Big Show to retire, DX beating a grizzly sight
The Troublemaker
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Recent news that the Big Show plans to retire from the WWE makes the Troublemaker shake his head in a manner that screams, “I told you so.�
Depressed and in constant pain from the daily grind that is employment in Vince McMahon’s wrestling machine, The Show has been rumored to be seeking immediate refuge from the world of body slams and chair shots. In hind sight I hope the brainiacs running the WWE have come to realize that not all performers are created equal. Some, like the late great Andre the Giant are a different breed that need to booked and handled with care.
The real shame of it all is in that after many years of essentially 
spinning his wheels at the mid – card level, The Show has finally reached his potential as the true superstar he was meant to be. At exactly what point the big fella finally declared enough is enough is uncertain, but it is rumored that those behind the WWE curtain are hoping that somehow they can convince Show to stick around until at least April in hope that some type of match can be set up with Hulk Hogan to commemorate the 20 year anniversary of Wrestlemania III. If those plans do pan out let’s all pray that some exorbitant amount of money doesn’t convince The Show to job in the center of the ring the way Andre did 20 years ago.
Monday Night Raw - The reunion of DX has been treated with derision and scorn on many fronts. Yeah HHH and HBK are a little long in the tooth for some of the juvenile antics captured on RAW each week, but then again if the promotion has room for a 79 – year old Ric Flair what’s the harm in a few silly vignettes for the sake of levity? Honestly, what do you expect the WWE to do with HHH when he’s not headlining for extended periods of time? Long a critic of “The Game� myself – mostly because I’ve felt rightly or wrongly that this guy has gotten every break imaginable - I must admit the man has as much crossover appeal and charisma as any performer in history. Nobody in the game today can flip/flop from heel to face and steal the show like ol’ Hunter. Take this past Monday night when Team RKO bludgeoned DX in a display unlike I’ve seen since maybe the time Ken Patera and John Studd cut Andre’s hair. This guy actually had the sellout crowd crying in the aisles for a character who has been sledge hammering their favorites for years now. Just when I think the inner – mark in me has faded, a moment like this restores my faith in the shock appeal of the squared circle. As a matter of fact, on this blogger’s shock meter the episode ranks somewhere between Paul Orndorff turning on Hogan and the time the Road Warriors turned on the wildly popular Sting. Both of those events happened almost 20 years ago. Whew! As a cynical critic, the times are few and far between when I declare the state of wrestling to be ahem . . . healthy, however the last two months have been absolutely sizzling as this Motor City Masked Man counts down the days to Wrestlemania.