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God is gonna throw down
I went through a brief professional wrestling phase in junior high. This was when
Hulk Hogan was in his prime and you could also see the likes of Rowdy Roddy Piper, the Iron Sheik, and Hillbilly Jim,
among others. Eventually I got over watching men in tiny pants strutting around the ring and gesticulating, but
professional wrestling kept going on without me, turning into a huge phenomenon and becoming, as one friend of mine put
it, "a male soap opera."
He's right. The storylines have become more complex, and sometimes downright silly. This time, however, Vince McMahon may have topped himself. On April 30, during the WWE pay-per-view special "Backlash," Mr. McMahon will wrestle God. Wrestling fans already know that this is the culmination of an ongoing storyline which involved the sinister McMahon getting beat by Shawn Michaels, a born again Christian. I don't have pay-per-view, so I won't be able to watch, but here's what God had to say:
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