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Eclipse12 posted:According to the legal text at the end of KotR, "Hulk Hogan," "Hulkster," and "Hulkamania" are trademarks of Marvel. Yup. He was originally incredible hulk Hogan and marvel sued. I think it was settled out if court and they own the hulk part and get paid, and he had to drop the incredible part.
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Apr 16, 2021 02:12
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Imagine seeing Terry Bollea and your first thought is this is the perfect person to fill the role of an Irish wrestler, just needs red hair.
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Animal-Mother posted:The puke-on-command guy got paralyzed in a wrestling match. I didn't know... That sucks. 
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Bogus Adventure posted:I didn't know... This one at least falls under tragic mistake unlike say, Owen Hart, which was criminal negligence. He was in a match with D'Lo Brown, took a power bomb, a move D'Lo hit a thousand times before, and was just out of position. No one's fault, and just lovely for everyone. Droz obviously, but also D'Lo who has to walk around knowing he did that to someone, intentional or not.
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I was randomly thinking about The Rock (which is a normal and healthy thing to do) and I think it's safe that he probably invented or popularized more catchphrases within his field than any other athlete/actor in history. Maybe more than any human since Shakespeare (okay, maybe not). Just off the top of my head: Jabroni Smackdown Candy rear end Monkey rear end The Rock says ___ It doesn't matter what ___ Know your role Finally, The Rock has come back to ___ Smackdown Hotel Roody pooh(sp?) Various streets, avenues, lanes, and boulevards of Smackingdown and Knowingroles I know there's more that could be added to the list
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I just appreciate the cornucopia of nicknames The Rock had: *Rocky *The People's Champ *The Great One *The Brahma Bull *The Most Electrifying Man In Sports Entertainment
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Apr 16, 2021 18:42
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Don't forget the time where he was The Corporate Champ with the Corporate Elbow.
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Bogus Adventure posted:I just appreciate the cornucopia of nicknames The Rock had: The Blue Chipper  Also The Rock was super cool back in the day but watching his old promos as a person who is 20 years older a lot of that stuff is pretty embarrassing now. I rewatched Jericho's WWE debut last month and Jericho cut a great, somewhat natural sounding promo and then The Rock just responds with nothing but a pile of catchphrases strung together and got a huge pop. Things were certainly different back then.
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Yeah, but that was a HUGE pop for Jericho, too, as an introduction to him in the WWE. It's hard to get a bigger boost than than he got as your first appearance, Rock promo or not. And then he almost blew it, but thank God he eventually figured his character out
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I still like the Rock's promos...  At least the ones that don't have slurs tossed in (like his favorite name for Kane). His Triple H impression and the bits where he sung songs that made fun of the audience were pretty lol. Also, he annihilated Billy Gunn, and that will always make me laugh.
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Apr 16, 2021 19:38
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Why is there this persistent, quietly bubbling rumor that The Rock is going to run for president?
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Apr 16, 2021 19:53
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Because American democracy favours showmen over statesmen.
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Apr 16, 2021 19:55
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Animal-Mother posted:Why is there this persistent, quietly bubbling rumor that The Rock is going to run for president? Have you seen his new show? He's literally running for president on TV.
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Apr 16, 2021 19:57
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Jesus christ pls no. If he runs he will definitely win no question
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If you ain't a roody pooh candy rear end, you don't got nothing to worry about I'm screwed
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Elephant Ambush posted:I rewatched Jericho's WWE debut last month and Jericho cut a great, somewhat natural sounding promo and then The Rock just responds with nothing but a pile of catchphrases strung together and got a huge pop. How dare you sir! The best part of that (very good) promo was The Rock cutting Jericho off.
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What baffles me is that Jericho's original idea was to introduce himself at the end of the show, but VKM changed it at the last minute to interrupt The Rock and it was 50000X better than the original idea. This man used to have incredibly good sense for running a show.
