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SatansOnion posted:between this and the stories I remember from Mick Foley's books about his career, it's no wonder the rumors persist about some pro wrestlers being goons Are there stories in there about wrestlers liking to eat rear end? E: Well, I should have read the thread to the end. wesleywillis fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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wesleywillis posted:Are there stories in there about wrestlers liking to eat rear end? 
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Flowers for QAnon posted:80. Jushin Liger has one of the worst acne/pock marked faces you’ll ever see. This one is demonstrably false AND boring
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Spuckuk posted:This one is demonstrably false AND boring quote:416. EVERYONE hates Steve Corino.
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If the Kerry Von Erich ones are true I’m now officially pro Von Erich Curse.
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Punk's overwhelming bad luck honestly is making me feel just a tiny bit bad for him again. It helps that next to this thread's namesake monster, he's more or less literally a second city saint.
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MakaVillian posted:How do you tear your triceps taking a DDT? Did he put his arm up (down?) to stop himself from landing on his head? he did exactly that and jammed his arm into the mat
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Szyznyk posted:If the Kerry Von Erich ones are true I’m now officially pro Von Erich Curse. loving THIS. It bothers me so much that there's not one, but two stories of him doing harm to cats. I'm really hoping those ones are false. The saw blade story might actually be funny if he threw it at like, a wall or a chair or some other inanimate object. Literally anything other than a living person or animal.
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quote:The AWA wrestlers in the 70s usually had three nights off in a row. One time Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch got drunk, drove all the way from Minnesota to Louisiana for the sole purpose of kidnapping a mule, and brought it back to their apartment complex in Minnesota. Bored with just having the mule around the apartment, Murdoch got drunk (or was still drunk?), went to some country and western bar in downtown Minneapolis and rode the mule into the bar while firing a gun in the air.
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I. M. Gei posted:216. Terry Gordy was all coked up one night working on his deck and he fell and caught his nutsack on a nail, ripping it almost completely off. In the same post someone said they heard he actually cut his finger off in a coked up sawing accident. Not sure if either is true, probably not. Holy poo poo what
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Cornwind Evil posted:Not to toot my own horn, but I have a Doc where I tidied the list up, fixed what spelling and grammar errors I could find, tweaked some tenses as related to modern times, and occasionally added a comment as my sole contribution. LMAO at this list. Goddamn. Also though I've heard the Sid Vicious story elsewhere probably here.
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MakaVillian posted:How do you tear your triceps taking a DDT? Did he put his arm up (down?) to stop himself from landing on his head? TBF that is how you take a DDT, which I did not learn about until I saw how Cena does it. He uses his entire forearm aligned with his head in a really obvious way.
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not the worst dick murdoch taking dusty somewhere story I've heard
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That List posted:33. Hogan vs. Zeus was supposed to headline WrestleMania 6. Truly the most horrifying story of the lot.
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zeus kept showing up and having bad wrestling matches so that one is true
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Holy poo poo what Yeah that one hurts a little bit to read.
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Cornwind Evil posted:Punk's overwhelming bad luck honestly is making me feel just a tiny bit bad for him again. He's a massive rear end in a top hat and simultaneously the biggest mark there ever was. Do not ever feel bad for him
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mfer went from a company where he was given his own show where he was allowed to ban anyone he wanted from the stadium and ran by the biggest cm punk mark in history to crawling back to vince and getting injured lol
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All he's done since coming back to wrestling is get injured and act like a giant baby. I've only ever known Punk through AEW and he's only ever come off like a giant douche.
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I was wondering if Jack Perry was still wandering the desert after trolling Punk into his meltdown, andquote:On January 13, 2024, at Battle in the Valley, Perry made his New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) debut, where he attacked Shota Umino; after laying Umino out, he tore up his AEW contract in the ring and donned an armband reading "scapegoat".[51] Huh, ok then.
