The Viceland Wrestling Documentaries

[Curt McGirt]

11 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Raven being on The Sandman episode makes me wonder if there's enough juiciness for a Raven episode. 

Raven just being alive is enough, probably. He went everywhere. His drug use was immense. Controversial as hell. As the ECW guy next season he'd do just fine.

[zendragon]

whoops

Edited April 28 by zendragon
wrong thread

[AxB]

13 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Raven being on The Sandman episode makes me wonder if there's enough juiciness for a Raven episode. 

When Raven first broke in and was just wrestling on the weekends, his 9-5 job was being a Male Stripper (and he claims he used to bang women from the audience).

When he was in ECW, his 9-5 was DJing in a strip club, which is where he would recruit girls to be his ECW valets. Vice would LOVE that shit. You don't even need to get into his drug habits to make it a juicy Dark Side.

Edited April 28 by AxB

[Curt McGirt]

Just hearing him talk is immensely entertaining. He's a crack-up on the Forever Hardcore doc. I don't listen to podcasts, but I'm sure his is fun.

Speaking of which, I remember him saying he was a producer for Vince! I mean that's another notch there too. (He would call the office, say he's at the venue; call the venue and say he was at the office; and go back to sleep haha)

Edited April 28 by Curt McGirt

[HumanChessgame]

I've never listened to his podcast, but Raven's shoot interviews were always incredibly entertaining. There are a bunch of them up on youtube and here's one with he and Sandman telling random stories

 

[zendragon]

The weird thing is despite all his craziness he did seems to keep it in check, never really went off the the deep end

[Cobra Commander]

out of the members of the ECW Flock, I would have expected Stevie to be working in a strip club more than ECW-era Raven

[odessasteps]

6 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:

out of the members of the ECW Flock, I would have expected Stevie to be working in a strip club more than ECW-era Raven

Too busy working in the video game store. A man ahead of his time. 

[Curt McGirt]

Stevie was too skinny. I mean Raven was Scotty the Body, he got the name for a reason.

[Cobra Commander]

I mean I could see Stevie as a strip club DJ

[Johnny Sorrow]

40 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:

I mean I could see Stevie as a strip club DJ

Shit, I was a strip club DJ for seven years. I didn't wear daisy dukes and a half tee, though. If that had been the uniform I'd have looked like Meanie by year four.

[Cliff Hanger]

8 hours ago, zendragon said:

The weird thing is despite all his craziness he did seems to keep it in check, never really went off the the deep end

I mean, he told a story on eYada-era WOR about snorting sheet rock because he thought it was coke. That's pretty off the rails.

[Curt McGirt]

4 hours ago, Johnny Sorrow said:

Shit, I was a strip club DJ for seven years. I didn't wear daisy dukes and a half tee, though. If that had been the uniform I'd have looked like Meanie by year four.

How did you survive listening to stripper tunes for seven years?

[Cobra Commander]

3 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

How did you survive listening to stripper tunes for seven years?

It turned him into a crazy bitch

[zendragon]

5 hours ago, Cliff Hanger said:

I mean, he told a story on eYada-era WOR about snorting sheet rock because he thought it was coke. That's pretty off the rails.

I meant he never seemed to suffer the severe consequences form the off the rails stuff be got up to

[Curt McGirt]

I'll let someone else make a Deadhead joke  

[Johnny Sorrow]

10 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

How did you survive listening to stripper tunes for seven years?

I got paid. Also, a strip club in Boulder from 2006 -2013 is gonna be a little different.  The only truly awful musical time was when dub step got hot. That was unbearable.  

[Zakk_Sabbath]

38 minutes ago, Johnny Sorrow said:

I got paid. Also, a strip club in Boulder from 2006 -2013 is gonna be a little different.  The only truly awful musical time was when dub step got hot. That was unbearable.  

Preach! I'm guessing you too hear "Wild For The Night" by A$AP and Skrillex in your nightmares?

