What was up with Mil Mascaras always sucking in his gut?

[tms]

I just watched some of the Clash of the Champions DVD and there's a match with him and Foley. Throughout the entire match, Mascaras is prancing around on tiptoes while sucking in his gut as if he's trying to restrain a fart of unearthly magnitude. It looks as ridiculous as it sounds.

Did he always do this, and are there any other wrestlers who did this type of thing?

[willyjakes]

not sure exactly. I just watched a match where he faced Superstar Billy Graham and he did none of this gut sticking in. Could this have been in his later years? Perhaps he was just self conscious of putting on some lbs?

[Blindkarevik]

I think he figured nobody noticed, and it gave him a barrel chest, which... back in the day, was some symbol of manliness and toughness.

The prancing thing.... oh that's just Mil, he's a douche.

[chronocross]

I remember on one of the Roundtable Discussions on WWE Classics,they made fun of him always doing that.

[Deleted]

Prancing around like he has laser eyes.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

Mascaras came up during a Jim Cornette Q&A at Fanfest one year. The topic was the magazines, and how it could lead to fans being excited to see someone they'd read about come into the territory. A fan from Memphis brought up Mascaras, saying he oddly came in as a heel to team with someone opposing Lawler, who got Jackie Fargo to team with him.

Jim said, "And when you saw the real thing, it didn't quite live up to the hype, did it?" The fan responded, "You know, he actually did a stretcher job for Jackie Fargo that night." Jim laughed a bit and said, "Well then, I've got news for you - that wasn't Mil Mascaras. Mil Mascaras to this day won't do a job in Mexico! There's no way he'd do a stretcher job for anybody in Memphis. That was Pepe Lopez under a hood, bigger than shit."

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Literally everything I see or hear about Mil paints him to be a massive arsehole. I love how even in WWF, he had to eliminate himself from the Rumble, and wouldn't sell ANYTHING, or even bump, let alone sell.

[The Sam]

It was easier to suck his gut in than it was to do situps. Who can blame him?

[EvenBaldobombHasAJob]

Mar 31, 2014 7:45:33 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

Literally everything I see or hear about Mil paints him to be a massive arsehole. I love how even in WWF, he had to eliminate himself from the Rumble, and wouldn't sell ANYTHING, or even bump, let alone sell.

I remember Del Rio saying in an interview that his heel mannerisms are mostly him making fun of someone close to him whose a total asshole. you do the math.