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bartok posted:Unfortunately I really only know him from his brief WWF run but I always thought Uncle Slam was an amazing name for a finisher. Uncle Slam is objectively one of the best names ever for a finisher.
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That sucks. When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I was a huge Stars & Stripes mark.
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I will miss his bad tweets.
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If you only know Patriot from his WWF run, he had a surprisingly long and successful run in All Japan and got to wrestle the Pillars a bunch of times in tag matches. He once teamed with Kobashi against Misawa/Akiyama that Dave gave ****3/4, just for one example. It probably makes more sense when you know that Baba loved doing "Japanese heroes against nefarious foreigners" and the unironic All-American gimmick was a perfect foil at the time. Nobody will remember him as a great worker (or a great person, since he went full MAGA in recent years), but he had a good run for a while there. Benne fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Jul 2, 2021 |
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I remember his program with Bret, and at one point Bret got pinned by him in a tag match. So Sgt.Slaughter announces Patriot is getting a title shot. Bret is full on angry anti-American by this point, storms to the ring and says "I'm Bret Hart, the WWE champion, who did he ever beat to get a shot at me?!". And Slaughter just goes in his growl voice "Youuu". Got a nice pop. I remember when WWE could do simple, effective segments like that.
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Wow. He lived here in town, worked at the Nissan dealership. I bought my last car from him. It took everything I had not to pester him with questions about what Eddie Gilbert was like.
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Aw. His run with Hogan was something else. People complain he should have stopped earlier because of how messed up his arm got, but as he was making some five figures a week I absolutely don't blame him.
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gently caress, I love Orndorff.
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friend of mine when he was in high school had someone in highschool who, whenever my friend entered the class room, would sing orndoffs theme
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Orndorff turning on Hogan is the origin story for the swerve.
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Rip. The body women love and men love...to hate.
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Also rocked an amazing mustache later in life.
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He had some great, understated heel work. Before wrestling, he was pretty good collegiate football player at the University of Tampa. And his Mr. #1derful trunks always made me giggle.
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For some reason the moment I associate with him the most is looking in the mirror during a crisis of confidence and triumphantly realizing "I AM Mr. Wonderful!"
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My favorite thing with him was that one video the WWF roster did where everyone was clapping to the music, except for Mr. Wonderful, who was flexing his arms and kissing each bicep to the music instead.
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RIP Super Porky  https://twitter.com/luchablog/status/1419859757381394434?s=20
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gently caress Psycho Clown is going to be shattered
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gently caress. His health has been really poor the last few years. Very sad.
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I legit never knew he was psycho clown's dad also will forever laugh at this picture of him and Teddy https://twitter.com/luchablog/status/1419861736975388673
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Rip to a real one, Super Porky.
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Davros1 posted:https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1422660671229947904?s=19 Just learned through this that he was Nick Patrick's dad. drat.
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Wasn't Hamilton the lead trainer at the Power Plant for a while?
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Rest in peace Beautiful Bobby, one of the best ever.
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Man this one hurts Bobby was so loving good
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drat, RIP Bobby. One of the few wrestlers no one really had anything bad to say about. I liked him in the ring but Foley's first book made me more of a fan when I heard what a great guy he was.
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Zombie Lemur posted:drat, RIP Bobby. Was Bobby the one who practically had a drugstore (the good kind, not the New Jack kind) in his bag for the boys?
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https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1423182875432783872 bix with a phenomenal story
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Luigi Thirty posted:Was Bobby the one who practically had a drugstore (the good kind, not the New Jack kind) in his bag for the boys? Yeah, he brought cold/flu medicine, toothbrushes, socks, boot laces and all kinds of extra stuff on the road just I'm case anyone needed something.
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Zombie Lemur posted:Yeah, he brought cold/flu medicine, toothbrushes, socks, boot laces and all kinds of extra stuff on the road just I'm case anyone needed something. Once somebody, maybe the Steiners, asked "hey, Bobby, we need some utensils" and sure enough Bobby pulled them out. This is a real shame. Everybody talked him up. William Regal called working with Bobby like a night off because he did it all.
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DJExile posted:bix with a phenomenal story That is loving incredible 
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Deep Cuts has some great memories of Bobby on their feed today https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1423262197409632271 https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1400136544229466117 https://twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1420176798969696257
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