Gavok posted:

Back in 1999, there were these two comedy wrestlers Stevie Richards and the Blue Meanie who put together a series of taped segments called the Blonde Bitch Project. It was a Blair Witch parody in a time when everything was a Blair Witch parody, presumably making fun of Sable, who had recently left the company and was unpopular backstage. Only the first segment was ever aired.

Apparently, Vince had never even heard of the Blair Witch Project. So by his logic, NOBODY had ever heard of the Blair Witch Project and the whole thing was quietly scrapped.

Jamesman posted:

There was that time where a wrestler was given a character that was basically Jack Sparrow and he acted like a drunk crazy pirate person and swung to the ring on a rope and people were actually kinda into it because the Pirates movies were popular at the time and the wrestler was selling the whole thing pretty hard. Then Vince was like "Who the gently caress cares about pirates? What is this poo poo?" and cut the whole thing.

There was also this thing where Vince's character was going to be blown up or something and all these wrestlers were gathered backstage to look at him as he walked to his car or something. At least one wrestler had no idea what the gently caress was going on so he had a poo poo-eating grin on his face because nobody told him what to actually do and Vince fired him over it.

Seth Pecksniff posted:

god drat lmao he really lives in a bubble doesn't he?

Stex T posted:

Prince M bin Salman of Saudi Arabia wanted to see Yokozuna at one of the Saudi WWE shows. Vince McMahon didn't have the heart to tell him that Yokozuna was long dead, so he hired a random sumo wrestler hoping the prince wouldn't notice.

Seth Pecksniff posted:

Vince isn't gonna die until the XFL is somewhat successful

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

I wouldn't mind learning more about how hosed up wrestling is behind the scenes.

Sydney Bottocks posted:

Then on the other hand, you have locker room bullying that would put fraternity hazing to shame

Marshal Prolapse posted:

Seriously Mike Shaw as Bastion Booger loving ruled to my 10 year old self.

Elephant Ambush posted:

A notable exception to this, for some weird reason, is Trish Stratus. Her last match was against Lita and for some reason she won. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that happened, but I've always been curious to why she got an exception.

FilthyImp posted:

Was that after they got Kurt Angle, who turned out to be a loving machine in the ring with his weird thumb-man charisma? Because lightning did not strike twice.

Seth Pecksniff posted:

when Vince finally goes into the Great Darkness they are either gonna a) Weekend at Bernie's him or b) do some absolutely bizarre and horrific skit that involves either him being a zombie, a "look-alike" that acts like the now dead Vince but sounds like one of their regular stable, or something like blowing up his casket at his funeral and Stone Cold comes out of nowhere and busts a beer over his corpse

you can bet on it

Chief McHeath posted:

Then you have to add the extra beef charge, coming from a freak like me! That's at least an extra six dollars, on your two dollar upcharge. So now we're looking at a six by two upcharge, so a 62 percent upcharge. So you're paying sixty six and five eights of every 62 percent upcharge, and you don't stand a chance. So I've got a six dollar charge on a two dollar charge, times 162 percent, plus your 66 5/8 of the 62 percent. Those numbers don't add up for you!

Elephant Ambush posted:

John Tenta is also known for being a genuinely cool, nice, and good guy. One of the few people in the business who, if he ever mistreated someone or had any skeletons in his closet, we never heard about. I've read nothing but positive stuff about him. He was well liked by pretty much everyone.

Ad by Khad posted:

a lot of goons have experience with it but asking in fight island might be better than gibbis

I thought it was pretty fun, my doctor told me to be careful and she was right cause too much down dog hurt my shoulder

it's pretty great for teaching yoga basics to people who dont know yoga basics though, in fact ddp yoga used to be named "Yoga for Regular Guys"

even though I had to take it easy with it after I hurt my shoulder it still taught me a shitload about other things you can do that don't stress the shoulder

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

steroids and head trauma OP

shadow puppet of a posted:

At least 7% of Cena's net popularity comes from the first few seconds of his Raaaaapppadooooo intro once the horns kick in.

Which also did the good service of exposing families and households around the globe to M.O.P.

Sydney Bottocks posted:

It's what happens when a wrestler or poster forgets that they're just playing a character and starts actually living their gimmick, you hate to see it

juggalo baby coffin posted:

i remember for a while there was a rash of wrestler workout videos in the late 2000s, i think spurred on by DDP's yoga (which despite the cringy kinda YOGA FOR GUYS branding is actually a very solid yoga programme with a focus on stuff for top-heavier people), but most of them were extremely lovely and they ended up in a discount chain in england called Poundland (because everything is £1)

id pick em up when i saw them for a while cause i worked in the fitness industry and they were funny, but i kinda both hit the jackpot and ruined the whole thing for myself when i found a Scott Steiner workout dvd

it was uh...even less of a workout tape than most celebrity workout tapes. it was just scott steiner doing different types of bicep curls with no explanation and a bunch of women stroking his arms. it was kind of niche, bicep-themed pornography. he didn't even talk very much. it was like entirely b-roll of him like curling truck tires on a bar in a junkyard or something

Jonny Nox posted:

Do NOT post the leg break

TheSwizzler posted:

Politics or hollywood where you'll probably get away with giving a threatening up and comer a severe neck injury to protect your spot

Elephant Ambush posted:

For some reason in that clip they silently bleeped out the F. No idea why.

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

gangrel now owns the name and white wolf has to pay him now

Cornwind Evil posted:

Stealth Tiger posted:

Yeah, they bring Tazz in to do commentary for matches that have dudes in his stable wrestling, so he always gets into it and has plenty to say.

And trust me, having Excalibur and Tony Schiavone just kind of mostly describing what is going on and straightforwardly giving the story beats is way better than a hell of a lot of commentary in the world of wrestling lol.

TheSwizzler posted:

Everything about Glacier, a guy they invented to make action figures of and spent a mint on a laser light show entrance for, that they then jobbed to the low card and never made an action figure of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB3C0fflMxQ

spaceblancmange posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_AGR7xxzDU

Cubone posted:

their job is also harder than it seems in general, because they have to look as legit as the wrestlers do. if a wrestler doesn't kick out in time, if they don't break a hold, if they're not in the right position for the finish (feet under the ropes etc.) they've got to make the decision on the fly whether to call it as a shoot and potentially go over or under the allotted time, or... well, let it look a little stupid. in wwe it's even harder because the wwe's "house style" involves a lot of finicky rules like never ever positioning your body such that it obscures the "hard cam" (a stationary ring-focused camera positioned with the entrance ramp to the left)

Elephant Ambush posted:

Every celebrity sex tape I've ever seen sucks

Never meet your heroes or watch them gently caress on tape

Prof. Crocodile posted:

I feel like this has been the ending of like 90% of the effortpost bios itt.

Not complaining, just saying.

SirPhoebos posted:

I owned a copy of the WWE's official D20 RPG that came out around '06: WWE Know Your Role. Without ever playing it, I could tell that it was awful. And the writing style was...well I don't want to overuse the word 'cringe' but I can think of nothing else that fits.

Here's a review from a goon recorded at GenCon 2019 that even includes a guest appearance of an indie pro-wrestler Jim McClure: https://systemmasterypodcast.com/2019/08/13/wwe-know-your-role-system-mastery-154-live/

Crowetron posted:

I want a tabletop game where all the rolls and calculations go by Steiner math.