Post by CandyKANE on Feb 24, 2003 7:49:57 GMT -5
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So there was a lot of talk backstage today about how fans in the Bell Centre would react to Shawn Michaels, who hasn’t been here since November 1997, when he wrestled Bret Hart and won the WWE Championship in the infamous “Montreal screwjob.” These fans still often chant “You screwed Bret!” at the official that night, Earl Hebner. Would they boo or chant at the Heartbreak Kid?
“I haven’t thought about it,” Michaels told WWE.com before the show. “Everybody around here has given it enough thought, I didn’t think I needed to.”<br>
Michaels said he had no control over the fans’ reaction to him, and he tries not to worry about things over which he has no control. “I guess they’ll react the way they react,” he said.
HBK was greeted by a decidedly mixed reaction when he ran to the ring after the Chris Jericho-Jeff Hardy match. Afterward, Michaels said he didn’t hear that much booing.
“They did a little bit at the beginning, but then they didn’t at the end,” he said. He smiled and added, “How do you boo an honest Christian?”<br>
Excitement on Lawler’s flight
There was almost “No Way Out” of Memphis this morning for Jerry Lawler. The King had just boarded his 6 a.m. flight, on his way to Montreal, when a male flight attendant sprinted toward the front of the plane.
“He was going, ‘Stop the boarding! Stop the boarding! Everybody go back!’” Lawler said.
The King thought that perhaps the back of the plane was on fire. Instead, it turned out that a prisoner on board was creating a stir. Apparently, a man on Lawler’s flight, accompanied by two Immigration & Naturalization Services officials, was being transported – and he wasn’t happy about it.
“All of a sudden, he started screaming, ‘I want to die! They’re going to kill me! Kill me now!’ I mean, he was struggling and screaming and kicking,” Lawler recalled.
The INS officers escorted him off the plane – while he continued to scream and resist – and held him on the runway area for 20 minutes until police cars arrived and took him away. In all, the flight was delayed for about an hour until finally taking off and flying without further incident.
“That’s the most unusual thing that’s even happened to me on a flight in all the years I’ve been traveling,” Lawler said. “I’ve never really even been in bad turbulence.”<br>
No Way Out numbers
A crowd of 15,114 people witnessed No Way Out at the Bell Centre tonight, paying $897,570 Canadian for tickets.
So there was a lot of talk backstage today about how fans in the Bell Centre would react to Shawn Michaels, who hasn’t been here since November 1997, when he wrestled Bret Hart and won the WWE Championship in the infamous “Montreal screwjob.” These fans still often chant “You screwed Bret!” at the official that night, Earl Hebner. Would they boo or chant at the Heartbreak Kid?
“I haven’t thought about it,” Michaels told WWE.com before the show. “Everybody around here has given it enough thought, I didn’t think I needed to.”<br>
Michaels said he had no control over the fans’ reaction to him, and he tries not to worry about things over which he has no control. “I guess they’ll react the way they react,” he said.
HBK was greeted by a decidedly mixed reaction when he ran to the ring after the Chris Jericho-Jeff Hardy match. Afterward, Michaels said he didn’t hear that much booing.
“They did a little bit at the beginning, but then they didn’t at the end,” he said. He smiled and added, “How do you boo an honest Christian?”<br>
Excitement on Lawler’s flight
There was almost “No Way Out” of Memphis this morning for Jerry Lawler. The King had just boarded his 6 a.m. flight, on his way to Montreal, when a male flight attendant sprinted toward the front of the plane.
“He was going, ‘Stop the boarding! Stop the boarding! Everybody go back!’” Lawler said.
The King thought that perhaps the back of the plane was on fire. Instead, it turned out that a prisoner on board was creating a stir. Apparently, a man on Lawler’s flight, accompanied by two Immigration & Naturalization Services officials, was being transported – and he wasn’t happy about it.
“All of a sudden, he started screaming, ‘I want to die! They’re going to kill me! Kill me now!’ I mean, he was struggling and screaming and kicking,” Lawler recalled.
The INS officers escorted him off the plane – while he continued to scream and resist – and held him on the runway area for 20 minutes until police cars arrived and took him away. In all, the flight was delayed for about an hour until finally taking off and flying without further incident.
“That’s the most unusual thing that’s even happened to me on a flight in all the years I’ve been traveling,” Lawler said. “I’ve never really even been in bad turbulence.”<br>
No Way Out numbers
A crowd of 15,114 people witnessed No Way Out at the Bell Centre tonight, paying $897,570 Canadian for tickets.