Bad Moon
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Post by Bad Moon on Sept 22, 2020 11:57:20 GMT -5
Here's an odd topic that I thought deserved a thread nonetheless: Wrestlers from media that seem like they're made up but actually aren't.
I'll start us off: I don't know if anyone's ever played Backyard Wrestling on the PS2. I recently saw a Youtube video of it and it featured a character named Josh Prohibition. He is, as the name implies, anti-drinking and drugs. He's also a skinny long-haired music hipster who does MMA kicks. Naturally when I saw him I assumed he must be a knock-off version of CM Punk created for the game, but it turns out he's a real wrestler with no relation to Punk at all who was wrestling on the indies at roughly the same time.
What are some other wrestlers that seem too fake even for the fake world of wrestling?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 22, 2020 12:06:42 GMT -5
Here's an odd topic that I thought deserved a thread nonetheless: Wrestlers from media that seem like they're made up but actually aren't. I'll start us off: I don't know if anyone's ever played Backyard Wrestling on the PS2. I recently saw a Youtube video of it and it featured a character named Josh Prohibition. He is, as the name implies, anti-drinking and drugs. He's also a skinny long-haired music hipster who does MMA kicks. Naturally when I saw him I assumed he must be a knock-off version of CM Punk created for the game, but it turns out he's a real wrestler with no relation to Punk at all who was wrestling on the indies at roughly the same time. What are some other wrestlers that seem too fake even for the fake world of wrestling?
Prohibition still wrestles to this day (at least he did before the pandemic). For years now he has been sticking mostly to the Cleveland promotion AIW. He became a teacher years ago and didn’t think his wrestling schtick would fly. However, the principal at his school caught an old match he was in on TV and started enthusiastically talking with him about it. After that he figured it was safe to return.
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Post by camphor #BLM on Sept 22, 2020 12:43:30 GMT -5
...if anyone ever does the OPPOSITE of this thread, let me know, I want the Mondo Fundi vs Spud Marmoset match that the 16-bit-era Hammerlock Wrestling promised me Also, could you imagine if that Brimstone internet meme actually existed? Boy-howdy, once you customize a boot, you might as well be charging all your bills to a Pro Graps Credit Card!
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Sept 22, 2020 15:16:16 GMT -5
EVIL and Braun Strowman feel like they're wrestlers from a TV show. Big stocky dudes with elaborate entrances. Particularly EVIL with his new Fist Of The North Star cape.
Shotzi Blackheart looks like an extreme custom Smackdown vs. Raw character some teen would have made in the mid 2000's. Which is what's great about her.
Kenny Omega is a wrestler a kid made by picking all of the flashiest and craziest moves available.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2020 15:24:47 GMT -5
Technically none of them are real. They are characters in a fake sport.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 22, 2020 16:35:41 GMT -5
Honky Kong
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Post by Hypnosis on Sept 22, 2020 16:52:01 GMT -5
Honky Kong Does he throw barrels at his opponents?
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Sept 22, 2020 17:06:36 GMT -5
Honky Kong I haven't seen that guy doing that schtick in 4/5 years, but I remember him upsetting people with the gimmick. Many found it especially racist coming from a white performer. Another racist character from 3/4 years ago that was real was Mathias Glass, portrayed by someone who is not Jewish.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 22, 2020 17:49:24 GMT -5
GOt to see Honky live once. He got the best reaction of anyone on the card.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 22, 2020 17:55:50 GMT -5
Honky Kong I haven't seen that guy doing that schtick in 4/5 years, but I remember him upsetting people with the gimmick. Many found it especially racist coming from a white performer. Another racist character from 3/4 years ago that was real was Mathias Glass, portrayed by someone who is not Jewish. That reminds me, f*** Mathias Glass.
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Post by genericusername on Sept 22, 2020 18:26:38 GMT -5
The Ultimate Warrior, at times he seems like he came from a show parodying wrestlers.
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Post by sungod2020 on Sept 22, 2020 19:23:04 GMT -5
Bobby Lashley looks/reminds me of a CAW you see out of a video game.
