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Show went to WWE, and that started a trend of guys leaving WCW for WWE, that eventually put WCW out of business, that eliminated about 50 spots for wrestlers to work. How exactly is that all good for the industry again?
The point I was making about his jump to WWE was that WWE was in a war with WCW, they were not working together for the better of the industry. They were in fact trying to put the other out of business. Along that line of thinking, the guys in WCW who sacrificed to make Show a star were then pissed on (using Show's logic here not my own) when he went over to WWE to make them money at WCW's expense.
I dont get what people fail to comprehend about being paid a salary to do a job. If you work at McDonalds and flip Burgers, are you a bastard if you then decide to quit McDonalds and become a street perfromer because you love live performance? You dont owe them shit. You did a job for them, they paid you, and thats that.
Lesnar did the wrestling thing, and then decided he didn't want to do it anymore. Should he have given more notice, yeah, but he went out way better than Austin did, and few people rag on Austin like they do Lesnar. I have no problem with people's backwards logic that you have to be "loyal" to the WWE and wrestling in general, but at leats be consistant about it.
As far as passion goes, why does someone have to be passionate about wrestling in order to make a living at it? Bill Goldberg doesn't have a ton of passion for wrestling, but he was really good at it, and made himself and the people around him a ton of money. Thats what they call a win-win situation. The guys who have the most passion tend to be the guys who get shit on the most. The guys like Jericho, Benoit and Guerrero. I'm not trying to put those guys down, but if I were to become a wrestler, I wouldn't pattern myself after those guys, I would look at the guys who took what they could and made the most money as role models (like Nash, Hogan, Goldberg, HHH and others).
Its easy for some of you guys to say "they have to be pasisonate" or "he owes the WWE", but what does Vince McMahon do for the guys when they are no longer of use to him? What, he gives them a payday every now and then to humiliate themsleves. Thats real loyalty there. If Vince McMahon were to show loyalty to all the guys that have lined his pockets with green over the years, then I would say the boys "owe him", but thats not the case, so they should take whatever they can get.
One last thing, one of you guys mentioned Lesnar talking down pro wrestling in comparison to other sports, guess what, wrestling is below all other pro sports. Thats just a fact. Why do you think most wrestlings professional sports resume reads something like this: "Marginal college football player, failed to make it to the pros, then went into wrestling". Wrestlers are in some cases great athletes, but for the most part they are miles behind the average football, basketball or even baseball player. Because if they were good enough to hang with htose guys, they would be in those sports.
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