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Vince likes men's legs. At least I think this was the explanation for either Miz or Jericho switching to underwear.
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DeathChicken posted:Vince likes men's legs. At least I think this was the explanation for either Miz or Jericho switching to underwear. But Ryder had both!
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Dec 28, 2013 19:30
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Having never wrestled I imagine there's some practical advantages to trunks over pants or a singlet. Its probably cheaper, less prone to getting damaged, and easier to carry and have spares. Maybe some better range of movement or something. Granted, I always feel like if I wrestled I'd spent the entire time worrying about them coming off but I guess you resolve that issue if you're going to become a wrestler. But still, I never have and never will understand why wrestlers for generations have chosen to wrestle in underwear.
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Dec 28, 2013 19:34
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Castomira posted:This has been bugging me for a while: Is there any kind of consistent logic to a professional wrestler's decision to wear a singlet, underwear-style tights, or pants-style tights? When I was a kid I thought that it was just the chiseled guys wore small tights, but there are plenty of ripped guys (Scott Steiner, et al) who wear pants. Plus you have dudes like Regal who never really looked great in the underwear-style tights, but wear them anyway. Is it just a matter of personal preference, or is there some method to it? I think it's a little of personal preference in the instances where the gimmick is just 'normal wrestler'. RVD had a friend that would just whip up new singlets each week for him to wear. Now there does get to be a point where changing gear would be noticeable and confusing, and not worth the squeeze. RVD switching to trunks suddenly would have been jarring, just like Stone Cold would not have come out in a singlet randomly when he was on top. Once you establish a look it needs to stay consistent. This was why the Jericho transition from tights to trunks was disorienting -- his entire career was in tights, what is happening! Sometimes it's almost completely determined by the gimmick -- SHIELD for example have said that their gear is pretty hard to wrestle in, but it's kind of an iconic part of their act to look like a tactical strike team. And of course sometimes Vince will just tell a guy to show more leg. I don't know how much more they can take from Big E 
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Dec 28, 2013 19:37
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I've always wondered why HBK switched from tights to pants. I thought it kinda ruined his look, but maybe they were easier to work in.
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Dec 28, 2013 19:43
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TL posted:I've always wondered why HBK switched from tights to pants. I thought it kinda ruined his look, but maybe they were easier to work in. They covered his knee braces.
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Dec 28, 2013 20:09
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oldskool posted:They covered his knee braces. And his tiny, tiny, tiny legs.
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Dec 28, 2013 20:43
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The rule of thumb I've seen is usually "Does the guy have some reason to be embarrassed about his legs? If so, long spandex pants or full-on pants." Guys who have chicken legs, knobby knees, weird-looking legs, stuff like that tend to go with long things instead of trunks. Or, slightly less commonly, if the guy intends to be doing lots of bumps onto barbed wire/nails/light tubes, he'll often go with pants. It's pretty much just a vanity thing, as far as I've noticed. If a guy is proud of his legs, he's gonna show 'em off. If not, he's gonna hide 'em. Knee braces and the like lead to long pants.
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Dec 28, 2013 20:46
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Did anyone ever find the match Shawn had with Kane where Shawn hosed his eye up? Shawn referenced it in his Blu Ray sit-down with Bret
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Actually, on second thought, I remember a lot of times in the 90's where Shawn had weird bulges on his legs which in hindsight were probably from a knee brace.  So him switching to (p)leather pants might not have had anything to do with the braces at all, unless he needed to use a bigger brace that wouldn't fit anymore. But I have a memory of him saying in his book or on one of the DVDs that it was his wife's suggestion when he got self-conscious about how skinny his legs were.
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Dec 28, 2013 20:56
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Perry Normal posted:And his tiny, tiny, tiny legs. And his assless chaps for PG.
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slapping leather makes for a far bigger sound effect than slapping a leg.
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One thing I've asked but never seen answered is when and why "karate pants" (as Jake Roberts called them) were largely replaced with the shiny PVC ones.
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Halloween Jack posted:One thing I've asked but never seen answered is when and why "karate pants" (as Jake Roberts called them) were largely replaced with the shiny PVC ones.
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Dec 28, 2013 23:18
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Perry Normal posted:Actually, on second thought, I remember a lot of times in the 90's where Shawn had weird bulges on his legs which in hindsight were probably from a knee brace. He was still doing tights up until maybe 2004, as I remember he did Wrestlemania 19 with red heartbreaker tights. Really, I'll take any version of Shawn Michaels besides his terrible short cut and horrible brown tights from when he won the title in the elimination chamber, though.
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Dec 28, 2013 23:25
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Maybe a stupid question and all, but I've always wondered while reading PSP: What's the deal with the whole "Batista's dick" joke? Was it someone once said in the forums or something?
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Dec 28, 2013 23:25
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Gusano posted:Maybe a stupid question and all, but I've always wondered while reading PSP: Whenever there was a shoot video (I think RF shoot, usually), someone would do a call-in/email to ask how big Batista's dick was. Usually to a diva, but not necessarily. I think HulkaMatt did this at least once. Beyond that I am not sure there is much to it.
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Dec 28, 2013 23:28
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We like dicks.
