Jinder Mahal's run had a Great Khali run-in. It's great.

29 minutes ago, C.S. said:

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

OMG AJ Styles ! I'm legit shocked. And the guy is 46 years old too. He never EVER looked even close to this. Orton looks like a mix between Triple H at his roided peak and The Warlord. Wellness policy, sure, sure...

3 minutes ago, KawadaSmile said:

Jinder Mahal's run had a Great Khali run-in.

That never happened.

Orton's skin tone is somewhere close to that Liver King maniac on instagram. Although the latter is definitely natural and attained his physique from living the ancestral lifestyle, so I guess maybe Orton is just eating a bowl full of raw pig hearts and bull testicles. A true Primal has no need for Tren!

You can always tell the guys who are on the top shelf shit (Hogan, Savage, Warrior, Rock, Cena, Orton) vs the level or two below (Hercules, Juicy Jinder, MJF, Rush) based on back and shoulder acne

9 hours ago, El-P said:

Gotta love how Cody inferred that maybe MJF putting on muscle lately was him getting prepared to eventually go to WWE.  Talk about saying everything you need to know about the culture there (but hey, JR never told anyone they have to take roids, it's a "personal decision and responsibility", right ?). And hell, that's what Cody did too at one point. With the result that we know of, probably.

It's fascinating that the whole "pile of muscle" thing is still a thing in perception of so-called stars. So infantile, really.

(and on a sidenote, I don't get why you wouldn't mind ending up with a disgusting skin just to have big muscles. Some of those guys, like MJF, Bill, Rush, on HD are just, yuck)

Guys with a ton of muscles look really cool, man.

2 hours ago, El-P said:

Triple H at his roided peak and The Warlord. Wellness policy, sure, sure...

The 1980's WWF were fucking WILD. Like, yes, EVERYONE was big but they were all SO big that even the huge guys looked... normal when on screen. Warlord was like 6'5", 330lbs. But fucking Hogan was also like 6'5", 300 so he wasn't THAT much bigger. So Warlord instead of being one of the biggest dudes around was just another muscle guy. 

I was watching an old WWF Saturday Night's Main Event. It was Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorf (as a babyface, also super jacked) against King Kong Bundy. Bundy made Wonderful look tiny. Then Andre the Giant came out to help Bundy & my god, it really put into perspective how big Andre was.

Your old-timey strongman would routinely live to 90+ years of age (think twirly moustache and leotard). Nowadays, the "strongmen" are lucky to hit 70(?).

I mean, twirly moustache and leotard strongmen literally predate steroids, so it checks out.

 

Also, take a look at NXT's last tryout of the year.

 

HBK's instagram discovery page must be the wildest damn thing. 

Bruno was probably the last of  the old timey strongmen, considering he only slightly toned down his workout routine post-retirement and looked like he could still whoop your ass well into his 70s.

In other news, Charlotte's knee basically exploded and she'll be out at least nine months. You hate to see anyone get hurt, but on the bright side the women on Raw don't have to worry about getting steamrolled for a while.

Also Charlotte managing to put on the figure eight with with a knee that had no working tendons is right up there with Hunter finishing a match with a torn quad in terms of being "holy fucking shit" on the pain tolerance scale.

Eugen Sandow only made it to 58. I picture those guys just as likely to die of strangulated hernias or tuberculous or the same things that killed everyone else in the ninteenth century. But if you avoided the clap, as Jimmy Dugan would say, you could live as long as you would today.

Hackenschmidt almost made it to 90, tho. He was this close to seeing the moon landing.