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I mean it was always there. Hogan was far from virtuous. He hits DiBiase with a blatant chair shot to give his buddy Macho the title at WM IV. He atomic drops a woman (Sensational Sherri) at SummerSlam '89. He pulls Sid Justice out of the ring in the '92 Rumble for having the audacity to eliminate him in an "every man for himself" event.
I don't really mind the shades of grey where almost everyone is willing to bend the rules sometimes; what's stupid is the babyface commentators backing up how awesome and justifiable a face's heelish actions are.
I agree... unless you have a strong heel announcer as well. In that case, I am for as certain level of baby face announcer stupidity as long as the heel announcer can come back with "what the hell are you talking about? He was blatantly cheating." Heenan was obviously the best at it, heel Lawler before he became Jerry ****ing Lawler when he was commentating with face Vince was good at it. First incarnation of announcer JBL was great at it. Let the face announcers be homers sometimes, but don't let them off the hook for their stupidity