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7 hours ago, AxB said:

 There aren't many wrestlers who've been on TV with body hair, who weren't doing some sort of ugly person gimmick.

 

Yeah, for sure! Take a gander (if you dare) at these hideous icons of physical repulsiveness:

 

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Although, admittedly, RVD seems to have done the full bodybuilder shave pretty often as well.

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2 hours ago, Ryan said:

I will defer to people who've actually worn stockings/etc. to give an answer to that as I have no idea.

Hey, don't interfere with our marksplaining!

The bodybuilder angle is spot on for the shaving, but both the shaving and ladies tights have a lot to do with convention, in the sense that that's just what wrestlers do so to look like a wrestler, you do it. Any after-the-fact reasonings are just conjecture.

- my conjecturing about thee conjecting,

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Scott Hall and Magnum TA were both doing "I look like Tom Selleck" gimmicks. But they both shaved their shoulders, backs and arms.

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I never understood the stockings thing myself, but I think most women wear them simply because they help cover up bruising and the dreaded cellulitis. 

I always assumed the men having clean chests must have been a Vince thing maybe for television. Rick Rude ended up growing quite the manly hairy chest in WCW. Maybe it's a better aesthetic having a smooth waxed chest to a natural one? I'm still convinced Vince took one look at Killian Dain and his body hair and that was that for Sanity before they even got to Smackdown. 

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3 hours ago, The Natural said:

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One for my fellow UK posters.

Aw, you assume that there aren't a few game-show obsessed Americans who watch as many of them as possible from across the pond.

 

With the exception of Bullseye.

 

Speaking of, I would like to see Victoria Coren Mitchell cut a promo on someone at a wrestling show. She would have totally got Dean Douglas over as his mouthpiece. 

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4 hours ago, Yo-Yo's Roomie said:

21:14, but I was eating soup at the same time. And I spent way too long trying to work out what Rachel Ellering's birthname could be...

Leanne Sotan? Joanne Sotan?

Who names their kid Minne?

I had exactly the same experience. In the end I was missing only one letter. I did piss-break and a fresh look at the word helped. Also I was puzzled which AEW wrestler was referred to as a shooter by Mox, whose name is full of vowels.

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