so did anyone watch wrestlemania tonight? (as in, the real wrestlemania...not the fake, any-other-time-of-the-year wrestling matches that us uneducated losers have come to learn are not all called wrestlemanias)
did triple h win? did the rock win? hook a sista up.

FUCK COMCAST!

i watched wcw a lot about 3 years ago. ernest'the cat'miller and das wunderkind alex wright were my favorites. i always liked managers when i was a kid. i thought bobby heenan and mr. fuji ruled. if parrish were clean shaven he'd look like mr. wonderful paul orndorff.

y'know elt, you do look a bit like alex wright. as far as wrestling goes, i have two words, rick flair. WHOOOO!

One time at a restaurant, a guy ran up to my dad and said 'you're Rick Flair!'    We don't watch wrestling, so we were rather confused.  
My dad's been accused of looking like 1) Rick Flair  2) Arlo Guthrie   3) a woman (from behind...he has long hair)   4)  and as mentioned earlier in the Lebowski thread, The Dude.

RIC Flair, people! R-I-C.

ok, since it appears that no one watched, i was forced to read about it on the official 'wrestlemania' site which is indeed a poetic paragon of journalistic integrity: (after the rock vs. 'hollywood' hulk hogan) 'when the smoke cleared, the two legends again stood inches apart in the ring...' so since hulk lost, will it still be cool to don ripped up hulk tank tops? it better be.
anyhow, smee's daddy, R-I-C, apparently lost. as did jericho, who i must admit is kinda sexy. by the way, is female wrestling sexy? any thoughts?

no, female wrestling is not sexy. but then again i think diane sawyer is.

diane sawyer? nice. may i also add to the list kathy lee gifford and martha stewart.

female wrestling kind of scares me. lots of boob jobs and makeup these days. what happened to the glory days when femnale wrestlers were scary like lady truck drivers? in fact, i think the glory days of wrestling are way behind us.
i was a huge fan of the wcw and the wwf in the late eighties/early nineties. this was the time of great wrestlers: lex luger, sting, flair, the andersons, the steiners, the z-man, flyin' brian pillman, dean malenko, barry windham, dusty and dustin rhodes, jim duggan, yellow hogan, brutus beefcake, randy savage, jake roberts, tommy rich, terry funk, koko b. ware, any hart brother, ted dibiase, i could go on and on........
i guess i just don't get these new faces. the rock? those dudley boys? what the fuck? the wwf's acquistion of the wcw was the first wound of a very slow death to wrestling.

i remember the olden days of wcw when the midnight express were in it. wwf was my all out favorite though. andre the giant, junkyard dog, roddy piper(i'd buy a hot rod ringer-t), george'the animal'steel, the rockers(sean michaels and marty gennetti), demolition(axe and smash),.....i need to rent some old 'wrestlemania', 'summer slam', and 'royal rumble' tapes.

remember the fabulous moolah? she was a haggard old skank. that's what female wrestlers should be. not men with breasts and pretty faces.

wait, exliontamer, am i picking up on a reference to dragon warrior....as in, old school nintendo role playing?

OK, I finally saw the big show (Wrestlemania, not the wrestler formerly known as The Giant (Paul Wight, not Andre The)) and I can say that it was worth my money, but not as good as the last few Mania's. Rock vs. Hogan was better than anyone could have expected. I could not believe how many people were booing The Rock. Anyway, this was Hogan's best match since Ultimate Warrior at Mania 6. Remember that one, Wrangler? Speaking of...


You lost all credibility when you called Lex Luger great (although you got some back for mentioning Malenko). Come on... Would you really rather watch some roided up freak throwing incredibly fake punches and slow-motion clotheslines, or watch legit olympic athletes like Kurt Angle suplexing people on their heads? You wouldn't rather see The Dudley Boyz powerbombing people through tables than The Bushwackers licking each other? Hacksaw Jim Duggan's 'Hoooooo' is cooler than 'Austin 3:16 just whipped your ass.'? I think not.

I could go on for quite a while, but I don't think anyone really cares about this topic anyway. However, I will leave you with one last question to ponder: whatcha gonna do, when keithamania runs wild on you?

