On The Priscilla Kelly Incident
So this has kind of blown up the wrestling world in recent days.
For those of you who have missed it, Mae Young Classic competitor Priscilla Kelly pulled a bloody tampon out of her trunks at a show over the weekend and shoved it in her opponent’s face. You can imagine how this went over with some wrestlers and how it went over with others at the same time. I think you can also imagine my reaction to it.
I’ll be nicer this time and say this isn’t exactly my kind of wrestling entertainment. It was at a 21+ show, but that doesn’t mean that as someone over 21 that I want to see it happen. This is little more than a shock value moment, just like the crazy death match stuff with explosions and all the barbed wire and whatever else they come up with that day. If you need something like that to get over, maybe you need to work on your skills or character more, because no other talented wrestler need to go that far to get a reaction.
This isn’t some terrible, horrible thing. It’s just stupid and someone throwing something out there to get a reaction out of people instead of putting in the effort to earn one. There are people who will defend it by calling it performance art or creativity and all that jazz and that’s fine. I’d question why those people rarely make it on the highest levels of wrestling but that’s just me.
Oh and Road Dogg being the one to defend this from WWE made the whole thing that much funnier. Was a true standard bearer like Billy Gunn or X-Pac not available?
I just found it silly. Wasn’t offended by it, didn’t care for it. Did it fit the atmosphere they were in? Yeah. But, you know. I’m far more concerned with cinder blocks thrown at the back of someone’s head than I am of someone using a gimmicked tampon.
The part that bothers me is she is a talented new-ish wrestler, with a new character, and should be above this. When I heard about it, I knew it was either Joey Ryan or some divebar sub-indy wrestling promotion, and guess what?
I understand the “political statement” she’s making in the aftermath, but there’s other ways to go about it. Maybe beat the male wrestler without these tactics, for example, and show that women don’t need to be underhanded to stand with male wrestlers.
Why did I never book this? It would have been perfect for the New Blood – or my awesome Madusa vs Evan Karagias feud….