{"id":24541,"date":"2017-05-25T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=24541"},"modified":"2017-05-25T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T16:29:12","slug":"wills-new-thing-tomasso-ciampa-jinder-mahal-tell-us-nature-villainy-wrestling-weeks-essential-viewing-will-pruetts-new-weekly-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2017\/05\/25\/wills-new-thing-tomasso-ciampa-jinder-mahal-tell-us-nature-villainy-wrestling-weeks-essential-viewing-will-pruetts-new-weekly-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Will\u2019s New Thing &#8211; What Tomasso Ciampa and Jinder Mahal tell us about the nature of villainy in wrestling, this week\u2019s essential viewing, and more in Will Pruett\u2019s new weekly feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-2946755419\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Will Pruett<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s try something new. Let\u2019s try something different. Let\u2019s try something I can get excited about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, so new is an overstatement. I\u2019m still a white dude pontificating about professional wrestling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.reactiongifs.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dozens_of_us_arrested_development.gif?resize=385%2C215\" width=\"385\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve been watching weekly WWE television for my entire adult life. Despite the assertions from my parents that I\u2019d eventually grow out of it, I never did. Wrestling saw me through being mocked in middle school, being mocked in high school, being eventually accepted as a weird theatre kid in high school, being shy in college, being bold in college, not giving a cuss in grad school, and into my professional life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s wild, to be honest, to have loved something this much for this long. So, why change what I\u2019m doing now? I\u2019ve watched and reviewed weekly WWE television in some from since 2009. It\u2019s been eight years. A lot has changed about WWE TV. A lot has changed about me. My writing has been as much about my own relationship with professional wrestling as it has been about wrestling itself. As my interests in life have changed, what I look for in wrestling has changed. As I\u2019ve found myself reading more feminist literature, I find myself looking for more actively feminist professional wrestling. As I\u2019ve found myself questioning narratives and power structures, I can\u2019t help but do so in professional wrestling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wrestling is more than just a couple people, a 20 square foot space, and fans. Wrestling is a reflection of our shared culture. Wrestling is as much about the stories we tell ourselves about good and evil as it is about athleticism. It\u2019s as much about morality plays and melodrama as it is about 450 splashes and irish whips. Wrestling is a great art form despite it being frequently maligned.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love professional wrestling. I love the pure heroism of it. I love the villains it can produce. I love the stories, both simple and complex it can create.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking at the last week in WWE, I can\u2019t help but reflect on the nature of villainy. Wrestling doesn\u2019t work without villains for heroes to overcome. This is basic sports storytelling as well. Watch ESPN going into a Super Bowl and you\u2019ll see attempts to make various players the heroes and villains in the narrative arch they create. Wrestling, obviously, does this in a more direct way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WWE made great strides in establishing two key villains this week: Tomasso Ciampa and Jinder Mahal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of these men is being presented as a the standard foreign antagonist we\u2019ve seen time and time again in this art form. It\u2019s common to see crowds get riled up over nationalism and WWE is finding a way to tap into a nationalistic instinct they\u2019re never far from. They\u2019re harnessing this by making Jinder Mahal an avatar for and a preacher of diversity. While Mahal has other villainous aspects, his character is rooted in a long tradition of xenophobia in wrestling.<\/span><\/p><div id=\"prowr-1978063248\" class=\"prowr-content-4 prowr-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: prowrestling_incontent_2 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"prowrestling_incontent_2\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\", slotId: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other man is being presented as simply ruthless and angry. There is no misunderstanding to justify Ciampa\u2019s actions at the end of NXT Takeover: Chicago. WWE went as far as highlighting Johnny Gargano sacrificing himself for Tomasso Ciampa prior to Ciampa\u2019s turn. Ciampa was angry, vicious, and unrelenting. Ciampa punished Gargano for an unknown reason. Ciampa is a villain because of his ruthless cruelty. He is not justified in a traditional sense, but I assume he\u2019ll be justified in his own mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What makes a better villain? Is simply being a different race, despite the significant diversity of the WWE roster, enough? Is overwhelming cruelty enough? What makes these men wrong to standard viewers? For me, it is far easier to despise cruelty than it is to despise otherness. It is harder to empathize with exceptional and vicious anger than it is being different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My plan is to use this space to discuss many of the things about professional wrestling I love, but I also want to use this space to call professional wrestling to be better than it has been for years. I want to advocate for social progress in professional wrestling, just as I would any form of entertainment. I know some folks are uncomfortable with this, but my hope is they\u2019ll read and give it a shot. I promise to work in some jokes, weird musical theatre references, silly turns of phrase, and all the other semi-enjoyable things I offer on a regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>This week\u2019s essential viewing:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the purposes of this column, this week will be presented as Thursday-Wednesday.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Pete Dunne vs. Tyler Bate for the WWE UK Championship from NXT Takeover: Chicago (May 20, 2017) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Remember what I said about simple professional wrestling stories being great? Pete Dunne is a bad guy willing to do anything to get ahead. Tyler Bate is a good guy who got ahead through hard work, despite his young age. They fought. It was amazing. Fans, even those unfamiliar with Bate and Dunne before this, were able to buy into the simple compelling story. This was a masterclass in how simple and effective wrestling storytelling could be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Will Ospreay vs. Ricochet from NJPW\u2019s Best of the Super Juniors (May 18, 2017)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; They made a ton of noise with their statement match in the Best of the Super Juniors tournament last year. This year they had a similarly styled match, but the drama at the end was much more intense. Once again, this match stated that wrestling is an art form and, if you\u2019ve read what I\u2019ve written up to this point, you know I\u2019m