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Post by The Tank on Mar 13, 2010 1:22:52 GMT -5
Now, in my family, pretty much everyone watches wrestling. And lately, I've been watching Smackdown a lot with my folks.
And one thing that constantly bugs me is every time CM Punk is on screen. Now don't get me wrong; I'm one of the biggest Punk/SES marks on these fine forums. But every time he shows up, my mom can't stop going on about how he's an asshole.
But the worst part? She's convinced that him being straight-edge is a work. Yea, sure, once the show's over he trots off to the bar with everyone else and gets hammered. All those tattoos proclaiming his straight-edge...ness? Nope, doesn't matter. The man's a liar.
Anyone else have situations like this with family/friends?
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Post by celticjobber on Mar 13, 2010 1:28:30 GMT -5
But the worst part? She's convinced that him being straight-edge is a work. Yea, sure, once the show's over he trots off to the bar with everyone else and gets hammered. All those tattoos proclaiming his straight-edge...ness? Nope, doesn't matter. The man's a liar. I know alot of people who think that's a work. Some say he really was straight edge at one point, but now he just uses it as a gimmick. Admittedly, he does look like a stereotypical drug addict (with those bags under his eyes and his skeevy look). But I give him the benefit of a doubt. What gets me is when people say things like "there's no way anyone is ever hurt, that stuff's so fake a toddler could do it". And the stuff some people still believe about "fake" chairs and ketchup packets is amazing...
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Post by Stotty on Mar 13, 2010 1:32:15 GMT -5
It's not really that surprising the someone would think Punk's gimmick is a work. Most gimmicks are. These days there are very few guys that actually live their gimmick.
I recently had a tough time convincing my workmates that Taker was in legitimate danger when he got caught in his own pyro. They were convinced it was a publicity stunt despite the fact that I showed them statements from the company.
That annoys me more because he was lucky to escape without a serious injury, and they just blew it off like it was nothing
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Post by BxB on Mar 13, 2010 1:33:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I used to have this annoying friend that thought any average Joe could step inside the ring and make an easy payday. His opinion changed when I showed him that Hayabusa botch, though.
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Post by Free Hat on Mar 13, 2010 1:36:48 GMT -5
For the longest time a lot of casual fans were saying Owen Hart's death was a work. That's probably the worst case I've ever come across.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Mar 13, 2010 1:41:17 GMT -5
I used to date a girl who after she saw the Undertaker-Mankind Hell in the Cell match was convinced the entire thing was done with computer graphics.
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Post by celticjobber on Mar 13, 2010 1:43:07 GMT -5
For the longest time a lot of casual fans were saying Owen Hart's death was a work. That's probably the worst case I've ever come across. I used to know someone who believed Brian Pillman was still alive for a few years after his death. Because his wife Melanie was on Raw the next night, it made him think it was all an elaborate storyline. He was even convinced Pillman would've been revealed as the "Higher Power".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2010 1:46:34 GMT -5
I remember knowing a girl who thought Eddie's death was fake and it was just a unique way of him getting retired. But I'm not placing blame on her because she barely knows wrestling, she just see's it sometimes because on of her friends BF watched it and she just likes Matt Hardy. Plus she kept mentioning that every time she saw bit of SD, it was always them mentioning Eddie or his wife was in the ring and she would think they were building up to his return. Also this was during the McMahon is dead storyline period when she told me about this. This is one of the reasons why I was truly disgusted with WWE with Eddie Exploitation.
I remember one of my friends father told me that Benoit was proof that all wrestlers are bad people. That was one of the worst things I have ever heard from someone. But he's also a racist as well.
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Post by Greer on Mar 13, 2010 1:47:09 GMT -5
I used to date a girl who after she saw the Undertaker-Mankind Hell in the Cell match was convinced the entire thing was done with computer graphics. Now THAT's some funny s***.
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Post by chunkylover53 on Mar 13, 2010 1:48:08 GMT -5
For the longest time a lot of casual fans were saying Owen Hart's death was a work. That's probably the worst case I've ever come across. I used to know someone who believed Brian Pillman was still alive for a few years after his death. Because his wife Melanie was on Raw the next night, it made him think it was all an elaborate storyline. He was even convinced Pillman would've been revealed as the "Higher Power". As morbid as that sounds, that would've been awesome!
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Post by Bullhead on Mar 13, 2010 1:48:14 GMT -5
I knew someone who almost stopped watching wrestling after I told her about blade jobs and finally convinced her they were real. And this was a girl who's a life long fan like myself.
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Post by oafman on Mar 13, 2010 1:50:29 GMT -5
I used to date a girl who after she saw the Undertaker-Mankind Hell in the Cell match was convinced the entire thing was done with computer graphics.
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Post by MikeTX on Mar 13, 2010 1:57:59 GMT -5
Yeah there's been people in the workplace or in my personal life that assumed various wrestler deaths must have been some kind of storyline. Always a little hard (and sad) to explain.
Or the occasional person who's convinced that sure, it's usually just a show, but title fights are for real. Five-knuckle shuffles and all.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Mar 13, 2010 1:59:34 GMT -5
Or the occasional person who's convinced that sure, it's usually just a show, but title fights are for real. Five-knuckle shuffles and all. You mean they're not? Damn you Quantum Leap for lying to me
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Post by Alex Shelley on Mar 13, 2010 2:03:16 GMT -5
I was watching WM24 on DVD with my mom in the room a few months back. During the MITB match there's this one spot with the Hardyz and Edge, I can't remember the exact details but it looked pretty gnarly, and me being a typical wrestling fan I started yelling at my TV.
My mom turns to me and goes "don't get so worked up over it, it's all fake anyway". So I rewound the DVD and showed her the spot, and she was convinced that they had somehow faked it and were only making it look dangerous when it was actually very safe. She refused to believe that anything in wrestling could possibly be dangerous, even when I pointed out that people have died in the ring.
It always makes me laugh when people say CM Punk isn't really straight edge, though. I don't think anybody would actually tattoo their stomach and knuckles as a teenager for a wrestling gimmick they would be using years later :B
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Post by Stotty on Mar 13, 2010 2:04:58 GMT -5
"She's actually a stunt granny"
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Post by Free Hat on Mar 13, 2010 2:07:20 GMT -5
Or the occasional person who's convinced that sure, it's usually just a show, but title fights are for real. Five-knuckle shuffles and all. On a somewhat similar note, I actually had a friend who was absolutely convinced that only the WWF was fake, but WCW was the real deal. Russo era WCW.
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Post by AriadosMan on Mar 13, 2010 2:09:12 GMT -5
When people thin a REAL career-ending injury is fake.
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Post by Sumbody Gon' Get Dey Kneelift on Mar 13, 2010 2:50:54 GMT -5
I guy I dated briefly before returning to my current. This is a real quote, while I was making him watch RAW.
"Kofi can do all that jumping around and they talk about how high he jumps, but the ring is soft. It's like a trampoline, they can bounce like five feet in the air really easy."
I explained that I'd been in a ring, and, while it had a strange sort of trampoline-esque degree of give to it, it certainly was NOT AT ALL SOFT.
His response:
"They probably just let you into a fake ring."
UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Post by jamielowndes {N} on Mar 13, 2010 4:07:29 GMT -5
I post on Sherdog. I think I win here. Ive been on Sherdog since Oct 2007. People thought Brock Lesnar's title win at UFC 91 was worked. They use "You're a WWE fan" as an insult, and they generally overcompensate for themselves by trashing pro wrestling.
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