Pro Wrestling 10 List Thread

Smapti · July 19, 2024, 5:19am

Best Use Of A Foreign Object

Shawn Michaels - prosthetic leg of opportunity!
Eddie Guerrero - steel chair (which he threw to his opponent and then fell down to get them disqualified).
Hacksaw Jim Duggan - the duct-taped fist as a finisher
William Regal - brass knuckles - I mean, the Power of the Punch
Steve Austin—hitting Vince McMahon with a bedpan
MJF - the Dynamite Diamond Ring

Knowed_Out · July 19, 2024, 10:51am

Best Use Of A Foreign Object

Shawn Michaels - prosthetic leg of opportunity!
Eddie Guerrero - steel chair (which he threw to his opponent and then fell down to get them disqualified).
Hacksaw Jim Duggan - the duct-taped fist as a finisher
William Regal - brass knuckles - I mean, the Power of the Punch
Steve Austin—hitting Vince McMahon with a bedpan
MJF - the Dynamite Diamond Ring
The Assassin - “Yes, I do have a foreign object behind my mask. It’s called MY BRAIN!”

Smapti · July 19, 2024, 10:55am

Best Use Of A Foreign Object

Shawn Michaels - prosthetic leg of opportunity!
Eddie Guerrero - steel chair (which he threw to his opponent and then fell down to get them disqualified).
Hacksaw Jim Duggan - the duct-taped fist as a finisher
William Regal - brass knuckles - I mean, the Power of the Punch
Steve Austin—hitting Vince McMahon with a bedpan
MJF - the Dynamite Diamond Ring
The Assassin - “Yes, I do have a foreign object behind my mask. It’s called MY BRAIN!”
Lex Luger - the titanium plate in his arm

Knowed_Out · July 19, 2024, 12:29pm

Best Use Of A Foreign Object

Shawn Michaels - prosthetic leg of opportunity!
Eddie Guerrero - steel chair (which he threw to his opponent and then fell down to get them disqualified).
Hacksaw Jim Duggan - the duct-taped fist as a finisher
William Regal - brass knuckles - I mean, the Power of the Punch
Steve Austin—hitting Vince McMahon with a bedpan
MJF - the Dynamite Diamond Ring
The Assassin - “Yes, I do have a foreign object behind my mask. It’s called MY BRAIN!”
Lex Luger - the titanium plate in his arm
Iron Sheik - the loaded pointy boot that somehow injected knockout poison into his opponent

Intergalactic_Gladiator · July 19, 2024, 1:26pm

Best Use Of A Foreign Object

Shawn Michaels - prosthetic leg of opportunity!
Eddie Guerrero - steel chair (which he threw to his opponent and then fell down to get them disqualified).
Hacksaw Jim Duggan - the duct-taped fist as a finisher
William Regal - brass knuckles - I mean, the Power of the Punch
Steve Austin—hitting Vince McMahon with a bedpan
MJF - the Dynamite Diamond Ring
The Assassin - “Yes, I do have a foreign object behind my mask. It’s called MY BRAIN!”
Lex Luger - the titanium plate in his arm
Iron Sheik - the loaded pointy boot that somehow injected knockout poison into his opponent
The Great Muta’s green mist

Next: When did you “smarten up” about wrestling?

In 93 I watched Shawn Michaels vs. Jim Duggan and realized that the smartass heel bumping all over the place was more entertaining than the low work rate face. I then found rec.sport.prowrestling and learned about the terms like face, heel, and work rate, as well as goings on in ECW, Japan, and places other than WWF and WCW.

Knowed_Out · July 19, 2024, 1:33pm

When did you “smarten up” about wrestling?

In 93 I watched Shawn Michaels vs. Jim Duggan and realized that the smartass heel bumping all over the place was more entertaining than the low work rate face. I then found rec.sport.prowrestling and learned about the terms like face, heel, and work rate, as well as goings on in ECW, Japan, and places other than WWF and WCW.
The Usenet, back when everything was alt.something.or.another. That was the first time I read anything posted by a wrestling personality, Zoogz Rift. Like IG, that’s where I learned all the insider terms and real names.

Intergalactic_Gladiator · July 19, 2024, 1:38pm

I remember Zoogz Rift! He sent me a T-shirt back then. He was pretty nutty but a real good guy.