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Yeah, nearly every shoot RF Video do, when they take questions from the board, someone (usually a guy named Sinbad) asks "How big is Batista's dick". So it's become something of a running joke.
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Kayfabe Commentaries would take questions from either email, twitter, or a thread on The Board on f4W. Most of the time, they were fair legit questions, and sometimes joke ones got through. When Maria Kanellis was doing a KC, boarder Sinbad sent in the question "How big is Batista's Dick?". The reaction was funny enough that he did it again, with a Sunny KC, and again with an Al Snow and Iron Sheik one, where we actually got a definitive answer. After that point, various users started asking it for all different wrestlers and shoot interviews, with it having taken off as a running gag. That's the origin of it, though.
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Googling Batista's Dick revealed this great animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE9xBG1YyOQ
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It may be totally played out now, but it was all worth it for "How big is Chyna's dick?"
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:He was still doing tights up until maybe 2004, as I remember he did Wrestlemania 19 with red heartbreaker tights. Really, I'll take any version of Shawn Michaels besides his terrible short cut and horrible brown tights from when he won the title in the elimination chamber, though. As far as I know, he first broke out the pants at WM 21 in 05. I remember watching his match with Angle and wondering why he was wrestling with his chaps still on before I figured out it was full pants. Michaels' outfits were always just the right type of gawdy bullshit for wrestling.
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Perry Normal posted:Michaels' outfits were always just the right type of gawdy bullshit for wrestling. Agreed. They worked really well for his last run as a super main eventer.
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Halloween Jack posted:It may be totally played out now, but it was all worth it for "How big is Chyna's dick?" You gotta explain that one, because google is going to get me in to NSFW probs
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Manwithastick posted:You gotta explain that one, because google is going to get me in to NSFW probs You don't even have to leave this website! http://www.somethingawful.com/horrors-of-porn/night-china/
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Manwithastick posted:You gotta explain that one, because google is going to get me in to NSFW probs you had to ask, didn't you....
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Is it known who owns what as far as tape libraries for various defunct Japanese promotions (i.e. WAR, AJW, GAEA, Gran Hamada's UWF, etc.)? Not that I ever expect, say, the WWE to snatch those up but I know I've seen things like WAR matches on WWE sets before so I'm curious.
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Manwithastick posted:You gotta explain that one, because google is going to get me in to NSFW probs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAfyDY-rSo
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The way X-Pac's laughter grows through each video to the point of absolutely losing it during the Dusty part always kills me. That and, "Jesus Christ and myself want to know!"
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Gavok posted:The way X-Pac's laughter grows through each video to the point of absolutely losing it during the Dusty part always kills me. Notice how Sean Oliver knows that Dusty is coming up and has to put his hand over his face to keep from laughing
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In the related videos was Missy Hyatt rating and talking about the various dicks she'd encountered during her career. On one hand, one can't help but to be curious, but on the other it's all a total trainwreck.
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EugeneJ posted:Notice how Sean Oliver knows that Dusty is coming up and has to put his hand over his face to keep from laughing X-Pac's laugh is the greatest thing. It's like the photographic negative of New Jack's laugh.
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I'm vacationing in Florida at the moment, and Mean Gene Okurlund is a regular in this bar I've become fond of. I've actually seen him here before and he's usually by himself enjoying a glass of white wine. Now, I've heard that the nicest thing you can do for a celebrity is to leave them unmolested, but I'd like to try to strike up a conversation with him, even if it's only a few words. How do I approach him without irritating him?
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Contingency Plan posted:I'm vacationing in Florida at the moment, and Mean Gene Okurlund is a regular in this bar I've become fond of. I've actually seen him here before and he's usually by himself enjoying a glass of white wine. Now, I've heard that the nicest thing you can do for a celebrity is to leave them unmolested, but I'd like to try to strike up a conversation with him, even if it's only a few words. How do I approach him without irritating him? "Hey, I'm not 'that guy,' but you were a part of my childhood, so I would be ashamed if I didn't come and say 'hello' and 'thanks.' Can I buy you that drink? I promise there are no napkins to sign."
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Contingency Plan posted:I'm vacationing in Florida at the moment, and Mean Gene Okurlund is a regular in this bar I've become fond of. I've actually seen him here before and he's usually by himself enjoying a glass of white wine. Now, I've heard that the nicest thing you can do for a celebrity is to leave them unmolested, but I'd like to try to strike up a conversation with him, even if it's only a few words. How do I approach him without irritating him? Ask him if you can buy him a drink, but that you don't want to bother him if he'd just like some peace.
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Dec 29, 2013 08:19
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"Let me buy you somethin', Mean Gene!" Just cut a good promo.
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"Hey, I don't want to bother you, but about Batista's dick..."
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Don't talk to him at all, but tell the bartender you'd like to send him another of whatever he's drinking. Then let him come to you if he wants to, and if not, you still got to buy Mean Gene a drink. This is how I met Nathan Fillion at a bar in Vancouver BC in 2004. My girlfriend at the time came up with the plan and it worked like a charm.
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LividLiquid posted:Don't talk to him at all, but tell the bartender you'd like to send him another of whatever he's drinking. Then let him come to you if he wants to, and if not, you still got to buy Mean Gene a drink. That's actually the superior strategy.
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