“Over” is interesting. “Over” is what happens when you finally get there. You’re over when you succeed, when you’ve won the support of the crowd. Triple H, who my smark friends think is killing wrestling, has actually worked “over” into his gimmick. He’s called “The Game”, and his entrance video says “Game Over”, inverting that phrase into a new definition, away from its video game, Aliens 2 meaning of “Game over, man! Game over!” As…
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Jeff Hardy’s T-shirt captured our attention over the past few weeks. It was old, well laundered, sleeves cut off, with a picture of himself from his early days as a wrestler. Why invoke the past, we wondered, as brother Matt Hardy surges forward in his new gimmick: “Matt Hardy Version One: Mattitute!” Meanwhile Jeff sinks deeper into his body-painted, black-lit alternative gimmick, descending, as Mr. Devin Andrews noted, into an almost aboriginal aesthetic. (Who knew…