Paid Members air_raid Posted June 24, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 24, 2013 Sapp these days travels around the world picking up big cheques to headline random MMA shows...no harm in that? you may think, but he basically throws the fights, he runs in throws a punch and if it doesn't land looks to take a dive and tap out from strikes, it's fucking ridiculous and it keeps happening. If you wanna see any of these debacles hit Youtube and have a look, it aint pretty. Â He also still occasionally wrestles. He wrestled on the CHAOS teams (in New Japan) in multi-man clusterfucks at Wrestle Kingdom in January and Invasion Attack on Mania day. Decent name to make up the numbers. It's a notable step up from his last contribution, getting rolled up by Danshoku Dino in DDT after Dino had kissed him. Â Still, could have been worse, getting in the ring with Dino. Â Â A lot worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted June 24, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 24, 2013 Dirty Eddie - That's the thing, Sapp was never great but in his early fights he at least used to try. The Nogueira fight in Pride was awesome David vs Goliath stuff for example. Somewhere along the line though, he became content to become the world's most expensive MMA jobber. Â Actually, Big Show vs Bob Sapp as the third fight on the Lewis vs Lesnar/Angle vs Moorer PPV would have been worth tuning in for. No doubt Sapp would have wanted a Tyson-huge payoff though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 How come he never went into rasslin full time then? Is he just terrible at it? I'm surprised once his MMA career was done (at a decent level) he didn't just become a full-time wrestler. Â I kept expecting to hear him linked with WWE or TNA, and it never happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted June 24, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 24, 2013 He was offered a deal with WWE but turned it down over money. They detailed several months of storylines for him during the negotiations. They then used exactly the same storylines for Bobby Lashley instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShowOff Posted June 24, 2013 Author Share Posted June 24, 2013 To be fair he did show up in WCW http://youtu.be/rfkBtnLCfr4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Eddie Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 To be fair he did show up in WCW http://youtu.be/rfkBtnLCfr4 Â Â Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, Bob Sapp has a bad-ass voice. Â If Lashley had a voice like that instead of his pathetic little Chyna-voice he'd have been a huge star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted June 24, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 24, 2013 Great look, great personality, massive, likable, awesome Barry White voice. He was a huge star in Japan as said. I think one of his fights set some absolutely mental ratings record one new year's eve (without checking it was something ridiculous like 100 million viewers). If he'd have been more open to the WWE offer money-wise and was willing to put the time in, he'd surely have been a big deal in the US as well. Â Ha, 54 million viewers not 100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-d-d-dAz Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 There's not a funnier clip anywhere in the world than Sapp's fight with Cro-Cop. He was so scared, bless him, that his knees were wobbling, he was throwing these weak ass jabs and then when his face gets destroyed he looks like his favourite character in a romantic comedy got killed. Â It's harsh to laugh, but hard not to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted June 24, 2013 Moderators Share Posted June 24, 2013 My mate beat Sapp a couple of years ago in Dubai. Â Crazy Bear? He fucking rules! I remember watching a Cage Rage before when he did a MOTHERFUCKING BIG SPLASH to get into a mount position. One of the coolest things I've ever seen in MMA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted June 24, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 24, 2013 My favourite wrestling VHS memory is buying GAB 91 from some chap at the NEC and finding some candid shots of the blokes wife spread out nude on the bed. I can still recall her cold dead eyes, unbalivably hairy cunt and scruffy looking flat. Â When I first got into wrestling big I didn't have many tapes of anything so every Friday night would be rumble 2000 or WM16. Now I spend an hour trying to pick something from the pile but back then it was just them and I loved it. When Woolworths was scraping VHS they must have found some old stock as a small selection of wcw and ecw turned up. How we raced for the rack, those days are long gone. The same used to happen with blockbuster, 99p buy one get one free and some one had traded in a near full set of wwf VHS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted June 24, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 24, 2013 My favourite wrestling VHS memory is buying GAB 91 from some chap at the NEC and finding some candid shots of the blokes wife spread out nude on the bed. Â Wonderful. Peddling your homegrown filth by hiding it in wrestling. Sort of the inverse of nipping into your newsagent to buy Power Slam, then slipping it in between the pages of Mens World on your way out of the shop, to conceal your shameful purchase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Young Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Â The only wrestling video left in my collection. Â It was my intention to transfer this to DVD which is why it's still in my possession. However, I never got round to it and my VHS to DVD recorder is now broken so I never will. Â I remember buying this from the Dickens DIY superstore in Washington, probably in 1995/6. I found it in a bargain bin and I purchased it, together with some Ben Elton stand-up show from 1993, for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted June 30, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 30, 2013 I've got that. And another one from that series which I forget the name of. They should be still in a box at my parents' house somewhere, along with whatever WWF tapes I still have there. Some good stuff on them from what I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted June 30, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted June 30, 2013 I can't but help that despite having pretty much at our fingers through youtube etc, nothing will quite match old VHS. I remember as a 11 year old, a schoolmate getting hold of Wrestlemania 1 in the bargain bin at a garage somewhere, and managing to borrow it. It was almost mythical to see the event that i'd (naively) thought began Wrestling in the bigtime. Â The problem was that because tapes were Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWFE8791 Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Hi Adam that VHS I have converted to DVD artwork too. Â I also have a surplus VHS to DVD recorder I'm selling cheap too. Â There is three tapes from this collection which I have converted from the vhs tapes to dvd. Â They are.. The Mick Mcmanus World Of Wrestling Mayhem & Mystery Tag Teams & Tearaways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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