In the Iron Man at Judgment Day 2000, just before @undertaker arrives, @TheRock goes for People's Elbow on @TripleH. As he runs the ropes & comes in for the drop, @ShawnMichaels subtly moves towards him.
Been watching this fr 20 yrs. Every time I think he's gonna Sweet Chin him.
That's how good @ShawnMichaels is. He is a storyteller. Watching him was like watching a classically trained Shakespearean actor, and the narratives in his matches reflected this. Always that of the external struggle. #WilliamShakespeare wrote #HBK. I hope he'd agree.
Whereas @BretHart was the 'New Hollywood' movie star. Watching Bret was like watching #RobertDeNiro. The narratives in his matches were that of the internal: The struggle of masculinity. If @ShawnMichaels is #Hamlet, then @BretHart is #TonySoprano
Whereas @steveaustinBSR was Clint Eastwood. And @VinceMcMahon was a character plucked out of an old Hanna-Barbera cartoon. And this is the beauty of pro wrestling. @WWE was the #MCU 30 years before @MarvelStudios. Don’t get me started with on @undertaker or @RealMickFoley 😅😅
To add to this. @TripleH vs @ShawnMichaels is crammed full of #Shakespeare. If Triple H is Brutus, then #HBK is Caeser.

#WWE
This betrayal by @TripleH on @ShawnMichaels flows beautifully on to the next chapter of Triple H's story #WWE
@TripleH's obsession with power, his insecurity, and his betrayal of his friend @ShawnMichaels leads to paranoia. But unlike #Macbeth who just wants the fear of the betrayal to be over, Triple H tries to resist. #WWE
Banquo's warning here is actually to that of @DaveBautista. The speech itself is literally the betrayal of @RandyOrton by @TripleH #WWE
For the audience, @TripleH's character arc results in him becoming the boss, this can be seen as quite nihilistic. But like all great conquerors & kings, He'll go down in the history books as legend. It reinforces that evil always triumphs, that those in power always win. #WWE
As for @RandyOrton, his character arc really is quite tragic. He was manipulated at a young age, lured in by the glamour of materialism, then betrayed. Everything he's done since is a reflection of this: trust issues. This is entirely @TripleH and @RicFlairNatrBoy's fault.
The only one that came out ok, was @DaveBautista. If anything he should be grateful to @TripleH cos he taught Batista very early on not to trust anyone. Both @RandyOrton & Batista had that potential, but Triple H was hurt cos Orton was the first of Trips 'kids' to chase it.
And cos of @TripleH's own insecurities, he responded to @RandyOrton the only way that HE knew how, the way HIS father, @RicFlairNatrBoy—the dirtiest player in the game— had taught him.

Abuse moves in circles.

Pro wrestling truly is remarkable when done right. #WWE
Always adding: @RealKurtAngle's final match should have been with @EdgeRatedR. Angle has been through an incredible amount through his career, both professionally & personally. His career was always about identity. Debuting as the All-American Boy, who drank milk, and ate cookies
@RealKurtAngle was the perect son in the eyes of all mothers. But, he was quickly tossed to a pack of wolves. Angle adapted. But in doing so, it seems the more he endured, the more he lost his heart.
@RealKurtAngle's story to me, reflects that of maturing from child to adult. As we get older and realise the harsh reality of life, we become less naive. A final match with @EdgeRatedR brings Kurt Angle full circle.
@EdgeRatedR reminds @RealKurtAngle of who he was BEFORE being tossed to that pack of wolves, before the 'harsh reality' of life removed his innocence, before his personal demons. It allows Kurt to merge the fighter, with that child. To make him whole.
