https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqQ8x9Fjp5w You just can't write a worst pairings list without talking about Mae Young and Mark Henry. What must have started as a bad "wouldn't it be funny if..." joke in a creative meeting became a national nightmare. Henry was one of the strongest men on the planet, but he wasn't having much success in the WWF. He was mainly relegated to an enforcer role in The Nation, despite the huge 10 year contract the company had given him. Perhaps the WWF wanted more on their investment, or just a few chuckles at his expense, so they paired him with Mae Young. There was a a nearly 50 year age gap between them, but that is probably what someone found so funny. Henry had been pushed as a sex addict around that time, and he must have exhausted all of his other choices, so he settled down with Mae. The two became hot and heavy, and she became pregnant with his child...which turned out to be a rubber hand. You could write a book on why it was a bad decision to put them together. Mae was a part-time comedy figure, and Henry was struggling to be taken seriously. That's just the start of it. Many chapters could be devoted to how gross and unfunny the whole thing was. Well, after some time, the two eventually went their separate ways. We can only hope that whoever wrote that garbage got enough humor out of it to justify damaging Henry's career for years.
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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