2019 Pro Wrestling thread

If they truly wanted Ronda to have a "don't give a shit" attitude, have her use a choice word or two, like in the Twitter beef. Just have someone in the back ready to drop the audio, like when Brock told Slater he didn't give a shit about his kids, or Vince used the f-bomb on Shane.

 

This super baddy thing with lashley corbin and friends is the strangest thing since like league of nations. Theyre a bad guy team, then theyre not, then they are again....theyre feuding with Balor and Angle... no shield ... Elias is with em... then hes not.... ditto Lio rush....

Im lost.

 

RIP. Too bad he had pretty much become persona non grata with WWE.

WWE Legend King Kong Bundy Passes Away - Wrestling Inc.

Comes to my question. King Kong Bundy was on Married With Children a few times and apparently inspired the family name.

What's the best appearance by a wrestler on a mainstream TV show? I have to be partial to Vader on Boy Meets World, which actually had some depth to it instead of just being a one-off thing.

 

I had just started watching WWF during the push to WM2, so Bundy’s push and hurting Hogan on SNME was one of my earlier wrestling memories. RIP.

 

Vader on "Boy Meets World" is probably the gold standard, if there is one, for this sort of stuff. Probably helped that real-life Vader seemed like an interesting guy with plenty to work with. There was also "Tag Team," a failed buddy-cop-wrestler pilot starring Jesse Ventura and Roddy Piper, that's floating around the internet. That's in "so bad its awesome" territory.

 

Hogan and Mr. T appearing on SNL the day before the first WM and Hogan appearing on the A-Team were pretty big back in the day/

 

Ric Flair, Hogan, Kevin Sullivan, Macho Man on Baywatch is another big one that stands out for me.

Not sure if you would count this, but Kaufman and Jerry Lawler on Letterman.

 

In my junior hockey days we were on the road in Owen Sound, Ontario, a small town a few hours northwest of Toronto on a Wednesday night in mid-March, 2002. I walk into the media room to get a coffee and suddenly blurt out, "Holy shit, it's King Kong Bundy!" at the sight of the great man sitting alone at a table. He looks up which is my cue to walk over and ask him what the hell he is doing here. He said he was promoting an indie card he was appearing on in a few weeks.

We talked a little hockey - he said he was a big Flyers fan - and then I got to the point: "You had Hogan beat on Saturday Night's Main Event! He was down and out! One-two-three" - I pounded the table for emphasis - "but you were too busy working the crowd! Was it an ego thing? You could have been the champ!"

Ever the pro, he looks at me, doesn't change his expression and says, "Yeah, I think about it all the time."

RIP to one of the greatest big men ever.

 

King Kong Bundy's shtick of having the ref count to five (after he had beaten a jobber) remains a classic for me. Perhaps it's because the WWE doesn't have jobbers the way it used to, but I'm surprised no one has tried to revive that one.

 

I stand corrected. Thank you.

 

King Kong Bundy pinned S.D Jones at Wrestlemania I. Howard Finkel announced the time of the fall at 9 seconds (a "record") except the match was really 24 seconds. To add fuel to the fire, Gorilla said the old record was 23 seconds.