Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

I caught the infamous Hornswoggle tough love segment from Raw, after reading about how "disturbing" and "emotional" the segment was supposed to be.  Turns out, that I thought this entire bit was funny as hell!  I started cheering JBL and McMahon in seeing this little midget get his ass literally whipped.  But the whole Hornswoggle tough-love thing got me thinking about McMahon's view of the world.

In some ways, I think this segment is representative of how McMahon approaches life and perhaps even perceives life.  Think back to the 80's and early 90's of the WWF where you had pure squash matches.  In other federations, matches seemed more competitive where you would have some level of competition between wrestlers.  In the WWF though, the only competition would occur during big events or house shows.  During TV segments, it was mostly jobber vs oversized star bouts.

But I kinda think that the psychology in those matches actually went beyond the cannon's view of how they were tools to make their key wrestlers look like stars.  I seriously think that those matches were McMahon's demonic visions of how he wanted to conquer the world.  In some ways, it reminded me of those bizarre anime shows where you'd have this monstrously dominating force/evil doer against some tiny hero.  The tiny hero ends up getting the duke because they were symbolic of Japan's small stature against the world (especially America).  But I'm certain likewise, the animators probably felt some sadistic glee in coming up with these bad guys who could decimate nations with their immense arsenal (and ego).

Nonetheless, you gotta wonder why McMahon has such a fascination with huge wrestlers.  Some people attribute it to his love of body building.  Others describe it as him only being able to respect people who are bigger and badder than him.  I see it as him living vicariously through these wrestlers squashing other people.

Anyway, that segment was quite entertaining for me.  I had my pay off, which was to see some little short guy get beaten up.  Pretty funny.  Too bad Finlay was involved because he's cool.  Hopefully, this leads to a good match some place for him.