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Post by Stu on Jan 18, 2007 15:09:49 GMT -5
Remember John Stossel? He's the reporter who was smacked on the head about 23 years ago by David Schultz for calling wrestling fake. Here's the video: www.break.com/index/pro_wrestler_punches_reporter.htmlWhen asked about the experience this week, Stossel said this: "A bad experience. … As a consumer reporter, I would go up to some people and say, 'Why are you a crook?' I'm almost worried they would shoot me or stab me or beat me up, and it's funny, the only time it happened is when it's about something everybody knows is phony. But this (person) chose to be dumb." credit: thedesertsun.com Edge would not be happy. |
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Post by Ace Diamond on Jan 18, 2007 15:13:47 GMT -5
You think Stossel would know better by now than to get his wording wrong.
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Post by 'Sweet n' Sour' A. A. Estrada on Jan 18, 2007 15:22:29 GMT -5
Yeah, wrestling is fake as hell.
You'd think some people would realize that THIS ISN'T NEWS TO ANYONE.
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Post by Chainsaw on Jan 18, 2007 15:24:20 GMT -5
Stossel is like most investigative journalists. He's an absolute dick.
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Post by willywonka666 on Jan 18, 2007 15:26:11 GMT -5
I remember when Stossel got the hell knocked out of him by Dr. D-then years later he writes a book and takes another shot-that took no balls at all to do that nearly two decades after the fact
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Post by balmudo on Jan 18, 2007 16:07:10 GMT -5
I'd still fear David Schultz.
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Post by gdawg76 on Jan 18, 2007 16:20:00 GMT -5
Here's the deal. If you are passionate about something, you take offense to it if someone puts it down. These guys make a living wrestling, and it is an extreme passion, it's part of who they are. To call wrestling fake is like a personal insult. If you worked on something for years, and somebody told you it was crap, you would be deeply insulted.
The dumbest thing that these 120 lb reporters do is go up to a 250-300 lb man and insult them directly to their face. Anyone who does this deserves to be smacked.
And I loved it when he smacked the guy and said something to the effect of "there, that's an open hand slap." He was like, if you hit the floor just from that, imagine if I really hit you...
I would love for any reporter that puts wrestling down to be forced to stay in the ring with a wrestler for five minutes. I bet the reporter would say something like,"well I'm not trained to do this" and the wrestler can say "but it's fake, right?, so you'll be okay" and then the wrestler would just tear into him.
I'd pay good money to see that!
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Post by Lino on Jan 18, 2007 16:39:43 GMT -5
Pwned. Twas a great day in wrestling history.
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Post by The Boss on Jan 18, 2007 19:36:08 GMT -5
"A bad experience. … As a consumer reporter, I would go up to some people and say, 'Why are you a crook?' I'm almost worried they would shoot me or stab me or beat me up, and it's funny, the only time it happened is when it's about something everybody knows is phony. But this (person) chose to be dumb." . Yeah that smack to the head didn't feel so phony did it Stossel? Man I wish I had that recorded. |
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Post by HRH The KING on Jan 18, 2007 19:37:24 GMT -5
"Phony".
-shakes head-
Some people really just don't get it.
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Post by BHB on Jan 18, 2007 19:39:04 GMT -5
LOL @ John Stossel
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Jan 18, 2007 21:42:30 GMT -5
I'll modify a quote from Bischoff:
"John Stossel? Is he still around?"
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Post by Well, Youre Wrong on Jan 18, 2007 21:59:10 GMT -5
That's still funny no matter how many I see that. that second slap upside the head of Stossel always gets me.
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Post by odanobunaga on Jan 18, 2007 22:19:03 GMT -5
"Hey sir, excuse me. But why is wrestling fake?"*slap* 20 years later. "Wrestling if phony." This mean is dumber than a lab mouse  . He already bad mouthed wrestling, got his ass kicked, and bad mouthed again now. |
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Post by Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone on Jan 18, 2007 22:23:31 GMT -5
You know, I understand that Stossel would have a grudge against David Schultz. I would too. But for Stossel to badmouth all of wrestling is just unfair.
And after what happened to Joey Mercury and more recently HHH, calling wrestling phony is actually very incorrect and uninformed (not to mention arrogant).
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Jan 18, 2007 22:42:22 GMT -5
You know, I understand that Stossel would have a grudge against David Schultz. I would too. But for Stossel to badmouth all of wrestling is just unfair. And after what happened to Joey Mercury and more recently HHH, calling wrestling phony is actually very incorrect and uninformed (not to mention arrogant). Add "insulting" to the list of adjectives. I don't know about you, but if I just had my face busted or my quad roll up my leg, I'd be pretty insulted for someone to say what I do is fake. |
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Post by JMA on Jan 18, 2007 23:10:48 GMT -5
Dr. D should smack him again. Proto-Geraldo definitely deserves it.
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Post by Harmonica on Jan 18, 2007 23:14:08 GMT -5
he didn't ask a question he just said "I think this is fake"
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Post by carter 15 on Jan 18, 2007 23:50:50 GMT -5
John Stossel
Who?
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 18, 2007 23:57:36 GMT -5
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. He already bad mouthed wrestling, got his ass kicked, and bad mouthed again now.
