July 25, 20205 yr comment_5924097 I never noticed it before, although I realize it's really famous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hOZaTGnHU4 "I freak beats, slam it, like Iron Sheik".
June 8, 20214 yr comment_5954612 FBI sting involving ANoM, an encrypted communications app, results in 3.7 tonnes of drugs being seized in Australia alone. "Senior investigators describe Ayik as the 'principal distributor of the AN0M handset.' who didn't just distribute the devices among associates but also profited from the sales. 'It's like having The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) sponsoring your gym. This is a high-value criminal sponsoring a criminal communications system,' Australian Federal Police Superintendent Jared Taggart told News Corp papers.
August 11, 20214 yr comment_5959243 In the first episode of Marvel's new What If, the very first big-time superhero move that (our newly minted hero) pulls off is backdropping a Nazi car.
January 22, 20223 yr comment_5973364 The new season of The Righteous Gemstones reveals that John Goodman's character was a professional wrestler in late 60s Memphis and acted as a mob enforcer as a side gig before becoming a preacher/televangelist. Looks like more wrestling in the upcoming episodes now that he's run afoul of an old partner in crime turned promoter played by Eric Roberts.
February 3, 20223 yr comment_5974512 Walton Goggins’ character is loosely modeled on Flair, but not as close as the guy Will Ferrell played on Eastbound & Down. Maybe more “Nature Boy” Buddy Landell. I might have to dive in the 2nd season if they are doing more with Goodman’s character.
March 28, 20223 yr comment_5978222 A possible example of professional actors working a live crowd and keeping the kayfabe alive: after Chris Rock made a crass joke, Will Smith slapped him in the fucking face. Some are wondering if the whole thing was a work or a shoot!
March 28, 20223 yr comment_5978225 100% a work, and a brilliant one. They set a billion tongues wagging.
March 28, 20223 yr comment_5978254 Seems like a work to me, but the overwhelming consensus in the media is that it was a shoot, which is strange in a modern world so quick to scream "fake" at everything and embrace insane conspiracies as truth
March 28, 20223 yr comment_5978263 Creating "buzz" might work for a weekly show (wrestling or otherwise), but I don't know how a live incident that many people wouldn't and didn't see until after the fact is supposed to juice TV ratings. People thought Steve Harvey reading the wrong beauty contestant name was a work too--that was a big story for like a week and by next year's pageant it was forgotten about.
March 28, 20223 yr comment_5978267 Yeah, after thinking more about the whole thing, my pro wrestling brain is probably clouding my better judgment lol
March 28, 20223 yr comment_5978280 I'm not saying the Academy planned it, but what's in that slo-mo is two guys fucking around, not an actual heated confrontation. People don't typically grin and put their hands behind their back to take one in anger. And especially they don't give the "You really laid that one in!" smile afterwards. It doesn't make perfect (or even any) sense as a marketing tactic, even just as a gag between the two of them, but it still doesn't look real.
March 28, 20223 yr comment_5978281 Chris Rock also has been doing standup comedy for decades. Even if it hasn’t been done to him personally, he’s probably heard dozens of stories of confrontations through the years, and knows how to handle them. Especially when it’s a good friend who was pissed off, but not enough that it’d be more than what it was. Watch the unbleeped version from Japan. Unless Will was channeling his inner Steve Austin, he probably wouldn’t have been cursing that loudly on live international TV!
March 28, 20223 yr comment_5978282 Pro-wrestling fans looking at slo-mo videos with confirmation bias be like I mean, it's stupid. Yeah, people talk about them. One for making a stupid sexist joke, the other for acting like a goofy "white knight", which is just as sexist (yeah, his wife needed him to act like a "real man" aka display idiotic violent behavior on a worldwide watched stage, as if she wasn't able to defend herself if she wanted to). Would be a great marketing plan for... what ? Both look bad. And I won't mention people on Twitter going "people believing this is real are sheep", for obvious reasons (I mean, what does that kind of argument makes you think about ?). About Chris Rock's reply, what was he supposed to do ? He's trying to stay professional and not lose face more than he already did in the process. The fact he smiled and said what he said displays exactly zero evidence (or even hints) of this being a work. The rest of the exchange is pretty awkward too. If that was a pro-wrestling angle, it would have been a pretty poorly thought out one, with no benefit for anyone involved, no one getting over, and a sloppy execution.
April 27, 20223 yr comment_5980258 So Jeff Hardy is trending on the French Twitter because, well... this Should have been Darby though, as the guy absolutely tried to Coffin Drop the newly elected president Macron. Speaking of which, I DIED : (kinda fitting to, as Brigitte Macron is hated about as much as Brandi)
June 11, 20223 yr comment_5983455 I just watched an episode of the cartoon " Young Justice" where it looked like Nightwing had been killed, but he was faking it. He faked it by blading his forehead with a batarang and he called it an " old pro wrestling trick." I laughed out loud.
July 22, 20223 yr comment_5986234 I was watching RRR - fantastic movie, by the way - and a tiger does a Standing Spanish Fly. It's that kind of movie.
November 25, 20222 yr comment_5994832 Ha, I was wondering why Backlund was trending on Twitter without having died
January 30, 20232 yr comment_5998576 I can guess how Travis Kelce spent his Monday Nights in the late 90s
February 20, 20232 yr comment_5999778 How many wrestlers were on Carson? Hulk, Jesse Ventura and Andre off the top of my head but I wonder if there were more
February 20, 20232 yr comment_5999789 Blassie was on with Ali hyping the Inoki match in 76, but that was with McLean Stevenson guest hosting
January 16, 20241 yr comment_6016465 Pro-wrestling and hip-hop, kinda. Anyway, that was quite unusual.
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