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Post by chrom on Sept 22, 2020 20:10:22 GMT -5
Honky Kong I haven't seen that guy doing that schtick in 4/5 years, but I remember him upsetting people with the gimmick. Many found it especially racist coming from a white performer. Another racist character from 3/4 years ago that was real was Mathias Glass, portrayed by someone who is not Jewish. Oy Vey
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Post by Larryhausen on Sept 22, 2020 20:53:03 GMT -5
I haven't seen that guy doing that schtick in 4/5 years, but I remember him upsetting people with the gimmick. Many found it especially racist coming from a white performer. Another racist character from 3/4 years ago that was real was Mathias Glass, portrayed by someone who is not Jewish. That reminds me, f*** Mathias Glass. Any other reasons besides....that?
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Post by chazraps on Sept 22, 2020 21:02:26 GMT -5
That reminds me, f*** Mathias Glass. Any other reasons besides....that? The whole arch. The look and idea of this character is only the beginning. Glass is guilty of: lying about being Jewish when he started using the gimmick, engaging in every stereotype possible, lying about "retiring the gimmick" and "issuing a public apology" multiple times, making his two arguing points "it's a tribute" and that he once turned down an "Easy Bake Oven spot" as if that makes him benevolent, boosting the view counts for Gr*ms T*y Sh*w and finally giving David Starr a giant platform in Judiasm-centric publications around the country by making Starr the posterboy for fighting antisemitism in wrestling, which inadvertently elevated his status.
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Post by Larryhausen on Sept 22, 2020 21:05:03 GMT -5
Any other reasons besides....that? The whole arch. The look and idea of this character is only the beginning. Glass is guilty of: lying about being Jewish when he started using the gimmick, engaging in every stereotype possible, lying about "retiring the gimmick" and "issuing a public apology" multiple times, making his two arguing points "it's a tribute" and that he once turned down an "Easy Bake Oven spot" as if that makes him benevolent, boosting the view counts for Gr*ms T*y Sh*w and finally giving David Starr a giant platform in Judiasm-centric publications around the country by making Starr the posterboy for fighting antisemitism in wrestling, which inadvertently elevated his status. Thanks, man. I wasn't familiar with dude before this thread, and that was enough, but...yikes.
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Post by chazraps on Sept 22, 2020 21:17:49 GMT -5
The whole arch. The look and idea of this character is only the beginning. Glass is guilty of: lying about being Jewish when he started using the gimmick, engaging in every stereotype possible, lying about "retiring the gimmick" and "issuing a public apology" multiple times, making his two arguing points "it's a tribute" and that he once turned down an "Easy Bake Oven spot" as if that makes him benevolent, boosting the view counts for Gr*ms T*y Sh*w and finally giving David Starr a giant platform in Judiasm-centric publications around the country by making Starr the posterboy for fighting antisemitism in wrestling, which inadvertently elevated his status. Thanks, man. I wasn't familiar with dude before this thread, and that was enough, but...yikes. You're welcome! Yeah, I think it's super telling that he's one of the dudes who was essentially run out of professional wrestling and legit stayed gone. Not even a hint of an attempt at a comeback or a social media presence. I go back and forth on whether he should be rightfully forgotten or whether we should remember him as one of the gimmicks that would not be only absolutely no matter who was doing it. Like, wrestling does have limits in terms of gimmicks that should not be permitted in any capacity whatsoever. The only other I consider crossing that line was early 2000s east coast indy regular Skinhead Ivan. (Footage in spoiler) (TW: Blatant antisemitism, nazism)
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Post by sungod2020 on Jan 10, 2022 8:02:14 GMT -5
Mr. Hughes(both fat and thin) looks like a character you see in a beat 'em up arcade game....
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Post by malloc on Jan 10, 2022 9:02:59 GMT -5
Technically none of them are real. They are characters in a fake sport. Boooo!
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Jan 10, 2022 9:14:42 GMT -5
Jade Cargill looks more like a god than human.
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