Just Dave Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 In regards to Foley, the one thing that separates him from Hogan, Flair et al is that Foley's family appears to not have the issues that Hogan's and Flair's did. His kids seem to adore him, and his wife isn't going anywhere, so he seems ahead of the 8-ball in that respect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Dave Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 This is apparently a rough month for wrestling discussion. I'm posting this article from 2012 to make us feel better. I love how Swagger seems genuinely excited that someone would choose HIM out of everyone. It felt a little like the Brooklyn Brawler getting picked or something. https://community.wwe.com/hope/news/jack-swagger-hits-make-wish-milestone I love those Make-A-Wish stories. My favorite one was from last year when Kaitlyn got picked to do her first individual wish. I saw that headline and thought it'd be some little girl with a replica divas title or something. Nope. Teenage boy. Fantastic story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 7, 2014 Author Share Posted March 7, 2014 I feel like I have seen a few things from WWE folks recently who got to do their first Make-A-Wish events and they all were just as excited as the kids they were meeting. I wanna say like Summer Rae just did one earlier this week and was like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 This is apparently a rough month for wrestling discussion. I'm posting this article from 2012 to make us feel better. I love how Swagger seems genuinely excited that someone would choose HIM out of everyone. It felt a little like the Brooklyn Brawler getting picked or something. https://community.wwe.com/hope/news/jack-swagger-hits-make-wish-milestone I love those Make-A-Wish stories. My favorite one was from last year when Kaitlyn got picked to do her first individual wish. I saw that headline and thought it'd be some little girl with a replica divas title or something. Nope. Teenage boy. Fantastic story. Well, wouldn't you rather meet Kaitlyn than Cena? I would. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 This is apparently a rough month for wrestling discussion. I'm posting this article from 2012 to make us feel better. I love how Swagger seems genuinely excited that someone would choose HIM out of everyone. It felt a little like the Brooklyn Brawler getting picked or something. https://community.wwe.com/hope/news/jack-swagger-hits-make-wish-milestone I love those Make-A-Wish stories. My favorite one was from last year when Kaitlyn got picked to do her first individual wish. I saw that headline and thought it'd be some little girl with a replica divas title or something. Nope. Teenage boy. Fantastic story. Well, wouldn't you rather meet Kaitlyn than Cena? I would. I'd be the kid that wants to meet the Wyatt family. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Conn Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I'd rather meet Layla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 This is apparently a rough month for wrestling discussion. I'm posting this article from 2012 to make us feel better. I love how Swagger seems genuinely excited that someone would choose HIM out of everyone. It felt a little like the Brooklyn Brawler getting picked or something. https://community.wwe.com/hope/news/jack-swagger-hits-make-wish-milestone I love those Make-A-Wish stories. My favorite one was from last year when Kaitlyn got picked to do her first individual wish. I saw that headline and thought it'd be some little girl with a replica divas title or something. Nope. Teenage boy. Fantastic story. Well, wouldn't you rather meet Kaitlyn than Cena? I would. Reminds me of that episode of Scrubs where they were getting the Rock to visit a sick kid, but he's like "fuck that I want to see Elliot's tits". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The Masked Man is the worst. Listening to his newest podcast, he sounds like his dog died. I still like Rosenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 In the alternate universe where Tony Schiavone becomes the head of WCW instead of Eric Bischoff, did we get Dustin Rhodes, WCW Champion and Stunning Steve Austin, WCW Champion, and maybe those two having a time-spanning legacy feud at that level? Because things turned out just fine in this universe (for the most part), but I would love to see the old WCW shows from the mid-'90s in that other universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 "Amelia's Law" that was named after Dutch Mantel's granddaughter after she was killed by a drunk driver, passed the TN Senate and is going to the governor. Dutch himself was there for the event. There's nothing funny about the situation or the law at all. But it is alittle chuckle-worthy that he basically wore his Wrestlemania attire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJ Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The wrestlers who age the worst in those who are past their prime but still have some kind of drawing ability. They remain in the public eye chasing the last few dollars and tarnish their legacies. It's really hard to blame Foley or Flair or Hogan for their never-ending retirement tours. Money is money. If some company made up of money marks pulls up to your house with a wheelbarrow full of cash, how many of you would turn it down? The big different between a