Knowed_Out · July 19, 2024, 1:47pm

I got pissed at him one time and said his music sounded like a gurgling toilet. He wanted to cross Captain Beefheart/Zappa with punk. Otherwise I thought he was cool.

Smapti · July 20, 2024, 5:41am

When did you “smarten up” about wrestling?

In 93 I watched Shawn Michaels vs. Jim Duggan and realized that the smartass heel bumping all over the place was more entertaining than the low work rate face. I then found rec.sport.prowrestling and learned about the terms like face, heel, and work rate, as well as goings on in ECW, Japan, and places other than WWF and WCW.
The Usenet, back when everything was alt.something.or.another. That was the first time I read anything posted by a wrestling personality, Zoogz Rift. Like IG, that’s where I learned all the insider terms and real names.
Gradually over the course of about 10 years (see my post for explanation)

I think I was 7 (so 1990-ish) the first time my dad told me it wasn’t real and I didn’t believe him. He told me somewhere around that same time that it used to be real and wasn’t anymore, and I thought maybe there was something to it, but I figured sometimes they must be fighting for real because of how much they hated each other, and I legitimately believed that the Undertaker and Papa Shango had magic powers. Flash forward to 1996 and 13-year-old me understands that American wrestling is scripted, but I still thought Mexican and Japanese wrestling was legit and when wrestlers from those countries wrestled in WCW it was real if they were wrestling each other and staged if they were wrestling Americans, and I believed the nWo was legtimately breaking script and winning matches they were supposed to lose. I finally figured out it was all predetermined when I saw that much-maligned Fox prime-time special that showed how the wrestlers bump and explained what a booker was and what faces and heels were and so on.

Intergalactic_Gladiator · July 22, 2024, 6:13pm

I hope that this just quiet over the weekend and I didn’t kill the thread. I want to hear other people’s experiences.

ekedolphin · July 22, 2024, 8:20pm

When did you “smarten up” about wrestling?

In 93 I watched Shawn Michaels vs. Jim Duggan and realized that the smartass heel bumping all over the place was more entertaining than the low work rate face. I then found rec.sport.prowrestling and learned about the terms like face, heel, and work rate, as well as goings on in ECW, Japan, and places other than WWF and WCW.
The Usenet, back when everything was alt.something.or.another. That was the first time I read anything posted by a wrestling personality, Zoogz Rift. Like IG, that’s where I learned all the insider terms and real names.
Gradually over the course of about 10 years (see my post for explanation)
Through Wrestling News Dot Com

I was involved in fantasy booking on the site. I had terrible taste. Glacier winning the WCW Championship.

TriPolar · July 23, 2024, 1:13am

When did you “smarten up” about wrestling?

In 93 I watched Shawn Michaels vs. Jim Duggan and realized that the smartass heel bumping all over the place was more entertaining than the low work rate face. I then found rec.sport.prowrestling and learned about the terms like face, heel, and work rate, as well as goings on in ECW, Japan, and places other than WWF and WCW.
The Usenet, back when everything was alt.something.or.another. That was the first time I read anything posted by a wrestling personality, Zoogz Rift. Like IG, that’s where I learned all the insider terms and real names.
Gradually over the course of about 10 years (see my post for explanation)
Through Wrestling News Dot Com
Going to shows in Philadelphia in the 70s.

I met guys who knew more about wrestling than what was on TV. Some guys would follow the WWWF shows up and down the east coast and watch the same main events in different cities. These guys had been going to live shows for years and most of them knew wrestlers. I had known that wrestling was ‘fake’ since the lame stuff I saw on TV as a child but had no idea how the business worked.

Smapti · July 23, 2024, 3:18am

13/14-year-old me thought Glacier was the coolest (pun intended) thing ever and would’ve been 100% onboard with this, but then again my fantasy booking tends to lean zany. Back in 2013 I thought they should’ve had Ricardo Rodriguez fight Zeb Colter in a “loser gets deported” match and then do a series of vignettes where Zeb gets shipped off to Mexico, struggles to fit in and gets harassed for not speaking the language and trying to take their jobs, and eventually pays a coyote to smuggle him back into America.

Anyway, carry on.

Smapti · July 24, 2024, 6:36am

I think this topic might be a little self-limiting in that an individual can only really contribute to it once, and we might not have among us 10 unique interesting stories about how people got smart to the business.

So I’m gonna take the initiative of starting a new topic, and if anyone else wants to revisit this one feel free.