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Well knowing how much of a clown he is I might start liking his matches more. I'll just have to imagine right before he came out he told Rey Mysterios he'll never make it in this business or something.
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WCW understood a fundamental truth about wrestling: you can never have enough tall, longhaired bodybuilders standing around. That's why he had a career with them almost until the end, even though most people are like "The balding keytar nerd who did the Miami Vice theme?"
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Sep 18, 2022 18:56
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We'll always have The Juicy Hammers. The first and last time Van Hammer positivity contributed to WCW.
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I remember Hammer beating Saturn in a loser leaves the Flock match. Raven decided Hammer sucked anyway and kicked him out and kept Saturn.
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Might as well drop this here: https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1571560532276035584
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Has there ever been a boxer turned wrestler who wasn't a celebrity, but became a long-time worker known for that gimmick? I can only think of Mero's "Marvelous" run, which is a kinda.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:I remember Hammer beating Saturn in a loser leaves the Flock match. Raven decided Hammer sucked anyway and kicked him out and kept Saturn. I remember meeting someone randomly (I can't remember if it was a work thing, a party, or what) when I lived in Maryland (sometime between 2004 and 2012, but hell if I remember when). She was an older woman, and randomly offered up that she had just kicked her boyfriend out, because he'd lost his job at Rose's (a chain of low-end retail stores) and just sat at her house all day. "He was Van Hammer on TV." That was just kind of sad. He just got busted for a DUI/Hit & Run of a kid on a bike, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlDh1dPB020
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Uh, is the kid okay?
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quote:On January 26, 2020, Hildreth was arrested in Palm Beach County, Florida, and charged with DUI and first degree felony hit and run.[15] Hildreth was reported to be driving at 58 mph in a 35 mph zone when he hit a 5-year-old child who was riding a bicycle. The child reportedly flew on to the hood of Hildreth's car and suffered internal injuries, but ultimately survived.[16] In May 2020, Hildreth pleaded guilty to both charges, and as a result was sentenced to one year of probation, one year of driver's license revocation, and he is to have an interlock device placed in his vehicle at all times during the course of his probation.[17]
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Thank you. For comparison, my ex-wife had her license revoked for four years and had to pay all kinds of fines and take classes when she was arrested for drunk driving. And she didn’t almost kill a toddler or hit anyone in general. Then again, this was in New York.
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Red posted:Has there ever been a boxer turned wrestler who wasn't a celebrity, but became a long-time worker known for that gimmick? Anthony Ogogo
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Sep 20, 2022 21:10
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the pope/elijah burke had a shitload of rando amateur 'toughman' fights before wrestling
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Sep 20, 2022 21:15
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davidbix posted:Might as well drop this here: JT Southern might be one of the few guys even worse at wrestling than Van Hammer.
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Sep 20, 2022 21:21
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What's regarded as the best match the Steiners had in Japan?
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Sep 20, 2022 21:43
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Most people always talk about ex football players who couldn't hack it and turned to wrestling because they're big. Who do you guys think is the best football player turned pro wrestler? As in (your opinion) a great worker.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Most people always talk about ex football players who couldn't hack it and turned to wrestling because they're big. Who do you guys think is the best football player turned pro wrestler? As in (your opinion) a great worker. The Rock was pretty ok.
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Sep 20, 2022 22:06
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"The Cat" Ernie Ladd
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Most people always talk about ex football players who couldn't hack it and turned to wrestling because they're big. Who do you guys think is the best football player turned pro wrestler? As in (your opinion) a great worker. MJF is pretty good as is Colt Cabana
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Most people always talk about ex football players who couldn't hack it and turned to wrestling because they're big. Who do you guys think is the best football player turned pro wrestler? As in (your opinion) a great worker. Wahoo McDaniel famously played for the Oilers and wrestled in the off-season until he quit football altogether.
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Dawgstar posted:What's regarded as the best match the Steiners had in Japan? Dunno the date, but that one vs. Hase and Sasaki was a fuckin BANGER. Also, would Tank Abbot count as "boxers" that got into wrestling? I mean, "the art of barfighting" is...kinda boxing? I dunno.
