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I don't care if this thread is just Nick and I being huge wrestling nerds, I want a place to talk about wrestling all the time. I didn't know if this should be a sport thread... a media thread... so I slipped it into general.

Let's talk about anything. Current storylines, ideas, thoughts, etc.
Talk about the glory days, your memories. No restrictions!

Just keep it in pro wrestling

I'll start:

You guys remember this? I was there on the floor seats :3

My fave wrestling moment (aside from all the awesome ones I grew up on, like with Hulk Hogan and such):



To be honest, I haven't really even sat down and watched wrestling in a long, long time. The current product doesn't interest me in the least. Once in awhile, I'll get a new, passing interest, but without cable, it's tricky to keep up to date. Even then, I can't seem to get myself to care. I still skim show results, see what major storylines are being talked about and read some of the backstage rumours, but that's about it. It's still mostly just skimming articles or headlines. Hell, I've actually cleared out a lot of my wrestling collection, mostly out of disinterest. Plus, since I've watched a lot of those classic matches several times, they're firmly enough in my memory that I don't really need to re-watch them for the twentieth time.

That said, I still love playing Smackdown vs. RAW, especially for creating my own wrestlers...like Toro!

I could have sworn we had a soap opera thread this would have fit nicely into!

I could have sworn you could DIE IN A GOD DAMN FIRE.


for real though, I laughed.

I've been really wrestling with some issues lately.

I haven't watched wrestling in forever. I have been enjoying Tough Enough though.

I used to love wrestling! Then I had my 12th birthday and discovered girls.


I keed, I keed.

What a terrible typo.. I accidentally typed "The Everything Wrestling Thread," when I clearly meant to type "The Everyone's a Comedian Thread"

/GOLF. CLAP.

Seriously though, I used to be into wrestling a lot when I was a kid. It's been so long that I don't really recognize anything about it nowadays... but I was amazed to see that some of the same guys are still involved. How old is the Undertaker these days, and how the hell does he keep wrestling? Staged or no, it has to be hard on the body.

I haven't really been keeping up with it in recent years, except for the occasional PPV my father will order, or Wrestlemanias.

I have been watching Tough Enough as well, Frankie, and I'm glad to see it's a lot like the original run of it!

I just remember how much I loved watching it in middle school and even high school. As far as The Undertaker, from what my brother tells me (he's a huuuuge lifer fan) he's pretty much on a few matches a year schedule. Totally understandable for a guy his size that's been doing it for as long as he has.

Still, I can't deny the barrel of action figures we have in our garage. ...Ultimate Warrior was the best, yo.

Best part of Tough Enough is watching Hugh Morus demand people do intense cardio workouts, something there is no God damn way in hell he's ever been able to do.

That's hilarious, I just resumed playing WWE Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain this week. I'll tell you, one of the storylines wound up being a bit disturbing by hindsight. Now, this game was made in 2003, when Chris Benoit was primarily known as a scrappy little guy with great skill and submission moves, as opposed to the gigantic brutes on the circuit. There were even allusions made to Wolverine. Anyone, he was randomly picked to be the "jealous of your relationship with one of the divas" heel, which in this playthrough was Torrie Wilson. So he challenged my character for rights to her as a manager, and after accepted, he said that he was going to wrestle HER instead of me, and "show her what a real man is like". Now, given what happened with Chris Benoit since then, that wound up being kind of screwed up.

That's a bit fucked up, Null.

He was always one of my favorite performers...

SpecialKO said:

That's a bit fucked up, Null.

He was always one of my favorite performers...

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Yeah. It's sad what happened to him. Now, on various play-throughs of the game, the same storyline has gone through with The Rock, Chris Jericho (which seemed rather fitting) and Shawn Michaels. So obviously they just pick someone at random.

The milk truck actually happens in game, when you're doing a factions storyline. This last time, my faction was my created wrestler, Kane, John Cena (when he was a knock-off of Marky Mark / whiggers), and Bubba Ray Von Dudley, with Torrie, vs Brock Lesnar, Ted DiBiasi, Rey Mysterio Jr, and Sgt Slaughter.

Fun fact: when NWA:TNA (now TNA wrestling) was based in Nashville, I went to over 100 straight weekly PPVs and sat in the front row. I'm in the background of pretty much every meaningful moment and title change. I also got a "job" (no pay) moderating the official TNA Wrestling forums for a while as part of their "street team". A couple of the last few shows, I got to go backstage during the event and just be a fly on the wall in the dressing room. It was really pretty awesome. I was standing just two feet or so off camera during the backstage interview segments. It ruled. I also met almost everyone that came through TNA those years too.

My basic wrestling fandom was like almost everyone. Got interested in the attitude era in the late 90s, and faded away from it after they botched the invasion and WWF/WCW merger on an epic scale. I've tried a couple times to get back into it recently, but I just don't really care. I almost ordered Wrestlemania this year, but did not.

