Who was your favorite wrestler when you were a kid/teen?

xi5yvm0owc1s2b · 09-01-2019 09:48PM

Razor Ramon, Shawn Michaels, Diesel, Stone Cold

salmocab · 09-01-2019 09:50PM

Muckka wrote: »

I liked the honky tonk man, it was just his character and comical behaviour.

He was great, glasses, side burns and saying a-ha in an Elvis voice that’s all he needed. He was just a fat lad in tight shorts.

LeBash · 09-01-2019 09:52PM

Ultimate Warrior

09-01-2019 09:57PM

Just remembered - The Orient Express tag team. Loved them!

LeBash · 09-01-2019 10:44PM

Ohh, Big Boss Man or Hacksaw Jim Duggan or even Rowdy Roddy Piper aka hot rod

dastardly00 · 10-01-2019 12:52AM

This thread is bringing back some great memories

Tuco88 · 10-01-2019 01:58AM

I can remember Vader's debut in wwf well, I was thinking "oh great another big dude that cant move much in the ring"

Roll on Vader with a flying moonsault from the top ropes ðŸ€£. He was an epic heel too imo, and Jake the Snake roberts his promos and that DDT classic stuff.

"Oh its time, its Vadaa time"

Surprised nobody mentioned Eddy Guerrero and Booker T.

Ultimate Seduction · 10-01-2019 08:16AM

Chris Benoit. That flying headbutt was savage!

Arghus · 10-01-2019 08:31AM

Relikk wrote: »

The greatest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wYoWdprfD0

764dak · 10-01-2019 09:05AM

Subacio · 10-01-2019 09:24AM

salmocab wrote: »

He was great, glasses, side burns and saying a-ha in an Elvis voice that’s all he needed. He was just a fat lad in tight shorts.

One time he woke up in the ring after a nasty bump on his head. He was asking where Priscilla and Lisa Marie were.

razorblunt · 10-01-2019 10:22AM

Subacio wrote: »

One time he woke up in the ring after a nasty bump on his head. He was asking where Priscilla and Lisa Marie were.

Wasn't he inadvertantly responsible for Jimmy Snuka's retirement?
Roddy Piper hit Snuka over the head with Honky Tonk's guitar but the Production lads forgot to put a stunt one in and he clocked him full whack with a real guitar?

keano_afc · 10-01-2019 12:26PM

razorblunt wrote: »

Wasn't he inadvertantly responsible for Jimmy Snuka's retirement?
Roddy Piper hit Snuka over the head with Honky Tonk's guitar but the Production lads forgot to put a stunt one in and he clocked him full whack with a real guitar?

Snuka died a couple of years ago. Was due to stand trial in connection with the death of his girlfriend but developed dementia and was deemed unfit. Died a few days after the charges were dismissed.

I think you're referring to the time Snuka entered rehab. The WWF covered it by saying Piper broke Snuka's neck with a chair.

10-01-2019 12:41PM

razorblunt wrote: »

Roddy Piper hit Snuka over the head with Honky Tonk's guitar but the Production lads forgot to put a stunt one in and he clocked him full whack with a real guitar?

Also lashed him out of it with a real coconut and scrambled his brain good.

DellyBelly · 10-01-2019 12:43PM

Dean Ambrose for me

Somedaythefire · 10-01-2019 12:43PM

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Chris Benoit. That flying headbutt was savage!

As was the double murder suicide that those headbutts brought on.

salmocab · 10-01-2019 12:43PM

Look at Snuka pump those legs to ensure the set goes down.
It was as great back then the characters were brilliant it became too polished I think.

big syke · 10-01-2019 12:45PM

razorblunt wrote: »

Wasn't he inadvertantly responsible for Jimmy Snuka's retirement?
Roddy Piper hit Snuka over the head with Honky Tonk's guitar but the Production lads forgot to put a stunt one in and he clocked him full whack with a real guitar?

That was Jake the Snake being hit by Honky Tonk with his real guitar .

Was never the same after that

razorblunt · 10-01-2019 03:53PM

big syke wrote: »

That was Jake the Snake being hit by Honky Tonk with his real guitar .

Was never the same after that

Samsonite!!!
I was way off!

uch · 10-01-2019 04:10PM

Mick McManus was a durty fecker in his day

DEFTLEFTHAND · 10-01-2019 04:38PM

big syke wrote: »

That was Jake the Snake being hit by Honky Tonk with his real guitar .

Was never the same after that

Dam near killed him, think it broke about three vertebrae in his neck.

Pat Patterson's boyfriend who was in charge of props for that night was held responsible, he went out and bought an expensive acoustic guitar in a music store, drilled a couple of holes in it and gave it to tonk.

Absolute idiocy. Jake is still very bitter over it.

razorblunt · 10-01-2019 04:43PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Dam near killed him, think it broke about three vertebrae in his neck.

Pat Patterson's boyfriend who was in charge of props for that night was held responsible, he went out and bought an expensive acoustic guitar in a music store, drilled a couple of holes in it and gave it to tonk.

Absolute idiocy. Jake is still very bitter over it.

Dead right too.
You'd feel awful if you were the person yielding the blow too.

mzungu · 10-01-2019 05:27PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Dam near killed him, think it broke about three vertebrae in his neck.

Pat Patterson's boyfriend who was in charge of props for that night was held responsible, he went out and bought an expensive acoustic guitar in a music store, drilled a couple of holes in it and gave it to tonk.

Absolute idiocy. Jake is still very bitter over it.

