2023 Pro Wrestling Thread

It’s moments like these where I regret taking Spanish in high school and college instead of French.

Not that I would have understood them in Spanish anyways. I barely passed those classes.

 

Gable doesn’t get the belt, but at least he winds up going to the pay windaa and get the winner’s share of the purse money.

 

"Miz is what you get when Biff Tannen bangs a frog And you push it down the stairs."

And Tozawa wins a non-24/7 match on Raw for the first time in six years.

 

So is the India show Cena’s doing on Sept 8 a house show or one of the international PPVs? Odd its a Friday, I’m assuming its non televised since there’d be a Smackdown that day ?

 

All the full-timers advertised are Raw folks, so I don't think SmackDown will affect it. They might air it on Peacock, but if it's like the last Indian show they had during the Thunderdome era, it'll just be a lot of fluff to make the Indian fans happy.

 

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Whoops

 

Fixed it for you.

 

RIP Terry Funk, that crazy son of a gun.

 

Wasn't he suffering from dementia the past couple of years?

 

RIP Funker.

One of the most underrated workers ever, and one of the most influential, with all the guys he put over in his career. Only a supremely talented guy can carry a feud with a babyface Ric Flair.

Funny, I just rewatched the Forever Hardcore documentary a few weeks ago. So many great memories of him in ECW.

My favorite memories of him are when he came down to check on Mick Foley during the HIAC match with Taker, and Taker chokeslammed him “out of his shoes” trying to buy some time, and this one:

 

I believe he had either that or some sort of similar disorder, but he wasn't totally out of it. I know Foley talked about visiting him and having discussions with him, and I know Funk was coherent enough to be in one or two Dark Sides in recent years.

This is a great statement from SRS. I might be a bit on the younger side, so my first exposure to Funk was the Chainsaw Charlie stuff with Cactus Jack during the early Raw is War days of the late-ish '90s.



Eddie Kingston idolized Funk, and Moxley might as well be this generation's Funk. Imagine the stops they're going to pull out in tribute for Stadium Stampede this weekend.

 

One time around the mid-2000s, I was watching a wrestling show on TV at home as my parents, who definitely aren’t wrestling fans, were visiting. Terry was on TV.

Me: “You see that old guy?”
Dad: “Yeah, what about him?”
Me: “He’s been wrestling since six years before you and Mom got married.” (1970)

The man was incredible. From a young guy following in the footsteps of his dad and older brother, to NWA champ, to a legend in Japan, to crazy times in empty arenas with Lawler, to a brief, but memorable WWF run, to putting a plastic bag over the head of Ric Flair and nearly getting kicked off TBS, to an independent and hardcore legend who was doing moonsaults in his mid-50s, to an elder statesman who still got in the ring in his early 70. RIP Legend.