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This thread made me feel nostalgic for when I used to watch wrestling in like 7th-10th grade so I started trawling some Youtube clips of the Rock and Mankind palling around and then it got to one in 2003 featuring them shilling for the Iraq War 
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Feb 2, 2021 08:22
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wrestling kind of sucks because something stupid like 70% of the wrestlers I grew up watching and idolizing every week have died extremely premature deaths due to the drug abuse required to wrestle 300+ days a year it's me, i'm the buzzkill
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Feb 2, 2021 08:47
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Black Sunshine posted:wrestling kind of sucks because something stupid like 70% of the wrestlers I grew up watching and idolizing every week have died extremely premature deaths due to the drug abuse required to wrestle 300+ days a year Not everyone lives as clean a life as THE NATURE BOY!  WOO!!! 
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Feb 2, 2021 08:55
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Bogus Adventure posted:Not everyone lives as clean a life as THE NATURE BOY! that documentary on him is great and also a reminder that he's about to die any day now
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Feb 2, 2021 08:58
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I like wrestling And anime I am the final boss of this forum please god don't hurt me
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Feb 2, 2021 09:01
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My younger cousin loves wrasslin and he still watches all the PPV events to this day. He's also a little mommas boy who was never made to do anything and lost both his front teeth to a bad rear end slice of pizza cuz he was never taught dental hygene.
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Feb 2, 2021 09:02
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I like wrestling though I really need to get my arse in gear and watch AEW properly. However, as a casual fan, the hardcore fans at q&as with ex wrestlers and indie shows are the worst people on earth. Virgins, to a man.
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Feb 2, 2021 09:15
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Wrestling looks so fun to get into but it seems like comic books: where the gently caress am I supposed to start? Wrestlemania 1
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Feb 2, 2021 09:22
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moments in sports history: remember when the goth cowboy stockbroker yeeted a trash can into a dwarf dressed as a leprechaun on the grandest stage of them all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbISJCjIP5I
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Feb 2, 2021 10:08
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Most of my friends back in the 90s were super into wrestling and as a result I kinda got pulled into it as well. They were all into superhero comics as well but I never quite got into those. Skip forwards 25 years and the only guy from that group who still identifies as a Wrestling Aficionado is the dude who got talked into marrying a woman who worked for his parents and moving out to a remote exurb town to settle down and have kids (he used to be an edgelord who went on drunken rants about how he was never going to have kids) and spends a lot of his time sitting alone in his mancave getting drunk or stoned (when his wife lets him) and watching wrestling and reading superhero comics. He never moved past 1995 and from the outside his 'hobbies' look more like coping mechanisms for undiagnosed clinical depression. He considers himself to be a bit of an intellectual but he also thinks that Bill Hicks' monologues are still really deep and relevant. The only other guy around my age who won't shut up about wrestling is a friend of a friend who heard somewhere that I used to be into 'classic' pro wrestling so every time he sees me he insists on spending a giant chunk of time talking about his favourite 80s wrestlers and doing impersonations of them and the old ring announcers while I just grimace and nod along and wait for him to finish.
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Feb 2, 2021 10:11
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My mom used to take my brother and I to a tiny little independent wrestling show outside of Pittsburgh about 15 years ago. It was really cool and a bunch of those guys are now on TV, so I can officially say I knew them before they were famous. Also one time a wrestler went flying over the guardrail into my mom's lap (my mom is a tiny woman) and when she was okay he held her arm up like she just won the match. It was pretty cool.
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Feb 2, 2021 13:32
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Bogus Adventure posted:It owns, OP. It's a soap opera where people pretend to fight, burn people, or throw them in dumpsters. you could just say soap opera. the rest is redundant
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Feb 2, 2021 13:47
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Its for children OP
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Feb 2, 2021 14:17
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You know that awesome fight scene you saw last week in your show or movie? That was fake. It didn't really happen. How is it any different? 30+ year wrestling fan here. AEW fuckin owns.
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Feb 2, 2021 14:22
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wrassling is for children but it's still better than its detractors just an fyi.
