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Joined: 8/24/2004
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Location: Sweden
Not really. I don't like the way they are landing punches. Looks retarded.
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Joined: 3/13/2004
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Location: Elyria/Oberlin, OH
OMGWTFBBQ The Ultimate Warrior (whose legal name is in fact "Warrior", BTW) gave a speech at the University of Connecticut, and it is some of the funniest shit I've seen in awhile. I knew for a long time that he was a bit nuts, but this convinced me that he's not even on the same planet as the rest of us anymore. The video is out there, I got it from a certain site which I'm not allowed to mention here. Maybe Googling it will give you some luck. *shrug* Do try to find it, though...around 34 minutes is where it starts getting especially fun. The cameraman gets some great comments in himself, too. -Josh
but then you take my 75 perchance chance of winning, if we was to go one-on-one, and then add 66 and two-thirds ch...percents...i got a 141 and two-thirds chance of winning at sacrifice
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Joined: 6/25/2004
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Location: Maine
I heard about that Ultimate Warrior thing. He sounded like a complete asshole from what I heard. But anyway, I've been watching wrestling for ten years in October of this year. Damn, can't believe it's been that long. o_o;
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Joined: 5/29/2004
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I heard about him from some crazy Something Awful updates.
put yourself in my rocketpack if that poochie is one outrageous dude
Joined: 1/29/2005
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Location: Jacksonville FL
am I the only one that thinks "redneck" whenever I hear about wrestling? ;/
kaddidlehopper!
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Joined: 3/13/2004
Posts: 706
Location: Elyria/Oberlin, OH
bmecoli wrote:
am I the only one that thinks "redneck" whenever I hear about wrestling? ;/
No, although the assumption is somewhat in error these days. The Southern crowd always went for the NWA (in the old days) and then WCW (in the 90s); the WWF/E's core audience has always been in the Northeast. Since the WWE is the only one of these that's still around, the redneck crowd has gone away from wrestling a bit. -Josh
but then you take my 75 perchance chance of winning, if we was to go one-on-one, and then add 66 and two-thirds ch...percents...i got a 141 and two-thirds chance of winning at sacrifice
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Joined: 6/3/2004
Posts: 71
A coincidence that I should see this thread, I've only just been trying to get 'into' the whole wrestling thing again... so I thought I'd give my view of Pro Wrestling, as it appears to be pretty different from all you 'old-school' type peoples. :3 I didn't know a single thing about wrestling until I was about 14-15 or so(?), when it became the latest 'cool thing' at my school. I mean, sure, I knew of WWF before that, but had never seen it... the extent of my knowledge on wrestling consisted of 'there's a guy called Hulk Hogan and there are action figures of him'. Anyway, I first started watching it when the 'Attitude' era was just kicking in, with Stone Cold, Vince, and Degeneration-X being the main focus. I did think it was cool, mainly in terms of all the gimmicks and 'big matches' that were occuring on a constant basis. Honestly, the actual 'wrestling' part of it all was somewhat dull to me. ^^; What I did love about it though, was the all of the hype, suspense, flashy lights, fireworks, 'gimmick' matches (cage, TLC, etc.), big yearly events (royal rumble), music, over-the-top characters... and so on and so forth. After about a year of watching it every so often though, and the fad started to die out amongst friends at school, I just lost interest in it. Just recently, out of boredom and short-term-nostalgia, I thought I'd check out the latest PPVs and PS2 game, and I'm loving it all over again. This time around I'm actually kinda impressed with the wrestling too... although it's still just the 'flashy' moves and expert timing that I love. All in all, it's pretty much the only 'sport' that I would go out of my way to watch... mainly because it's not a sport at all, but more of a show. The fact that it isn't 'real' is what draws me to it, and I love the extreme angle that they go for. If it weren't for the pretty logos and forced personalities, I wouldn't care for it whatsoever. ^^