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Animal-Mother posted:Why is there this persistent, quietly bubbling rumor that The Rock is going to run for president? - he's insanely, ridiculously charismatic and has a very carefully maintained positive public image, beyond what you'd need if you were just a run-of-the-mill celebrity- not everybody necessarily has a positive opinion of him, but nobody could deny he's handsome, well-spoken, charitable, and a good dad, and you couldn't disagree with his politics because he doesn't have any. even his ex-wife apparently can't bring herself to hate him, because she works as his personal assistant. wow what a great guy! - after disgraced former president trump won in 2016, people started looking at other insanely rich people, preferably a likable minority, to run against him, and with that kind of thinking it's basically the rock or oprah - he finally took a political stance last election when he endorsed biden, the incredibly milquetoast middle-of-the-road reach-across-the-aisle third way compromise candidate who also happened to be running as a democrat. any way the wind blows, if the rock wants to run as a republican in 2024, he can spin it as having given biden a shot but now needing to step in as a non-partisan who just makes sense. if he wants to run as a democrat in 2028, his first dalliance into the political arena will have been endorsing "the most left-leaning platform in u.s. history" or the man who brought sanity back to the white house - I guess his new sitcom has a frame narrative where it's the future and he's president or something? people are saying this is to get the public used to the idea of him running for president I hope he doesn't I like the rock and would prefer if he remained a harmless muscled celebrity, but the thing is he's definitely going to run for president and win and be a weird fascist
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yeah i'm kinda done with presidents that literally can't even imagine how regular people live, at no point in dwayne johnson's life he would've had even a smidgen of experience in the real world
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Kunabomber posted:yeah i'm kinda done with presidents
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Kunabomber posted:yeah i'm kinda done with presidents that literally can't even imagine how regular people live, at no point in dwayne johnson's life he would've had even a smidgen of experience in the real world He always says he was broke before getting a job with the WWF.
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Financial situation is a bit less relevant when the only life he's known is the carny life with his mom and dad. Edit: I would have the same sort of reservations regarding, say, the barrymores Kunabomber fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Apr 16, 2021 20:53
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Animal-Mother posted:He always says he was broke before getting a job with the WWF.
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Is that the book that was half kayfabe? I think the WWF put out a few of those back then.
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The Rock for President has been a meme for like 10 years at this point
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basically I'm 100% convinced that anyone whose life is obviously characterized by a "I bootstrapped myself to success" approach should not be let within 10 steps of political leadership under any circumstance; whether "success" is defined as "financial wealth" or "big muscles" is at best a tertiary footnote in this creed.
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I don't know why the Rock would even WANT to be president. Like Trump sure, he's got the biggest inferiority complex I've never seen in a narcissist. The Rock seems like he mostly just likes entertaining people and staying out of the public eye and spending time with his family. He's not hosed up in the head enough to want to be president.
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lol his grandfather is literally high chief peter malvia, there's no possible loving way he wasn't going into wrestling, and they were gonna push him to the moon by hook or by crook
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Eclipse12 posted:I was randomly thinking about The Rock (which is a normal and healthy thing to do) and I think it's safe that he probably invented or popularized more catchphrases within his field than any other athlete/actor in history. Maybe more than any human since Shakespeare (okay, maybe not). Painus in Anus Sweet Potato Pie Bonzo fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Kunabomber posted:lol his grandfather is literally high chief peter malvia, there's no possible loving way he wasn't going into wrestling, and they were gonna push him to the moon by hook or by crook And even then Vince nearly hosed that up completely
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Animal-Mother posted:Why is there this persistent, quietly bubbling rumor that The Rock is going to run for president? as a troll on the people of sacramento https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-G1nnfyWmc
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The Rock was the first time i had ever heard the word poontang.
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FullLeatherJacket posted:as a troll on the people of sacramento Haha I love that there was hardly any booing until he mentioned the Lakers beating the Kings
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Vince MechMahon posted:The Rock was the first time i had ever heard the word poontang.  I was a sheltered child, so I thought it was a real form of pie. Strudel I got, though.
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Animal-Mother posted:Is that the book that was half kayfabe? I think the WWF put out a few of those back then. It's super-cringey to read now. Entire chapters are just The Rock (the character) narrating about Dwayne Johnson's life and it's filled with "poo poo that didn't happen"-esque anecdotes. Like some people insulting Rock's grandfather for eating with his hands (Samoan tradition) so he took them to the hotel lobby and beat the poo poo out of them including tossing one through a plate-glass window. Then going to finish his meal and nothing came of it. Even at 14, reading it back then, I knew it probably didn't happen that way. It's one of the final kayfabe-filled books published after Foley's first book which is all truth and is real with the crazy stories.
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