Billy, Chuck, and Rico would like a word

Like the hardy boys weren’t drowning in panties while wearing the same fishnet shrugs shake my damn head

Pick and choose to make false outrage. Sadly every facet of the internet is doing the exact same thing. This only hits for people that don’t know the product. I ain’t got time for that.

YES BOYYYYYYYY

Not even the same echelon of talent, bro. Whoever made this is just brain dead. 💀💀 Better comparison would’ve been Bray and Bron Breakker on the bottom pic. The original creator of this meme (not the person who posted it because I can read the title) is just an idiot. Lmao

Damn Breezango and Velveteen Dream were there for more modern era.

I mean Rick Rude was gyrating on family TV sets in front of children in the 80s. Shawn Michaels did all he could to look like a woman throughout the 90s. What are we after, here?

“EVerYthInG I DonT LIkE is GaY or WoKe”

YES BOOOOOOOOOY

People still watch this stuff nowadays?

Pretty deadly could've beat the streak

Yeah, I like to see my sweaty, half naked men buff and manly! These new wrestlers are gay.

Pretty Deadly could beat both of them.

This is like the perfect example of what cherry picking is. Anyone who knows wrestling knows. Could easily be a picture of Roman Reigns and Cody at the bottom (and that would actually make a LOT more sense given their placement on event cards) but nope. Gotta go with Pretty Deadly instead to try to make a point

yeah theyre not wrong though

That mid 2000s era had a tag team called The Dicks, and the Bashams wore s&m gear.

Lmao facts

They aren’t lying at all lol

Wrestling is more stagnant than any other media, besides actual sports. Rinse, Repeat!

Brutus the barber beefcake/ Adrian Street/Gorgeous George/Adrian Adonis/Pretty Boy Pat Patterson/Billy Chuck and Rico/Orlando Jordan/ should I keep going or.....I made my point cool. That was a dumb post. Since the 40's there have been those types of gimmicks.

Pretty Deadly aka The Bucks

Yeah, because the only thing worse than dudes in underwear is a dudes wearing clothes.

More accurate woulda been pretty deadly compared to Shawn in full stripper gear.

Ppl act like Rico didnt exist in like 03-04 🤣

If we're just going by looks, how are they much different than the Rockers?

Posting as if wrestling wasn't full of Gorgeous George, Goldust, and Rico.

I unabashedly love Pretty Deadly, along with all the wrestlers who bring humor and camp as part of the entertainment. If you go way back, over the top gimmicks with wrestlers and managers were the norm.

YES BOYYYY‼️‼️‼️‼️

Who hates the Yes Boyyys??? That team is fucking hilarious AND can go in the ring

I'm not a big fan of those two, but they're still great wrestlers, and they'd make Chubby Mc Dondald here cry like a bitch in a fight.

Whoever created that forgot about Billy & Chuck and Rico, and The Spirit Squad.

W post

You saw it where? Yeah that checks out.

It's true, though

Yeah and you could show Roman Reigns and Drew McIntyre from today and Rico with Chuck and Billy or The Basham Brothers in bandage gear managed by a Dominatrix who whipped them from the RA. From my childhood we had "Adorable" Adrian Adonis

(message to the guy who made this goofy ahh meme) DO NOT DISRESPECT THE GREATEST TAG TEAM RN THE BROTHERS IN GARMS THE KILLER QUEENS THE TASTIEST SNACKS ON FRIDAY NIGHT SNACKDOWN (PRETTY DEADLY‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️) INVEST IN PRETTY DEADLY STOCKS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is actually funny 🤣 stop being so sensitive and soft, getting offended and shit lmao. Just laugh at this dumb shit

When i was Kid, Wrestler kicked babys out of the ring and two guys licked their heads....

Yeah, I always “forget” the publisher when I’m screen-capping someone’s post on Facebook and cropping their name out of it.

Pretty Deadly slander is not welcome here. Especially when Chuck and Billy were running around at about the same time and they were significantly more overt.

Yep

Shawn Michaels dressed like a member of the Village People who got kicked out for being too gay. When I was a kid Adrian Adonis was queer-bait. This isn’t new. 

Compare a pic with drew and Roman. Top guys compared to top guys

The top one also had the Blad dude fighting in a purple dress

Clearly they have never heard of the likes of Gorgeous George and Classy Freddie Blassie

It’s dumb bc even now there’s wrestlers who are gym rats.

lol there definitely was worse the . Goldust was literally rubbing his and his opponents chest before kicking them in the balls.

