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Post by wildojinx on Feb 9, 2023 22:48:20 GMT -5
What are some tv show or movies that came out after the 80s that portray pro wrestling as legit?
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Post by aka Cthulhu on Feb 10, 2023 2:20:47 GMT -5
Top of my head, the first Spiderman movie.
I guess that episode of Regular Show as well.
There was an anime a few years back as well.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 10, 2023 3:56:32 GMT -5
Married with Children when King Kong Bundy wrestled Bud, as well as when Al wrestled one of the GLOW Girls whose name escape me right now.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Feb 10, 2023 4:11:52 GMT -5
Boy Meets World when Vader got ring advice from Shawn and Cory against Jake Roberts
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Post by Totorob101 on Feb 10, 2023 5:45:57 GMT -5
Just finished watching a Korean Drama called Masked Prosecutor where the main character pretty much uses wrestling moves to take out bad guys and towards the end has a match which is pretty much is taken as real!
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Post by wildojinx on Feb 10, 2023 8:56:12 GMT -5
Technically an episode of the Punky Brewster sequel series. The WWE episode portrays an Alexa Bliss/Charlotte Flair feud as legit, even down to one of them using a chair (not a steel chair, but an actual wooden chair with arms) on the other when they run into each other at a meet and greet.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Feb 10, 2023 9:31:40 GMT -5
Rodney Dangerfield was taking the Tatanka match he was watching in Natural Born Killers seriously.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 10, 2023 10:00:08 GMT -5
Family Matters' wrestling episode sort of does. I know the Bushwhackers were originally going to go easy on Steve and Carl, but I do not know if that was a general "work" thing, or because they specifically knew Carl and Steve were not the "Psycho Twins" they were supposed to wrestle and inexperienced nobodies. It's been too long since I saw it last.
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Post by agent817 on Feb 10, 2023 11:01:37 GMT -5
Family Matters' wrestling episode sort of does. I know the Bushwhackers were originally going to go easy on Steve and Carl, but I do not know if that was a general "work" thing, or because they specifically knew Carl and Steve were not the "Psycho Twins" they were supposed to wrestle and inexperienced nobodies. It's been too long since I saw it last. The episode is on HBO Max. I could go back and see it, but from what I remember, Carl was told that the people in the back knew that they weren't wrestlers. So the Bushwhackers were told to go easy, but then they started shooting on Carl and Steve when they find out Carl was a cop. |
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Post by Milkman Norm on Feb 10, 2023 12:11:19 GMT -5
Are there any examples where prom wrestling is featured, other than Aranofsky' "The Wrestler" where pro wrestling is prominently featured and shown as a work? Most examples I can think of wrestling in media shows it to be real for comedic effect.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Feb 10, 2023 12:22:50 GMT -5
Are there any examples where prom wrestling is featured, other than Aranofsky' "The Wrestler" where pro wrestling is prominently featured and shown as a work? Most examples I can think of wrestling in media shows it to be real for comedic effect. The GLOW show on Netflix was open about it being a work. |
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Feb 10, 2023 13:39:04 GMT -5
Does the 5th season of Angel where there was a luchadore mail guy who used to be a legendary monster hunter count?
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Post by Citizen Snips on Feb 10, 2023 14:05:54 GMT -5
The Simpsons
-A very early episode had Bart & Homer sizing up a match like a legit contest.
-Local Man Thinks Wrestling Is Real
-Bret Hart went to see a house dressed in his wrestling gear and seemed excited about getting to fight The Shrieking Sheik outside of the arena.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Feb 10, 2023 14:14:47 GMT -5
The Simpsons -A very early episode had Bart & Homer sizing up a match like a legit contest. -Local Man Thinks Wrestling Is Real -Bret Hart went to see a house dressed in his wrestling gear and seemed excited about getting to fight The Shrieking Sheik outside of the arena. As I remember, with that first one, the kids are aware it's predetermined, at the very least Lisa is, but Homer and the guys in the bar think it's real. |
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Post by EP 54 is banned from Collision on Feb 10, 2023 14:20:27 GMT -5
Weirdly, White Wolf's World of Darkness setting had (has?) a wrestling promotion where competetion seems to be real, and supernatural creatures compete: Extreme Wrestling Warfare.
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Post by James Fabiano on Feb 10, 2023 14:21:49 GMT -5
Body Slam = real
No Holds Barred = mostly real, except for Brell wanting RIP to lay down for Zeus after 10 minutes.
Rocky III = work, but Thunderlips really manhandled Rocky for the show.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Feb 10, 2023 14:54:24 GMT -5
Late 80’s/early 90’s John Ritter comedy Stay Tuned had a mixed tag match that was treated as a real fight, though that could have been a result of the supernatural nature of their predicament.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 10, 2023 15:01:16 GMT -5
Family Guy's wrestling/Thanksgiving episode ends with Meg hitting Peter's sister with a chair. It ends with Peter talking on the phone to the hospital, unsure of his blood type, not wanting to check and then informing the family the doctors said there's nothing they can do.
So I guess, a wrestler dying offscreen as a result of in-ring injuries counts as a shoot.
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Post by karl100589 on Feb 10, 2023 16:21:46 GMT -5
Ready to Runble seems to play it both ways. We hear King and DDP calling spots in their first match, but everything after is implied to be Gordy, Sean and King shooting to get revenge on DDP and Titus. That is unless you believe DDP’s fan theory about the whole thing being a work.
Similarly, Fighting With My Fsmily portray the AJ vs Paige match as a shoot.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 10, 2023 16:28:29 GMT -5
The original Charmed had a wrestling match that was real, but they were demons, even if played by Booker T and Scott Steiner, I think it was. Or was one of them Buff Bagwell? It's been a while.
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