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Post by alliedbiscuit on Aug 17, 2011 15:42:27 GMT -5
They have the same type of thing in baseball, they call it Kangaroo Court. I've heard Hawk Harrelson mention it before. It's not my place to say whether it's right, or wrong, because I'm not a wrestler. And what's the alternative. Every little slight/action, someone runs to Vince to tell? I think this is a perfectly good way to police things. Now the hazing is a completely different thing.
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Post by Kris on Aug 17, 2011 15:48:02 GMT -5
They do this in TNA, too. I know this because my favorite wrestler's court case happened there. Daivari had to go to wrestler's court because he got a flight attendent to wish Kip James (Billy Gunn) "a happy 70th birthday" in-flight over the intercom. His punishment was buying the whole roster a round of beer. That's awesome. Though I don't quite get why he'd go to wrestler's court for that... that just sounds like a harmless rib to me. From what I heard the whole event was very lighthearted and not at all taken seriously, like other wrestler's courts. Also, as for the Khali/Finlay/JBL story, I don't buy it.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Aug 17, 2011 19:12:12 GMT -5
There's definitely a place for it. Like anything, it's possible to abuse it.
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Post by Johnny Truant on Aug 17, 2011 20:02:31 GMT -5
Who was it that JBL threatened to sodomize with a broomstick? Duke Drosse? The story goes that JBL and Finlay did unspeakable things to Khali at the King of the Ring 2008 show with a broomstick, leaving Khali on the ground crying in the shower. This is the funniest thing I've read in weeks
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Post by Beartato on Aug 17, 2011 20:06:18 GMT -5
It's just more proof that most wrestlers are pathetic manboys.
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Post by jfrogg007 on Aug 17, 2011 20:55:44 GMT -5
I'm pretty certain it would take a braver man than JBL or Finlay to stick anything near Khali's ass.
The man is a giant monster, he could probably break a jaw, rib or limb pretty easily...
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Post by joebob27 on Aug 17, 2011 21:10:02 GMT -5
Wait, so Joey Styles can drop Bradshaw, but Bradshaw can sodomize Khali? I think we need to get these stories straight. I'm guessing if that happened, assbeatings would have been handed out early and often. Finlay I'm sure is a BMF, but that's a little too much for him to chew. Bradshaw I'm pretty sure is a total fugazi.
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Post by lewis1711 on Aug 17, 2011 21:21:25 GMT -5
Never heard of it before. I imagine it's the sort of thing that would've popped up in brets book, and been condemned by him, if it actually happened.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Aug 17, 2011 22:53:28 GMT -5
Wait, so Joey Styles can drop Bradshaw, but Bradshaw can sodomize Khali? I think we need to get these stories straight. Isn't Khali pretty much crippled? I think it hurts the dude to walk, much less fight off two big guys in a shower. One thing is definitely for sure: John Layfield sexually assaults people. The only question is how often.
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Post by joebob27 on Aug 17, 2011 23:01:56 GMT -5
Wait, so Joey Styles can drop Bradshaw, but Bradshaw can sodomize Khali? I think we need to get these stories straight. Isn't Khali pretty much crippled? I think it hurts the dude to walk, much less fight off two big guys in a shower. One thing is definitely for sure: John Layfield sexually assaults people. The only question is how often. His fist is probably about the size of Finlay's head. Big is relative to who you're next to. They might as well be Juvi and Rey. I ain't buying it in this case.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Aug 18, 2011 0:14:20 GMT -5
Isn't Khali pretty much crippled? I think it hurts the dude to walk, much less fight off two big guys in a shower. One thing is definitely for sure: John Layfield sexually assaults people. The only question is how often. His fist is probably about the size of Finlay's head. Big is relative to who you're next to. They might as well be Juvi and Rey. I ain't buying it in this case. I think, the state Khali is in, Juvi and Rey could do it if they wanted to. Besides, who's to say it was physical restraint anyway? They could have pulled authority. "Shut up and take it or we'll send you to wrestler's court and you'll get fired and you won't be able to support your family anymore." I mean, I don't know if it happened, but it's hardly physically implausible. But apparently, according to some people in this thread, the fact that we're not wrestlers makes us unable to judge backstage traditions like wrestler's court and shower rape, no matter how appalling they may be.
