Earl and Dave Hebner Shoot

selling wwe t shirts without wwe's permission

F*ck them.

I miss Earl. What an entertaining referee.

I screwed Bret. Haha!

i've been on a shoot rampage as a of late so i'll hafta look into this one. can't say i'm big on earl though - his career was forever stained by the screwjob involvement.

I may just have to check out these shoots. I guess if anyone knew what went on backstage for 20 entire years, it'd be them.

But I definitely do NOT miss Earl Hebner. He was great as a foil to heels getting in his face, standing up to them and such. So he was entertaining like that. But for everything else - his timing became so bad it is cringeworthy every time I see him.

I have seen many times in the Attitude era where he would count to 2 and stop even before the guy kicked out. Him and Kurt Angle (notorious for last possible moment to kick out, almost missing his cue every time) are just terrible in that regard.

Fast forward to TNA and today, he still does it, so you can plain as day see it and it just makes me roll my eyes. Plus when he's meant to be distracted for a heel to use a weapon/low blow, he will accidentally turn back around and catch the dirty deed in plain sight and VOLUNTARILY turn his head away for no reason to "not see it". All because he misses his cue and turns back around too soon.

Just amateur. There are many better refs out there than him, who don't even get mentions.

But like I said, he's still entertaining as a ref.

Joey Marella
Dave and Earl Hebner - put them both in together
Tim White
Charles Robinson - for contribution to both WWE and WCW. Plus he was Little Naitch!
Danny Davis
Nick Patrick
Dick Woehrle

...most won't remember or know that last one, but he was the main/senior ref when I started watching in the early 80's. Older guy, but had a gruffness for him and wouldn't take any crap.

Yeah, I've met Earl a couple of times and he's most unpleasant. Seems like he has a chip on his sholder.

Honestly, with the shoot, of course, they'll put it out there like they were the innocent victims, that were unfairly terminated without a chance to explain things. With the years they had with the company, to the point where they even hired Earl's son as a referee, if they got fired over the whole merchandise thing, they to me, it was more than likely justifiable on WWE's part. And if Earl is saying in the shoot, he was getting to retire anyway, that shows some of the crap they're spewing, since I believe it was less than a year after being fired, that he's refing in TNA.
As for Earl, I used to be a big fan of his, but it seems the more time passed away from the Montreal Screwjob, the more he seemed to get an ego, and act like he was a big deal. To seem it came off like he thought he was a big deal, and yeah, he was probably one of the most famous wrestling referees around, but the thing is, he's still just a referee.