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swagmag
Nov 28, 2012

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ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Pillbug

titties posted:

No, the wrestlers WWE Superstars® / sports entertainers don't engage in any kind of doublethink. Kayfabe was just to protect the business and to convince the fans that it was real. In the late 90's they broke kayfabe on TV all the time in a "wink wink nod nod" kind of way.

Today it's just straight-up gone. In the episode of Stone Cold Steve Austin's podcast that had 13-time world champion and current WWE chief operating officer Paul "HHH" "Hunter Hearst Helmsley" "The Game Triple H" "The Cerebral Assassin" Levesque, Austin opened the show asking about how the fans poo poo all over the finish to this year's Royal Rumble and how hard it was to book a storyline when the fans knew so much about how wrestling works and what goes on in the locker room.

These days they count on the vast majority of the fans to have willing suspension of disbelief because wrestling, and we do. Because wrestling.

Also, WCW has been gone for 14 years.

For a long while pro wrestling was desperately trying to act like it was all real because they thought people cared. What they failed to realize was that people generally knew it was fake and didn't give a poo poo, really. I never was into wrestling much and haven't watched it in a long time but I know people that do watch it and it's ridiculous entertainment, really. From what I gather the advantage now that they realize people just flat out don't care that it's fake as hell is that they can be even more ridiculous.

In the past the whole "keep your character all the time, forever" thing led to people literally getting arrested because they were acting all the time while in public or refusing to treat grievous, life-threatening injuries properly. It's also dangerous as gently caress. There have been times where dudes that were supposed to win the match got so tremendously injured they couldn't do anything other than lay on the ground and writhe in pain.

I mean some people like to watch big, oiled, muscled up stunt men throw each other around a ring while saying mean things to each other. Not my thing really but I'm not one to judge. It's like a big homoerotic soap opera.

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

These loss.jpg edits are getting Weeeiiiirrrd

blunt for century
Jul 4, 2008

I've got a bone to pick.


hahahahahahaha what the gently caress

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Pillbug

blunt for century posted:

hahahahahahaha what the gently caress

Pretty sure the answer to that one is just "the internet." :shrug: Just let the abyss stare back and try not to think about it too much.

blunt for century
Jul 4, 2008

I've got a bone to pick.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Pretty sure the answer to that one is just "the internet." :shrug: Just let the abyss stare back and try not to think about it too much.

well that much is obvious, but that's just the only reaction to that image I had


~*Flavortown*~

OK Some Butt Stuff
Jun 9, 2002

Drone_Fragger
May 9, 2007


Re: Wrasslin:

Wrestling is basically a performance art except MACHO and MANLY with dudes getting HIT BY CHAIRS and THROWN ONTO TABLES so that people who like action and violence like it. I don't seriously believe anyone ever took wrestling seriously except the really nerdy 14 year olds who weren't cynical enough to see that someone getting their head "smashed" into a steel post was something that was unlikely to happen.

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

Drone_Fragger posted:

I don't seriously believe anyone ever took wrestling seriously except the really nerdy 14 year olds juggalos, juggalos juggalos juggalos forever

I'm prejudiced here. But really "dumb kids" sums it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqpJy126Ofo

stick around for when they start adding fire to their moves

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I'm prejudiced here. But really "dumb kids" sums it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqpJy126Ofo

stick around for when they start adding fire to their moves

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

Pyro Fox
Aug 22, 2013

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?






I need more of these...

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless


beato
Nov 26, 2004

CHILLL OUT, DICK WAD.

The Jumpoff posted:

Have a video that explains pretty well why, even though wrestling is fake, none of that poo poo matters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvMOf3hsGA

Male Tiers
Dec 27, 2012

Why don't you just lay down your weapons now?

Sinners Sandwich
Jan 4, 2012

Give me your friend's BURGERS and SANDWICHES, I'll put out the fire.

Wrestling chat isn't over right I wanted to talk about the time where backstage politics made a match legendary when Shawn Micheal decided to oversell every move Hulk Hogan hit him with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf4LsjwAWho

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
That was amazing.

veedubfreak
Apr 2, 2005

by Smythe
Ins't Hogan over due for a fatal heart attack ala Warrior?

PCOS Bill
May 12, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

veedubfreak posted:

Ins't Hogan over due for a fatal heart attack ala Warrior?

I hope not. I don't care about wrestling, but Hulk Hogan is a goddamn icon.

twerking on the railroad
Jun 23, 2007

Get on my level

PCOS Bill posted:

I hope not. I don't care about wrestling, but Hulk Hogan is a goddamn icon.

But his feelings can be hurt too.

By dogs.

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

PCOS Bill posted:

I hope not. I don't care about wrestling, but Hulk Hogan is a goddamn icon.

i hope someone flies a plane against him

GuardianOfAsgaard
Feb 1, 2012

Their steel shines red
With enemy blood
It sings of victory
Granted by the Gods


thank mr skeltal

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



Mans posted:

That was amazing.



Holy poo poo.

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



Mans posted:

i hope someone flies a plane against him

Now now, remember what happened the last time someone flew a plane into a mountain.

CobiWann
Oct 21, 2009

Have fun!
Hulkamania can't melt steel beams.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Old school!

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011












Jay 2K Winger
Oct 10, 2007

What are you looking for?

Thump! posted:

Now now, remember what happened the last time someone flew a plane into a mountain.



the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

veedubfreak posted:

Ins't Hogan over due for a fatal heart attack ala Warrior?

Hogan has so many plastic parts in him that he qualifies as 3 major credit cards. I don't think he's ever going to die because there aren't enough organic components.

coleman francis
Aug 8, 2007

Tap tap
The ketchup bottle
None will come
Then axolotl
Hair Elf

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
Found out on FB first.

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

~🚚special delivery~📦

Now I'm z'sad. :smith:

Haruharuharuko
Mar 24, 2008

Yeah I lied; so what is the truth?

Dewgy posted:

Now I'm z'sad. :smith:

Welp time to watch hell comes to frogtown 2.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀









theshim
May 1, 2012

You think you can defeat ME, Ephraimcopter?!?

You couldn't even beat Assassincopter!!!
thank mr skeltal

GruntyThrst
Oct 9, 2007

*clang*

thanks mr skeltal

edit: gently caress

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something
Stay homeless, musselman gost of safety.

FAROOQ
Aug 20, 2014

by Smythe
nice hat.

I WANT THAT GODDAMNED KEBAB

HackensackBackpack
Aug 20, 2007

Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?

FAROOQ posted:

nice hat.

I WANT THAT GODDAMNED KEBAB

This isn't the first page.

Chard
Aug 24, 2010




Kebab is worth trying it anyway

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Apr 3, 2011



Nap Ghost
thank mr suleiman!

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