Despite Vince McMahon saying how much he hates bullies, it's pretty obvious that he's one of the biggest bullies in the wrestling business. For some reason, one of his favorite targets is long time announcer Jim Ross. It's not quite sure why. Ross is known to be a bit surly, so maybe that rubs Vince the wrong way. Maybe it's because his announcer knows more about wrestling than he does. Whatever it is, he just loves to poke and embarrass his longtime employee on air. One of the worst moments of JR mocking was in a backstage skit with Hornswoggle. It was bad enough that Swoggle was acting like JR for no good reason, but apparently the shorter man's impression of Ross wasn't to the bosses' liking, so he decided to do one himself. Vince scrunched up his face to yell out "Stone Cold! Stone Cold! Stone Cold!" to his own amusement, while millions gasped in horror. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYlbLZ7ZgX0 The thing is, Ross has had multiple battles with Bell's Palsy, which paralyzed some of the muscles in his face. Vince finds that funny. However, it's doubtful that he found it funny when his muscles gave out on him and he tore his quads during the Royal Rumble in 2005.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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