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Cornwind Evil posted:I don't know why, but for some reason I always remember Steve briefly beating on his foot in that scene, mainly because it seems jarringly out of place. Everything else is comedy slapstick with Attitude toilet humor at the end (not shown in that video: Steve gives Vince an enema to conclude his attack), but Steve beating on an injury just seems kind of...petty. Steve Austin might have been the Rattlesnake DTA no mercy guy, but his character generally just kicked your rear end all around; he didn't focus on a specific pain point to be cruel. Or maybe I'm overthinking it. He definitely attacked weaknesses. https://youtu.be/NPusp3-Tt_A?si=_85v1kIeEXg6nYm7
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Today I learned that Vince wanted to call Wrestlemania "Colossal Tossle" and one of the guys in the meeting danced around the room repeating the phrase to mock the idea, then the Fink came up with Wrestlemania.
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God bless the Fink. I hope he got some sort of special dispensation and got to take his giant pornography collection with him to Heaven.
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If there's anything I miss about old WWF, it was The Fink doing the announcing. Something felt so *right* about it, especially when he'd announce "AND NEEEWWWW" champions after matches. Dude had the perfect announcer voice.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Today I learned that Vince wanted to call Wrestlemania "Colossal Tossle" and one of the guys in the meeting danced around the room repeating the phrase to mock the idea, then the Fink came up with Wrestlemania. There is no way that "THE COLOSSAL TOSSLE" would have anywhere near the iconic gravitas WrestleMania has so good on the Fink for that one
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"colossal tossle"[sic] sounds like a sneering parody invented by someone whose contempt for everything to do with pro wrestling has blossomed into a full-blown pathology or, more succinctly, very  . well spotted of the Fink to push back on it
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BOOTY-ADE posted:i "AND NEEEWWWW" I can hear this part
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SatansOnion posted:"colossal tossle"[sic] sounds like a sneering parody invented by someone whose contempt for everything to do with pro wrestling has blossomed into a full-blown pathology My thought was it sounded like something someone writing a pro-wrestling RPG would come up with as a rename of a thing WWE has copy-righted. See: the RPG World Wide Wrestling, where the name they used to describe a Royal Rumble-style match is "Regal Wrangle."
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Tremendous Revenges Muchas Luchas Quite a Fight
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Animal-Mother posted:Tremendous Revenges
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SirPhoebos posted:My thought was it sounded like something someone writing a pro-wrestling RPG would come up with as a rename of a thing WWE has copy-righted. Reminds me of an old, lovely video game about Popeye wrestling aliens and robots in space. Popeye 3: WrestleCrazy. It's not nearly as good as it sounds.
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Animal-Mother posted:Tremendous Revenges Genuinely, let's get George Miller on the phone now.
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Corzaa posted:He definitely attacked weaknesses. To be fair, at that point in time Austin was a pure rear end in a top hat heel. See also: the infamous bit where Austin was trying to break into Pillman's house the very next week to...beat him up more? Kill him? I mean, all Pillman DID was give Bret Hart props and Austin went and did THAT, and then went and did THAT, because he wasn't just a heel, he was apparently completely psychopathic as well. Whereas McMahon had at this point made multiple attempts to screw Austin out of the world title, and succeeded, twice, briefly with Kane, and then longer with Kane/Undertaker. And even THEN it still seems petty, probably because it was immediately followed by three slapstick attacks that inherently come off as comedic, the same way the Home Alone traps do despite what they would do if you actually did them in real life.
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Animal-Mother posted:Tremendous Revenges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31NxuMrtWsk
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Animal-Mother posted:Tremendous Revenges Free-For-All Big Brawl (in a bingo hall)
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Animal-Mother posted:Tremendous Revenges Seasons Beatings 
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Seasons Beatings Slappy Hanukkah 
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Rumble on Ramadan Kwanzaa Kaos
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I've been watching the documentary series Darkside of the Ring and I just got to the 'airplane from hell' episode, and Jesus Christ! These old school wrestlers were monsters, weren't they? They seem like such scumbags.
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nearly every old school wrestler is a damaged human being with many of them being monsters the business being rooted in carnie culture doesnt help either lol
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you also have to be hosed up to want to be dropped on your head non stop for little money
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The current generation of wrestlers have their share of abhorrent pieces of poo poo, but it definitely feels like there are enough decent people in the industry that the lovely people are being kept to a minimum? It still ain't great, but I think there's been comments made throughout the years by older wrestlers who are kinda surprised at the improvement.
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Shinjobi posted:The current generation of wrestlers have their share of abhorrent pieces of poo poo, but it definitely feels like there are enough decent people in the industry that the lovely people are being kept to a minimum? social media and the death of kayfabe probably helped too
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there is no way ric flair's career would have survived if his heyday had iphones
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have the work conditions improved much at all from then? don't really follow current wrestling too much but the stories I heard from the 80s and 90s made it sound like the worst type of independent contracting gig imaginable
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mannerup posted:have the work conditions improved much at all from then? don't really follow current wrestling too much but the stories I heard from the 80s and 90s made it sound like the worst type of independent contracting gig imaginable no lol
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It sounds like some wrestlers, like Ric Flair, are still stuck in kayfabe. There's something kinda pathetic about that.
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Yeah, their entire business was predicated on attempting to deceive people. What's really hosed about the plane ride is that the behavior there was considered normal for a lot of these guys. This was just especially bad because a bunch of them decided to all act out on the same trip.
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John Yossarian posted:It sounds like some wrestlers, like Ric Flair, are still stuck in kayfabe. There's something kinda pathetic about that. allowing your kayfabe character to wholly devour your brain used to be a time-honored tradition
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Regrettable posted:Yeah, their entire business was predicated on attempting to deceive people. What's really hosed about the plane ride is that the behavior there was considered normal for a lot of these guys. This was just especially bad because a bunch of them decided to all act out on the same trip. it was also considered funny for a long time and it has been the change in culture and awareness in the following decades that has caused more people to be aware of how horrific it really was
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I also read that the Undertaker is a chud which is disappointing. I would imagine a lot of these older wrestlers are chuds, though.
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:proud of golddust for being one of the few decent human beings during the incident with his biggest crime being getting too drunk and sareading to his ex-wife over the intercom I'd much prefer that to having to deal with Hennig and fat-tits trying to beat the poo poo out of each other in the aisle
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John Yossarian posted:I also read that the Undertaker is a chud which is disappointing. I would imagine a lot of these older wrestlers are chuds, though. literally all of them but mick foley are republicans
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Mick Foley and I think Batista are not chuds. It's safe to assume every other pro wrestler is a chud until confirmed otherwise.
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John Yossarian posted:I also read that the Undertaker is a chud which is disappointing. I would imagine a lot of these older wrestlers are chuds, though. 16-bit Butt-Head posted:you also have to be hosed up to want to be dropped on your head non stop for little money
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