As Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling creeps toward its final weeks, there are five guys left and two shows remaining. In order to get to the final four, there's a final elimination that has to be made before this Saturday's CCW title coronation. Here's what we learned from this week's episode seven, "Recap All Skills."
-Receipts, receipts, receipts: If there was one running theme throughout the entire show, it was giving payback in the form of a "receipt" to someone you're upset with. Not surprisingly, the main focus was Dennis Rodman, whose stiff work has been upsetting people the entire show.
He especially enraged Butterbean with a hard chair shot last week and Bean promises revenge. After the show was over, I never got the sense Bean gave Rodman the receipt he was looking for. More on this in a minute.
-Moves of the Week: the armdrag, a basic chop (to add "pizazz") and a body slam ("what all the kids talk about") which Hogan was brought in to teach. Not surprisingly, he recounted the story of Wrestlemania III and lifting a 700-pound Andre The Giant over his head. The dialogue and amount of b.s. during this entire segment was hilarious. The kids talk about the body slams, I guess.
-Rodman's Attitude: As I mentioned last week, Rodman is getting less and less interested by the episode. This week, he doesn't want to do chops and is moping around. Hogan brings him aside and gives him a pep talk. For anyone that has watched CCW since the beginning, I'll ask this: have you seen any improvement from him? The only reason he remains is because he's a former pro athlete and a good one at that.
-A note on Hogan: There was a lot more of him this week and it made for a better show. He was more involved in teaching and talking, which helped push the amazingly irritating Brian Knobs somewhat to the background. I get that Knobs' personality is supposed to be this way, but after a while, it wears down on you.
If this show makes it to a second season, I'd love to see more Hogan and less Knobs. Brutus Beefcake came off really well early on, but with the team's recent merging, there is less of him talking and more you-know-who.
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