Did they ever do re-takes on the "in the locker room" scenes, or did they just take whatever they ended up with and re-cut as necessary?

The ones I saw were done live.

Tress said:

Seriously though, I used to be into wrestling a lot when I was a kid. It's been so long that I don't really recognize anything about it nowadays... but I was amazed to see that some of the same guys are still involved. How old is the Undertaker these days, and how the hell does he keep wrestling? Staged or no, it has to be hard on the body.

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Same. I used to love WWF in its modern Renaissance of the late 90's.... Then I got my driver's license and stopped watching TV all together for a while. Nothing will ever beat the 1996-1998 era WWF. I fucking loved Degeneration X



No wrestler will ever match the glory that was Mankind.

When I went to see Fast Five, the entire audience went apeshit every time the Rock appeared on screen, said anything, or punched someone in the face. It was awesome.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-pro-wrestlers-are-best-actors-in-world/

After reading this, I'm going to see the Wrestler.

TLB, you don't know how lucky you are you missed paying for this years WM. Having seen every Wrestlemania, I can honestly say that this was among the worst.

Literally, nothing of substance happened. No title changes, no nothing. I honestly can't remember any "omg" moments.

Not like WM 10. What a god damn amazing show. OR the amazing Tyson finish at WM 14 I think it was? Glorioussss

What I love most about Wrestling is how intertwined the fans are with the product. My most memorable example is Hogan vs Rock at Wrestlemania. It was scripted as Villain vs Hero, and the fans turned it into Hero vs Hero.

The Wrestler is a very good movie. Mickey Rourke did an awesome job.

I only watched it for a couple years - WCW when the NWO was the big deal. Kevin Nash is still one of my favorites, though I guess between injuries (including being stabbed on the set of The Punisher) his career got cut short.

Actually, that ties into wrestlers being the best actors - they didn't replace the prop knife with a retractible blade knife during a take for The Punisher, so when Thomas Jane is fighting the Russian and stabs him, he's actually stabbing him. Nash never broke character and waited until the shot was finished to let the crew know that he had a knife wound to the chest.

TNA needs some writers, and wrestlers I want to care about, but mostly writers.

Wrestling is a Soap, and it's at its best when that fact is embraced. I tried watching both products recently after not watching in years, RAW had some entertaining storylines but still had the same big issue that made me stop watching, it treads water until the PPV, while things were happening in TNA but I just couldn't bring myself to care.

Think I mentioned this before, but I tell you guys I was in a wrestling school for awhile?

Is that what you're calling your raucous summer on Fire Island?

FireBALL Island. FireBALL.

RIP RANDY SAVAGE

That's sad news. Car accident, possibly had a heart attack while driving.

The end of the Y2J countdown was amazing.

"WELCOME


TO



RAW!

IS!

JERICHO!!!!!"

HOLY CRAP. Has anyone been watching lately?? Best entertainment I've seen in years from the sport!

CM Punk made it relevant again, and my family called me a fool for thinking he was a cool guy lol

Punk is just owning everything. Shame that tonight's RAW didn't live up to the momentum they set up last night. GodDAMN that was an awesome PPV.

Wasn't it?? It's really a shame that it took Punk leaving to have them actually utilize him to his potential. In a locker room full of horrible mic skills, he truly is one of, if not THE best on the mic in the business today.

To be honest though, I did not see that ending to Raw coming at all. I'm curious to see if Trips will have an on-air role like McMahon has had for all these years

That'd be cool. As dull and dragged-out the finale for RAW was, I totally went "OH FUCK!" when Motorhead started up. That song is just badass.

I was remembering The Genius the other day (brother of the late Macho Man). God damn he was rad. So perfectly goofy. 80's wrestling at it's best.

Charlie Don't Surf said:

The end of the Y2J countdown was amazing.

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Still one of my favorite WWE debuts as well:

needs more

Bump-de-Bump.

Been watching Raw and Smackdown the past month or so with my roommate and a friend of mine. A lot better to watch with people, and we've all given up on iMPACT. I might order Survivor Series, just to see Cena and Rock (hopefully) tear into the Awesome Truth (God I hate the Miz).

Frankie Williamson said:

I was remembering The Genius the other day (brother of the late Macho Man). God damn he was rad. So perfectly goofy. 80's wrestling at it's best.

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That was great. 80's wrestling was fantastic. It was like a live action Saturday morning cartoon. I miss that silliness. I watch it sporadically now. I was into it during the WCW/Raw wars but after WCW folded RAW lost something. I did like the Nexus storyline when it started but they killed that off quick. R-Truth's "Lil Jimmy" interviews crack me up.

Seems like a good place to post some of the pictures I took last Sunday. I would also like to take this time to inform everyone that I'm going to be the next winner of the Royal Rumble and will go on to main event Wrestlemania (or more likely, based on recent years, open the show)

You had excellent seats....holy shit, the New Age Outlaws?

The New Age Outlaws and Kane are the only guys I recognize.