IdleRich

IdleRich
Almost yeah. Everyone was obsessed by it and they talked about it all the time and any time you could be walking along and someone would grab you and throw you on the floor and shout "suplex" or "piledriver" or whatever... but really that wasn't the main problem, it was just the intense grinding boredom of everyone talking about it all the time, playing with the figures, watching the videos again and again, dressing up as the fucking undertaker and so on. I've tried to block it out to be honest but sometimes it comes flooding back.
 

catalog

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that does sound traumatic rich --- figure of 4 leglock was one i used to try on the beanbag. I remember when i found out it was all fake, that was sort of it really.

there's this great video by cameron jamie about SoCal backyard wrestling, it's called BB.
 

catalog

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yeah it's just a scene isn't it, like dissensus or dj'ing i suppose. they get a laugh, sense of community all that. you just can't quite believe. it's drama and storytelling at end of day. panto. am dram.
 

catalog

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It is like soap operas, strangely some grandmother's are well into it tho. They used to have English wrestling on weekend mornings. Giant haystacks, big daddy
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
In August 1987 at the Hippodrome circus in Great Yarmouth, Big Daddy performed in a tag team match pitting himself and nephew Steve Crabtree (billed as "Greg Valentine") against King Kong Kirk and King Kendo. After Big Daddy had delivered a splash and pinned King Kong Kirk, rather than selling the impact of the finishing move, Kirk turned an unhealthy colour and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
One of the Americans here has a story about going to a pro wrestling show with a mate "for a laugh" and finding it just full of older men taking it very seriously indeed, and found the whole atmosphere quite aggressive and unpleasant.
 

Leo

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I've gone to a few pro matches, first one when I was a kid and saw Chief Jay Strongbow. Wrasslin isn't known for being very politically correct with its ethic and racial caricatures.

had a good friend who was into it for many years, so he dragged me to one or two matches at Madison Sq. Garden and, like seeing the Grateful Dead, it was an experience that I enjoyed at the time but had no desire to do again. It was filmed for broadcast later that week, saw all the stars of the day: triple H, the rock, stone cold, undertaker, big show, Kane, Kurt angle, etc.

by that point (maybe late 90s/early 00s), it was kind of Disneyfied and the atmosphere wasn't that aggressive.
 

grave

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I had a wrestling phase when I was about 13 and a few of us started staging choreographed matches in our mate’s backyard. It became pretty advanced, powerbombs through flaming tables, jumping off the roof onto someone's head etc. They uploaded footage to a forum and some oddballs scattered around Perth saw it and asked if they could come over to wrestle. Some of them literally came down from the hills, bringing their own props like rakes or planks of wood, and burnt cds with their entrance music (almost exclusively nu metal).

I lost interest soon after but a few of them got serious with it and met this local porn baron called Slick Rick who agreed to put the money behind a wrestling promotion, gave them a couple of his girls to use for the show. They bought a second hand boxing ring and hired out a community hall, had a good few hundred people through the door. At the next event my mate tried to do a somersault off the turnbuckle and knocked himself unconscious, they thought he was dead. The show came to an abrupt end and his mother sitting in the front row had to be consoled as he was wheeled out on a stretcher.

They became pretty successful though and that mate got signed to the WWF a few years ago. He said Shawn Michaels was his boss.
 
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