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MassRafTer posted:Thankful Serpentico made fun of this guy because he makes a decision with this video that is almost as insane as The Stardom Samurai voice. i was not prepared for that
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https://twitter.com/KIDgotHOPS69/status/1747779740440625604 Wildly deranged take with weird spelling, Serpentico found a good one.
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MassRafTer posted:https://twitter.com/KIDgotHOPS69/status/1747779740440625604 Clide (clown bride).
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Dawgstar posted:Clide (clown bride). TIL that clussy is a term actually used by people in a not-strictly-humorous manner 
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MassRafTer posted:Thankful Serpentico made fun of this guy because he makes a decision with this video that is almost as insane as The Stardom Samurai voice. 
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I can’t bring myself to watch more than 14 seconds of this but those 14 seconds included “Josh Briggs, he’s a brawler and stuff like that. And I see them doing what they did with John Layfield. John Bradshaw Layfield. So, again - storytelling.” Incredible audio quality too, overall a complete masterpiece.
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Reddit thread on The Wrestler 16 years later which the vast majority a knowledge as both not just the best wrestling movie ever but one if the best films of the 2000s period alongside still correct bitterness at Mickey Rourke being robbed so the Academy could show how progressive they were. But we're here for that wrestling fan and film literacy can lead to incredible mess. quote:Great at the time but feels less relevant now than back then. 2000s was peak has beens looking bad. Financial and drug issues dying too young. Now a whole new generation of wrestlers past their prime finding new avenues with far less tragedy like that than we saw then. quote:Great movie, though there has never really been a guy in wrestling who ended up like Randy the Ram. A guy who was as big of a star as he was supposed to be can make a good living in wrestling his whole life. quote:Scott Hall never went broke, that is actually not true. He made appearances at Indy shows(some notorious), but so did Nash who is definitely never broke- I actually met Nash at an Indy show. But, none of those guys were working death matches. Even at Flair’s lowest, say 2009, if he made an appearance to sign autographs there would be a line a mile long. Ram did the convention and there was no one there to see him. I guess Jake is the closest comp, but his demise was his own doing- The Wrestler just painted it as “this is the life of an old wrestling star” and it’s not typically for a star at the level The Ram was supposed to be. I’m not knocking the movie, I have seen it many times and hold it in high regard. quote:Didn't really liked it cause it focused on the bad side of wrestling i have nothing to compare it too cause i haven't seen the iron claw yet but it was ok for that time and they even turned it into a WrestleMania storyline which i kinda got into And side story I learned Jim Cornette and Bret Hart hate it. https://www.thesportster.com/wrestler-hollywood-movie-divided-real-life-wrestling-business/
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wait they turned The Wrestler into a WrestleMania storyline? what?
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VideoWitch posted:wait they turned The Wrestler into a WrestleMania storyline? what? Yeah they feuded Jericho with a bunch of legends, they wanted Jericho vs Rourke but his people told him not to do it. Frank Langella was robbed of the Oscar that year.
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This reddit guy is pretty fuckin’ dumb to not get that this is Virgil/Vincent+Hall+Piper+Hogan+Roberts+Flair all divided by (n) Like, c’mon, they aren’t telling the Jake the snake story, they were trying to hit the low notes of most of the saddest faded stars, that’s why they invented whole new wrestler characters to be the protagonist and antagonist
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The Wrestler and The Iron Claw are both fantastic, showing two sides and eras of wrestling with stark reality, and The Wrestler is especially valuable in how it captured ROH on film. Very cool as a little piece of history in that regard. I wanted Rourke vs. Jericho 
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MassRafTer posted:Yeah they feuded Jericho with a bunch of legends, they wanted Jericho vs Rourke but his people told him not to do it. Huh, never knew that, wild. Also I find Bret Hart's critique of the movie of "that didn't happen to me" funny. Like yeah dude you weren't addicted to drugs
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:boy they weren't kidding about the clown porn It's truly amazing the wildlife we can find in the IWC.
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VideoWitch posted:Huh, never knew that, wild. Yeah like goddamn hey Bret do you remember what happened to Kamala Do you remember what happened to dynamite kid Do you remember what happened to the bulldog Even what happened to YOU YOURSELF, Bret, didn’t have to end positively! Maybe they are talking about what happened to that generation in total, y’ever think of that
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That no one ever went “oh c’mon, Bret, you woke up in at least one bedroom adorned with beefcake firefighter posters, given the amount of women you hosed around on your wife with” is such a missed opportunity.
