The WWE's complex "Black" history 

Jeff has the charisma of a Shameless character. "Enigma" was their excuse buzzword for "bad but we're gonna lie about it"

Also Jeff addiction was soo problematic and yet they still gave him the shot

To be fair though, the hardy boys are black

bro that's cap Jeff was levels above Shelton, he had severeal legendary WrestleMania and SummerSlam matches, not just one superkick that made it to highlightreels. Also Jeff was very beloved by the the sparce womens audience in this male dominated product, you don't have that often. He truely was charismatic in his artsy kinda way + of course his outfit and his moveset. Shelton was closer to a default create a wrestler in that kinda regard. + Shelton didn't have the benefit of being part of the attitude era. So please stop with the cope and don't state you subjective opinions as a fact

Shelton Should've Definitely Been A Champion But To Say Jeff Had No Charisma Is Crazy. Man Was Jumping Off Scaffolds

Best bus driver ever 😂

Do you think FD thinking to himself, "damn, how's this gonna sound on the bus though?" while recording now? 😂

I'm 43 in Selma NC, that's a cool bus driver lol

Absolutely badass busman ❤❤❤

@@autoimmunedefficiencysyndrome 50/50 chance

Oh shit, this gonna be good.

There are more theater kids in in Indy wrestling nowadays than people who could be considered "athletes"

How did you think about it?

That’s what I appreciate about the sports entertainment aspect of professional wrestling. Logan Paul thrives off of this aspect, as you can learn the bumps and moves on the fly

@@Loch1210 I'm gonna be completely honest. For most of my life I thought of wrestling as crap, at least the wrestling were talking about here. Mostly because my dad would watch it when I was a kid and I swear it was the only thing he ever seemed happy about. Fiq is who opened my mind up about it. He's piqued my interest, but I still never fully understood it. Prolly still won't (fully) after this video but I'll understand it at least understand it better than I once did.

As a lifelong fan I genuinely don't know if the result of a match has ever been so widely rejected. It was more than just a poor decision in the context of the story, it was a genuine insult.

‏‪54:10

WWE has made a LOT of mistakes, but as far as storytelling and fuckin hell, just making money, this is the dumbest thing they ever did imo. I was dumbfounded then and I am now. Just brutally stupid booking.

Imagine what it could have been. If Booker one. Beating the racist aristocrat triple H for the three clean and proving him wrong. I bet it would have been remembered far more positively if Booker won.

Tell Owen Hart's wife how "fake" wrestling is...

​@stephen9302 He died performing a ridiculously dangerous, STAGED entrance into the ring. I think Owen's wife knows he was in a scripted, sports entertainment industry that has wrestlers perform dangerous acts for the fans thrills. It's a shame how he died, many in the industry say it was unnecessary.

lol it’s cus he wasn’t good at the time let’s be real it took Henry a bit to find himself in pro wrestling

​@@ShadowCloutJutsuHis Hall of Pain run only came about because Vince was effing with him.

And he got that run after the backlash when fans found out that Micheal P Hayes told Henry he wasn't good enough to become champ even if it was his honest opinion at the time but it backfired thankfully we finally got to see Henry cut loose

If they would have booked Mark Henry as just a strong man and a gimmick where he mostly wrestles 2 on 1 and at some point you can redo the slam like Andrea the giant. As much as I love wrestling and I’m a white man there people like Ron Simmons who could have been better if WWF/WWE gave him better storylines. I don’t care about the colour of a wrestler but to often people get over looked because of looks and it doesn’t have to be colour but we all know Vince has said they have to have a look that he likes. Now if I was booking and Brock Lesnar vs Koby Kingston I would have book it the same way that night because it was a shock. Now I would have had Kofi Kingston say “ hey you got lucky i messed up, I want my rematch at the next PLE the match would be at least 15 minutes and Kingston would win clean and keep the championship for at least a year. When you have someone so over go with it and you will make the fans happy and happy fans pay for live events and merchandise.

It took working with Jim Cornette in OVW for Mark Henry to find himself in wrestling.

Thanks for the story! Vince really is a carnie.

Kamala was always one of my Favorites.

I remember him as Sugar Bear Harris before his Kamala gimmick. He seemed like a really good man in real life.

