Who remembers the XFL...

[Siu3d]

What a bad idea that was. It might have actually turned into something decent if a guy not related to fake wrestling had created it. Vince McMahon thought with the popularity of the WWF at the time, he could venture out into the field of professional sports. But too many confusing rule changes and lack of viewers quickly turn what could have been good in something that crashed and burned harder than the Hindenburg.

What did you guys think of the XFL? Could there have been others things done to it to rescue the failed sport? Did you actually watch the one season it was on and root for any teams?

[Former FBI Agent]

If they actually went towards making a league about football instead of everything else around it then I actually think it could have been pretty good. I watched a couple of games but all the emphasis on cheerleaders and the "He Hate Me"s really turned me off.

[Chameleon Gangster]

lol I liked the XFL a lot. A fair amount of players ended up going into the NFL after, including "he hate me" and also that cortez, the mexican kicker dude who can also tackle pretty well.

[kelsokid18]

fake wrestling

I'll ask you to rephrase that. Wrestling is not FAKE. There is a way to do the moves safely without hurting anybody (for a piledriver, you lodge your opponents head tightly between your thighs, not letting his head protrude out at all, powerbombs, and big back body drops are done by landing across ALL of your back to spread the blow). Most of the "fake" argument I hear is "they're not really hitting each other" well, no shit dickwad....they're pulling the punch, but it makes minimal contact.

"Well, they know who wins and who will have the belts"

and they also know that Ross and Rachel (Friends) would always end up fucking like rabbits in the long run...and if that comparison doesn't make sense, think about other "sports" like cricket (match fixing) and american football (drug abuse, gambling, points shaving). What sport is real anymore?

"The wrestlers are using roids"

Negative, the WWF has a policy against that. Drug tests happen at random, and anybody caught gets the banhammer.

"Owen Hart, Brian Pillman, Eddie Guerrero, and Chris Benoit all died directly due to wrestling, along with Miss Elizabeth"

1. Owen Hart is probably the closest to this statement. He was on his way to the ring. His ring entrance (lowered from the rafters) failed after the harness used to tie him into the rigging failed and dropped him 80 feet, landing on his chest on the number 3 (top) ring rope. Blunt Force Trauma.

2. "The Loose Cannon" Flyin' Brian Pillman had an undetected heart condition, it's not known if previous drug use caused it or not.

3. Eduardo "Eddie" Guerrero died of a similar condition to Pillman's, but they found roids in him...he would have been detected soon by a test anyway.

4. Chris Benoit killed himself after murdering his wife and son. He had astronomical levels of synthetic testosterone in his body, along with Xanax and Vicodin. The testosterone was attributed to treatment for a previous (pre-WWF) roid addiction, not to mention he was suffering from dementia.

5. Miss Elizabeth, the evening gown wearing former wife of "The Macho Man" Randy Savage was found dead in a home she shared with "The Narcissist" Lex Luger. Her autopsy turned up Xanax, Vicodin, and good old Vodka.

[Siu3d]

^Whoa, whoa...alright man, I apologize for calling it "fake". Sure the moves themselves are professionally choreographed and the slightest mistake could paralyze you, but I was only referring to the "acting" aspects of it all.

[kelsokid18]

^Whoa, whoa...alright man, I apologize for calling it "fake". Sure the moves themselves are professionally choreographed and the slightest mistake could paralyze you, but I was only referring to the "acting" aspects of it all.


Easy there man, I wasn't trying to spook you or nothing, just making sure I supported my point, and yes, those folks in and out of the ring are decent actors, along with outstanding athletes. The whole "face vs. heel" battle is just acting, I admit to that.

[Cegstar]

^Whoa, whoa...alright man, I apologize for calling it "fake". Sure the moves themselves are professionally choreographed and the slightest mistake could paralyze you, but I was only referring to the "acting" aspects of it all.

In that regard, if they're filming a movie with a fight scene, and one actor throws a punch but accidently hits the other guy and breaks his jaw, does that mean it's a real fight?

Wrestling does take a tremendous amount of skill, I'll give them that.


As for the the XFL, I watched a game but didn't enjoy it. I don't like football in general so I guess my precedents set my expectations.

[Euda]

Wrestling is one part soap opera, two parts ballet. I've met a few people now that have trained in The Dungeon and a lot of seriousness goes into the training; however, it's still a bit too much of a soap opera for me to think of it as anything else.

The XFL was a blunder. There are people blowing money trying to get different versions of sports off the ground all the time. Anybody ever heard of ski ballet? It was an Olympic sport at one point.

[kelsokid18]

The Dungeon


As in the legendary Stu Hart's Dungeon, where Stu Hart trained all of his children to wrestle, along with Edge, Chris Jericho, and Chris Benoit. Holy Shit, you need to be thankful to know your friends who have trained there, as they are some of the best trained in the world, it's a shame that The Dungeon is closed.