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It survives on the Superstars coming together, culminating in a team effort.Keertana: Hi, my name is Keertana Anandraj.
The WWE ship doesn’t survive on the name of John Cena, it doesn’t survive on the name of anybody. “But it has more to do with the fact that, yes, this is individual, it’s competitive, but we need one another to survive. “Respect is certainly included,” Rhodes said. While Lesnar may have been turned off by shaking every Superstar’s hand, most wrestlers would say that it’s an important part of business, in that it recognizes the sacrifice Superstars make every night. It was all so insincere and phony, it made me sick.” But we would always shake hands, and everyone would smile like they were glad to see each other. “That’s the unwritten law… I hadn’t seen the boys since we all stood around the baggage claim at the airport a few hours before, hoping our bags would come around quickly so we could beat everyone else to the rental car line. “Once I got to the arena, I had to shake everyone’s hand,” he wrote. Lesnar addressed the handshaking tradition in his book “Death Clutch: My Story of Determination, Domination and Survival.” The Anomaly simply doesn’t care about associating with anyone outside of his closest associates. He made it quite clear that he was out to cause mayhem in the ring and collect the paycheck that comes after. I admire that.”ĭespite the depths wrestlers have gone to keep the handshake a sacred part of the industry, the meaning of it is still lost on some.īrock Lesnar’s never been out to make friends. Not a fist pound, not a secret shake, he only accepts a handshake. “He will not accept anything other than a handshake. “I learned something from John Cena that I really liked,” Rhodes explained. That feeling resonates throughout the locker room, from the newest Superstars to 13-time World Champions. “I don’t want to shake hands with a fish,” he said. In fact, I’ll tell someone if they don’t give me a firm handshake that they need to shake hands like an adult.” “I’m almost offended when someone gives me a light handshake. “The loose handshake, to me, has lost all meaning and relevance,” JBL said. It brings an element of respect to the table.”Įven though a light grip may have been the norm in wrestling’s early days, it’s not as widely accepted anymore. Firm and look them in the eye, even if that’s the only contact you have. “Not a double-tendon, break-your-hand handshake. He told WWE.com that his father taught him the right way to shake hands in all situations. Rhodes, the son of WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes, grew up in the business. That’s how they would recognize all the crappy wrestlers, by their dead fish handshake.” “I have this theory that they set out a rumor that the really good wrestlers shook hands lightly. “Back in the day, you didn’t know if a guy was good or not,” he said. How it devolved from a secret variation on the regular shake to a two-fingered tap isn’t quite clear, though Cesaro has his own ideas about how that happened. “It became a very limp-fish handshake,” JBL said, “which is not how it was actually intended.”
“Some people take it to extremes, two fingers,” Antonio Cesaro said. Over time, though, wrestlers began a game of one-upmanship, seeing who could give the loosest handshake. “It looked like you were gripping them real hard, but it was very loose, which showed that you were one of the boys,” the former WWE Champion said. JBL explained how the grip began as a secret shake during the sport’s early carnival days, done to weed out anyone who didn’t belong. The handshake’s place in wrestling isn’t something that just became commonplace in WWE. “It seems a little strange when people from outside see it,” WWE commentator JBL said. “Guests at a WWE event might notice that everybody shakes hands gratuitously,” Cody Rhodes told WWE.com. It begins from the second a wrestler enters the arena, starting a time-honored tradition. Most of the time, no blows are traded, only respect. Though Superstars brutalize each other inside the squared circle, the locker room is a sacred place. Respect is an important value in the wrestling business.
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