CB’s World: Taking YOUR Wrestling Pulse, Featuring Blair A. Douglas

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Welcome to yet another rip-roaring installment of Taking YOUR Wrestling Pulse.

This week is a very special episode, as I was recently able to track down the whereabouts of the one and only Blair A. Douglas, who has been on hiatus from Pulse Wrestling. Unofficially, however, Blair’s comments have ignited the boards (and reinvigorated the trolls), and below is Blair’s unique take on all of these things and more.

Before we begin, don’t forget to check out the first two editions of Taking YOUR Wrestling Pulse, with sideshowbob and flamingwombat, respectively.

Now, onto the proceedings…

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Blair, first things first, where, and how, have you been?

Did I ignite the boards and re-invigorate the trolls? I thought maybe we could give Scott Keith some credit for that one. Although, no disrespect to Scott, but anyone who recaps that Impact show and doesn’t blindly LOVE it would get the same type of blowback, I can certainly attest to that from my time covering it. Right now I am enjoying some time at a very sunny and very undisclosed location that I would feel more comfortable not divulging, given some of the e-mails and comments I’ve received since joining the team here at Inside Pulse.

Anyway, thank you for having me, CB. As a guest, I’m excited to be here, but I have to say – as a regular reader and a fan of your column, I can’t tell you how disappointed I am that you would sully a column of this quality with a presence such as Blair Douglas. Rest assured that I will be registering my disgust on the comment section about such a decision on your part, as soon as this article is posted, along with my good friends Corey Yuen and The Fuj.

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Is that Corey Yuen or Cory Yuen you are talking about, and is it The Fuj or The Fuj (Really) you want to hear from?

Okay Blair, here’s the standard opener:

Why does ‘Wrestling Matter’ to one Blair A. Douglas?

I want to hear from all The Fuj’s, and say what you want about Cor(e)y, but for a guy who will change the spelling of his name just because Swayze told him to, he is COMMITTED to his support of Jeff Jarrett and TNA, no matter how many bad moves they make to try to prove him wrong. I don’t have that much faith in anything related wrestling.

Huh, so you’re going to start this by throwing one of TNA’s many confusing slogans at me, are you? Fine. You wanna get nuts with me? Let’s get nuts! Wrestling matters now for the same reason it mattered when I was a kid – because until they eliminate the matches altogether, no matter what else they do to try to make it about something other than wrestling, in the ring is where the feuds ultimately get decided and belts are won and lost. What happens outside of matches are important, but in the end, matches are what it all does come down to, no matter who realizes it or not. That’s why it’s so surprising to me to see so much of WWE and TNA’s efforts focused around basically everything else, especially over the last couple years.

PS: And in case people think I’m saying that means everyone should be some scientific wrestler, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m just saying the matches need to be entertaining, with some substance to them. If you need a modern example, look at Rock and Austin at WM15, 17 or 19, or Rock and Hogan at WM18. Even Cena and Batista at WM26. None of those guys are the best in the ring at all, but those matches were all still really good.

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Blair — or should I say Sting since you decides to go so nuts that the nuts think you’re nuts(!!!!!) — I have a comment and couple of follow-up questions for you:

I hear what you are saying about the matches themselves having to mean something, but I think the biggest problem facing both TNA and WWE in that regard is that they try to “force the meaning” into most matches rather than let everything flow organically. Not everything should be billed as high stakes and/or be filled with stipulations when all we need to care is natural character development and focus on the actual importance of the titles themselves, you know, instead of who has power or “stroke”.

With that said, who do you think has given us the biggest reason for optimism as wrestling fans so far this year, and why?

Also, how do you REALLY feel about TNA, you know, since you’ve been so shy about this subject in the past?

I think you’re right about TNA and WWE forcing the meaning at times, but TNA is much consistently worse at this than WWE is. But yes, not everything needs to be some pretend high stakes nonsense with something on a pole. Natural character development and actually having characters that people want to get behind will make people want a wrestler to win a match whether something is at stake or not. So to put some emphasis on actual wins again would be nice. Bringing the mid-card titles back to prominence would also help with this. I think that’s one of the main reasons people got into that Kofi Kingston / Dolph Ziggler feud not too long ago.