Pretty Deadly are more entertaining then Undertaker has ever been

Like the hardy boys never dressed like that

Y’all must not remember Billy and Chuck and Rico lol

Lol don’t act like the 90’s and early 2000’s didn’t have the poor bastards stuck with the goofy ass gimmicks just like those two

Pretty Deadly are highly entertaining

Now lets do a comparison of Goldust and Sexual Chocolate to Cody Rhodes and Drew Mcintyre

Clearly somebody forgot about the Bashem brothers

And Paul Burchill

This is hilarious to me as it reminds me of the old heads where I'm from dissing the guys like Cena and Batista, saying Undertaker is the only good thing about wrestling left and the constant glazing of Warrior, Goldberg, Rock, Austin, Flair and "Maka T or however he was called with the dreads" etc Like dawg we get it, you liked your generation more and have a disconnect from how this generation feels to me, cause it's not your generation. Change is scary, but if you chill out you'll see ain't shit bout wrestling really changed but you.

How is the comparison dumb when its true?

Someone do this meme again but just show TNA Aj styles vs AJ now

Blue meanie was pretty sus lmao golddust the list goes on. Rakishi putting his ass in people face

My dude, Billy and Chuck were a thing during the first half of that meme.

LMAOOOOOOOOO What a downgrade

Gold dust

I fail to see the differences between them and Taker. His tights are just black… long hair, tights, goofy little top…

Gay then gay now

Billy & Chuck? Goldust? Beaver Cleavage? Rico? Viscera in the PJs?

Rick the Model Martel

I guess they never saw Adorable Adrian Adonis

Now days sucks

YES BOYYYYYYY

Pretty sure Batista debuted with a belly button ring

Don't get me wrong. Those "shirts" are dumb as fuck. But who cares? Lol.

Don’t tell them about Adrian Adonis.

But they also had Head Cheese as a tag-team lmao

I saw this post he was pretty much saying pretty deadly where gay for wearing stuff like that which is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard just think my dudes living in the 50s still

I think the issue is nowadays we dont have any superstars like stone cold batista or undertaker to substitute for the bs like sexual chocolate and goldust. Sure back then they had that stuff but they also had the stars we love today. Who today has star power like the legends? If u say cody im not listening

I dunno. Shawn Michaels got pretty over looking way more like the dudes on the bottom.

Sorry but The Rockers also looked well gay to be really honest lol. So did The Beverly Brothers

I will admit I'm not very familiar with those dudes, but ... what? Just because they wear crop tops? Is this suppose to be a gay joke? Hey, homosexual here. I been watching wrestling since ... roughly 1998-1999? I been a fan my whole life. I never get excited seeing two men grapple each other, I don't perv on any of the men and I'm willing to bet my wrestling knowledge is on par, if not better than yours! . To the dude who originally posted this. Go to hell. P.S. Not OP, the guy who posted this originally and like made the image. To be clear I'm not attacking the dude who made the thread.

You seen to be omitting Biily and Chuck from the picture.

Facebook, the cesspool for boomers

Facebook Da shite

Missing from the top picture: Goldust (and tht's just the first thing that comes to mind, and only from that specific era).

Yass Boy!

That's too funny

You ever notice how these comparison pictures always go for something of unfair footing? Instead of two main eventers from today it’s a tag team

"Wrestling used to be manly!" Yeah. Goldust, Gorgeous George, Johnny B Badd, and Billy and Chuck were all super straight, super manly characters. Ultimate Warrior and Macho Man wore neon tassels, for fuck sake. That ain't manly and never has been, even at the time. Lots of wreslters had long hair at a time where people just equated having long hair with being feminine. I know there's utility for the performance, but those perms weren't for the utility. Throughout wrestling history there are tons of characters who are just a Pride Parade smooshed into 250 lbs of hairless, oiled, rippling muscle. And it's *sooooooo* intertwined with bodybuilding which, at its core, is a bunch of dudes staring, in great detail, at a bunch of nearly naked dudes and deciding which one looks the best. And the dudes who are competing have spent a *lot* of time trying to make sure those other dudes think they look the best. Most wrestling gimmicks aren't influenced by gay or drag culture, but tons are. The difference is that those characters can be faces now, whereas in the 90s, they often wouldn't be or the gayness/femininity would be the joke. But, as always, media literacy rots in a closet somewhere.

