The Wrestling Thread

[Chris L]

Preview of The Warrior's Upcoming Uncensored Video on Hulk Hogan.

This is really worth watching in its entirety.

Two favorite parts:

1. Warrior: "I bet I'm the only guy... who ever said no to doing your wife." Soundtrack: "BOOM"

2. "A guy with a flap of extensions... I don't know where to start."

[buffcoat]

Hulk Hogan's understated Randy Randall Savage impression is better than I expected it to be.



How would Ayn Rand feel about the Warrior's video?

[Boogdish]

How would Ayn Rand feel about the Warrior's video?

Confused ("Who are these men?" "Why am I alive again?" ).

[Eric Fishlegs]

I'll say this much for Warrior- he hasn't wrestled full time in well over a decade, but he appears to have done pretty well money wise. Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan both worked for many more years and made much more money, but both are pretty well broke and have to work for TNA while Warrior sits around all day painting (those painting behind him are Warrior originals) and making bizarre anti-Hulk Hogan videos.

And based on what I know about Hogan I'd be surprised if  he wasn't lying about making amends with Randy Savage.

[buffcoat]

How would Ayn Rand feel about the Warrior's video?

Confused ("Who are these men?" "Why am I alive again?" ).

Zombie Ayn Rand, yeah.  Imagine that one.

[Greggulator]

The Wonderful World of Lucha Libre!

Kemonito Kick

[hardweek]

Holy crap shoot interview tonight! Start around the 7:00 mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xja-TWxZBr0

[NoNeck622]

I wonder where this will rank on the list of all time great wrestling moments. Part of me thinks it will one day be mentioned in the same breath as the Montreal Screwjob since CM Punk is leaving the WWE in a similar fashion as Bret Hart did: mad as hell. The only real difference between the two incidents is that CM Punk is nowhere near as beloved as Bret Hart was so Punk's departure won't be as big a shock.

[Chris L]

That is a worked shoot but one of the best I've seen. Are WWE actually desperate enough to put something interesting on television?

[NoNeck622]

Sorry to get off topic now, but I have to post this sooner or later.

I remember watching this when I was 8 or 9 years old and around this time, I was starting to wonder if wrestling was fake. Apparently, the producers of "World's Wildest Police Videos" and "When Good Pets Go Bad" were wondering the same thing. Here's Captain Lou Albano and a lie detector:

Captain Lou Albano Takes a Lie Detector Test

[Greggulator]

The CM Punk thing is awesome and is going to lead to one of the hottest main events ever. The next PPV is in Chicago and the crowd was already going to be pretty molten with Punk having the home field advantage. Now it's just going to be scorching with every smark in the world in his corner.

It was incredibly well done. It has shoot elements (mentioning ROH and Colt Cabana and the Steph/HHH thing) but it's still crafted in a way to make it a wrestling angle as it's essentially CM Punk being jealous of Cena for being on merchandised cups and in movies while he's not promoted at all despite his claims at being the best. It's not all that different from Batista's feud with Cena or even R-Truth's recent feud with Cena, except CM Punk's just absolutely fantastic in his delivery and the little specifics to make the angle scorching hot.

The WWE last year around this time also launched the Nexus angle. They've got a great concept for summer angles -- do something completely out-of-character for the build to SummerSlam. This makes a ton of sense, since it's the summer and people go on vacation and it's a good way to keep people's attention.

[Kid Pain]

Heaven help me, I actually want to pay for MITB.

[Chris L]

It must be especially tough for a guy with a Pepsi tattoo not to be on merchandised cups.

[cutout]

From Wrestling to Porn
Chyna once slammed male opponents into submission. After a hard-luck few years, the pro-wrestling pioneer is re-entering the ring with a big adult-film release.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/28/chyna-porn-film-pro-wrestler-s-new-role-in-adult-films.html

 

[buffcoat]

I saw a brief clip from the first Chyna tape years ago - my eyes have never recovered.  I think it was through Fark, and it was upsetting even to them.

Steroids are noted for the horrors they perform on the male anatomy; they are no less horrifying - and somewhat more, uh, in your face - in what they do to women.