OT: Wrestling gone wrong

[husky429]

No, it's not. Been there.

If you're going in there expecting some kind of athletic event with a great story line and entertainment, you'll be disappointed. If you go there to drink bad beer with your friends and scream bloody murder at grown men in essentially drag beating the crap out of each other, you're in for a good time. It's hysterical.

 

[mussels]

If you're going in there expecting some kind of athletic event with a great story line and entertainment, you'll be disappointed. If you go there to drink bad beer with your friends and scream bloody murder at grown men in essentially drag beating the crap out of each other, you're in for a good time. It's hysterical.

How can you not like this?

 

[Kolumbo]

Raja Jackson wasn't even supposed to be in the ring. He jumped in from the seats. And Smith is in stable but critical condition. I think Jackson is in big trouble.

Oh yeah, he's in big trouble alright

 

[Dove]

There is a brewery in Fair Haven called Armada Brewing.
There is a wrestling school in East Haven.

Evey now and then the school does an Exhibition in the parking lot. Ring is set up, wrestlers enter from the brewery's brewing area. Its a lot of fun. I went once. Fans jeer, wrestlers yell back. For the most part, the moves are slower and timed but they have fun and for the most part, looks pretty good up close.

 

[jibsey]

I am not totally anti violence in sports person because in my youth I watched a Friday night fights, Sugar Ray Robinson, And then the great era of Frazier, Ali, Foreman and the rest. Boxing can be pretty brutal but aside from the entrances it is a sport requiring skill and supposedly steroid free, but this wresting business where it’s steroid massive bodies, predetermined outcomes and props whipping crowds who are yelling for blood into a frenzy is entertainment? But those guys are in less danger in the match generally because it is fixed. And those “wrestlers are going to pay a massive health price in later years for using those drugs. Does WWE do steroid testing? JMO. And boxing ALWAYS has refs to shut it down when a life could be at stake. MME is technically less dangerous than boxing because of less repeated head strikes.

 

[superjohn]

I am not totally anti violence in sports person because in my youth I watched a Friday night fights, Sugar Ray Robinson, And then the great era of Frazier, Ali, Foreman and the rest. Boxing can be pretty brutal but aside from the entrances it is a sport requiring skill and supposedly steroid free, but this wresting business where it’s steroid massive bodies, predetermined outcomes and props whipping crowds who are yelling for blood into a frenzy is entertainment? But those guys are in less danger in the match generally because it is fixed. And those “wrestlers are going to pay a massive health price in later years for using those drugs. Does WWE do steroid testing? JMO. And boxing ALWAYS has refs to shut it down when a life could be at stake. MME is technically less dangerous than boxing because of less repeated head strikes.

This wasn't wrestling it was a livestreamer with an MMA background jumping in the ring to murder a wrestler.

Yes, a huge amount of wrestlers use steroids. Same goes for boxers, MMA fighters, football players and basically athletes in every other sport.

 

[Dove]

There is a brewery in Fair Haven called Armada Brewing.
There is a wrestling school in East Haven.

Evey now and then the school does an Exhibition in the parking lot. Ring is set up, wrestlers enter from the brewery's brewing area. Its a lot of fun. I went once. Fans jeer, wrestlers yell back. For the most part, the moves are slower and timed but they have fun and for the most part, looks pretty good up close.

 

[Dove]

 

[Flipside]

This wasn't wrestling it was a livestreamer with an MMA background jumping in the ring to murder a wrestler.

Mic drop!

... the next cat Raja, and, apparently the promoter (based on recent reports) should both meet in prison is a Fleece Johnson, aka Booty Warrior, for an escalated taste of their own BS sucker-punching predatory medicine ... Jelly or Jam?

 

[Kolumbo]

Most influential in a different time period

 

[Flipside]

Most influential in a different time period

He influenced many, past and present

 

[Flipside]

Most influential in a different time period

The time period(s) may have changed, but the messaging through the decades, unfortunately (imho), remains the same

 

[jibsey]

This wasn't wrestling it was a livestreamer with an MMA background jumping in the ring to murder a wrestler.

Yes, a huge amount of wrestlers use steroids. Same goes for boxers, MMA fighters, football players and basically athletes in every other sport.

Don’t agree with that. I expect that in legitimate sports they are at least urine tested. WWE is not even a sport.

 

[TheRealKBuks]

This wasn't wrestling it was a livestreamer with an MMA background jumping in the ring to murder a wrestler.

Yes, a huge amount of wrestlers use steroids. Same goes for boxers, MMA fighters, football players and basically athletes in every other sport.

