clintthecrippler Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 (edited) Given that my wardrobe consists mostly of heavy metal shirts and wrestling shirts, I can confirm that the heavy metal shirts get more response from folks in sheer volume when I'm out walking around or running errands, though I do live in Los Angeles so there's a lot of us out here. Mostly though, the exchange is simply "cool shirt", devil horns, and asking each other if we saw them the last time they were in town. When someone does get the wrestling shirts, the conversation is usually longer. 50/50, I've met some really cool people through the wrestling shirts, and as well as the people who either only watch Raw and treat it like it's real, or have the dirt-worst Internet smark rant opinions (Roman SUCKS!). Luckily I have gotten pretty good at getting out of the second side of those conversations. I once wore a homemade "I Broke Wahoo's Leg" t-shirt to the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. Only one person saw the shirt that day and got the reference, but that one person was the bassist for Turmoil, so that was better to me than ten randos complimenting it. I also once made friends at a heavy metal festival because I showed up wearing a Jeff Cobb t-shirt, and bumped into a person that was wearing an LIJ hoodie, and we got to shooting the shit about both wrestling and metal. The wrestling shirt that gets the most reaction in the wild though is an old-school 1995 Razor Ramon t-shirt with the era-appropriate WWF logo on the back. A friend attended a RAW taping in '95, went to college immediately afterwards, some stuff from home went into storage, and he completely forgot that he owned the shirt until digging around in his parents' house around 2010, and sent it to me as a surprise birthday gift that year. I've worn the shirt every year that I attended Wrestlemania from 2015 through 2019, and it obviously gets plenty of response in that environment, but also gets plenty of love when I wear it out in the wild here and there. Though unfortunately, the Razor Ramon t-shirt was a double-edged sword at the first Joey Janela's Spring Break, where Virgil had his merch booth set up in the lobby, and once me and the people I was talking to realized that, we tried to keep our distance and I purposefully turned my back to the table to avoid eye contact, but Virgil saw I was wearing the Razor Ramon t-shirt, so he used it as an excuse to swoop around my blind side, tap me on the shoulder, and hold his hands up in the "Too Sweet" gesture, and start telling us Scott Hall and nWo stories in an attempt to get us to come over and buy stuff from him. He also talked about how he "wrestled Ted Dibiase at Wrestlemania in front of 60,000 people at Wembley Stadium" and started a riot at MSG the first time he walked down that aisle. And oddly enough, the metal/metal-adjacent t-shirts that get the most talkative reaction are my Graf Orlock t-shirts. I think there's like 500 of us that have ever heard or seen Graf Orlock, but all of us gravitate to each other with great enthusiasm when we see a shirt in the wild. That makes sense in LA where the band is from, but I've had random folks in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan give me a shout out while wearing a Graf Orlock shirt on a night out while visiting that area. Edited July 21, 2020 by clintthecrippler 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 I used to wear wrestling shirts out in the wild more often but have been mostly shy about it recently. If I have one on I just put a plain shirt or something over it. But the times I do wear one it doesn't get a reaction and for me that's for the best. Best I did recently was talk current wrestling with a guy working at Gamestop. Now in the past I wore one of the original ROH shirts (company shirt, not for anybody in particular) at a "comedy" show. I put that in quotes as the guy on stage was somebody I went to school with and he absolutely sucked. Poor guy. But the two dudes sitting behind me noticed the ROH shirt and we became fast friends due to wrestling and ragging on the guy that we all ended up knowing. They're pretty good guys and we've done some pretty cool shit through the years. Heck, they even came to my new house to watch AEW Revolution and we spent a lot of the time last Saturday talking about our love for Orange Cassidy (turns out our wives love him even more) And it all started with wearing a wrestling shirt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 22 hours ago, twiztor said: presented without comment: https://thetruetruetruth.com/john-cena-2/ It might be the hair, but Cena looks like a clone body Vince created to implant his conciousness into in that video. