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In the spirit of Valentine’s Day this week, I ask a simple question:Does anyone in wrestling want to be loved? The babyface has become an endangered species in the sport.  Very few individuals have embraced the role and done well with it in recent years. Instead, we are in the middle of the golden age of the heel.It is unprecedented in the history of the business that we should not only have so many heels, but also, a lot of them are pretty darn good. Normally, conventional wisdom says that to have evil, you must have good to defeat it.Now, ...

I watched my son cry this weekend. I’ve seen him cry many times before but this one was different.  I saw him cry when he fell off of the couch and landed hard on his head. I saw him cry when I took away his video games. I saw him cry when we saw the sharks at the aquarium.   He’s five, he cries. He sat across from me at the table and began to turn bright red. His bottom lip begins to quiver and he bites it to slow it down. His eyes began to well and he tries not ...

With Husky Harris being banished from television last week the list of Fat Guy heroes has become dangerously…thin. The time is gone when bowling balls with arms and legs ruled the squared circle. Gone are the backhanded compliments.  “My goodness Brain, he sure moves well for a big man!"                                                            Gone are the rotund warriors that gave fat men everywhere hope.  Grown men would shudder in fear when Abdullah the Butcher would stand across from them in the ring. His sheer brutality was the blueprint for what would come to be known as hardcore. Hulk Hogan was never put to a bigger test ...