So X-Men Origins: Wolverine star Hugh Jackman jumped into the middle of a fake WWE fight earlier this week by fakepunching a wrestler called Dolph Ziggler, an act of sudden violence that prompted the announcer to shouted "X-Men-esque!" I don't claim to understand kayfabe the way Chris Sims does (or really at all), but it seems that Ziggler has decided to make a Big Deal out of this, claiming in a series of tweets that it cost him the match with his opponent, that it actually broke his jaw, and that Jackman is Batman or something? Watch Ziggler cry like a baby about it here, and see the in no way totally fake throwdown in the video below.
(Oh, and Ziggler has some fighting words for Jackman/superhero fans: "I don't read comic books. I don't need to fantasize about being a superhero. I'm a larger-than-life WWE Superstar. Now, if I ever see Jackman again, he'll need super healing powers because I'm going to punch him right in the face. I'm not going to cheap shot him like he cheap shotted me.")
Wow... you REALLY haven't watched wrestling in the last decade, have you? Wrestling has gotten more meta-referential than comics has about the fact that it's all a show.
We get it, wrestling is fake. You know what else is fake? Every superhero comic you review. I love comics too, but for the love of God who doesn't know wrestling is fake? My four year old nephew knows it's fake, and he's a mongoloid.
As a fan of pro-wrestling, I never would have expected the comments section of this to blow up. I thought we would be used to people writing it off by now and just sort of shrug it off.
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