kinkymagic
AC Slater
Your t-shirts are too tight too Billy!
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Post by kinkymagic on Jan 9, 2007 17:45:04 GMT -5
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Post by The Boss on Jan 9, 2007 17:59:34 GMT -5
I thought he slammed the 50000lb Andre in front of 640,000 fans, shattering the solar system, causing Armageddon, and killing Andre so hard he couldn't even exist in the Neatherrealm! Or at least, that's exactly what the Hulkster told me yesterday. You talked to HOLLYWOOD HULK HOGAN yesterday? Man I so envy you. I haven't spoken with him for months.
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Mr. Zombie
Don Corleone
The Original Chris Farley
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Post by Mr. Zombie on Jan 9, 2007 18:19:41 GMT -5
I think a lot of the real stuff about Andre needs to be sorted out from the legend of Andre. A lot of the stuff said about his amazing feats of stength and his drinking ability is BS. He was the first man that anyone had ever seen of that size, so of course there was a lot of stuff that went around back then about him being able to military press a bulldozer over his head, and then drink 85 cases of pure grain alcohol while pleasuring 15 women at the same time.
While I'm impressed by Perfects story, and I believe it, you have to remember that he probably didn't lift the whole ass end of the car off the ground 3 or 4 feet. He probably lifted whatever corner of the car it was the few inches it would need to take the pressure off the tire. Sitll very impressive, but I don't think its the superman strength test a lot of us were visualizing.
I also think a lot of people need to see through the smoke and mirrors that wrestling produces. Its a worked sport, so yeah, there are going to be some feats of strength that are produced to make wrestlers seem like supermen. Yeah Mark Henry ripped a door off the cage, but do you thing that door was legit bolted onto the cage, or was it a stunt door? Would he have torn it off if it had been attached to the hinges with 6 or 7 bolts like it should have, and was legit chained shut? On Smackdown Big Show tipped a jeep, but we all know he used a jack to do it. He also lifted the Titantron on TV. Did he really lift it? Stuff like that. So when someone says, yeah, Mark Henry lifted so and so, but I'm thinking, yeah but he some help doing it. He didn't just straight deadlift the guy like Vader did to Inoki.
Guys like Cenq and Angle don't belong anywhere near this conversation.
I'm just basing my opinion off of what I see in the ring. Lesnar pulled off some incredible feats of strength....and not the helped ones where people jump into his move, I'm talking about tossing the Undertaker when he had him lifted over his shoulders, and deadlifting the cruiserweights (who still weight 200 pounds) whether they wanted to be lifted or not. Big Show launched Rey Mysterio with one hand. Nash threw him like a lawn dart. Big Show picked up a 225 pound man over his head and carried him across the ring. Yeah, Henry has pulled off some amazing stuff too.
I never saw Bruno Sammartino, so I'm putting a lot of what I hear about him in the ring into the heresay column. I doubt he lifted Haystacks or whoever it was with one arm. That reaks of wrestling myth to me.
Someone else mentioned a 140 pound guy lifting a 200 pound guy was more impressive than Lesnar lifting someone 300 pounds. I'm sorry if I'm underwhelmed, but bring a 200 pound lift into a conversation where we're talking about guys lifting cars and men twice that size doesn't wow me. I would say its still 300 pounds, and there's a lot of people who can lift 200 pounds. Plus, remember, you get help on the move. There's a lot of small guys that can do that. Just because you're nto tall or don't weigh a lot doesn't mean that you aren't strong. When I wieghed in at 135 pounds, and I was playing basketball 2 hours a day. I carried someone who weighed 225 pounds on my shoulders. Its not that big a deal, its all leg strength.
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