>- letting heels cheat. why no more grabbing the trunks for the
>pinfall? why no more doing malicious shit behind the ref's
>back? vince has all but forgotten how to get real heat on a
>heel. either that, or he's so overly-concerned about being PG
>and setting a positive example for kids that he's put the
>clamps on it (jim ross said it's the latter).
>


i'm kind of amazed when i go back and watch old shit. heels were cheating all the time, crowds went ballistic, and it rarely got old. just little things get heels over in a big way. i was watching shawn michaels pull a dude's hair and then act all innocent when the ref called him out, only to go right back to it. does something like that affect the match in a meaningful way? not particularly. could shawn win without that? absolutely, and that's why it's fucking hilarious.