Dean-o
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Post by Dean-o on May 11, 2010 18:06:47 GMT -5
I can't imagine how beat up and disgusting their feet must be like after years of wrestling barefoot. I love it when the Diva's wrestle barefoot, for reasons only Snitsky would understand...
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2010 12:48:47 GMT -5
I remember footage of Snuka from the Greatest Wrestling Stars of the 80's dvd of him saying that he first started off in boots but switched to barefoot cause it gives him better grip on the turnbuckle / ropes and he was used to that since he was a kid. Jumping off rocks in Hawaii into the ocean. That's the story I heard as well. Figured that was why, considering a lot of barefooted wrestlers were also high-fliers. And, just as an aside, Velvet McIntyre was a woman wrestler in the '80s who wrestled barefoot. |
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Post by thatguybayne on May 16, 2010 1:43:54 GMT -5
And, just as an aside, Velvet McIntyre was a woman wrestler in the '80s who wrestled barefoot. Lacey Von Erich does in Wrestlicious as well. No doubt will soon start doing so in TNA with her face turn. |
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Post by Chuckie Finster on May 16, 2010 4:07:43 GMT -5
Reminds me of the barefoot deathmatch that Jun Kasai did, where he actually landed feet first n thumbtacks and tried to do a barefoot barbed wire rope walk. I couldn't watch that. The second I saw him heading towards the tacks I switched off. Here's part the infamous Kenzan, Keikoutou & Karibbean Barbed Wire deathmatch where Kasai and Kobayashi take off their shoes. NOT FOR THE WEAK AT HEART |
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Post by Cactus Jack on May 16, 2010 5:40:45 GMT -5
In my short stint in wrestling school, I was wrestling a "scrimmage" after class. I had the ankle wraps on, because I always liked how they looked on Haku. (I'm as white as white can get, so I don't think I could have passed of as an "Islander" any time in my life.) At some point my opponent kicked me straight on, foot-to-foot, and kicked my big toenail backwards into my toe. Dislodged the nail, forcing it into the flesh of my toe. I've broken fingers, arms, tailbones. I've had a nailgun go off into my thumb, the nail jamming into my thumb joint. I've required stitches many times. That was the most painful thing ever. And it caused my toe so many infections and I needed two surgeries to fix it (when they removed the nail the first time, part of it broke off, so I had a chunk of nail basically floating in my toe-meat for 3 months or so) I think I wrestled two-three matches after that, couldn't walk without being in severe pain, and just moved on. So I wouldn't recommend wrestling without boots. That's my 2-cents. OUCH. That's making me wince just reading about it... |
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