Back In My Day, We Didn't Have "Bangers", We Just Had Damn Good Wrestling

[FunkDoc1112]

Drunk uncle thread

No fans think they know the business better than the people in it quite like wrestling fans, I tell ya. Weird self-loathing bunch.

Y'all complaining about today's guys being marks when folks like Stone GOAT, Ric Flair, Macho GOAT, and GOAT the GOATMan GOAT were ultra wrestling nerds obsessed with having the best matches and shyt.

Thinking y'all know the business cause y'all watched some Kevin Nash interviews; if every wrestler had the mindset of a Kevin Nash, the business wouldn't have moved forward - and even his situation was unique to himself. A seven-foot behemoth with bad knees who chose to coast on his size and charisma as a result

 

[R=G]

Don't get any better than Macho Man Randy Savage. The look, the cape, sunglasses, voice, Elizabeth. Definition of a winner.

And Simmons beating Vader after how dominant Vader was...excellence. Legendary.

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

There's a Bret Hart match in the first post.

my bad i meant to say, in todays wrestling i have not seen a Bret Hart quality match
Bret Hart matches were a special breed

 

[Rollie Forbes]

my bad i meant to say, in todays wrestling i have not seen a Bret Hart quality match
Bret Hart matches were a special breed

Facts.
Bret earned that HitGOAT name!

 

[Killer Instinct]

Who is Chris Benoit?

 

[KFBF]

Was this a part of their best of 7 series? I had heard of their best of 7 back in the day from dudes I used to rhyme with, but I wasn't watching WCW around that time and missed out on it.

Definitely worth tracking down.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[itiswhatitis]

Once nikkas start talkin bout bangers, I know everything about them.

I refuse to use that bum ass phrase

A banger is a

- nikka that gangbangs
- a song that slaps


Not a wrestling match. These nerd ass whites took a black phrase and associated it with wrestling. I’m not fukkin w it

We can’t have shyt. I cringe every time I see Wypipo talking about a “banger”…

 

[Da_Eggman]

 

[Rollie Forbes]

I hated Terry Funk and that damn branding iron!

 

[King Sun]

No fans think they know the business better than the people in it quite like wrestling fans, I tell ya. Weird self-loathing bunch.

Y'all complaining about today's guys being marks when folks like Stone GOAT, Ric Flair, Macho GOAT, and GOAT the GOATMan GOAT were ultra wrestling nerds obsessed with having the best matches and shyt.

Thinking y'all know the business cause y'all watched some Kevin Nash interviews; if every wrestler had the mindset of a Kevin Nash, the business wouldn't have moved forward - and even his situation was unique to himself. A seven-foot behemoth with bad knees who chose to coast on his size and charisma as a result

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[Peter Popoff]

too much cosplay & circus energy now

the old school was way more goons & shooters

most had amateur pedigrees or were bouncers bodyguards real life muscle

naturally the in ring work was different

because it was a bunch of dudes who could really hurt one another

it might have been somewhat choreographed but it was real pain

*

Facts. If Adam Cole was a bouncer or security guard, I'd walk right through him.

 

[Rell84shots]

Didn't Savage use a ring bell during his elbow drop to Steamboat's throat during their feud? I think that lead to the WM3 match if I am not mistaken.

That spot looks tame compared to now, but back then seeing someone get their throat crushed by a ring bell was horrifying.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]