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Dawgstar posted:What's regarded as the best match the Steiners had in Japan? Any of their tag matches that involved Hiroshi Hase. I'd say either Hase and Mutoh vs the Steiners from the 1994 January 4th Dome show (BATTLE FIELD) or Hase and Sasaki vs the Steiners from Starrcade in the Tokyo Dome in 1991. They also had a VERY good match vs Liger and Sasaki (wrestling as Power Warrior) in 1994.
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Sep 20, 2022 22:28
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Most people always talk about ex football players who couldn't hack it and turned to wrestling because they're big. Who do you guys think is the best football player turned pro wrestler? As in (your opinion) a great worker. In the modern era, anyway. Idunno how to compare their in-ring work to Verne Gagne, much less Bronko Nagurski. EdsTeioh posted:Also, would Tank Abbot count as "boxers" that got into wrestling? I mean, "the art of barfighting" is...kinda boxing? I dunno.
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EdsTeioh posted:Dunno the date, but that one vs. Hase and Sasaki was a fuckin BANGER. Tank Abbott actually had a lot of experience as an amateur wrestler and was trained as a boxer.
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Sep 20, 2022 23:18
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Has anyone come out in an interview on why wwe named their new hires really really generic firstname-lastname stuff?
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Sep 20, 2022 23:33
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Most people always talk about ex football players who couldn't hack it and turned to wrestling because they're big. Who do you guys think is the best football player turned pro wrestler? As in (your opinion) a great worker. I feel like Lesnar is the obvious answer here?
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Most people always talk about ex football players who couldn't hack it and turned to wrestling because they're big. Who do you guys think is the best football player turned pro wrestler? As in (your opinion) a great worker. Terry Funk and Vader
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Kane was also a football player before he got a knee injury
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Red posted:Has there ever been a boxer turned wrestler who wasn't a celebrity, but became a long-time worker known for that gimmick? Wade Barrett was allegedly a bare knuckle boxer before he started wrestling (would explain his broken nose) and incorporated this into his background at times. Sadly, he never incorporated anything relating to his background in marine biology. 
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Who has been extremely successful in incorporating a non fighting related profession into their gimmick? Is there anyone more successful than that brief period of time undertaker did undertaker stuff like digging graves and making caskets in promos? Would IRS be considered extremely successful?
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Defenestrategy posted:Who has been extremely successful in incorporating a non fighting related profession into their gimmick? Is there anyone more successful than that brief period of time undertaker did undertaker stuff like digging graves and making caskets in promos? Would IRS be considered extremely successful? Bossman had a long run in multiple decades.
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Maki Itoh seems to be doing pretty well for herself in Japan as a former pop idol. Britt Baker anchors AEW's women's division as a dentist. Are we counting Cowboys as a fighting profession? ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Sep 21, 2022 |
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Honky Tonk Man?
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You could probably make the argument Logan Paul fits that description too with his profession being an internet personality
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Defenestrategy posted:Who has been extremely successful in incorporating a non fighting related profession into their gimmick? Is there anyone more successful than that brief period of time undertaker did undertaker stuff like digging graves and making caskets in promos? Would IRS be considered extremely successful? I'm trying to figure out what Goldust's original job was. Movie fanatic?
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Red posted:I'm trying to figure out what Goldust's original job was. Movie fanatic? iirc he was originally supposed to be a drag queen obsessed with cinema, the "gold" being the Oscars
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Defenestrategy posted:Who has been extremely successful in incorporating a non fighting related profession into their gimmick? Is there anyone more successful than that brief period of time undertaker did undertaker stuff like digging graves and making caskets in promos? Would IRS be considered extremely successful? Britt Baker
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Happy Corbin is both the best football player and best boxer in wrestling. Prove me wrong
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I bet Agogo would tummy punch the heck out of him.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Most people always talk about ex football players who couldn't hack it and turned to wrestling because they're big. Who do you guys think is the best football player turned pro wrestler? As in (your opinion) a great worker. Bronko Nagurski. Held the pre-National Wrestling Alliance World title twice; is also in the NFL Hall of Fame
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Has the WWE ever actually done a positive LBGT+ angle that has actually succeeded? I remember Stephanie said they would try one one day
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