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With Virgil making a bit of a splash online lately, I was reminded of his early WWF career, back when he was Ted DiBiase's bodyguard. When I was a kid I thought Virgil was the toughest man on earth because he just stood there looking menacing. When DiBiase told the Ultimate Warrior that he'd have to go through Virgil to get to him, I thought the Warrior was doomed. As an adult I recognize that DiBiase was just using a stalling tactic to get heat, but when I was a kid I thought that being put in the ring with Virgil would lead to certain death. This got me thinking that I used to have some dumb thoughts about wrestling when I was a kid. Some other examples: - Those promos guys used to do in front of green screens with their logos? Yeah, I used to think that they just painted walls in the arena with the logos - On Superstars they'd cut away to Bill Red Lyons in the control centre. There were monitors in the background playing matches. I thought those matches were happening live, and WWF had dozens of shows happening at any given moment - Some older kid convinced me that the Islanders put mustard on Matilda and ate her So, what dumb things did you used think about wrestling? I don't mean things like thinking it was real, I just mean other dumb little things you used to believe and now feel silly about.
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oatgan posted:he still found time to make a few pornos in wwf though It's the sizeable hog part he was wrong about.
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Beer_Suitcase posted:I knew it was scripted when I was younger but never figured out how they did blood. I thought that every wrestler would cut themselves and then put scotch tape over it and then when it was time for blood they would pull the tape off. I always heard it was blood capsules that they kept hidden.
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Gavok posted:Less insane, I used to think that Rick Martel and Sherri were married in real life. My cousin told me they were siblings. That made Summerslam 92 really awkward for me.
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For old Internet stuff, when I first got the Internet back in 1998 I really didn't "get" the Internet at first. I found sites like Wrestlezone and prowrestling.com, and thought that these were legitimate companies that had paid reporters delivering scoops, and each website had a corporate headquarters. I smartened up to this pretty quickly, but still, I feel like an idiot for admitting this.
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