Kamala was responsible for a lot of butts in seats its so unfair that he didnt benefit from the money he made wwe

Cornettes needs to listen to Hedges view on wrestling

I second that 👍👍

The phrase "when someone tells you who they are, believe them" springs to mind. I never really thought Vince was playing a character. It came too easily to him.

@@ThatElfTorunn You can see him discovering "the character" when he went to Memphis. On the one hand, it's cool to see someone learning to present this version of themselves. On the other hand, yeah, you can see the sheer joy in him in letting loose that malice and not having to pretend.

Vince doesn't understand the meaning of kayfabe.

Whose life did he destroy? He's helped more people in his lifetime than you and others will do in ten lifetimes.

@@deepblue8143 Owen Hart and Chris Benoit come to mind

Especially now knowing for sure that Brock was a POS. The stories were there in the past but the most recent one serves as concrete confirmation

Brock, vinces personal ubermensch

Literally two days later was THAT Hell in a Cell match between Seth and The Fiend. It nearly killed both their careers

Combined that with AEW Dynamite's debut beating NXT that week and WWE 2k20's release. WWE couldn't stop taking Ls in 2019

Also, remember that happened on the debut episode of smackdown on Fox.

Kharma was such a "blink and you'll miss it" WWE run due to issues in her personal life at the time, sadly. She deserves more flowers - as Awesome Kong in TNA she was one of the key players in the revival of US women's wrestling!

Yea he forgot to mention the Hall of Pain and that was a big run

You sir are correct He’s been himself since the Montreal screw job at the 1997 Survivor Series

​@@dumisatonyjohnson8145 yep in fact they themselves mention McMahon started to be himself as the villain after the screw job on the "9 lives of Vince McMahon" documentary by vice TV.

He is a rerepublican.

“I love mankind, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the Brothers Karamazov, talking about Vince McMahon and all the other exploitative owners, probably.

IDC how you feel about it but Durag Vince was hilarious 🤣.It seemed like he was being his true self then.Michael Jai White said it best in that you can't hide from the camera.

Literally one of the most evil people. But he definitely knew how to make a wrestler and a good show.

Like he's fucked up but without I just honestly don't see wrestling getting to the level it is today ​@@doejersey

As long as that wrestler has a steroid build that he can drool over.

@@fromoakandrowan2794 "You want your 5 star matches? Your 30 min classics? Not me! I WANT BIG MEATY MEN SLAPPING MEAT"

@@Firebertunironically, he ‘hated’ Kane, so.. somewhat…

This!!!!❤

Rock never embraced black culture. To this day he reps his Pacific Island roots almost exclusively and that's fine. Lets not rewrite history. Versace shirts and gold chains isnt black culture.

@@AJ-lq3jz that’s not true. When he came to the main roster he was traveling with Mark Henry (who he was already living with) and Brian Christopher joined them when he came up to the main roster. The only relative he had on the road in 1997 was Rikishi (aka The Sultan) who traveled with Undertaker & The Godwinns (BSK). Rock is the one who got Mark Henry put into The Nation an entire year afterwards due to their friendship .

No let’s be real here the Rock did not want to be seen as a Black wrestler and he said it on his Insta live when he was talking about Owen being in the Nation. He didn’t have to schuck and jive, that’s not the ONLY thing Black people are good for WTF that in itself just FURTHER proves how and why he tried to alienate himself from being seen as a Black wrestler. It’s why he has ALWAYS carried himself as a Samoan wrestler and ONLY brought up being Black when his father was mentioned. But they ALWAYS put more emphasis on him being Peter Maivia’s grandson. Just look how Samoans are treated. Way better than the Black talent, second only to the White talent. What’s funny is they mostly ALL put on Black man personas aside from Umaga and Roman to get over while The Usos, Rikishi, Rock, kinda Solo. Rosie and Jamal. Like come on…they use Samoans to be their Black culture even though they have actual Black people on the roster. The only Black wrestler Vince ever really liked was Bobby Lashley and he’s one out of HOW MANY? Prime example, the Rock said on his live he put Owen in the Nation because he didn’t want it to be all Black people and didn’t want their angle to be about being Black but it was the WHOLE POINT of the Nation. HE just didn’t want to be boxed in. But anytime a Black celebrity came on the show back then the Rock was the one affiliating with them in some way. He was sure to make us all remember he was Black THEN when he wanted to social climb in those “urban” spaces. He had NO issue ever being called a Samoan wrestler. He never tried to detract from that EVER. Don’t let the fact that he BASED his character off a Black man confuse you. Only being Black when it’s convenient for him isn’t helping his case. Look at him now that he’s more himself in wrestling. He’s NOTHING like how he used to be, not even HALF as good. He basically had to put on Blackface to get where he’s at. Smfh.