Who has given us the biggest reason for optimism this year is an easy question – CM Punk. That much should be obvious. How much of what’s happened with Punk just before Money In The Bank until now is Punk himself, and how much of it is WWE, is something that we’re not ever really going to know, not actually. But, the truth is that both sides deserve credit for coming up with (Punk or WWE) and allowing some gutsy execution of (WWE) what came to pass. So many people before who think that actual wrestlers are boring and that small guys aren’t marketable have jumped on the Punk bandwagon now, because they’ve just come to realize what most of us knew all along. It took WWE 5 or 6 years to “get” how valuable CM Punk is. But truthfully, some of that is just him proving himself and his worth to WWE and fans over time, and that seems to be an increasingly outdated concept. Take a look at Shaemus and Wade Barrett in comparison, those guys who were hotshotted to the top right away, and have had a really hard time getting over. Maybe with some more time in the lower or mid-card would have either flushed them out before they got to that point, or allowed them to hone their skills beforehand.

Ah, TNA. You know, I think TNA has been the most irritating product to watch just on the basis of how many opportunities they’ve wasted for no reason. Especially over the last few years with how the WWE was getting along up until recently, TNA could have so easily existed JUST on the audience that turned away from WWE. Would they have beaten WWE? No, not even close, but they could have grown their audience and their business enough to at least get a shot at it down the road. But each time they even hint at a change for the better, they either screw it up really quickly or just forget about it a few weeks later. The best example I can think of this year is AJ Styles and Fortune turning on Immortal. That was a last-minute decision based on a few big names quitting on them the week before. So they decided to do this, even though we all knew that TNA, in their infinite wisdom, would have rather had Kevin Nash, Scott Steiner and Booker T taking on Immortal. But still, they did the turn, it worked, and the crowd was WITH that segment 100%. They almost didn’t care that this was TNA’s second choice. It looked like Fortune was going to be the ones to take out Immortal with the crowd SOLIDLY behind them, but what did we see instead?

AJ Styles lost to Bully Ray a bunch of times and is now feuding with Christopher Daniels, which is great, but… it’s in the luchadore division of TNA. They’re still the best match on the show, same as they were 5 years ago, yet they’re still fighting in a division that doesn’t matter. And they’re doing that in spite of the fact that what TNA has in their main events are Gunner, Ken Anderson, Matt Morgan and Crismon, none of whom anybody cares about, except… oh, I forgot, people started cheering Crimson THE WEEK AFTER I stopped watching. And this is nothing new for TNA – their entire history is based on these kinds of moves, they always do this same type of thing to AJ, Daniels and Joe after people like Sting, Bobby Lashley, Christian and Dustin Rhodes of all people show up. TNA has no idea how to make their own stars, and they never have. And the underlying message to their talent, whether they realize it or not, is that anyone outside the company is more valuable than anyone inside the company, so to stay with TNA in itself is a bad career move.

Although, that does bring me to my FAVOURITE thing about TNA – their blind and insanely loyal fans. They’re hilarious, although Swayze brought up a good point last week, which is that he feels sorry for the staunt TNA fanbase, because TNA gives them NO ammo to fight with. Like with a lot of fans, like Incognito, I can sit and have an exchange of ideas with, even though I pretty much don’t agree or identify with what he’s saying. But at least he’s making sense. Guys like Corey and Fuj and the several other trolls that all post on our TNA recaps with the same IP addresses make no sense at all. They’ll call Scott Keith fat because they don’t agree with him because that’s the best they can come up with, even though that makes no difference whatsoever, and also even though most of them are most likely also really fat. But they won’t answer why their man Jeff Jarrett let CM Punk go because he thought Punk was too skinny and would never amount to anything in the wrestling world. The reason they don’t answer stuff like that, is that they can’t, not without acnowledging that TNA may have made a lot of mistakes over it’s history, and that, for whatever reason, they just can’t bring themselves to do. They identify with TNA SO MUCH that every single show they put on is awesome, and it’s ALWAYS the best time in TNA history, and they can’t admit that it’s made absolutely no progress. I really don’t understand that – how can you be so behind a company that you can’t admit that mistakes have been made? Just swallowing whatever you’re given is not a solution.

Do you really think that WWE would have done the Attitude Era, it’s most successful period, if the fans hadn’t driven them in that direction and ratings hadn’t been at an all-time low? You bet your sweet lawn jockey he wouldn’t have, those 4 or 5 years probably took 20 off poor Vince’s life. And TNA has been at this for years and have yet to gain ANY ground on WWE, so obviously what they’re doing isn’t working, and that’s really all there is to it.

