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Who says actors aren't tough?!? Mickey made old Chris Jericho see Golden Globes spinning around his head!
He looked like Mickey from Snatch!!
That is also why wrestling fans hate WWE. Both look bad and nobody wins except Rourke`s bank account cause like Floyd Mayweather last year they probably paid a pretty penny for him to show up.
A lot of wrestling fans hate the WWE, and yet they still watch it. Pretty self-destructive if you ask me.
Anyway, I hate this kind of gimmicky story angles (Mayweather was a complete waste of money and Big Show should've squashed him) but they had already tangled themselves up in the Rourke storyline.
This was the only way to finally end it. Plus, Rourke is a former boxer and Jericho seems to be written as a mouthful-heel type nowadays. I don't watch much wrestling nowadays but I thought what happened was fitting acording to their respective characters.
I don't think Rourke had a huge paycheck -- he doesn't seem like the type of guy to demand it. Plus, you'd think the company would've learned from its mistakes with Mayweather last year (they paid the guy 4 MILLION bucks for his appereance -- that's ridiculous).
Most wrestling fans eventually come to see "indy" wrestling which is a much better form of wrestling. Sure the matches are predetermined and they aren't going all out UFC style but the word "fake" would go into a whole other debate.
I remember watching Wrestlemania 1, and prior to that I watched wrestling on an old black and white set at my Great Uncle's house in West Virginia back in the early seventies. It was probably mid-south or whatever, but I was too young to know. I watched the Masked Marvel vs the Masked Avenger, and I was really upset when the ref found that the one guy had an old rusty nail in his hand and was hitting the other guy in the head with it!! OMG! What upset me even more is when my sister told it was fake! "No, it wasn't!", I said, "I saw the nail myself!"
It was the WWF back then, before the World Wildlife Foundation (or Fund, I'm not sure) sued them for using their name. Bummer.
I got floor seats to a show once, and really had a chance to see how good these guys are at staging a fight. The near misses, and heads snapped back to give the illusion of impact. They are really first rate stunt men! I saw Hogan vs Macho Man. Hogan was down, and Macho Man came off the turnbuckle with his hands clamped together. Hogan put his foot up, as he was wont to do, and Macho Man, with perfect timing, put his hands on top of the bottom of Hulk's boot, and snapped his head back. A #1!
Well, as staged as it is, it still hurts. Those wrestling mats aren't exactly soft. And things don't always go as planned, especially when you're jumping off a fifteen foot ladder (among other things).
I went and saw wrestling done after a Cleveland Indians game, so we got to see them set up the ring. It's frame, with plywood laid out on it, a darn thin looking pad laid on that, then a covering stretched over it and tied down. It has lots of give and bounce, but I wouldn't want to fall on it.
It's never cool falling through a burning table, either! You can go on YouTube and see clips of when the stunts go wrong. Guys getting legs and arms broke, etc. Bad day at the office!
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Mickey Rourke Knocks Out Chris Jericho!
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