2002: The Year In Crap

**FakeLaser** · 03-13-2006, 01:16 AM

This was probably my most popular column that I wrote for www.thesmartmarks.com back a few years ago. I wrote this on January 14th, 2003. I figured I'd post it for the hell of it.

2002 : The Year In Crap

I hope you guys all had a great 2002. I know that mine was pretty lackluster in some areas, but it did have it�s brief shining moments, much like WWE in 2002. Now, I�m not here to look at those brief shining moments, you Benoit vs. Angle matches, the Smackdown 6 tag matches, Booker T and Goldust, or when Chris Jericho was the champion. No, I�m here to examine the crap that we�ve put up with this year as loyal WWE fans.

There has been one particular individual this year, that was centered around a lot of crap. In fact, he was involved in SO much crap, that he�ll be getting his own section in this article. Of course, I�m talking about...

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TRIPLE H.

Okay, I know us so called �smart marks� get a lot of flack from our constant mocking of this once talented roid monster, but I call em� as I see em�. Nobody was involved in more crappy angles this year than Triple H. Triple H returned to WWE in January of 2002 amidst MONTHS of hype and video packages. I was a HHH mark back then, I�ll admit. I was a big fan of the guy. I was hyped for his return. But when he returned, we got a Triple H who was a shadow of his former self. No longer could he put on ***** matches. Instead of the muscle bound, charismatic, brawling master of psychology Triple H we had in 2000, we got a steroid pumping, boring, lumbering, politicking master of crappy and predictable angles.

The first crappy angle Triple H was involved in this year was...

Triple H and Stephanie Renew their vows
There was a problem when HHH debuted. You see, HHH was still �married� to Stephanie McMahon, who was still a heel. WWF looked to push Trips as a face, so he couldn�t be boning Steph anymore, at least on screen. Tension was placed between the two, where HHH bitched at Stephanie for being self centered. Pot. Kettle. Black.

This made Stephanie sad, so she tried to win HHH back by saying she was pregnant! This changed EVERYTHING, in the eyes of Hunter, because soon there would be a little kid with a huge nose and huge tits running around that he�d have to look after. Triple H decided to agree to renew their �wedding� vows in yet another wedding angle on RAW.

Beforehand, Stephanie had a �doctor� come by to show her �husband� the ultrasound. Well, it turned out that Stephanie was *GASP* lying. Linda McMahon called Hunter up minutes before the ceremony and told him to watch the tape he sent her, which was of the so called �doctor� shilling for some vacation spot. This made HHH ANGRY!!!!

Weddings of any form have pretty much sucked in WWE, except for Savage/Elizabeth. This was no different than the others. Stephanie delivered her heart felt speech, and in return, HHH called her a lying cheating bitch. He pedigreed Vince, who was steaming mad. He then shoved Stephanie down. This lead to the only good thing to come of this angle, the first of Stephanie�s nipple slips!

After Stephanie covered herself up again, she roared at the camera, with an ultra evil face, that still haunts me in my sleep. This wasn�t as bad as what the angle lead to though...

Triple H vs. Chris Jericho
2002 started out in a positive light for most �smart marks.� One of their favorite wrestlers, the ultra talented and charismatic Chris Jericho, who was long a victim of the glass ceiling, had shattered that ceiling and rose to the top of the mountain as the first ever Undisputed Champion in the then WWF. Jericho�s revamped heel act, combined with his great in ring ability lead to great matches and great TV. Along came Triple H to mess things up. Triple H won a very predictable Royal Rumble, and set his sights on the Undisputed title.

Chris Jericho looked to gain an edge on the Cerebral Ass by enlisting Hunter�s former main squeeze, Stephanie McMahon, ultra heel. It seemed like a logical match, but soon we would learn that this was a dreadful mistake.

Triple H has complained that his Wrestlemania X-8 match had little to no heat because of Chris Jericho. Well, it�s kind of hard to draw a crowd reaction when you�re following Rock/Hogan. Another reason why this match had no heat behind it, was the horrible booking. Chris Jericho was relegated to the role of Stephanie McMahon�s bitch. He did her dirty work. He CLEANED UP DOG SHIT FOR HER. The whole angle was booked as HHH vs. Stephanie McMahon. Chris Jericho, the first undisputed champion was treated mainly as window dressing to the battle of the egos. Hell, Lucy, Triple H�s dog was more of a topic of dispute during this feud than was Jericho or his world title.