@@Yvanehtnioj2000 Exactly, typecasting wasn't the issue, it was the race that was. He knew being seen as black in wrestling would stiffle his career. Truly weapponized his proximity to blackness

Totally unnecessary for storytelling and totally spiteful anti-WCW nonsense on top of implying the racist is correct. A shameful chapter.

Wrestling legend Sting said he didn't go to WWE because he saw how badly they disrespected Booker T and called it "disgraceful treatment of a megastar."

Agreed, losing wasn't so bad. It's the idea that Booker was so weak, he couldn't kick out after almost 20 seconds before a pinfall happened. It was just HHH being spiteful.

That kind of thing is why stevie ray didn't go

To this day I don’t rock w/ Triple H bc of this

I laughed hard at that line.

They had Jesse Owens out there racing horses.

....Kofi Kingston wasn't a "Foundational Black American (FBA),so that doesn't count...

I was so happy to see this in person. It was my very first Wrestlemania and just close enough to Canada. I went on a whim cause it was always a bucket list item for me, and I was so glad it was this one. Being in that audience was otherworldly when Kofi finally got his win.

and it was so incredible seeing Brock end it in 5 seconds. the difference between a real main event star and a forced one

Th fans wanted that belt and him and he deserved to be world champion he paid his dues and earned it.@@BabyMaharaja0

@@BabyMaharaja0he’s not though

​@@BabyMaharaja0yeah, Kofi was able to put on a hell of a show, whereas Brock is just a big guy

Social spaces surrounding wrestling as a sport just have never seemed healthy, and I really think it's because a lot of wrestlers use the violence inherent to the sport to avoid any discomfort they may feel regarding how intimate the sport is.

@@mars7304big agree- all of my wrestling friends and I fall into the category of “you wouldn’t know by looking at us”. As a girl people were always surprised I liked wrestling, and if they were also into it they were heavily skeptical of my bona fides (all girls are fake fans, we know this! 😂). I feel like this is true of so much nerdy fandom though, right? Star Wars fans are literally everyone, but the super fans- toxic AF. Way to try to gatekeep the monoculture!

@@kilgore_trout_37 The hell is monoculture?

​@@kilgore_trout_37 I'm a little confused. I meant wrestling as Foreign meant it. The Greco-Roman style singlet-wearing no-homo contest of a sport. The one in the Olympics.

@@kilgore_trout_37foreign was talking about the actual award

Seriously an epidemic of this lately, and also video essays that turn out to not be essays at all, just a meandering re-reading of a timeline without any point or thesis. I’ve started so many of these that you gotta get halfway through before it’s like- oh, this isn’t going anywhere, we’re just having a chat I guess?

People really yappin’ and saying nothing on this platform. FD saving my sanity.

Agree!

Probably comes from his curriculum admin experience

I find that I'm getting to like 8 minutes with more and more videos and I'm like, "you've said that three times now and haven't gone anywhere else, I know where this is going"

RACIST

One day recently, hearing updates on Big E's neck injury caused me to be in a funk all day. The New Day are brilliant performers and have positively touched so many people. You chose a great time to get out, seeing a man who deserved it get a prize he earned.

​@@darrengordon-hillfor wanting Black wrestlers who kicked ass to be acknowledged?

@@darrengordon-hillbro what

It's stuff like that that gives me pleasure watching their downfall. Yeah I'm being just as petty as them.

@@blackjack23ablethey ain’t going down anytime soon but aew is

The Booker T thing stopped me from consistently watching wrestling ever again.

@@mike04574 But AEW.... - Cult of Mcmahon Worshipper

I remember undertaker beating the shit out of DDP. DDP didn’t even get to touch Taker. It was insane

A black person being a fan of hulk hogan is crazy

@@Tito-ze4hw chill out, I was literally like 7. 😂 What’s really crazy is I thought Hulk was light-skinned until I was 8, after my letter writing campaign 😂,… cuz he said ‘brother’ and I didn’t understand what tanning was. 🥴 I’ve never said this in public… please be gentle 🫣

@@dta1329 lmao that's wild but adorable

@@dta1329You cut out right before one of The Rock shortest and arguably best run(Hollywood). I stayed with it a little longer(like I remember a brand new Kofi Kingston). Wrestling was my favorite thing to watch for half my life.