Foley and everyone else is he is only 48. Flair has practically twenty years on him. I don't want to think about how bad this is going to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Bagwell's, erm, interesting career turn was brought up on last night's @Midnight on Comedy Central. Jericho was on there the other night too... and WON! I'm guessing Hardwick is a wrestling fan. EDIT: Watch Foley show up and fail miserably. Hardwick doesn't really follow wrestling. He met Punk through Talking Dead who hooked him up with Jericho. Ron Funches, who works for Hardwick, however, is a big-time mark. How old is Chris Hardwick? I hated him back in 97 and he was ancient then. Also I remember rumors Bagwell was a prostitute before he got to WCW. Hardwick is in his early 40s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The Masked Man is the worst. Listening to his newest podcast, he sounds like his dog died. I still like Rosenberg From the Grantland article today about the Network " I just clicked on a random one — it’s Owen and the British Bulldog vs. Doug Furnas and Philip Lafon from In Your House 13 in ’97. Furnas and Lafon are two French wrestlers who made the WWF because they were looking for any spark they could find back then. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Are you telling me Doug Furnas WASN'T French? You are a buncha filthy liars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 It's remarkable to me how little The Masked Man actually does know about professional wrestling and it's history. His knowledge base seems to be on the same level as Simmons which isn't much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Poor remembrances of a tag team aside, that article really shows how important the WWE Network might be in the overall entertainment industry. Like they keep saying, they took out the middleman -- they control the content and the distribution on a level we've never seen before. All of the MLB/NBA channels are essentially just different distribution models -- it's a way for me to watch Golden State Warriors games that are broadcast in a traditional way. But the WWE? They absolutely hit a home run with this. The PPVs and NXT alone are worth it, let alone all the archives. This could really become the future of how we consume entertainment products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Yeah - It sounds like he was a Federation era fan and maybe the late 90's hot period which is basically Simmons. I doubt he's gone back and watched the territories or anything else. Very limited knowledge on WCW as well. I think Rosenberg might know more and he's way less annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrag Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 That grantland article made me want Simmons to write more frequently about wrestling. Can't get into the masked man's stuff, but it's cool that Grantland is trying. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I think the thing that is saddest is that when Foley retired everyone (or me and probably a lot of others) thought "That's great, he's getting out just in time." And now it's painfully obvious that in wrestling there probably is no such thing as "in time" to get the fuck out. This is why Tommy Dreamer's story should be told to ever guy who makes it to WWE. What story? Marrying a Penthouse pet, making a butt-ton of royalty cash, and telling Dixie and the world that the concussion problem is overblown and that they definitely didn't cause Junior Seau to off himself? Work hard at what you love and accept that not everyone makes it to the top but there are other ways to stay involved. Dreamer was smart enough to know he would never be THE guy in ECW or any other promotion, so he learned the business behind the business and made himself that much more valuable. Thankfully more guys are coming into the system understanding that these days and I think the performance centre will help alot. I liked this post earlier today on my phone, but I couldn't send a reply. I'm sorry for being a dick. It seemed like you were mentioning Dreamer as a cautionary tale, which made no sense to me. But you're 100% right. I think they're doing some financial management classes at the Performance Center as well, IIRC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I don't remember Bagwell being a gigolo before this but I think he did gay porn, right? (I guess I should have saved the Sleaze Thread to my hard drive) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 He did a couple Cinemax movies. To get this back to wrestling; I think Bagwell as a white meat babyface in WCW was perfectly fine. He was really good as a fiery midcarder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 From a workrate standpoint The American Males were a perfectly adequate midcard/enhancement team. I don't remember a ton of his stuff with Scorpio but I'd imagine it was decent as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Scorp & Bagwell had some fun matches with the Nasties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 ...The owner of the service -- Garren James -- tells TMZ, Bagwell is already the second most popular escort on the website ." The better question is, when does Jimmy Del Ray live up to his nickname and get into the gigolo business? Who do you think number one is? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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