shadow puppet of a posted:

That was Wrestlicious. And the musical jimmy heart into video is absolutlely must watch as you can mentally tally up the guys money getting drained (he later went bankrupt off a $32.5 million powerball win)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzUZwd9yC3I

Trying to find the right video. The full version ,It’s incredibly long, dozens of corny gimmicks. Jimmy heart put out a press release praising lottery guys financial acumen when it was announced. Probably hasn’t stopped spending his money earned off that to this day.

Eclipse12 posted:

I used to do reviews of old Raws and was thinking of starting up again. Cool if I post them here?

Pope Corky the IX posted:

What holds were they barring up until that point?

MrQwerty posted:

I am not going to venerate myself to participate in the art of Sumo, but I am going to cover my LSU tat with a lovely shark so I can be on a tag team for 3 weeks,

Burning Beard posted:

This is probably older than you guys like but let's take a look at one of the best managers of all time: Gary Hart.

Hart started off as a wrestler. He was pretty decent. But he evolved because he was good on the mic. I think the turning point was the 1975 airplane crash which killed Bobby Shane, an and coming young guy who was pretty drat good. Hart recovered, invested his settlement money and went to work for Fritz Von Erich's World Class promotion. On screen Hart was the evil manager bringing in talent to take down Fritz and the faces. Behind the scenes he was a booker and a drat good one. In his autobiography he tells us he was among the elite class of bookers like Dusty, Jim Barnett of Georgia Championship Wrestling and others. I believe it. His book of WCCW was legendary and spawned one of the greats: Von Erich boys versus The Fabulous Freebirds. Classic wrestling, Georgia shitheels vs. Texas royalty. Then he quit. Why? Fritz hosed him on his pay for the big Christmas Star Wars (yep, Gary thought the name would attract.. it did) card. After that he bounced around, developing wrestlers like the Great Kabuki, managing (in real life) Bruiser Brody and the Butcher and booking for other promotions. In his book he rightly brags that he set WCCW up for success. The Freebirds versus the von Erichs is one of the great classic feuds in wrestling. Before Michael Hayes looked like your sloppy drunk Uncle at a wedding with a Fanny pack, he was a pretty decent wrestler and fantastic on the mic. And the women, at least in the early '80s, loved him. Hart saw that.

However, he always would return to Dallas because that was home. But friction between him and Fritz usually sent him elsewhere. He actually fought for Fritz at the end but after the death of nearly all of his sons to suicide, Fritz was done. Gary managed Al Perez in WCW in the early '90s but that ended when Perez wanted to shoot on Flair and steal the belt. Hart was not on board with that plan and ended the relationship, even though he loved Al. He did some indie work in the '90s but retired and lived off his investments, smoking weed and enjoying life, occasionally going to conventions to hang with fans.

Lots of his promos are on Youtube and he is fantastic on the mic. He is the definitive evil manager, but he's never over the top. Though born and bred in the Upper Midwest he has a slight Texas accent which adds to his persona.

His autobiography is long out of print and stupidly expensive. However, it is freely available on the internet in .pdf form. My Life In Wrestling...With A Little Help From My Friends is the title if you want to search.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I suddenly remember that Waluigi in Mario Strikers Charged does their crotch chop, apparently.

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

shadow puppet of a posted:

Then shut up and name some other wrestlers so I can tacoize them.

Cubone posted:

MJF cut a promo a short while ago about... well, I'm not going to be able to do it justice, but it would be insane to me for someone to suggest that this is somehow guilty of not taking itself seriously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAf6epYTUAM
this is a man telling a story of when he was a defenseless child, and his hero walked away

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Hollismason posted:

I didn't know that the Ultimate Warrior was dead either.

Hollismason posted:

I'm sorry he did what to a squirrel?

ARMBAR A COP posted:

a piñata on a pole match between Mexicans

Cornwind Evil posted:

Walla posted:

John Cena has also been quoted as being happy with this arrangement since he credits Vince for his success.

Cubone posted:

he never said that

rndmnmbr posted:

Go watch an episode of AEW Dark on Youtube. Excalibur and Taz on commentary is loving magical.

spaceblancmange posted:

Vince instead of Trump as President. Discuss.

Szyznyk posted:

Televised snooker.

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

vince is going to sell the company to nick khan and his children will be lucky to get an advisor role in the new company

MrQwerty posted:

Hogan's was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, in a sad way

Gavok posted:

I'd get to talk about the absolute worst segment in WCW history.

Cornwind Evil posted:

his failings ended up consuming him instead.

MrQwerty posted:

it's a story as old as time

literally, Gilgamesh is about that

Torchlighter posted:

You're also not playing wrestlers during a show, but a wrestling fed doing a show, which I can imagine might throw some people and is three kayfabe layers deep, so its very much a game for nerds with a deeper understanding of the minutiae of wrestling to play than a casual fan who remembers some big names and likes seeing big spots, as it were.