If you smell what the keifer is cookin'
4 Life
Wooooooooo
Ooohhh yeaaah

how many rasslin' taglines can one throw into one post on the message board? ask keith.

anyway...here we go. wrestling has become diluted. the problem is that it used to be this outlet for young preteen testosterone where prepubescent boys could get their aggression out in one pay-per-view-program or saturday morning hour. the masses have once again ruined a good thing, much like the music world. when the features start doing trl with carson daily and become fixtures on yer local modern rock station will we still love them? of course. however, how many of you felt you could no longer stand third eye blind after they became a smash, having previously dug 'semi-charmed life' on thunder 94 way back in the day? exactly. my point? don't ask, i'm drunk. please pay no attention.

ps where's the roadie? did he retire ala neuboy and eno (hello boys, i know you still read this, too bad you're above it all, you wanks).

'you may think i was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, but i'm no elitist.' -mf
ttfn...

My God, you are drunk, LW.  And on a Tuesday night, no less.  Third Eye Blind?  Thunder 94?  What are you talking about?  I don't remember either of those things.

I don't think that the problem with wrestling is that it's too popular.  I think that it's too close to real life now.  Think back to the older wrestlers - Hulk with bright yellow outfit, the Ultimate Warrior, Ric Flair, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Andre the Giant, Sgt Slaughter, Earthquake, Ted Dibiase, Ravishing Rick Rude, Undertaker, Jake the Snake, even Lex Luger, etc.  These were really outlandish, fantasyworld characters - no reality whatsoever.  It was almost like watching cartoons.  Now who do you have?  The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Triple H?  These are guys who are certainly tough and whatnot, but I could totally drive up to Rivergate Mall on a Saturday night and see these people.  Other than being really built and really sassy, they're just normal guys.  I want crazy, crazy ass unbelievable characters, not someone who I might see cruising in a lowrider on 2nd Avenue.  So yeah, Keith, I guess I would take 'roided up freaks throwing incredibly fake punches and slow-motion clotheslines over legit olympic athletes.'

Neuboy doesn't read this MB anymore. Neither he nor Roadie have read this MB in over a month. They don't have time.

too busy listening to krautrock and watching french art flickes, eh? it figures.

indeed you are freezetag. i'm currently playing dragon warrior 7. i've been a dork since i was born.

you're not a dork exliontamer. you're cool, smart, and strong...and everyone likes you.

why, thank you peterpanda.

Does anybody remember the Animal. A wrestler so bodacious as to tear the stuffing out of a turnbuckel and bash his opponents head until he passed out. What a rock show. I love that Animal.

George 'The Animal' Steele, not to be confused with 'Road Warrior' Animal. He was in 'Ed Wood', BTW.

my favorite from 'back in the day' was demolition, arguably the BEST tag team of the 80's. some might say that the road warriors were better but they did not dominate their federation like demolition did in the late 80's. i also liked macho man randy savage, and jake the snake roberts and barry windham.

i remember george 'the anvil' neidhart. mr. fuji could take the road warriors with his wits and his cane.

Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart.

you're right sir....and i actually knew that. my brain has been fried lately from listening to dio. 'ride the tiger, you can see his stripes but you know he's clean'

wack family story...
my mother's side of the family are big wrestling fans and as i've mentioned before, my father was a wrestler. once (before i was born) they took my great grandmother to one of his matches and jerry lawler was wrestling that night, too. my then 80 year old great grandmother HATED jerry lawler. (she thought it was all real, too) she hated him so much she hid a cast iron skillet in her purse and when he came walking thru the crowd she reached over and hit him in the back of the head with it.
must've been good times.
~s

she really hit jerry lawler in the back of the head with a skillet?!? what the hell did he do?

That's incredible!

I actually like Jerry Lawler in Man on the Moon.

a former wrestler Len Rossi has a health food store in Franklin and in a side room he has lots of old vinyl

i've been there. i had no idea that guy was a wrestler. they have an odd selection of punk/new wave stuff. they're actually reasonably priced too.

according to my mother and grandmother, he had this really angry look on his face until he turned and saw it was some old woman that hit him. then they said he went pale and looked as if he was in shock.

that's awesome. a grandma tougher than jerry lawler.

One of the most depressing things in the world happened Monday night. The WWF is no more. Don't worry, it isn't completely dead, but it changed it's name to WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment. Blech) because of legal issues with the World Wildlife Fund. It was horrifying listening to Jim Ross call Hulk Hogan the 'World Wrestling Entertainment' champion, or Jerry 'The King' Lawler claim that 'anything can happen in the WWE.' It's just wrong. I mean, imagine if Coke one day decided to start calling its soda 'Moke' or something. Do you think the masses are just going to accept this? A sad day indeed.

Who wants to go to WWE Judgement Day with me next Sunday?

(Edited by Keith at 3:04 am on May 10, 2002)