Pro Wrasslin'

Ghost

Also, if folks are tired of the corporate-ness of the WWE, I strongly recommend taking a good long look at AEW. Cody and the Young Bucks have filled the roster with a TON of indie talent.

I'm hoping now that the Lucha Underground fuckery is done AEW will get Joey Ryan and Ivelisse.

Jonah42175

@Ghost Just keep it away from Charlotte. I'm kinda done with the Flair grand-standing right now. Let Rhonda keep hold of the title until Extreme Rules or something.

Ghost

@Jonah42175 Yeah, I mean I like Charlotte Flair a lot. I think she's really talented, but the constant "Charlotte gets the belt again" is getting old.

If Rousey getting the belt for being Rousey is a complaint, then Charlotte being in everything should be, too.

Ya mentioned Alexa Bliss. Think she's done? She's been absent since the Rumble.

Jonah42175

@Ghost I think she's nursing an injury that they're not telling us about. I'd say to check her out in about another 6 months to see if she's back for in-ring or if they're just going to keep her as a personality/valet. I don't think she's ready to leave the WWE just yet, but I'm not sure why she's been staying out of ring action.

Ghost

John Oliver WWE Spot

NSFW. It's very entertaining, but John Oliver rips into WWE for how they take care of wrestlers.

Wretched

@Ghost Damnit I was gonna link that here. As somone who grew up with Andre and Undertaker, and Hulk and Macho Man, and Honkey Tonk Man, and and and... yeah. That was a good watch.

I remember waiting for the icecream man in the late 80's early 90's for those ice cream sammich bars that had the wrestlers printed on the bars and they came with trading cards. They cost like a whole 1.50 when everything else was like 50 cents.

Ghost

@Wretched said in Pro Wrasslin':

@Ghost Damnit I was gonna link that here. As somone who grew up with Andre and Undertaker, and Hulk and Macho Man, and Honkey Tonk Man, and and and... yeah. That was a good watch.

I remember waiting for the icecream man in the late 80's early 90's for those ice cream sammich bars that had the wrestlers printed on the bars and they came with trading cards. They coist like a whole 1.50 when everything else was like 50 cents.

Holy crap I remember those. Back in the day I was a huge Brutus the Barber Beefcake and Demolition fan.

That stuff about Roddy Piper and Jake the Snake really gets me. Those guys were just so run down and their bodies were toast by that stage in the game. The part about how Roddy said he wouldn't make it to 65 and then died at 61 misted me up a little bit. Those guys really do take a ton of punishment and have to keep performing despite.

Diamond Dallas Page is doing good stuff (he's in that video). He started a form of yoga that's helped a lot of people with weight and joint problems, and in recent years has brought in friends like Razor Ramon, Jake the Snake, and a few others and it seems to have helped their "post WWF joint and body ache" issues. Jake the Snake looks great now.

DDP yoga's good shit.

Wretched

@Ghost Yeah I have the DDP Yoga videos, they are pretty good. I need more floor space, but even the beginner stuff is amazing if yer out of shape. Easy on the joints, got my fat ass sweating and out of breath 5 mins in, but I felt great after.

There was also a movie a bunch years back with, fuck hold on...

Mickey Rourke. Called The Wrestler, which is a hard name to remember, shut up. B ut that really illustrated some of the lifestyle, and shit it does to you. I think a lot of people forget that even if wrestling is 'fake' it's still a lot of really big dudes performing a lot of athletic feats, getting beat up hard. Where in the movies, people get asses kicked and then like an hour later are like basically fine (I love you Frank Castle but c'mon) and you never really see the long term damage that gets done. I mean that doesnt always make a great action movie so i get it, but like, I used the Leg press wrong in highschool and I am still paying for it.

Ghost

@Wretched Yeah I got the videos, too. They're a great workout. FUN FACT: The videos do not help you lose weight if you only do the intro part that walks through all the poses once a year. I was not aware of that.

We gotta clean out a spare room to make room for it, too. That's the shitty part about spare rooms. You use it for STORAGE...but then have to move stuff out of it to use it for yoga.

