Wrasslin

Shane O Mac is back

HERE COMES THE MONEY!!!!!!


Just need the Mean Street Posse to show up now.

That's the beauty of wrestling - everyone comes back eventually (even when they shouldn't). That said I hope he has a good run - he's fucking nuts

Dumbest form of "entertainment", ever

The Pantry wrote:Dumbest form of "entertainment", ever

Msnbc, foxnews, cnn, etc...

The Pantry wrote:Dumbest form of "entertainment", ever

This x one hundred million gazillion.

The Pantry wrote:Dumbest form of "entertainment", ever

Great contribution.

Anyways, the best age of WWE was in the late 90s, bar none.

CORNER BLITZ wrote:

The Pantry wrote:Dumbest form of "entertainment", ever

Msnbc, foxnews, cnn, etc...

this.

the line between the mainstream media and WWE is very difficult to distinguish.

Death Roe wrote:

The Pantry wrote:Dumbest form of "entertainment", ever

Great contribution.

Anyways, the best age of WWE was in the late 90s, bar none.

And they know it - that's why they keep trying to recycle shit from then instead of doing something new.

Guys who deserve a push:
Kevin Owens (I just know they're gonna fuck his character up)
Damien Sandow (a generally funny guy/good worker and he's been buried)
Dolph Ziggler (guy has all the moves and is good on the stick - must have pissed Vince off)

Also you just know they're gonna screw up the Wyatt Family and turn them into a saturday morning cartoon. They should turn them into the next Four Horsemen and run a storyline with real life brother Bo Dallas.

I grew up on the North Carolina/South Carolina/Tennessee regional wrestling scene in the mid-late-70's.. the "Jim Crockett Promotions" stuff..

good stuff.

25th Anniversary Raw tonight

Former WWE star Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart dies

If you worked for the WWE in the 90’s and beyond your mortality tables suck.

RIP.

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RIP. Such a good foil and played that part perfectly.

Floyd Robertson wrote:RIP.

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Holy cow...he was still alive?!?

DWags wrote:RIP. Such a good foil and played that part perfectly.

He sure was. I loved how in his interviews with the bad guys he'd say stuff like 'I thought what you did out there as a complete disgrace'. He always called them out on their bad guy ways. His interviews really drove the narrative and built up the excitement for everything that went down in the squared circle.

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https://youtu.be/5U09hsDbGNo

Gene was always shocked, I say shocked by the bad behavior.

DWags wrote:https://youtu.be/5U09hsDbGNo

Gene was awesome in that clip....

the tool in the sleeveless shirt, not so much - I've honestly seen better acting at the Glencairn Elementary 2nd grade holiday play.

4 Old Time professionals.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/chris-hemsworth-play-hulk-hogan-biopic-1186126

Chris Hemsworth is set to portray wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan in a biopic that reunites Todd Phillips with Scott Silver, the respective director and writer of the upcoming DC Comics movie The Joker. John Pollono (Stronger) will co-write the script with Silver.

Deals for the Hogan project are in the midst of closing with Netflix. Producing will be Michael Sugar, the Academy Award winner behind Spotlight, who will produce via his Netflix-based Sugar23, and Phillips and Bradley Cooper, who will produce via their banner Joint Effort. Also producing will be Hemsworth and Eric Bischoff.

It saddens me to bump this thread. RIP.

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Dr. Strangelove wrote:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/chris-hemsworth-play-hulk-hogan-biopic-1186126

Chris Hemsworth is set to portray wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan in a biopic that reunites Todd Phillips with Scott Silver, the respective director and writer of the upcoming DC Comics movie The Joker. John Pollono (Stronger) will co-write the script with Silver.

Deals for the Hogan project are in the midst of closing with Netflix. Producing will be Michael Sugar, the Academy Award winner behind Spotlight, who will produce via his Netflix-based Sugar23, and Phillips and Bradley Cooper, who will produce via their banner Joint Effort. Also producing will be Hemsworth and Eric Bischoff.

I wonder how much of the Gawker take down they will include.  Probably none because Peter Thiel wants the fact that he bankrolled another man's lawsuit in order to take down a media company that he didn't like to remain somewhat opaque.  It's a damn interesting and alarming story though.

Edit: Just realized who I was responding to. He'd probably have argued with me about this. I'm sure he thought Gawker was trash. Which... yeah.

Any word on King Kong Bundy's cause of death?

He was 6'4" / 450# when he "competed"

Scott Hall on life support after hip surgery.

kingstonlake wrote:Scott Hall on life support after hip surgery.

If something like that ever happened to you, Kingston, I’d be happy to pull the plug.

They pulled the plug.

Motown Spartan wrote:They pulled the plug.

Kingston, you’re up.

How the hell does something like that happen?

DWags wrote:How the hell does something like that happen?

I'm guessing his size played a factor. Big dudes tickers don't last as long.

He gone

kingstonlake wrote:He gone

That can’t be good.

DHP has an interesting episode on The Sheik.

Detroit History Pod: The Sheik

That was an amazing era of wrasslin. Loved watching it my gramps.