Hooray for Big Show

[KingofOldSchool]

From pWinsider.com
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A big topic in the Smackdown locker room was an incident that took place at the talent meeting before the show on Tuesday. Neither Vince McMahon nor Jim Ross, who are usually at the meetings, attended this week’s. Ross was in Louisville for OVW. Nobody knows where McMahon was.

This left Johnny "Ace" Laurinaitis to run the meeting. He reportedly mentioned an incident on the first flight of the last week’s long and brutal South Africa trip. Laurinaitis started off by "getting tough" on the Smackdown crew, even though it was common knowledge to everyone there that problem in question was just Bradshaw putting away a few cold ones and getting boisterous on the flight.

As Laurinaitis continued the speech, Big Show spoke up and asked how the company can expect the talent to sit through a session in which talent relations doesn't even thank the talent for the brutal tour and instead chastises them for something that wasn’t really a big deal. Show felt that if the office didn't like a talent’s behavior, they should place direct blame on that person instead of disrespecting everyone's contributions. In the eyes of some, they felt that there was some favoritism shown here since it was Bradshaw, who is tight with the office, that was the person in question and not named.

Later in the meeting there was another incident in which Kurt Angle started to speak up, but when Laurinaitis started looking at Kurt, Angle reportedly backed down and started saying how he wishes everyone was more professional. In the end, the general feeling was that the wrestlers gained a lot of respect for Big Show and probably lost some for Angle.

Johnny Ace reportedly called Big Show a coward who was trying to be a big man and show off by embarrassing him. Ace said that he thought it was funny that every week when Vince and JR rip into talent 10x's as worse as he did, nobody says a thing but when their gone and a man of limited power like Ace himself was in charge, Show voiced his opinions.