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Hit and miss, but a unique perspective imo
Hit and miss, but a unique perspective imo
Looks like a totes real quote.
betting on this guy to deliver
Email to Donna. I'm sure it totes got deleted.
No. At least try to get your fake news stories straight.
TSA and Chris
Those guys deserved to get paid. Wrestling in the 80s was nothing like today. They actually beat themselves and bled real blood.
He's evolving after finding twitter. He is posting less memes. I call that progress. lol
Try New Japan. Good all around. Good matches, more "adult" themed and have American announcers now.
Random twitter beef
Preet Bharara OTOH
i ing hate wrestling, but there was some going on back in the day that wasn't fake
Hey, It's 15 Years (And A Day) Since Mick Foley Got Thrown Off A Cage
In keeping with our inability to notice anniversaries until it’s too late, we’d like to point out that it was 15 years ago last night that Mankind and the Undertaker faced off in one of the most memorable and brutal wrestling matches of all time.
Fifteen years is a long time. For those around the right age, the card for the June 28, 1998 King of the Ring PPV will make you feel old: the Headbangers vs. Kaientai, Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor vs. Al Snow and Head, X-Pac vs. Owen Hart. The Pittsburgh Civic Arena was demolished last year. And yet the in a Cell match, which wasn’t even the main event, still holds up as the ideal of what wrestling is capable of—making you actually fear for the compe ors.
The match is known for its two spots, especially the one above—the Undertaker hurling Foley maybe 20 feet from the top of the cell through the Spanish announcers’ table. In a brief, gravity-sped spill, that’s Mick Foley’s legacy. One of the smartest, funniest wrestlers to ever enter the ring, was always the one dumb enough to endanger his health for entertainment’s sake. (On the night, Foley suffered a concussion, a dislocated jaw, a dislocated shoulder a bruised kidney, a gash in his lip, and had one tooth knocked out and another broken. He has said he barely remembers the match.)
It was Terry Funk’s idea. According to Foley’s autobiography, he and Funk were tossing around ideas on how to top the previous year’s in the Cell, specifically a (prosaic by comparison) Shawn Michaels bump. Funk suggested he let the Undertaker throw him from the top of the cage to the ground below. Foley wrote:
Man, that was a good one, and we were having a good time thinking completely ludicrous things to do inside, outside, and on top of the cage. After a while I got serious and said quietly to Terry, “I think I can do it.”
More iconic even than Foley’s helpless, corkscrewing plunge is Jim Ross’s call. Even if you don’t know it’s from this match, you know it: “Good God almighty! Good God almighty! That killed him! As God as my witness, he is broken in half!” The call has become meme shorthand for any sort of sports brutality.
What most don’t remember is that Foley’s fall was one of the first spots of the match. He and the Undertaker had started atop the cage; by the time Foley rolled off the gurney and limped his way back to the ring, there were still 10 minutes left of action. The most replayed moment in WWE history wasn’t even a climax; it was a warmup.
The second famous spot was an accident. Foley scaled the cage again, and after some tentative brawling, prepared to be chokeslammed onto the yielding chain link. He went through the cage, landing awkwardly on his neck and back.
Because this fall was unplanned and uncontrolled, it was immensely more dangerous than the first. This time, no snappy patter from Ross. Just a yelp from Jerry Lawler, and silence until it was clear that Foley was still moving.
Foley still had nine more minutes of wrestling to do.
Do you even remember who won? (The Undertaker pinned Foley after chokeslamming him onto a pile of thumbtacks.) If you don’t, it’s because the outcome never particularly mattered. As David Shoemaker writes,
“it’s fair to say that winning or losing isn’t entirely the point at in a Cell — it’s inflicting punishment on your opponent that counts. And fans, for their part, rarely cite in a Cell “wins” so much as they preach about instances of spectacular violence.”
The 1998 in a Cell match was the apex of the violence facet of the At ude Era, and in some ways the beginning of the end. (The death of Owen Hart less than a year later would change everything.) The way of wrestling has always been to give bigger, better, bloodier, more, but this just wouldn’t be topped. There wasn’t anyone else willing to abuse himself quite like Foley, and even Foley thought he might have gone too far. After the match, Foley’s wife called him in tears, and he says he considered retiring. So the match remains a time capsule of a company and a wrestler at their peaks of popularity and maximum willingness to push the envelope. Somehow, they found out exactly where the limit lay.
Warrior was not one of "the guys". He had his own dressing room. He also rarely took bumps and was incredibly stiff in the ring. Check out his shoot interviews the years before he passed away, he comes across as totally bitter and ignorant. Also he was disrespectful to the business. The reason it was different in the 80's was because steroids were legal and McMahon has a hard on for body builders. I was the biggest Warrior mark when I was 8 years old, but hindsight has not been kind to Jim.
I've seen a few clips. The japanese are insane.
Same for me.
I dont watch wrestling anymore. If I do, I would lose respect for it and I gotta keep that nostalgia alive by thinking about the good old days.
Fusion GPS and the ‘Insurance Policy’ to Prevent Trump From Becoming President
How did a piece of opposition research, described by former FBI Director James Comey as both “salacious and unverified,” become the driving force behind the allegations that Trump colluded with Russian authorities?
Research conducted by The Epoch Times, using public sources, shows a web of connections related to the dossier reaching the highest levels of the FBI, CIA, and the Obama administration.
Paid for by the Clinton Campaign and the DNC, and produced by Fusion GPS—whose other clients include the Russian government—the dossier appears to have been the basis for the FBI’s investigation into Donald Trump.
The FBI used the dossier, in part, to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump’s team, according to national security reporter Sarah Carter. Two of President Barack Obama’s top officials also surveilled the communications of Trump’s team, both before and after the elections.
The unverified allegations in the dossier were also actively spread to media organizations, both by Fusion GPS as well as other key players involved, to cast a shadow over Trump’s run for president and his presidency.
Text messages obtained by the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general show high ranking FBI officials discussing an “insurance policy” to prevent Trump from becoming president.
The connections presented raise many questions, including the following: Why was the FBI so willing to accept the allegations made by Fusion GPS? And what did Obama obtain in monitoring the communications of Trump, the opponent of the candidate he supported?
These matters are currently under investigation by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the DOJ inspector general, and possibly special counsel Robert Mueller.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fusion...t_2417742.html
the good 'ol days... i didn't really watch wrestling much at all. though when i was a kid and i turned the channel my father would wake from his nap and turn it back to wrestling all pissed off.
Yeah, it's all about I see from time to time. They beat the out of each other.
A "source with knowledge" told Natasha something. Now we just need Boris and we can finally catch Moose and Squirrel!
Big trouble for moose and squirrel? That trick never works.
That guy really is an embarrassment.
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