Come on CB, that’s all you got? Give me some tough questions here!

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You want a tough question, you got it, what the hell does “skinny fat ass” mean? Seriously, this has been used in both TNA and WWE recently, and I just don’t get how an ass can both be skinny and fat!

Aside from that, I knew you were likely going with CM Punk as your reason for optimism, and you make good points about Sheamus and Barrett being hotshotted and then brought back down. Hell, you can say the same thing about Swagger and even the current WWE Champion Del Rio too, who we all know is just the Placeholder Champion until Cena-Rock gets reignited come Survivor Series in November.

The reason I asked about Punk though is this: It seems like so many people are already off the bandwagon because Punk is now embroiled in a very TNA-like power struggle. Our esteemed Pulse Glazer even went as far as to make the point that Punk talks about fostering change when he really hasn’t changed anything, since Cena is still in the main event being Cena, while Punk was left with Kevin Nash, COOHHH, and Johnny Ace to feud / mingle with. What do you think of these developments before we go back to TNA?

First off, if Del Rio gets as far as WrestleMania with that belt, then I’m going to be shocked. He’s the Shaemus World Title equivalent of this year. He’s not even Miz.

Regarding your point about Punk and change, I guess what I’d bring up is exactly how much of the show ISN’T revolving around Super Cena. What it sounds like to me is that Punk \ Nash \ HHH is being given equal or greater billing than the snoozefest that is Cena and Del Rio. Am I wrong about that? You’d have to tell me because all I’ve watched is the Punk stuff.

To Glazer and to anyone else who is ALREADY bored by the storyline, I do get what you’re saying about this storyline not playing out and being received like they probably wanted. But the thing to remember is that when all this nonsense with HHH started, all anyone was going on about was how WWE (whoever that is) believed that Punk needed the rub from a “legend”. Regardless of whether you agree with that statement or not, the fact remains is that they were trying to help Punk get over further. But, now that it hasn’t played out like everyone (WWE included) wanted it to, everyone automatically believes they’re trying to sabotage him. So somewhere in between what people believed first and what they believe now, I got lost. I don’t get it.

But still, if you need instances of change even though you’re not happy, then tell me when the last time that a Raw feud NOT involving John Cena was given this kind of commitment. Tell me the last time anyone other than Cena was given the kind of media attention that Punk has been getting. And while you’re at it, tell me what you THOUGHT would happen after Punk left with the belt. Did you think he would come back, beat Cena clean, beat Orton clean, and rule the WWE Universe forever, all taking place by October? Of course not. They smell money. They want to draw it out and get as much as they can from it. It’s not supernatural.

Now remember, those of you with short attention spans and a tendency to comment before comprehending: I’m not saying it’s played out the way everyone wanted it to, and I’m not saying that Punk needed the rub from HHH or from Nash, because I don’t think he did. And I’m not saying that where they’ve ended up so far is perfect. And I also think that they brought Punk way too soon. What I am saying, is that it could be a lot worse, that the show is still better than it was when the main thrust was Cena and Miz, Shaemus, Truth or Barrett, and that there HAS been change, minor as it may be. Be patient. Stone Cold and The Rock needed a LOT of time, too.

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So are you ducking my “skinny fat ass” question? Seriously, WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

Moving onto other matters, you just might he one of the most passionate TNA (ex-)viewers I know. I completely agree though that Impact has been defined by such truly awful booking and poor character / talent mismanagement that I just don’t see how they can ever dig themselves out of this perpetual hole they created to begin with.

I also agree their biggest miscalculation was thinking they had to go head to head with WWE to be successful, because they really didn’t and brought the pain upon themselves when they tried to battle Raw on Monday nights.

Here’s the question: How can TNA possibly rebuild from here?

Also, and this is somewhat related, how many PPVs should WWE and TNA have each year, and which ones would you keep for each organization?

I assume it means that Hogan refused to be given a script, or wouldn’t be that much good at his age and condition even if he had a script. Wait a minute, TNA can’t afford scripts. What kind of trick question is this? You said that WWE used this quote too? It’s a pretty dumb thing to say.

