clintthecrippler

There's a joke involving a "warning of homoerotic content" followed by a reference to a "tripod" in there somewhere that even I'm way too lazy to go for. Here's Hulk Hogan suffering from a bad case of Japanese phrases misspelled by American wrestling journalists: And here's an Andre battle royal picture I don't think I've seen posted here yet, but even if it's a duplicate, it's still awesome:

Hat tip to "goc" over at the Pro Wrestling Only board for posting these over there, but this deserves to be posted in tons of places. Kamala in CMLL circa 1991, working his gimmick more as "foreign dickhead heel" than "African savage", doing handshake fakeout spots, mocking his opponents' mannerisms, stooge selling, and more:

When the Radicalz jumped from WCW to WWE, I had Perry Saturn pegged as the one that would be the most successful based on the assumption that he was the only one with the size/mass to really thrive as a heavyweight, and I figured the Kowalski connection to Triple H would do him wonders as well. Then Eddie and the Junkyard Dog went on to have their moment at the end of Wrestlemania 20, and Dean went to take the agent gig that he has to this day, while Perry went on to befriend a mop, and then literally disappeared for several years.

Its really weird. Finished off the 1987 WWF Superstars season set this week. Most of the episodes in the second half of the year are from a Boston feed. Localized promos for shows coming up at the Boston Garden hype a Savage-Honky Tonk match with Peggy Sue at ringside and Craig DeGeorge in his line of questioning is asking Jimmy Hart and Honky Tonk Man about accusations that Peggy Sue is in fact Sensational Sherri in disguise, with Jimmy and Honky denying it. Then a few weeks later Peggy Sue makes her first appearance on the main show and there's no mention of the Sherri rumors at all. It came off like they debuted the Peggy Sue gimmick on house shows, made the Sherri link in localized promos, but then when they went national with it they dropped the "Peggy Sue is Sherri" part of the angle.

I only found DA because I was flipping through the channel guide menu bored one night and came across a show called "The United States of Bacon". That show was awesome, basically an excited fat guy getting to eat the best bacon dishes at restaurants across America. He was like the foodie Don West. Then that show ended and I forgot I had it until Impact signed with them.

Only been to Hammerstein once, for the first ECW One Night Stand. A fantastic night, but the room itself definitely helped with the aura and it seemed like one of those spots where the vibe of the room itself enhances and adds more energy to whatever is going on. It only seats 2500 but the acoustics made it one of the loudest rooms I have ever been in for wrestling.

Does anyone actually own the rights to Southeastern/Continental footage from the 80s? I am beginning to wonder if Destination America might be up for throwing VHS tapes of that on their channel as part of their "stick it to TNA" campaign.

I swear that if you just threw episodes of TNT onto Adult Swim with no editing or context there would be a segment of the audience that might think it was another Tim & Eric production, its that awkward at times.

And on the flipside, nothing worse than that episode of Tuesday Night Titans where Vince basically turns over the show to a shitty local magician for SIXTEEN FRIGGING MINUTES. At least all the TNT segments where Sal Bellomo is building his fucking paper boats has a fascinating "anti-television" aspect to it. This is inexcusable though.

Would the Young Bucks in NJPW perhaps be an analog to when Zack Ryder got his US Title push? Or perhaps Santino?

Sorry, was super jacked up after seeing the movie and the Mad Max thread wasnt just below and was still on the second page of threads at that point. Posted my excitement and then had that "shit, there might be a thread lurking deeper somewhere." I will agree with you though that Life of David Gale was heavy-handed ridiculous garbage. It felt Kevin Spacey's take on the Keenan Ivory Wayans character in "Dont Be A Menace To South Central" that only pops up to shout the word "MESSAGE!"After an inspiring speech by another character. Also, seconding the love for They Came Together, though I look at it as a spiritual sequel to The Baxter, which explored some similar romcom tropes and was also damn hilarious.

Man, I love that Scott Steiner-Ole gif. The look of sheer terror on Ole Anderson's face once he realizes his "I'm a tough guy wrestler" facade is coming undone at the hands of an incredibly capable beast of a young buck.

Saw Fury Road tonight. Yeah, believe the hype. It is THAT frigging awesome.

I see that Lance Russell GIF and I think to myself "Man, you know what's cool...smoking!" I see that Tyler Breeze/Neville GIF and I think to myself "I like Neville, but man, seriously, fuck any wrestler does a feet-first landing sell on a DDT"

So...about that Mad Max Fury Road flick...the hype is real. The HOLY FUCKING SHIT movie of the year, maybe the decade, possibly the millennium. I say this with absolutely zero hyperbole.

Every time I see a picture of someone holding the North American belt i picture them saying "I dont have to put this in a safe. It IS the safe!"

This is how I'll always feel about "Hell Awaits" and "The Anti-Christ" by Slayer since my first exposure to pre-"Reign In Blood" material was through the live Decade of Aggression set they put out in the early '90s. The set starts out with those two back-to-back bleeding into each other and it just works so well, I'll always associate them in a running order even though they the studio versions are on separate albums in the chronology.

The GIF is from a Hoodslam show, so yeah, probably.

I feel like I should know who this is, but all I'm coming up with is "Time Travelling Bodybuilding Enthusiast Luke Harper"

Wasn't Excess a byproduct of the WWE initially wanting to put WCW into that Saturday night slot but TNN not wanting a WCW-branded wrestling program?

Had totally forgotten that WWE once co-promoted a Girls Gone Wild PPV. I am guessing that will never be on the Network.

To be fair, the article does not specifically state that the Baywatch association is Vince's idea, just the American reveal. For all we know the Baywatch thing could have been something anyone from Triple H down to a first-year creative member put together.

I never know what makes me cringe more in that Brock-Albert clip, the actual F5 botch, or seeing Taz in the background throw his hands over his head in shock probably having flashbacks to his own broken neck.