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Halloween Jack posted:And not only did they issue the challenge, but when Vince didn't show, they actually staged the "match" on PPV at Slamboree 1998. Bischoff did a pro wrestler entrance, dressed in a jacket and jeans (and hand-wraps, I think), and walked down the ramp while throwing phantom punches at the camera like a competitor from one of the early UFCs. When Bischoff announced the match wouldn't happen the WWE sued for false advertising on the grounds that in wrestling, if you say something isn't going to happen? It probably is. They won. God bless America.
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Aesop Poprock posted:
He looks like he was drawn by Peter Chung 
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Apr 22, 2015 02:28
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Are gay pinups a thing, because I feel like that's the exact pose a gay pinup tattoo would have
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Those are the skinniest legs I have ever seen
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Bluedeanie posted:Are gay pinups a thing, because I feel like that's the exact pose a gay pinup tattoo would have actually no, gay people don't enjoy porn or nude depictions of people of the same sex so the idea of this is ridiculous
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Did the coward wrestler drink a beer yet?
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Skip My Posts posted:Did the coward wrestler drink a beer yet? Let me direct you to the lettering on his knuckles.
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BUBBA GAY DUDLEY posted:Let me direct you to the lettering on his knuckles. I can't read that poo poo, but it had better be love beer
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Halloween Jack posted:For the benefit of MMA posters who haven't heard about the Brawl for All: Two other great things about Brawl For All: 1) The announcers had no idea how to deal with this. I mean, they couldn't acknowledge that wrestling is normally fake and this wasn't, so they couldn't even describe why this should be something special. So they had to be excited for some reason about there being special scoring and weird rules for a match. They also would occasionally blurt out something about mixed martial arts. They had just had to wink-wink nudge-nudge about the whole deal since they couldn't even get to the root of what was supposed to make this interesting. 2) The crowd loving HATED it. So much. Every match was booed or met with chants of "boring" unless it was two guys swinging wildly at each other (at which point they would be gassed about 20 seconds in). This was a thing that no one wanted to see except for Vince McMahon.
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StarkRavingMad posted:Two other great things about Brawl For All: Also they specifically barred Ken Shamrock from participating, when he would have been almost-guaranteed to have had more exciting Brawl For All fights than Dan Severn. You think the crowd shits on Brawl For All in general? Try watching Dan Severn use a million takedowns to wrestlefuck his way to a points victory.
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Watching Dan Severn wrestle fake wrestlers actually sounds really fun and good
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Severn would've been a fool to trade haymakers with a guy who had like 6 inches of height and a hundred pounds on him. Have...have you seen Shamrock vs. Severn in MMA?
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Detroit_Dogg posted:Watching Dan Severn wrestle fake wrestlers actually sounds really fun and good It would have been had they also not made him drop out of the tournament after beating The Godfather. Halloween Jack posted:Have...have you seen Shamrock vs. Severn in MMA? Still better than Hawk vs. Droz 
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No Brawl for All chat is complete without mentioning that Bart Gunn was expected to put up a fight against Butterbean based on a couple knockouts against people with no legit shoot fighting experience. Things ended as one would assume.
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Charles Gnarwin posted:No Brawl for All chat is complete without mentioning that Bart Gunn was expected to put up a fight against Butterbean based on a couple knockouts against people with no legit shoot fighting experience. Things ended as one would assume. Wrestling still operates under the belief that whoever can lift the heaviest thing is automatically the best at fighting. Edit: actually, that's not true, they operate under the belief that whoever looks like they can lift the heaviest thing is automatically the best at fighting. Gonzo McFee fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Apr 22, 2015 |
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Didn't Butterbean even offer to work the fight to make it look good?
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Peter Bazooka posted:Didn't Butterbean even offer to work the fight to make it look good? Yes, in fact I think he both offered to throw it or make Bart look good but lose. They told him to shoot like it's a real fight or whatever. That's when Brawl For All went from hilarious to amazing.
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I remember having the event with Bart Gunn vs Butterbean on VHS when I was growing up and it was the funniest thing ever.
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Aesop Poprock posted:actually no, gay people don't enjoy porn or nude depictions of people of the same sex so the idea of this is ridiculous It's not the porn element I was asking about but the very specific aesthetic of pinup culture, but if that's how you wanna read it then swing away, Johnny!
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Butterbean did it because he wanted to be a wrestler and he thought that was the best way to do it, too.
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Bluedeanie posted:It's not the porn element I was asking about but the very specific aesthetic of pinup culture, but if that's how you wanna read it then swing away, Johnny! have you ever heard of a fireman's calendar, or big tom (from finland)
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Luigi Thirty posted:Butterbean did it because he wanted to be a wrestler and he thought that was the best way to do it, too. He wanted to be a wrestler but didn't get to? Hell, even Tank Abbott got to be a wrestler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sz7z-Z0dhw
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david carmichael posted:fireman's calendar
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Mercury Crusader posted:He wanted to be a wrestler but didn't get to? Hell, even Tank Abbott got to be a wrestler. Well, he wanted to be in the WWF and thought doing the Brawl For All match would be his way in. Turns out all it did was make everyone in the locker room hate him.
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Halloween Jack posted:Have...have you seen Shamrock vs. Severn in MMA? Click the ? Under my post
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Having met Daniel Puder and having to manage him as he made a corporate appearance for six hours, I can assure you that he definitely is capable of snapping in the wrong situation. He is also one of the nicest human beings I've ever met, too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrvgwnzJOLo 45 minute interview with Ariel Helwani discussing basically all aspects of what people might want to know about CM Punk.
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how old is this guy? he looks 60. he looks like crap.
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36, apparently. Most notable thing I've heard so far is that Reebok hosed up the gear for him too and misspelt his name, but he's going by CM Punk in the UFC too. He had no input on it whatsoever either. So much for a deal for the fighters.
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Does CM have a 6 pack yet? How can one perform well in MMA without a strong core?
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He has a single really long hair above his right ear that sticks out in the light. I can't stop watching it now I've seen it.
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That "The Time Is Now" huge groundbreaking press conference that turned into "we didn't get the deal signed yet lol" was supposed to be the CM Punk signing announcement. Somehow that would have been even more underwhelming than what happened.
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Mean Bean Machine posted:how old is this guy? he looks 60. he looks like crap. He's 55
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You know what would be funny. If the Rock or Cena joined UFC and their fight main evented over Punks fight ..Just thought I'd add that
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Hulk Hogan is going to revive his wrestling career as well as his Pride fighting career by stepping into the Octagon and introducing Punk to the largest arms in the world, Brother.
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Shima Honnou posted:Yes, in fact I think he both offered to throw it or make Bart look good but lose. They told him to shoot like it's a real fight or whatever. That's when Brawl For All went from hilarious to amazing. One of the craziest things I learned about wrestling is that they didn't book Butterbean vs Bart to punish Gunn for winning the tourney they set up for Dr. Death to win. Like it made perfect sense: "Oh you beat our guy did you? Well now you have to fight Butterbean fucker" But no they actually thought Gunn had a shot in that fight and wanted him to win.
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Vince actually wanted to wrestle Dana at Wrestlemania.
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Charles Gnarwin posted:No Brawl for All chat is complete without mentioning that Bart Gunn was expected to put up a fight against Butterbean based on a couple knockouts against people with no legit shoot fighting experience. Things ended as one would assume. And no mention of that is complete without this: 
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Chokes McGee posted:And no mention of that is complete without this: It's amazing that even Butterbean was like, "You guys sure? You want me to make it look good? Just lose...? Oh you want me to kill him... well I guess that's ok."
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