Why? He was tough. Should we always pretend retarded people do not exist?Shit, here's a bump. Don't know what I said before, but other than the obvious(Katie Vick, Katie Vick, Katie Vick), I'd say "Eugene" was just a little outside the realm of decency.
Why? He was tough. Should we always pretend retarded people do not exist?
I liked it. I thought making him strong and good at wrestling was pretty cool. He whooped William Regal's ass like 7 times lol. Everybody gets exploited for their character.In fairness, it's a bit of a grey area(Forrest Gump says hello), but It was still pretty tasteless within the realm of pro-wrestling. It's not as controlled of an environment as film, and the exploitation of the Eugene character's obvious weaknesses will be played for kicks from time to time. Which the WWE certainly did. On the flip side, they also celebrated him overcoming his weaknesses, and normalized him to an extent.
To me, it's kind of like a prank show, where a guy pretends to be a retard and does silly stuff for kicks, but at the end of the day, it's just exploitation and playing up a legit condition for profit. It's pretty scummy. I'm not super offended by it or anything, but if we're talking tasteless gimmicks, Eugene was pretty fucking tasteless.
Not to mention it was just dumb. A retard gimmick only has so high of a ceiling.
The whole Terri Runnels miscarriage thing is up there for me.
You can argue WWE continuing Over The Edge 1999 right after Owen Hart died in the ring
The Katie Vick storyline did it for me.
Bossman eating Snows dog was rough too.
This about sums it up for me over the last 25 years
But we got this lolI'm not in church every Sunday and Lord knows I have a long way to go with my Christianity but this made me really uncomfortable. The whole angle with Vince cutting promos in churches and "God" setting off the pyro was just really out there and turned me away for a bit.
The burial of Perry Saturn.
This is everything I can think of in this thread. 2 things that were shitty situations ...
1. Psycho Syd stabbing Arn with the scissors.
2. Can't even remember the damn names to Google it. WWE about 15 years ago or so had this minor league tv show where they trained up and comers.
One of the trainers (a wwe wrestler) was way more rough than need be, beat the living shit out of one of the students. Total piece of shit.
I believe he was fired because of it.