a fan of this perspective. If you\u2019re into the state of the art in high flying drama, this is a match for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Tomasso Ciampa\u2019s actions after the main event of NXT Takover: Chicago (May 20, 2017)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; There was a lot going on here. WWE subverted the post-NXT main event curtain call trope they\u2019ve played into time and time again. The good guys lost and, when they lost, they took a long bow. It seemed like the show was neatly wrapping up, but Ciampa made sure it didn\u2019t. This wasn\u2019t just great in the moment, it was great in the long line of NXT Takeovers as well. WWE did some high-level storytelling with this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jinder Mahal\u2019s WWE Championship Celebration from Smackdown Live (May 23, 2017)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; This should be Jinder Mahal\u2019s entrance forever. I don\u2019t care how much money it costs to fly an Indian dance troupe all over the world, it\u2019s worth it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>What I absolutely positively love in wrestling this week:<\/b><\/span><\/p><div id=\"prowr-3908336779\" class=\"prowr-content-5 prowr-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: prowrestling_incontent_3 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"prowrestling_incontent_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"prowrestling_incontent_3\", slotId: \"prowrestling_incontent_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since production is what I\u2019ve learned to do in life (In case you didn\u2019t know, I have a MFA in Drama), I look at wrestling production in a particular way. When NXT started running larger arenas in 2015, they did something really unique and cool. They turned the lights down on the crowd and focused attention on the ring when action was happening in the ring. At some point, they got away from this, lighting the NXT Takeover: Brooklyn II crowd the same as the SummerSlam crowd. In Chicago, NXT returned to its former basic lighting approach during matches and it was delightful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>What I absolutely positively love in the world this week:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Master of None, Season 2, Episode 8 \u201cThanksgiving\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; Can we talk about <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Master of None<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Netflix for a moment or three? I think it\u2019s my favorite television show of all time. Aziz Ansari has produced two seasons of insightful, enjoyable, funny, and touching television I can\u2019t help but re-watch again and again. One of the many highlights of the recently released season is the \u201cThanksgiving\u201d episode, which offers amazing insight into multiple cultures I am on the outside looking into. By the end of this episode, I found myself laughing through tears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch. This. Show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Reader mail:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Got something to say\/react to in today\u2019s piece? Write to me at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:itswilltime@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">itswilltime@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wilpruett\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter @wilpruett<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Just let me know whether you\u2019d like your name attached to your statement or not. Alternately, there\u2019s a comment section just below this article, so comment away!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To kick off this column, let\u2019s go to the comment section of my last Pause where Arky wrote \u201cThe Scramble match is silly because effectively only the last fall matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arky, I respectfully disagree with your premise that the Scramble Match is silly in any way and refuse to listen to the paragraphs of reason you followed up with. Thank you for reading and have a great day!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reader Alissa commented \u201cAs far as Bayley goes&#8230;and maybe my hearing is just bad, but it seems to me as if people are turning on her already. Her cheers are nowhere near the level they were when she debuted. And having her go at it on the mic with Bliss certainly doesn&#8217;t help. I agree with making things hard for her, since she got too much too soon anyway, but if you do that, have Bliss use really underhanded tactics to get the last laugh while Bayley refuses to give up until the eventual happy ending. But looking at the last weeks, Bliss didn&#8217;t need dirty tactics. She simply beat Bayley clean at Payback and easily dispatched her on RAW this week. All that does is make Bayley look like a weak chump. And while that wasn&#8217;t that different from her NXT-career at times, viewers on RAW might and probably will react a little different. And as a fan of hers, that&#8217;s not encouraging.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alissa, I couldn\u2019t agree more about the diminishing crowd reactions to Bayley and them being symptomatic of a bigger problem. WWE is not doing justice to this character. They\u2019re making many of the mistakes they avoided in her NXT run while at the same time hoping fans who loved her in NXT stay emotionally invested through bad booking decisions. WWE clearly doesn\u2019t know what story they\u2019re trying to tell with Bayley\u2019s character and it\u2019s all getting lost on the bloated Raw program. Raw is also not a show that encourages fans to cheer for nice people, which will be a problem for Bayley. Thanks for commenting!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>SSMGOTW (Superfluous Shane McMahon Gif of the Week):<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stillrealtous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/star9.gif?resize=385%2C235\" width=\"385\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>This week\u2019s wrestling reading:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From time to time, I want to highlight some of the best wrestling reading I\u2019ve found over the past week.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@Multifacet\/dont-hinder-jinder-with-xenophobia-7f40ccb40c17\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t Hinder Jinder (with xenophobia) by Nadir Shirazi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawbreakdownproject.com\/raw-grand-rapids-breakdown-may-22-2017\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 5\/22 Raw Breakdown by Kate Foray<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>We\u2019re Done Here:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So this was week one of a new thing. Feedback, either positive or negative would be awesome from y\u2019all! Heck, if you have a better name suggestion, I\u2019m about that as well. Let\u2019s get interactive in this space and have some fun with it. I have to throw a thank you out there to Jason Powell, who has been nothing but supportive of me basically getting to write the kinds of things I\u2019d like to read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will Pruett writes about wrestling and popular culture at prowrestling.net. Of interest to him are diversity in wrestling and wrestling as a theatrical art form. 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