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El Gallinero Gros posted:Its pretty rare now. Only modern active guy I know of who played college football is Colt Cabana. Yota Tsuji, one of the current Young Lions, played college football in Japan. Roman Reigns played for Georgia Tech. Big E Langston was a defensive lineman at Iowa, Mojo Rawley was at Maryland, Bray Wyatt was a backup centre at Troy for a year before going into pro wrestling. I'd also add that Jay and Mark Briscoe took a hiatus from wrestling in either late or 03 to play football in college but it didn't even last a year and I can't remember where they went. There's probably others. Especially if you want to get into the weeds of like backup at West Alabama, where both Usos played linebacker.
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Baron Corbin was on the Cardinals roster for training camp and I think spent a season on the practice squad. Lance Archer was a QB at Texas State. DeAngelo Williams worked a couple TNA matches and looked really good for having next to no training. The best football player who ever wrestled though has to be Lawrence Taylor.
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Ernie Ladd or Bronko Nagurski have to be the two that achieved the most in each realm of professional football and professional wrestling right? Edit: They were already listed, missed that post.
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Apr 29, 2020 22:24
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Steve "Mongo" McMichael has both a super bowl ring and a United States championship title belt.
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Apr 29, 2020 22:26
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Excuse me are we all forgetting the current WWE 24/7 champion?
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You made that up, there isn't such a thing as a "current WWE 24/7 champion"
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How much of the WCW angle that Raven and DDP were both trained by Jake Roberts is true?
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Big E, Braun Strowman, Bray Wyatt, Mojo Rawley, Dominic Dijakovic, Riddick Moss, Keith Lee, Shane Taylor, the Vintner, Kenny King, Jake Hager, and the Usos all played college football, not neccesarily standouts or people who were recruited to wrestle because of their football acumen, but if Colt Cabana counts they should too.
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tino sabbatelli was the most successful modern "wrestler" in football and he was one of the worst players in the league for a few years. but he got to play all the time to prove it
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Hellblazer187 posted:Didn't Sexy Star shoot break someone's arm in a worked match? flashy_mcflash posted:quote:
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Oh Christ I totally forgot about TNA Asylum posters constantly writing terrible song parodies that didn't even fit the meter. I could've lived the rest of my life not remembering that.oldpainless posted:It’s a joke. During Brock and romans match at WrestleMania it somehow became a thing that Brock was pissed off and people referred to Brock using “shoot f5s” on Roman as evidence. Like there would be some major difference in execution or technique between a real and fake spinout pancake. Brock must increase the gravity when it's a shoot.
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there's an alternate universe somewhere where Deion Sanders was a huge wrestling star
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I'm not shocked that Lawrence Taylor and Karl Malone got involved in wrestling at one point  And Tyson
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Didn’t Brock make it to within spitting distance of the NFL?
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:Didn’t Brock make it to within spitting distance of the NFL? he didn't make it because he had no gas tank and the rest of the locker room hated him
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He was within spitting distance of the practice squad which was more impressive than I would've predicted but "28 years old (or whatever he was) and can't make the practice squad" is one of many ways to say "this dude isn't playing in the NFL"
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Vader played in the NFL as well.
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https://twitter.com/GrappleClips/status/1254490077851463687 Vader was the best 
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How physically-demanding and well-paying is NFL anyway compared to, say, WWE? I'm Filipino so I've never seen an American football game (we very much prefer the NBA)
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Schneider Heim posted:How physically-demanding and well-paying is NFL anyway compared to, say, WWE? I'm Filipino so I've never seen an American football game (we very much prefer the NBA) It's massively better paying. The NFL's minimum salary is $500K a year. And the team doesn't expect you to cover health care and travel. Also you have an actual off-season. As far as the physical demands, they're much higher, since it's not scripted so you can't just book Hogan to win even though he's a broken down old hot dog of a man. However, despite the physical impact that football can have on a person, the players live a lot longer than pro wrestlers seem to.
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Schneider Heim posted:How physically-demanding and well-paying is NFL anyway compared to, say, WWE? I'm Filipino so I've never seen an American football game (we very much prefer the NBA) the average career in the NFL, which is the top level of american football, is 3.3 years.
