Pro Wrestling Fans: Please Explain the Appeal, Cause I Just Don't Get It.

Here is the reason why 14-49 year old men and lesbians watch pro wrestling.....

Stacy K.



Sable



Trish S.



And the list goes on and on...

 

Red X's in some boxes.


sexy.

 

Shucks, they didn't work...sorry fellas.

 

There they are.

 

Not.

 

Well they're showing up for me.

 

are those pics from your website?

 

Dude, some of us are at work.

 

Manny, as usual you are *absolutely correct*. SamFisher is a *huge* wrestling fan. He has on numerous occasions, characterized me as having a persona similar to Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan. He calls these images of Bobby up with amazing speed, a sure sign of the fact that he has them bookmarked. These are not random images he is posting, but well thought-out, carefully planned characters. He draws on his vast knowledge of current and past wrestling superstars to select the appropriate comparison. With a knowledge of wrestling this in-depth, I can't help but wonder if SamFisher is in some way connected to the industry! Could this be him?

 

Holy crap, it's GILLBERG!!

I have a feeling this thread is about to turn from funny to hilarious...

 

Lil Pun, the second one kind of looks like a guy. But I would recommend not trying to post these, you might get (yourself and others) in trouble.

 

I've seen much worse from other posters and they are still on here. I'm sorry if these are TOO bad for the board I was just expressing one of the main reasons why men watch wrestling, I was just being honest but again I apologize.

 

Hey, personally, I am very thankful especially for the first picture ...just saying that I think the admins don't like that stuff too much .

 

Im disappointed in you. Its Koko B. Ware not Coco Beware.

 

I used to follow the wrestling in the 80s but until I found out it's fake I and the setup became so obviously bad I stop watching it. The 90s is so crappy!!! Rickyt the Dragon Steamboat was awesome and so were the The British Bulldogs.

 

Okay, it is late at night. I will post my thought on wrestling.

(warning - MacBeth ean-esque post)

My dad used to watch wrestling. The same Paul Bosche sp wrestling that you guys talk about. He always talked about going to the Sam Houston Coliseum. He said he never took me to go see wrestling because I was too little. I was probably one or two or maybe even three years old. Everybody else in my family went except me. That sucks.

Every now and then my dad said, you know I used to go see wrestling all the time when you were a baby.


I have been watching wrestling since I was three maybe. My earliest memory of wrestling was Jake the Snake Roberts, and Andre the Giant. I remember Andre was afraid of Roberts' snake Damien.

I never got to see Andre the Giant in his prime. His prime was in the 70s. Andre was a shadow of himself in his match with Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania III in Michigan. That event had 93,000 people there. (allegedelly)

I guess you could say I really paid attention to wrestling starting at 1992, maybe 1993. Maybe even earlier.

Some of my favorite wrestlers during the day of the rock n wrestling days (80s and early 90s) were Koko B Ware and his birdy Frankie, The British Bulldog, The Undertaker used to scare the living daylights out of me when he would roll his eyes to the top of his head, Tito Santana, the Junkyard Dog, The Million Dollar Man, even though he was a bad guy, and I can't think of any right now.

Wrestling back then in that era was this good guy vs bad guy crap. The Super Hero will prevail eventually, and do away with the evil doers. Maybe that was how the world was then I guess. This was before cable news network, and the internet, and movies were a tad bit tamer I guess.

Then in the mid 90s it got a little bit more stupid. **** like a wrestling garbage man, a wrestling plumber. All dumb ****.
Duke the Dumpster Drose. TL Hopper. I remember this one wrestler name Bastion Booger. He was some fat ass who wasn't concerned if he won or lost, long as he got to eat. Hell, there was a wrestling Clown. Doink. Doink was a bad guy or as wrestling people call it, a Heel. He would do mean pranks to the faces, or baby faces as the good guys are called. The only good wrestlers during this era was Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, and Razor Ramon, better known as Scott Hall, the drunken Fool.


Before I get to the attitude era of the WWF, now the WWE, I want to talk about Dubbaya see Dubbaya, aka WCW.

I am not sure about all this, I might be wrong or so, correct me if so. WCW was originally called Georgia Championship Wrestling, and was apart of the NWA, the National Wrestling Alliance. Basically, the NWA was you could say the governing body of all of wrestling. All the wrestling federations were a branch of them except one.
Vinch McMahon's WWF.

Anyhoo, about 1992 or so, Ted Turner bought WCW and I guess they had some crap with NWA or something. I have to go look this **** up. I think this maybe have been the time when WCW had two World Champions.

WCW traveled to Japan alot, and usually had a working agreement with New Japan Pro Wrestling. New Japan was also apart of the NWA. I think New Japans championship belts are called the IWGP - International Grand Prix Belts. They usually have tournaments to crown an NWA champ when it was vacant, or something, I dunno. ....

But anyway, there was this one match between Flair and this guy name Fujinami I think. I think it was him. There was an American ref, and a Japanaese belt, and so what. I do'nt know why I am actually talking about this. I guess it might have to do something with breaking away from the NWA.

Anyhoo, those two workers, Flair, and Fujinami had a rematch with Flair winning, but Sting was WCW's Champion. They renamed the NWA belt, the International Belt. I think I may have them mixed up. I am getting lost again.

Let me talk about Steve Austin in WCW. There was this belt called the WCW World Television Title. Basically, it was defended almost every week or atleast bi weekly on television. It usually lasted about 15 minutes. Those were the time limit things on the belt. He held it for about 18 months before eventually losing it to Ricky Steamboat. I think he also had a run with the WCW United States Championship belt. Or was in contention for it.