Narratively, it gives the audience closure that @RealKurtAngle faced his demons, rediscovered a part of himself he lost, and reinforces the hope that he represents as #America that no matter how tough things are, Americans endure. Kurt Angle won life, with a broken freaking heart
@JohnCena recognising Huskey Harris is knocking down that invisible wall. By acknowledging that 4th dimension, it's opening up POTENTIAL for REALISM! to add that realism into this narrative. It's creating unlimited possibilities. #WrestleMania
@johncena's not acknowleding the 2 dimensional 'character', he is acknowleding the man behind it. The manipulator, the evil individual. He is creating a 3rd dimension for @WWEBrayWyatt. By humanising him, he is allowing for that character to be more real then ever #WrestleMania
By acknowledging @WWEBrayWyatt as his alternatives, he has recognised that if those ideas (Bray/The Fiend/Husky Harris) are the skin of evil, then the individual himself, is the evil within. This is the best thing anybody has done for Bray in a long time. Bravo
@JohnCena
It brings Bray's narrative closer together. Now there's been a recognition by @JohnCena of who Bray is, it allows us now to see WHY Bray became this way. His father was forever the follower of @MDMTedDiBiase. A sheep in the shadow of superfictial gain. #WrestleMania
Bray, much like his father, naively followed in the shadow of a man who appeared to have the answers: @StuBennett. Later, @CMPunk. For this is what he had learned from #IRS But through the #Nexus cult, Bray learned how to control people. This led to his own cult. #WrestleMania
It was here that @WWEBrayWyatt surpassed both #HuskyHarris and #IRS, and became his own @MDMTedDiBiase -- he became Bray Wyatt. Here, he gained his own sheep. #SisterAbigail was never a person, but a way of living. A twisted philosophy. #WrestleMania
This power over people led Bray to madness. For much like most cult leaders, their incredible sense of self worth leads to delusions of grandeur. @WWEBrayWyatt's led him to thinking he is a deity. A deity that he believes embodies the power of #SisterAbigail #WrestleMania
For what started as a twisted philosophy, has manifested into delusion. @WWEBrayWyatt now believes he channels the power of #SisterAbigail. This is who 'The Fiend' is: An embodiment of SA power. The reason we believe SA is a physical person, is becos' Bray now does #WrestleMania
#WrestleMania Fighting against all these things that hold people back, @WWEBrayWyatt could be used as a tool of #anarchism in #WWE. To expose the strings on us puppets. Not for good, nor bad, simply because:
@WWEBrayWyatt could fight against the hegemonic heriarchy within @WWE To destablise the fixed binaries that keep them enpowered: beauty expectations, the roles of gender, the minor voice, the stereotypes. All reinfoced by the privileged #WrestleMania
How better to do this than with The Fiend @WWEBrayWyatt embodying the power of a feminine concept such as #SisterAbigail. A man being empowered by the female to fight the patriarchy. This is 2020 storytelling #WrestleMania

Get it written @VinceMcMahon @StephMcMahon @TripleH
Let's talk #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36 #Undertaker @undertaker vs @AJStylesOrg #AJStyles in the #BoneyardMatch. 'Cos I've written my own version :)!
