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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Dec 28, 2021 11:20:33 GMT -5
David Arquette donated every dime he made from WCW to families of deceased wrestlers. I believe Brian Pilman's family received the majority of the money.
According to Lawler's book Andy Kaufman never cashed a check that Lawler gave him for any of those matches they had in Memphis. Lawler didn't even know this until Kaufman passed.
Scott Hall appeared on an episode of Jerry Springer in the mid 90's as Razor Ramon. He was on alongside 2 kids that either had HIV or cancer, I can't remember which one. Either way Hall gave his actual IC title belt to the little boy. Hall didn't have permission to do so and had to call Vince for a replacement. When Hall explained what he did and why he did it Vince was totally cool with it and had another belt shipped to him immediately.
Anybody know what happened to that belt?
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Post by sungod2020 on Dec 28, 2021 12:47:11 GMT -5
Shad Gaspard SACRIFICED HIMSELF so that his son may live. I am sounding melodramatic, I know, but...that's what happened. And you probably can't beat that. Three years before that, he also thwarted an armed robbery attempt. Even though he was a terror backstage, Rick Steiner(along with "Dr. Death" Steve Williams) saved a guy from a car wreck. I believe Ray Rougeau saved someone from a burning forest. |
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Post by noobeast on Dec 28, 2021 13:01:45 GMT -5
Nah, BB was right where he should have been, but the guy taking the back body drop just gets absolutely no distance between him and Sullivan, and just arches straight down. He almost acts like he is going to do a sunset flip. Not necessarily anybody fault or heroics, but that dude is lucky BB was an absolute freak of nature. It's not meant to be a back-body drop. At the start of the clip, Bigelow is clearly tagging in for a double-team spot. He was supposed to catch the guy mid-flip from Sullivan, which is why the guy is not going over all the way like he would on a back-body drop. They just messed it up. I get all that. My point is, Bigelow was there. The guy taking the back body drop into the powerbomb turned too sharply toward the mat. He took it almost like he was trying to roll through into a sunset flip instead of flattening out in the air to allow Bigelow to catch him the way he was supposed to. I think this is more likely a case of 3 guys trying a spot that the jobber in question didn't really know how to do. This is a spot that was common in Japan and Mexico at the time, but not many American dudes had seen, let alone attempted. |
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Post by noobeast on Dec 28, 2021 13:03:02 GMT -5
Shad Gaspard SACRIFICED HIMSELF so that his son may live. I am sounding melodramatic, I know, but...that's what happened. And you probably can't beat that. Three years before that, he also thwarted an armed robbery attempt. Even though he was a terror backstage, Rick Steiner(along with "Dr. Death" Steve Williams) saved a guy from a car wreck. I believe Ray Rougeau saved someone from a burning forest. ....who ever said Rick Steiner was a terror backstage? |
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Dec 28, 2021 13:38:10 GMT -5
Three years before that, he also thwarted an armed robbery attempt. Even though he was a terror backstage, Rick Steiner(along with "Dr. Death" Steve Williams) saved a guy from a car wreck. I believe Ray Rougeau saved someone from a burning forest. ....who ever said Rick Steiner was a terror backstage? There was a story that recently came out about the Steiners tying someone up and jamming a pencil up their ass, so, uh, yeah. |
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Post by sungod2020 on Dec 28, 2021 14:06:34 GMT -5
....who ever said Rick Steiner was a terror backstage? There was a story that recently came out about the Steiners tying someone up and jamming a pencil up their ass, so, uh, yeah. I just hope to god it wasn't sharpened. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 28, 2021 14:18:49 GMT -5
....who ever said Rick Steiner was a terror backstage? There was a story that recently came out about the Steiners tying someone up and jamming a pencil up their ass, so, uh, yeah. They also basically stripped Disco Inferno down and duct taped him up or something along those lines, I forget what. They were bullies. I doubt there was a line of people looking to avenge Rick when he tried to start something while drunk with Norman Smiley, who took him out with a punch. Norman isn't brought up super often in terms of shoot badasses, but I mean, Finlay and Regal were his buddies, draw your own conclusions given the company he kept. |
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Post by msc on Dec 28, 2021 14:25:17 GMT -5
I mean, there's lots of Vince ones, from paying for folks rehab and funerals to giving folk paid employment because they were in a bad period - ie he gave Henry Godwinn a job in 2006 because he heard Godwinn was depressed over his son dying. None of which means his flaws and terrible stuff should be ignored, more that he's a bloody confusingly conflicting person.
Tony Khan's treatment of the Huber family has been outstanding, though the reason for it being needed remains gutting.
There are some right mediocrities that WCW kept under contract for years and years which almost feels like Ted Turner or Eric Bischoff or someone had to have been protecting them so they keep a paycheque. I don't mean Lanny who hid at home for years, more your Van Hammers who were actively used time and again despite having the natural charisma of a half-price cold hotdog.
Wrestlers are easier to name than promotors though - Bobby Eaton always gets mentioned in this threads, and for just reason too. Perry Saturn - I long presumed the whole "Saturn got shot trying to stop a gang rape" story was an urban legend until I saw him showing off the bullet wound scars on an interview a few years back.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Dec 28, 2021 16:08:16 GMT -5
Independent wrestler Damien Wayne always makes time to call my (autistic) daughter on her birthday since she was six…and every time she beams from ear to ear and is ecstatic to hear from her favorite wrestler.
