Comments on: Triple H, Undertaker fined for chairshot at WWE WrestleMania XXVII https://adambockler.com/triple-h-undertaker-fined-for-chairshot-at-wwe-wrestlemania-xxvii/ Project manager helping teams deliver creative projects like website redesigns and HubSpot strategy—backed by agency, nonprofit, and business ownership experience. Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:08:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Adam https://adambockler.com/triple-h-undertaker-fined-for-chairshot-at-wwe-wrestlemania-xxvii/#comment-32 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:08:24 +0000 https://adambockler.com/blog/?p=301#comment-32 By younger generation, I mean the guys working their way up the ranks now. If the veterans aren’t setting the example for who will eventually become their replacements, what does that mean for the younger guys? Should they take risks like that? Triple H and Taker are just about the last of the breed from the 90s that are still active and can still draw money.

Of course, you can also take that “younger generation” means children who the product is marketed toward. There are cases, such as with Lionel Tate, where kids have performed the moves they saw on TV and wound up injuring or killing their partner. As a 21-year-old who attends many live events, the majority of the audience is children. I’d hate to know that by modeling what they saw on TV, a fan wound up paralyzed or dead.

Just a thought.

]]> By: Matt Katch https://adambockler.com/triple-h-undertaker-fined-for-chairshot-at-wwe-wrestlemania-xxvii/#comment-31 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:47:10 +0000 https://adambockler.com/blog/?p=301#comment-31 Fine ’em. You break a rule, you get fined; otherwise there isn’t much point to the rule. Also, I’m not sure about this “should be role models for the younger generation” bit. Maybe you think they would be, but “should” implies that there’s good reason for them to be — I don’t see an illegal chair shot to the head as as good cause for rolemodeldom.

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