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Musharraf, the Undertaker wins again!

February 18, 2008 posted by indiatime |

Watching the Indian TV news channels this morning, I couldn’t help wondering how ill-informed some of these media outlets are. The big news this morning is that the Great Khali aka Dalip Singh Rana, the Indian-born professional wrestler, was defeated by the Undertaker in the WWE elimination smackdown contest.

The TV anchor spent some time speaking to the Voice of America India reporter Mr. Kulkarni, and asked him why Khali had lost. “Was he not prepared for the fight?”, she asked. The VOA reporter explained how the Undertaker overcame the great Khali in what would otherwise have been a great matchup.

My nephew, who is an avid fan of Khali by the way, knew this secret of professional wrestling since he was 2 years old. Professional wrestling is simulated wrestling that is a show put on by the contestants who participate in what is essentially an act, a drama, a fight that plays to a pre-written script. Unlike some other games like Cricket which are really supposed to be played realtime but are sometimes fixed. professional wrestling or the WWF/WWE-type wrestling that we have come to enjoy, is a staged sport by its very premise. It is like an exhibition game with a mission to entertain the audiences, young and old alike, with the real action limited to only whatever the exhibition might need. Their bodies bloated by steroids and workouts, the wrestlers manage to pull off some amazing gymnastic stunts, but the action is fake and nobody ever gets hurt due to the fighting. The accidents that hapen in such wrestling are often due to the stunts going wrong, seldom due to the fake blows.

So, coming back to the great Khali’s defeat, the Indian media needs to realize that the winner of such wrestling contests is already decided by the WWE, the corporate entity that runs these great shows.

The idea of pre-determined and fixed contests should not come as a surprise to anyone. In a few hours from now, another pre-determined contest will have a winner. The people of Pakistan will go through the fake democratic exercise they have gone through several times before. President Perverz Musharraf, the undetaker of Pakistan, the grave-digger and mortician who has single-handedly buried any prospects of democracy in Pakistan for last several years, will once again triumph in today’s elections. It is a foregone conclusion, a certainty without a doubt. Like professional wrestling, elections in Pakistan are a staged and simulated event with predertermined winners. The only difference is that unlike the WWE, the rules of Pakistani politics do allow for hurting and eliminating the opponents, with guns, bombs or a hangman’s noose.


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4 Comments so far

  1. roma on February 19, 2008 2:51 am

    l need your help

  2. Musharraf & WWE | DesiPundit on February 19, 2008 5:30 am

    [...] Indiatime explains how results in Pakistani elections are like the pre-determined results of the WWE. [...]

  3. Divya on February 19, 2008 5:27 pm

    Looks like Mush didn’t win at all.

  4. magnum on September 25, 2008 9:52 pm

    Undertaker rules, dont dare the deadman

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