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"That's a dumb question man, He's Canadian like them!" That's probably what you're about to type but first read my post entirely.
Everytime WWF went to Canada Bret Hart had the pop of the night, even as a Heel in 1997. Look at Canadian Stampede, they cheered liek crazy for Bret and booed Austin even though Austin was the Face and Bret was the Heel.
And who can forget about Survivor Series 1997? The crowd was rabid when HBK walked out as champion.
The thing is, Jericho, Christian, Edge are Canadians and even if they get a pop when WWE goes to Canada they also cheer for other wrestlers and I've seen Edge and Jericho being booed in Canada before, not by the majority of the crowd but they were booed. Edge was booed in 2004 once when he was still a Face and Jericho was booed against Cena in a 2005 Raw.
It's strange how years after Survivor Series 1997 Canadians would still chant "You screw Bret!" at HBK and even Earl Hebner. I know it was not exactly a very good idea for HBK to do stupid stuff to the Canadian flag that night like simulating sexual intercourse with it, one thing is to insult Canadians in general like The Rock in 2003 but the crowd knew he wasn't being serious.
The problem is that WWE most of the times they went to Canda they'd mention the screwjob to pour more gasoline into the fire.
I just have trouble understanding these kind of things because I'm not very patriotic myself and definitely not nationalsitic at all. If a wrestler did something similar in my country I just couldn't see myself hating them for that.
SO what's with Candian fans love for Bret Hart and hatred for those involved in the screwjob? Did most Canadians see the screwjob as a personal attack to their country or something?
Everytime WWF went to Canada Bret Hart had the pop of the night, even as a Heel in 1997. Look at Canadian Stampede, they cheered liek crazy for Bret and booed Austin even though Austin was the Face and Bret was the Heel.
And who can forget about Survivor Series 1997? The crowd was rabid when HBK walked out as champion.
The thing is, Jericho, Christian, Edge are Canadians and even if they get a pop when WWE goes to Canada they also cheer for other wrestlers and I've seen Edge and Jericho being booed in Canada before, not by the majority of the crowd but they were booed. Edge was booed in 2004 once when he was still a Face and Jericho was booed against Cena in a 2005 Raw.
It's strange how years after Survivor Series 1997 Canadians would still chant "You screw Bret!" at HBK and even Earl Hebner. I know it was not exactly a very good idea for HBK to do stupid stuff to the Canadian flag that night like simulating sexual intercourse with it, one thing is to insult Canadians in general like The Rock in 2003 but the crowd knew he wasn't being serious.
The problem is that WWE most of the times they went to Canda they'd mention the screwjob to pour more gasoline into the fire.
I just have trouble understanding these kind of things because I'm not very patriotic myself and definitely not nationalsitic at all. If a wrestler did something similar in my country I just couldn't see myself hating them for that.
SO what's with Candian fans love for Bret Hart and hatred for those involved in the screwjob? Did most Canadians see the screwjob as a personal attack to their country or something?