Bayani Domingo writes: Do I really need a teaser for this? Wait, I guess I do. Okay, well this week we take a look at a promotion staring porn “stars” and the extinct notion of a pure wrestling promotion.

I almost hate to give these guys any free promotion but I saw this on socaluncensored.com and I just had to talk about it this week. There is a fairly new promotion (or one I had never heard of before) called Not Rated Pro Wrestling. The tag line is: Where Pro Wrestlers and Porn Stars collide!!

I actually thought that was Lita and Major Gunns' tag team slogan, but perhaps I was wrong. Then again if you had to ask me where I thought, "Pro wrestlers and porn stars collide" I would have probably said, "I don't know…the butt?" I'm not going to run down the entire card for you but I just thought two matches in general had to be highlighted which were:

Semi Main Event
NRPW Heavyweight Champion Buff Bagwell vs. Sean Casey (former WWE wrestler and Playgirl centerfold)

X Rated Champion Evan Stone(porn star) vs. Craig Valentine(porn Star)

Oh and to top that the "Main Event" is a 20 man Royal Rumble style battle royal where the winner becomes the #1 contender for the NRPW Heavyweight Championship.

On top of all that awesomeness are matches featuring former TNA jobber David Young, Team Japan pinch hitter PUMA, as well as the man formerly known as B-Squared…Bull Buchanan.

"Also scheduled to appear" are: NRPW Commissioner Mary Carey, Heidi Mayne, Nikki Hunter, Monica Mayhem, Brooke Belle, Nick Manning, Tommy Gunn, Logan James, Christina Star, NY Knockout Nikki, and many more Porn Stars and Pro Wrestlers. Now where can you find this massive pile of fantasticness? Not just any old hick town or nowheres-ville…but right smack down in the middle of ritzy and glitzy BAKERSFIELD, CA at the Bakersfield Dome. What…the…F*ck!?!?

Okay, let me just tell you that after I read about this show my mind literally exploded and rendered me catatonic for nearly 2 full minutes as I saw there dumbfounded at this news and my brain was short circuited by no less than 37 different jokes that I instantaneously thought of to describe the absurdity of this promotion.

Seriously…I woke up a few minutes later with a drip of drool hanging down my chin as the mere possibility of endless jokes had sent my brain into overload. The least of which had me thinking, "Whatever happened to Savage Beach and when are they returning for a 3rd time?" The mere though of two porn stars actually wrestling a match over a recognized Championship is almost too much smarky goodness to handle.

I mean, I can't imagine that match is going to end with a "clean finish". Besides, Valentine really needs this win because you only get "one shot" at that belt. Well…until maybe 20 minutes later after a quick rest, some Gatorade, and some help from a chick named Cindi who just got off the bus from Iowa.

While I was sitting there and salivating over how many Porn/Wrestling jokes I could make in the "Leftovers" section I was thinking about the possibility that a company like this with such an outlandish gimmick could actually become moderately successful.

Or at least do enough ticket sales to end up making a few bucks. I really have to wonder if the wrestling business truly has become a parody of itself. While this isn't the WWE, TNA, or Ring of Honor trying to pull off a stunt like this, it really has me wondering if wrestling can survive on their own without having to constantly point out the ridiculousness of itself and expose itself on a consistent basis by trotting out "celebrities" and "publicity stunts" in an attempt to get people to tune in, buy tickets, or click "Buy" on the old 900 channels.

It's ironic that considering how many porn/wrestling puns I make on a weekly basis that even I thought having a full on promotion mixing the two would be a total abortion. Sure companies have always used T ‘n A to sell their product from Divas to the old cage dancers TNA used to employ, but this is a step beyond. Not that "Naked Women's Wrestling League" is a great comparison, seeing as how that really is just soft core pornography masquerading as wrestling, but this isn't that much further from the concept.

I guess the idea here is that the demographic for wrestling fans is pretty much the same as pornography fans. Which…I can't really argue against, let's face it…we're all just a bunch of pervs. If you've not jacking it to John Cena or Bryan Danielson matches, you're probably beatin' it to Mary Carey or Nikki Hunter.

Of course if anyone ever spliced in scenes from Wrestlemania and "Xtreme Facials: You Can't See Me", then they would be possibly the most confusing jerkin' of your life. 5 knuckle shuffle indeed. But the fact is that this promotion is going to get tickets sold one of 3 ways: 1) someone will buy tickets for the sheer ridiculousness and spectacle of a company like this purely for irony sake, 2) someone is hoping to just see a boob and is willing to pay $15 or $20 in the hopes that someone's top will "accidentally" fall off at ringside, and 3) David Young is your ride home. I want to take this all with a grain of salt and revel in it's ri-doc-ulousness, but at the same time I sometimes think that as wrestling fans we're sort of treated like either morons or simpletons.