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Feb 2, 2021 14:25
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Feb 2, 2021 14:33
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this is a fun match https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpOPHiSn5yI edit: LU was choreographed to a fault (you can see slowdowns and stuff in that match) and also video edited to hell and back, but there were some legit cool technical matches and high falls and poo poo while it lasted MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Feb 2, 2021 |
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Feb 2, 2021 14:37
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Do it ironically posted:wrestling is gay as hell (I love it), like it’s two dudes wearing speedo both roided up looking great just grappling each other and looking at the hard cam Pretty much!  That said, my favorite uncle watched (and still occasionally watches, I think) wrestling, and I think part of the appeal is watching irl trainwrecks -- WCW right before its acquisition, for example.
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Feb 2, 2021 14:48
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Personally it never occured to me to watch it, but I can see how someone might like it - its a theater of sorts
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Feb 2, 2021 14:54
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we have a whole subforum for it and wwe is bad so nobody enjoys it.Sekenr posted:Personally it never occured to me to watch it, but I can see how someone might like it - its a theater of sorts it's mostly naked dudes soap opera with punchy face stuff.
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Feb 2, 2021 15:23
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wrestling is awesome wtf the wwe is obviously quite bad but if you cant find a way to enjoy the large sweaty ballet that is wrestling then thats your problem bub
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Feb 2, 2021 15:28
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A current storyline right now is Ric Flair sabotaging his daughter's matches because he and Lacey Evans want to bang each other.
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Feb 2, 2021 16:02
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I can't believe Ric Flair is alive
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Feb 2, 2021 16:13
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I love people who like to pretend they’re too mature for wrestling and then will watch Wanda vision or argue about Star Wars. Also the sooner you realize that everything is wrestling the more you will understand about the world.
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Feb 2, 2021 16:15
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The_Rob posted:I love people who like to pretend they’re too mature for wrestling and then will watch Wanda vision or argue about Star Wars. Also the sooner you realize that everything is wrestling the more you will understand about the world. wrestling is actually dumber than most media, even the dumb media
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Feb 2, 2021 16:15
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Caesar Saladin posted:wrestling is actually dumber than most media, even the dumb media Media is wrestling. Politics especially is wrestling.
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Feb 2, 2021 16:16
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Donald trump was the heel champion for the past 4 years. He cut the best promos easy. The dems needed a face to build up but wanted to force the corporate approved champion rather than the champion the people actually wanted. So now we have a new champion that’s not actually over but they’re going to pretend he is. Meaning the heels will Probably be getting cheered over the faces right now and will lead to another heel champ next election.
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Feb 2, 2021 16:19
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Faces are boring, heels are where it's at
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Feb 2, 2021 16:28
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Hitler was a heel
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Feb 2, 2021 16:34
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Remember that time hulk hogan destroyed gawker?
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Feb 2, 2021 16:35
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i watched 2 weeks ago's AEW dynamite episode and lol'd a lot. gonna watch last weeks episode today and get the LIVE EXPERIENCE tomorrow
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Feb 2, 2021 16:39
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The greatest fight ever involved a pro wrestler. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOs4PsiyIw
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Feb 2, 2021 16:39
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The_Rob posted:Donald trump was the heel champion for the past 4 years. He cut the best promos easy. The dems needed a face to build up but wanted to force the corporate approved champion rather than the champion the people actually wanted. So now we have a new champion that’s not actually over but they’re going to pretend he is. Meaning the heels will lol wrestling did not invent the concept of telling stories of "good guy vs bad guy" hth
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Feb 2, 2021 16:46
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EorayMel posted:Remember that time hulk hogan destroyed gawker? Straight down from the top rope
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Feb 2, 2021 16:48
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bradzilla posted:lol Yeah it did actually.
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Feb 2, 2021 16:52
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Bernie sanders got turned into a meme and like a true worker had T-shirts ready to go in a day or two.
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Feb 2, 2021 16:55
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The_Rob posted:The dems needed a face to build up but wanted to force the corporate approved champion rather than the champion the people actually wanted. LOL if you actually believe this
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Feb 2, 2021 16:58
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gonna go ahead and say shut the gently caress up about politics itt
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The_Rob posted:Yeah it did actually. would love to see your source on this lmao
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