Superstar of the Week: Chris Sabin
At the Destination X edition of TNA Impact on Thursday night, Chris Sabin did the unthinkable when he defeated champion Bully Ray to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Sabin, coming off back-to-back reconstructive knee surgeries and the majority of two years on the injured list, scored the biggest win of his 13-year career with arguably the biggest upset in TNA Wrestling history. With the win, Sabin became the sixth man to win the Triple Crown (World, X-Division, and Tag) in TNA Wrestling.
Personally, I did not think TNA would pull the trigger on this title change and put the world championship on Chris Sabin - a man with the personality of stale garbage. However, fans were positive towards the title change with many thrilled to see one of the longest-tenured employees in TNA reach the top of the mountain. Ultimately, I believe Chris Sabin’s title reign will be similar to those of Tommy Rich in 1981 and Ronnie Garvin in 1987 in the NWA or the World Heavyweight Championship reigns of Jeff Hardy in 2008 and Dolph Ziggler in 2013. Sabin’s TNA World Heavyweight Championship reign is going to be meaningless in the grand scheme of things. If Sabin holds the championship longer than two months or has any successful championship defenses, I will be greatly surprised.
Still, Chris Sabin did the unimaginable on Thursday night. Chris Sabin is now the TNA World Heavyweight Champion. That is a tremendous accomplishment for one of the hardest working men in TNA.
Jerk of the Week: Rolling Stone Magazine
The August 1st issue of Rolling Stone magazine features Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover. The magazine features a story on the downfall of the young man from a promising student to a radical Muslim terrorist. In the aftermath of putting Tsarnaev on the cover, multiple major retailers pulled the magazine from their shelves while widespread criticism came as the magazine glamorized terrorism. Instead of apologizing for the inappropriate cover, Rolling Stone wrote a letter stating how inappropriate a boycott of their publication was.
I believe Rolling Stone deserves a permanent boycott from these major retailers because of this cover and their callous, egotistical, “any publicity is good publicity” mindset handling the controversy. Rolling Stone irresponsibly publicized a terrorist and not-so-subtly encouraged more troubled youth to commit similar horrible acts too in order to gain fame and attention. In addition, Rolling Stone thrived on the attention to a point where they turned a blind eye to their own misdeed because the attention justified everything.
Tsarnaev did not land on the cover of Time, Newsweek, or another news-based publication to create this controversy. Those publications, in reporting the news, have to include the vilest of human scum on the cover occasionally. However, Rolling Stone is not one of those publications; it is an entertainment-based publication. There is nothing entertaining about glamorizing one of America’s most recent monsters. Then again, nothing about Rolling Stone has been entertaining in a long time either.
Babe of the Week: Jana Kramer
A Melancholy Happy Trails to…
- Dennis Farina, 69 - American actor best known for Law and Order, Get Shorty, and Midnight Run (July 22nd)
- Helen Thomas, 92 - American journalist, author, and long-time White House correspondent (July 20th)
A Special Congratulations to… Hillary Scott
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| Hillary in April at the ACMs; the footprints tweeted by Hillary along with the birth announcement. |
Congratulations are in order for Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum and her husband Chris Tyrrell as their first child, a daughter named Eisele Kaye Tyrrell, was born on July 22nd in Nashville.
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