The WrestlingSmarks History Club

[Switchblake]

None of y’all wanna talk about patriot. Bunch of cowards.

 

[Kairi HoHo]

Speaking of historical content, I don’t care what anyone says the Patriot is one of the greatest historical movies ever made. I just got done crying four times and I’ve seen that movie many times and every time it gets me.

I feel the same way about Braveheart when I watch that film no matter how much I really know about that time involving William Wallace before and after his Death.

 

[O-Blaze]

I was hoping this was about the history of WrestlingSmarks and we would dunk on nerds that no longer post here.

I just want to bring this back up and how awesome an idea it is.

 

[Switchblake]

You’ve ruined the surprise, but I am working on a 15th anniversary of wrestling Smarks thread that’s posting sometime this summer. Cause it will be 15 years this summer.

 

[O-Blaze]

I'm gonna drop the biggest shoot ever NOBODY IS SAFE!!!

 

[Switchblake]

A little sneak peak.

That impact wrestling forum one was when we actually owned the impactwrestling.com domain and had to barter it to TNA when they made the switch in 2011

 

[O-Blaze]

Let's see how many of these was I actually a member of lol.

Pulse
Wrestling Punks
Impact Wrestling Forums
Maybe TWC? I can't remember lol.

 

[Barry Poppins]

So I know that we have the two World Wars, but what I think is super interesting is the Boxer Rebellion, which was an extremely rare time in history where (despite it being a hostile colonial takeover by other countries) you had the UK, Russia, Germany, Japan, France, US, Italy, and Austro-Hungary allied with one another (with aid from the Netherlands, Spain, and Belgium) facing off against the Qing Empire.

 

[Chris]

I don't even think World War 1 meets my criteria for "world war" tbh which is arbitrary anyway, but it was a European/northern Africa war really unless you count Japan taking German's Pacific islands

 

[Barry Poppins]

Only reason I brought up the Boxer Rebellion was because I watched the movie 55 Days at Peking last night (Charlton Heston, David Niven), and it's uh, quite the film.

 

[Barry Poppins]

In case anyone is interested btw

 

[Chris]

Giving me John Wayne Ghengis Khan vibes

 

[Barry Poppins]

Giving me John Wayne Ghengis Khan vibes

There is... a lot of yellowface, yeah.

 

[Chris]

Also forgot to mention but bought tickets to see Dan Carlin for August in Houston.

Re-listening to his Death Throes of the Roman Republic series now and I love the story of the original grift where Marcus Livius Drusus simply promised better or more of what Gaius was promising to beat him in the election. Then he didn't do any of that shit

 

[Chris]