Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Other interests 3: Cheerleader Melissa screwed like Bret Hart?

I call absolute bullshit on this pathetic, low class, trashy decision by RCW. Melissa Anderson, also known as Cheerleader Melissa, Raisha Saeed, Alissa Flash and the Future Legend (she is one!) has been stripped of the River City Wrestling championship because her match went thirty seconds over the fifteen minute time limit. This is a sad little bush league decision by a sad little bush league promotion. Melissa is one of the best workers in the world, male or female, and brought more prestige to River City Wrestling than it's ever seen before and probably ever will again. Because she is the first woman to win any promotion's most eminent title it all makes Jeromy Sage's decision stink of the ugly sexism which pervades the dark corners of our sport, slinking around the spotlight, a spotlight which so recently fell on a tall, slim, beautiful, athletic brunette, smiling radiantly, golden belt upraised. We are not privy to the backstage discussions which precipitated this decision. Perhaps he or someone associated with his organization couldn't stand to share the spotlight with this woman, or believes she should be consigned to those shadowy corners acting as nothing but an object for masculine titillation. We can't know this; we weren't there. We can know this, though, Jeromy Sage: you cannot take that moment in the spotlight away from Melissa, the first woman chosen to hold a promotion's highest honor up to heaven's approval, and we can know that your small promotion's spotlight could never shine bright enough to adequately highlight her glory. Even if this is just a work, and it might be, it's still a bad work and it reflects poorly on the sport as a whole.

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