Jun 2nd 2008 7:07PM by Ryan Wilson (author feed)
Filed under: Chargers, NFL Fans
I haven’t watched professional wrestling since the sixth grade, so I’ve missed out on all the truly must-see events featuring those athletes from the non-fake sports. Like these two clowns, or this guy, for example.

And while this seems like the perfect vehicle for Jason Taylor to transition from the NFL to Hollywood (hey, it worked for Dwayne!), he’s a serious actor who would never betray the craft in such a vile manner.

Shawne Merriman feels differently, it seems. The Chargers linebacker was ringside at a recent WWE event (the best of the year, apparently), specifically, a Singapore cane match, and awesomeness ensued: As expected, [The Big] Show dominates right from the get-go. Show misses an elbow on [Tommy] Dreamer and then all four grab canes from high atop the corner poles and work over Show before then going after one another. This match still doesn’t seem right without The Sandman. Dreamer hits a pumphandle suplex on [John] Morrison with the cane in a nice spot. [CM] Punk and Chavo [Guerrero] go to the floor and Chavo blasts Merriman with the cane. Merriman then gets Punk’s weapon and clocks Chavo. No lights-out dance? What a fraud. Actually, it sounds pretty benign, although Norvell Turner might disagree.

But yeah, I couldn’t agree more: no Sandman = no fun.