Wrestling thread

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[Lee909]

Yeah weird time that, the real start of the tide turning towards the attitude era. Fans where started to get fed up with the 80/90s style heels etc. 

[Bjornebye]

Apart from Stone Cold vs The Rock and the Undertake/Kane/Mankind stuff it got shite once Bret left. He was the last 'WWF' flag waver IMO. I know The Undertaker carried on for years but wrestling as we knew it changed for the worst IMO. They don't even have boss names anymore. 

[Lee909]

9 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Apart from Stone Cold vs The Rock and the Undertake/Kane/Mankind stuff it got shite once Bret left. He was the last 'WWF' flag waver IMO. I know The Undertaker carried on for years but wrestling as we knew it changed for the worst IMO. They don't even have boss names anymore. 

The attitude era was great. 

The issue for me started when they tried taking a step into the ECW shite and every match needed thumbtack, or barbed wire. It went to far IMHO. 

 

The biggest issue though was the death of WCW, it left no competition to push things on

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

The attitude era was great. 

The issue for me started when they tried taking a step into the ECW shite and every match needed thumbtack, or barbed wire. It went to far IMHO. 

 

The biggest issue though was the death of WCW, it left no competition to push things on

The Mankind vs Undertaker Cage match was about as extreme as I wanted to see. In-fact it overstepped it a bit. 

 

I didn't mind the odd chair round the back or head or the ladder match being a bit heavy but barbed wire and stuff? If I wanted to see all that I'd just go the pub with @Doctor Troy 

 

Between 91 and 95 I was absolutely obsessed with it.  

[Lee909]

I have loads of time for both eras to be honest 

[3 Stacks]

Wrestling's biggest issue became the internet, where everyone who isn't a young kid started discussing the ins and outs of the business and no one could suspend disbelief anymore. Pro Wrestling stopped being great when people started knowing too much about it, which was like mid 2000's. Completely lost its mystique in the mainstream.

 

[Tony Moanero]

 

[s(k)aturation]

1 hour ago, Tony Moanero said:

 

 

The only wrestler, who - despite my knowing it was fake from an early age - genuinely scared the crap out of me.

An absolutely brilliant wrestling persona.

When I eventually found out he was an avuncular Canadian, who ran a rib and chinese restaurant in Atlanta, it made my childhood terror all the more meaningful and delightful.

 

[Lee909]

Been on a bit of a wrestling nostalgia trip lately.

Watching the stone cold interviews with older wrestlers and listening to Jim Ross books

 

 

 

Anyway

Who remembers this shitshow of a idea

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Goldberg pisstake was funny as fuck though

Can't find the first time they did it

 

 

 

 

 

[Scott_M]

I caught a bit of it the other week & they’d bought Gillberg recently. He’s lost all his teeth and looks like he should be in the a gurning competition.

 

Still, doesn’t look as old as the real Goldberg, or if you like, Oldberg. 

[Lee909]

1 minute ago, Scott_M said:

I caught a bit of it the other week & they’d bought Gillberg recently. He’s lost all his teeth and looks like he should be in the a gurning competition.

 

Still, doesn’t look as old as the real Goldberg, or if you like, Oldberg. 

Is that the same Goldberg in a title match tomorrow lol

[Scott_M]

46 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

Is that the same Goldberg in a title match tomorrow lol

Yeah. Be ridiculous if he wins. 

[Kevin D]

 

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[Tony Moanero]

 

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[John102]

40 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

 

This is superb. Jesse Ventura was brilliant.

 

16 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

 

The commentary on this is brillaint too. Thats my buddy was a great line, as was Randy Savage saying tugboat was wrestling so hard hed forgot who was on his team.

[Paulie Dangerously]

No matter who AEW bring in to destroy John Moxley, I don't care because it's John Moxley. 

[Kevin D]

On 07/02/2021 at 19:33, Paulie Dangerously said:

No matter who AEW bring in to destroy John Moxley, I don't care because it's John Moxley. 

 

Pretty good promo, fairly average wrestler.

[Kevin D]

Pretty good Yokozuna documentary on the network:

http://thechefonline.com/cgi-bin/MYProtect.php?File=2upwt82pyg7i

 

[Kevin D]

[Kevin D]