It’s a little embarassing to say, but I’m a geek about professional wrestling. I am right now enjoying a 12 DVD set of Bill Watts’ Mid-South/UWF wrestling from the early-to-late 80s. I just ordered another 12 disc set of Memphis Wrestling from the 80s.
Does anyone else here like wrestling? Let’s talk about the good and bad stuff.
It’s a little embarassing to say, but I’m a geek about professional wrestling. I am right now enjoying a 12 DVD set of Bill Watts’ Mid-South/UWF wrestling from the early-to-late 80s. I just ordered another 12 disc set of Memphis Wrestling from the 80s.
Does anyone else here like wrestling? Let’s talk about the good and bad stuff.
I like Jesse Ventura and the Rock but quite honestly, I never saw them on the mat. Where I come from geek is not the right word to describe wrestling fans. Not sure I ever heard a name just that they were from a lower socio-economic strata, people that lived 4 or 5 to a 900 square foot bungalow with a speed boat parked in the yard next to the old Ford F150 with the camper on top. Well, the class thing is sort of a joke since I come from a similar background. Guess my mom’s Polish boyfriend used to tune in way back in the fifties when a lot of folks still thought it was real. I mean come on, two sweaty stinky guys huggin each other, tres gay.
Well, I guess you could look at it as a close minded dolt. But I prefer to look at it as just theater at it’s most base. It’s absured, fun, and when done right athletic.
I call myself a geek about wrestling because the current product on television doesn’t really interest me. I enjoy the wrestling I grew up with in the 80s when it was treated as a “real sport” (their words, not mine).
Also, I’m comfortable with my sexuality enough and I don’t have to refer to things that threaten my loins to stir as “gay”.
Also, I’m comfortable with my sexuality enough and I don’t have to refer to things that threaten my loins to stir as “gay”.
You did not catch me on that one, honest, I was jesting. I’ve no problem with gays, just sweat. I have an old lover, in fact, who sort of moved into lesbianism. She gave birth to her own child, artificial insemination, she asked but I was unavailable.
Brought the boy up in a two women household. He just graduated from HS, happy, healthy and straight, whatever that means. Personally I’m as crooked as a gnarled old oak.
Now that that’s out of the way. Let’s talk about wrestling. Where’s Shanafelt?
Here. Sorry, I was away for the weekend searching eBay for Silverhawks lunch boxes, playing D&D;and on another forum debating the merits of the NES versus Sega Master System. Old school wrestling, like everything else from my redneck childhood, is very cool. I mean that both ironically and unironically.
(I was actually playing D&D;this weekend, though. But it’s cool—we were just testing out 4th Edition. Meanwhile, my wife was at a luau getting hit on by morbidly obese alcoholics.)
So, I’m down with the squared-circle talk. The Memphis stuff is good (Lawler uber alles), but I still prefer the early ‘80s glory days of the NWA.
Here’s a question: how much drama versus “this is a sport” do you like/is acceptable? The people I know who don’t like wrestling hate the “soap opera” aspect of it, and yet great the “competition” aspect of it with equal amounts of vitriol. So what gives?
Here’s a question: how much drama versus “this is a sport” do you like/is acceptable? The people I know who don’t like wrestling hate the “soap opera” aspect of it, and yet great the “competition” aspect of it with equal amounts of vitriol. So what gives?
I don’t really care about the “real” sport thing. I want a good story. I want base-level drama, conflict and resolution out of my wrestling, nothing more. I do like it to look realistic enough to allow me to suspend my disbelief, however.
There’s wrestling out there that really does stuff like that. One league that I’ve been dying to check out but can’t seem to come up with the money to buy their DVDs is CHIKARA, which operates out of Pennsylvania. I am DYING to see their stuff. Someone should buy me their best of DVD.
Is it on your Amazon wish list? On your live journal? Do you have a “donate to Jason’s hobbies” button on your site? This is how charity works on the internet.
My cousin and I would spend Saturday afternoons watching “Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling” and “Shock Theater” on WLOS. After putting so much energy into rooting for Chief Wahoo McDaniels and Paul Jones to beat bad guys like Ric Flair and then finding out it was all scripted, I could no longer find enjoyment in the sport.
Is it on your Amazon wish list? On your live journal? Do you have a “donate to Jason’s hobbies” button on your site? This is how charity works on the internet.
No, just PM me for my address.
Also, Brebro- once I figured out that it was fake I got really into the backstage stuff that you only read about on the internet. It was this weird way of rooting for my favorites, to see if they played the political card enough for them to receive a push.
Now I just watch the matches the way I watch war scenes in movies. I view it as this combination of theater/visceral action. It plays better that way.
