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Post by Suck it Trebek! on Dec 23, 2006 16:02:52 GMT -5
When one of my coworkers tried to make fun of me for going to Raw last Monday, by talking about it being fake. I informed her that CSI and Lost were fake too.
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Post by Warwolf on Dec 24, 2006 1:12:14 GMT -5
I'll give the man props for that. I've taken training for pro wrestling and been on some shows as a ref. I know from firsthand experience that it's not 'fake'. Scripted, yes. But fake? Hell no.
And yeah, does anyone have a youtube link of this?
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Post by Red 'n' Black Reggie on Dec 24, 2006 7:41:46 GMT -5
I don't believe I've ever seen a news network or major magazine or whatever call wrestlers anything but big idiots who take pratfalls. And whenever you see clips of wrestling in the news, what do you see? AJ Styles doing impressive feats of acrobatics? Benoit or Finlay handing out stiff shots? No, you see the worst wrestlers in the worst matches, putting on terrible performances. At times like that you'd wish Amazing Red was the poster boy for pro-wrestling. "all pro-wrestlers look like little children and do amazing acrobatics". and then they could get this bloke on their show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_QuQtnxWMU(by the way, thats the vid of vader threatening the tv host for calling wrestling fake, its great)
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Post by Matt Rogers on Dec 24, 2006 7:59:06 GMT -5
At times like that you'd wish Amazing Red was the poster boy for pro-wrestling. "all pro-wrestlers look like little children and do amazing acrobatics". and then they could get this bloke on their show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_QuQtnxWMU(by the way, thats the vid of vader threatening the tv host for calling wrestling fake, its great) Yeah, seriously, why the hell would you ask a guy who looks like VADER that question?
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Post by KingPopper on Dec 24, 2006 9:08:57 GMT -5
No wonder he's my forth favorite wrestler ever.
1) Shawn Michaels 2) Sting 3) Chris Jericho 4) Edge
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Post by Nickie James on Dec 24, 2006 9:40:27 GMT -5
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Post by Matt Rogers on Dec 24, 2006 9:44:47 GMT -5
Thank you very much, and Edge has just attained God status in my eyes.
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Post by heffer111 on Dec 24, 2006 10:51:45 GMT -5
the bitch laughs
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Post by Cactus Jack on Dec 24, 2006 10:54:09 GMT -5
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Post by Harmonica on Dec 24, 2006 10:57:20 GMT -5
At times like that you'd wish Amazing Red was the poster boy for pro-wrestling. "all pro-wrestlers look like little children and do amazing acrobatics". and then they could get this bloke on their show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_QuQtnxWMU(by the way, thats the vid of vader threatening the tv host for calling wrestling fake, its great) and Undertaker is just their watching, Edge handled that very well
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Post by Cactus Jack on Dec 24, 2006 11:05:28 GMT -5
I love the way Edge just drops the "fake" comment in there.
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Post by Dynamic Dee on Dec 24, 2006 11:50:59 GMT -5
I think the reason people point out that wrestling is fake all the time is because the business tried to get the people to believe for so many years that what they were seeing was 100% real. Its not true in this day and age, but in the kayfabe era "protecting the business" meant keeping all the secrets from getting out to the public. At least in the movie and tv business they have always been open that its all entertainment and you knew who the actors were and stuff like that. Today the wrestlers admit to everything being scripted and that they are really performers. I do agree though that they should be offended by people putting down the business that they love by calling it "fake" but it really comes from the con-artists who ran the business back in the day trying to fool the public into thinking everything was legit.
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Post by markmarkson on Dec 24, 2006 13:47:19 GMT -5
I dig that he was able to make a comeback, and I think the dude is pretty good, but this didn't really elevate him at all in my eyes. If he'd pulled a Vader and powerbombed her, then he'd be elevated. It's just that I've seen a lot of interviews where the interviewer states wrestling's fake and a wrestler will respond in a similar fashion.
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Post by therob on Dec 24, 2006 14:59:44 GMT -5
I somehow think she didn't understand the sarcasm in his comment.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2006 15:37:50 GMT -5
Vader acted like a complete moron. I like the guy and everything, but if you had to compare both, Edge did the right thing, and Vader just further cemented the notion that all wrestlers are brutish thugs that can't put a sentence together.
Kudos to Edge for standing up for the industry and those who've been injured by it, and making himself look smart and intelligent, compared to Vader who just made a complete arse out of himself.
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Post by Nice Guy Cody on Dec 24, 2006 15:56:32 GMT -5
He should have just Vaderbombed all of Kuwait while he was at it.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Dec 24, 2006 17:21:00 GMT -5
I think a spear is in order for that interviewer.
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Post by markmarkson on Dec 24, 2006 20:09:55 GMT -5
He should have just Vaderbombed all of Kuwait while he was at it. Now THAT would have been impressive.
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Post by Mad Johnny Maxx on Dec 25, 2006 23:05:07 GMT -5
+10 respect for Edge. While she's at it, that anchor should ask Droz and Hayabusa how fake it is. Of course, I'm sure she wouldn't know who they are because she probably did zero research on the subject. Why should she? She's just A REPORTER. Kinda reminds me of my days in PTCsucks.com (and .org and other dots it took on at the time) when the PTC's leader, L. Brent Bozell and some of his band of merry dimwits were on some news show back when they had a bug up their ass about Smackdown. Anyway...I don't think they had anyone representing the WWE and some mindless c*** was going on about The Rock and Stone Cold...and I think she called The Rock a bald headed angry man and then described Stone Cold as what the The Rock was. Most of my cohorts on the site had a damn good laugh at her.
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