Jericho and Lucy quickly became friends. Jericho took care of and looked after Lucy, until her death. She was hit by a car, after Jericho carelessly left her tied up in a careless position. RIP Lucy, you�ll be missed.

The match itself was decent... though predictable. It wasn�t nearly as good as their past meetings. The aftermath of the match was no treat either.

To make matters worse, the following week, Jericho received a rematch, but not just any rematch. It was a three way match, HHH vs. Jericho vs....

Stephanie McMahon.

That�s right, STEPHANIE MCMAHON, of all people, got a title shot, and even picked up a few near falls. Triple H held on, and began his hatred for one of the most charismatic and talented showman out there today, Chris Jericho, who sunk to midcard hell and went on month long losing streaks as a result. His summer consisted of jobbing to newcomers like John Cena and over the hill guys like Ric Flair. Wow, way to treat the first Undisputed Champion.

Jericho never got another rematch for the title with Hunter during this reign. Jericho wouldn�t get another shot at Hunter�s title until the Elimination Chamber match at Survivor Series.

Another interesting thing about that match was the special stipulation. If Stephanie lost, then she�d never be allowed on WWE TV again. Well, looks like that one has been broken.

A fine example of Triple H using up TV time:
Remember back when HHH was feuding with The Undertaker? Of course you do, it lead to one of the worst main events of the year. I�m sure you all remember the fateful night where Triple H staged a sit in. Taker wouldn�t come to the ring though, so Triple H sat there for about... oh three segments, until he got pissed off and started hitting random things with a sledgehammer, including a camera. This went on for about 30 minutes. Way to open up your show and draw potential new viewers, WWE! A guy hitting stuff with a sledgehammer... really, where do they come up with this stuff?

Anyway...

Triple H continued to stink up WWE rings, with Pay Per View matches with Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker, which were borderline duds. His ego had obviously ballooned, and he was beginning to take up even more TV time than he used to. Triple H found a good angle between he and Shawn Michaels, but once that was over (for the first time anyway), he moved onto the most dreadful angle of the year.

Triple H vs. Kane : Necrophillia
Kane had been out for the beginning part of the year with an injury. He returned to RAW in August, and immediately pissed on his bad ass image by busting out the Kane-aroony AND by returning wearing a costume that showed MUCH of his body, and was covered in seat belts for some odd reason. I thought Kane was all about fire safety, not car safety, but hey, I guess he�s versatile. Kane as a whole this year was crap in itself. All of the continuity in his gimmick was shot to hell. Kane shows much of his body now, and his face, both of which are supposedly very badly burnt. He talks normally now, but just a few years ago, he couldn�t talk without the use of a voice box. All of the sudden, he�s stealing Hulk Hogan�s catchphrases and calling his fans �Kaneennites.�

Kane, who used to be a decent talent for a man of his size, was ultimately pissed on by this angle. Whatever continuity his gimmick had left, which was little, was destroyed when Triple H uttered these now infamous words...

�Kane... YOU�RE A MURDERER.�

Yes, you heard right. A murder angle ALONE is fucking terrible, but it goes MUCH further than this. At this point, I can feel Russo�s presence. According to Triple H, Kane had killed a girl, Katie Vick, years ago. Now let me backtrack. Wasn�t Kane outcasted from society after he was badly burnt as a child? I thought he secretly lived in Paul Bearer�s basement for years, and was building up rage to ultimately get revenge on the Undertaker. We�re supposed to forget all of that stuff at the drop of a hat? Oh, that�s right, we�re stupid wrestling fans, we�re not supposed to remember anything more than 2 years old. What, did Paul Bearer let Kane out periodically to party with friends? I don�t think so.

Kane defended himself by saying that it was an accident. You see, he was out partying (while he was badly burnt, mind you. Maybe it was a support group party), and he took home a friend (Oh yeah, Kane was a real socialite, considering the fact he couldn�t talk and was burnt from head to toe) that had drank too much. Kane was the designated driver, but he lost control (He apparently couldn�t drive a stick shift), crashed, and Katie was killed on impact.

Okay, this angle is already retarded enough. But wait, it GETS EVEN WORSE.

