I almost got a job with the wwe as a writer. I would not go there now because of stephanie/hhh alliance. Hell he runs the show. That is why it sucks now. Also how many times can you see HHH vs HBK? I hate to say it, when WcW went out of business wrestling stunk. Now the WWE just puts on crap. Also who really cares about Kane vs Undertaker? That was so 1999?
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by IDENTITY:
how about the rock and roll express? two wussies but they always won with their double drop kick! lol<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
LMFAO You have brought back so many memories with this post! The double drop kick finisher was so weak!!!!
Remember when Gibson turned hell & thought he was all bad ass.
LMFAO
how about the rock and roll express? two wussies but they always won with their double drop kick! lol<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
LMFAO You have brought back so many memories with this post! The double drop kick finisher was so weak!!!!
Remember when Gibson turned hell & thought he was all bad ass.
LMFAO
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by iamcrazy!!:
I almost got a job with the wwe as a writer. I would not go there now because of stephanie/hhh alliance. Hell he runs the show. That is why it sucks now. Also how many times can you see HHH vs HBK? I hate to say it, when WcW went out of business wrestling stunk. Now the WWE just puts on crap. Also who really cares about Kane vs Undertaker? That was so 1999?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
HHH barely wrestles unless it is a PPV. Most of the time he'll talk on the mic, ambush somebody, interfere in a match, etc. But you rarely see him in a match. Guess WWE doesn't want to risk injury to one of their few remaining big-time stars.
I almost got a job with the wwe as a writer. I would not go there now because of stephanie/hhh alliance. Hell he runs the show. That is why it sucks now. Also how many times can you see HHH vs HBK? I hate to say it, when WcW went out of business wrestling stunk. Now the WWE just puts on crap. Also who really cares about Kane vs Undertaker? That was so 1999?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
HHH barely wrestles unless it is a PPV. Most of the time he'll talk on the mic, ambush somebody, interfere in a match, etc. But you rarely see him in a match. Guess WWE doesn't want to risk injury to one of their few remaining big-time stars.
Its a tough gig for sure...Feast or famine and sometimes death...Even death in the ring has happened (Owen Heart) and many many have died from drug overdoses or sudden heart failure do to drug use (steroids, speed)
These guys end up not being able to get out of bed , their body's broken down way before they should be....Its the ultimate fast lane, as Road Warrior Hawk use to say "Ooooooooh what a ruuuuuuuussssssssssh!!!!! "Hawk" died in his sleep probably from steroid abuse...
Even Ms Elizabeth passed away in a somewhat odd twist, I don`t think they ever did get all the details on her death...Mr Perfect, Rick Rude, Yokozuma, Big John Stud, Andre the Giant, Quick Draw Rick McGraw, Adrian Adonis, the entire Von Erich clan, RW Hawk, and Owen Heart all passing way before their time...also quite a few have ended up in trouble with the law, again drugs and the lifestyle , recently Dick The Bruiser was arrested for trying to stab his wife...
Wrestling is/was great fun but the price is steep, even for the greats of the squared circle...
Some of my personal favorites ; Mil Mascaras,Jesse The Body Ventura, Killer Kawalski, Don Muraco, Ken Patera, Jimmy Snuka, Randy Savage, Ricky Steamboat, And Bruno Sammartino... Triple HHH and Mick Foley
These guys end up not being able to get out of bed , their body's broken down way before they should be....Its the ultimate fast lane, as Road Warrior Hawk use to say "Ooooooooh what a ruuuuuuuussssssssssh!!!!! "Hawk" died in his sleep probably from steroid abuse...
Even Ms Elizabeth passed away in a somewhat odd twist, I don`t think they ever did get all the details on her death...Mr Perfect, Rick Rude, Yokozuma, Big John Stud, Andre the Giant, Quick Draw Rick McGraw, Adrian Adonis, the entire Von Erich clan, RW Hawk, and Owen Heart all passing way before their time...also quite a few have ended up in trouble with the law, again drugs and the lifestyle , recently Dick The Bruiser was arrested for trying to stab his wife...
Wrestling is/was great fun but the price is steep, even for the greats of the squared circle...
Some of my personal favorites ; Mil Mascaras,Jesse The Body Ventura, Killer Kawalski, Don Muraco, Ken Patera, Jimmy Snuka, Randy Savage, Ricky Steamboat, And Bruno Sammartino... Triple HHH and Mick Foley
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Journeyman:
Its a tough gig for sure...Feast or famine and sometimes death...Even death in the ring has happened (Owen Heart) and many many have died from drug overdoses or sudden heart failure do to drug use (steroids, speed)
These guys end up not being able to get out of bed , their body's broken down way before they should be....Its the ultimate fast lane, as Road Warrior Hawk use to say "Ooooooooh what a ruuuuuuuussssssssssh!!!!! "Hawk" died in his sleep probably from steroid abuse...
Even Ms Elizabeth passed away in a somewhat odd twist, I don`t think they ever did get all the details on her death...Mr Perfect, Rick Rude, Yokozuma, Big John Stud, Andre the Giant, Quick Draw Rick McGraw, Adrian Adonis, the entire Von Erich clan, RW Hawk, and Owen Heart all passing way before their time...also quite a few have ended up in trouble with the law, again drugs and the lifestyle , recently Dick The Bruiser was arrested for trying to stab his wife...
Wrestling is/was great fun but the price is steep, even for the greats of the squared circle...
Some of my personal favorites ; Mil Mascaras,Jesse The Body Ventura, Killer Kawalski, Don Muraco, Ken Patera, Jimmy Snuka, Randy Savage, Ricky Steamboat, And Bruno Sammartino... Triple HHH and Mick Foley<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Rick Rude is dead!?!? Didn't know that.
