What Donald did was unique... He used his celebrity status to "trump" that so-called need for public experience. Thus, now that that door has been beat down, others will follow. I was trying to think in my head... Who? George Clooney came to mind at first but he's already been heavily involved in politics through his causes. He seems, though, to take up more international causes as opposed to domestic ones. I wonder if some of the actors who played President (Martin Sheen, Harrison Ford, etc.) would give it a try... Easy to market themselves. Maybe a high profile CEO like Bill Gates could run... But look at what Donald Trump did during the GOP Primary and then against Hillary Clinton... He was a loud personality, charismatic, and he was cutting promos like a pro wrestler. That's the standard bearer for future elections and you would need an electrifying person to lay the smackdown on any opponent. I believe that in our lifetime, if Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson wants to become President of the United States, he can easily accomplish it. And he'll become the 2nd WWE Hall of Famer (well, eventually) to become President after Trump. Let's see here... Good looks, check. Women love him, check. He was just on the cover of People magazine as Sexiest Man Alive. Popular as a celebrity? Check. Highest grossing male actor in the world right now. Men love him, check... He is pretty much accepted widely among all minority groups. Better yet with the Rock, and this is a strike against George Clooney... You truly don't know his politics. Sure, Rock spoke at the GOP Convention in 2000, but he was pretty chummy with President Barack Obama for the past 8 years. Like Donald Trump who doesn't appear to be devoted to a party, the Rock can market himself as an independent voice and not be beholden to social issues like other Republican/Democrat candidates. And the Rock is SMART, too... He's a former football player and WWE wrestler, but he wasn't successful at both for being a brute athlete. Especially the wrestling job. If the Rock wants to be President, he can win. Run in 2020 and he'd win, too. Could you imagine the Rock on the campaign trail, especially if it were 2020 when he's still young? He'd draw HUGE crowds and he'd be electrifying on that microphone on campaign stumps. Then, on the DEBATE stage... Who would look better than the Rock on that stage? Television is still important just as it was in 1960 when the first televised Presidential debates had a young looking John F. Kennedy taking on Richard Nixon who was ill for most of the week. Are you going to vote for the older politician or are you going to vote for the action star? The guy who not only fought Stone Cold Steve Austin but once jumped off a ledge with Samuel Jackson? Aim for the bushes! Think of the audiences he could just melt with his rendition of Elvis's Are You Lonesome Tonight?... Unlike Trump, I bet that the Rock would have a much more positive vibe (instead of a negative one) to overwhelm his opponent. The future Presidential elections are going to become very interesting because of the national stage that has been created by "celebrity status". I figure that Congress and Governors will remain having career politicians and they'll do the heavy lifting, but from here on out, political experience is no longer an automatic qualifier for President. Just BE RELEVANT in the public eye and be great on the microphone. The Rock has both of those qualities. He could easily win. ------------------------------------------- FINGER OF SHAME at the WWE for its handling of AJ Styles as WWE Champion. Sorry, but I'm not laughing at the mockery of James Ellsworth getting cheap wins over the WWE Champion. WWE Smackdown is ruined for me because the WWE hilarity machine got its filthy hands on the booking sheets. It had a great run with Cena, Ambrose, and Styles fighting it out for the Main Event and it was AMAZING to see AJ Styles get a definitive WWE Title victory over John Cena at SummerSlam 2016. So happy for AJ Styles winning... But it's been all downhill ever since with Smackdown giving away bigtime main events for FREE and now letting Ellsworth get goofy wins over the Champion. Congrats, WWE... You've reduced the WWE Title to a joke. ------------------------------------------ SECOND FINGER OF SHAME to the WWE for, once again, using the BULLCRAP Non-Title match against their World Champion on the RAW roster. What the hell did Kevin Owens do to the members of the RAW Creative Staff? Or is it a continued infatuation with Roman Reigns? Either way, the WWE is idiotic with the "wins non-title match, gets title match" booking. Just piss all over your World Champion... LAZY BOOKING! ------------------------------------------ Is the WWE trying to get Charlotte multiple Women's Title reigns so that she can quickly catch her father, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair's World Title record? If so, they haven't realized that Sasha Banks is on her way there too. Charlotte became a 3-time Women's Champion in just over 1 year and Sasha is a 3-time Women's Champion in just over 4 months. Title inflation anyone? People watch and attend wrestling events to see a staged/scripted conflict between Good vs. Evil to see who can be the best. How is "the best" defined? Championship belts. When you have Sasha Banks winning the WWE Women's Title on 3 random episodes of Monday Night RAW since July 25th, 2016. How does multiple title changes on Television, NOT Pay Per View, help that title? Sure, you can give me the Rock & Mick Foley comparisons from early 1999... But with due respect to Charlotte and Sasha, they aren't Rock and Mick Foley. Both of those characters DREW MONEY and DREW RATINGS whenever they were in an arena or on