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Post by BrodietheSlayer on Aug 18, 2011 0:36:54 GMT -5
No, I don't think it has a place in today's Sports Entertainment Business. I can see trying to keep the locker room in line, but the childish BS that often springs out of Wrestler's Court has no place in 2011. I also get annoyed at upper officials writing such bullying off as "Boys being Boys."
No, unless they're hiring children to wrestle, these are GROWN A** MEN and WOMEN that need to stop acting like they're in friggin' High School/College. Would this behavior be allowed at any other respectable business(?)....Hell No. Wrestlers are NOT exempt from this. They need to grow the hell up if they ever want to be seen as anything more than roided up jokes by the rest of the world.
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Post by Hanzo on Aug 18, 2011 0:42:38 GMT -5
We've got all this talk about punishment in TNA being buying the roster a round of beer and not one person has yet to yell out...
BEER!...
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Post by klapaucius on Aug 18, 2011 0:47:48 GMT -5
We've got all this talk about punishment in TNA being buying the roster a round of beer and not one person has yet to yell out... BEER!... ...MONEY!
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Post by DIIV on Aug 18, 2011 0:49:54 GMT -5
Hardcore Holly is a pussy.
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Post by joebob27 on Aug 18, 2011 0:58:10 GMT -5
His fist is probably about the size of Finlay's head. Big is relative to who you're next to. They might as well be Juvi and Rey. I ain't buying it in this case. I think, the state Khali is in, Juvi and Rey could do it if they wanted to. Besides, who's to say it was physical restraint anyway? They could have pulled authority. "Shut up and take it or we'll send you to wrestler's court and you'll get fired and you won't be able to support your family anymore." I mean, I don't know if it happened, but it's hardly physically implausible. But apparently, according to some people in this thread, the fact that we're not wrestlers makes us unable to judge backstage traditions like wrestler's court and shower rape, no matter how appalling they may be. Yes, he would get a broomstick up the ass to avoid "wrestler's court". lol. Can we try to be a bit realistic here? You're being a tad melodramatic. And he would seriously f*** Bradshaw up because Bradshaw is probably only tough in his own mind. If he was that crippled he wouldn't even make it out to the ring and would be far better off suing the crap out of WWE for his shower rape.
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Post by worldsstrongestman on Aug 18, 2011 0:59:38 GMT -5
That's awesome. Though I don't quite get why he'd go to wrestler's court for that... that just sounds like a harmless rib to me. From what I heard the whole event was very lighthearted and not at all taken seriously, like other wrestler's courts. Also, as for the Khali/Finlay/JBL story, I don't buy it. Well, he walks like he has a broomstick up his butt.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 18, 2011 1:30:23 GMT -5
I like how we're just making the leap to the JBL/Finlay/Khali story being true.
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Post by smoot on Aug 18, 2011 1:35:36 GMT -5
The one story I heard about Wrestler's Court was that the Hardys (back when they were a tag team) somehow messed up the seating order on a flight, so that Kane had to sit in a seat near too-low bulkhead. (That is, there'd be tons of headroom for Matt or Jeff, but not for Glenn Jacobs.) When they found out what they'd done, it was too late to swap up again.
Wrestlers Court was called, and they carried Kane's bags for a while. He apparently wasn't even that mad about it, the way I heard it.
Honestly, I find that much more believable than stories involving broomsticks. (Besides, we know it'd first have to be taken and shined up real pretty, then turned sideways...)
I consider it separate from the hazing. From everything I understand of the industry, a "Court" would work a LOT more than say having a Human Resources type handing out infraction notices, since the oldest most-respected hands would be 'judge'.
I suppose Lance Storm's story about the ECW locker room offering to 'get even' for a punch that Steve Williams threw also counts. (Long story short- Steve Williams can work a punch that looks like he's shooting, but according to Storm 'feels like my baby daughter flicking you with one of her fingers'). He sold it as well as Williams delivered it, and apparently even seasoned workers bought it as a 'botch' or 'shoot'. He waved them off.
The system definitely has its limitations (I have no idea what Wrestler's Court could do about wellness-type stuff or that Flight From Hell a while back), but it sounds at least partly useful.
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Post by judodave on Aug 18, 2011 5:32:26 GMT -5
Wait, so Joey Styles can drop Bradshaw, but Bradshaw can sodomize Khali?
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