Triple H hadn�t had enough. He claimed that Kane was out of control that night, and forced sex on Katie. That�s not all though.

�The question is Kane, did you have sex with Katie while she was alive... or did you wait until she was already dead?�

Yes, you heard right. Necrophilia. Necro-FUCKING-philia in a wrestling show. I thought I had seen it all. I�ve seen an 80+ year old woman give birth to a hand. I�ve seen the strongest man in the world make out with a hermaphrodite. I�ve seen a bunch of deranged Japanese guys attempt to castrate a former porn star, who slept with one of their wives. But Necrophilia takes things to a whole new level.

I don�t know what WWE was attempting to aim for here. I think they were trying to be funny, because Triple H soon claimed that he had proof that Kane had fucked Katie while she was dead. Triple H made a video of himself in a Kane mask, fucking a mannequin, which was oddly dressed in a cheerleader outfit, inside a coffin. He even brought the mannequin down to the ring to taunt Kane. All of this got a huge �WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?� reaction from the crowds, and rightly so.

How did Kane retaliate? Well, his good buddy, The Hurricane; who had recently been traded to RAW to job on Heat and get squashed on RAW, despite being more talented than most of the RAW roster; made himself his own video. This time it was of himself in a Triple H mask, at the hospital. Doctors were pulling various objects out of his ass. Some might have found this video funny, but I just thought it was flat out... weird.

This crappy angle finally culminated with a horrible blowoff match that killed off the IC title at No Mercy. This angle gets my vote for the worst angle of the year. It�s fucking ridiculous, crapped on Kane�s career, and destroyed the number two title in WWE. I couldn�t do a worse job if I tried.

Time for a non-HHH angle. This one is only related to HHH, as it involves his friends.

nWo 2002
In January of 2002, Vince McMahon had suffered a loss to Ric Flair at the Royal Rumble, which gave Ric Flair control of the company. Vince McMahon said that Ric Flair was going to kill the then WWF. Vince decided that no one was going to kill WWE except himself. He began airing these spooky vignettes about a LETHAL DOSE OF POISON entering the WWF, that would KILL IT. Well, they didn�t kill anything. They didn�t really do much of anything at all, actually. All they did was drive fans away and kill ratings. Hmm, I guess they WERE poison...

At the time, rumors were circulating the net that over the hill, former stars Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash were returning to WWE to help spike ratings. The net was divided on the issue. Some were nostalgic about it, and looked foward to the angle, but most seemed to reject the idea of these three trouble making has-beens making their way to McMahon-land again. The deal was sealed when McMahon revealed the letters nWo (Actually, he had oWn on the back of his chair, it was in the mirror. Fortunately, we were spared the return of The Ultimate Warrior and his one Warrior nation) on the back of his chair during the last McMahon poison promo.

The stage was set for these three backstage cancers to debut at the fittingly named No Way Out. They made an impact that night, costing Steve Austin the title. So far, the angle didn�t seem that bad. They were built up as a legitimate threat, and they just costed the number one man in the company the title.

Austin was angry, so to get back at the nWo, he tied them up and tortured them. He drank beer in front of Scott Hall, and didn�t give him any. That was hilarious. He got his pal Bradshaw (whom I�ll cover later in this article) to team up with him, and face them in horrible tag matches about 2839047298374923847198723 times in one month. Hall eventually got a match at Wrestlemania X-8 with Austin, which was the start of Austin�s frustrations with WWE. So basically, Austin was sacrificed in favor of these over the hill, has-beens. On top of all that, no one gave a flying fuck about Hall or Nash. Maybe because Kevin Nash didn�t do... anything. He was more of a manager. He injured his arm, which prevented him from wrestling at all anyway. No one really knows how he did it either. My guess is from combing his hair. Either that or from spray painting people.

One interesting angle sprung from this in The Rock vs. Hulk Hogan. The magnitude of these two squaring off puts plenty of heat on this match already. But no, WWE had to go one step further. They had Hogan beat up The Rock with a hammer. An ambulance took him away, but Hall and Nash blocked the exit, and threw all the EMTs out! Hogan got in an 18 wheeler, and rammed into the ambulance at full speed. How... retarded. I don�t know how anyone over the age of 6 was supposed to believe that angle. Even more retarded, 2 weeks later, The Rock returned to action, despite being hit by an 18 wheeler.