Glad you got to experience the Kofi story it's pretty incredible. I also stopped watching for a long time around then (I think a lot of folks did.) Also since you mentioned Owen, I'm from Calgary and was lucky enough to meet him and Brett back in the 90s when they came to a Cub Scouts event thing I was at and Owen might have been the nicest and most approachable person I ever met. I'm still kind of in disbelief about what happened to him.

Vince McMahon being grimey is like finding out Santa Clause ain't real all over again🤣

I hope that someday, your dad finally gets what he is owed and so much more. I hope you and your family are doing wonderfully.

Carnie bullshit!

Yeah I heard Jerry Lawler was horrible to his wrestlers when he ran Memphis

Everybody got cheated.

@@ibn1989 I might be biased but I always thought of Lawler as like...the opposite of Stu Hart. I might be indoctrinated since I'm from Calgary but every Stu Hart story I've ever heard was about how he seemed kind of stoic and evil but gave everyone a fair shake and paid people well whereas Lawler seemed super approachable and charismatic and is/was an actual cheapskate and a legit monster.

It helps that the match itself was really good. Bianca especially looked like a million bucks out there.

@@SpiteHook09 Yeah the current womens division is leagues above what it used to be when I was a kid.

I don't watch wrestling but RU-vid showed me the clip you're talking about and even I cried haha

Another thing that made this feel important is the sheer bond that those two seemed to share. Sasha being the often overlooked vet and Bianca being the talented, yet inexperienced and anxious challenger.

​@@fjr4205Pretty sure the full match is available on the WWE's channel

And yet (or at least in my case), we can't stop watching

BIG BLACK DIGGS!

Ok, Im with you. Didnt deserve the squash that he got from Brock. However, at that time, when Kofi had the belt. It didnt feel like the championship was the main event. His run was similar to hangman's reign in aew. Their peaks were winning the belt, their reigns were lackluster and by the end of it they were seen as mid carders again. They were never main event talent and thats fine.

​@@iThinkMyNamesBenH Kofi was absolutely main card talent. His rematch against Daniel Bryan was the only match I watched that entire year. Or did you forget that Kofi reached headline status a decade before up until Randy Orton literally went to management and got him demoted.

Brock Lesnar has been considered overrated since Wrestlemania 30 for breaking the Streak and fighting Bill Goldberg

Almost changed as many times as Big Show turned from face to heel and vice versa.

The 16 time thumbnail changer

pretty sure he changed the title at least once too.

It's so when it pops up in your recommendations you think it's a different video that you weren't interested in before. I added it to my watch later yesterday and today it has different title and thumbnail. I don't even watch wwe videos so idk why they even recommended it to me

👉🏽🥸

😂😂😂😂 I would gladly watch 4 hours

Fr. Brought back some memories. Also made me realize I can't believe how into this I used to be.

@@CollectCarsNotRingsI honestly think that’s a disingenuous reading of their content, they’re just critical of things even the things they like. Hence why FD made a video praising canibus while also being critical of certain things he did. Being critical and being positive or speaking positively aren’t necessarily seperate.

​@CollectCarsNotRings 😂😅😂 Hilarious. The subtle nuances of your sarcastic sense of humor may be lost on the internet.

ikr...im kinda sad now

I’m a 17 years and counting wrestling fan and yeah man the industry can fucking SUCK sometimes. It gets to fly under the radar bc people give all the vitriol to Hollywood and the music industry (deservedly so btw) but pro wrestling can be just as bad

​@@CollectCarsNotRings this gotta be bait

Reminds me of that south park EP. People literally didn't care if it was fake it was about the acting soap opera. Then when a real wrestler complains that make fun of him cuz real wrestling looks gay AF.

lol... is it that bad these days to you or you just kind of grew away from it?