There seems to have been a lot of incidents like that down through the years. When Kurt Angle was flinging Shane McMahon through panes of glass, they were meant to be easily breakable sugar glass, instead they were actual panes of glass. Whatever numpty that made the order for the glass did not know the difference. You can see below at the first attempt, McMahon could have broken his neck. That sort of incompetence just is not good enough. They put their bodies on the line enough as it is. McMahon later said he got such a wallop that he wasn't really able to understand what the referee was saying to him, which was that he was to finish up the match pronto. He continued on, though, and finished things out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4qOI7xxn0

My favourite wrestler back in the day would have been either Bret Hart or the Undertaker.

weldoninhio · 10-01-2019 05:57PM

mzungu wrote: »

There seems to have been a lot of incidents like that down through the years. When Kurt Angle was flinging Shane McMahon through panes of glass, they were meant to be easily breakable sugar glass, instead they were actual panes of glass. Whatever numpty that made the order for the glass did not know the difference. You can see below at the first attempt, McMahon could have broken his neck. That sort of incompetence just is not good enough. They put their bodies on the line enough as it is. McMahon later said he got such a wallop that he wasn't really able to understand what the referee was saying to him, which was that he was to finish up the match pronto. He continued on, though, and finished things out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4qOI7xxn0

My favourite wrestler back in the day would have been either Bret Hart or the Undertaker.

No mention of that here

mzungu · 10-01-2019 06:41PM

weldoninhio wrote: »

No mention of that here

No idea why they don't mention it.

Below is the first item on Google search.

The original plan was for Angle to suplex Shane through a few panes of the glass. However, the glass installed was safety glass -- not sugar glass, which breaks more easily. So, instead, after suplexes didn't break the glass, Angle simply threw McMahon through the panes.

Reflecting on the match, Shane McMahon said that Vince, who was at the gorilla position, was instructing referee Mike Chioda to tell his son and Angle to wrap up the match. However, Shane noted that he never really grasped what Chioda was saying.

"He's saying gibberish because I got knocked in the head a couple times," Shane McMahon recalled. "Vince thinks that I'm shooing him off, that I'm disobeying an order that I'm getting through Chioda but I never really got the order."

Meanwhile, as Shane learned later, his father was "going ballistic" at the gorilla position.

"He was so mad, again, because he felt I had disobeyed an order. ... I didn't get the message," Shane said. "He said something very nice to me, put the match over, that'll stay private, but he said 'Don't you ever blanking do that ever again.' "

Shane then recalled the reaction when he and Angle finally made their way to the back -- which entailed getting a standing ovation both from the fans in attendance and the wrestlers in the locker room.

"As we walk in the back, there's a whole line of guys, all the boys were applauding and as you know when you pop the monitor like that and all the boys are giving you a standing 'O' in the back, that is the ultimate high that you can ever get, followed by quickly the ultimate low," McMahon said, recalling turning the corner for the trainer's room to see his wife, Marissa, "just eyes bawling. She has no idea, because I didn't tell her anything. That's when I get huge heat. I said, 'Look this is going to be rough' but she had no idea it was going to be like that. She had no idea if I was going to be OK, she had no insight into the business, she had no communication so she came back and just saw me gushing and everything."

Earlier in the podcast, when discussing his leap off the top of Hell In A Cell at WrestleMania 32, Shane noted that he had told his wife about the spot prior to the match because he "made the mistake once of doing something and not smartening her up and I was in the doghouse forever."

The aftermath of the match saw both Shane McMahon and Angle making trips to the hospital.

Link: https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/shane-mcmahon-vince-nearly-stopped-kotr-street-fight-vs-kurt-angle

Pyr0 · 10-01-2019 07:14PM

I watched wrestling during the Attitude era, never had access to WCW at home.

Favourite wrestlers were Stone Cold, The Hardy Boys, Undertaker/Kane, The Rock. I absolutely hated HHH and always rooted for whoever he was wrestling, just goes to show how great of a heel he is.

I've no interest in it these days tho, it just seems so 'clean' with no character and nothing is ever a surprise anymore. I used to remember the shock of big reveals or wrestler comebacks, these days everyone seems to know weeks in advance when someone is coming back.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 10-01-2019 07:26PM

Pyr0 wrote: »

I watched wrestling during the Attitude era, never had access to WCW at home.

Favourite wrestlers were Stone Cold, The Hardy Boys, Undertaker/Kane, The Rock. I absolutely hated HHH and always rooted for whoever he was wrestling, just goes to show how great of a heel he is.

I've no interest in it these days tho, it just seems so 'clean' with no character and nothing is ever a surprise anymore. I used to remember the shock of big reveals or wrestler comebacks, these days everyone seems to know weeks in advance when someone is coming back.

Yeah the internet ruined it. Nothing is a surprise anymore.

Also back then there was more adherence to the wrestling principle of Kayfabe.

Nobody in the industry talked about how the matches were scripted to outsiders and wrestlers rarely did any any media work out of character

Bobby Baccala · 10-01-2019 07:27PM

Eddie Guerrero and his 5 star frogsplash.

Grandeeod · 10-01-2019 07:39PM

Yamanoto wrote: »

Wrestling in the 80s was Big Daddy & Giant Haystacks, with Dickie Davis presenting

This and only this. Although I did get a little laugh from hulk hogan rowdy roddy piper and that ringside eejit the mouth from the south.

LessOutragePlz · 10-01-2019 08:06PM

The Rock, Stone Cold, or The Undertaker.

Who was your favorite wrestler when you were a kid/teen?

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