If Only…
By Scott Keith on 16 April 2019
Hey Scott—
April means non-Mania PPVs at the gym. I was watching Backlash 2003. Totally skippable outside of Rock/Goldberg, due to another Rock-as-heel one man performance. I’m shocked no one had stolen his “Shove ref aside/punch guy in dick” heel spot in the last sixteen years, and I would love to see what you think of the match years later.
Anyhoo, the highlight is Rocky’s pre-match promo. To borrow your phrase, he’s clearly gotten into the good coke, and poor Terri Runnels is close to losing it the entire time.
And then I got sad, because I realized we never got Mean Gene interviewing heel Rock, and we totally could have in 2003 if Vince didn’t believe every backstage interviewer had to come out of a modeling catalogue. Could you even begin to imagine the riffs we would have had between those two?!?
I dunno, I feel like Gene would keep trying to get Rock back on track when he’s going on an extended run, and it wouldn’t work very well. Rock really needed a Coachman that he could bulldoze and then take over the promo himself.