Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Controversial segment on last night's Smackdown special

There's been quite a storm of overreaction to a segment on last night's Smackdown special featuring Big Show vs Rey Misterio Jr. Some folks are lambasting the WWE for exploiting Eddie Guerrero's death. I guess they must think that the WWE should never mention Eddie again. It started out OK with Rey paying tribute to Eddie by coming to the ring in a low rider. Some people didn't like the use of the car during the match. It was there so of course they were going to use it. And Big Show spit on the car. That seemed like an adlib to me. The segment went in the toilet at the end with the Kane & Undertaker runin and then really went overboard into surreal territory when Randy Orton burned up the Undertaker and the car. This was all done to set up an Orton/Undertaker Hell In a Cell match at the next PPV. It was very stupid and was done in a very ham handed way. Typically, some fans have reacted to this segment with righeous indignation. They seem to do this every time the WWE does a borderline offensive segment. I didn't like the segment either but to react to it like it's the worst thing the WWE has ever done is just ridiculous because they've done much worse. You can be sure that the WWE will do something else in the near future to illicit the same reaction. Why does this surprise or shock amyone?

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