when @undertaker walks to the ring, he is walking through plains of existence, from the spirit world he inhabits, into ours. But this time, via @AJStylesOrg @KarlAndersonWWE & @LukeGallowsWWE we are taken into his world. #Wrestlemania36 #WrestleMania
@AJStylesOrg @KarlAndersonWWE @LukeGallowsWWE arrive at a house. On the freshly cut lawn is a beautiful tree. Each room inside the house is lit purple, & smoke seeps underneath the door. #TheOC goes inside to search. There's no sign of @undertaker #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
Upon leaving, @AJStylesOrg @LukeGallowsWWE @KarlAndersonWWE discover the ground is now desolate, the tree? Dead. It's colder. There is also a grave in the front garden, which wasn't there before, yet the headstone is blank #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
On the lawn, three children play jump rope, as they sing ‘Ring around the Roses’. @AJStylesOrg shouts to know where @undertaker is. Suddenly, in the distance, is the sound of hammering. AJ @KarlAndersonWWE @lukeGallowsWWE head towards it. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
The hammering appears to be coming from an old rusted up building at the side of the house. @AJStylesOrg @KarlAndersonWWE @LukeGallowsWWE all head inside searching for @undertaker. They discover a steam-filled boiler room. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36 #BoneyardMatch
NOTE: It's important to note here that'll I'll be taking advantage of the imagery used in @DarkSideOfRing and how they use cinematography to showcase wrestlers in silhouette. Elements of this story will reflect this concept. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
Steam fills the building, @AJStylesOrg @LukeGallowsWWE @KarlAndersonWWE see a shadow in the fog. Believing it to be @undertaker they give chase. Played over the search, is extracts of #Mankind's dialogue from 1997 @JRsBBQ @RealMickFoley interview. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
As @RealMickFoley's incomprehensible poetic dialogue plays alongside the faint hammering, @AJStylesOrg @LukeGallowsWWE @KarlAndersonWWE reach the back exit of the building. The hammering is then heard from outside, THE OC chase after it #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
Outside @AJStylesOrg @LukeGallowsWWE @KarlAndersonWWE find a graveyard. Each grave is well lit, delicately decorated. The OC inspect each headstone; they all showcase a Wrestlemania victim of @undertaker: @JakeSnakeDDT, @TripleH @ShawnMichaels etc.. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
As @AJStylesOrg @LukeGallowsWWE @KarlAndersonWWE reach the end of the headstones, there sits a fresh grave. The headstone reads: AJ Styles...
Besides the headstone rests a shovel. #WrestleMania #WrestleMania #BoneyardMatch
Lighting hits @AJStylesOrg's headstone, as three druids appear. AJ, @KarlAndersonWWE & @LukeGallowsWWE each separate and chase after a druid. Each of the three 'matches' happens simultaneously, cuts back & forth.
#WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36 #BoneyardMatch
@KarlAndersonWWE v Druid: KA struggles in battling the druid. As he attempts to run away, he is stopped by a figure in his path: a cloaked figure – the shadowy figure stands tall and opens his cloak. His silhouette creates the image of a giant bat. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
Terrified of this image, @KarlAndersonWWE heads back the way he came, forgetting about the druid. The Druid removes his cloak & mask, to reveal it's @undertaker. But, The Undertaker is dressed in his Phantom of the Opera attire & mask. #Wrestlemania36 #WrestleMania #BoneyardMatch
@LukeGallowsWWE v Druid: In an abandoned field beside the graveyard, LG searches for the druid. From out of the trees, three silhouettes appear & surround him: The Brood. Looking for an escape LG turns around revealing the druid is beside him #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
The Brood ignites a fire which surrounds @LukeGallowsWWE & druid. The druid removes his cloak revealing @undertaker in his 'Lord of Darkness' attire, as he says “there’s no room for the weak, only the strong shall survive.” He grabs LG by the throat #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
In the graveyard, @AJStylesOrg demands that the druid removes his hood. He thinks it @undertaker. AJ punches the Druid, but the cloak falls to the ground, as Taker vanishes. Out of the smokey wind, steps The Undertaker in his 'Dead Man' attire. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
@LukeGallowsWWE & @KarlAndersonWWE stumble into one another, each claiming they both just fought Taker but he vanished! But, they couldn’t have each fought him at the same time? They decide to go find @AJStylesOrg. Dozens on druids move in on them. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
@AJStylesOrg, beaten, stumbles out of the graveyard into the field. He demands @undertaker returns, that he cant just vanish into thin air. The hammering sound in the distance returns, louder. It is coming from a barn at the end of the field. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
As @AJStylesOrg heads toward the barn door, the hammering gets louder. A bright light comes from behind him, alongside the sound of a motorcycle engine. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36 #BoneyardMatch
American Bad Ass @undertaker steps off his motorbike. He warns that @AJStylesOrg “should never have come here”. ABA & AJ have their 'match'. Eventually, AJ reaches the barn door, upon opening, he hears the shrivelling cry of #PaulBearer’s “ohh yes” #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
As @AJStylesOrg enters the barn, he discovers the silhouette of 'Western' @Undertaker standing in front of him, hammering nails into a wooden coffin. The ABA grabs AJ from behind saying “I tried to warn you.” As he chokeslams AJ to the floor. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
Disturbed, The ABA @undertaker leaves the barn. The druids wait outside carrying the lifeless bodies of @KarlAndersonWWE & @LukeGallowsWWE. “Throw them in” Taker says, as they toss #TheOC inside with @AJStylesOrg. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
@undertaker sits on his bike, as smoke starts to rise from inside the barn. Taker looks inside the barn door as the flames get thicker. Inside stands @KaneWWE, dressed in his 1998 attire, holding a gas can #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
@undertaker rides off on his bike as the barn burns down in the distance. Taker pulls up outside the front of the house. The three children continue to play jump rope, as they sing 'Ain't No Grave' by @JohnnyCash. #WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36
@undertaker, under his breath, says "I tried to warn them." He looks at the headstone of what was once blank. It reads: 'Mark Calaway'. He rides off.

