If you’re a wrestling nerd like me, you’ll find it quite challenging to accomplish.
But anyway, what miraculously brought X-Pac to recent light is this story that came out about the alleged wrongly-accused suspect from Netflix’s Making A Murderer. Now I actually haven’t seen this yet, but much like House of Cards and Master of None, I have a high amount of faith in Netflix’s programming, so I am interested in watching it when I have the capacity.
Supposedly, Brendan Dassey, the subject of the show, and the allegedly falsely-accused who is incarcerated, also happens to be a big professional wrestling fan (which clearly bodes well for all wrestling fans not wanting to be associated with potential murderers). Aside from the trauma of being allegedly falsely-accused and allegedly being the fall guy for other, more allegedly guilty parties, one of Brendan’s anxieties include the fact that he is going to miss the next Wrestlemania, due to, well, imprisonment.
To help alleviate the latter anxiety, Dassey’s half-brother decided that he was going to try and reach out to the wrestling universe, to see if any wrestlers would be gracious and willing enough to visit Brendan in prison.
So far, no word from marquee guys like John Cena, Roman Reigns or Dean Ambrose. No word from the undercard either, from guys like Heath Slater, Curtis Axel or the Ascension. Even the retired Hall of Famers with nothing to do like Ricky Steamboat or Mick Foley have failed to heed the call. Booker T, who is both retired as well as someone with actual jail time served in his life, has remained silent.
But one former wrestler, has heard of this plight, and has thrown his name into the hat to try and help a depressed youth behind bars: X-Pac.
I thought the headline was that they were looking for “a star?” SNAP.
Joking aside, this is a fairly nice gesture by X-Pac, even if he is kind of bottom of the barrel that sits next to the barrel of names that the Dasseys were probably hoping to hear from. This is the part where I’d typically say that there could be worse guys to have answered the call, but I’m actually having a difficult time of thinking of one. I mean, Adam Rose looks like the walking embodiment of a sexually transmitted disease, but at least he’s on the active roster, even if he is a jobber.
But at least if X-Pac does manage to be allowed to be visited, I can imagine that there are a few interesting questions to ask and stories to hear from X-Pac, like Kliq stories, prod him about his relationship with Chyna, post-HHH, and asking him what wrestlers from his active days were cool guys and which ones were shitheads. Or, I’d like to ask him how he feels about the phrase “X-Pac Heat,” because I’d bet he’s astutely aware that it exists. Probably more interesting stuff to hear than from a guy like Adam Rose, now that I think about it.
Anyway, good on X-Pac for making a noble gesture, even if it kind of wafts of a guy trying to remain relevant and get his name out there for snarky nerd broggers like me to write out his name and put it on the internet again. And shame on the rest of the WWE Universe for sitting on their hands and remaining mum, and guys on the TNA roster sure have blown a chance at getting some easy Netflix publicity from this as well. All of it, jobbed to, of all people, X-Pac.
X-Pac. lol
