Anybody Watch Wrestling?

[caryc]

Anybody watch wrestling on TV? Before I say anything, let me assure you that I'm not stupid enough to believe it's a real sport. Anyway I used to watch it many years ago and I happened to switch to a channel that had wrestling on and I couldn't believe what I saw. It's evolved into a real sideshow now. Not a hint of sportsmanship in it at all.

Two guys had a beef with each other. Hangman Adam Page and Swerve Strickland. Turns out that Strickland actually won the match so what happens then? Three or four of Pages buddies come rushing into the ring and start beating the hell out of Strickland.

Then to get even with Strickland, Page videoed himself setting Strickland's house on fire and burned it down. I believe that's called arson and people go to prison for that.

Wrestling has turned into gangland type fighting. In the locker rooms people are getting jumped on by others and beat up regularly. If one wins a match in the ring it's a sure thing that a bunch of people are going to jump into the ring and start beating him up.

The thing I'm getting at is that kids watch wrestling and they are led to think that this kind of gangland type stuff is ok. And people wonder what turns young people into mass shooters. It's disgusting

 

[Jeepnik]

Just a northern version of Mexican wrestling. Hey anybody remember the name of the wrestler that drove around in his fancy car, in costume and saved damsels in distress? Show was late 50’s early 60’s.

 

[gunman42782]

I quit watching wrestling years ago.

 

[MaxMan]

Not since the Kentuckians, Hulk Hogan, Dr Bill Miller, and Masked Malinko (I Think) :oops:Boy am I old.

 

[PRichardson87]

Apparently you never saw the WWF attitude era

 

[Danjet500]

I remember The Sheik, Bobo Brazil, Haystacks Calhoun, Andre the Giant and Rowdy Roddy Piper and a few others. I wouldn't recognize the modern guys.

 

[coach]

I often hear Hillbilly Jim on Sirius radio on the weekend. I didn’t realize he used to be in the WWF. He occasionally talks about it or interviews a wrestler

 

[dstegjas]

I was never a fan but my dad was. I have a photo album of a lot of the wrestlers from back in the 50's and 60's. Frankie Talaber was a favorite of his. He lived right down the street from us. As a teenager, I mowed his grass back in the early 70's. He had long since retired by then but still worked out and was in great shape. Looking back I wish I had talked to him more about his career.

 

[caryc]

It's a shame what's happened to wrestling now. They even call themselves "sports entertainers" now.

 

[Gopher]

I grew up watching the days from Dallas/Ft. Worth with Fritz Von Eric and Wahoo McDaniels. when Fritz took over the show and turned it into WCCW it got a little more modern with more rock and roll and the silly storylines. The Freebirds vs the Von Erics was entertaining stuff for a while. Then watched the WCW out of Atlanta on WTBS until it joined the WWF. I lost interest after that.

 

[Bob Wright]

During my working years I traveled often. And, when checking into a hotel or motel, the clderk noted I was from Memphis. Immediately the question came up, "You ever seen Elvis?"

Once, though, it was "Do you know Jerry Lawler?"

Bob Wright

 

[WendyZXZ]

I grew up watching the days from Dallas/Ft. Worth with Fritz Von Eric and Wahoo McDaniels. when Fritz took over the show and turned it into WCCW it got a little more modern with more rock and roll and the silly storylines. The Freebirds vs the Von Erics was entertaining stuff for a while. Then watched the WCW out of Atlanta on WTBS until it joined the WWF. I lost interest after that.

My husband was the same he grew up watching the same every Saturday night on independent station channel 11. Two of his cousins grew up with Mike and David. The one that grew up Mike was a good friend from elementary until Mike died while the other one more knew David in passing each other in school.

 

[GasGuzzler]

No

 

[Don Lovel]

I love "Los Luchadores Pequeno" Mexican midget wrestlers is always funny.
Back when WKY TV in OKC had late night wrestling I got to go to a studio taping. Danny Hodge was our Cub scout den mother's brother and got us all in.
In the early 80's I had promoter Leroy McGurk as a broken hip patient at St. Francis hospital in Tulsa. Free Birds, Cowboy Bill Watts, Danny Hodge and Iron Sheik all came to visit him.

 

[BULL'S-EYE]

Not since GLOW back in the 80's. Sally the farmers daughter made my whole world go round at the time!
However, I've long since grown up & moved on to brown eyed brunettes.