TNA could easily dig themselves out of the hole they’re in, they just don’t know how. They’re dumb. They’ve always been dumb, and there’s too many clowns driving the car. Unfortunately, the solution is a complete overhaul. They need to phase out Hogan, Flair, Sting, Bischoff, Jarrett, Hardy and Angle. (Hardy and Angle have become massive liabilities) and then they need to ditch Crimson, Gunner, Morgan and Anderson, and they need to work with the rest of what they have. People react to AJ, Joe and Daniels. They don’t react to Crimson, Gunner, Morgan and Anderson and Hogan, Flair, Sting, Bischoff, Jarrett, Hardy and Angle have hit most of the home runs they’re ever going to hit, and TNA needs to make room for the next generation. They could do it with a reality-based storyline if they actually stuck with it and didn’t panic when ratings don’t go up in one week.

The problem is finding a way to do this that pleases all of those old guys, and unfortunately, those guys were promised the moon, so it isn’t going to happen. Just firing them would work, but that will never happen either. That’s the problem with hiring those guys in this stage of their careers. As for the younger ones on the list, no one is even going to bat an eye if a guy like Gunner is fired with no mention of it on the show.

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And what about the second part of the equation, and this is somewhat related: How many PPVs should WWE and TNA have each year, and which ones would you keep for each organization? What would be their sweet spots that could actually help increase PPV interest without having the same old failed model of 1 per month?

Whoops!

WWE and TNA should scale back on the PPV’s, maybe 6 or 8 a year? They might pop to that bigger buyrate that both companies are looking for if they have a better build.

WWE should do Royal Rumble, Elmination Chamber, WrestleMania, King Of The Ring, SummerSlam and Survivor Series. Keep the gimmicks that go with the gimmick PPV’s, including Survivor Series, because those gimmicks are proven and you can do a lot of different things with them. TNA should do the same, but since it doesn’t matter which ones they keep or toss, I’d say they should just keep the ones with the good names. So Bound For Glory basically. And LockDown, IF they can find a way to make all the cages matches different somehow, which they’re good at… sometimes.

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Funny you should mention LockDown because I actually hate all gimmick PPVs, why? Because for gimmick PPVs — and this goes back to what we discussed earlier — the main selling points are the stipulations and NOT the wrestlers, the angles, or the titles. All three of those elements should ALWAYS be the focal point of the product being presented, ESPECIALLY if you want me to buy into said product.

Also, I am not sure if you saw this year’s WrestleMania or not, but the biggest problem with Mania — aside from being a glorified / overextended Rock promo to start and end the proceedings — was that it was missing that special extra something for the mid-card and fringe main-event talent. To me, Mania is the perfect platform for the Money in the Bank match, because it gives a bunch of guys a chance to shine in the ring while getting a piece of the biggest payday of the year. And without MITB to balance things out, the entire Mania card suffered as a result.

Blair, it’s now time for me to give you a few names, and for you to offer your unabashed opinions on each performer any way you see fit. I handpicked these names especially for you:

From TNA:
Austin Aries
Alex Shelley
Crimson
Gunnar
Jeff Jarrett
Karen Jarrett
Matt Morgan
Robert Roode
Samoa Joe

From WWE:
Christian
Daniel Bryan
Johnny Ace
Kevin Nash
Kofi Kingston
Mark Henry
Michael Cole
Randy Orton
Triple H

I think that Gimmick PPVs are fine, and if you’re going to run that many, you almost need something to differentiate them. One of the good things that TNA does with LockDown is throw a few different types of matches in there, like the Escape match, the Lethal LockDown match, etc, etc. The wrestlers and the matches do need to be the selling points though, absolutely.

I did see WrestleMania, that and Royal Rumble are the two shows I make sure never to miss every year. I do agree that this years was terrible, and what I think was missing was the match that is usually the Shawn Michaels match – the show-stealers. That doesn’t need to be a Shawn Michaels match per se, but it would be nice if they had a replacement. 27 didn’t really have that, although I didn’t mind Triple H / Undertaker. I do agree that ‘Mania is a good PPV for them to run the Money In The Bank match, if I didn’t think that they’d already run that concept into the ground. It’s like the 24/7 Hardcore Title rule – enough already. I think I’d enjoy it a bit more if the stipulation was for an actual scheduled match rather than just being able to cash in anytime. It makes guys look weak when that’s the only way they’re able to win the title and I think it hurts the reign in the long run.

This is a lot of names, dude. I’m Reader’s Digesting these.

