WWE.com: Bad News vs Bad News

[superchamp]

Okay, I like Wade Barrett, but I see people talk about his "bare-knuckle fighting" background a lot, and I feel like just putting this conspiracy theory out there:

I don't believe for one second the guy has had even one bare-knuckle fight. It's a work.

[Professor Chaos]

It'd be like Rocky's first fight with Clubber Lang. Barrett might win the rematch if he goes jogging on the beach with David Otunga.

[TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out]

Apr 17, 2014 16:44:43 GMT -5 superchamp said:

Okay, I like Wade Barrett, but I see people talk about his "bare-knuckle fighting" background a lot, and I feel like just putting this conspiracy theory out there:

I don't believe for one second the guy has had even one bare-knuckle fight. It's a work.

Yeah, I agree with you. Barrett seems like a smart dude, the type that would be able to keep a work going for a while.

And I can't believe the hate Bad News Brown is getting. Dude was a badass, straight up. He scared the shit out of Andre, for Foley's sake. And he was entertaining as all hell, if he came up 10 years later he'd be known as a legend.

[mizerable]

Apr 17, 2014 18:16:24 GMT -5 Professor Chaos said:

It'd be like Rocky's first fight with Clubber Lang. Barrett might win the rematch if he goes jogging on the beach with David Otunga.

If Clubber Lang was Bad News Brown, Mick (Jericho) would have spent the rest of the movie wiping Rocky's (Barrett's) body parts off the mat.

[FinalGwen]

Apr 17, 2014 16:44:43 GMT -5 superchamp said:

Okay, I like Wade Barrett, but I see people talk about his "bare-knuckle fighting" background a lot, and I feel like just putting this conspiracy theory out there:

I don't believe for one second the guy has had even one bare-knuckle fight. It's a work.

If that's the case, it's quite astounding that Barrett managed to get in a whole article of praise for the NHS onto a website owned by the McMahons just for the sake of some made-up backstory. That alone makes me wonder if it's true.

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Bad News Brown would stomp out Barrett with extreme prejudice. Bad News Allen had no f***s to give. Still one of my all time favorites.

[Tiger Millionaire]

[Amazing Kitsune]

Apr 17, 2014 16:44:43 GMT -5 superchamp said:

I don't believe for one second the guy has had even one bare-knuckle fight. It's a work.

I don't know what part of this sounds like a work to you:

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.

[Magnus the Magnificent]

Barrett wins via count-out.

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Seriously, fellow FAN friends..........THEY READ THIS FORUM!!!!!!

[Digital Witness]

If this fight did actually happen with both men in their primes, I would have to take Brown over Barrett. Brown had a bronze medal in the olympics in judo. He'd tear Barrett apart in no time.

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Apr 18, 2014 8:46:08 GMT -5 @knapp said:

Seriously, fellow FAN friends..........THEY READ THIS FORUM!!!!!!

I really doubt we were the first people to make the Bad News comparison.

[Joe Neglia]

Apr 17, 2014 11:46:16 GMT -5 jamofpearls said:

Apr 17, 2014 11:15:25 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

In kayfabe? I dunno, was Brown ever an upper card guy? I'm not too familiar with his career.

However, in real life, I've heard Brown didn't like losing very much, I think, in which case... my money's on him

As for just a fight in the street, well, Barrett apparently has that bareknuckle boxing background...

Don't think he was ever upper card, strong mid-card.
I do remember him kicking Hogan's ass through out an entire match until hulk-up, deflected punches, big boot, leg drop.

Before WWF, he was a headliner in Calgary and Florida. In the WWF (his second run, his first being in WWWF), he was kept high midcard with feuds against Piper, Rhodes, Roberts and Savage. And the Hogan house run. Was put over in the WM4 battle royal. With the exception of his teaming and feuding with Brooklyn Brawler (logical in ways, given their characters, but odd seeing how opposite they were on the roster rank), he stayed about as high profile as possible during his tenure, but his gimmick did not lend itself to the flashy marketing and advertising WWF was working, so his presence or lack thereof on merchandise and promotional material lends itself to people not realizing how protected on the roster he really was.

Way, way back there, was a hypothetical thread about what if the NWA Committee in the 1970s had decided to go with an African-American champion and if so, who would it be. My choice has always been Allen Coage.

[jamofpearls]

Apr 18, 2014 14:51:39 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

Apr 17, 2014 11:46:16 GMT -5 jamofpearls said:

Don't think he was ever upper card, strong mid-card.
I do remember him kicking Hogan's ass through out an entire match until hulk-up, deflected punches, big boot, leg drop.

Before WWF, he was a headliner in Calgary and Florida. In the WWF (his second run, his first being in WWWF), he was kept high midcard with feuds against Piper, Rhodes, Roberts and Savage. And the Hogan house run. Was put over in the WM4 battle royal. With the exception of his teaming and feuding with Brooklyn Brawler (logical in ways, given their characters, but odd seeing how opposite they were on the roster rank), he stayed about as high profile as possible during his tenure, but his gimmick did not lend itself to the flashy marketing and advertising WWF was working, so his presence or lack thereof on merchandise and promotional material lends itself to people not realizing how protected on the roster he really was.

Way, way back there, was a hypothetical thread about what if the NWA Committee in the 1970s had decided to go with an African-American champion and if so, who would it be. My choice has always been Allen Coage.

I made a grammar error, should have read "but was a strong mid-card."
I think he would have made for a very enjoyable heel - tweener type champ. Almost like a proto Stone Cold.

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I live in Preston, where Barrett is from and there is more than enough trouble here on weekends for me to believe there are organised fight clubs. Preston City Wrestling does not count.

I wouldn't big up Judo medals too much though.  In a fight situation in MMA, not every Judo specialist is a Ronda Rousey.  You just many Karo Parisyan who get gumped too.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Apr 18, 2014 16:45:30 GMT -5 @ihateeverything said:

I live in Preston, where Barrett is from and there is more than enough trouble here on weekends for me to believe there are organised fight clubs. Preston City Wrestling does not count.

I wouldn't big up Judo medals too much though.  In a fight situation in MMA, not every Judo specialist is a Ronda Rousey.  You just many Karo Parisyan who get gumped too.

I lived in Preston for four years and so I marked for Barrett at first, until he turned into an absolute letdown from a very early stage.

[Squirrel Master]

I'll say this, if Barrett got in my face at a bar I just might test him. Bad New Brown I would walk away from.

[SEAN CARLESS]

Apr 18, 2014 16:45:30 GMT -5 @ihateeverything said:

I live in Preston, where Barrett is from and there is more than enough trouble here on weekends for me to believe there are organised fight clubs. Preston City Wrestling does not count.

I wouldn't big up Judo medals too much though.  In a fight situation in MMA, not every Judo specialist is a Ronda Rousey.  You just many Karo Parisyan who get gumped too.

Regardless, this is a bronze medalist in Judo, vs. a guy who hypothetically fought some untrained lummoxes in sloppy toughman fights. Those are not professional fighters with hybrid training. They're likely a bunch of Tank Abott's at best. A high level OLYMPIC judoka would obliterate 99% of these guys. There's a reason why most of these nobodies never fight pro. It's clumsy pikey bullshit in most cases.