"Greatest Moments" Retroactively Made Less Great

[shawn michaels]

Hey, i have dark and morbid humour. So sue me! I don't give a flying f*** for what the guy did on his personal life. I like him for his work. However, someone who did all that he did was not clearly sane, so yeah, i think pretending he never existed is hypocrisy and judging him is easy for people that clearly think they are in any way superior. I admire Benoit as wrestler and always will. As a person i never knew him, so i don't care and can't judge. but i repeat, someone who did what he did was not sane, but ereybody forgets that. It's so easy to judge other people. Havig said this i will no longer respond to the benoit thing, as it is off topic. So please stop quoting me, i do not intend to keep this discussion running. END OF STORY. And as i said, i was not trying to insult anyone, and i was not trying to pick a fight. I think what i think and it's my constitutional right to do so. And i WILL NOT change my mind on the benoit subject. NEVER EVER! PERIOD! As i understand you guys (the ones criticizing him) will keep your opinions as well. I respect that. This conversation is over.

 

Getting back to the topic: RVD winning the championship from Cena.

[Remianen]

I remember reading Foley's book and him all but refusing in the book to be one of those guys that retires and comes back a bunch of times and a guy that would not hang around the business past his time.

 

Now I watch him being nearly a complete joke in TNA wrestling tag matches against Raven and Stevie on Impact and I wonder where that guy went.

 

As I recall, Mick never officially retired. His last year or two in WWE was on 'The Undertaker schedule' (in TEW terms, an 'Occasional Wrestler'). He came in to do a few programs a year (sometimes culminating at Wrestlemania, ala the Edge program) and spent the rest of his time writing books. That's not retirement, that's not even semi-retirement.

 

Also, I think it's important to note that Mick isn't a Flair type. Foley's an established author in multiple genres. Everything Flair touches outside of wrestling, turns to tin (or dust) and his alimony payments pretty much require him to continue doing the only thing he's ever been good at. The problem is, Mick signed with, well, TNA, who did exactly what you said. As soon as other "names" showed up, he was relegated to a tertiary program. He still has a lot to offer as an authority figure (and proved that, I think) with the occasional dust up with a worker (ala Stone Cold's tenure as co-GM). But his current employers don't see that.

 

And in adhering to the thread, Hell in a Cell. What used to be just a brutal, hard fought match, has become so vanilla and tired that it's largely not even worth watching anymore.