August 17, 201411 yr comment_5619666 One of my favorite celebrity segments of all time as Pete Rose becomes a huge heel railing on the Boston fans. I also think this is some great Jerry Lawler commentary with his "MAN" after every insult. Kane comes down and gives him a tombstone to a huge pop and new feud is born.
August 19, 201411 yr Author comment_5620393 My favorite Wrestlemania running gag, and kudos to Pete Rose for understanding exactly who he was and what his purpose was there. This was hilarious.
August 22, 201411 yr comment_5620900 I loved this in isolation, but perhaps it was a little strange to make Rose a heel and then have Kane pop the crowd right before he wrestled Taker. That's probably overthinking it.
September 19, 201411 yr comment_5626527 I loved this in isolation, but perhaps it was a little strange to make Rose a heel and then have Kane pop the crowd right before he wrestled Taker. That's probably overthinking it. "Shades of gray, baby!" - Vic Venom
October 2, 201410 yr comment_5630845 I get Childs' logic and I've said similar things in the past about other segments...but I think there was very little danger of this crowd suddenly turning on the Undertaker because Kane tombstoned a disgraced old ballplayer.
May 13, 20169 yr comment_5752607 Yeah, this is still as glorious as ever. Pete has heat even before he starts ragging on the Red Sox, and gets some pretty huge boos for that Buckner line. JR: "King, did you prep Pete Rose?"
July 5, 20169 yr comment_5758657 Yeah, thought it was weird for Kane to tombstone someone heeling on the crowd, but despite that bit of Russo logic, really fun segment and Rose did a great job.
May 29, 20187 yr comment_5851420 One of my favorite celebrity segments of all time as Pete Rose becomes a huge heel railing on the Boston fans. Watching it now, it's clear he was a heel from the moment Finkel introduced him. And I just watched the portion of the Ken Burns documentary where it talked about how the Reds/Sox series of '75 was so heated it made baseball popular again, getting some enormous TV ratings. Kane was a top heel, but this came off okay. If it were anyone above him doing it, it would have sent mixed signals certainly.
July 23, 20205 yr comment_5923802 I remember being at this show, I had no idea who Pete Rose was at the time. But even though I didn't know who he was, he still made me hate him. Even my dad who doesn't like wrestling was booing the shit out of Pete. You just don't shit on the Sox in Boston! Yeah Kane tombstoning Rose makes little sense, but in the end, it didn't matter.
July 23, 20205 yr comment_5923827 Kane tombstoning Pete making little sense is what's so hilarious about it. All we know about the guy so far is that he was horrendously burned as a child and has spent most of his life in psychiatric hospitals before being released to launch fireballs at his undead wrestler brother. That he also hates Pete Rose is such a random inexplicable character development. Maybe he was a Red Sox fan as a child? And yeah it really doesn't matter that it's a heel getting a pop when there's zero chance the crowd would turn on The Undertaker.
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