Misogyny.

I've been a fan of wrestling since I was six, and what's great, and perhaps not so great, about being a fan for so long is that 99% of the time, you know exactly what's going to happen. Everything in wrestling has been done a million times before, and even supposedly new storylines are just variations of what has already happened. The latest example of this is the entire Edge/Undertaker/Vickie Guerrero angle, where Edge who has been feuding with The Undertaker, married the General Manager of Smackdown, Vickie, in order to hold an edge over the Deadman. It's probably the best feud the WWE has had this year, but really, it's just another variation of the Rock/Austin/Vince McMahon storyline from a decade ago if The Rock married Vince McMahon. Since almost everything has been done before, almost everything for the most part happens as you expect, which makes the completely unexpected, the thing that happens 0.99% of the time, even more incredible to watch, like when CM Punk won the WWE title a month or so ago, or when Santino Marrella decided to grow a unibrow.

Then there's the other 0.01%, when you predict the impossible to happen, but you're just kidding around because you never think they'd do something like that.

Then it happens.

The last time it happened to me personally was in Game 5 of the 2001 World Series against the Yankees, the famous game when Brosius hit the game-tying home run in the bottom of the 9th with two outs, the night after Game 4 when Tino Martinez hit the game-tying home run in the bottom of the 9th with two outs. I remember that moment vividly, I was in Jersey, on the computer talking to my roommate Rob, and watching the game with my dad. And as Brosius went up to the plate, I said to my roommate and my dad "Don't worry, Brosius is gonna hit a home run", half-hoping and half-kidding. And then moments later, he hit the home run.

That was probably the one of the Top 3 most exciting sports moments of my life (along with Larry Johnson's 4 point play and the Aaron Boone home run), but when Chris Jericho punched Rebecca Michaels in the face at Summerslam, that moment might haved topped them all.

I was watching the Summerslam with my roommate Tarik and his brother Chris. We had gone to the deli by the apartment moments during the Santino/Beth vs. Kofi/Mickie match, and we were still talking about how we should have waited, because we missed the ending of the match and Santino's gloriously hilarious celebration. When Shawn Michaels came out to make his "retirement" announcement, we complained more, saying that we should have gone to the deli during this segment.

Three minutes later, nothing would be the same.

Shawn Michaels, with his wife, Rebecca, started talking about how he needed to retire due to the "eye injury" he suffered at the hands of Chris Jericho. In the storyline, Jericho had thrown HBK into a flat screen TV, where Michaels received "damage to his eye", which was further complicated when Jericho busted HBK open at their match at the July PPV. So HBK came out to announce that he needed to retire, and brought his wife out just to look hot or something.

Moments later, she wouldn't look so hot.

Jericho came out to interrupt the interview, demanding that Michaels admit that he's retiring because of him. Michaels did that, and told Jericho to admit to himself that he'll never be Shawn Michaels. This went back and forth, and Rebecca Michaels started pulling Shawn away. At this time, we all started yelling for Jericho to punch her in the mouth, because part of the fun of wrestling is because it turns normal people into wild misogynists. No one thought that it would really happen, it was just a standard thing to say whenever a female in wrestling did something stupid. Then moments later, as Rebecca was pulling her husband away, Jericho cocked is arm back and fired punch at the Heartbreak Kid, only HBK instinctively ducked, and Rebecca got clocked right in the jaw.

We were stunned silent for a second, then we all started wildly applauding. And by we, I don't mean myself, Tarik, and Chris. I mean, everyone watching wrestling. It was the most incredible thing I've seen in wrestling in a long time, it may have been the most incredible thing I've seen on TV in years.

For one, it wasn't a fake punch at all, Jericho laid into her. She took the shot flush, and because Vince McMahon insisted on extreme closeup, we saw that she had a swollen lip. She looked like Miguel Cotto after his fight with Antonio Margarito.

Secondly, the feud will obviously continue between Michaels and Jericho, on the grounds that HBK will return to the ring to defend the honor of his wife. But it was completely HBK's fault in the matter. He knew that his wife was pulling him away, and at the same time, he knew that Jericho was going to attack him. So what does Shawn Michaels do? He sacrifices his wife in order to protect himself. What a jerk.

Thirdly, a woman got punched in the face. Unless a Bobby Brown/Whitney Houston tape resurfaces, you never see that happen anymore. It may never ever happen again, although I'm sure that if it does happen, it will inevitably involve Britney Spears.

I'm not a misogynist, I love women! I love everyone! I would never condone physical abuse of any woman, even Britney Spears. But when you sarcastically call for a person, woman, child, whoever, to get punched in the face, and then it actually happens, you have to applaud. You have to appreciate it. Because you never know when it'll happen again.