General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Comrade Khan]

But if you're a grown man watching Hogan vs. Earthquake and buying it as a real fight...

lmao

 

[Chris]

would be pre curtain jerk?

that didn't even really hurt, it was at a house show. Vince just got heated about it

 

[Comrade Khan]

that didn't even really hurt, it was at a house show. Vince just got heated about it

Vince? Heated over something potentially small? never!

 

[Chris]

I know there were legit people in the south that thought WWF was fake but our rasslin' was real

 

[Hoss]

In the 80s there were definitely people out to expose the biz

 

[Chris]

Like Bill Watts said it on TV and they def bought it

 

[Comrade Khan]

I know there were legit people in the south that thought WWF was fake but our rasslin' was real

fucking lol time really is a flat cricle

 

[Hoss]

Hence David Schultz slapping that one guy in the teeth

 

[Hoss]

fucking lol time really is a flat cricle

was much more believable tbf

 

[#Waddles]

john stossel

 

[Chris]

Up until the 90s, no one told you anything was predetermined until they beat the shit out of you in training from what I've heard from guys like Lance Storm

 

[Chris]

Basically if you didn't make it, they wanted you to go back and say nah that shit is real and it burrs

 

[Chris]

*hurts

 

[Comrade Khan]

it wasnt openly admitted yet, lets say

 

[Chris]

I do know when the Andy Kaufman/Lawler thing happened and made national news it was reported soon after it was 100% a skit so obviously by the 80s the general perception was fake tho even if there were a lot of holdouts