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 17 hours ago, OctopusCinema said: I’ll compromise: Dead or Sabu I feel like there's a 50/50 chance this was the name of a MLW show at one point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 24 minutes ago, Death From Above said: I feel like there's a 50/50 chance this was the name of a MLW show at one point. I'm pretty sure those wrestling death pools that were going around in the late 90s and early 2000s, had Sabu as a 50/50 bet at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 The Summerslam from 2016 is gonna be on FS1 here in half an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 53 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said: The Summerslam from 2016 is gonna be on FS1 here in half an hour. I had to Wiki the show to even remember wtf happened on it. A lot of that seems like forever ago. I had totally forgotten the Dudley's nostalgia run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Andy in Kansas said: I bet his favorite episode is "The Face Painter", since that's Demon Puddy. 6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 As if I needed another reason to hate Finn Balor. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 3 hours ago, Andy in Kansas said: Not that there's anything wrong with that. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 8 hours ago, PetrolCB said: I bet his favorite episode is "The Face Painter", since that's Demon Puddy. Guarantee you his least favorite episode is the ones with George coming out of the water yelling "IT'S SHRINKAGE" 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimo Necro Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Pft, I’ve seen every Seinfeld gif ever just by reading this messageboard for 10+ years. 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salads Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 I had the exact same plan. I don't really do tv so I set myself a target of about one per working day. I'm currently up to episode 23 and there may be another pandemic before I finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 3 minutes ago, Ultimo Necro said: Pft, I’ve seen every Seinfeld gif ever just by reading this messageboard for 10+ years. You're welcome 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 11 hours ago, hammerva said: Guarantee you his least favorite episode is the ones with George coming out of the water yelling "IT'S SHRINKAGE" Nah, probably season 3's "The Dog". That's just a brutal episode to sit through. The first episode is pretty rough as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 14 minutes ago, Ultimo Necro said: Pft, I’ve seen every Seinfeld gif ever just by reading this messageboard for 10+ years. You need better use of the ignore button, then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 WWE will report its second quarter 2020 results next Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 I know JR was trying to bring in Dr Death Steve Williams to WWF in '95 to work against Diesel for the title. Do you think that program would've bombed even worse than his other programs and do you think Jean Pierre Lafite would have had the same intial push that he got because of their similar look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 17 minutes ago, Ziggy said: I know JR was trying to bring in Dr Death Steve Williams to WWF in '95 to work against Diesel for the title. Do you think that program would've bombed even worse than his other programs and do you think Jean Pierre Lafite would have had the same intial push that he got because of their similar look. Wait, are you asking if a pirate Dr. Death would've bombed? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 24 minutes ago, Ziggy said: I know JR was trying to bring in Dr Death Steve Williams to WWF in '95 to work against Diesel for the title. Do you think that program would've bombed even worse than his other programs and do you think Jean Pierre Lafite would have had the same intial push that he got because of their similar look. 5 minutes ago, PetrolCB said: Wait, are you asking if a pirate Dr. Death would've bombed? With JR as the Smee to his Captain Hook? That'd have been tremendous. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 "Blackbeard" Steve Williams Honestly they did far worse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 "Puffy shirt and a jacket with epaulettes. That'll get him over, Jim! *snort*" 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 EC3's new graphic in Impact suggests that he's so happy to be out of WWE wellness, he snorts three lines of coke before every appearance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ziggy said: I know JR was trying to bring in Dr Death Steve Williams to WWF in '95 to work against Diesel for the title. Do you think that program would've bombed even worse than his other programs and do you think Jean Pierre Lafite would have had the same intial push that he got because of their similar look. Unlike Spivey and the next year with Gordy, you could actually still get good use out of Williams in 95. I mean I said not too long ago that Doc headlining one or two of those IYH/non major PPVs in the New Generation era would not be a bad idea. Is he gonna drag a great match out of Diesel? Probably not but I will settle for a good ole fashioned hoss battle. Edited July 23, 2020 by Elsalvajeloco 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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