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Gavok posted:
 another tricep tear? He already hosed one arm up in that AEW title match against Mox when he took a dive to the outside & had to vacate the belt
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Bad Video Games posted:All he's done since coming back to wrestling is get injured and act like a giant baby. I've only ever known Punk through AEW and he's only ever come off like a giant douche. Same. I never saw his original WWE run so I'll never understand the appeal of him. He just seems like a massive tool, it sounds like he's a total rear end in a top hat backstage, and I can't say his matches have been particularly entertaining (other than the one gif of him getting elbow dropped in the balls. What the hell do people see in him?
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Same. I never saw his original WWE run so I'll never understand the appeal of him. He just seems like a massive tool, it sounds like he's a total rear end in a top hat backstage, and I can't say his matches have been particularly entertaining (other than the one gif of him getting elbow dropped in the balls. What the hell do people see in him? He calls himself the best in the world and somehow dorks the world over believe it. That's all he has going for him
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CM punk had a good match with John Cena once. That's it
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he was one of the hot indie properties along with Samoa Joe, Bryan Danielson and Low-ki during a time when the WWE had rules about who they'd sign based on height and physique and the quality of the in-ring performance was at its absolute lowest. Near everyone they were debuting on TV were massive roided out rookies who they'd trained in-house and there was a refusal to look at indie wrestlers when they eventually relented and started signing the indie wrestlers there was a lot of goodwill from the fans but that poo poo was 15 years ago
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Same. I never saw his original WWE run so I'll never understand the appeal of him. He just seems like a massive tool, it sounds like he's a total rear end in a top hat backstage, and I can't say his matches have been particularly entertaining (other than the one gif of him getting elbow dropped in the balls. What the hell do people see in him? CM Punk was the first guy in a long time to get people excited about “wrestling” in the US. Not the ONLY guy, but certainly the most high-profile. In 2010, you basically had WWE as the John Cena superhero show, or MAYBE you liked the slop TNA was serving with lots of washed up guys like Hulk Hogan, but it was all pretty much “sports entertainment” by way of Vince McMahon. I know I fell off REAL hard somewhere around 2005/6 because wrestling had become pretty embarrassing to watch; bad gimmicks/stories, untalented green and roidy dudes getting pushed, abysmally bad women’s representation, etc. Sure, there were indie or foreign promotions doing some good work, but those weren’t exactly mainstream or easy to get into at the time. Punk’s big run in 2010 saw him challenging that establishment, calling out how bad and stale the industry had become, and in turn becoming “the voice of the voiceless” (aka the frustrated fans that wanted to watch good wrestling instead of lolCenaWins for the millionth time in a row). While it’s all funny in hindsight because he didn’t actually change anything himself, at the time it really felt like Punk was leading the charge of big changes in the industry. Him winning the title off Cena ushered the way for other guys who were overlooked like Bryan Danielson/Daniel Bryan getting their time to shine. CM Punk’s whole style was aping the kind of wrestling you’d see in New Japan or elsewhere (hell, most of his arsenal was lifted from KENTA…), and fans were happy to see a better work-rate and good mic skills becoming more the standard in the industry leader. When Punk left after years of backstage abuse, including the infamous z-pack/staph infection fiasco, fans deified him, as he was the one guy who could stand up to “the man” (Vince and his goons). He also had the big podcast with Colt Cabana that endeared him to fans and cast a really bad light on WWE’s medical policies and corporate infrastructure (which based on recent developments seems tame by comparison; sending someone their pinkslip on their wedding day isn’t as bad as, say, sex trafficking). Lots of fans wanted him back for years, and his return to AEW was really well received. Thing is, this dude is a massive mark for himself, and has proven himself a dick time and time again; for example, look up his whole saga against Colt Cabana in the wake of the podcast I just mentioned. It really didn’t take long for him to show his true colors in AEW, and the rest of his comeback felt cursed due to either his ego or his body breaking down. Now he’s back in WWE after years of publicly railing against them, and while he still has his fans (somehow), I think the shine has really worn off. He’s older, more injury prone, and nowhere near as crisp as he used to be (granted he’s always been a little sloppy in-ring). In the immortal words of Jon Moxley: quote:FRAGILE EGO In summation: 
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I think Punk is a guy who wants big changes but, ultimately, only cares if those changes affect him. He wanted the makeup of WWE to change so he, personally, could be on top of it. He wanted AEW to succeed because it would benefit him financially and in terms of his legacy in pro wrestling. I don't necessarily think that's WRONG but I think its disingenuous when he and his hardcore fans act like he's the most selfless person in wrestling history. He's a weird, angry guy who is nice to you as long as you're nice to him but can turn on you in a second. When he throws insults at Colt Cabana like "he shares a bank account with his mother" or he says the Young Bucks "can't manage a Target" he's letting the real guy sneak out just for a bit. He's a guy who will say all the right things to seem like a cool, progressive, open minded guy but he'll just as easily insult someone for their financial situation or act like working a minimum wage job is beneath him.
