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Post by Larryhausen on Jun 23, 2022 17:24:09 GMT -5
Once, when I was training, I worked a 3 minute training match with a buddy where I was supposed to go over with a surprise sunset flip. I had to force a kickoff and call an audible because dude's taint STANK! Reminds me of that infamous match with Midnight Express versus jobbers where Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane are increasingly disgusted with one of them and seem to be trying to avoid touching him because he seemingly was really gross. Yeah, I broke it just well enough to make it look like a kickout and then did a Danielson headkick and did a lateral press. Trainers didn't notice, and I couldn't bury my friend so I didn't say anything, but that stench was ungodly. |
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Post by jason1980s on Jun 23, 2022 19:03:55 GMT -5
Roddy Piper had it right when he said Vince offered him money to take a stink face from Rikishi and Roddy said no amount of money would make him do it. That is not entertaining, it's certainly not sports. And like mentioned, no movies or TV shows have anyone whose done that. It's sick Vince doing what sick Vince does best, humiliating another person and putting them in their "place" in the company.
To me, this thread makes me lose a lot of respect for Regal.
I know he's grateful to whoever pays him and probably most so to Vince in the early 2000s but at some point people need to balance the "respect for the business" with "self respect." Would he train new hires to be OK with having them put their lips on an owner's bare butt?
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jun 24, 2022 0:43:58 GMT -5
Just on the subject of "you wouldn't get this elsewhere" which has come up a couple of times.
Well, I beg to differ. The early 2000s was a time that kinda lined up with Vince's sophmoric humour. You had stuff like "American Pie" and gross out humour. Like a lot of stuff, in WWE it ourstayed its welcome, but at the time "man gets humiliated with his face in someone's ass", if you told me that was in a movie, I'd believe it. Didn't Tom Green have a character that did that and was super popular? I remember Eminem parodying it.
If it has a place in wrestling, that's another matter. Like I said before as a 1 off, just to humiliate the character of Regal, it'd just be one of those "wow when you look back the Attitude era was weird" segments, but when it became an on going thing putting over Vince that was a totally different matter.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Jun 24, 2022 1:19:18 GMT -5
The first Kiss My Ass Club segment was a rare instance of WWE's brand of comedy working. From Vince hamming it up, to Regal's absolute masterclass facial expressions and selling, to Jerry Lawler dying of laughter on commentary (and not the forced laughter we hear from commentary today, Jerry legitimately sounded like he was about to piss himself), it was genuinely funny material from a company that rarely produces any. Compare that to the 18,000 atrocious KMAC segments in the years that followed that completely missed out on what made that first segment so memorable.
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Post by Larryhausen on Jun 24, 2022 1:28:33 GMT -5
Roddy Piper had it right when he said Vince offered him money to take a stink face from Rikishi and Roddy said no amount of money would make him do it. That is not entertaining, it's certainly not sports. And like mentioned, no movies or TV shows have anyone whose done that. It's sick Vince doing what sick Vince does best, humiliating another person and putting them in their "place" in the company. To me, this thread makes me lose a lot of respect for Regal. I know he's grateful to whoever pays him and probably most so to Vince in the early 2000s but at some point people need to balance the "respect for the business" with "self respect." Would he train new hires to be OK with having them put their lips on an owner's bare butt? Speak for yourself. I thought it was entertaining as hell. |
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