Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted March 6, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 6, 2015 I just thought about William Regal, him, Finlay and Arn Anderson could probably kick most of the people on the current roster. Arn Anderson is 56, out of shape and one of his arms is fucked because of a severe neck injury. He's not kicking anyones arse in 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flangedango Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Surely Styles laying out JBL ruined his reputation with the boys? Â Wasn't he absolutely hammered though? That takes a lot of of the shine off of it for me. Still a good giggle for those in attendance. Â Surely Henry is the toughest bloke going today based purely on his strength? He might be a big softy but that doesn't take away from his raw strength and grip. There aren't many people on the planet let alone the roster that would overpower him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTXRussomark Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 A few people have mentioned in interviews that JBL handled it perfectly afterwards - jokingly calling Styles "killer" (or something similar) for the rest of the tour and putting him over in front of everyone rather than acting passed off or trying to no-sell it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Really Big Shoe Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 As for legit tough guys in WWE, I'd say Finlay, Wade Barrett & William Regal. I don't think the Wade stuff is gimmickry, this is something he posted a while ago;    Something that has been cropping up lately on my Twitter account (@wadebarrett) is the 12-inch scar that stretches from my upper back to halfway down the triceps of my right arm. It has faded significantly over the last couple of years, so you may not have noticed it, but several people have been asking how I got it and I thought I would explain it on here. Before I continue, I must warn you that this is a rather unpleasant story and if you are easily shocked, stop reading now and go and read one of the other rookie’s blogs where they will no doubt be discussing such riveting subjects as what food they are eating at present and how much they paid for their last haircut. Yawn. Anyway, as you already know, before I made it to NXT I spent several years bare-knuckle fighting across Europe. I had a lot of success and eventually got to fight for some pretty big money. I had one particular fight lined up with a highly notorious opponent in the town of Budapest, Hungary. Hungary is an ex-communist state in Eastern Europe. There is concrete everywhere you look, the sun never shines and the people are as tough as old boots. Basically, it is not the kind of place any of the other NXT rookies would ever dare set foot, but that didn’t phase me in the slightest.The build up to the fight was so big amongst members of the underworld that some termed the it ‘The Battle of Buda‘ which in my eyes made it the equivalent of Ali and Foreman’s ‘Rumble in the Jungle‘, only far more dangerous. My opponent had a reputation for fighting dirty, much like myself, and there was a rather intimidating atmosphere building around the town in the hours leading up to the fight. The local police tend to turn a blind-eye to this sort of thing in Eastern-Europe which is why so many fights are staged over there. In fact, most of the local police force turned up to bet money on who was going to win. Speaking of money, there was also a rather substantial cash prize on the line for the winner of the fight, a prize which I was going to make sure I’d be taking home no matter what.Come fight time, we started brawling and to my surprise, it was actually turned out to be one of my easier fights. It lasted about 3 minutes before my opponent’s face was so smashed up that he couldn’t see out of either eye and he had no choice but to say ‘I quit’ in his broken English. I had my hand raised, collected the winner’s money and decided to get out of the area straight away and on the next plane back to the green hills of England. The place was crawling with a whole host of unsavory characters and every single one of them wanted to get their hands on the £20K winners prize that was now sitting in my bag. Having all those eyes burning a hole through you as you stand alone in some Eastern-European hell hole is a very sobering experience, let me tell you.Unfortunately, I hadn‘t planned my getaway well enough. As I walked through an alleyway in search of a taxi to the airport, I heard footsteps behind me and a split-second later, I was jumped from behind and stabbed in the back with an eight-inch blade. I remember feeling the initial pain of the wound, but it was very quickly masked by numbness as the pain endorphins kicked in. At this point, I was supposed to stay down on the ground in agony whilst my assailant made off with my winner’s money, but things didn’t quite work out like that. I lost a lot of blood that day, but I wasn’t about to lose a penny of my hard-earned cash. I can’t say too much about what happened next due to legal reasons, but what I will say is that if I’ve ended up with 12 inch scars on my body, just imagine how the other guy ended up looking. If you can’t imagine it, just go and look at some minced beef next time you are in the supermarket and that should do the trick. Life for me has always been full of scars and scrapes, but I make sure that I leave any situation with the money in my pocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted March 6, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 6, 2015 Thought there were no doubt some real tough guys in the business back in the day, the hyperbole that follows this stories simply add to the myth and the legend of these guys. For example, Meng. It's almost the done thing now for wrestlers to say he was the toughest guy in the business, i imagine very few people who say it and tell the stories were actually present when these things happen, if they even happened at all. I do love a Meng story though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undefeated Steak Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 That Wade Barrett story is quality. You know exactly where it's going and it delivers 100%. The last couple of sentences need to be used in a D-list fight movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted March 6, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 6, 2015 I'm always amazed that so many people buy the bare-knuckle fighting backstory for real, even though it's always told totally in character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-d-d-dAz Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Yeah, the line early doors disparaging the other 'rookies' should have given the game away. Â Didn't he actually work in finance or accountancy before donning the tights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted March 6, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 6, 2015 Recruitment consultant in Slough after he finished university. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosler28 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Undertaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-d-d-dAz Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 No, Arch is right, he was definitely a recruitment consultant.. Â Gentle humour for a Friday evening, folks. Gentle humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Dem Wanz Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 The sun shines pretty consistently in Budapest in the summer months too, Barrett's done a good job of working some of you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrK Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 The sun shines pretty consistently in Budapest in the summer months too, Barrett's done a good job of working some of you Yeah I went to Budapest in August a couple of years ago and the heat was incredible. Probably more so because I wasn't expecting it but by all accounts Hungary is not far off Mediterranean temperatures through summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted March 7, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 7, 2015 Arn Anderson is 56 Arn Anderson is another one like Hulk Hogan. He's always looked middle aged. As a kid I always just assumed he was in his late 40s/early 50s. And that was in the early 90s when he'd have only been in his 30s. I couldn't believe it when I found out he was only in his 20s when the Horsemen formed. He looked pretty much just as old as Flair and Ole to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted March 7, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 7, 2015 I'm always amazed that so many people buy the bare-knuckle fighting backstory for real, even though it's always told totally in character. Is there any truth to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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