The Sad Life of The Iron Shiek
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Jack Davenport
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Why don't those scumbags Linda and Vince McMahon help him out? They owe a ton of gratitude to him.
alexpnz
Lord Dipstick
BCT
Pucker Up Butter Cup.
Hes a fucking cocksucker, those poor bastards had to wrestle until they were old men because he gave them no benefits. Those guys had no business being in the ring in their 50's, wrestling should be be treated the same as any other professional sport. Those guys made that prick a lot of money.
Mayhem
Banned
I met the Sheik once. I was just intending on shaking his hand in passing and letting him get on with his day. He stood up and shook my hand with both of his and we talked for a couple of minutes. Really nice guy. Where the article says he cared for his fans, you can certainly believe it.
Why's that? For doing the job for Hogan and putting him on the map? Which was his job, and part of the reason he was given the belt to begin with? Or maybe for not accepting Verne Gagne's (alleged) offer of a bribe to hospitalize Hogan in said match, which was just being a professional and having some integrity?
Actually, if that is what you're getting at.... fair point. Sheik could have done it.
..... and if they were part of the industry during the boom - which Sheik was, working a lucrative series of rematches with the Hulk, getting a slice of the takings from the first WrestleMania and so on, they made a lot of money. It's just some of them spent it all on *****, crack and whores. Yes, Sheik had real bad luck with injuries, and his ********'s ****** was horrible. Yes, it was a fucked up industry in the 80s and for every guy that made it out OK like Warrior or Duggan or DiBiase or Bret, you have a Curt Hennig or Rick Rude or Boss Man or Davey Boy who didn't. But let's not blame Vince for every tragedy and guy that ****** their fortune and ended up on hard times as a consequence, when he opened the door for them to earn the good money to begin with. He said "work this many dates for me and I'll pay you $X" which was usually more than they could get in the AWA or JCP. Whatever else happened was usually the responsibility of the talent involved. He was their boss, not their ***.
Jack Davenport
Banned
I honestly had no idea that our British friends even followed American professional wrestling. I'm astonished.
It's not huge like it was, but they do alright. The company runs Raw/SmackDown twice a year here with an accompanying nationwide house show tour, and it always sells out. SummerSlam '92 at Wembley is still the actual best-attended WWF/E show in company history (WrestleMania III was heavily papered so they could say they'd smashed the record, but there were closer to 78,000 people than 93,000 actually IN the Silverdome - http://www.thehistoryofwwe.com/silverdome.htm - but 80,000 were at SummerSlam).
There are plenty of hardcores too that follow the whole wrestling world. A couple of thousand of us crammed into York Hall this month for the first UK appearance of Jushin Liger, and I personally am heading out to Tokyo to see New Japan's G1 Climax for the third year in a row in August.
Jack Davenport
Banned
Japan? Really? lol The farthest I ever traveled was to Atlanta to see a match at The Omni years ago to watch Andre The Giant battle Tito Santana (about 300 miles away from me)
Andre came down the aisle and I got to shake his hand. Me and my buddies finished the night off getting ***** at Tattletales (the same Tattletales that Motley Crue mentions in the song Girls Girls Girls) strip club. Good times!
I'm so fucking jealous. I mean, I've seen everyone worth seeing that was still full time and active in the last 20 years (with only a handful of exceptions) - Hogan, Flair, Funk, Taker, Hitman, Hennig, Bulldog, Steve Austin, Shawn, Rock, Tripper, Kurt Angle, Lesnar, Cena, Benoit, Road Warriors, you name them. And from the wider world, British legends like Steve Grey and Johnny Saint, and Japanese icons like Liger, Mitsuharu Misawa and Kenta Kobashi. But Andre? Yeah.... bastard.
And yes, I'm perfectly happy to fly 6000 miles for wrestling.
And yes, I'm perfectly happy to fly 6000 miles for wrestling.
Jack Davenport
Banned
Damn right! ...wait!
Did you get to see Flair and HBK in their prime?
No, and yes, in order. I saw Flair wrestle (and lose cleanly to) Curt Hennig in 2000. I know he carried on wrestling for many more years, but to me he was considerably past his best after the shoulder surgery of 1996.
Shawn on the other hand I saw at the peak of his powers in his "first prime" against Davey Boy Smith at the One Night Only PPV in 1997 for the European title, which for the very least on that one night came across a big deal. It was one of my favourite matches that I'd ever seen, molten heat and horrifically executed finish. I thought Shawn might be lynched on his way out of the NEC that night.
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