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Post by chrom on Dec 28, 2021 16:14:12 GMT -5
Rikishi talked about how he didn't have a car and Yokozuna gave him a blank check and told him to go buy a vehicle and it didn't matter how much it cost
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2021 16:26:36 GMT -5
There was a story that recently came out about the Steiners tying someone up and jamming a pencil up their ass, so, uh, yeah. They also basically stripped Disco Inferno down and duct taped him up or something along those lines, I forget what. They were bullies. I doubt there was a line of people looking to avenge Rick when he tried to start something while drunk with Norman Smiley, who took him out with a punch. Norman isn't brought up super often in terms of shoot badasses, but I mean, Finlay and Regal were his buddies, draw your own conclusions given the company he kept. Necro Butcher had a story about being in a battle royale with Smiley and that Necro, per his gimmick, was acting crazy. Necro said something in the interview like, "great, I angered the toughest guy in here" and Smiley and a few others proceeded to hurl him out of the ring. |
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Post by Citizen Snips on Dec 28, 2021 16:48:18 GMT -5
There was some footage of Brodie Jr working a match with Liv Morgan at Tyson Kidd & Natalya’s gym a few months ago. Very sweet of them to take time out with him.
There was a Nitro where Great Muta was mean-mugging at a little kid ringside. The kid throws a little kid punch and Muta DROPS to the ground like The Giant just decked him and continues to interact with the kid (threatening to mist him, flinching on his way backstage) while still working the rest of the match at his normal level. You hear about it at house shows all the time, but it was the only time I remember seeing it on TV.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Dec 28, 2021 16:59:47 GMT -5
A couple years ago a parent tagged Mustafa Ali in a twitter post about how he was her son's favorite wrestler and she couldn't get the lights for his costume working properly.
Ali just sent her son a custom made copy of his ring entrance gear.
He's not exactly high up on the card so I thought it was really cool that he either paid for it himself or leaned on someone at WWE to accommodate a fan.
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 28, 2021 17:08:37 GMT -5
Reportedly, D-Von Dudley gave all the money he collected from fans as part of his Reverend D-Von gimmick to the 9/11 fund.
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 28, 2021 18:00:54 GMT -5
I doubt there was a line of people looking to avenge Rick when he tried to start something while drunk with Norman Smiley, who took him out with a punch. Norman isn't brought up super often in terms of shoot badasses, but I mean, Finlay and Regal were his buddies, draw your own conclusions given the company he kept. Rick also started crap with a indy wrestler about 10 years ago. It was a tag match with Goldust either being Rick's partner or opponent. Rick starts shooting on the indy wrestler who had a bad a-- background too. Bobby Eaton, as mentioned, he always had extra of something like socks or toiletries in case one of the guys forgot something. I was friends with Nikolai Volkoff until he passed and met him through Jimmy Valiant who I still speak with. Both guys treat fans like family, many aspiring wrestlers get to work with Jimmy weekly at indy shows and Nikolai befriended four men, one of which was myself and along with me three lived close by, traveled with him at various shows and were like sons. From the many shows I went with him, he would speak to the fans about healthier eating and living habits and would remember people, they would come to shows specifically to see him and they would show him their progress. I know of the background of two of the other men and with myself, I know we all relied on watching guys like Nikolai or Jimmy and allowing wrestling to take us to a better world than what we had at the time. |
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Post by Citizen Snips on Dec 28, 2021 21:05:49 GMT -5
Both Bret Hart and Freddie Blassie are on record saying Nikolai Volkoff was the nicest person they ever met in wrestling.
I know a lot of people clowned him for wrestling at that Indy show without the ring but he did it so the fans that showed up would get at least some kind of show.
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 28, 2021 23:04:04 GMT -5
Both Bret Hart and Freddie Blassie are on record saying Nikolai Volkoff was the nicest person they ever met in wrestling. I know a lot of people clowned him for wrestling at that Indy show without the ring but he did it so the fans that showed up would get at least some kind of show. He told me the Freddie Blassie daughter story many times. It's the one in Freddie's book where he reconnected Freddie with his daughter. I have an awesome picture of him, Danny Davis, Jimmy and Bret Hart from a convention. Danny was travel partners with Nikolai so he waved him (and me) over to the front of the autograph line and we got to spend a few minutes with them. I remember Bret's tweet about him like it was yesterday. I took him to the airport to make the show without the ring, I took him to all his airport shows while we knew each other and it was actually on THIS site where I saw the "no ring" post. When he got home and I asked him about it, he said exactly what has been quoted-he and Bobby Fulton are old school guy's, they've wrestled with no rings before and wanted the fans to be happy. There's been many shows I went to with him where the promoter couldn't pay him that night (sent check-not sure if they bounced or cleared) or they avoided him all night until he tracked them down for the payment but he never complained or tried to strong arm the guys. A few shows which were far away, didn't start on time and got done late, he would race home to be with his wife and got speeding tickets that pretty much ate into what he made at the shows. A lot of people who don't know him say he is cheap because they've heard second hand stories and we've all seen the old red suit. But from what I saw, a lot of what he made would go to buy his wife and daughters what they wanted. |
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Dec 29, 2021 1:13:15 GMT -5
Undertaker gave Steph McMahon a free ride in a limo.
What a nice family, those Bearer kids
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Post by noobeast on Dec 29, 2021 2:21:25 GMT -5
....who ever said Rick Steiner was a terror backstage? There was a story that recently came out about the Steiners tying someone up and jamming a pencil up their ass, so, uh, yeah. Oh wow. Never heard much about Rick. Been on a couple shows with him back in the day, he was always really quiet. Heard plenty of nightmare stories about Scott, though. He was really cool to me to, but a lot of other guys weren't so lucky. |
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Dec 29, 2021 7:26:37 GMT -5
Bayley has been spending the last month or so promoting, raising money etc for the Family Giving Tree charity
Molly Holly paid for Beth Phoenix's tuition for wrestling training
for all his faults, Chris Jericho as donated to a bunch of wrestlers GoFundMe pages
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