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I have a friend named Will who has an incredible resemblance to Big Show.  And I have an insane amountil of selfies that I take of me and him, where I will bend my knees just slightly when I take the picture (so he looks over a foot taller than me).

I tell people that me and Show are besties.  Not for an actual-factual, just to see people's reactions.

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My family moved three times during my middle school/jr. high days and at each new school there was a kid with the same b.s. story that he went to the "rehearsal" the night before the local house show. At that point in time I was sorta smart to the business in the sense that I knew they had a crazy travel schedule and would work double shots on weekends, I even brought in an Apter mag with results to prove my point but the kids wouldn't budge on their story.

There's has been and always will be people who outright lie about being things like a former pro athlete, pro wrestler or Little Rascal, sorta like a carnie version of the stolen valor folks. Leonard Maltin talked about it on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast a few years ago, he'd get calls from people saying that their grandpa died and he was Smelly in the Our Gang shorts or he'd get a call from a small town newspaper asking to verify that a recently deceased person in their town was the original Darla.

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I've actually experienced the opposite. 

I have a buddy that used to work the Carolina indies and I met the actual Bill Eadie when Chris had to work one of Jay Eagle's shows in South Carolina.  Eadie was fucking royalty in the indy locker rooms, but talking to wrestling fans was very different.

Bill Eadie would walk up to people and introduce himself as Bill Eadie, but no one believed he was once the Masked Superstar or Demolition Ax unless they also happened to be a Demolition or Masked Superstar mark..

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On 3/25/2017 at 7:49 PM, Marty Sugar said:

I don't know how many people, in my 15 years in pro wrestling, have lied and claimed they were somebody or know somebody. Especially masked wrestlers from the 70s...it's like anyone can make a claim to being one. There was a good stretch in 2006-2009 that if anyone contacted me directly or through a friend that they used to be "The Hangman" my immediate reaction would be "tell that guy to fuck off."

And why always The Hangman? At least four different guys. Never an Assassin or a Super Destroyer, always a Hangman.

I once had this winning conversation with a fan who claimed to be a worker "back in the day"

Him: "I used to work down south as the Bullet.  Maybe you heard of me?"

Me: "Funny.  You don't look like Bob Armstrong."

Him: "Never heard of him."

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Around 2005 this friend of a friend tried to convince us he was a wrestler.  He never gave details as to where he wrestled or even his name, but kept insisting he was.  So when Raw would come to town he would tell us how he's an extra on the show and what he was doing.  Of course he wouldn't be on the show but that didn't stop him from making up some bullshit reason for why he wasn't on the show.  Despite his insistence nobody ever believed him, and when that didn't work he would make up bullshit insider "news".  The worst was when this guy came up one time and he's the type where it takes a lot to piss him off.  Like myself he knew enough insider stuff to know this guy was full of shit.  And while the guy didn't try to convince us anymore about being a wrestler, he pulled out his greatest hits for this normally happy friend.  After trying to put up with him for so long he had to ask somebody to get the guy out of there, it was too much to put up with.  Thankfully not long after this he eventually disappeared.

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I once worked at a conservative radio station where one of the windbag hosts (he's dead now) bragged about some expose he did "outing" Sgt. Slaughter for not being a real Marine.  Two things wrong with this: first and foremost, who gives a shit?  Next you'll tell me that the Undertaker is not an undead mortician.  Second, I think Slaughter might have actually been in the corps in some capacity. (His distinguished service with the elite fighting force known as G.I. Joe notwithstanding)

The same host worked a "feud" with Axl Rotten 6-7 years before that so he really had no leg to stand on, anyway.

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34 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

How do you work a feud with Axl Rotten if you're not a wrestler? Did he try to buy dope off him and got burned? 

Yeah, I know, that's pretty tasteless. RIP Axl. And btw, that first part was a serious question, what was the feud about?

It's really hard to remember for me since it was like 1990.  It was early in Axl's career and he was still working the English gimmick.  I think it was just a thing where he'd call the guy's show and they'd yell at each other.  Maybe it was supposed to culminate in the host being in someone's corner opposing Axl at a show.  There was a Saturday night wrestling talk show on the station as well, so that tied into it.

I tried to Google it but this shit is all pre-Internet so there's no info.

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Wait, are we saying that being in GI Joe doesn't count as real military service.....?  I don't really want to live in a world where that is true, thank you very much.

(Cluches Sgt. Slaughter doll, muttering "It's still real to me, dammit")

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11 minutes ago, Horton Hears a Wooo!!! said:

Wait, are we saying that being in GI Joe doesn't count as real military service.....?  I don't really want to live in a world where that is true, thank you very much.

(Cluches Sgt. Slaughter doll, muttering "It's still real to me, dammit")

I think I would be enjoying my tenure as a DoD Civilian IT Specialist a lot more if GI Joe were an actual thing.

If DARPA had their way, half of Gi Joe's arsenal would already be in use for active duty armed forces, except for the laser guns.  Not practical or cost effective.

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For a long time the most annoying to me was people that said that they watched on TV the footage of Owen Hart falling. I was watching the PPV live so I knew damn well they didn't show the footage since a backstage skit was being shown at the time, and obviously WWE wasn't going to release it later so there are probably a very very small percentage of people within the company that have seen the footage. And this was before cell phone video, so while there were still pictures taken from those in the arena, that was all anyone ever saw.

But that didn't stop people (hell, they still do) from telling people they were watching the PPV and saw him fall. Makes for a good story I guess.

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I'm sure every wrestling school has the one guy who turns up having claimed to have trained with a big name / been signed to a developmental deal etc, despite the fact they usually look like they have never seen a gym or have any form of co-ordination.

We called our guy 'Lashley' because he had trained for MMA with Bobby Lashley.  Allegedly.

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2 hours ago, Kuetsar said:

I could have swore I watched the infamous/famous Hart-Magee match online, but it must have just been Magee in action. ...

There's a Tom Magee match against Arn Anderson online. Magee didn't look terrible. I chalk that up to Arn being just that good.

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This one is about a lie a wrestler told me: back in 2002 or 2003, Honky Tonk Man worked an Indy show at my high school (also shout out to Tom Brandi for pulling double duty as Salvatore Sincere and The Patriot). Two of my buddies and myself waited for Honky after the show for some advice on breaking into the business. Honky paused, and told us we needed to start just like he did: by breaking the ring down. He said if we did that, then he would make absolutely sure we got some ring time with him to learn a few things when they returned. 

We relayed this to the promoter, and he told us it was a great idea, and that he loved helping young guys get their foot in the door. We ended up helping to break down the ring and load it on the truck. We were there til about 1 AM or so.

Those motherfuckers never came back to town.

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4 hours ago, Zakk_Sabbath said:

This one is about a lie a wrestler told me: back in 2002 or 2003, Honky Tonk Man worked an Indy show at my high school (also shout out to Tom Brandi for pulling double duty as Salvatore Sincere and The Patriot). Two of my buddies and myself waited for Honky after the show for some advice on breaking into the business. Honky paused, and told us we needed to start just like he did: by breaking the ring down. He said if we did that, then he would make absolutely sure we got some ring time with him to learn a few things when they returned. 

We relayed this to the promoter, and he told us it was a great idea, and that he loved helping young guys get their foot in the door. We ended up helping to break down the ring and load it on the truck. We were there til about 1 AM or so.

Those motherfuckers never came back to town.

Good for Honky. He didn't have an angle for himself, so he did the promoter a solid and got him some free labor. That's veteran know-how right there.

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