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Monday, January 18, 2010

Who is the True Heavy Weight Wrestling Champion?

Posted by Efoghor Joseph Ezie on 12:46:00 PM

Pin It Now! There are no doubt, wrestlers with reputation, skills and enviable records, but the question is, of all the wrestlers who have at one time or the other laid claim to being the champion, who is the true heavy weight wrestling champion now that some of the champions have emerged through different means – both acceptable and unacceptable in the sight and opinion of the fans? Most of the fights that have produced champions have been marred by irregularities, assists from outside and walking in through the back door. One of such fights I watched was the one between Mark Henry and Undertaker. Undertaker eventually emerged the winner but was still in the pool of his own blood after he was badly injured by Mark Henry. Suddenly Edge came out from nowhere to challenge the same Undertaker that had just finished an energy sapping contest and had not even stood up because of his injury; he won the fight and to my surprise the umpire rang the bell in favour of Edge. If they were truly looking for a champion who merited to be called a champion why wouldn’t they stage a new fight between Edge and Undertaker after the latter might have fully recovered?
Another case study was the fight between Edge and Jeff Hardy which Jeff Hardy won and no sooner was he declared champion than C.M. Punk rushed into the ring and floored Jeff, and ran away with the belt thereby making Jeff Hardy the champion with the shortest reign in wrestling history. What do you think wrestling is turning into? A place of merit or a place of cheating? What makes a true champion, is it when you are able to stake your reputation and win a fight respectfully or when you think that the end justifies the means and you go ahead to employ all dubious tactics in order to win because you are desperate to be a champion?
There are quite a number of these wrestlers who are physically strong and skillful – John Cena, Triple H, Undertaker, Great Khali, JBL, Chris Jericho, Jeff Hardy, Shaun Michael, C.M. Punk, Kane, Ray Mysterio, Baptista, Mark Henry, Bobby, Raw Van Dann, Big Show, etc but only few of them have shown they deserve to be true champion by winning their titles in such a clean and respectful manner. We need a champion that would be universally acceptable like what we have in Boxing, athletics, golf, marathon, motor sport, cycling, bowling, rowing, skating, tennis, swimming and other sports and not those whose titles are questionable. It doesn’t matter how long or how short a belt stays with the champion, what matters is that he deserves to hold the title and did not get it through a dubious means. We need wrestlers who will command respect like Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Carl Lewis, Michael Phelps, Gabriel Silasie, Hamilton, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Mohammed Ali, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd MayWeather Jr, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Kaka, Christiano Ronaldo, etc who earned their title by working assiduously for it without resorting to the use of thugs or set up.
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