Tag: wrestling

Who did Daniel Bryan piss off?

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Seriously, 18 seconds?  Did management not see how over Daniel Bryan was with the crowd?  I lost my shit when I saw the entire front row of people with the YES! signs, and I had high hopes for an entertaining opening match.  But for the second year in a row, apparently Sheamus vs. Daniel Bryan just isn’t meant to be a Wrestlemania match.  It was completely removed from the card last year, and this year it’s made the opening match, and ended in 18 seconds.  Kind of absurd, and it makes me wonder what Daniel Bryan did to get such an unceremonious job.

But whatever.  In spite of the Daniel Bryan jobbing, Wrestlemania was still an okay show.  Granted, it’s never been about the show as much as it’s always been about the gathering of friends, but when I think back to the show as a whole, it wasn’t the best, but it wasn’t terrible either.  As always, it’s more fun to analyze the crowd, pick out entertaining signs, and criticize the people in the front row than it is to watch the wrestling sometimes.

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Why The Rock has already lost at Wrestlemania XXVIII

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I’m actually looking forward to Wrestlemania again this year.  Since it’s not in Atlanta and I won’t be attending, nor will I be having guests over for it, I’ll be going back to the traditional arrangement of flying up to Virginia to watch it with all of my close friends together, like we had done so for every year since 1999 (with a few exceptions).  The funny thing is that the match listing for the show as a whole seems kind of weak overall, but I guess it doesn’t really need to be that strong, because there are two matches in that are heavily carrying the entire show, and those happen to be the two matches that pretty much I’d assume most people actually give a shit about.  One of them happens to be the year-in-the-making John Cena versus The Rock match.

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Simple but brilliant

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Hulk Hogan’s mustache classified as new lifeform

I’m not sure how the topic of this came up, but for whatever reason, I was reminded of this brilliant Fark headline back many years ago.  As short as it was, it got right to the point and hit on all the metaphorical cylinders – nostalgia, current events, and love for lobsters.  It’s still floating around my idea of the bar set for what makes a good headline, to this very day.

The true baddest man on the planet

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As of now, I’ve read no less than three books that have all attested to the simplest fact that the toughest man on the face of the planet is former wrestler, Haku.

The assessment is always the same too; he’s one of the most gentle, kindest people on the face of the planet, but the problem is that he’s a giant, scary looking Tongan man, whom back in the day when wrestling was ambiguous, people at bars kept seeing him as an easy mark to test their own toughness against.  And when other people started fights, Haku always, always finished them.

The details are borderline insane to scary.  He’s bitten a man’s nose off.  He’s broken police handcuffs.  He shook off mace, he inhaled pepper spray.  He’s ripped off ears, gauged out eyes, and in one testament, fish hooked a police officer who tried to detain him, and literally ripped his cheek open.  Clearly, he’s been arrested numerous times, but in an age when wrestlers were obligated to “protect the business,” it’s amazing that people continued to think it was fake when Haku was pretty much literally ripping people apart.

Holy hell

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Has it grown with age?  I mean, everyone knew that Triple H always had a big schnozz, but in comparison to Shawn Michaels’ diminutive-sized in comparison sniffer, it’s like comparing watermelons to grapes.

Seriously, not really the best camera angle to use at all, if Mr. Levesque is at all conscientious about the size of his nose.

#7

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I once said that I would stop at five, since my shelf only carries five.  But then my best friend got married, and nothing other than a WWF Tag Team belt seemed like an adequate gift for the occasion.  So I said I would stop at six, but then Cody Rhodes began brandishing the old school WWF Intercontinental Title belt, and it was at that moment that I decided that I needed to have one too.

Although I would have loved to have gotten the snazzy white strap IC belt like Rhodes’, when I came across this black strap belt on eBay, the price was too difficult to ignore.  In the end, I sniped this Intercontinental Title for roughly $100 less than what a typical white strap belt goes for, so I don’t really feel like I settled.  This sets things up more adequately if I ever want to do any gaudy wrestling costumes for future DragonCon/Halloweens, like the Macho Man or Honky Tonk Man.

So the question is, will I stop at seven belts?  The answer is likely no.  Although it’s never necessarily been my favorite belt of all the options, the WCW World Championship belt (AKA The Big Gold Belt), or any of it’s WWE-version reincarnations would have to be number eight.  With that, I would feel as if my collection could be complete.  And the best part is, The Big Gold Belt is fairly common, therefore the general cost of one probably wouldn’t be more than any of my existing belts.  But I’ve spent enough money over the last few weeks now, and will put such a notion on hold for the time being.  Maybe if I bank enough winnings in Vegas, I can take a gander.