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| He was a great wrestler, but who knew he was a supreme amateur crimefighter? Photo Credit: WWE.com |
Chris Masters has always been a TWB favorite. He came back to WWE in 2009, and he started pulling off a streak of great matches on TV to the point where it wasn't a fringe opinion to think he was one of the three best wrestlers in the company. His release from the company was the most bumming one of the modern era, at least from where I sit. He's spent most of his time outside the main spotlight, mostly working second-tier local indies, despite being linked to the Aces and Eights stable. But Tuesday night, he threw his name back in the public consciousness in a big way.
He received a call from a neighbor of his mother, saying that another, crazed neighbor broke into her house and held her hostage. After Masters called the cops, the assailant set the house on fire. Any other normal person would have waited for the firetrucks to get there, but in a move some would call stupid, some would call bold, but everyone would call fueled by adrenaline, Masters uprooted a tree, used it to bash down the door, rushed in, and saved his mother. Yes, you read that correctly. Chris Masters uprooted a goddamn tree and used it as a battering ram.
It is not advisable for most people to do that. There's a reason why in every safety course, they don't tell you to be a hero. Then again, Masters is a strong dude who can handle himself. Whatever his decision was, it turned out to be heroic. The man is a legit superhero, or at least he was one for a while on Tuesday night. Here's to you, Chris Masters.
Now someone cast him in a superhero movie where he gets to kick someone's ass. Preferably Ashton Kutcher's