Wrestling without impulse control.
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Most pro wrestling refs have at least some stuntman training since they're performing in a live stunt show, so they should at least try to intervene if someone goes off script and chimps out.
Performing in a live stunt show is going to do nothing but condition you into thinking that all the apparent violence around you is planned and coordinated. It might be planned poorly or feature clumsily executed moves which become dangerous, but there is no reason whatsoever to think one wrestler is going to ground and pound another unmoving wrestler to death. It's literally never happened before in any pro wrestling bout ever. Should that happen to be suddenly what transpires in front of a ref, all his conditioning is going to predispose him to thinking that's not what he's actually seeing.
That's what makes this so cowardly. In any other context, Raja could not have had a free ticket to pick up this guy, slam him down and wail on him as with as little outside intervention as there was, probably not even in a crowded street of strangers, plus the white guy would have defended himself in that context and possibly known not to relax in the first place. It's not about the ref. The more people cry 'refs?!' the more loudly I will shout 'NIGGERS'.
Sure it has, just look at infamous ECW nigger New Jack and his long history of legitimately trying to injure the guy he's working with and straight up attempting murder in the ring twice.
Also, although it's not much of a risk anymore now that it's common knowledge that wrestling is scripted, they do still watch out for unhinged fans attacking the talent.
I hadn't heard of him. Reading about him sort of proves what I'm getting at though. The first was a hardcore match where nobody knew to step in and should be a higher trust setting by definition. The second one had to be stopped by an actual cop who happened to be there, but only after he stabbed the guy in the head 9 times. This guy really does fit the mould though:
Someone said the N-word so it was okay.