BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
“Worst Case Scenario” is a new take on the concept of “fantasy booking”. For years professional wrestling fans would spend endless hours of thinking up the coolest things that could happen. Why waste the energy? This only leads to high expectations. “Worst Case Scenario” flips that. Instead of looking through rose colored glasses, let’s take a bi-weekly look at the worst possible scenarios in professional wrestling. I’m not going to be malicious or anything too mean, but I will not refrain from letting my brain come up with the worst possible shit I can. Sadly, it seems the writers and producers of mainstream TV wrestling and the mainstream iPPV level indies are doing the same thing but charging us for it. And now…
“Wrestling With Super Powers!”
The WWE is trying new things to be more appealing to children. It’s their big demographic. They have made millions of dollars catering to the PG era of children. As they grow older the product has to mature. It’s just a natural progression.
The problem is that things aren’t how they used to be. The Attitude era would NEVER fly with the moral police out there shutting down anything considered “taboo” or “offensive”. The WWE would have to mature in a different way. They’d have to go after that teenager demographic to really capitalize on the fan base they’ve been grooming for the past ten years.
So yeah… the WWE gets super powers.
They would have to tape RAW two weeks ahead of time, but the WWE would start to institute SPECIAL EFFECTS. The Undertaker can shoot lightening from his hands, Daniel Bryan grows goat horns when he gets fired up, Randy Orton grows scales when stalking down a RKO, John Cena makes people explode with a single punch, Ryback EATS people, and Stephanie McMahon shoots fire from her eyes.
It goes on and on. The Champion gets special powers. Each wrestler would have their own “signature powers”, but certain gimmick matches would allow for special “upgrades”.
To make it safe for the fans, they’d have a force field surrounding the ring… obviously.
It would be like a bad B-movie, but you know, even worse.
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