Turns out that wasn't all an act. Or if it was, then it was so convincing its convinced the hell out of him too, cause now he lives it 24-7, if his appearances here are anything to go by. This was truly shocking. Jake relates to us the fact that his mother was the 13 year old daughter of a woman his dad was seeing at the time. You can imagine what might have happened in their home one night, which led to the 13 year old being impregnated. Immediately after this, though, we see Jake trying his damndest to spend some quality time with his father, cutting logs or something in the woods. They barely speak to each other.

Not that Jake's relationship with his own daughter is any better. He hasn't saw her in four years, and when he finally meets up with her in a restaurant, he stays for a couple minutes before heading off to his room. Then we see him out of his mind on crack, talking about the demons and so on.

Really, you wish to God someone would throw a chair at someone for a little light relief.

As a non-wrestling fan I was surprised when I bought this, to tell you the truth. What the hell am I doing holding this here DVD what is about the wrestlers when I couldn't give a shit, I was thinking. I went with it anyway, and wouldn't you know, I loved it dearly.

The scenes with Mick Foley's daughter screaming and crying as her daddy is beat asunder by, yep, those damn chairs again, is especially touching. Seeing old Mick getting a fucking valley-sized gash stitched up on his forehead soon afterwards isn't much of a laugh-riot either.

This is brilliantly funny, and two seconds later it hits you square in the poignancy-glands, sometimes with a toaster or a speaker system.

Around the time this came out, other wrestlers decided they also had a bit of the old humanity in there someplace, and as a result we got things like Brett The Hitman Hart - Wrestling With Shadows, a film I have yet to see in its entirety, but from what I could tell, it looked like another winner. In fact, I'm gonna sit my ass down this very night and watch it.

Good for you, wrestlers.

I'm still not gonna watch Rumble In The Jungle 2004 though. They can fuck right the hell off if they had that idea in their pulverised skulls.

The Duke Resides At Mondo Irlando