television. No matter how hard the WWE tries to market the Women's Division, it's still a midcard act of Monday Night RAW. Until we see the female wrestlers drawing packed houses without male heavyweight wrestlers on the roster, you cannot make the Rock/Foley connection. Rock and Foley were so redhot during early 1999 that they could wrestle any type of match at any time and it drew. Look at that ridiculous Super Bowl halftime empty arena match between Rock & Foley, for Christ's sake! RAW's ratings during 2016? Declining and for several shows, they were headlined by Women's wrestling. I WANT the Women's Division to succeed as I became a fan of their work from 2015 NXT stuff... Remember, Sasha Banks vs. Bayley from Takeover Brooklyn 2015 was MY "Match of the Year" for 2015. But the WWE Creative Team has horribly mishandled the Women's Division and RAW Women's Title. The ONLY saving grace is the fact that Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks matches are improving with time. Past few matches have been damn good. I still think that WWE is made a big mistake by not making Sasha Banks a full blown heel. Her psychology is ready-made to act like a heel as you can see from her 2015 Bayley feud and the swagger she carries. ------------------------------------------ Honestly, I have no comment on TNA Wrestling... Recent financial actions have helped justify why I refused to watch. I feel really bad for the talent, however... Dixie Carter had the best opportunity and resources to compete with the WWE and she blew it. So whatever. May the best talent find good jobs elsewhere. ------------------------------------------ BOTH Bill Goldberg and Brock Lesnar in the 2017 Royal Rumble? That's awesome... And Paul Heyman selling that there will be "28 losers and 1 victim" is great. They are both selling the "sense of urgency" for winning the Rumble and it will draw huge. Pretty amazing what an older WCW Superstar can still do during 2016. Anyone still pissing and moaning about the Survivor Series 2016 finish should see how well Royal Rumble 2017 draws in San Antonio, TX. I bet that it's a packed house to the max... ------------------------------------------ And finally... I'm really happy for John Cena. He reportedly landed a decent film role and he's about to film the second season of his FOX reality show. Good for him... As he's been on the top of the WWE since 2005, may have have overstayed his welcome and didn't cash in on the Hollywood opportunities earlier. Rock and Hulk Hogan were offered movie roles during their peaks and both took full advantage of those opportunities. Then, they could simply return to pro wrestling because the movie stardom allowed them to rename big drawing names in wrestling. That's what John Cena has failed to understand and he could have been a bigger mainstream star if he wasn't so dedicated to WWE. But what I like about his time away from the WWE is that it justifies what a big star he was to the WWE. RAW ratings have been in a freefall since pushing other guys to the World Champion since SummerSlam 2014. Hell, I statistically proved that in another column as correlation analysis did not like the WWE Title reigns of Lesnar, Reigns, and Rollins. And in my opinion, and I said it at the time... WWE made a BIG MISTAKE on letting Brock Lesnar DESTROY John Cena at SummerSlam 2014. Why on earth would you wreck and humiliate your biggest draw like that? Ridiculous... WWE took their biggest draw for granted while foolishly trying to build up Brock Lesnar to be an unstoppable monster. Lot of good that has done for 2016. Reportedly, there is some tension between John Cena and the WWE... Some want to suggest that it's about the returning Kenny Dykstra to the WWE main roster as Kenny went public about Cena cheating with his then fiance Mickie James during the late 2000s. James, by the way, has also returned recently... But that stuff was a while ago and everybody involved has moved on. I think that it's between the WWE and John Cena, namely Vince McMahon and Cena. I believe that there is concern over use of talent as Cena was ultimately squashed by Lesnar at SummerSlam 2014 but for anyone that Cena wants to work with or put over, WWE ruins (Punk, Bryan, now Styles). But since 2014, the WWE hasn't used Cena at the top of the card. Though Cena has made the most of it, notably the US Title stuff during 2015, the WWE's desire to push Roman Reigns as his babyface replacement has probably caused tension. 2014-2016 has essentially been about making Reigns the "next John Cena" and WWE has pushed him hard for that role, even at the expense of keeping John Cena in the midcard. Cena is pretty loyal to the WWE Corporation as they pay him quite well to exist there... But it makes you wonder that with time and Cena needing more time off to do Hollywood stuff if that loyalty begins to get challenged. As a John Cena fan, I would agree with his booking since 2013. Just awful. He's the #1 star and should have lengthy World Title reigns to draw packed houses. Instead, the WWE tries other people who aren't ready for the role or should be in supporting roles. Last time I checked, Rock, Steve Austin, and Hulk Hogan were ALWAYS WWE Champion or chasing the WWE Title. They didn't get destroyed by another wrestler and then hide in the midcard for over a year. At their peaks, would Rock, Austin, or Hogan be defending the Intercontinental Title? Please... Go make your Hollywood money, Johnny. WWE will come crawling back to you soon enough when that Comcast TV deal is about to expire. Comments and feedback are welcome. Follow and Tweet me @titowrestling or login in below to post comments. © Mr. Tito and LordsofPain.net/WrestlingHeadlines.com - 1998-2016
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