Hey Avante

[RD2191]

How bout some rasslin' facts, tbh.

[Avante]

How bout some rasslin' facts, tbh.

Cool~~~

The first WWWF World Champion was "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers (Herman Rhodes was his real name, Buddy Rogers was an old time actor) who was suppose to have beat Antonio Rocca in a tournament, nope, he was simply given the title.

Dick the Brusier was an x -Green Bay Packer named Dick Affis, the classc heel. He looked like what a cartoon rassler would look like.

While it worked way back when, The Shiek wouldn't work today, he'd get shot. The Sheik would come into the ring with his female valet, if she didn't put his prayer rug down right he'd kick her around....hahaha!!!!! Yep, that wouldn't fly today.

Lou Thesz is still considered "Da Man" he was behind a lot of the classic angles and had a lot of pull in the biz. He was a great performer and played whatever role made the most sense, heel/babyface in whatever region he was in.

Classy Fred Blassie and Ray Stevens ruled SOCAL and NORCAL. With Bakersfield being the cut off point.

The best of the masked men....Mil Mascaras and The Destroyer.

The best tag teams....The Fabulous Kangaroos, Art & Stan Neilson, Dr Jerry & Eddie Graham the first WWWF World Champion tag champs.

Then there was Killer Kowalski, who actually fucked up and chopped Yukon Erichs ear off when a knee drop off the turnbuckle went wrong. Yukon would commit suicide years later.

Edouard Carpentier, Antonio Rocca and the great Verne Gagne could hang with anyone today when it comes to actual wrestling. Gagne an NCAA champ while at Minnesota.

The first of the musclemen was Sailor Art Thomas. Yep...black. He came out of the audience in his first gig to toss a rassler around (part of the show).

The cool thing about those days was that we had....

Northwest
Norcal
Socal
Texas
Midwest
Canada
Florida
New York

regions and all the promotors respected each others territory. So we saw far far more guys in the biz because there were far more jobs. Vince McMahon Jr. fucked all that up.

[spurraider21]

best tag team was demolition

[RD2191]

That's awesome. My dad would tell stories of how they would cross over into Nuevo Laredo Mexico to watch wrestling when he was a child. Had all sorts of fun.

[Avante]

best tag team was demolition

Demolitian was a cheap rip off of the mighty Roadwarriors who were the best ever tagteam. Only team to hold the world championship in the NWA/AWA/WWF.

[spurraider21]

i like ax and smash over animal and hawk

[Avante]

That's awesome. My dad would tell stories of how they would cross over into Nuevo Laredo Mexico to watch wrestling when he was a child. Had all sorts of fun.


I wonder if he ever saw El Santo rassle. He was the God of Lucha Libra.

[spurraider21]

actually i change my mind, this is the best tag team of all time


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQFkSFDpn8

[Avante]

i like ax and smash over animal and hawk

Ax was The Masked Superstar while Smash was a ton of characters, his most notable being Krusher Krushev, yep, a Russian meanie, hahaha!!!!!!!

[spurraider21]

nobody beats the osirian portal. see the video above

[Avante]

actually i change my mind, this is the best tag team of all time


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQFkSFDpn8

That's right up there with when Capt Lou Albano would hynotize "Crazy" Luke Graham as his manager then during the match shout out words that mde Graham do different thigs. yep, stupid.

[RD2191]

actually i change my mind, this is the best tag team of all time


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQFkSFDpn8
:lmao

[RD2191]

I wonder if he ever saw El Santo rassle. He was the God of Lucha Libra.
He probably did. He would go almost every weekend.

[spurraider21]

hypnosis >

[Avante]

All Time Top Ten Rasslers

As we know in the rasslin; biz, it's all about impact. The look, the energy you get from the crowd. How well you sell your character. So with that said....

1.Hulk Hogan...can't rassle a lick.
2.Lou Thesz
3.Bruno Sammartino
4."Nature Boy" Ric Flair
5."Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers
6.Verne Gagne....actually killed some old dude in his rest home.
7.John Cena
8.Dusty Rhodes
9."Stonecold" Steve Austin
10.Gorgeous George

[leemajors]

That's awesome. My dad would tell stories of how they would cross over into Nuevo Laredo Mexico to watch wrestling when he was a child. Had all sorts of fun.