 

[NC FNS]

My high school buddies were big fans, but never was my thing. The son of our HS Athletic director was a big name in the WWF…

 

[JAYDAWG]

NOPE..............................

 

[daveag.]

I watched Cowboy Bob Ellis. Bulldog Bob Brown. Nature Boy Kirby? It was big in St Joesph, MO. Friday night and Saturday night. Saturday night was televised. KQTV.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

After they outlawed Korean midget wrestling on TV I wasn't interested anymore......just went down to Kelcy's Bar and had a beer with Archie.......who later bought it....

 

[WAYNO]

No, I watch no wrestling.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

I prefer MMA, with the UFC.

 

[Watertender]

Haven't watched it since we had a black and white television when I was a kid. Whipper Billy Watson, Tony "Cannonball" Parisi, Haystacks Calhoun, The Sheik. Can't remember some of the names but it was fun to watch

 

[caryc]

Not since GLOW back in the 80's. Sally the farmers daughter made my whole world go round at the time!
However, I've long since grown up & moved on to brown eyed brunettes.

I'm also partial to brunettes. :love:

 

[dadstillsurfs]

Not Since Big Time Wrestling from the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Ray Stevens, Pepper Gomez, Kenji Shabuya, Moondog Mayne, Pat Patterson were all favorites. But the I was under 12 in those days and hadn't discovered girls...
Raced a lot of 1/25 scale slot cars in those days also.

 

[T.A. WORKMAN]

Yes ,College & Freestyle and Greco Roman. ;) :)

 

[caryc]

Some of the costumes that they wear are more than ridiculous. There's one that wears a "beast" mask, Mortos. It covers his whole head and complete with horns and tusk like big teeth and chains hanging from it. Take a look at him. How is one supposed to wrestle him fairly? How do you render blows to his head or face? How much padding does he have under that mask? It's just ridiculous.

 

[CaptHowdy]

I mostly just watch old wrestling from the 90’s and early 00’s, as well as some Japanese stuff. I guarantee that modern wrestling has absolutely nothing to do with children being violent towards one another. That’s like blaming boxing for WWII. People have always been and will always be violent towards each other.

 

[caryc]

I mostly just watch old wrestling from the 90's and early 00's, as well as some Japanese stuff. I guarantee that modern wrestling has absolutely nothing to do with children being violent towards one another. That's like blaming boxing for WWII. People have always been and will always be violent towards each other.

Sorry, I don't buy your guarantee for on minute. Children seeing that it is ok to gang up on the winner of a fair match and beat the hell out of them just because he beat your guy is not exactly good for children to see.

Boxing is two people engaging in a fair fight with one winner. No one gangs up on the winner and beats the hell out of him or burns his house down. You obviously haven't seen wrestling as it is now.

 

[CaptHowdy]

Sorry, I don't buy your guarantee for on minute. Children seeing that it is ok to gang up on the winner of a fair match and beat the hell out of them just because he beat your guy is not exactly good for children to see.

Boxing is two people engaging in a fair fight with one winner. No one gangs up on the winner and beats the hell out of him or burns his house down. You obviously haven't seen wrestling as it is now.

If a child isn’t able to understand that an action on a tv show is fiction, then they are too young to be watching that and the fault lies on the parent.
What about a baseball game, when the benches clear and the whole dugout comes after a pitcher?
What about a movie or tv show that has a group of bullies? These have existed since television has been around. If any child sees that and thinks it’s acceptable, they have not been taught well and the fault lies with the parents.
Blaming a piece of entertainment for children behaving poorly is absurd. Do you think Judas Priest is to blame for teen suicide? Do you think school shootings fall entirely on Marilyn Manson and other awful mall metal?

 

[caryc]

If a child isn't able to understand that an action on a tv show is fiction, then they are too young to be watching that and the fault lies on the parent.
What about a baseball game, when the benches clear and the whole dugout comes after a pitcher?
What about a movie or tv show that has a group of bullies? These have existed since television has been around. If any child sees that and thinks it's acceptable, they have not been taught well and the fault lies with the parents.
Blaming a piece of entertainment for children behaving poorly is absurd. Do you think Judas Priest is to blame for teen suicide? Do you think school shootings fall entirely on Marilyn Manson and other awful mall metal?

They get their ideas from somewhere, don't they?