80's WWF fans, remember this?

The Waiting Trophy Man

lol, hilarious! Yep, I remember this....

jimmy "the mouth of the south" hart: "I'm gonna steal your little girlfriend"... lol

smarchee

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

that video was hilarious. the 1980's is easily the funniest decade in American history. It was just completely ridiculous. for every good thing (Ghostbusters, Iron Maiden), there was just complete and utter bullshit (Poison, Howard The Duck, and music videos where all the WWF wrestlers sing and dance)

lol, apt description

xkevvx

I had, and still have this album. Sadly, hasn't been spun in YEARS...

mookie9999 wrote:

True. But did anyone have the follow up?!? I believe it was called Piledriver. I did!

Oh, I had it too. You can't deny that Demolition song was fucking bad aaaaaaaaaaass.

brain of c

wow. look at all the dead wrestlers.

xkevvx

Where????

I noticed five.

Freddie Blassie, Fabulous Moolah, and Missing Link all died as senior citizens. Junkyard Dog and Adrian Adonis both died i car crashes. This actually isn't a situation where you can talk about "dead wrestlers" like usual.

angryyoungman

xkevvx wrote:

Where????

I noticed five.

Freddie Blassie, Fabulous Moolah, and Missing Link all died as senior citizens. Junkyard Dog and Adrian Adonis both died i car crashes. This actually isn't a situation where you can talk about "dead wrestlers" like usual.

i know the original "rock" don morocco died too. . .so did i believe jim "the anvil" neithart. . .didnt king kong bundy, brutus beefcake, and paul orndorf die too?

Rhinocerous Surprise

angryyoungman wrote:

i know the original "rock" don morocco died too. . .so did i believe jim "the anvil" neithart. . .didnt king kong bundy, brutus beefcake, and paul orndorf die too?

Don Muraco, Jim Neidhart, Paul Orndorff, King Kong Bundy and Bruti are definitely still alive...

xkevvx

Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:

Don Muraco, Jim Neidhart, Paul Orndorff, King Kong Bundy and Bruti are definitely still alive...

True. The Anvil was just on Raw a few weeks ago. Bundy is still doing well at autograph signings at a minor league baseball game near you. Muraco I've seen doing matches with his son at legends shows, and Orndorf is still kicking.

Brutus...LOL, I remember a story a couple years ago where a suspicious bag of white powder was found in a Boston subway. This was back in the days of the Anthrax scare". Anyway, Beefcake was working as a Subway toll collector or whatever. Turns out it was just his bag of blow... But yeah, he's still alive.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

After watching the second WWF, I suddenly realized it was fake and they were pretending.

My 10 yr old mind quickly formulated "oh well...so much for watching this crap....it isn't even real"

xkevvx

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

After watching the second WWF, I suddenly realized it was fake and they were pretending.

My 10 yr old mind quickly formulated "oh well...so much for watching this crap....it isn't even real"

What's next, you'll tell me there's no Santa???? Say it ain't so.

At least Rambo is real.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

xkevvx wrote:

What's next, you'll tell me there's no Santa???? Say it ain't so.

At least Rambo is real.

Santa was real but most likely got char broiled in someones chimney sometime during the first big season...law of averages and all that.

Rambo on the other hand knows how to box, mountain climb, and lives in California with his sexy wife. Rather impressive for a gun toting madman.

edpearson

Holy crap! That brought back a lot of memories when I was a lad. I was totally into the WWF during that time (and even more into the NWA which was on WTBS). I remember around the time of that video/album the WWF was getting stupid, though. That was around the time when Cindy Lauper and Cap'n Lou Albano staged that whole feud on MTV. So ridiculous! That was when I realized wrestling was truly fake! Ugh!!!! Still, nothing beats the time when Rowdy Roddy Piper cracked a coconut over Jimmy Snuka's head on "Piper's Pit"! Classic! Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!!!

xkevvx

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Rambo on the other hand knows how to box, mountain climb, and lives in California with his sexy wife. Rather impressive for a gun toting madman.

