8 Questions Only WWE Kayfabe Era Children Would Understand
8. Why Haven't They Fired That Ref?
It was already a challenge accepting that here was a legitimate competitive organisation that refused to review or reverse the most blatant, egregious referee errors but a kid will usually be satisfied by the authoritarian-sounding rule the referee's decision is final. But every time another pay-per-veiw came around and guys like Earl Hebner were still not only employed but calling main events, my young mind screamed why? We all suspected, even as children with little to no concept of corporate structure, that Jack Tunney was an impotent leader, but it was tall order to guess what could justify keeping them on at the expense of every other finish. Was there some union keeping all these incompetent employees in jobs they could barely perform? Was the threat of an Irish-whip-related workplace injury scaring potential replacements away from the profession? Was it illegal to fire someone for a disability that made them incapable of marking the passage of a normal second? In this case, I never remotely settled on one answer. It was my first experience with analytical paralysis.
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