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Say Nothing posted:Davey Boy Smith started out looking like this... Can we get comparisons photos of Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio? Because those guys went from small as hell in ECW to roid monsters in WWE.
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Davros1 posted:Can we get comparisons photos of Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio? Because those guys went from small as hell in ECW to roid monsters in WWE. To be fair, Eddie looked like loving BANE in Japan too.
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Nope, that's The Gobbledy Gooker.
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So a while ago, in another thread, there was a lot of discussion about Hogan contradicting himself with his past. One of the things tossed around was how he was "discovered", and I remembered reading about it in a book I had as a kid, which I've found: The book is mostly a collection of very brief bios, as well as some stories on history, and terminology. I got it as a kid in 1987 at my school's twice-a-year book fair. Cover  Hulk Hogan's Bio     Summary: 1. It omits Matsuda breaking Hogan's leg! 2. Hogan has no interest in acting. 3. Being the Hulkster is hard! 4. If only science could clone more Hulksters!
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Davros1 posted:Can we get comparisons photos of Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio? Because those guys went from small as hell in ECW to roid monsters in WWE. Rey was actually bigger and more cut in WCW, I think he started using roids or something similar to that before or during his WCW career, way before he got to WWE. Since then he's progressively gotten less muscular with age, to the point that people snicker and chuckle when they still bill him at "175"
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Dec 8, 2013 19:00
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Rey got noticeably bigger in WWE compared to the WCW days. WCW 
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Dec 8, 2013 19:38
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Red posted:Cover I want to be a six year old living in 1986 forever. "He reportedly makes two and a half million dollars a year! That's more than anyone in professional sports teams like baseball, football or basketball makes, and the career of a pro wrestler is longer."
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Dec 8, 2013 20:11
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In Hogan's case it's actually true. He'll be loving around somewhere or another until he dies.
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Supreme Allah posted:I want to be a six year old living in 1986 forever. Not that extravagant a claim actually. Average salary in the NFL in 1986 was around $200k. Average NBA salary was $370k (Magic Johnson was tops at $2.5m). I couldn't find salaries for 1986 MLB but in 1989 it was slightly under $519k. Salaries really didn't start to rise until unrestricted free agency became the norm.
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Dec 8, 2013 23:20
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MrBling posted:Rey got noticeably bigger in WWE compared to the WCW days. Yeah he was about a foot wider than that in his first WWE run. What weight was he billed at during his WCW days? I think he was 175 for most of his time in the 'E, not sure what he's billed at today.
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Dec 8, 2013 23:23
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Cactus Jack posted:Not that extravagant a claim actually. Average salary in the NFL in 1986 was around $200k. Average NBA salary was $370k (Magic Johnson was tops at $2.5m). I couldn't find salaries for 1986 MLB but in 1989 it was slightly under $519k. Salaries really didn't start to rise until unrestricted free agency became the norm. Makes the amount of money that players squabbled with owners and GMs about in Ball Four very funny in retrospect.
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Cactus Jack posted:Not that extravagant a claim actually. Average salary in the NFL in 1986 was around $200k. Average NBA salary was $370k (Magic Johnson was tops at $2.5m). I couldn't find salaries for 1986 MLB but in 1989 it was slightly under $519k. Salaries really didn't start to rise until unrestricted free agency became the norm. The highest paid wrestlers were usually among the top paid athletes until the 90s, so yeah it is likely true.
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But that's the same physique, just on an older man, with photography that better captures his physique (and is better in general).
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Wazzu posted:But that's the same physique, just on an older man, with photography that better captures his physique (and is better in general). Haha what?
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that first picture was a much smaller Eddie, early in his WCW run. now let's look at him near the end:
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Paulocaust posted:Haha what? ... Latinos get more muscular as they age?
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Paulocaust posted:Haha what? Do you actually think they're that different? The first pose is almost perfect for hiding how huge he is, and apart from the veins showing, he looks pretty much the same.
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Wazzu posted:Do you actually think they're that different? The first pose is almost perfect for hiding how huge he is, and apart from the veins showing, he looks pretty much the same. Look at his traps. Just look at them.
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Wazzu posted:But that's the same physique, just on an older man, with photography that better captures his physique (and is better in general). traps.
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speaking of traps, what's with hulk hogan and macho man's weak trap game? was that just a thing back then?
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MrBling posted:Rey got noticeably bigger in WWE compared to the WCW days.  He gotta hell of a lot of new ink done as well.
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We know Eddie was on the gas. It's what killed him, isn't it? Destroyed his heart?
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LividLiquid posted:We know Eddie was on the gas. It's what killed him, isn't it? Destroyed his heart?
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Steroids, HGH and his vast and sordid history of booze and drugs. He had gotten off of the latter, but the damage was done.
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LividLiquid posted:We know Eddie was on the gas. It's what killed him, isn't it? Destroyed his heart? He also had an unchecked pre-existing heart condition, I think. But 10 gets you 20 the steroids hurried up the negative effects of said condition. Also, Eddie was one of the names in the Signature bust. And even if he wasn't, he is WAY more jacked in the newer "Es Rudo!" pics than the old "Shinny, Happy" Eddie.
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Cactus Jack posted:Not that extravagant a claim actually. Average salary in the NFL in 1986 was around $200k. Average NBA salary was $370k (Magic Johnson was tops at $2.5m). I couldn't find salaries for 1986 MLB but in 1989 it was slightly under $519k. Salaries really didn't start to rise until unrestricted free agency became the norm. I didn't think it was a lie, I was just musing how salaries in professional sports exploded since I was a kid.
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There are some amazing photos on the NXT Tumblr.
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DeathChicken posted:Steroids, HGH and his vast and sordid history of booze and drugs. He had gotten off of the latter, but the damage was done. 6'5", 320lbs!  Even modern-era guys like Lesnar and Batista were freaking enormous before Vince got more serious with his drug testing. Heck, they were still huge even with the testing, just slightly more human-looking. Lesnar vs. Dave 'Leviathan' Batista OVW, dianabol on a pole match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXeCiKuKyHI
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Say Nothing posted:I recall the Warlord saying that the reason he's still alive today is that he never got into the painkillers or recreational stuff, and he was roidy as hell. If you compare Lesnar in his UFC run to when he walked out to his match with CM Punk I don't think you can use "serious with his drug testing" with a straight face.
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You're probably right, but he had to be able to cut to 265 in UFC.
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Memento posted:Yeah he was about a foot wider than that in his first WWE run. What weight was he billed at during his WCW days? I think he was 175 for most of his time in the 'E, not sure what he's billed at today. I think they billed him at 140 at least initially in WCW.
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Say Nothing posted:WWE. Pre-WWE sans mask  Looks pretty big to me, compared to that first WCW promo shot BOOTY-ADE fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Dec 9, 2013 |
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