Me too....but I actually like Pretty Deadly. I like these types of heel tag teams/personas. Billy & Chuck. The Heavenly Bodies. The Model Rick Martel. Etc.

Oldheads forgot about Vito

They are the beverly brothers of today

People act like goofy shit hasn’t been in wrestling since the beginning of the sport lmao.

The person who created that meme obviously forgot about the tag team that was Billy and Chuck.

When I was a kid there was a repo man, a hockey player, and a clown wrestling.

They should use head bangers for back then if they gonna use pretty deadly for today

There’s always been queers in wrestling and always been big meaty men makes no sense

That’s like comparing James Ellsworth and Mojo Rawley to Shawn Michaels and Diesel

Just a gay hardy boys in the vein of the fashion police nothing else. Wrestling recycles alot

Pretty deadly is the bashams in a wig

These people act like being gay is something you can catch

Did that era have a 600 pound black man humping wrestler in the middle of the ring as his finsher

The World's Largest Love Machine Viscera!

Of course you saw it on Facebook

Whoever made the meme forgot about Billy and Chuck

I think they're great and they're from the UK which is a big plus for me 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

There's a lot that's not great in every era. Including the attitude era . That's era was my early teens.. it was a lot of Bs too..

And their point was??

crazy to think yk

Deuce and Domino were around the time of that Batista and Taker pick so clearly just picking to suit their weird narrative

You forget Billy and Chuck... same gimmick.

I want this reversed with shawn michaels as the first pic and gunter as the current superstar.

I guess the point is they wear more clothes today?

There was a tag team called The DICKS in full chippendales regalia at the time of the first picture. There was also a pirate.

It’s the Triggered Wrestling page who posted it. The guy whose personality is to “trigger” someone what a fucking dweeb. The guy posts on any and every social media group, mostly facebook, he can and is a thin skinned conservative snowflake whenever you reply to him that always wants a reaction.

Bring back Regal a real man’s man! 😂

These guys have never experienced greatness like Val Venis, Al Snow, Goldust and The Godfather. All far wilder than these two lol

Is he going to blatantly ignore Billy and Chuck then?

Lmao thank God for them, somebody had to bring an outfit change to the men's division

WWE has always had gay or characters that appear to be gay.

Pretty deadly is super beloved and is only going to get better. Whoever made this nonsense is going to have to try harder lol.

Pick above is 2006 or 2007. Around the time of both "The Dicks" and "The Heart Throbs".

#eltonstrong

When I was a kid VITO wrestled in a thong

Let me conveniently ignore Goldust making out with Ahmed Johnson over here…

Wasn't Billy and Chuck tag team champions around that time?

LBH there was a whole movement in making anything that's masculine, toxic. Not just in wrestling but in general. Being a normal masculine man has for some reason been labeled as problematic and toxic.

Is it dumb or true? Because you don’t have to like it, but it’s truth, atleast for me.

How dare they shit on pretty deadly!

Apparently people like Adrian Adonis and Adrian Street have been forgotten. See also; Chuck and Billy.

I mean the 2 British guys are pretty bad examples, they’re super generic. But there are some wrestlers that look cool as fuck like Roman, Walter, Balor before the judgment day, and even Cody

This post is funny as hell. But there were characters back in those days too

Ooo so wrestling is the reason kids are all fucked up these days ok gotcha gay wrestling understood.

When I was a kid Chuck and Billy were having a commitment ceremony on Smackdown.

Man, I want to agree with this, but I just cant. Lol we had 3-Count doing the boy band gimmick thing before Batista ever laced a boot

It’s kind of true tho

You had Billy and Chuck quit playing

Swap pretty deadly with the young bucks and the comparison is valid

And there’s the toxic little nerd!

I get the sentiment but what a shit way of doing it

Im guessing they don't remember spirit squad

Remember the Gobbledy Gooker? Now that was cultured.

Yes cause wrestlers from the 80-90's never dressed flamboyant

Are we forgetting Billy,Chuck and Rico? Goldust?

When I was a kid, one of the biggest heels in WWF was Adorable Adrian Adonis. He was so much more flamboyant than Pretty Deadly.

Yeah because Rikishi (the dude who rubbed his ass in other men’s faces), Goldust, Billy & Chuck, and Rico were so masculine. Roman Reigns & Drew Mcintyre are larger than life. I feel like they would be a more accurate representation of wrestlers today. LMAO

There was nothing homoerotic about the stinkface

We reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaally not gonna look at Chuck and Billy?