From TNA:

Austin Aries: Great wrestler, better than your average X-Division guy on the mic, but still not great. I’d say he should go to WWE, but alleged attitude problems come back to haunt him repeatedly.

Alex Shelley: Funny dude, best X-Division guy there is on the mic, and solid in-ring. Could very easily be the next CM Punk. But not in TNA. I imagine he’d do well in WWE after a couple years.

Crimson: The exact opposite of Goldberg.

Gunnar: You spelled his name wrong. Nobody cares though, so don’t worry.

Jeff Jarrett: The exact opposite of a legend.

Karen Jarrett: The worst stripper / hooker Kurt Angle could ever possibly have married.

Matt Morgan: THE BLUEPRINT of a WWE castoff.

Robert Roode: Solid wrestler, an okay promo, a bit over-rated in my book. I prefer James Storm.

Samoa Joe: Watch TNA in 2005 and 2006 and you will see Samoa Joe, then watch Crimson right now and tell me if you see a difference. Everything since those years will be used as an example of how to completely waste talent and fan interest. Remember how all you guys told me he was getting a World Title match after he was beating people up for like 2 weeks? WRONG AGAIN. He’s Matt Morgan’s comeback match. That’s like the exact opposite.

From WWE:

Christian: He benefitted from his TNA run huge, and got a lot better in-ring and on the mic. Definitely paid his dues when he came back to WWE. Not my favourite guy, but definitely pulls his weight.

Daniel Bryan: Completely untapped as far as WWE goes, terrible on the mic if not in a humour capacity or just simply saying “yeah, I’m gonna beat you. That’s all there is to it.”

Johnny Ace: Funkhauser! Seriously, the guy is a dead-ringer for that Funkhauser. It’s impossible to take him seriously on camera.

Kevin Nash: Funny dude, doesn’t take himself or the business too seriously, is willing to make fun of himself and the limitations he’s ALWAYS had (his TNA X-Division skits with Alex Shelley were funny), which I like, because not too many wrestlers can do that. That said, he’s now made of fiberglass, and has been for 10 years. He can’t even walk down an entrance ramp properly, so should be nowhere near a match, regardless of what he thinks.

Kofi Kingston: Under-utilized, but at least he’s always on the show, and I imagine he cleans up in merch.

Mark Henry: At his peak during the Mae Young storyline.

Michael Cole: No idea what they were really going for with him earlier this year.

Randy Orton: Batman to Cena’s Superman. They’re almost exactly the same in every sense of the word, except he isn’t saddled with a hip-hop gimmick which wasn’t current back in 2006. Stepped in to fill the void left by Batista nicely, but that isn’t saying much.

Triple H: A decent and consistent wrestler and performer, and a legend for sure, and regardless of what anybody thinks, he put over Cena, Orton and Batista to try to make them stars. He also bounced around and put over Austin, Rock and Undertaker cleanly all the time. Absolutely WAY too over-saturated over the last decade. His promos are 75% too long for sure, and there’s no reason he should be wrestling anymore aside from the odd novelty appearance like his match at ‘Mania where he put over Undertaker.

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Good point about Mania missing a Shawn Michaels type of show-stealing match. Do you think this year’s Mania will have one? Perhaps Punk-Austin if it comes to fruition? Also, I am not sold at all yet on Rock-Cena, and I honestly think that Rock-Cena should be left as a main event special attraction and NOT be for the WWE strap.

Now it’s time for the lightning round!

Favorite era of pro wrestling.

Favorite wrestler today / all-time.

Favorite feud of all-time from start to finish.

Favorite finishing move.

Favorite theme song / entrance (can be together or separate).

Favorite comment you’ve ever received from a TNA super fan.

What happened to all of your Best TNA Team members / Where are they now?

When might Interinactivity be coming back to Pulse Wrestling?

I’d only want to watch Punk / Austin if Austin is healthy, or at least as healthy as he was for his last match with Rock.

Favorite era of pro wrestling: Tough call, I suppose the Monday Night Wars. WWE and WCW had some awesome stuff around that time, and both shows really were must-see. Wrestling hasn’t been that mainstream since then, I was in high school at the time, and EVERYONE talked about it. TNA was doing pretty awesome back in 2005 and 2006 and so, aside from Jeff Jarrett and Rhino being the main event.

