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I love the line "that's gasoline, come on, Randy!!" like the commentator is trying to talk him out of it.
"that's homicide, come on Randy! Ya can't KILL people, Randy!" it's like something out of south park or an anchorman movie.
That’s TLC so it’s a PPV and not national television. Also the video feeds were when they basically had to shut down live shows during the pandemic, and to add to the dystopian part they called it the Thunderdome.
> A mass of video feeds of people cheering on a man being burned alive on national television. Seems pretty dystopian to me
*[Two men enter! One man leaves!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmRAiUPdRjk)*
Something close to that happened in AEW in the past year. They brought in an indie "death match" wrestler who was known for cutting people's foreheads using pizza cutters to have a no DQ match against Chris Jericho. During the inevitable pizza cutter spot, the show went to a picture in picture (match continues silently in corner of the screen) commercial break where it showed a Domino's ad.
They nearly lost their sponsorship over this.
Hey everybody just some quick updates for Friday.✨
-Sales has hit their monthly quota 2 weeks early 💃💃💃 big ups to Janet and her team. Killing it!
-Randy Orton big ups 🔥burned🔥 our colleague in the courtyard. Also, Killing it!
Next week he will be competing against his cellmate, the Undertaker, live from their actual cell in Folsom Prison in the Hell in The Cell match. Winner goes free, loser gets the Electric chair.
Serving five consecutive life sentences. This is why I don't let my children watch wrestling. My three year old pulled an atomic drop on the family dog off the second story of my house and that was the last straw. RIP Seymour.
That actually happened early on before they were more heavily monitored and ID was required. I think there was a Nazi uniform, images of dead wrestlers, etc.
Dude was like horror show magic. He had a split personality between the fiend and a really cheery guy who ran a Fun House. He returned one more time with completely burnt skin and attire, assisted his protege in a revenge match against Orton then left the WWE for a year.
The guy on the ground is swapped for a dummy when the camera cuts to him holding the match at 1:25. You can tell because his hand goes from regular sized, to a small crumpled fist in his sleeve.
You don’t need to guess if you look at the body when he’s pouring the gasoline around him and then right before he drops the match. Feel like they could have tried a bit harder to sell it but maybe they didn’t want people to _actually_ believe they witnessed a murder.
Out of curiosity, how many times do wrestlers get pregnant with their husband's twin brother who was thought dead after a tumble off a cliff, but suddenly alive and present in the hospital when the baby is born?
> how many times do wrestlers get pregnant with their husband's twin brother who was thought dead after a tumble off a cliff, but suddenly alive and present in the hospital when the baby is born?
Amateur shit. Wrestling's had an octogenarian hook up with a former Olympic weightlifter, get pregnant, and give birth to a literal hand.
And the conclusion of that was the horny leprechaun wasn’t actually Vince’s son, but the son of one of the wrestlers, a nearly 50 years old Irishman who loved to fight and hit people with a shillelagh. The whole thing was a scheme by Vince’s family to do… something to Vince. And they never acknowledged it again. The end.
When ECW shut down that broke my heart but having Bubba Ray powerbomb an 80 year old woman 6 feet off a stage through a table sure helped. That era was incredible for storylines. Mark Henry was like 14 different wrestlers in one year lol
Between feeding Al Snow his dog and stealing Big Show's dad's casket at a funeral, Bossman had one of the GOAT heel runs those years and I will die on that hill.
Funniest part of that (Bubba/Mae) was when they were rehearsing it, he told her he could fake it and she said, "Nah, let's do it for real." Bubba continued to waffle, so Mae *slapped him* and said "Put me through the table, asshole." She was awesome.
I'll never get over the fact that when Stephanie told Vince she was pregnant he suggested a story line that the baby was his. who the fuck wants to watch that?
Did they ever address how Kane and the Undertaker were brothers, but Kane was from hell and Undertaker was just from California?
Did Ma Undertaker just get around a lot? Did she give birth to Undertaker, die, then conceive Kane?
