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So I didn't start watching wrestling until 2019, the end of it, and I had a lot of really weird perceptions, so I wanted to share them and see what you guys thought wrestling was, based entirely off cultural osmosis. - My 4th grade teacher told us that the Rock only became a popular wrestler because he invented the "stomping while you do a move" thing - Since it's all fake, nobody ever injures themselves - Wrestlers would never break character under any circumstance, even in a court of law - (This is gonna be a common one) Wrestling was obviously fake to anyone who wasn't a complete and utter smoothbrain and only dumbdumbs liked it or thought it was good. - For some reason I thought Vince McMahon actually died in 2007 and didn't find out it was a work until 2016 when I noticed him on a friend's stream of RAW and asked if it was a rerun - For some reason I thought it was waaaay more fantastical than it actually is, with the Undertaker casting literal spells in every match, people summoning demons, flying (with wires) like a hong kong kung fu film, etc. - When stone cold stunner'd austin and got arrested in 1997(?) our school banned wrestling talk because it was taken to be a real thing, one kid got sent home for wearing an austin 3:16 shirt and we had a school meeting about how wrestling was full of "criminals". Our principal was very very serious about this. What did you think wrestling was, before you watched wrestling? Was there ever a point you thought it was real?
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because i can't remember anything from before i watched wrestling, i would still like to participate and say that in the 2nd and 3rd grade i kept on hearing from these two other kids that shawn michaels and big daddy cool were boyfriends to eachother. i knew back then that it wasn't bad or wrong to be two boyfriends, but those kids didn't seem to know that and i was very weak and pathetic so i would just make little laughs like they did about it, but without saying anything either. stupid little-rear end kid. i wish they had been boyfriends
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Jul 3, 2020 06:02
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I was convinced that chairs were fake movie props or had a sound effect added in because, c'mon, how could they be dumb enough to use actual steel chairs and swing them as hard as possible? Then I found out how dumb wrestlers really are.
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Jul 3, 2020 06:33
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My sister once smugly explained to me that the wrestlers hold little soft padded bags in their hands and that is what they hit their opponents with.
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Jul 3, 2020 06:48
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:
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Jul 3, 2020 06:55
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i've watched wrestling for as long as i've known what it is but i still believed the "Since it's all fake, nobody ever injures themselves" part when i was a little kid.
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Jul 3, 2020 07:03
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I thought that when wrestlers were in holds and slapping themselves* they were signalling the other guy what moves to do, like a baseball catcher * kind of an early 90s thing, not so much any more RealityWarCriminal fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Jul 3, 2020 |
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Jul 3, 2020 07:39
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i remember very cruel rumours that chyna was a man, which were very commonplace. someone at school once told me that his dad had one of goldbergs testicles in a jar at his house. but his dad owned the local bakery so i just went and asked him.
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Jul 3, 2020 07:58
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I have a friend who started watching wrestling long before I did, and by way of incessant hypemanship he managed to convince me that Triple H was good.
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Jul 3, 2020 07:58
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:how wrestling was full of "criminals". They were right
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Jul 3, 2020 08:00
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Not so much a myth, but living just north of Nashua, NH, people would refer to Triple H as "Pauly Levesque." And of course we kids would say, no, Hunter Hearst Helmsley.
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Jul 3, 2020 09:46
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I started one of these! I was trying to get my neighborhood friends to watch WWF with me and I convinced them that my next door neighbor was the Blue Blazer. My next door neighbor was a 60 year old gaunt man and not, in fact, the Blue Blazer.
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Jul 3, 2020 10:11
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The ketchup bottle for blood was one that went around the playground in my youth.
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Jul 3, 2020 10:18
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Grem posted:I started one of these! I was trying to get my neighborhood friends to watch WWF with me and I convinced them that my next door neighbor was the Blue Blazer.  Grem posted:My next door neighbor was a 60 year old gaunt man and not, in fact, the Blue Blazer. 
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Jul 3, 2020 11:15
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Grem posted:I started one of these! I was trying to get my neighborhood friends to watch WWF with me and I convinced them that my next door neighbor was the Blue Blazer. My next door neighbor was a 60 year old gaunt man and not, in fact, the Blue Blazer. YOU ARE A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE PERSON well done
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Jul 3, 2020 14:41
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Vince McMahon was a fictional character played by some weird actor.
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Jul 3, 2020 14:55
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Sandman McMahon posted:Vince McMahon was a fictional character played by some weird actor. 🤔
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Jul 3, 2020 15:00
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The Ultimate Warrior absolutely died and was replaced by a body-double/impersonator.
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Jul 3, 2020 16:01
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Warrior died when Undertaker locked him in the coffin, everything after that was another person
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Jul 3, 2020 16:20
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My boy erik once told me undertaker's real name is Walter Taker. I think Erik is dead now, rip
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Jul 3, 2020 16:32
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Paper Lion posted:i remember very cruel rumours that chyna was a man, which were very commonplace. someone at school once told me that his dad had one of goldbergs testicles in a jar at his house. but his dad owned the local bakery so i just went and asked him. did he let you see the testicle?
