Things you learned from wrestling, that helped w/ school

[Lance Uppercut]

I've brought up this subject before. Mostly Anatomy (solar plexus!) and Geography (I knew next to nothing about Canada until the Rise of Bret Hart).

But I brushing up on my spanish the other day and realized, I know most of these words because of all the luchadores I watch in WCW/ECW and Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio's constant bilingual promos.

Thanks to them I have burned in my brain:

Lucha
Libre
Plancha
Tope
Guerrero
Guerrera
(If Warrior is a noun, why wasn't it Juventud Guerrero instead of Guerrera? I realize that Juventud is feminine but meant Youth right? Is Guerrera an adjective here?)
Guerra
Juventud
Rey
Misterio
Psicosis
Ultima/o
Sin Cara
Unico
Dos Caras
Vampiro
Ciclope

Thanks to WWE's overuse of certain fancy words I know

War of Attrition
Abeyance (or whateer HHH is saying instead of Vacant these days).

I know there are others, but they're not coming to me now. Will update later. Feel free to add.

Also, WWE, being wrong all the time and corrected by the internet, I now know that Swiss is not a language.

[SEAN CARLESS]

I learned Geography when I was nine by listening to Howard Finkel ring introductions and Vince McMahon PPV openings.

[bigalbass86 AKA Smokin Vokoun]

Back in high school, I did a power point book report on Mick Foley. Complete with gory pictures and probably way to much info than I was allowed. Only got a B on it, but I was proud of it.

[Mozenrath]

Well, if a Biology Class ever asks you how to kill a dog, you now know you must cut off its tail. Triple H knows that Rottweilers are actually zombies.

[Friday Night SmackOwn]

Sept 27, 2013 7:47:49 GMT -5 bigalbass86 AKA Smokin Vokoun said:

Back in high school, I did a power point book report on Mick Foley. Complete with gory pictures and probably way to much info than I was allowed. Only got a B on it, but I was proud of it.

Was it a solid B+?

[Deleted]

It didn't help me with school, persay, but it helped me get through it.

Get yourself a gimmick.

Kids are impressionable as all hell. If you strut around like you're supposed to be somebody, then that's exactly what they'll think.

I was kind of a timid guy. I don't like confrontation, really. I'd just as soon everybody get along, but kids definitely don't.

Yet I never had any real trouble on account of adopting a buyable unbalanced persona. I can play crazy guy. You think what you will of him, but you're not sure. You're not going to move because you don't know.

[rapidfire187]

JR's commentary helped me with quite a few vocabulary tests over the years. There was always 1 or 2 words that I was already familiar with in a wrestling context.

[JTG Fan]

Wrestling definitely helped my Canadian geography in terms of knowing what province the major cities are in (Calgary is in Alberta, Toronto is in Ontario, Winnipeg is in Manitoba, etc).

[Dave the Dave]

I think my vocabulary is larger because of it. The announcers really do use some great words.

I remember specifically flooring a teacher by knowing what the "mandible" was

[Push R Truth]

In all seriousness... I credit wrestling with my success in life. Knowing when to lay down and job VS when to stand up and fight is what got me to where I am today.


Translation: You can't just always go for World Title Matches in politics. You gotta know when to put others over and when it's your time to pull out all the stops for the big PPV.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

I learned maths from Scott Steiner.

[Deleted]

Various vocabulary from Vince i.e. magnanimous, temerity and others.

Geography from guys billed hometowns.

The old WWF magazine used to be a goldmine when they would have feature stories on guys with all sorts of background. I remember one on Papa Shango that touched on the history of Voodoo in Haiti before talking about the Papa.

All sorts of mythological things as well.

[turkeysandwich]

Sept 27, 2013 3:17:30 GMT -5 Lance Uppercut said:

I've brought up this subject before. Mostly Anatomy (solar plexus!) and Geography (I knew next to nothing about Canada until the Rise of Bret Hart).

But I brushing up on my spanish the other day and realized, I know most of these words because of all the luchadores I watch in WCW/ECW and Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio's constant bilingual promos.

Thanks to them I have burned in my brain:

Lucha
Libre
Plancha
Tope
Guerrero
Guerrera
(If Warrior is a noun, why wasn't it Juventud Guerrero instead of Guerrera? I realize that Juventud is feminine but meant Youth right? Is Guerrera an adjective here?)
Guerra
Juventud
Rey
Misterio
Psicosis
Ultima/o
Sin Cara
Unico
Dos Caras
Vampiro
Ciclope

I was in high school in the late 90's so every guy was into wrestling and we'd ask our teacher every week after Nitro what the different luchadores names meant, and I remember her telling us that La Parka meant nothing.

[Bo Rida]

Another vote for Geography, anatomy and vocabulary.

I heeled it up on a few presentations, when we were told to debate an issue relevant to our school I did a great RTC style promo.

Although it wasn't solely down to WWE I learned that talk shows are the ideal format for group presentations/acting, it cut down on the time wasted arguing what to do, gave everybody a chance to shine and provided an strong structure with plenty of room for improvisation and bailing out those that were struggling.

[woowoowoox]

Definitely the biggest two are anatomy and geography.

[Hit Girl]

Storywriting.

Wrestling is a good way of learning how to do it.

[Bub (BLM)]

I was in high school during the Attitude Era. Anything I learned from wrestling would have gotten me expelled.

[Dave the Dave]

Sept 27, 2013 13:46:47 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

Storywriting.

Wrestling is a good way of learning how to do it.

And then Frankenstein strung up the villager and electrified their testicles with a car battery. The man was torn asunder by the charge despite the object of torture not having been invented until 40 years later"

[Kayfabe FAN don't want none]

I didn't learn shit. I have yet to find parts unknown :/ even the geography teacher doesn't know where it is

[MiLB Fan]

In 7th grade reading class, we had to do Personal Vocabulary Lists a few times a year. We had to find 30 new words--could be a magazine, book, newspaper, whatever--and for each word we had to fill out a paper listing where we found it, definition, part of speech, and so on.

Well, I just went through my old issues of WWE Magazine and looked for any stories featuring quotes from Bob Backlund--this was after his heel turn. Surprisingly, I got many words from Apter mags and video-game magazines too.