Albert’s right about Jindrak. This is what happens when I don’t watch SmackDown! for months at a time.
Now that I think about it, horror movie people (particularly dead ones) = stiffs, so maybe that’s what Al was going for there? That trip spot did look totally missed (or it was a well done recreation of a botched trip spo), and then the one in the ring was waiting for Hurricane to turn around to do something to him and that’s where Al made the “their fictional parents are spinning in the grave because they suck so much” comment, so it’d make sense. I should stop blowing off matches so I don’t miss this stuff.
I was sorta thinking the same lines about the WWE not wanting the incident to get any press so they didn’t want to mention it in an apology (after they thought about it.) It’s an international show, so it wasn’t likely to get picked up by anything but net sites in the US, and if there was a way to send press releases to the net sites without them all going nutty (“the WWE obviously reads everything we write! They MUST listen to us!” or those whining that they didn’t get acknowledged), they’d probably just done that and keep it away from anyone who didn’t already know.
It’s obviously not a mistake if it’s not been fixed by now, so one questionable decision gets added to another. Lesson to the kids: think out your press releases before you post them!
I do love that wrestlingDB managed to work in a Word Of A Day while covering this story.