 

[DFW HOYA]

I am not totally anti violence in sports person because in my youth I watched a Friday night fights, Sugar Ray Robinson, And then the great era of Frazier, Ali, Foreman and the rest. Boxing can be pretty brutal but aside from the entrances it is a sport requiring skill and supposedly steroid free, but this wresting business where it’s steroid massive bodies, predetermined outcomes and props whipping crowds who are yelling for blood into a frenzy is entertainment? But those guys are in less danger in the match generally because it is fixed. And those “wrestlers are going to pay a massive health price in later years for using those drugs. Does WWE do steroid testing? JMO.

WWE is owned by the same company that owns UFC: they both test for steroids monthly. In general, WWE performers are smaller and less muscle bound than in the 1980s because the current style of wrestling (particularly acrobatic ones) doesn't lend itself to being big and muscular. The current top WWE male stars are between 200-225 lbs. where Hulk Hogan claimed to be 6-7 and 300 lbs.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Umm did you watch the same video I did? I wouldn't be surprised if the guy died. He took like 10 solid hits to the head while he was already knocked out

Lil' Rampage is going to prison

Nah but he will make some money in the courts though, probably more than he will ever make in a ring

 

[husky429]

Nah but he will make some money in the courts though, probably more than he will ever make in a ring

I have no idea what you're saying "nah" to

 

[Edward Sargent]

I have no idea what you're saying "nah" to

Me neither! I think I was responding to the he's going to jail comment😂

 

[jibsey]

WWE is owned by the same company that owns UFC: they both test for steroids monthly. In general, WWE performers are smaller and less muscle bound than in the 1980s because the current style of wrestling (particularly acrobatic ones) doesn't lend itself to being big and muscular. The current top WWE male stars are between 200-225 lbs. where Hulk Hogan claimed to be 6-7 and 300 lbs.

Look, I am glad that these WWE guys are not shortening their life spans more, because it is down by quite a bit already. I admit it’s physical, requires skill and strength and some ability to act. I don’t particularly like that impressionable kids from a pretty early age watch this and think it’s real and macho ( as many adults actually do). It should be straight entertainment but unfortunately the violence will cause many to take bad lessons from it into their real lives. But it’s ingrained in our society mostly for worse, just an opinion.
As a basketball fan, strength and character is boxing out hard down low and ripping rebounds away from your opponent.

 

[superjohn]

WWE is owned by the same company that owns UFC: they both test for steroids monthly. In general, WWE performers are smaller and less muscle bound than in the 1980s because the current style of wrestling (particularly acrobatic ones) doesn't lend itself to being big and muscular. The current top WWE male stars are between 200-225 lbs. where Hulk Hogan claimed to be 6-7 and 300 lbs.

Most of them are still on PED's just like MMA fighters and NFL players.

 

[husky429]

Most of them are still on PED's just like MMA fighters and NFL players.

Folks are in denial about the prevalence of PED use. Even for non-professional athletes. People are openly talking about it at the PLENET FITNESS I go to.

These sports all remind me of that documentary Icarus. Speaking from experience...there is simply no way to compete at a high level in fight sports without using some level of PEDs. Even the guys publically making their persona about being clean are lying. The training alone is too brutal without chemical help.

There's no way to survive a season as an offensive lineman without PEDs (and painkiller abuse).

 

[superjohn]

Folks are in denial about the prevalence of PED use. Even for non-professional athletes. People are openly talking about it at the PLENET FITNESS I go to.

These sports all remind me of that documentary Icarus. Speaking from experience...there is simply no way to compete at a high level in fight sports without using some level of PEDs. Even the guys publically making their persona about being clean are lying. The training alone is too brutal without chemical help.

There's no way to survive a season as an offensive lineman without PEDs (and painkiller abuse).

Most people have no clue about any of this stuff. I mean we had a PGA golfer say the other day he overdosed on creatine to explain away his poor play and a lot of people believed him. Some of these people think creatine is a PED while at the same time they're celebrating people who are juiced to the gills thinking they're clean. I texted a couple of my huge sports fan buddies about the golfer overdosing on creatine and one of them said that's what McGwire in on. The other said isn't that what Sheffield was taking? It's hilarious how little people know about this stuff.

I had friends in high school who played football and hockey who were taking gear along with a few guys who didn't play anything but loved lifting weights and being big...and it's significantly more common nowadays. I used to party with my friend at Central Connecticut State University and all his friends were on the football team, every single one of those guys was on steroids. People are in denial about their favorite athletes, actors, rappers etc. taking gear let alone the guys in their local gym who are on it and don't even look muscular.