Whoever stereotyped HBK a racist...

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People grew up watching this jacked guy strutting and prancing around arenas, dropping from scaffoldings, climbing ladders, surviving ironman matches, and superkicking his way past bigger stronger guys. Admittedly dude was pure energy, style, and charisma during that early-to-mid nineties family period.

I mean, I'm 6'7" and I used to love watching dude. I didn't gain an appreciation for Hart, Rude, etc until later.

When you're a child, none of the race stuff comes into play, so it's difficult for people to release those memories once they get up on game. This is why I'm glad I was never a Hogan fan (always disliked dude and thought he was corny).

Separating art from artist is incredibly difficult, especially if you're black and get into pop culture at all.

No easy answer here.



On point. Race (based on skin color) is illogical and completely made-up to separate people. Once you actually get around someone and connect it changes the game. But this idea of separation is so embedded in us, that we would rather say, "oh, he's one of the good ones" than just admit that the nonsense we've been taught is illogical bullshyt.
If you were a kid in 96 and you thought Shawn Michaels was fly compared to the Nwo, Sting, and Taker? You had to have been a wigger or skater geek Black guy who was a male Avril Lavigne. No fukking way any Nyggas or Latinos were thinking Shawn Michaels was the be and end all of the business in 96 with his gay Chippendale dancing routine and weak ass theme music while the spray paint was going strong. And even if you wanna go back a year or two later, Razor was ALWAYS seen as better and who everyone was talking like at school and everywhere else. Shawn was never on that level which is why fans flipped on him so quick for Sid at Surivor Series. He's nothing. He never was. All of this revised history on this site is comedy because his matches in 96 were NOT piff. They were not talked about on the legendary level. They never were. The WWE hype machine has done good with it but that's about it.

The Kliq was one of the worst things about the business. $hit got better when Austin and Rock rescued the WWF. Nash and his fingerpoke of Doom was what stopped the competition so he's no genius and he killed his own heat from 98. Stupid as fukk too.
 

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If you were a kid in 96 and you thought Shawn Michaels was fly compared to the Nwo, Sting, and Taker? You had to have been a wigger or skater geek Black guy who was a male Avril Lavigne. No fukking way any Nyggas or Latinos were thinking Shawn Michaels was the be and end all of the business in 96 with his gay Chippendale dancing routine and weak ass theme music while the spray paint was going strong. And even if you wanna go back a year or two later, Razor was ALWAYS seen as better and who everyone was talking like at school and everywhere else. Shawn was never on that level which is why fans flipped on him so quick for Sid at Surivor Series. He's nothing. He never was. All of this revised history on this site is comedy because his matches in 96 were NOT piff. They were not talked about on the legendary level. They never were. The WWE hype machine has done good with it but that's about it.

The Kliq was one of the worst things about the business. $hit got better when Austin and Rock rescued the WWF. Nash and his fingerpoke of Doom was what stopped the competition so he's no genius and he killed his own heat from 98. Stupid as fukk too.

Yea dude. I'm not going to argue over which grown man wearing tights was coolest to me when I was 8-12 years old. I'm also not going to pretend to speak for "nyggas" and "latinos" in terms of which wrestlers they all liked. Also not going to pretend to have understood what Chippendales was and what Shawn Michaels was imitating when I was a young 8-12 year old, because I would have had no clue.

So yea, not really interested in arguing about how cool my tastes were for a heavily scripted product aimed at entertaining children, featuring grown men and women wearing ridiculous outfits and creating larger than life personas.

But hey, apparently you had the fantasy world of costumed men all figured out as a young man; so, more power to you.

Anyway, as soon as I saw those sweet chin music packages, HBK descending from that arena, and him cupping that belt after he won it, I was hooked.
 
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He never took a picture with anyone Black:laugh: Um..HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLO!:laugh:

I got a few pics with him... HELLO!!!
Yeah he got paid to take those pics, you little hick:laugh: Pimping your ass out like a good house slave:laugh:
:pachaha:
If you were a kid in 96 and you thought Shawn Michaels was fly compared to the Nwo, Sting, and Taker? You had to have been a wigger or skater geek Black guy who was a male Avril Lavigne. No fukking way any Nyggas or Latinos were thinking Shawn Michaels was the be and end all of the business in 96 with his gay Chippendale dancing routine and weak ass theme music while the spray paint was going strong. And even if you wanna go back a year or two later, Razor was ALWAYS seen as better and who everyone was talking like at school and everywhere else. Shawn was never on that level which is why fans flipped on him so quick for Sid at Surivor Series. He's nothing. He never was. All of this revised history on this site is comedy because his matches in 96 were NOT piff. They were not talked about on the legendary level. They never were. The WWE hype machine has done good with it but that's about it.

The Kliq was one of the worst things about the business. $hit got better when Austin and Rock rescued the WWF. Nash and his fingerpoke of Doom was what stopped the competition so he's no genius and he killed his own heat from 98. Stupid as fukk too.
:damn: If HBK read this, his good eye would get wonky, too
 

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I keep forgetting u guys were just kids when Shawn was,getting pushed. So that explains the rose colored glasses. Well let me enlighten u in 2016..Shawn Michaels sucked in his prime, which is why Bret is so cheered these days, why Austin is a icon, and why he comes back to dead reactions yearly now.

You don't have to pretend to understand but reality is right there to remind us on the WWE Network for just $9.99.
 

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If the NY fans turning on Shawn at Survivor Series 96 is proof Shawn was never anything then what does that make the NY fans turning on Rock at Summerslam 2002 :lupe:


Fools. Because they sold the arena out and cheered for him the following year in a segment with Stone Cold before WM 19. Great thing about Rock is people actually buy tickets to boo him which is why he's an ALL TIME GREAT Heel draw.

People boo Shawn and forget he exists as ratings and buyrates have proved all along.
 
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Mania 23's buyrate is pretty high :sas2:

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Shout out to @Dog Based Gremlin for the bar graph
 
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