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Poor CM Punk. He worked himself into a shoot (brother!) and died.
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i know cm punk mostly as a promoter of straightedge during the whole emo era of the early 2000's i didnt find out he was a wrestler for a few years afterwards hearing about him is kind of like hearing about emo kids again, 20 years later
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One day CM Punk stepped out on stage and said a bunch of mean but largely true things about WWE and Vince, and suddenly he was the hero, the Voice of the Voiceless, the people's champion. And that carried him through the rest of his WWE tenure, his retirement, and his first nine months of AEW. And then he stepped out on a stage and said a bunch of mean things that might or might not be true about AEW and Tony Khan, but unfortunately for him, people like AEW and Tony Khan, so that soured a lot of people on him. And then his behavior after that moment, including the locker room fight immediately after, showed that he was nothing but an angry and resentful old man with a chip on his shoulder, and had been all along. We just cheered for it when he was punching up at Vince.
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rndmnmbr posted:One day CM Punk stepped out on stage and said a bunch of mean but largely true things about WWE and Vince, and suddenly he was the hero, the Voice of the Voiceless, the people's champion. And that carried him through the rest of his WWE tenure, his retirement, and his first nine months of AEW. The WWE promo was a work op
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bradzilla posted:The WWE promo was a work op CM Punk has worked Phil Brooks into shoot after shoot, brother
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Punk would also bring up the fact that the wrestlers don't have a union in interviews, making it seem like he could spark the fire Jesse Ventura had tried to so long ago. Nothing ever came of it, even with the SAG-AFTRA talk when that one wrestler with a popular Twitch channel complained about having to give WWE a cut.
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TVGM posted:Punk would also bring up the fact that the wrestlers don't have a union in interviews, making it seem like he could spark the fire Jesse Ventura had tried to so long ago. Nothing ever came of it, even with the SAG-AFTRA talk when that one wrestler with a popular Twitch channel complained about having to give WWE a cut. Who was that?
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Who was that? Zelina Vega
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bradzilla posted:He's a massive rear end in a top hat and simultaneously the biggest mark there ever was. Do not ever feel bad for him Yeah gently caress that guy. Hes every rear end in a top hat co-worker you ever had.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Same. I never saw his original WWE run so I'll never understand the appeal of him. He just seems like a massive tool, it sounds like he's a total rear end in a top hat backstage, and I can't say his matches have been particularly entertaining (other than the one gif of him getting elbow dropped in the balls. What the hell do people see in him? Thank You Kojima
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punk embodies a certain kind of mythologized version of the fantasy of the clear-minded and articulate lone figure he's "winning an argument on the internet: the wrestler" people talk about how his popularity was a product of the time, and that's true, but you can watch the pipebomb not having watched wwe during the supercena years and still see the appeal because it's one person breaking rank by speaking passionately and intelligently about systemic problems every time you've seen a viral clip of matt damon arguing knowledgeably in support of school teachers, or cornel west cornering tucker carlson into admitting socialism is good, or if you think of like aaron eckhart's character in Thank you for Smoking, or pretty much any character aaron sorkin ever wrote, that's the cm punk fantasy, both sharp- and silver-tongued and he can carry that gimmick, and that's why people like him and continue to like him despite him obviously being a thin-skinned narcissistic hypocrite who's always lived more in his own head than the real world because even when he's petulantly loving up at his job probably worse than any of us has ever hosed up at a job, he's saying classic poo poo like "I'm hurt, I'm old, and I'm loving tired, and I work with loving children"
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