03-13-2006, 01:16 AM	#1
FakeLaser continental drift Posts: 46,731	2002: The Year In Crap This was probably my most popular column that I wrote for www.thesmartmarks.com back a few years ago. I wrote this on January 14th, 2003. I figured I'd post it for the hell of it. 2002 : The Year In Crap I hope you guys all had a great 2002. I know that mine was pretty lackluster in some areas, but it did have it�s brief shining moments, much like WWE in 2002. Now, I�m not here to look at those brief shining moments, you Benoit vs. Angle matches, the Smackdown 6 tag matches, Booker T and Goldust, or when Chris Jericho was the champion. No, I�m here to examine the crap that we�ve put up with this year as loyal WWE fans. There has been one particular individual this year, that was centered around a lot of crap. In fact, he was involved in SO much crap, that he�ll be getting his own section in this article. Of course, I�m talking about... Wait for it... Wait for it... WAIT FOR IT.. TRIPLE H. Okay, I know us so called �smart marks� get a lot of flack from our constant mocking of this once talented roid monster, but I call em� as I see em�. Nobody was involved in more crappy angles this year than Triple H. Triple H returned to WWE in January of 2002 amidst MONTHS of hype and video packages. I was a HHH mark back then, I�ll admit. I was a big fan of the guy. I was hyped for his return. But when he returned, we got a Triple H who was a shadow of his former self. No longer could he put on *** matches. Instead of the muscle bound, charismatic, brawling master of psychology Triple H we had in 2000, we got a steroid pumping, boring, lumbering, politicking master of crappy and predictable angles. The first crappy angle Triple H was involved in this year was... Triple H and Stephanie Renew their vows** There was a problem when HHH debuted. You see, HHH was still �married� to Stephanie McMahon, who was still a heel. WWF looked to push Trips as a face, so he couldn�t be boning Steph anymore, at least on screen. Tension was placed between the two, where HHH bitched at Stephanie for being self centered. Pot. Kettle. Black. This made Stephanie sad, so she tried to win HHH back by saying she was pregnant! This changed EVERYTHING, in the eyes of Hunter, because soon there would be a little kid with a huge nose and huge tits running around that he�d have to look after. Triple H decided to agree to renew their �wedding� vows in yet another wedding angle on RAW. Beforehand, Stephanie had a �doctor� come by to show her �husband� the ultrasound. Well, it turned out that Stephanie was GASP lying. Linda McMahon called Hunter up minutes before the ceremony and told him to watch the tape he sent her, which was of the so called �doctor� shilling for some vacation spot. This made HHH ANGRY!!!! Weddings of any form have pretty much sucked in WWE, except for Savage/Elizabeth. This was no different than the others. Stephanie delivered her heart felt speech, and in return, HHH called her a lying cheating bitch. He pedigreed Vince, who was steaming mad. He then shoved Stephanie down. This lead to the only good thing to come of this angle, the first of Stephanie�s nipple slips! After Stephanie covered herself up again, she roared at the camera, with an ultra evil face, that still haunts me in my sleep. This wasn�t as bad as what the angle lead to though... Triple H vs. Chris Jericho 2002 started out in a positive light for most �smart marks.� One of their favorite wrestlers, the ultra talented and charismatic Chris Jericho, who was long a victim of the glass ceiling, had shattered that ceiling and rose to the top of the mountain as the first ever Undisputed Champion in the then WWF. Jericho�s revamped heel act, combined with his great in ring ability lead to great matches and great TV. Along came Triple H to mess things up. Triple H won a very predictable Royal Rumble, and set his sights on the Undisputed title. Chris Jericho looked to gain an edge on the Cerebral Ass by enlisting Hunter�s former main squeeze, Stephanie McMahon, ultra heel. It seemed like a logical match, but soon we would learn that this was a dreadful mistake. Triple H has complained that his Wrestlemania X-8 match had little to no heat because of Chris Jericho. Well, it�s kind of hard to draw a crowd reaction when you�re following Rock/Hogan. Another reason why this match had no heat behind it, was the horrible booking. Chris Jericho was relegated to the role of Stephanie McMahon�s bitch. He did her dirty work. He CLEANED UP DOG SHIT FOR HER. The whole angle was booked as HHH vs. Stephanie McMahon. Chris Jericho, the first undisputed champion was treated mainly as window dressing to the battle of the egos. Hell, Lucy, Triple H�s dog was more of a topic of dispute during this feud than was Jericho or his world title. Jericho