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"You have, you know, this is a different group of guys, and gals…its millennials. You know, they’re not as ambitious, quite frankly, and they’re not trepidatious at all. I just don’t think they want to reach for that brass ring. " *wrestler gets over on their own initiative* "NO NOT LIKE THAT, DAMNIT"
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Mr Hootington posted:Maybe modern wrestlers would be as good as Flair if they were required to take out loans they could never repay. How is that one insurance salesman from the article not doing life in prison Angry_Ed posted:"You have, you know, this is a different group of guys, and gals…its millennials. You know, they’re not as ambitious, quite frankly, and they’re not trepidatious at all. I just don’t think they want to reach for that brass ring. " Isn't that exactly what happened with Zack Ryder? haljordan fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Oct 27, 2023 |
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:https://www.wrestlinginc.com/1080293/ric-flair-finance-was-one-of-the-nature-boys-more-ridiculous-endeavors/ quote:Flair would find out that his business model was "completely illegal" You think that's something you would check BEFORE opening said business.
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:https://www.wrestlinginc.com/1080293/ric-flair-finance-was-one-of-the-nature-boys-more-ridiculous-endeavors/ God he is so cool
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he is one of the greatest carnies to have ever lived
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  16-bit Butt-Head posted:he is one of the greatest carnies to have ever lived He is my favorite wrestler.
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Mr Hootington posted:He is my favorite wrestler. mine too...
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i will not be eating any of his wings... dont want to become indebted to him
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MassRafTer posted:It's very funny that the worst Awesome/Tanaka match was too good for WWE. Did Vince's dad hate the wrestling part of his show as much as his son does?
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a "few"
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Shard posted:Did Vince's dad hate the wrestling part of his show as much as his son does? I mean the WWWF wasn't exactly known as a workers territory, but he didn't have the same weird shame of making his money from wrestling that Junior has.
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Dawgstar posted:That's one of the impressive things about Sting. He actually didn't go nuts with ATM Eric's money and he's doing all this stuff now just because he wants to. Boss Man and John Tenta are two others I've heard made sure that their families were taken care of, which unfortunately proved wise after their passing. I like the story about how Sting was known in his local gym, not as famous WCW wrestler, but as "real estate Steve".
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forkboy84 posted:I mean the WWWF wasn't exactly known as a workers territory, but he didn't have the same weird shame of making his money from wrestling that Junior has. Yeah. Vince Jr. by all accounts was a saint compared to his son. Like if he wanted your top guy in a program with his champ at the Garden, that person would go because that was a huge payday nobody else could match but Vince would sweeten the deal by giving you more time with Andre to pop your territory.
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Mr Hootington posted:The episode where flair popped a few of these was nuts. That hair is goddamned glorious. haljordan fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Oct 27, 2023 |
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Jesse Ventura tells the story that you could be mad as hell about something, storm into Vince Sr.'s office, and he could smooth talk you so thoroughly that you'd walk out in a great mood, feeling like the champ, and then five minutes later you'd realize he didn't give you anything you wanted.
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah. Vince Jr. by all accounts was a saint compared to his son. Wow Shane is more evil than I knew.
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haljordan posted:I wonder how many checks Paul E. bounced during his time running ECW. I hope all his checks cleared for each Awesome/Tanaka match because those dudes absolutely put each other through hell each time. Also kudos to Tanaka for being able to get pretty drat shredded for awhile in his 40s after sporting a dad bod for most of his US time.
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haljordan posted:Isn't that exactly what happened with Zack Ryder? More or less but it's also something that's no doubt happened to countless others.
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Zach Ryder is the poster boy of 'punished for getting over' So much so that afterwards they stopped telling workers to reach for the brass ring (at least according to Cordona).
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Lid posted:DDP just posted this to reddit Two of my all time favorites, what a great find! The comment DDP left was great too. I love DDP so much. 16-bit Butt-Head posted:Steve "Steve" Borden All-time great dirtsheet typo
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I posted it in another thread but since it came up here's the quote from DDP on that reddit in case you don't want to click level 1 RealDDP OP · 1 hr. ago Mach didn't say things like this to ANYONE...not because he was a dick or anything, he was just that old school introverted closed off type that kept to himself and left everything bottled up inside. The closest thing I had to him opening up, was the hug he gave me for leaving him a voicemail on Thanksgiving telling him I was thankful for him in my life. This video resurfaced just in time for the anniversary of Halloween Havoc 1997, the final match in the feud of Randy “Macho Man” Savage vs DDP… The other day I was thinking, Man I wish Randy did at least one shoot style interview talking about our 1997 PWI feud of the year. Mach didn’t do any sit down interviews that were shoot style. Then my buddy Sean found this interview. Turns out to be from the WCW Superstar Series. A collection of VHS tapes WCW put out in 1998. There were so many wrestling vhs tapes being made then, I never would have seen just a random bio tape. It's pretty wild to hear these powerful words posthumously from one of my heroes who helped make my career. RIP Randy. DDP
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I was like "Who is this random upvoted Redditor talking about their personal relationship with Savage?" halfway through that comment before I realized... Oh! It's him! It's him! It's Dim Dim Pim.
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The comments noting that won PWI Feud of the Year over Austin v The Hart Foundation has me feeling things. Greatly conflicted things.
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MassRafTer posted:Wow Shane is more evil than I knew. No good man would throw punches like that.
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Lid posted:The comments noting that won PWI Feud of the Year over Austin v The Hart Foundation has me feeling things. Greatly conflicted things. the ddp/savage feud was easily my favorite thing happening in wcw at the time.
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