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23. 2002 - Albert Gets The Bitch Off His Back

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It mustn’t have been very nice to be Albert. 

He might have thought he had it made. He was a big old bastard who could actually move around a bit, when his hoss peers struggled, and he joined the WWF when “workrate” was low on the list of priorities. In fact, the early Attitude Era undercards were war crimes. 

And then a certain chant haunted his career forever. 

Al-bert. 

Al-bert. 

Al-bert. 

Al-bert. 

Al-bert. 

Al-bert. 

Al-bert. 

Al-bert. 

Al-bert. 

Half-sung in the exact same cadence as the old “Bo-ring” chant, every single Albert match played out against the most flat, toxic, deflating and distracting atmosphere imaginable. If there’s such a thing as a worse atmosphere than the WWE ThunderDome match, an Albert match was it.  

According to the September 9 Wrestling Observer Newsletter, by 2002, he’d had it. And you can barely blame him. At a house show in New Haven, in response to the other chant that meant not a soul could actually pay attention - “Shave your back! Shave your back!” - Albert mooned the crowd.

 
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