and Lucy quickly became friends. Jericho took care of and looked after Lucy, until her death. She was hit by a car, after Jericho carelessly left her tied up in a careless position. RIP Lucy, you�ll be missed. The match itself was decent... though predictable. It wasn�t nearly as good as their past meetings. The aftermath of the match was no treat either. To make matters worse, the following week, Jericho received a rematch, but not just any rematch. It was a three way match, HHH vs. Jericho vs.... Stephanie McMahon. That�s right, STEPHANIE MCMAHON, of all people, got a title shot, and even picked up a few near falls. Triple H held on, and began his hatred for one of the most charismatic and talented showman out there today, Chris Jericho, who sunk to midcard hell and went on month long losing streaks as a result. His summer consisted of jobbing to newcomers like John Cena and over the hill guys like Ric Flair. Wow, way to treat the first Undisputed Champion. Jericho never got another rematch for the title with Hunter during this reign. Jericho wouldn�t get another shot at Hunter�s title until the Elimination Chamber match at Survivor Series. Another interesting thing about that match was the special stipulation. If Stephanie lost, then she�d never be allowed on WWE TV again. Well, looks like that one has been broken. A fine example of Triple H using up TV time: Remember back when HHH was feuding with The Undertaker? Of course you do, it lead to one of the worst main events of the year. I�m sure you all remember the fateful night where Triple H staged a sit in. Taker wouldn�t come to the ring though, so Triple H sat there for about... oh three segments, until he got pissed off and started hitting random things with a sledgehammer, including a camera. This went on for about 30 minutes. Way to open up your show and draw potential new viewers, WWE! A guy hitting stuff with a sledgehammer... really, where do they come up with this stuff? Anyway... Triple H continued to stink up WWE rings, with Pay Per View matches with Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker, which were borderline duds. His ego had obviously ballooned, and he was beginning to take up even more TV time than he used to. Triple H found a good angle between he and Shawn Michaels, but once that was over (for the first time anyway), he moved onto the most dreadful angle of the year. Triple H vs. Kane : Necrophillia Kane had been out for the beginning part of the year with an injury. He returned to RAW in August, and immediately pissed on his bad ass image by busting out the Kane-aroony AND by returning wearing a costume that showed MUCH of his body, and was covered in seat belts for some odd reason. I thought Kane was all about fire safety, not car safety, but hey, I guess he�s versatile. Kane as a whole this year was crap in itself. All of the continuity in his gimmick was shot to hell. Kane shows much of his body now, and his face, both of which are supposedly very badly burnt. He talks normally now, but just a few years ago, he couldn�t talk without the use of a voice box. All of the sudden, he�s stealing Hulk Hogan�s catchphrases and calling his fans �Kaneennites.� Kane, who used to be a decent talent for a man of his size, was ultimately pissed on by this angle. Whatever continuity his gimmick had left, which was little, was destroyed when Triple H uttered these now infamous words... �Kane... YOU�RE A MURDERER.� Yes, you heard right. A murder angle ALONE is fucking terrible, but it goes MUCH further than this. At this point, I can feel Russo�s presence. According to Triple H, Kane had killed a girl, Katie Vick, years ago. Now let me backtrack. Wasn�t Kane outcasted from society after he was badly burnt as a child? I thought he secretly lived in Paul Bearer�s basement for years, and was building up rage to ultimately get revenge on the Undertaker. We�re supposed to forget all of that stuff at the drop of a hat? Oh, that�s right, we�re stupid wrestling fans, we�re not supposed to remember anything more than 2 years old. What, did Paul Bearer let Kane out periodically to party with friends? I don�t think so. Kane defended himself by saying that it was an accident. You see, he was out partying (while he was badly burnt, mind you. Maybe it was a support group party), and he took home a friend (Oh yeah, Kane was a real socialite, considering the fact he couldn�t talk and was burnt from head to toe) that had drank too much. Kane was the designated driver, but he lost control (He apparently couldn�t drive a stick shift), crashed, and Katie was killed on impact. Okay, this angle is already retarded enough. But wait, it GETS EVEN WORSE. Triple H hadn�t had enough. He claimed that Kane was out of control that night, and forced sex on Katie. That�s not all though. �The question is Kane, did you have sex with Katie while she was alive... or did you wait until she was already dead?