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Coaaab
Aug 6, 2006

Wish I was there...
I don't know if Morrison ever kneed anyone in the face with it, but in this clip, he clearly mashes Tyson Kidd's face with his abs.

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anakha
Sep 16, 2009


I'm shocked Kidd's face wasn't wrecked since Morrison proved he could grate cheese on his abs.

dromal phrenia
Feb 22, 2004

I didn’t even click the link and I can still hear Miz being excited and incredulous in my head

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle
i interpret john morrison's character as "a wrestler who was a minor character in a 90s kids movie became a wrestler in real life" which is subtle, but honestly i think there's something to it. morrison is playing a wrestler in such a way that he circled around into being the kind of guy who is that nobody c-list actor who is cast when the director needs a really athletic guy for a small or non-speaking role.

his other mode is "guy who makes middle aged women insanely horny and leans into it" which i also like.

again i'm pretty sure johnny insert-name-here is just himself out there its just i find that person to be really weird and interesting lol

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer
That's actually the best sum up of the guy I've ever read

Name Change
Oct 9, 2005



I made it to 0:01

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer
Look if multiple generations of Air Buds can win multiple championships I don't see why this dog can't compete in a fake sport

For christ sakes a ladder just retired because it was so good at wrestling in DDT

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer
Hell a dog even pinned the ladder!



Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

The time on Lucha Underground where Johnny bursts into the Worldwide Underground lockerroom to get them fired up, then notices their camera is on him and immediately becomes 10x worse an actor still makes me laugh to this day. He leaned in hard to,"Johnny Mundo is a great wrestler, but John Morrison is an AWFUL actor" and it was great.

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
This is garbage. Wrestler #5 is clearly a yeti.

The Croc
Dec 19, 2004

A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird!

OH YEAH!



Halloween Jack posted:

This is garbage. Wrestler #5 is clearly a yeti.

You made it that far into the video?

DeathChicken
Jul 9, 2012

Nonsense. I have not yet begun to defile myself.

I feel like half of those Dirt Sheet episodes were just Morrison trying as hard as possible to make Miz corpse

Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money
what happened exactly with Kimber Lee in NXT?

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



Low Desert Punk posted:

what happened exactly with Kimber Lee in NXT?

Rovert has hinted that she had a bad attitude, came in drunk, and didn't meet their physical standards.

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle
that kicks rear end, go kimber lee

Dick Bastardly
Aug 22, 2012

Muttley is SKYNET!!!
How many wrestlers were, are, or will become porn stars?

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

just one, Val Venis

Beef Jerky Robot
Sep 20, 2009

"And the DICK?"

X pac, chyna, Sunny, AR Fox

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Dick Bastardly posted:

How many wrestlers were, are, or will become porn stars?

Yoshiaki Fujiwara was in a porno.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

The Montreal Screwjob XXX parody apparently never got released. Bullshit.

AkumaHokoru
Jul 20, 2007

Aphrodite posted:

The Montreal Screwjob XXX parody apparently never got released. Bullshit.

no that got released. its the reason those porn parody images of bret are out there.

the one with chyna is why we have porn Hogan porn hunter and porn someone else.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

The pictures were from the announcement. The video never got released.

WWE probably threatened to sue.

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

did gangrel do porn or just direct it

NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010



So is anybody here old enough to remember the pre-kayfabe being destroyed days? Or do you know anyone who was an avid fan from those days?

It's like, even when I was a kid, I thought "that can't be real" about some big stunts. But now as an adult, even the simplest things - like "why are they running when they get whipped into the ropes?" - sticks out to me more. But people thought this poo poo was totally legit right down to trying to murder heels. Or so I've been told.

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer

Super No Vacancy posted:

did gangrel do porn or just direct it

I was gonna say I don't want to know the answer to that but Gangrel is so drat likable I'd probably watch him bang just to be polite

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
It's impossible to say when kayfabe effectively died, but it was a long long time before Jim Cornette claims it did. It's really more of a personal thing.