U sound as me

​@reggiejames8626 eye grew away

Watch better wrestling. I promise there is great stuff out there

Well damn

fr this vdeo just completely change my opinion about wrestling and helped me understand why so many people love it

i know this video is about more than wrestling but another good well produced intro into why people like it is found in EmpLemon’s video on Monday Night Raw. It’s really just theatre (not to detract from FD’s point of the video though)

right there with you

Tbh I thought it was a bit disingenuous. Trying to portray what Randy did as racist when in reality REAL wrestling fans know Orton has always had a terrible temper and played in role in several people being fired including Mr Kennedy who was a white man with blonde hair. Meanwhile, he downplayed what Triple H and Michaels did to The Rock (trying to get him fired) as “backstage antics” and claimed the Triple H and Booker storyline had “racist undertones” as though it wasn’t plain, in your face racism. I’m sensing heavy favouritism towards certain white wrestlers.

It was a rip off copy and paste from Bryans story. Nothinf special

Yeah, Iron Sheik is probably a better example

Good luck. RoW is one of the best gateways to NXT. I hope you succeed.

@@thatoneguy9473 Thank you so much!!!

Good luck

I started training at JPWA about 2 years ago. That's Kane and Dr. Tom Prichards school. I ended up breaking my collarbone during training. I haven't been back since I healed. But I definitely want to give it another try.

@@aye_its_karate6169 Omg I'm so sorry about that! Give it another go!!!

she’s an actress, sidney is an actor. he stated what he said correctly

Also, I assumed he meant Best Actor

​@TR-tt1fq the word actress has been obsolete for a fair few years now, they generally just use actor or female actor for women in the field now.

@@user-jb1mb5xh9t if it was obsolete, then the oscar categories would include both sexes instead of their respective categories…

@@TR-tt1fq funnily enough, I don't base my knowledge on whether or not the oscars do it.

I hollered. That was completely unexpected and absolutely appropriate. 😂😂

shit scared tf outta me 😭 i thought i was gonna chill for an hour 😂

It was friggin brilliant!!🤣🤣🤣

Yeah, that was pretty startling and incredible.

Would you happen to have the timestamp of the "stfu" moment?

Aaaaaand he already changed it. Keep surfing that crazy algorithm.

What was it originally ​@@andrewklang809

which one, he's got 20 of them

Meaning ​@@nickjohansen9038

That’s honestly the worst case since that was pretty damn recent and triple h had no business winning that. Also wanted to quickly add that unlike the blatant exploitation of ppl like vigil or the more subtle history behind brock and kofi. This was uncomfortably pretty real with the insults and reality of the situation in the storyline. Brought up crime, the entertainment stereotype and everything. And after overcoming the odds. Triple h made it seem like everything said was right in a structural level. This is the worst one for me for those reasons. The others are either too subtle or blatant for it not to reach that sweet spot of uncanny discrimination and it’s effects in real life. Systemically and in the story. Booker was not meant to win which sucks.

I’ll never forgive him for this

I love hate HHH for that cuz let's be honest without his affairs with Stephanie...i highly doubt he would have been relevant.

​@@wrestlinganime4life288 That's pretty much a lie.

never forget

Watch the match, it's on RU-vid and it's amazing

Dude lived the kayfabe, even after dying.

Rip 🙏

Appreciate the heads up, but we all know anyone who *needed* to be told this is gonna act an ass anyway

You right​@@Fooactabut just thought I'd do my due diligence anyway🤣

Can’t wait for that to drop

thank god please stand up for me bc i cant get behind this one either

I’m ready to start needless drama over a misunderstanding. Where can I set up the pitchfork booth for the time-honored tradition of mob chaos following the public disagreement of two beloved content creators?

This is very much a millennial pov

Yeah JYD was a glaring omission but there's a Dark Side of the Ring that covers him pretty well.

Maybe he didn't see JYD growing up

@@eldraenpharr8222 He also missed Coco B Ware

Yeah, JYD seemed like an obvious mention.

If you haven't seen . Watch when RON SIMMONS won the belt . No lie , I had a tear or two 😂.

a fresh of breath air!! 😂

I have 2 issues with bianca: 1. her character is little ms perfect. she always smiles, she is a tier 1 athlete from a tier 1 college, comes from a good home, says her prayers, eats her vitamins, etc. she is john cena, back when everyone hated john cena, except she gets away with it because she is a black woman. she particularly bores me, and I think I'm not the only one that feels that way, because what's she doing for mania with all the hype behind her? the good news is she looks like she is going heel and hopefully she can pick up some charcter depth she can take with her when she goes back face. 2' now that they have their token black chick, they can continue to shit on the other black women on the roster. so yeah, bianca is on the cover of wwe 2k24 and she has her own reality show, but naomi just got squashed on last week's smackdown, and b-fab cant even get a match on tv. i want black WOMEN to have success in this business, not just a black woman.