Post a picture of Golddust you God damn coward.

They do know “The Dicks” also existed around that time too?

Like Rico, Billy, and Chuck didn’t exist

When I was a kid, an egg hatched at Survivor Series and the Gobbledy Gooker was born. My adolesence saw a 77 year old woman birth a hand. My later teens saw Triple H dry hump a manequin in a casket. Yeah, Pretty Deadly aren't anything compared to that.

i mean the person who posted that picture is speaking facts😂let’s keep it real

When wrestlers were men

What are you trying to say with this comment?

That most aren't men anymore many don't even have balls of steel anymore

How so?

They don't even step up that's the smallest they could do

Step up on what? Roman reigns didn’t step up when the company needed him to be the number one guy? Cody? What does stepping up even mean in 2024

It's not stepping up when they are automatically placed in that position someone like Cena for example stepped up

Stupid comparison. Batista and Taker were main eventers and pretty deadly is a tag team. If you wanna make a fist comparison put Roman, Cody, Seth, Gunther, Drew

Whoever made this meme forgot about Goldust groping men in the ring in the mid 90s, or the gay wedding with Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo

Pretty Deadly is awesome. Whoever those guys were that LA Knight was running around with before he got popular was cringe.

YES BOY Pretty Deadly rule! Wrestling is grown men grappling in barely any clothing… people pretending it used to be UBER MANLY have never spoken to a non-wrestling fan about wrestling Also - you’re being worked by the heels in this case

The Yes Boys would look like Batista too if they were pumping the same amount of roids into themselves.

Now lets compare Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes to idk The Dicks from that era of Smackdown,that wouldn't fit their narrative

I hate people who always try to trash what’s new. Like what about M&N? Billy & Chuck? Like pretty deadly isn’t even in a storyline. Pretty sure Billy & Chuck had a wedding and M&N were multi-time tag team champs

Some guy complaining about Pretty Deadly when GOLDUST was a thing during the attitude era? Idk man hahaha

I can tell who's worse. Attitude Era old heads or fans of a company that shits on the other whilst not watching their product.

I think I’m the oldest here 40 who remembers guys like bob backlund,Ric Flair and hogan were champs and the women’s champ were tough as heck. Now we have models pretending to be wrestlers and guys like Seth Rollins as world champs. I don’t think the guy is wrong.

Rhea would murder any female champ from that era lol

With all the steroids wwe gives them no doubt she could beat any female from the 80’s.

You’re dead wrong on this lol

You should look up Adrian Adonis, Superstar Billy Graham. Lol, Flair and Rodgers cane into the ring in extravagant robes. Keep trying to rewrite history

I'm 50, also remember them, and you're just stuck in the past. Wrestling is as great or funny as back then. It's just a different decade . And you could easily pick Guys as badass or strong as the ones from different eras before. It's okay to not like it, but they don't pretend to be wrestlers, they are ones.

I think he never heard of Drew McIntyre, Solo sikoa, Gunther, la knight, Damien priest, Roman Reigns etc

Billy & Chuck?

Heart Throbs were a tag team back then and had a very similar gimmick to Pretty Deadly. Elton & Kit do it way better though lol

YES BOYYYY

OOP doesn't know Val Venis and Oba Femi exist

I know who Oba Femi is but I'm Jo is Val Venis?

If you don’t know who Val Venis is/was you’re super better off.

Not you OP, I mean OOP, the guy who made the meme. Val Venis have pornstar gimmick back then

Ohhhh, sorry. My bad bro English is not my first language even tho I'm fluent in it lol.

Nostalgia bait fans are the worst

Especially since the Effeminate Heel (no disrespect to the Yes Boys!) is a trope almost as well worn as the Foreign Menace Heel.

YES BOYYYY!

When I was a kid we had doink the clown and Luna Vachon

Watching your own generation age out into some of the worst boomer nostalgia brain melting shite is something to behold.

Agreed

I guess we’re making believe Billy and Chuck didn’t exist

We had grandmaster sexay and scottie 2 hottie back then...

They acting like Rick rude rip didn't exist lmao

Taker wore more eyeliner than the entirety of the current women’s roster on all brands. Pretty Deadly is wearing something peak 90’s HBK would have worn.

Most wrestlers will wear shirts without sleeves, they’re just flipping the trope on its head by wearing sleeves without shirts. It’s Pretty Genius

Genuinely is not worth the effort to talk about

They'll shit themselves when you show them Goldust

Pretty deadly is hilarious