Like, pro wrestling was banned in Paris in IIRC the 1860s for match fixing. By the end of the 19th century there had already been several prominent missteps that resulted in crowds booing matches for obvious fakery and newspapers calling them out. This happened again before 1920 and yet again when promoters worked to revive the sport in the late 40s after the war.

LividLiquid
Apr 13, 2002

Cornette mostly seems to think that more or less everybody knew something wasn't on the level, but the truth wasn't paraded in front of them so everybody kind of went along with it.

Seams
Feb 3, 2005

ROCK HARD

Dick Bastardly posted:

How many wrestlers were, are, or will become porn stars?

ricardo rodriguez was an extra in a scene i think

NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010



Dick Bastardly posted:

How many wrestlers were, are, or will become porn stars?

Ariel, using her real name Shelly Martinez, was in a porno.

DangerDummy!
Jul 7, 2009

I know it was 50/50 with the kids during WrestleMania 3 as far as believing it was real. The only adults I knew back then who thought it was real were my aunt and uncle, but they were a couple of hayseeds.

Sionistic
Apr 22, 2008

We don't need your money!
Mickie James

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Chastity

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

Dick Bastardly posted:

How many wrestlers were, are, or will become porn stars?

Hulk Hogan

NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010




While we're at it, Paige too, right? Was it with Del Rio?

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

Aesop Poprock posted:

I was gonna say I don't want to know the answer to that but Gangrel is so drat likable I'd probably watch him bang just to be polite
He went to Japan and learned to work stiff, so it's a natural fit for him.

Dick Bastardly
Aug 22, 2012

Muttley is SKYNET!!!

NikkolasKing posted:

While we're at it, Paige too, right? Was it with Del Rio?

can confirm, he came on the WWE Women's Championship belt like some weird tribute or something. Pretty neat imo

Dick Bastardly
Aug 22, 2012

Muttley is SKYNET!!!
the WWE Women's Championship belt had Del Rio's cum on it lol

Nipponophile
Apr 8, 2009

NikkolasKing posted:

So is anybody here old enough to remember the pre-kayfabe being destroyed days? Or do you know anyone who was an avid fan from those days?

It's like, even when I was a kid, I thought "that can't be real" about some big stunts. But now as an adult, even the simplest things - like "why are they running when they get whipped into the ropes?" - sticks out to me more. But people thought this poo poo was totally legit right down to trying to murder heels. Or so I've been told.

I was a kid back in the 80's and bought into most of the stuff, but thinking about this made me remember how immediately after I learned about the gimmickry, me and the other kids at school would rationalize everything that happened through our newfound lenses.

Like, chairshots to the head? Obviously faked with gimmicked chairs because there's no way they would just haul off and hit each other for real.

The famous Hulk Hogan-Richard Belzer interview? Belzer was totally playing along for publicity, you can't really put someone to sleep with a hold like that...

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

NikkolasKing posted:

So is anybody here old enough to remember the pre-kayfabe being destroyed days? Or do you know anyone who was an avid fan from those days?

It's like, even when I was a kid, I thought "that can't be real" about some big stunts. But now as an adult, even the simplest things - like "why are they running when they get whipped into the ropes?" - sticks out to me more. But people thought this poo poo was totally legit right down to trying to murder heels. Or so I've been told.

Everyone has known it was fake for 100 years. In the 1910s you had the Manhattan Opera House tournament with masked men and dumb angles and storylines and everyone knew it was a work. As has been mentioned crowds had rejected various things for 50 years before that. But even looking forward in the 80s a poll was conducted in the Mid Atlantic region which asked if wrestling was real and only 3% of respondents said it was. So while people were getting all that wild heat and bleeding 5 nights a week in Crocket Promotions everyone knew it was fake.

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Bigass Moth
Mar 6, 2004

I joined the #RXT REVOLUTION.
:boom:
he knows...

Dick Bastardly posted:

the WWE Women's Championship belt had Del Rio's cum on it lol

It was Brad Maddox and Xavier Woods in her videos.

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