Let’s Keep WWE Contained in a Wrestling Ring

Wow, you sure are funny. Yeah, making fun of professional wrestling fans is really new and inventive. Could you give me some of your material on how George Bush is dumb or how crazy airline food is?

Honestly, the fact that you are attempting to legitimize yourself on a sports website by talking about professional wrestling and politics already makes your case null-and-void. After all, professional wrestling isn’t a real sport, but I’m sure you already knew that. And while you claim your elitism over people like me (3.95 GPA, member of Phi Eta Sigma, and in the top 10% of my class at my university), it just makes you look pathetic. Do us basement-dwelling fans a favor and write something that you actually care about or, better yet, have a legitimate opinion about, or one of us will be happy to offer this website a competent writer to take your place.

For someone who claims to hate wrestling, you sure do seem to reference it a lot in your article. With the string of politicians in recent memory who have skeletons come out halfway into their term, it seems almost refreshing that Linda’s can be so easily found. Nothing to hide, and nothing to be ashamed of. Linda and Vince have created a huge corporation from the ground up, and created jobs for residents from the entire tri-state area, but you choose to be close-minded and portray her as a on-track-minded imbecile. I look forward to you having your credibility flushed down the toilet.

and where do you live Mark in subsidized housing?

Like you’re really amounting to much wriitng on a no name website.

leave pro wrestling alone

Dang Mark, you seem to have hit a nerve with the “Linda-McMahon-For-Senate” demographic. All two of them.

Good lord, if you can’t make fun of wrestling, what can you make fun of? Pro wrestling begs us to make fun of it, and they’re laughing along with us, only harder.

I think Linda McMahon would make a great Senator, and her finishing move could be a version of the pile driver, the “Fili-Buster.”

Great article!

Are you aware that all three presidential candidates (Obama, Clinton & McCain) stumped on an episode of WWE’s Monday Night RAW program during the 2008 election?

Wow, picking on professional wrestling. What an innovative, comprehensive approach from a writer who deserves nothing more than a Pulitzer for his extraordinary writing prowess. How creative.

Given that 14 major cities are bidding for WrestleMania, maybe it’s time you give the industry some respect!

Pro-wrestling is enjoyed by people from all around the world, including dignitaries, presidents, actors, football players, businessmen, and Fortune 500 owners!

WWE is also one of the most charitable organizations in the world! “That John Cena” is THE top wish granter for the Make-A-Wish Foundation! (Don’t you feel like an asshole now?)

I, too, have almost a 4.0, graduated top of my class, and have a college degree.

If anything, this article shows how ignorant and pathetic you really are. Yeah, you may be getting some attention and get your 15 seconds of fame, but you’ll always be the same pathetic loser who can’t do anything better than to rag on an industry that has meant so much to so many people!

I may not agree with Mrs. McMahon’s politics, but I do take acception with someone like you blasting the people who do watch wrestling. I do not live in my parent’s basement and I am a fairly intelligent person who is able to distinguish reality from what goes on in the wrestling ring.

You, my friend, continue the long standing tradition of idiots like Colin Cowherd and Jim Rome who continually insult wrestling fans.

From my response column to your views:

“We have enough problems in this country as it is. Electing leaders from the professional wrestling world will only make things worse.”

I find this to be one of the most ill informed comments I have ever read, and shows your bias in a clear light.

After all, the problems with this country couldn’t have come FROM electing the so called “professional” politicians who seem to have their hands firmly in the pockets of any PAC that will throw them cash.

What a horrible notion, electing someone who has assisted in taking a company that was making barely enough to keep them out of bankruptcy - and turning it into a Billion dollar + per year enterprise. It’s a terrible idea to elect someone who knows how to balance the ledgers instead of someone who thinks the way to solve problems is to increase taxes or allow the Country to go further in debt. It’s shameful to even think that she may be a good candidate - despite the fact she’s self-financing her candidacy, which means she owes NO PAC a ‘favor’ for their help.

I invite you to head to my site to read the rest of my rebuttal of your Article. I welcome you to comment, and defend your stance.

http://www.shootfinish.com/2010/04/and-the-beating-goes-on/

Hello Mark. I would like to fight you. We could do it for charity, or we could do it if you need the money. The reason I want to fight you is not just your bashing of pro wrestling fans, the people I make a living because, but also your views in general. Your Kornheiser article and especially your article about the whites only basketball league are some of the worst examples of writing I have ever seen. You seemed to glorify and nearly cheer on the racism and hatred that the all white league is all about. My e-mail is [email protected]. You may look me up on facebook, or just email me. I just really want to punch you in the face. Thank you.

Hey Mark,

Just one question….When do YOU plan on moving out of mom’s basement?

You can insult me and all wrestling fans as much as you please, but remember those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones!

You are probably no more than a washed up wanna be high school athlete who never could make varsity so you did stats and washed towels. That lead you to this fabulous $5/ hour job you have now that lets you “think” you are still in the sports world.

