WWE Fever
Hey kids, sorry for being sooooooooo late. This was supposed to be posted Monday and some idiot (me) forgot to press the "post" button. The next post will be in a couple of days so you'll get two for this week!
This past weekend, marked the visit of WWE to fair Tokyo on their Royal Rumble tour. Now, first of all, when did WWF become WWE? Wrestling has much changed since my little girl days. My foggy memory remembers wrestling as being a slightly low budget, but amusing weekend excursion that was about good wrestlers with little amusing bits of story and the occasional spat about whose exceedingly big-chested girl belongs to who. Now it's a big-budget commercial enterprise that seems like more of the male soap opera variety than actual good-old-fashioned wrestling. But I digress. Commercialism is key to making it in little Tokyo and WWE did not disappoint.
I was actually surprised to find out just how many Tokyo fans there are of WWE. On regular and even cable television it doesn't appear to be so regularly televised. But, nevertheless, thousands upon thousands of Japanese paid their ticket price (3000-20000 yen yikes!) and showed up to catch a glimpse of their fave puroresu star. Exceptional. I worried that the Japanese folk wouldn't understand the "story" going on, but once the beating began, it didn't seem to matter. And it was an enjoyable event, I have to say. I'd take it over Pride and K1 any day.
WWE Royal Rumble Tour in Tokyo, catch it on paperview....probably.
posted by Fudocom - Celina @ 7:05 AM
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