Honestly, yeah, she's among my top 3 female wrestlers right now

@@dpo5000 What is wrong with her being a top athlete and coming from a stable household? That's some hater shit to imply she hasn't been through any kind of adversity. Bianca isn't Cena. Cena was the most white meat babyface that ever babyfaced. Whereas face Bianca is still sassy a lot of the time (like that six-woman promo on RAW before elimination chamber 2024). Saying she gets away with anything for being a black girl is almost laughable. People online were racially targeting her for simply being on the cover of a VIDEO GAME just 3 weeks ago. She has to deal with scrutiny like that on a daily basis. Cena doesn't. Your talk about tokenism doesn't make much sense. Naomi/Trinity is actively involved in a storyline at the time of this comment, Jade has been given the star treatment without even having a match, and then you got girls like Lash Legend, Jakara Jackson and Kelani Jordan being regularly featured on NXT. Bianca didn't get the main event push for being a POC, she got the push for having "it" factor.

@@dpo5000Her back story is real, and she’s more likable.

Good luck! I hope you have good experiences pursuing your passion.

Good luck! I hope you make it!

I hope to see you in AEW one day.

Good luck bro

Where you based out of?

Could never get into the new day, as their is a difference between dancing like Too Cold Scorpio and shaking your butt like a unsavory woman.

I still remember when I first saw Bianca on the Mae Young Classic. Green, naturally, but I was rubbing my hands together thinking, “She has it! Give her the same time and grace given to other girls (blondes) and she will run this!” She is legit their woman Cena…which I don’t like completely, because she’s also an amazing heel.

Nice...I'm impressed.

What do you think of Jade? Same, black woman WWE fan and none of my girls give a shit so asking that question to them would go over their heads lol

@@KAlovesherkitties Now, that she’s getting actual training, soooo much potential. They’re setting up this 6-woman tag, so she can get all of her good spots in without getting exposed too soon. PS: Do you watch NXT? Lash Legend and Jakara Jackson are on the come up. Real quick about the men: HBK and JB are doing everything right with Trick, Melo, and Oba.

I would love to sit in on one of his classes

Bruh I also have a whole bunch of paperwork I am ignoring at this moment 😂🫠

The sun never sets on the British empire

Everybody loved Booker T. Those matches with Benoit were epic and that's why everybody loved him.

Kurt Angie whooped his ass for real anyway.. fuckem, he ran from UFC also, rampage Jackson would have whooped his ass

Booker t when I never knew who he was, appeared in WWE, and It was clear that he was one of best wrestlers in the company, when they stopped treating him like a WCW reject

INSANE diksuk!! Dude's a basic racist. How is more of an "expert" on wrestling than.. The wrestling podcasters I regularly listen to??

@@darrengordon-hill Hmmm, INSANE diksuk....is that an insult or an offer? 😘

​@@FishareFriendsNotFood972 Neither. It's whats branded on his butt cheek.

@@d2dar459 The clown car didn't take long to drop that one off, did they?

@@RevShifty Lol

You got the story about Sputnik Monroe partly incorrect, as black people was already attending the shows in the "crow nest", which was section for black people in the segregated building way before Sputnik Monroe was wrestling for that promotion. Even when the building was half full black people was not allowed to move out of the crows nest to sit closer to the ring. Monroe became popular with black people and the younger white audience, as if you look at the local year books from the time you will see some of the guys sporting blonde streak that Monroe was known for. Monroe was around black people outside of the ring because he like the music, the company, and the drink. He got arrested for that and had a local black lawyer represent him. Ultimately he took a stand and said that he would not wrestle in that building if black people had to remain in the crow nest and when they ended segregation in the building he made it a point to tear down the crow nest. In the end the promotion made money because black people was no longer limited to a small section of the arena. Also, he teamed with a black wrestler and it they made it seems that was his son as well. He got heat for doing the right thing and actually being against anti-black racism during a time were far too many people stayed quiet those issues.

@@EyeOfTheWatcher Thx for the added depth

Seriously. I haven't watched or cared about wrestling in 30+ years. And I'm still going to watch FD talk about it for almost an hour and a half. Sometimes caring about a creator's work takes effort. But FD will make it all seem worth it and like it was no no big deal.