Lance Evers remembers well the night in Philadelphia in 1998. It's hard not to because wrestling fans still bring it up nearly a decade later. The show was an Extreme Championship Wrestling pay-per-view called Barely Legal. And Evers was booed out of the building.
His crime?
"I still get e-mails from fans asking me what was up with the weak chair shots," Evers said. "It got me booed that night. But I just wasn't comfortable with killing the guy." Wait a minute. Evers is a professional wrestler, right? And wrestling is fake, right?
It is. But the chairs aren't.
"Unfortunately guys are expected to take chair shots to the head or dangerous bumps," said Evers, who wrestled under the name Lance Storm. "And a lot of guys want to perform and worry about the consequences later."...More?
source: timesleader.com
September 12, 2007
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