The 'anatomy of a wrestling angle':
1. Jon Stewart announces that he's leaving TDS at the end of the year.
2. Seth Rollins, on the following week's *Raw*, in bragging about how
amazing he is, says he can do Stewart's job better.
3. Stewart replies via FaceTime, posted to TMZ. It's a nod to old school
wrestling promos, and it's hilarious. (It's also worth noting that TDS has
used Mick Foley as a 'correspondent' on multiple occasions, so I suspect
there might have been some coaching.)
4. Rollins responds last Thursday's TDS, first by highjacking the
"Moment of Zen", then by appearing on set with Stewart and challenging him
to appear at *Raw* on 3/2. Stewart accepts the challenge and attempts
to jump on Rollins' back and apply a half-nelson.
5. On last night's *Raw*, Rollins hosts a fake version of TDS (complete
with actual graphics package and TMBG's recording of "Dog on Fire"),
running down Stewart for (essentially) being an unfunny chickenshit.
Stewart shows up, taunts Rollins, and then calls him out on a very real
aspect of his current angle (demonstrating that, unlike many people who
appear on *Raw**,* he actually watches the product). Rollins gets pissy,
threatens to punch Stewart in the mouth, tries to corner him. Queue the
interruption by Randy Orton, and...
6.
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It's worth noting that this angle appears to have been done so Stewart
could promote "Night of Too Many Stars" (as opposed to being a
Lawler/Kaufman thing), although there's always the possibility that it
could continue to an angle at Wrestlemania, since it's less than a month
away and Stewart is hot in the demo.
On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 11:15:08 AM UTC-5, Joe Hass wrote:
>
> ...the second coming Of Mean Gene Okerlund.
>
> (For the record: I had no clue who Seth Rollins was until I saw this)
>
>
> http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/jon-stewart-just-kicked-seth-rollins-in-the-dick-1689067438
>
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