Favorite wrestler today / all-time: Today, I’d have to go with CM Punk, and I would have had that answer for the last few years. Of all time, Shawn Michaels.

Favorite feud of all-time from start to finish: The first year and a half of nWo / WCW was pretty awesome, and there were barely any decent ring-wrestlers in that entire thing, but between the story and the way they involved all the wrestlers, it was great. Problem is, after that first year and a half it went off a cliff and never recovered. So I guess from start-to-finish, my favourite would be Shawn Michaels / Undertaker.

Favorite finishing move: Shining Wizard, Top Rope Double Stomp, or Stone Cold Stunner.

Favorite theme song / entrance (can be together or separate): Right now? Probably Cult Of Personality for the song, although that Randy Orton song is sadly a guilty pleasure for me too. Real American for my all-time favourite.

Favorite comment you’ve ever received from a TNA super fan: Wow, that’s a hole with no bottom. There was one guy who Facebooked me and called me a WWE mark and said he would “wash my mouth out with Cena’s balls.” That one was funny because I could see his profile, and under his “About Me” it just said “nWo” and that was it… in 2011. There was another guy that said that “Matt Morgan would fuck me until my ass bled if I didn’t watch out”, which was disturbing on several levels. The Fuj has had some golden stuff, but he doesn’t really pick fights, he just sort of wants to make it known how much he loves TNA, so that’s cool.

I guess my all-time favourite would have to be Corey Yuen, he has the best stuff. Not only did he coin the phrase “unintentional great move”, which is an oxymoron. But he also assumed I was a financial consultant because I work in finance, so I guess to him there’s no difference, which is a statement that tells you a lot about the level of intelligence we’re dealing with. Then he accused financial consultants, which I am not one of, of causing the financial collapse, which isn’t at all what happened. I mean, sure, a lot of people in finance had a lot to do with it, but the financial consultants? How would that even work? It was great when Swayze told him he was spelling his name wrong, because immediately after, he changed it. But he CAN’T back off his love of TNA and Jeff Jarrett.

I have to say though, Scott Keith gets the TNA trolls way worse than I did. They call him fat, which is just kind of petty and mean, not to mention unproductive, and also doesn’t really have anything to do with anything, especially because most of them are probably also fat. Besides, when I was doing it, they called me skinny.

What happened to all of your Best TNA Team members / Where are they now? My people! Swayze is still around, as you can see from the comments. He’s doing good, you guys on the east coast can thank him for kicking that hurricane’s ass. Swayze should be your next interview. WaterDrip is doing well, hopefully he’ll be joining Inside Pulse soon under his real name, but I don’t know how far in the process that whole thing is. Crystal took off to Asia for a bit but is back now. Cam is MIA, don’t see a lot of that dude anymore, but he’s still kicking and should drop by the Hall Of Justice. As for our Stereotypical TNA Douchebag (STD) robot, well, we didn’t have much use for him anymore, for obvious reasons. He’s in Swayze’s basement. I might dust him off and bring him back sometime.

When might Interinactivity be coming back to Pulse Wrestling? Funny you should ask! This can sort of be like me coming on your column to promote my return to Pulse Wrestling! Like how Kurt Angle sells auto insurance, except that Kurt won’t be needing that auto insurance for much longer. Life insurance, maybe. Anyway, I will be writing regularly for Pulse again starting on October 3rd. I’m going to recap RAW on that day, then Impact the week after, then SmackDown the week after that – all of those will be bonus editions of “That Being Said”. Then I’m going to start back in with Interinactivity after that, which, according to my boss, is now going to be on Friday mornings. It’s been too long since I’ve seen any full shows, so I need a refresher to know what’s really going on. I’m looking forward to doing Interinactivity, again though.

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You heard it here first folks, Blair is coming back with a vengeance!

Well, I think we have covered everything I wanted to sort through during this very special episode of Taking YOUR Wrestling Pulse.

Blair, one last question: Any final thoughts?

Thanks for having me, CB. And shut up, Corey

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CB’s Take: Not much to say here, as I really think the above interview with Blair A. Douglas speaks for itself. Therefore…

This has been Taking YOUR Wrestling Pulse.

That’s all from me — CB.

CB is an Editor for Pulse Wrestling and an original member of the Inside Pulse writing team covering the spectrum of pop culture including pro wrestling, sports, movies, music, radio and television.