You would probably enjoy this:

http://goodtimeswithstevesimeone.libsyn.com/-003-rowdy-roddy-piper-good-times-with-steve-simeone

Roddy Piper talking a lot about how he got started in his teens

[RD2191]

You would probably enjoy this:

http://goodtimeswithstevesimeone.libsyn.com/-003-rowdy-roddy-piper-good-times-with-steve-simeone

Roddy Piper talking a lot about how he got started in his teens
Thanks man, giving it a listen and so far it's pretty awesome.

[TE]

I saw a Ring Of Honor program a week ago and that was some pretty good entertainment/wrestling. I can't bear to sit through an entire episode of Raw nowadays. It's so fucking stale.

[spurraider21]

actually i change my mind, this is the best tag team of all time


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejQFkSFDpn8
people need to address this

[DJR210]

That forehead slide was pretty epic

[DJR210]

Avante, you remind me a lot of Ahmed Johnson.

[DJR210]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRiOgnW8DI

[Avante]

[QUOTE=DJR210;7609100]Avante, you remind me a lot of Ahmed Johnson

The black rassler.

Bobo Brazil the first black world champion
Dory Dixon
Sailor Art Thomas
Sweetdaddy Ski
Bearcat Wright
Rufus R. Jones
Tiger Conway
Rocky Johnson..father of The Rock
Ernie Ladd
Booker T
Iceman King Parsons
Thunderbolt Patterson
Earl "Mr. Universe" Maynard
Shaska Whatley
Ron Simmons
Butch Reed
Brickhouse Brown
Koko B. Ware
Tony "Mr. USA" Atlas
Savannah Jack
Mabel
Kamala
Junkyard Dog

[anakha]

Ernie Ladd is going to kick your ass for leaving him off the list.

[Avante]

Ernie Ladd is going to kick your ass for leaving him off the list.

Well duh!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks, I added him.

He was bigger in the rasslin' biz than he was in pro football.

[Avante]

How about college/pro footballers who ended up in the rasslin' biz?

All these guys played at West Texas State.

Stan "Lariat" Hansen
Brusier Brody
Dusty Rhodes
"Dirty" Dick Murdoch
Tito Santana
Dory Funk Jr.
Tully Blanchard
Ted Dibiase
Terry Funk

Ron Simmons was out of FSU

The Rock Miami

Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorf...Tampa

Roman Reigns Georgia Tech

Pro football

Wahoo McDaneil Jets
Ernie Ladd Chargers
JBL Raiders
Don Manoukian Raiders
Bill Goldberg Falcons
Dick the Bruiser Packers
Danny Spivey Falcons
Big Van Vader Rams
Junkyard Dog Packers
Bill Pritchard Oilers
Brian Pillman Bengals

[anakha]

Mongo McMichael would kick your ass for leaving him off the NFL list.


...oh no, wait, he'd probably botch that.

[Avante]

Mongo McMichael would kick your ass for leaving him off the NFL list.


...oh no, wait, he'd probably botch that.

He had such a nothing lack of a career...hmmmm?

[DJR210]

:lol Mongo

His best accomplishment was Debra, but he fucked that up too. Got cucked by Stone Cold.

[anakha]

He had such a nothing lack of a career...hmmmm?

Hence the botch comment.

[Avante]

Hence the botch comment.

Gotcha.

More football/rasslers

Bronko Nagurski Bears
Leo "Lion" Nomellini Ninerrs
Bill Watts Oklahoma
Fritz Von Erich SMU

[Avante]

The best Rasslin' names.

Czaya Nandor

Shaska Pez Whatley

Shanghai Pierce

Robear Duranton

Baron Miquel Leoni

Torbellino Blanco

Iceman King Parsons

Don Leo Jonathan

Justin "Thunder" Liger

Skull Murphy

The Great Mephisto

The Zebra Kid

The French Angel

Hard Boiled Haggarty

[cantthinkofanything]

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