16-bit Butt-Head posted:

lol but vince once got drunk at a strip club and hadevery single wrestler there (also drunk) perform their finishers on him including the road warriors doomsday device he was not killed or seriously injured

Bogus Adventure posted:

an insane homunculus fueled by intense rage and a love of farting.

Cthulu Carl posted:

I mean, same, but I couldn't survive a single finisher, let alone three, drunk or sober.

Bogus Adventure posted:

Perhaps you should ask yourself this question, "Do I REALLY love farting as much as I think I do?"

Bogus Adventure posted:

The CM Punk fiasco is why Tony Khan will never surpass Vince McMahon. If Punk did that to Vince, Vince would have eaten Punk's finishing move and then bellowed out, "YOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUU'RRRRRRRRRRRRE FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRED!!!"

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

It's very telling people call OC lazy because of his opening gimmick but then he proceeds to do luchador levels of physicality as he escalates the match. Has the same signature move as Roman Reigns too.

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

Vince would have made Punk some weird superhero pastiche or some other crazy thing and then had him do a stunt that compromised him to a permanent end.

AlmightyBob posted:

I just saw the dynamite where he disguises himself as the camera guy so he can attack jericho and he beats the poo poo out of him lol

Bogus Adventure posted:

This would have been CM Punk's next booking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srKpF1RZlY8

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

Vince would have made Punk some weird superhero pastiche or some other crazy thing and then had him do a stunt that compromised him to a permanent end.

SnafuAl posted:

Minor point, but since (I hope) these are being saved for posterity, it was Ryan Nemeth involved here.

Though given the running gag of him being unable to get out from under his more famous brother's shadow, this seems appropriate.

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

wrestling 9/11

David D. Davidson posted:

What makes Orange Cassidy great is that while all the words somebody posted about how pro wrestling is one of the longest and greatest running forms of perfomance art is all true. It's also wether unintentionally or not, hand crafted to be watched while stoned.
I mean aside from some of the more grounded wrestler persona's like Bret Hart, Shaun Michaels or Goldberg you go poo poo like 80's saturday morning cartoon heroes like Hulk Hogan or Randy Savage or a coked out ranting space viking like Warrior, or an undead giant like The Undertaker or his slasher villan kayfabe brother Kane you also got oddballs like a failed country singer or failed countru singer turned biker turned simply a dude who is in love with his rear end, turned embarassing dad whose sons betrayed him because they didn't want to be known as the rear end Boys Billy Gunn. And in the midst of all these dudes you just got this stoned slacker who's just seemingly here because why not?
He's the perfect audience insert for fans. Seemingly lazy and a little dumb but ables to suprise you with what he can do.

Cartoon Man posted:

Cartoon Man posted:

Cartoon Man posted:

AlmightyBob posted:

one of my absolute favorite orange cassidy things was when he was in a ladder match, and walked over to the announce table to ask them how you win, and when they told him he had to climb the ladder he got visible upset

quote:

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN-MANIA — Professional wrestlers come in two basic varieties: faces, the “good guys” of the ring, and heels, the “bad guys.” Occasionally a face will turn into a heel, or vice versa, based on the reactions from fans — who sometimes prefer a watchable heel to a predictable face.

Congressional leaders, when it comes to the personas they project at high-stakes moments, often follow the same exact template. And with 19 days left for lawmakers to stave off a government shutdown, Speaker Kevin McCarthy is forced to consider the role he wants to play.

McCarthy entered the last act of this spring’s debt-limit drama, Capitol Hill’s most recent big moment, looking every inch the face. He had leaned on conservative allies like Reps. Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene to help quell frustration on the right with a bipartisan agreement that inevitably gave ground from the House GOP’s original version.

But a week later, a group of hardliners derailed their own leaders’ bill on the floor. It was a show of force to squeeze the speaker, a reminder to McCarthy of his precarious hold on his party’s five-seat majority. (If it were a wrestling move, we might call it the Freedom Caucus Clutch.) House GOP leaders needed days to squash the resistors, who refused to rule out another takeover attempt.

It was a prime example of a moment that wrestling fans know well — when a bad-guy heel becomes more watchable and influential than a good-guy face. In ring parlance, that kind of advantage is known as “getting over” with fans.

McCarthy’s allies might argue that he’s getting over with the majority of the GOP, if not the party base, by trying to bridge the gap between the bumptious right and the quieter establishment. With conservatives increasingly ascendant in his majority, though, the speaker is facing a near-impossible dilemma as he tries to please all types of Republicans with a government funding plan.

So how does McCarthy get out of this bind? Instead of trying to play the conciliatory face again, he might consider a heel turn of his own.

For the oft-beleaguered and underestimated speaker, that would mean doubling down on his own agenda, drat the doubters and the haters. But first he has to decide which fan base he wants to get over with.

Does McCarthy care more about getting over with the GOP base or swing voters? If he chooses the first path, it’s time to push through whatever can pass the House before the Democratic-controlled Senate has a chance to approve its own stopgap government funding plan — and refuse to back down, even if it means a shutdown.

If the speaker wants to get over with swing voters, he’d do well to look back at which party took the blame for past government shutdowns before he decides how much brinkmanship to engage in. The verdict there is rather mixed,according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center; polling from both of the two most recent shutdowns, in 2013 and 2018, shows that Republicans may well have more to lose as the party out of power in the White House.

McCarthy’s only way to decisively absolve the GOP of blame for a shutdown, though, looks like striking a deal with Democrats. That means playing the heel for his party’s base and conservatives in his own conference — putting his gavel at risk by emboldening his critics to try to strip it from him.

It’s the kind of I-dare-you move that’s turned wrestling heels into icons. And the next 19 days will tell us whether McCarthy will drop the face act.

Seth Pecksniff posted:

Jesus politico for real?

Grendels Dad posted:

After a long career I want Cassidy to adjust his gimmick to Old Man Cassidy. Flannel shirts, pants pulled up high, coming to the ring with a walking cane, hair snow white. Instead of being lazy he'd just be old.

Bogus Adventure posted:

Can't wait for Necrot-Ric Flair to come out of retirement to fight Old Man Cassidy in the Lawrence Welk Senior Slamshionship Series

Cornwind Evil posted:

Basing the general idea that being an 'old man' would be to be officially considered a senior citizen, which in most places is 65...Orange Cassidy is currently 39, so it would take 26 years for him to reach that age, at which point Ric Flair would be...100 years old.

I can see Vince's crazy head stapled onto Shane's neck booking that, yeah.

Mulaney Power Move posted:

I never liked Orange Cassidy. I guess it's kind of funny? Whatever. I don't even watch wrestling anymore.

Cat Hatter posted:

I thought Vince already wasn't willing to sign off on Ric making an rear end of himself wrestling at his age. Then again, I thought the whole point of the WWE Legends contract was to keep aging wrestlers from tarnishing the brand by wrestling in highschool gyms to make ends meet so I don't know what Ric is up to these days.

A Fancy Hat posted:

Ric Flair is currently doing a tour of grocery stores around me to promote his lovely energy drink. If you buy 6 or more drinks you get to meet him.

It's a living.

A Fancy Hat posted:

Ric Flair is currently doing a tour of grocery stores around me to promote his lovely energy drink. If you buy 6 or more drinks you get to meet him.

It's a living.

Extra Large Marge posted:

Oh wow, you got your home mortgage through a bank? I didn't know people were still doing that. I got mine through Ric Flair.

A Fancy Hat posted:

Ric Flair is currently doing a tour of grocery stores around me to promote his lovely energy drink. If you buy 6 or more drinks you get to meet him.

It's a living.