Scott's Blog of Doom

Hey Scott,
Long time reader; first time emailer. What unexpected event or match made you mark out the most? BTW, you can't include you know who because he doesn't exist anymore. What event or match made you the most upset in a markish way? For the first question for me, it would be Chris Jericho beating the Rock and Austin in one night, or Vince showing up on Nitro. (I would include Y2J/you know who beating HHH/Austin for tag titles but he doesn't exist anymore.) For the 2nd question for me, I would say HHH getting his world title back from Hebner after Y2J unexpectingly won it on a fast 3 count earlier on RAW, or the Ultimate Warrior beating Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania VI (What can I say? I was 10 and a big Hulkamaniac at the time).
David

 

Well this is really several questions in one here.

By the way, PLEASE let’s just say “Chris Benoit” because the cutesiness is getting tiresome.  I have it on the cover of my book, for pete’s sake.  NEW BLOG RULE. 

Anyway, Ultimate Warrior’s return at Wrestlemania VIII had me shitting my pants with shock and excitement because I had no clue it was coming, although it of course ended badly for all.  Benoit winning the Royal Rumble was the last time I really went crazy (winning the title was nice, but once he had a shot at winning there was less thrill to it.  The Rumble win was so unbelievable that it worked as a markout moment better for me).  However, I should note that I was jumping up and down and generally losing my shit when Brock Lesnar won the UFC title last year, so it doesn’t always just apply to wrestling.

As for the moment that made me angriest, Sgt. Slaughter winning the belt from Warrior was irritating, but the moment that actually made me ANGRY was Randy Savage returning from a previous beating like a coward during the match and hitting Warrior with the scepter.  I have no earthly idea why, but that act touched a nerve with me and I wanted to see him get his ass kicked for it like no other.  Also, lemme tell ya, although now I love them all equally and don’t care about match results, in 1987 when Tully & Arn won the tag titles from the Rock N Roll Express by beating the holy hell out of Ricky Morton in a two-on-one match and cheating like motherfuckers…oh man.  I mean, I liked the RNR but not hugely so it wasn’t even that I was huge fan of Morton’s or anything, but it was just so monstrously unfair and they weren’t even a regular team!  They won me over pretty quick, though, as even a few years before getting properly smartened up to the business I had 100% converted to a Tully & Arn fan when they jumped to the WWF, so anything can be forgiven.  Maybe it was because I got to see them get their comeuppance against Luger & Windham and thus revenge was served or whatever.