A series of illogical tidbits
Okay, so this film to me is a guilty pleasure. I should hate it but I just cannot. There's something that makes me tune to it whenever it's on cable. As a result of my many MANY viewings of this film, I have noticed a lot of inconsistencies and nonsensical plot holes. Here's a couple.
Beware of spoilers...even though this is not a new film:
First, one day Jimmy King is the champion of the federation, the next he is beaten, fired, and given a lifetime ban from WCW. Immediately after, he is living in a broken down camper dressed as a woman. Okay, let's break this down. If he was fired from WCW, they would still have to honor any contract he has, which means buying him out, so he shouldn't be homeless and destitute. Even if they could slip out of the contract, the real life beating he endured would give him grounds for a lawsuit against the company and the wrestlers individually, meaning a cash settlement that would set him up just fine. Either way, he's not broke. In addition, he'd get hired somewhere else right away. Likely, a competing wrestling organization, even a small one, would have immediate offers ready for him the minute he got released.
Second, Titus Sinclair offers Jimmy King a match against DDP. He says EXPLICITLY that King doesn't have to win the match to get the title and belt. He just has to "survive." Let me get this straight. He just has to keep from DYING?!?!? Is the wrestling show now a snuff event? DDP has to kill Jimmy King to retain his title? Seriously?
Third, why does Sinclair give King a match? When King and the boys break in and ambush him and DDP, why didn't he just have them arrested? If he saw dollar signs from King's interference, why didn't he just re-sign him and work a new angle?
Fourth, Sal Bandini (an obvious tribute to Stu Hart) is an 80 year old wrestling teacher who manages to overpower two young and pretty large wrestlers by himself. Now I know that Stu was a badass but any young buck who was screaming in pain because Stu was administering a submission hold allowed himself to be put in that hold voluntarily. I am pretty sure an athletic person in their prime could easily defend against an elderly former wrestler.
On that same note, when the two men do manage to take Sal out, they beat him so badly, he has to go to the hospital. Again, that's assault and I would think that the circumstances would make the local law enforcement even more determined to make an arrest and it shouldn't be hard since Sal can identify them!
FInally, at the end of the film, Gordy and Shawn become a wrestler and manager and Jimmy King becomes champ again. Titus Sinclair is beaten by the audience because he's the bad guy. But wait, doesn't he own the company? I can understand allowing King back in since he won the match, but why sign Gordy and Shawn to contracts? They assaulted him twice and now he is paying them to be part of WCW?
I have a few more but these are the biggest ones. If you read this whole thing...wow!