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When I was 16 years old and the WWF was in the midst of their Attitude Era, business was booming, wrestling couldn\u2019t possibly be anymore mainstream than it was, and week after week was compelling television to the demographic that clearly targeted people like me, and of similar age mindsets.<\/span><\/p>\n When vignettes of Val Venis began, of him announcing is impending arrival in the WWE while simultaneously pantomiming all sorts of sexual activity, it really was a holy shit moment, as in the reality that professional wrestling was going to have a porn star character, was actually going to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n I remember debut on RAW is WAR<\/em>, against Too-Cold Scorpio, and thinking this match was going surprisingly long for a guy\u2019s debut, and after a vicious spinning heel kick from Scorpio, I actually remember wondering if Val Venis would be among the few superstars to actually take an L in their debut, the last one I could remember being Bastion Booger way back in like 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps The Big Valbowski was being too generous as the noob in the locker room.\u00a0 Or maybe Too-Cold was going into business for himself a little bit seeing as how he was eventually supposed to take the L; maybe the man that Mick Foley put in writing as having the largest penis he\u2019d ever seen in his life was a little salty that some Canadian guy was getting to portray the porn star gimmick that he felt could\u2019ve been his.<\/span><\/p>\n But Val Venis did win the match, and I remember thinking how unimpressive he actually was in the ring, based on that singular match.<\/span><\/p>\n Eventually, he would get opportunities to redeem himself, and seeing as how the WWF roster was stacked to the gills with guys like The Rock, Mick Foley, Kurt Angle and Edge, even the mid-card was loaded with guys like the New Age Outlaws, Hardcore Holly, D\u2019lo, X-Pac, Ken Shamrock among many others.<\/span><\/p>\n Not only was The Big Valbowski a fun character, gushing with charisma and cleverly-written promos, the guy actually could work too.\u00a0 Needless to say, I was a fan of Val Venis.<\/span><\/p>\n However, it should come as no great surprise that a guy whose character was a literal porn star, there would be a ceiling for him, dictated by the rules and regulations of public decency and mostly the FCC.\u00a0 In order for Val to elevate to the main event and the top of the card, the character would have to grow and evolve, and there\u2019s really not much growth or evolution a porn star would be able to do on national television.<\/span><\/p>\n Eventually, due to mounting pressure from outside forces, most notably the formed Parent-Television Council, the Val Venis persona eventually made its way to the block and was soon choppy-choppy\u2019d from the program.<\/span><\/p>\n As talented of a worker as he was, workrate is only half of professional wrestling, and character is the other half.\u00a0 Losing a persona like Val Venis was the kiss of death, and after flops like RTC member Val Venis and then Chief Morley, he would flounder some more in TNA before his professional career came to mostly an end.<\/span><\/p>\n Much like lots of former wrestlers of yesteryear, Sean Morley [his real name] could\u2019ve faded into the sunset, or among the many things a guy could do in order to stay relevant to the modern wrestling community, utilize social media to announce their existence, but also to spout horrifically right-wing propaganda and become one of the countless right-wing nuts that pollute the population.\u00a0 And if you went with the latter, at what you think Val Venis has been doing in retirement, you\u2019re absolutely right.<\/span><\/p>\n Which finally<\/em> brings us to the point of this post\u2019s existence; apparently The Big Valbowski\u2019s right-wing rhetoric and how much he blathers it has ruffled a few feathers, most notably the guy who has been running his website, ValVenis.com.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t dive too far to find out the context of just how bad the rift went, or specifically what caused it, but the result of such a fallout was that the guy who had the keys to the car, has decided to turn ValVenis.com into a site that now exists in support and allyship of the LGBTQ+ community<\/a>; and if there\u2019s one major demographic that exists in the crosshairs of the hard right, it\u2019s the LGBTQ+ community.<\/span><\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, The Big Valbowski is none too pleased with this development, and has supposedly pursued legal action and is suing the webmaster to try to get the reigns to his website back.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care enough to have an opinion on whom is going to possibly come out of the legal battle with any advantage, but my knee-jerk thought is that webmaster probably has the upper hand, seeing as how they\u2019re probably the one who registered, paid and are actually the ones still maintaining the virtual property.<\/span><\/p>\n Seeing as how the WWE hasn\u2019t cared enough about the Val Venis character to bother renewing and retaining the IP, I imagine if Sean Morley secures the copyright for himself, he might have a leg to stand on, but in the meantime, I love that the Webmaster has turned \u201cVAL VENIS\u201d into a really reaching anagram of LGBTQ+ support in a long-shot way to justify using the domain for its current purpose:<\/span><\/p>\n VAL : Valued Allies of LGBTQ+<\/span> Sean Morley didn\u2019t really have that long of a career, but he kind of existed in the era when professional wrestlers were free-spending jocks who blew thousands of dollars on drinking, drugs and ring rats, and aren\u2019t the athletic nerds of today who have gamified investing and earning, so I have no idea what his current financial status is.\u00a0 But if I had to guess, it\u2019s more towards the former, and I don\u2019t imagine he has the means to get into a legal battle against a website, fighting over the web domain of a former wrestling porn star in an actual court of law.<\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line is as it stands now, Val Venis is in 100% owned status, and is a precautionary tale of the importance of being good to your webmasters, especially if you yourself don\u2019t have any keys to the house.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was 16 years old and the WWF was in the midst of their Attitude Era, business was booming, wrestling couldn\u2019t possibly be anymore mainstream than it was, and week after week was compelling television to the demographic that clearly targeted people like me, and of similar age mindsets. 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