Hitman
Crush (my hero :D)
Shawn Michaels
YokozunaThe best feature of WWF in my opinion was the way the matches were held/handled. It'd never be monotonous. 'Heroes' (during their initial) will have a lot of matches with unheard wrestlers so that they can thwart those kids and establish their popularity. There is always a discrimination between good and evil; and good heroes always keep smiling, entertain their audience a lot, gift their audience with sunglasses and arm bands while the evil always remain in anger, keep shouting and are immoral when it comes to their attitude. The fight between the good and evil comes up once in a while and the ratings skyrocket during these clashes. The best part is good always wins over evil but not so easily. Initially the super hero undergoes a lot of suffering and pain; and in the end, out of nowhere the hero wins and is declared the champion. The drama is stereotype when it comes to 'tag team' matches. Pair 1 and pair 2 clash - person 1 from pair 1 (the good pair) is hit hard by person 2 from pair 2 (the evil pair) and at the end, pair 2 decides to change roles by tagging person 1 and giving him his chance to hit the already exhausted person 1 from pair 1. Just when person 1 from pair 2 reaches out to hit him, the weak gains power from nowhere and tags his partner who is a superhero. The superhero steps in, destroys both elements from pair 2 and destiny is reversed - the good wins over the evil. There was a time when I argued that all this is true but as I developed a little bit of maturity, I understood the drama behind the entertainment and my interested slowly faded off. After I quit watching, there had been a lot of improvements in the 'masala' behind WWF and now there are girls coming out half-naked with the wrestlers and the whole story is fabricated just as it happens in real life (wrestler 1's GF insulting his partner - wrestler 2 and they become enemies; & stuff like that). I've added the video of one of the most dramatized heroes - 'The Undertaker'
After a decade (ok... more than a decade :D), I got the same feeling when I watched the IPL matches. Some players a paid a huge chunk of money and made heroes - classic example Dhoni, Symonds and so on. Out of these there are good heroes (like Dhoni) and evil heroes (like Symonds - read http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,23016114-23212,00.html if you don't know why). The matches keep happening and some teams keep winning, some teams keep losing while some others win and lose. Just when everyone thinks that the team that lost the first four matches has no way to come in to the top few, the team starts playing like a champion and thwarts the other teams (read heroes suffering first and winning later). At one point there would be more than five teams competing for the top four places and nothing could be decided until the last few matches. The audience thoroughly enjoy the action providing expert comments on the shots played, the line and length of the balls bowled, the fielding, the captaincy, the commitment of the teams, the cheerleaders and whether or not these cheerleaders affect Indian culture; based on their rich experience as viewers. I couldn't control my smile seeing the same spirit I had in me thirteen or fourteen years back; in these grown-up kids enjoying the magic created by a similar show with a better drama behind it.
Cricket or WWF, the bottom line is money and actors, politicians and industrialists are not crazy to invest their money on something that has no clear trends. Whether it makes sense to watch these matches or not; it sure does make sense from the perspective of the investors. After all, it's value for their money and if I were them, I would've invested at least as much in IPL. :)
P.S: With little idea on the algorithm behind the matches, I feel that Chennai Super kings would win the cup given that it stars the Indian captain (superhero) who has been offered the maximum remuneration. After all more investment = more returns.
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