A frustrated wresting fan.

Published on January 17, 2005 By mada_ecks In Sports & Leisure

I'm setting here watching WWE Monday Night Raw and I notice something disturbing. Usually the average wresting fan has a short memory when it comes to "heels" or "faces", but not in Shawn Michaels case. He is still getting booed by canadian fans after almost eight years ago from the stupid "Vince McMahon/Brett Hart" fiasco at Surviour Series. It wasn't Shawn Michaels fault that he got handed the belt by a guy who wanted to stick it to Bret Hart because he didn't want to let Hart get what he wanted. I mean come on, move on. Let that shit go.

Shawn Michaels is innoscent. He does do strange and stubborn things from time to time (like Flair) but the whole thing with Hart is over. Shawn was caught in the middle a stupid fued that was one sided anyway. I loved Bret Hart (even though when I got his autograph he acted like an ass) and I love Shawn Michaels. Iove Benoit and I loved (god rest his soul) Owen Hart. But the canadian fans have to let it go. I get really tired of seeing raw when if is in canada and seeing Shawn getting booed for no god damn reason.

Anyway, thats my opinion and I'm sticking to it..
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-MX-

Comments

Jamie Burnside

on Jan 17, 2005

It is fun for the Canadian fans to go against the grain. I think that the booing of The Rock against Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania in Toronto did a lot to empower the North-of-the-Border fans.

What makes it hardest for me to be a fan is John Cena. Good God he's awful! Last week's speech was just painful. I hate to wish ill of others, but some time off for Cena would be good for everyone. Whenever he comes on, I am inspired to change the channel.

Starstuff

on Jan 17, 2005

Are you like my wife, and think that this is real.

MythicalMino

on Jan 17, 2005

why do I have to think wrestling is real to enjoy it? No, I know it is all set up....just like most every other person in the world.

BUT.....they go out there in front of a live audience, many times, in front of thousands of ppl. They put on a show....a VERY physical show. When they get hit in the head with a chair, that chair is real....it is not made out of soft plastic or styrofoam.

When Owen Hart botched a piledriver on Steve Austin, his neck REALLY was severely injured. All the bumps that Shawn Michaels took REALLY did put his body in bad shape....When HHH tore the muscle in his leg....AND CONTINUED AND FINISHED THE MATCH....it was a real injury.

Just because it is set up, doesn't mean that these guys are just push-overs....they go out there, many of them more than once a week, and push their bodies to the extreme.

As for the original post....yeah, Canadians will just remember what happened. Bret Hart, I have heard, is just a shell of his former self though. Bitterness and lots of family loss have taken its toll on him.

Jamie Burnside

on Jan 18, 2005

Bitterness and lots of family loss, plus a stroke.

As far as wrestling being real or not: of course its real. The guys go out there and put on a performance. They work up the crowd with their speaking. Fans come to interact with the talents. Wrestlers take pride in how they perform.

I'd liken pro wrestling to a martial arts demonstration with additional theatrics. That's "real" enough for me.

MythicalMino

on Jan 18, 2005

yeah...and even the ever popular "reality TV" isn't real....

Texas Wahine

on Jan 18, 2005

I don't have anythying to ad, but I'm drunk and I wanted to say HI to you MX!

mada_ecks

on Jan 18, 2005

Are you like my wife, and think that this is real.

No, I spent a year in a wrestling school. It's not real put the training still hurts like a bitch.

why do I have to think wrestling is real to enjoy it? No, I know it is all set up....just like most every other person in the world

I love it, even though it is predetermined. I just wish that people didn't take it too seriously. I've been to some live events and I noticed that some Canadian fans take it a little more seriously than some american fans. Chill the fuck out, it's only wrestling.[

quote]As for the original post....yeah, Canadians will just remember what happened. Bret Hart, I have heard, is just a shell of his former self though. Bitterness and lots of family loss have taken its toll on him.

Yeah, I actually got a chance to get an autograph from Owen Hart. He seemed like a nice guy even when he played a "heel". I also had the missfortune to see the accident live to. That's something I'll never forget myself.

I don't have anythying to ad, but I'm drunk and I wanted to say HI to you MX!

Hi Tex!

!!! Hope u drank enough for me!

(he, he, he)

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