� Yes, you heard right. Necrophilia. Necro-FUCKING-philia in a wrestling show. I thought I had seen it all. I�ve seen an 80+ year old woman give birth to a hand. I�ve seen the strongest man in the world make out with a hermaphrodite. I�ve seen a bunch of deranged Japanese guys attempt to castrate a former porn star, who slept with one of their wives. But Necrophilia takes things to a whole new level. I don�t know what WWE was attempting to aim for here. I think they were trying to be funny, because Triple H soon claimed that he had proof that Kane had fucked Katie while she was dead. Triple H made a video of himself in a Kane mask, fucking a mannequin, which was oddly dressed in a cheerleader outfit, inside a coffin. He even brought the mannequin down to the ring to taunt Kane. All of this got a huge �WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?� reaction from the crowds, and rightly so. How did Kane retaliate? Well, his good buddy, The Hurricane; who had recently been traded to RAW to job on Heat and get squashed on RAW, despite being more talented than most of the RAW roster; made himself his own video. This time it was of himself in a Triple H mask, at the hospital. Doctors were pulling various objects out of his ass. Some might have found this video funny, but I just thought it was flat out... weird. This crappy angle finally culminated with a horrible blowoff match that killed off the IC title at No Mercy. This angle gets my vote for the worst angle of the year. It�s fucking ridiculous, crapped on Kane�s career, and destroyed the number two title in WWE. I couldn�t do a worse job if I tried. Time for a non-HHH angle. This one is only related to HHH, as it involves his friends. nWo 2002 In January of 2002, Vince McMahon had suffered a loss to Ric Flair at the Royal Rumble, which gave Ric Flair control of the company. Vince McMahon said that Ric Flair was going to kill the then WWF. Vince decided that no one was going to kill WWE except himself. He began airing these spooky vignettes about a LETHAL DOSE OF POISON entering the WWF, that would KILL IT. Well, they didn�t kill anything. They didn�t really do much of anything at all, actually. All they did was drive fans away and kill ratings. Hmm, I guess they WERE poison... At the time, rumors were circulating the net that over the hill, former stars Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash were returning to WWE to help spike ratings. The net was divided on the issue. Some were nostalgic about it, and looked foward to the angle, but most seemed to reject the idea of these three trouble making has-beens making their way to McMahon-land again. The deal was sealed when McMahon revealed the letters nWo (Actually, he had oWn on the back of his chair, it was in the mirror. Fortunately, we were spared the return of The Ultimate Warrior and his one Warrior nation) on the back of his chair during the last McMahon poison promo. The stage was set for these three backstage cancers to debut at the fittingly named No Way Out. They made an impact that night, costing Steve Austin the title. So far, the angle didn�t seem that bad. They were built up as a legitimate threat, and they just costed the number one man in the company the title. Austin was angry, so to get back at the nWo, he tied them up and tortured them. He drank beer in front of Scott Hall, and didn�t give him any. That was hilarious. He got his pal Bradshaw (whom I�ll cover later in this article) to team up with him, and face them in horrible tag matches about 2839047298374923847198723 times in one month. Hall eventually got a match at Wrestlemania X-8 with Austin, which was the start of Austin�s frustrations with WWE. So basically, Austin was sacrificed in favor of these over the hill, has-beens. On top of all that, no one gave a flying fuck about Hall or Nash. Maybe because Kevin Nash didn�t do... anything. He was more of a manager. He injured his arm, which prevented him from wrestling at all anyway. No one really knows how he did it either. My guess is from combing his hair. Either that or from spray painting people. One interesting angle sprung from this in The Rock vs. Hulk Hogan. The magnitude of these two squaring off puts plenty of heat on this match already. But no, WWE had to go one step further. They had Hogan beat up The Rock with a hammer. An ambulance took him away, but Hall and Nash blocked the exit, and threw all the EMTs out! Hogan got in an 18 wheeler, and rammed into the ambulance at full speed. How... retarded. I don�t know how anyone over the age of 6 was supposed to believe that angle. Even more retarded, 2 weeks later, The Rock returned to action, despite being hit by an 18 wheeler.