So have a fun weekend in your “little hole” with your Swanson TV dinner watching sports center WISHING you had any kind of talent at all.

what was the point of this article? you cite no policy of hers to disagree with nor back up your assertion of why she has no business in politics. Unless your dad was a congressman, most of today’s congressmen came from the private sector, whether that be law, medicine, academia, or entertainment. And the record shows that while Vince had the vision of taking regional wrestling to a national level, he would not have succeeded without Linda providing the business savvy to succeed. One might even argue that without Linda the WWE would be a loud, expensive, poorly run circus (TNA I’m looking in your direction). This “article” doesn’t even rise to the level of poorly written blog. It might equal the intellectual capacity of comments written on 411mania by Paul Roma though. 411Mania is the website i found out about this stupid article. i was like, Who the hell is Mark Chalifoux? And anyone from a .org making commentary is as reliable a source as any “blogger”. Fake journalist!

Hey Mark Chalifoux, I’m a wrestling fan and I Don’t live with my parents!! I find that offensive! Then again I’m not a loser like you…when was the last time you were with a woman…AND DIDN’T HAVE TO PAY HER FOR IT?????

Pablo Picasso, Peter Blake, Roland Barthes, Henry Jenkins, John Fiske….I could continue this list. If you aren’t smart enough to make the connection, these are all incredibly smart people whom were also massive wrestling fans. In case you weren’t aware, these men also had a big influence in a wide number of cultural circles; the idea of containing professional wrestling in a wrestling ring would be to completely ignore the history of popular culture. It seems you think the internet is just for you to spew your rancid, ill-informed opinions, but I was always taught that good writers need to partake in quality research.

This article is hilarious! Not only does he not provide any other negative facts about Linda McMahon about her Campaign other than WWE, but the way he describes Pro-Wrestling is just pure comedy gold. It makes me think that this “Fake Journalist” lives in his parents home!

I’m sure billionaires make fun of failed sports writers too. Get a real job.

I love journalist who try to make themselves seem important by blasting pro-wrestling. If Arnold Schwarzenegger can become a governor, I see no reason why somebody who was COO of a billion dollar company can’t run for senate. When will people realize that pro-wrestling is just another form of entertainment, nothing more and nothing less? BTW your are an idiot.

For all you Wrestling fans, try reading this blurb in Scott Steiners voice. It’s way too funny to pass up!

dont hate on other peoples success because you will never achieve what they have

Another journalist wanna-be who sees an easy target in wrestling. I guess you missed the Ronald Reagan president thing, wasn’t he an actor before getting elected to the White House? And how about Arnold? And then there’s Jesse Ventura, who, before his wrestling days, was a member of an elite military group called the Navy Seals. Oh, yeah—he was also a mayor of a Twin Cities suburb, before becoming Governor of Mn. Do you really research your topics, or does it come from all those intellectual conversations with your beer buddies? Why wouldn’t Linda be a good elected official? She sure couldn’t do any worse than what we have now.

Has no one else considered the possibility that the tone of this article might have some correlation to the date on which it was published?

So I guess there was a computer at your weekly Smackdown party?

Wow Mark….you definitely hit a nerve there buddy…Look at it this way….its gotta be the most responses you’ve had to an article in a while…..lol;;;
BTW….I’m a wrestling fan also, but can understand your point that electing Linda Mc…would be ….like ….America electing a black president with a good old fashioned name like Barackhk…..oh wait…..we did that…..hmmmm…spooky..

The point of this was not to piss off wrestling fans. And the piece is not really all that insulting to wrestling fans. I just don’t think Linda McMahon would be an appropriate fit for politics.

I grew up on pro wrestling and met Mick Foley at a UFC show a few years back and he couldn’t have been nicer. I have no problem with wrestling.

Mark,

Thanks for the response here AND on Shootfinish.com - I have to admit I doubted you’d do so - and you did.

Now, it’s true you didn’t specify that wrestling fans lived in their basements - however, your opening statement heavily implies that since your friend does so, it’s more widespread than just your friend.

I wanted to go on record with my rebuttal that Mrs McMahon, like many Business people before her, would make a far better Senator than a large amount of the “Career Politicians” the Country gets stuck with. Her goal isn’t to get forever re-elected in order to make money off PACs and other special interest groups.

The fact that she’s already “rich” means that she knows how to get things done in a way that made her money on a personal level. They also assisted quite a few of her potential Constituents in staying gainfully employed - not to mention pumping literally millions of dollars into the Connecticut economy. Those skills, when applied to running a Government, would be a welcome change to “business as usual” Politicians whose goal seems more about staying in office than helping the US.

Did i really just waste my time reading this….sir….please inform yourself on a subject before writing about it, lest you come off looking like bobo the sports reporter. I must say, the comments on this article must be giving you some idea of how you sound. Please do us a favor, stick to watching access Hollywood, and leave the writing to anyone else.