He was also part of this tag team called the Hollywood Blondes with Brian Pillman. Pillman was a great flyer, and highly entertaining.

Anyhoo, Austin is wrestling in a match in Japan, and he tears his tricep. So what happens to him? His ass gets fired over the phone by Eric Bischoff.

So about a year later he signs with WWF. They don't think he can be some kind of main event caliber star, or he lacks charisma, so they give him a manager, and give him a nickname. The Ringmaster. That name sounds so Lord of the Ringish or some fantasy crap. His Manager is the Million Dollar man. Anyhoo, he wrestles and crap, and makes people tap out with the Million Dollar Dream sleeper hold.

I think Austin loses a match so he can get rid of Ted Debiase. I guess this is where the evolution of Austin starts.

Originally, Triple H, aka Triple H McMahon is slated to win the 1996 King of the Ring. But the WWF brass did not allow it. They decided to punish him because of his role in the infamous MSG incident.

If you guys do not know what the MSG incident is, it does not have to do anything with Monosodium Glutamate or whatever the G stands for. It stands for that building where they have the circus, and play hockey, and where the Rockets kick the Knicks ass. They have a house show there. A house show is a live event that is not a televise event. It was the final match for Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall who had just signed with WCW, I think. Anyhoo, basically, Triple H, Shawn Michaels who is currently Champ, Diseal which is Kevin Nash, and Razor Ramon, who is Scott Hall all get in the ring and hug, and break kayfabe, which in wrestling definition means break out of character. Vince can't really punish Hall or Nash since they won't be working for him anymore. You can't really punish Shawn because he is the champ, and the fans like him as champ. They punish Hunter Humps Hogs or something that starts with H.

Basically, Triple H jobs to a hog farmer whos wrestling name is Henry O Godwin. HOG. Get it? Hell, his tag team partner was his wrestling cousin Phineas I Godwin. PIG. Get it? Or was triple H squashed by Ultimate Warrior? I don't remember.

Anyhoo, Steve Austin beats Marc Mero in the second round of the tourney. He cuts his tounge real bad, and needed stitches.
On the otherside of the Brackets was Jake the Snake Roberts, and Vader. Jake was doing a comeback with the WWF as a born again Christian. Somehow he willed his way to beat a 400 lb woolly mammoth from the Rocky Mountains. Fear my white castle of doom folks. Someday, I will post about that white castle of doom story.

Anyhoo, the final match was Austin vs Roberts. Austin won. Roberts gave it a valient effort. During the award ceremony for winning the tourney is when he gave his famous speech. The expression that would make Steve Austin a house hold name.


I have to paraphrase because I am an idiot.

You talk about your Psalms and your John 3:16, and where did it get you? Well, Austin 3:16 says, I JUST WHOOPED YOUR ASS!!.

Thus, Austin 3:16 was born.


This is when Wrestling started picking up.

The Legendary Bret Hart vs Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13.

Bret Hart going into this match was the good guy. The face.

Austin was the heel, however, before the match took place, at events, he was getting cheers from the crowd.


The match had a special (ed) referee. Ken Shamrock from the UFC.

Anyhoo, they fought long and hard. A solid 20 minute bout. Austin's head cut open. Bret put Austin in the sharpshooter. The Sharpshooter is a move where you cross the legs, and you sit on he back, go download the damn match of kazaa.
Bret wins the match because Austin just passed out when he was in the sharpshooter. Bret doesn't want to let go so he beats him up some more.

All of a sudden, Bret Hart is a hated Heel, and Steve Austin is a beloved face.

That honestly, from what I remember, was a great match.

They did not half ass it. They worked their asses off. I appreciate that. I enjoy seeing them give 110 percent effort. I honestly do not care if they are good guys bad guys what not. Just work hard, and do it for the crowd.

Anyhoo, Austin goes on to raise some hell, Triple H is out of the dog house, and is teaming up with Shawn Michaels. They form DeGeneration X.


DX effing rocked. They were better than the nWo in my opinion. More entertainment, and they were better wrestlers than Hogan, and slow ass Kevin Nash, and Drunk and High Scott Hall.



I am quite tired. I will post the good stuff tommorow.

I don't think i have explained the appeal quite yet. I will get there. I am just giving background info first.

I probably had a bunch of typos in that post, but oh well. It is late as hell. 3:19 AM goodness.


uhhh Go Rockets.

 

I got back into rasslin'(coined by scott hall) during the Jay Leno/Hogan dispute. To me, wrestling became funny at this point. When we were kids(we being 21-30yos) wrestling was not funny at all. It was glamour, it was flashy, it was Hulk Hogan. The funniest thing there was was the Bushwackers. That wasn't actually funny.

Scott Hall came along and changed all that for me. He came in and made wrestling interesting again. He was drunk, arrogant, but mostly funny. His absence has left me absent from the tv during monday nights. Rasslin' needs another Scott Hall to make it funny and interesting at the same time.

In conclusion(high school paper), rasslin' is good when Scott Hall is featured. So, in conclusion again, 'Hey Yo!'.

 

hahaha...

The Bushwackers..I remember them..They were freaking hilarious!!

codell,,

oh shoot me...I was in a hurry and I had brainfreeze..I couldnt remember exactly how he spelled it and didnt have time to look.


or Im getting senile...take your pick,

 

The Bush Wackers wrestled in Mid-South here in Houston before they became famous (infamous) in the WWF. They were called "The Sheep Herders". lol They had some matches with "The Fantastics" (dumbest tag team name of all time) that were true blood baths.

Ill just call you old. Sounds alot better than senile. heh