Fade.

#WrestleMania #Wrestlemania36 #BoneyardMatch
As @WWE are making use of these cinematic 'Universe' matches, I think they need to capitalise on it. At Christmas, we need @VinceMcMahon reliving an old classic. WWE’s take on #CharlesDickens’ 'A McMahon's Christmas Carol'. #WWE @JeremyBorash @TripleH @StephMcMahon
"The territories were dead, to begin with. As dead as a doornail'. @VinceMcMahon is visited by @EBischoff in the role of #JacobMarley. Locked in chains, EB warns Vince of the shackle’s he forged by his greed in #WCW #WWE @JeremyBorash @TripleH @StephMcMahon @WWE
Wrapped in his shackles, @EBischoff warns that unless @VinceMcMahon changes his ways, his future will be a horror story written by his crimes of greed. EB tells McMahon will be visited by 3 ghosts. EB then fades away. @TripleH @JeremyBorash @WWE @StephMcMahon
'The Ghost of Wrestling's Past' disturbs @VinceMcMahon as he sleeps. A bellowing voice McMahon hasn't heard a long time. But it can't be? For the voice is that of his father, Vince Sr. McMahon refuses to believe this voice is him until a photo frame smashes against the wall. #WWE
Turning the broken frame, @VinceMcMahon discovers it's a photo of his father. The voice demands to know why his son betrayed him. For McMahon had promised his father that he wouldn't compete against the territory promoters but went back on his word after Vince Sr. passed @WWE
"They deserved it!" yelled back @VinceMcMahon "And you were a lousy businessman". Sr. reminds McMahon of when he was a young boy, how he had fallen in love with his father, but how Sr. is unable to rest because he prioritised his work and missed out of his son's childhood #WWE
Vince Sr had come to
@VinceMcMahon
to show him that there's more to life than just money. Sr takes McMahon to an old lady's house, some years ago. Outside, a young Vinnie plays catch with his Father. #WWE @StephMcMahon @TripleH @WWE @JeremyBorash
@Fgbrisco @RealMickFoley
Distraught, @VinceMcMahon begs and pleads for the voice to take him. Blackness. McMahon awakens in his bed. As he goes to the bathroom sink and throws water on his face, the room starts to shake. A bright white light ignites the room like a nuclear bomb. @WWE wwe @RealMickFoley
Out of the light steps 'The Ghost of Wrestling's Present', @TripleH. He takes @VinceMcMahon to a small broken-down house on Christmas morning. Telling him to look through the window, McMahon discovers 3 red-haired children circling their Mother. #WWE @JeremyBorash @RealMickFoley
From out of the kitchen @HeathSlaterOMRB walks in, carrying a baby. The 3 children run over & hug their father, as @TripleH & @VinceMcMahon watch from outside. Noticing his sweetheart crying, Slater wraps his arms around her asking what's wrong. #WWE @JeremyBorash @RealMickFoley
Crying, @HeathSlaterOMRB's wife says, "We couldn't afford a turkey because of that horrible Vince McMahon..." interrupting her, slater replies "It's not Vince's fault. I had to leave so he could eat. He's a good man."