[The Old-Fashioned Gamer]

On 4/24/2024 at 2:50 AM, Curt McGirt said:

This is one that I don't think I can watch again. It's just too heartbreaking. I can't believe how beautiful was, and how talented, because I haven't seen much really, so to have it end like that...

And fuck Eric Bischoff forever. All the money in the world. No rehab, no surgery, no nothing. Right out on her ass. Fuuuuuuck YOU. 

Lol, she was going on live tv high or drunk.  Why wouldn’t he fire her?  Also, they covered Sherri’s firing in a minute or two at most.  She was in WCW for a couple years, so I am assuming there’s plenty we don’t know.  Maybe they tried to get her to go to rehab and she refused.  Who know?  I don’t.  You probably don’t.  We must have watched different shows, because my takeaway was that Sherri was an very gross person (stripper, basically gave away her child, longtime addictions to too many substances to list, apparently wasn’t too worried about hurting someone when she worked matches “in no condition to perform”).

Eric is at fault if he honestly didn’t find out why she left WWE. I’m skeptical that’s true. If it is, he kinda deserved what he got out of her,

[Log]

I see where you're coming from with some of the other stuff, but being a stripper does not automatically make a person a "gross person".

[Technico Support]

Gross person!  Fuck’s sake @The Old-Fashioned Gamer

Stripper?  Sex work is legitimate work and shouldn’t be stigmatized.  This is probably the worst of your criticisms because it’s just hateful and indefensible.
 

Left her child?  Yes, this is horrible.  But maybe consider trauma she grew up with that could have contributed to her suddenly up and leaving her family the way she did.  I’d assume some level of mental illness was involved.  Also, the only source for this story is her husband.  We don't know the truth, just what he said.  Anything could have happened in that relationship that caused her to walk out.
 

Addict?  Addiction is a disease.  And “unsafe worker” dovetails with this.  You don’t even know how many of your favorite, beloved male workers of the era went into the ring in various levels of fucked up.  Do you like Curt Hennig?  How about Scott Hall?  Road Warriors?  Anybody from the previous seasons of this dumb show?  We're out here laughing about Sandman doing a match tripping on acid while clutching our pearls over Sherri.

I’m not relieving Sherri Martel of personal responsibility here, just saying maybe consider all the circumstances and try being a human being instead of shitting on a dead person who clearly had a lot of problems.  That could be any of us.  Have some empathy.  
 

 

Edited April 30 by Technico Support

[Curt McGirt]

We can be happy they've only posted 38 times since 2007, my friends.

Edited April 29 by Curt McGirt

[Technico Support]

The idea of a wrestling fan disparaging stripping is hilarious.  Both jobs exploit your body for a paycheck.  Both have their roots in the carnivals.  They're practically cousins.

Shit, stripping might be more honorable.  At least there's not a giant crowd of morons chanting YOU FUCKED UP if the stripper slips on the pole.

[odessasteps]

Stripper hecklers is a funny idea. 

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At least there's not a giant crowd of morons chanting YOU FUCKED UP if the stripper slips on the pole.

You also don't need to chant "Show your Tits". 

[Johnny Sorrow]

39 minutes ago, Technico Support said:

The idea of a wrestling fan disparaging stripping is hilarious.  Both jobs exploit your body for a paycheck.  Both have their roots in the carnivals.  They're practically cousins.

Shit, stripping might be more honorable.  At least there's not a giant crowd of morons chanting YOU FUCKED UP if the stripper slips on the pole.

After one month on the job DJ'ing at The Bustop, I completely realized that Strip Clubs and wrestling were pretty much the same thing. We sold fantasy to marks, the dancers kept kayfabe by pretending they liked the customers, it was an athletic performance in little tight outfits, the real money was in selling booze/ merch, I did the intros and played the music, it goes on and on. Only thing is, if someone yelled "YOU FUCKED UP!" we'd most likely have " escorted " said " fan" out the door.