I’m just wondering where all of this anger comes from. Clearly, form and technique can be taught. And when you’re eight years old, like young Steven here is, effort often indicates the victor. Try hard, and you can usually win.
But this is more than effort…this is VENGEANCE.
I’d like to think that young Steven used to go to all of his Dad’s wrestling matches, and watch him from the gallery with his mother, who hated seeing her husband in the ring, but loved seeing him succeed at doing what he loves. Then, tragically, a ringer is brought in by some felonious villain type, and he kills Steve’s father in front of him. When his mother runs out to stop the fight, she too is killed by the ringer, whose past experiences of WWF Battle Royales prohibits him from stopping until everyone is dead on the floor. This creates a Batman-like sense of revenge, and becomes the source of his power. Realizing he knows nothing else but the world of wrestling that both gave him his sense of life and his life-defining tragedy, Steven decides to stay in wrestling, dominate it from the ground up, and defeat the ringer (and his syndicated Crime Boss, let’s call him TURNBUCKLE), and avenge the memory of his dear, dear parents.
But then I’m like, nope, no way this kid is making his own Youtube videos, matching them up to Christian-rap songs (GRITS, anyone?) and creating their own email addresses. Stevowrestling@hotmail.com? Do you even know who the original Steve-O is/was? When I was eight, I had a hard enough time remembering things like SILENT LETTERS LIKE THE ‘W’ THAT GOES IN FRONT OF WRESTLING.
So it looks like the anger comes from whatever’s going on in the O household. I bet it’s a lot of throwing each other around to Christian rap and rock soundtracks. Amen to that.