"Do you see what your greed does @VinceMcMahon" says @TripleH
"This is the reality that you chose to ignore, @VinceMcMahon", @TripleH says. "The entire wrestling industry will suffer Vince unless the lessons of generosity and tolerance are learned. Will it be worth it?" @JeremyBorash @RealMickFoley @StephMcMahon #wwe #AMcMahonChristmasCarol
As a bright light flashes, @TripleH disappears. But @VinceMcMahon is not in his bedroom. He has been left in a graveyard. In front of him stands a headstone with the name "Vincent Kennedy McMahon" written on it. From behind McMahon, stands the Grim Reaper. @RealMickFoley
Fearfully @VinceMcMahon uttered "Who are you?" at the Reaper. "Are you the Ghost of Wrestling Yet To Come? Have you come to take me to my eternal rest?" The Reaper pulls back the hood, revealing that underneath is @StephMcMahon
@WWE @JeremyBorash @RealMickFoley #AChristmasCarol
@StephMcMahon takes @VinceMcMahon to a home. Outside the kids of @shanemcmahon are sitting on a doorstep. But Shane is nowhere to be seen. "Where's Shane-O. Why isn't he playing with his boys!?" McMahon asked worryingly. Fearing for his son. @JeremyBorash @TripleH @RealMickFoley
"After you died Dad, @shanemcmahon stepped up and took over the business. Unfortunatly he doesn't have time for his children. He hasn't played catch with Declan in years. He just sits up in his office working." says @StephMcMahon. @VinceMcMahon falls to his knees crying. @WWE
Pleading to the Ghost of Wrestling Yet To Come, @VinceMcMahon asks @StephMcMahon for another chance. He doesn't want to see @shanemcmahon, or his grandkids to end up like him. He understands that @HeathSlaterOMRB has kids. He wants one more chance. @WWE @JeremyBorash @TripleH
Suddenly, @VinceMcMahon awakens in his bed with no sign of Marley @EBischoff, or the 3 Ghosts @TripleH @StephMcMahon. Opening his window, he stops a young passer-by @BeckyLynchWWE, "You there! What day is this?" he asks. "Today? Why its Christmas day" Lynch replies. @JeremyBorash
@VinceMcMahon tosses his wallet to @BeckyLynchWWE "Go to the store & buy the biggest turkey they have! Take it to @HeathSlaterOMRB". McMahon rushes downstairs in his gown, grabbing @Linda_McMahon by her waist and kissing her on the cheek. @StephMcMahon @TripleH @JeremyBorash @wwe
"Babe, call @shanemcmahon! Tell him to dig out his old mitt. I'm coming over! We're going to play catch!" Yelled @VinceMcMahon Arriving at @HeathSlaterOMRB's home with @BeckyLynchWWE, who's carrying a huge turkey, Vince bangs the door! @WWE @TripleH @StephMcMahon @Linda_McMahon
Reluctantly, @HeathSlaterOMRB asks why @VinceMcMahon is there. Sternly, Vince says "I'm here to wish you the best..." he grins a big grin "...in your future en-feathers", laughing as he pulls @BeckyLynchWWE to the door, passing Slater the giant turkey. @WWE @StephMcMahon @TripleH
"I'll see you after Xmas, Heath!" said @VinceMcMahon. "But sir, I don't work for you, remember?" said @HeathSlaterOMRB sadly. "Yes, you do because you're a father. You have got kids!". Vince grabs Slater "Give me a Huggie!" @WWE @TripleH @JeremyBorash @StephMcMahon @Linda_McMahon
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