Anyway, YES, the Wrestler was fucking great and I understand it's pretty accurate. Stuff like dead cartilage in the knees, getting paid $50 bucks and leaving with a concussion that would cost you hundreds to thousands if you actually got it looked at by a doctor, etc.

I enjoy wrestling, but I'd enjoy it more if I knew the talent was better taken care of. There's a lot of buzz right now that per John Oliver the fans might actually chant or have signs for Wrestlemania this weekend for the better treatment of the talent.

Wretched

@Ghost said in Pro Wrasslin':

@Wretched Yeah I got the videos, too. They're a great workout. FUN FACT: The videos do not help you lose weight if you only do the intro part that walks through all the poses once a year. I was not aware of that.

Hahahahah, for real.

But seriously, for anyone reading this, if you are interested in yoga-esque workouts that are good for your joints (especially if you are heavier like me), but cant do all the super flexy yoga shit, DDP is pretty good. I'm not saying I have all the videos on my google drive or anything, but... where was I going with this?

Also Heathcare for all, blah blah.

Ghost

I wanna keep Wrestlemania spoiler-free for a few days, but seriously...

...who the fuck hates Bret "The Hitman" Hart?

The guy is beloved and...

I can think of a dozen wrestlers that might have people in the crowd thinking FUCK THAT GUY to the point of being dumb enough to rush tackle them even with some odd 30 200+ pound wrestlers and former MMA fighters nearby, but Bret and Natalya?

Which lame-brained fan had enough of a beef with THE HART FOUNDATION enough to be willing to get their face actually punched in by Braun Strowman and Travis Browne?

Ganymede

@Ghost

You have to laugh at that guy, but appreciate his balls. He got the fuck beaten out of him by Browne, and half a dozen others that had to be held back.

Ghost

@Ganymede said in Pro Wrasslin':

@Ghost

You have to laugh at that guy, but appreciate his balls. He got the fuck beaten out of him by Browne, and half a dozen others that had to be held back.

I deeeeeeefinitely appreciate them balls. I mean, if you're looking to get your ass kicked, but want to do it in a place that won't get you killed, a room full of pro wrestlers and MMA fighters is a lot safer than, say, throwing some kind of shit bomb into a Hell's Angels bar.

But still. Bret???? Bret and Anvil Bret? Montreal Screwjob Bret? Calgary Hitmen Bret? Beloved brother to Owen, brother in law to Jim, Uncle of Natalya? Brother in law to Davey Boy Smith BRET??? REFLECTIVE PINK SUNGLASSES GIVEN TO A KID BEFORE EVERY MATCH BRET???

We love Bret and the Harts. If you don't you're just a bad person.

Dude shoulda yelled YOLO and drop-kicked Vince McMahon instead.

ZombieGenesis

From what I've heard the guy has a history of mental illness and has been charged with stalking someone at least once in his past.

Alamias

@ZombieGenesis said in Pro Wrasslin':

From what I've heard the guy has a history of mental illness

If he didn't before, I'm sure he does now after all those hits to the head...

Jaded

@ZombieGenesis
I definitely questioned the mental sanity of someone charging a wrestler on a stage full of wrestlers.

Ghost

6'8", 385lbs, 10% body fat.

No one sane wants to put themselves in a situation where that would be willing to actually hit you.

ETA: From what I understand, Strowman is still a pretty good guy, so I'd still rather fight him than Mike Tyson. I'd get wrecked, but my chances of walking away with my life are higher with Strowman.

Ghost

Update: The dude who attacked Bret is from Nebraska.

He's one of my people. Fuck.

Jonah42175

@Ghost Yeah, I saw one of those "My Son Is A Pro Wrestler" bits. Strowman's a good dude. They showed his parents and where he first started working, etc. He comes from a small town. The typical local-boy-does-good story.

Ghost

So let's talk John Cena.

A long time ago his gimmick was white boy MC from da hood hard times and phat rhymes. He has since gone on to become a movie star who owns a mansion and has been in reality TV.

Now, all of the sudden, he's back as sucka white boy MC slow-jam rap battle heel John Cena, which is pretty much a muscular millionaire wearing a chain around his neck and snapback hats.

So...sign of the end for Cena's relevancy? Not so relevant anymore that he had to dig into a shtick that's over 10 years old?