When Wrestling was Fun
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I need to find the episode where he says “I’m not the same as Gorilla Monsoon I am actually the owner of the WWF.”
I started losing interest when they brought in zombies and clowns [Undertaker and Doink] at that point they stopped asking me to suspend my belief and started insulting my intelligence.
Then came the Douchebag oh I mean "attitude" era.
Watched it a bit recently and holy fuck, it turned into some whiny emu shit. Also no homo, but I kinda miss the massive steroids they were on, sure you had the quick high flyers and that was good, but the rest looked like over the top superheros. Now they are more mundane looking AND slow.
It's a bad sign when they have to keep the old stars in, double plus so considering how damaging the game is to the players, they seem to be dropping like flies. Hulk Hogan was wrestling into his 90s it seemed.
Oh well you can never go back.
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He was almost 44 when he first turned heal into Hollywood Hogan during bash at the beach in 1996.
Philip
They are mundane today yes. But I think talent athleticism and health are actually better than the attitude era which in my opinion will always be the bar to beat for professional wrestling.
I was being sarcastic, but it seemed he was 90 and still at it.
He was almost 44 when he first turned heal into Hollywood Hogan during bash at the beach in 1996.
Philip
Same here. Vince's' ego became the show every week instead of the actual talent. I'm in the minority but I never liked the Austin McMahon feud.
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I knew you were. When he made his come back into WWE after they bought WCW, he was in his 50s.
Philip
Lost interest in wrestling when Goldberg ended Bret Hart's career in WCW
From time to time though i'll watch the ladies like Roxanne Perez from NXT but I feel there isn't much to the art of entertainment wrestling anymore. It's the same gimmicks and the same lame duck promos
You can thank Vince McMahon and his speechwriters for that
Wrestling should be like this today but those days are long gone
From time to time though i'll watch the ladies like Roxanne Perez from NXT but I feel there isn't much to the art of entertainment wrestling anymore. It's the same gimmicks and the same lame duck promos
You can thank Vince McMahon and his speechwriters for that
Wrestling should be like this today but those days are long gone
Shack, you forgot that cad and dirty fighter who later teamed up with Bobo Brazil and became a hero. Dick the Bruiser. Don't forget the Sheik. Did you know that the Sheik actually owned Motor City Wrestling?
Yes, the reviled Sheik. I still remember that crazy-eyed face he made as he applied the Camel Clutch and would look from side to side. TBH, I don't think I remember much of Dick the Bruiser.
And then we had the ref, Pat Flanagan, who used his mule kick once in a while when a wrestler was getting out of hand.
The attitude era came to a screeching halt with the Chris Benoit atrocity. At the time too many prime wrestlers were dropping like flies, Brian Pillman, Kurt Hennig and Eddie Guerrero among the notables. McMahon exploited the wrestlers to increase his power and take over WCW from Ted Turner. Now we know how much of a scumbag he truly is.
The Attitude era ended in 2002 with Vince ushering in the Ruthless Aggression era that lasted until 2008. Yes Benoits tragedy put an end to it.
He was the epitome of the town bully. He hated everybody and worse, he would use a chair or a pencil to poke you in the eye. Thoroughly hissable.
He looks like Gene Kiniski.He was the epitome of the town bully. He hated everybody and worse, he would use a chair or a pencil to poke you in the eye. Thoroughly hissable.
Maybe a tiny bit, Shack. Kiniski was a beauty compared to that ugly brute, the Bruiser.