You're crazy, Rambo can't box. That Rocky guy can. But it doesn't matter, boxing is about as real as pro wrestling. Rambo should hook up with the A-Team. They'd destroy everybody, as long as they stay away from the CHiPs. Ponch and John don't take shit. They are what's real.

xkevvx

edpearson wrote:

Still, nothing beats the time when Rowdy Roddy Piper cracked a coconut over Jimmy Snuka's head on "Piper's Pit"!

I just wanted to say, that happened at the Hamburg Fieldhouse, right up the road from me! I used to ride my bike there and skateboard in the parking lot. They have these lovely gaps. One time at an ECW show there, Balls Mahoney rode my buddy's skateboard in the lot.

PearlJamaholic

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

After watching the second WWF, I suddenly realized it was fake and they were pretending.

My 10 yr old mind quickly formulated "oh well...so much for watching this crap....it isn't even real"

kinda off topic but i never understood the im not watching it, its fake arguement. simpsons, lost, 24, etc all are fake but if its fun to watch then its fun to watch. i grew bored with wrestling after wwf bought up everything, but i never understood some people. people at work would be like how can you watch that its fake. did they watch seinfeld cause they thought that was real?

RolandTD20Kdrummer

PearlJamaholic wrote:

kinda off topic but i never understood the im not watching it, its fake arguement. simpsons, lost, 24, etc all are fake but if its fun to watch then its fun to watch. i grew bored with wrestling after wwf bought up everything, but i never understood some people. people at work would be like how can you watch that its fake. did they watch seinfeld cause they thought that was real?

I hear what you're saying, perhaps I just found it all too silly to have any redeeming qualities if it wasn't real. The concept of wrestling isn't built on the premise of acting, but fooling the viewer into believing it's real. The shows you mentioned are presented as fiction at face value, otherwise they would be documentaries.

Wrestling it's like living inside the movie Idiocracy imo.

patrickredeyes

acoustic guy wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNxDllyUCdE

How many are still alive is the question. I don't remember that, but man is that funny. hehehe

PearlJamaholic

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

I hear what you're saying, perhaps I just found it all too silly to have any redeeming qualities if it wasn't real. The concept of wrestling isn't built on the premise of acting, but fooling the viewer into believing it's real. The shows you mentioned are presented as fiction at face value, otherwise they would be documentaries.

Wrestling it's like living inside the movie Idiocracy imo.

wrestling for as long as i have been watching has sold its self as a sort of live acting, much like a broadway play. the idea of wrestling being real is like a magician. they have little tricks to fool the eyes but at the end of the day you know the lady wasnt really sawed in half. i think the only people fooled into thinking wrestling is real are the same that believe freddy will get you in your dreams.

in the end nothing new has been done in wrestling for maybe a decade so its pretty stale right now. but its all a show just like everything else on tv.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

PearlJamaholic wrote:

wrestling for as long as i have been watching has sold its self as a sort of live acting, much like a broadway play. the idea of wrestling being real is like a magician. they have little tricks to fool the eyes but at the end of the day you know the lady wasnt really sawed in half. i think the only people fooled into thinking wrestling is real are the same that believe freddy will get you in your dreams.

in the end nothing new has been done in wrestling for maybe a decade so its pretty stale right now. but its all a show just like everything else on tv.

When it first came out on TV with the original cast, it did have the real vibe tagged to it, and it was left up to the viewer to decide whether it was real or fake. Wrestling is actually real sport afterall, and it was called wrestling. Magic is not believed to be real outside of myth and folklore, nor is any TV show aside from documentaries, reality TV, or game shows, from my experience.

xkevvx

PearlJamaholic wrote:

kinda off topic but i never understood the im not watching it, its fake arguement. simpsons, lost, 24, etc all are fake but if its fun to watch then its fun to watch. i grew bored with wrestling after wwf bought up everything, but i never understood some people. people at work would be like how can you watch that its fake. did they watch seinfeld cause they thought that was real?

Man, that is EXACTLY what I've been trying to tell people for YEARS. It's not like in the 80's where they still try to sell themselves as being real fighting or whatever. We all know it's not "real". If you ask me, the people that call wrestling fans idiots for watching it *because it's fake* are bigger idiots than the people that actually do watch it. As if wrestling fans actually think it's real. EvERYTHING on TV is fake, with the exception of sports (and news), which pro wrestling doesn't try to claim to be. For some reason WWE isn't sending tapes to Sportscenter.