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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 19, 2013 19:01:00 GMT -5
The first that comes to mind is from Bret Hart's autobiography. He is describing ref Joey Marella and he types a paragraph that reads like this (paraphrasing): "Tat night Joey Marella reffed my match, looked at me and said, 'I don't know how you do it. You're incredible.' Joey Marella died in a car accident that night.' It really reads more or less just like that with hardly anything else said about Marella. Bret is my second favoirte wrestler of all time, but it is impossible to claim he doesn't have a huge ego. While he certainly has some reasons to have a huge ego even if it was factually accurate using someone's death just to say how awesome you are yet again is a bit douchie.
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Post by dlg3000 on Aug 19, 2013 19:13:47 GMT -5
I am not taking up for HBK because of his past backstage reputation, but didn't Bret also make a rather douche-y statement concerning HBK's wife?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 19, 2013 19:27:09 GMT -5
I am not taking up for HBK because of his past backstage reputation, but didn't Bret also make a rather douche-y statement concerning HBK's wife? I don't remember, but it is possible. I just remember reading that bit about Marella and doing a Miz style, "Really? Really?" |
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Aug 19, 2013 19:29:39 GMT -5
Read Batista's book and pick one.
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Post by Emmet Russell on Aug 19, 2013 19:34:46 GMT -5
Read Batista's Hulk Hogan's book and pick one. |
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Post by ellisdee on Aug 19, 2013 19:41:03 GMT -5
Read Batista's book and pick one. Didn't he call his wife lazy while she was ill with cancer? Or something along those lines? |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 19, 2013 20:26:30 GMT -5
Read Batista's Hulk Hogan's Dynamite Kid's book and pick one. Fixed for the ultimate truth! I was hopign to see more specific examples as saying pick so and so's book and pick one isn't nearly as interesting! |
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Post by suave on Aug 19, 2013 20:49:41 GMT -5
I remember Ric Flair saying something out of context. In a promo against Ric, Scott Steiner says something like "You belong where you're at, WCW! Because WCW sucks! nWo for life, bitch!" In Ric's book, he quoted it without the nWo line, making it sound like he was bashing the company for no reason, when he was just building up a heel stable.
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Post by SOR on Aug 19, 2013 21:23:20 GMT -5
What about those WrestleCrap guys and the hundreds of inaccurate statements in "The Death of WCW"?
I do like the book because I love WCW but near the end it's just mostly smark opinions and dirt sheet stuff. My personal favourite is the one the IWC use about WCW all the time.
It was something like
"Rick Steiner turned up and revealed himself as the masked man, even though he was attacked by the masked man the week before" this NEVER EVER even happened and Steiner hadn't even made his return at that point.
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Post by tms on Aug 19, 2013 22:36:07 GMT -5
What about those WrestleCrap guys and the hundreds of inaccurate statements in "The Death of WCW"? I do like the book because I love WCW but near the end it's just mostly smark opinions and dirt sheet stuff. My personal favourite is the one the IWC use about WCW all the time. It was something like "Rick Steiner turned up and revealed himself as the masked man, even though he was attacked by the masked man the week before" this NEVER EVER even happened and Steiner hadn't even made his return at that point. Without a doubt, the best part of that book was the forward by Dave Meltzer. He's a phenomenal writer and put what came after to shame. I'd LOVE to read a book about WCW written by him, given how closely tied in to the industry he is. I know people here love them, but there was so much ass-kissing of Vince McMahon in Mick Foley's first two books it was disgusting. I think Foley comes off as an approachable person in real life and was one of the best brawlers to ever live but you can tell he's full of himself and his legacy (I know, what a shocker for a wrestler). The part in his second book where he tries to rationalize/justify the crude content during the Attitude Era by comparing it to stuff seen on other shows was Smithers-Burns level brown-nosing. His attacks on other wrestlers (Flair and -- implied -- Marc Mero) came off as cheap and disingenuous since they were out of the public eye at that point or weren't in the WWE. Flair's "receipt" to Foley in his book was pretty funny and not that far off the mark. |
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Post by Ganon83 on Aug 19, 2013 23:19:13 GMT -5
To be fair to Bret, I recall him saying at one point in his book that ".... the referee for our match was Gorilla's son Joey Marella, in my opinion the best in the company" or something like that before this particular match.
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Post by wildojinx on Aug 20, 2013 7:49:07 GMT -5
The ending of Bret's book where he bashes Shawn and HHH, claiming he'll never forgive them. I'm sure that Bret feels real bad about that statement considering he and Shawn patched things up and are now friends again.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Aug 20, 2013 8:09:18 GMT -5
Read Batista's Hulk Hogan's Dynamite Kid's Chyna's book and pick one. Now it is fixed. |
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Post by cabbageboy on Aug 20, 2013 9:56:12 GMT -5
With Foley's book I had no problem with his Flair criticisms since it was well rounded and made sense. He did at least put over Flair's in ring work while elaborating on his problems working with Flair the booker. The Mero comments however were really odd and seemed like some petty grudge, as well as not even being all that factually true (I don't think Mero was this no talent bum Foley makes him out to be).
But really, the constant burials of Test are really odd. Foley even addresses it in the 2nd book as it being a joke and not any sort of grudge, but I think his ragging on Test made it hard to take Test seriously as a wrestler after that.
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Post by The OP on Aug 20, 2013 10:19:54 GMT -5
I think it's important to consider the fact that the intended audience for most of these books are the author's admirers, so I don't think it's particularly fair to try and pick "douchey" lines out of context. That said, I thought that Ric Flair's "receipt" for Foley went a bit overboard as nothing that Foley said was designed to diminish Flair's value as a worker, belittle his legacy, or interfere with his ability to make a living; Flair's comments attempted to do all three. I think anybody who knows that people will pay to see them has the same ego, it's just some are really good at acting humble while others don't even try.
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Post by Reflecto on Aug 20, 2013 10:41:27 GMT -5
Keep in mind, though: Allegedly, the Test cracks by Foley in his second book made Stacy Keibler feel sorry for him, which was how the two started dating. So...yeah, probably worth it.
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