big7thletter Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Winner has to be New Jack, surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarTheSlouch Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 STEINER  Genuinely at a loss about the bloke. Apparently happily married with kids but outside the house is an utter nutjob!  Thrashing jobbers Terrorising Nitro girls Terrorising back office staff Threatening everyone, fans, law enforcement, random people  Has since gone on to cover himself in ugly ass tattoos when in his 50. Fill yer boots, mate,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syp2oRvn2JQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted February 12, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted February 12, 2016 Rick Rude seems like he could join this list. Especially the end part of his active grappling career in 1994.. Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsZTmIr3v1M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobby dazzler Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Not completely on topic but nearly every book I read written by an old timer from the territory days speak about causing riots and having to fight back to the dressing room whilst fans are trying to stab them. Did this stuff every REALLY happen regularly like they claim? Are they exaggerating "fans threw shit into the ring" to "a full scale riot broke out, and I had to start punching fans to get back to the showers"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members herbie747 Posted February 12, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted February 12, 2016 Not completely on topic but nearly every book I read written by an old timer from the territory days speak about causing riots and having to fight back to the dressing room whilst fans are trying to stab them. Did this stuff every REALLY happen regularly like they claim? Are they exaggerating "fans threw shit into the ring" to "a full scale riot broke out, and I had to start punching fans to get back to the showers"? Â Yeah, everyone seems to say this. It probably happened in the South more often because they're generally more gullible people, but the severity & frequency has to be exaggerated hugely. How could a wrestler fight off 300 fans on the way backstage who were also trying to stab him? They weren't that tough, FFS. Cornette even claims he had to do it all the time & fight people off with his tennis racket, and he's not even a wrestler. Â It's probably the same way all the old wrestlers talk about their angles - they all say that the fans knew it was mostly fake - but their stuff; their stuff was real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted February 12, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted February 12, 2016 It's probably the same way all the old wrestlers talk about their angles - they all say that the fans knew it was mostly fake - but their stuff; their stuff was real. The other one I like is 'if you think me and ______ had good matches, you should've seen our matches that weren't filmed. They were the best matches ever. Everyone agreed. But you'll never see them because they weren't taped'. Â Like it's not enough to be complimented on their good matches. They have to one up it and say you missed their best stuff. They were actually even better than you thought but only the crowd of 25 and a half people in a barn in Dicklick, Arkansas saw it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members herbie747 Posted February 12, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted February 12, 2016 Yeah, I've heard that one to. Not unfeasible though, because on house shows they'd be given more time & more creative freedom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted February 12, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted February 12, 2016 Oh yeah it's plausible. But it always smells a bit of ego-driven bullshit to me. Like they just can't stop bigging themselves up that bit more and letting you know that however good you thought they were, you were wrong, they're even better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobby dazzler Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 "Our angle got over so huge that not only did we sell out the building, we turned 2000 fans away at the door. On a Wednesday. In a Blizzard" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members herbie747 Posted February 12, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted February 12, 2016 "Our angle got over so huge that not only did we sell out the building, we turned 2000 fans away at the door. On a Wednesday. In a Blizzard" Â Roddy Piper was the worst for this. I remember he did an interview somewhere a few years ago (maybe Austin's podcast), and Meltzer picked it apart a few days later on Observer Radio - basically, all Piper's numbers were complete lies by miles. Where he claimed all sell-outs, there were actually none at all, and the program he was talking about drew quite poorly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopper Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 On a similar note: How much of an exaggeration is it when Ric Flair says he wrestled for an hour every night for months at a time like he always claims in interviews? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeRobertsParoleOfficer Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 On a similar note: How much of an exaggeration is it when Ric Flair says he wrestled for an hour every night for months at a time like he always claims in interviews? I think its regarded as being mostly true as loads have commented on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Big Benny HG Posted February 12, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted February 12, 2016 On a similar note: How much of an exaggeration is it when Ric Flair says he wrestled for an hour every night for months at a time like he always claims in interviews? While it might be a stretch to say 'every night for months', it's likely probably true. They would go and do the same match again and again around each city on the house show loop, usually the World Champion vs. the challenger they were trying to make by him taking the champ to the limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted February 12, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted February 12, 2016 On a similar note: How much of an exaggeration is it when Ric Flair says he wrestled for an hour every night for months at a time like he always claims in interviews? Â I'm sure that Flair said he'd wrestled 100,000 matches in one interview. Which means that he would have needed to have wrestled every day since roughly the American War of Independence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Did he have a similar on some medical advert on TV. May have a chiropractors or something like that. Either way the numbers didn't add up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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