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Jul 3, 2020 16:48
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BodyMassageMachine posted:The Ultimate Warrior absolutely died and was replaced by a body-double/impersonator. -Doink was just 1 wrestler - All of those big names from when I was a kid like Sting or Undertaker who had completely different gimmicks in the 80's and early 90's were different wrestlers playing the same 'character' in later gimmicks in the 2000's. After all, no one would be putting their bodies through that kinda punishment for decades  -The Licensing Deal/Crossover between WWE and White Wolf with Gangrel was dumb and bad, it sullied my precious highbrow mature game to be associated with something as puerile as wrestling
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Jul 3, 2020 23:16
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BodyMassageMachine posted:The Ultimate Warrior absolutely died and was replaced by a body-double/impersonator. The version of this that I heard as a kid was that he died and was replaced by Kerry Von Erich
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Jul 3, 2020 23:20
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Unfortunately I have no "before wrestling" myths because I started watching around age 4 with a Killer Bees match in like '84-'85ish. Growing up, however, it was impossible to not hear New Ultimate Warrior myths.
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Jul 3, 2020 23:39
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Mob posted:Unfortunately I have no "before wrestling" myths because I started watching around age 4 with a Killer Bees match in like '84-'85ish. Growing up, however, it was impossible to not hear New Ultimate Warrior myths. Not gonna lie watching a snake bite Macho Man at 11AM on a Saturday is definitely not scarring poo poo for a 9-year-old, definitely
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Jul 3, 2020 23:40
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Reality Protester posted:I thought that when wrestlers were in holds and slapping themselves* they were signalling the other guy what moves to do, like a baseball catcher In all fairness, this is not far off the mark because for a sleeper or chinlock, there could be spot-calling going on. And some guys might have short hand for stuff like 'two slaps means shoot me off the ropes, dropdown, leapfrog, clothesline'.
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Jul 4, 2020 00:07
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Two words: Blood Capsules.
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Jul 4, 2020 01:51
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That's a stunt granny
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Jul 4, 2020 02:31
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A kid told me the Ultimate Warrior quit wrestling because he was sexually assaulted by the Macho Man. He also told me that "sexual assault" was when you taped a knife to your wiener so that you could slash or stab people while you were already punching them.
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Jul 4, 2020 02:42
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Defiance Industries posted:He also told me that "sexual assault" was when you taped a knife to your wiener so that you could slash or stab people while you were already punching them. well, I mean, that's not technically incorrect
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Jul 4, 2020 02:55
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WCW is worse than WWF
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Jul 4, 2020 04:20
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I was told the blood was ketchup, I found out that was bullshit when I was 10 and RVD nailed Spike Dudley with a horrendous chair shot right in front of me at an ECW house show and blood splattered all over my entire row.
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Jul 4, 2020 05:02
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I think lots of us must've assumed "no way the blood is real because it would be absolutely deranged to take a razor blade to your own forehead just to make a fake fight feel more dramatic".
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Jul 4, 2020 10:43
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forkboy84 posted:I think lots of us must've assumed "no way the blood is real because it would be absolutely deranged to take a razor blade to your own forehead just to make a fake fight feel more dramatic". Totally also let it literally drip on fans and somehow in the litigious 90s no one sued.
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Jul 4, 2020 12:23
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Eat My Fuc posted:I was told the blood was ketchup, I found out that was bullshit when I was 10 and RVD nailed Spike Dudley with a horrendous chair shot right in front of me at an ECW house show and blood splattered all over my entire row. Jesus loving christ dude I would’ve been scarred for life
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Jul 4, 2020 12:32
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extradite THIS! posted:Jesus loving christ dude It's the 90s, you'd probably think it was the coolest poo poo.
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Jul 4, 2020 12:35
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I remember someone (I think it was Sarah Shockey) talking about seeing Macho Man on Slim Jims ads before she got into wrestling, then eventually seeing Randy Savage matches and thinking it was a bit hokey that they let the Slim Jim mascot wrestle.
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Jul 4, 2020 13:31
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Lamuella posted:I remember someone (I think it was Sarah Shockey) talking about seeing Macho Man on Slim Jims ads before she got into wrestling, then eventually seeing Randy Savage matches and thinking it was a bit hokey that they let the Slim Jim mascot wrestle. Lmao
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Jul 4, 2020 13:33
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I think at some point when I was a kid, I knew that wrestling was pre-determined, but thought that it was like how boxing matches are fixed, where the competitors really are wrestling for a while, and then one of the competitors takes a fall intentionally.
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forkboy84 posted:It's the 90s, you'd probably think it was the coolest poo poo. Yea I find it more horrible now but back then I was like “blood! cool!”
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