HHH is one of the best heels (and I think he has one of the best entrances/songs), but he has slipped in the last 12 months. Isn't really his fault, the WWE doesn't have enough charismatic good-guys to bring out the best in HHH.
Its a tough gig for sure...Feast or famine and sometimes death...Even death in the ring has happened (Owen Heart) and many many have died from drug overdoses or sudden heart failure do to drug use (steroids, speed)
These guys end up not being able to get out of bed , their body's broken down way before they should be....Its the ultimate fast lane, as Road Warrior Hawk use to say "Ooooooooh what a ruuuuuuuussssssssssh!!!!! "Hawk" died in his sleep probably from steroid abuse...
Even Ms Elizabeth passed away in a somewhat odd twist, I don`t think they ever did get all the details on her death...Mr Perfect, Rick Rude, Yokozuma, Big John Stud, Andre the Giant, Quick Draw Rick McGraw, Adrian Adonis, the entire Von Erich clan, RW Hawk, and Owen Heart all passing way before their time...also quite a few have ended up in trouble with the law, again drugs and the lifestyle , recently Dick The Bruiser was arrested for trying to stab his wife...
Wrestling is/was great fun but the price is steep, even for the greats of the squared circle...
Some of my personal favorites ; Mil Mascaras,Jesse The Body Ventura, Killer Kawalski, Don Muraco, Ken Patera, Jimmy Snuka, Randy Savage, Ricky Steamboat, And Bruno Sammartino... Triple HHH and Mick Foley<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Rick Rude is dead!?!? Didn't know that.
HHH is one of the best heels (and I think he has one of the best entrances/songs), but he has slipped in the last 12 months. Isn't really his fault, the WWE doesn't have enough charismatic good-guys to bring out the best in HHH.
Rude died a while ago now....I`m sure you can find details somewhere on the net...
I think if you type in a seach engine "dead wrestlers" you will get a long list, I remember doing that a couple years ago...There are some I even forgot to list....Bryan Pillman is another who just came to mind...
Triple HHH is The Man...
The Game! I am The Game!
I think if you type in a seach engine "dead wrestlers" you will get a long list, I remember doing that a couple years ago...There are some I even forgot to list....Bryan Pillman is another who just came to mind...
Triple HHH is The Man...
The Game! I am The Game!
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by IDENTITY:
I just heard on sports radio "rowdy roddy piper." what is this guy earning these days? what was he earning in the 80s/early 90s? i am imagining now he is making 50k lol<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
He was big time a long time ago and helped push the industry upward like Hulk Hogan. I'm sure he didn't receive the type of money that he deserverd. I remember when it was a big deal when Hogan signed a $100,000 contract. Piper also made some pretty decent B movies.
http://www.garywill.com/wrestling/canada/piper.htm
I just heard on sports radio "rowdy roddy piper." what is this guy earning these days? what was he earning in the 80s/early 90s? i am imagining now he is making 50k lol<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
He was big time a long time ago and helped push the industry upward like Hulk Hogan. I'm sure he didn't receive the type of money that he deserverd. I remember when it was a big deal when Hogan signed a $100,000 contract. Piper also made some pretty decent B movies.
http://www.garywill.com/wrestling/canada/piper.htm
This is Dick the Bruiser, the greatest brawler ever to step into a wrestling ring. The Bruiser was an icon of pop culture in the midwest from the 1950's until the early 1980's. Portraying the beer drinking, working class tough guy, he was a classic wrestling character and his persona was a natural fit for wrestling's transition from a quasi- sport to a form of entertainment suited for television.
Dick the Bruiser was "the world's most dangerous wrestler" and proved as much by kicking the shit out of any nancy boy wrestler who had the brazen stupidity to pass through the Indianapolis territory, e.g. Ivan Koloff, Gene Kiniski, Ernie Ladd, Harley Race, and Bruiser Brody. Hell, he beat the monicker of "Bruiser" out of Brody and left him with the name "King Kong."
When he got bored with all the nancy boys passing through Indy, he went to St. Louis and kicked the shit out of wrestlers like Dick Murdoch and Ken Patera. While in St. Louis, the Bruiser had the audacity and comical fortitude to mock Ric Flair by parading around in Flair's effeminate robe while doing the Nature Boy's signature nancy boy strut.
After he beat the hell out of everyone in the midwest, the Bruiser and Crusher Lisowski went to Japan and beat up on Inoki and Baba.
Furthermore, the Bruiser and the Crusher comprised the greatest tag team in the history of professional wrestling, winning the A.W.A. and W.W.A. world tag team titles for at least a combined total of eleven reigns.
The Bruiser played a significant role in the infamous Madison Square Garden riot in the 1950's. Unable to watch the Bruiser kick the shit out of Edouard Carpentier, the fans in Madison Square Garden responded by rioting. The Bruiser was such a violent and imposing character, controlling him required the effort of thousands of people.
Today, Dick the Bruiser continues to have a profound influence on professional wrestling. He serves as the prototype for so- called hardcore figures like the Sandman and Tommy Dreamer. If there had never been a Dick the Bruiser, would the chair shot and blading be a staple of contemporary wrestling? One can only wonder...
In addition to his very successful wrestling career, Dick the Bruiser was also a successful promoter in the Indianapolis territory. Obviously, he was not prosperous to the degree of Vince McMahon and his contemporaries, but the Bruiser existed in a different era of professional wrestling when regional promotions were viable and valued entities. Dick the Bruiser, as both a wrestler and a promoter, represents a tradition that was destroyed by disrespectful, entrepreneurial mavericks, like Vince McMahon, who have no respect for the old school ethos. Sadly, Dick the Bruiser is dead- both literally and figuratively.
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