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There's some crossover in the two recent questions; I think Wayne Munn was the first world heavyweight champion who came from football with little or no wrestling background. Sonnenberg would have been the first NFL player; I don't think the NFL existed before Munn left the sport.Schneider Heim posted:How physically-demanding and well-paying is NFL anyway compared to, say, WWE? I'm Filipino so I've never seen an American football game (we very much prefer the NBA) A lot of guys went into pro wrestling after injuries ended their football career, including a lot of major stars. Too many to count, really. Even guys you can point to as second generation wrestlers, like Ted DiBiase, Kerry Von Erich, and Randy Savage were trying to make it in pro sports before switching to wrestling. Defiance Industries posted:As far as the physical demands, they're much higher, since it's not scripted so you can't just book Hogan to win even though he's a broken down old hot dog of a man. However, despite the physical impact that football can have on a person, the players live a lot longer than pro wrestlers seem to. Pro football is dangerous, and the owners are typically vain, fickle buffoons. But Vince McMahon and the level of control he's always exercised over his company is worse. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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According to the new CBA the player profit sharing is at 48%. The WWE is at 8%. I'm not sure how much can be attributed to "The NFL has far more players" but the answer is probably 'not enough to make WWE look at all good'.
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That's a general trend in combat sports. When the UFC bought up WEC and Strikeforce, it was plainly laid out to investors that the biggest advantage is the leverage to pay fighters less, while the biggest risk of going public is fighters organizing to get better pay and working conditions. (I agree with Cornette's statement that wrestling isn't fake MMA, MMA is just rasslin' without fixing the fights.)
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Having not been familiar with him before he came to NXT, what is Matt Riddle's appeal? I can't in good faith enjoy a guy who's character is "literally every stoner douchebro you met in college".
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Yet you tolerate thousands of the straight-laced meathead rear end in a top hat who thinks his presence is a gift and he treats everyone badly. for shame
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I never said I liked those guys either. I skip a lot of matches and segments.
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I think matt riddle sucks it. Sorry for messing around
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The best thing Matt Riddle ever did was the Goldberg Bro-Off backstage where Goldberg wasn't taking any poo poo from some stoner douchebag. This was after tweeting that Goldberg was complete poo poo at Blood Money where he nearly killed a man, and vice versa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m6vwXSU2qs I like Riddle's wrestling - from the few takeovers I've seen, and he'd probably be fun to hangout with on occasion, but man he looks like he smokes more weed than Papa Shango e: I just realized I was in the building for this, and it was right before Goldberg had his epic return match vs Dolph Ziggler at SummerSlam because he wanted to redeem himself and go out looking good (the match was a spear/jackhammer squash lol) Hirez fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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He had an interesting interview once where he said he actually couldn't stand MMA, because it made him feel terrible to hurt people, yet he was also very, very good at hurting people. So doing fake wrestling instead solved a lot of problems
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that the same interview where he said thank god he can smoke weed or else he'd probably be beating his kids obligatory: https://twitter.com/reymysterio/status/263061905764151296
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sticklefifer posted:Having not been familiar with him before he came to NXT, what is Matt Riddle's appeal? I can't in good faith enjoy a guy who's character is "literally every stoner douchebro you met in college". RVD but in 2020
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i don't like this new aggressive cavauro we've been getting the last few months
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Alaois posted:i don't like this new aggressive cavauro we've been getting the last few months Primates always get weird in isolation 
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i am afraid of dying soon. i have an immune system that catches everything but handles it sort of well from there which is still not ideal. I wonder if that fudged me up on here. didn't think about it before but i will try not to be too frighteningly brash. i want to be friends with everyone like NienNunb is. i think i normally would have chided tony khan for writing his shows in 7 minutes however. As a little bit of a pranky
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Edge & Christian posted:What (if any) are examples of a wrestler being reluctant/dubious about an angle/gimmick, agreeing to it despite reservations, and coming out of it going "I was wrong, that was great!"? Edge initially did not want to be involved in the first Money in the Bank match.
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sticklefifer posted:Having not been familiar with him before he came to NXT, what is Matt Riddle's appeal? I can't in good faith enjoy a guy who's character is "literally every stoner douchebro you met in college". He doesn't seem to have changed much in terms of "MMA guy who likes weed", but he was much more "amiable guy who enjoys marijuana as a side hobby while focusing on doing MMA moves in a ring" than "I just saw Half Baked and here are all the jokes from it" on the indies. His match with Dan Severn from Spring Break 1 is much better than a match involving a very old Dan Severn should be.
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Cavauro posted:i am afraid of dying soon. i have an immune system that catches everything but handles it sort of well from there which is still not ideal. I wonder if that fudged me up on here. didn't think about it before but i will try not to be too frighteningly brash. i want to be friends with everyone like NienNunb is. i think i normally would have chided tony khan for writing his shows in 7 minutes however. As a little bit of a pranky Are we friends? I hope so.
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Julio Cruz posted:it depends how you define a football guy, because the Rock played in the CFL and a bunch of guys (most notably Roman) were good/great players in college Pretty sure Roman put in a full season with Edmonton.
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Shard posted:Are we friends? I hope so. you are my friend.
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