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rotinaj posted:Yeah like goddamn hey Bret do you remember what happened to Kamala Bret doesn't really remember what happened to him and just blames Goldberg.
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Lid posted:Reddit thread on The Wrestler 16 years later which the vast majority a knowledge as both not just the best wrestling movie ever but one if the best films of the 2000s period alongside still correct bitterness at Mickey Rourke being robbed so the Academy could show how progressive they were. I like the one who thinks Flair's lowest was in 2009.
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No wrestler has ever had financial issues or had to wrestle long past the point their body could handle it, in fact the industry is famous for guys making a good living and retiring healthy. I dunno what Aronofsky was on about with that movie.
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MassRafTer posted:Bret doesn't really remember what happened to him and just blames Goldberg. I am amused by the fact that terry funk never really caught any static over his role in Bret’s brain issues, despite being Bret’s last proper match iirc
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rotinaj posted:I am amused by the fact that terry funk never really caught any static over his role in Bret’s brain issues, despite being Bret’s last proper match iirc He had a few house show matches after that but the Funk match did involve him getting hit in the head by weapons and suffering more concussions, which obviously isn't Terry's fault but definitely a sign Vince Russo deserves some of the blame. I think at some point Bret did realize this because Meltzer would talk about it, but Bret either forgot or decided the Goldberg stuff got more attention and focused on that.
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MassRafTer posted:Bret doesn't really remember what happened to him and just blames Goldberg. same
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MassRafTer posted:Yeah they feuded Jericho with a bunch of legends, they wanted Jericho vs Rourke but his people told him not to do it. As a positive side effect Ricky Steamboat was so over in that match that he got a singles match against Jericho at the following Backlash, and it was a pretty good match, especially when you consider that Steamboat last was an active wrestler almost 15 years before that.
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Germansimp posted:As a positive side effect Ricky Steamboat was so over in that match that he got a singles match against Jericho at the following Backlash, and it was a pretty good match, especially when you consider that Steamboat last was an active wrestler almost 15 years before that. I kind of regret not going the only WWE event in history I feel that about. https://twitter.com/JulianWks/status/1747839973645230503
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Benne posted:Wrestling fans will be way happier when they stop being marks for finishers Wrestling fans will be way happier if they stopped thinking and just marked out for cool poo poo Said it before, I will say it again, the only good wrestling fans are kids and the rest of us are just cynical old farts
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Anyone who talks about “ring psychology” is a giant red flag. Wrestling is cool moves until someone wins.
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MassRafTer posted:I kind of regret not going the only WWE event in history I feel that about. *watches some of the best white meat babyface poo poo in years" I, personally, hate this.
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Lamuella posted:*watches some of the best white meat babyface poo poo in years" I, personally, hate this. As far as I can tell, there’s a fundamental issue with said white meat babyface poo poo and that it is for a company that that dude has decided is Always Bad I can take some wwe ball-licking but when the dude was saying how great the bullshit DX logo “spray painted” on wwe hq was, you’ve got brainworms
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:kicking out of finishers is Not Cinema It’s only Cinema if the guy who did the finisher then stares wide-eyed into the distance for 8-15 seconds after the kick out
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rotinaj posted:Wrestling fans will be way happier if they stopped thinking and just marked out for cool poo poo They would have to start thinking first
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https://x.com/eclecticradical/status/1748003919480123792?s=46&t=AwMtDeZF_tX5DmOd53fE0g
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Seams posted:https://x.com/eclecticradical/status/1748003919480123792?s=46&t=AwMtDeZF_tX5DmOd53fE0g Hey “eclectic radical”, why the long face
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Benne posted:Wrestling fans will be way happier when they stop being marks for finishers The Muscle Buster's never been Joe's ultimate killshot either, right? That's the Rear Naked Choke.
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Dawgstar posted:The Muscle Buster's never been Joe's ultimate killshot either, right? That's the Rear Naked Choke. Yeah the coquina clutch has been his actual finisher since like the 2005 ROH days
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