jonbroster
14-01-2009, 11:11 AM
Hi,
I have a story followed by a question.
In 1988 I was living in SE London and working at the Docklands Arena (now closed, but still marked on the A-Z).
It was quite a fun job as a student, working on the door, taking tickets and having the odd scrap! I got to see Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Harlem Globetrotters & WWF wrestling.
It was around the time when WWF was just starting to be shown on SKY (which was itself still quite new) and this was their first live show in the UK. Top of the bill was Hulk Hogan V. Randy "Macho Man" Savage. Needless to say, the whole thing was a load of over-the-top BS. I clearly remember standing by the ring apron (ie about 2 feet from the ropes) when one guy was "KOed" by being hit over the head with a megaphone - the blow actually missed and he just flopped down and lay there for a couple of minutes.
Nothing new or interesting there, I am guessing, but prior to the stars of WWF turning up, as a sort of warm-up act, British wrestlers (whom I had watched on Saturday mornings as a kid) did their thing. Now my dad, just like everyone else's had always told me how it was fixed, it wasn't real etc etc, but watching these guys, I was left in no doubt, that any one of them was more than capable of tearing me a new arsehole! I say this as a reasonable kickboxer, who was quite happy to have a fight. The way I saw it, they were really wrestling, just going about 70% and sometimes letting each other out of holds. It made a deep impression on me. Within a week I had returned to judo (which I had given up a few years earlier - for kickboxing) and shortly thereafter I had started doing some amateur wrestling.
I get to see people training in pro style wrestling very week (they teach it in the gym where I teach eskrima) and the holds are all real. It is just that they are showing all the time.
My question is: Has anyone had any experience of a hooker who could really fight? I mean - first hands, taken down to a Boston Crab until I screamed - kind of experience.
Jon
I have a story followed by a question.
In 1988 I was living in SE London and working at the Docklands Arena (now closed, but still marked on the A-Z).
It was quite a fun job as a student, working on the door, taking tickets and having the odd scrap! I got to see Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Harlem Globetrotters & WWF wrestling.
It was around the time when WWF was just starting to be shown on SKY (which was itself still quite new) and this was their first live show in the UK. Top of the bill was Hulk Hogan V. Randy "Macho Man" Savage. Needless to say, the whole thing was a load of over-the-top BS. I clearly remember standing by the ring apron (ie about 2 feet from the ropes) when one guy was "KOed" by being hit over the head with a megaphone - the blow actually missed and he just flopped down and lay there for a couple of minutes.
Nothing new or interesting there, I am guessing, but prior to the stars of WWF turning up, as a sort of warm-up act, British wrestlers (whom I had watched on Saturday mornings as a kid) did their thing. Now my dad, just like everyone else's had always told me how it was fixed, it wasn't real etc etc, but watching these guys, I was left in no doubt, that any one of them was more than capable of tearing me a new arsehole! I say this as a reasonable kickboxer, who was quite happy to have a fight. The way I saw it, they were really wrestling, just going about 70% and sometimes letting each other out of holds. It made a deep impression on me. Within a week I had returned to judo (which I had given up a few years earlier - for kickboxing) and shortly thereafter I had started doing some amateur wrestling.
I get to see people training in pro style wrestling very week (they teach it in the gym where I teach eskrima) and the holds are all real. It is just that they are showing all the time.
My question is: Has anyone had any experience of a hooker who could really fight? I mean - first hands, taken down to a Boston Crab until I screamed - kind of experience.
Jon