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"Do you know what a hypocrite is?"

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Title:
"Do you know what a hypocrite is?"
Date:
23.02.2009
Michael Cole: "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, the latest inductee in the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2009: Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat. [Steamboat betritt zu seiner Musik die Einzugsrampe] Ricky, congratulations. You must be elated."

Ricky Steamboat: "Well you know, Michael: It's the greatest honor that's ever happened to my life. You know I can remember wrestling at WrestleMania III at the Pontiac Silverdome, wrestling in front of 93.000 people, winning the Intercontinental Championship was probably the greatest highlight of my career. And now being recognized by the WWE Hall of Fame is the greatest highlight of my life. And as I stand before you and look at the thousands, I just wanted to say: Thank you. Thank you. Because without you, I couldn't have achieved this great honor."

[Chris Jerichos Musik ertönt und Jericho kommt zu Steamboat auf die Bühne]

Chris Jericho: "You know, Steamboat I also wanna say 'thank you'. I wanna say 'thank you' to the Academy of Arts and Motion Picture Sciences, because last night's Academy Awards proved me right. Despite all of his shameless pandering and his kissing of all the butts in Hollywood, Mickey Rourke lost the Oscar. And now, he is just like the character he played in 'The Wrestler': he's a loser, a washed-up has-been who is hanging on for one last shot at glory, one last go in the spotlight, deluding himself and thinking he has one chance to make it again. He doesn't. And he reminds me a lot of the losers in this business: Ric Flair, Roddy Piper and even you, Steamboat - cause you're a loser.

I am a man of truth, Steamboat, I tell it like it is and I'm gonna tell you the same thing. When you were wrestling all those classic matches with Ric Flair in the NWA - an organization that according to this company never even existed - you were just Ricky Steamboat.

It wasn't until you came to the WWE and sold your soul to all of these parasites that you became The Dragon - a glorified Karate Kid selling headbands and making poses, feeding into stereotypes. And then you eventually came to the ring with a Komodo Dragon literally spitting fire like the circus freak you've become. It was pathetic, but hey: It's all right as long as you're making a paycheck - right, Steamboat? Huh?

And then when you decided to retire, you ended up just like all the rest: Down and out on your luck, broken, beat-down, dysfunctional family. And you know you would have returend to the ring just like Flair and just like Piper. You know you would have done it. But instead, you took a back door route. You applied for a job in the WWE, you got one working backstage and now here you are. See, Steamboat, you are a lifelong sellout. And now with the Hall of Fame induction the loyal dog gets his bone - just like Flair, just like Piper. Except instead of wearing a three-piece suit like those guys or wearing a sequent robe or, or a kilt you have nice suit on - it doesn't make you any less pathetic. So enjoy your moment with all of these hypocrites that are your fans, Steamboat. Enjoy it. You're the biggest hypocrite of them all."

Ricky Steamboat: "Jericho! Do you know what a hypocrite is? You understand that word, that meaning? You know, I remember about 20 years ago at an autograph session I remember signing an autograph - for you. I also remember how you said that you would have admired me - and that I was your hero. You wrote that in your autobiography, Jericho.

And then about ten years ago, when you came to the WWE, you were the snotty, brat wrestler of a kid that turned down the wrestling fans. And then within... within a year, less than a year, you embraced them. What did you call them? Jerichoholics? Then you spent the next several years turning on them, embracing them, turning on them, embracing them - back and forth so on and so off. You know something, Jericho? THAT's a hypocrite.

Myself, from the very first time I put on my wrestling tights to the day that I retired I didn't change - not once. I gave that audience the respect and entertained them every time I came through that curtain. I never changed, not once.

Now myself, Ric Flair, Roddy Piper and the other legends - we know who we are. And me coming back working for the WWE behind the scenes to help our young talent, our future superstars to teach them, to coach them, to pass the torch so-to-speak, that's not a sellout. I did it because I love this business. I don't care what you think of me, it really doesn't matter. I'm not a hypocrite, I'm not a sellout, but I am someone you may never be: a Hall of Famer."

[Jericho schlägt Steamboat mit dem Mikrofon, rammt ihn gegen das Entrance Set und lässt ihn liegen]
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