A television production empire with significantly greater muscle than most, the WWE (formerly WWF before those pesky pandas stuck their snouts in) has been bringing sweaty, underpants-clad slabs of meat masquerading as human beings to an appreciative audience for more than three decades now. The carnival-coloured pantomime has witnessed many a twist down the years, but tonight could deliver one of the strangest yet: as a ‘90s TV educational figurehead, Mr. Belding from Saved by the Bell, targets an appearance on WWE Raw.   

It started, as these things inevitably do, with an internet campaign. A Twitter petition demanding that Dennis Haskins, the actor semi-famed for playing Bayside High’s beloved but beleaguered Principal, Mr. Belding, be installed in the key role of general manager on the WWE’s flagship Monday night television production, Raw.

The petition, based over at does-what-it-says-on-the-tin site Twitition, duly caught on, attracting just over 1,800 ‘signatures’ so far. And the result is that Haskins has now confirmed that yes, he will indeed be in attendance for tonight’s edition of Raw.

Whether Haskins will be mere spectator or actually chewing canvas remains to be seen, although this writer has bigger things to worry about at present… such as whether to end this article with a clip from Saved by the Bell or the WWE. Let’s see now…  

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