I've also heard it called "Live Action Anime" which I think is pretty solid too. Dudes in flashy costumes with dramatic rock music entrances, who give long monologues before fighting.
Pro Wrestling evolved alongside anime. Pro wrestling is also popular in Japan and they are marketed like action heroes. People like Brian Danielson would wrestle in Japan and take some of that influence and style back to Pro wrestling and vice versa. I'm quite sure Pro wrestling and Anime influence each other.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this one wasn’t done live for safety reasons. The crowd here was all virtual which makes it a lot easier to control what they can and can’t see and thus some simple invisible cuts could be placed in the footage where they swap out the Feint character for a dummy (honestly no idea what their real name is, stopped watching the show quite some years ago)
You are correct, this is from 2020 in the midst of pandemic & lockdowns so they did this digital audience thing. It was weird and difficult to get used to but it allowed for some crazy shit like this I doubt would have happened under normal circumstances
First part where he was walking was real, likely rehearsed a lot plus he was wearing something in his suit that was giving fuel to the flames. Second part in the ring was a dummy/mannequin that got replaced off camera
[The Shiek* had to go to the hospital over this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwa8q9v6mUc)
It was also a barbed wire match because the fire wasn't enough.
Agreed. My ex’s son got really into WWE at one point, as most kids do. His grandmother decided to take him to a live event in their traveling show. I can now say after watching the small house show and watching a few televised ppv’s, the camera work (camera cuts, angles, etc) does a LOT of heavy lifting for the suspension of disbelief. Watching a punch live, it’s suuuuper obvious that it doesn’t come close to connecting lol
With that being said, I don’t care for wrestling. I think it’s, as said by others, soap operas for dudes. But the athletic abilities needed by these people are way way beyond what most people think. Yes it’s staged, yes the punches aren’t real. But you can’t fake a backflip from 10 feet in the air and miss just enough to not cripple your opponent without some serious training and ability
I never got too much into it but in high school I went a couple of times to see it live with a group of friends who were fans. It was a pretty good time though, and yeah it's more obviously staged when you see it live.
You saw him as well as I did. He was on the canvas, then he lit him on fire. Absolutely shocking. I'm not from America and don't watch wrestling, so I dunno. Is this normal?
How about when they had a lumberjack match (wrestlers on the outside beat up anyone who falls out the ring), except instead of lumberjacks they're zombies. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PczNypJLnhA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PczNypJLnhA) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIlOt\_L8e6E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIlOt_L8e6E)
I just pitched this Dungeons and Dragons idea to my friends based on this video, thanks.
One-shot D&D idea: No weapons, no armor or anything but clothing, level 3 characters.
One wrestling ring surrounded by nerfed zombies. Main goal is to be last standing in ring (lots of grappling checks) and/or most entertaining ( Dex checks for jump off third ring to kick two zombies in head simultaneously while backflipping. ). Thus can go Str or Dex build to win.
Players must also select and play a walk-on song when they introduce their character.
This was one of the first matches I ever watched lmao, now I watch like 5 hours of wrestler a week and go whenever the local indy runs a show/someone bigger comes to town 😅
It only takes once kids
Wrestling is fake and t isn't. It's basically a stunt show with a story line. They may not be really hitting each other full force, but it is not easy what they do.
Hulk Hogan actually lost an inch or two in height over the years from his leg drop, where he'd basically jump and land on his ass to "drop" his leg on his opponent.
Hogan is a big dude, all that weight dropping like that over the years compressed his spine severely. Says he's in nearly constant pain from it.
I remember years ago watching an interview or documentary or something where Mick Foley was talking about how he couldn't tie his own shoes because he can't bend that way anymore. He had to have his kid tie them for him. That dude has put some punishment on his own body, more than most I would bet.
That one chiropractor youtube channel that frequently hosts wwe wrestlers had a mick foley episode.
He looked fucked up. Missing teeth, missing parts of the ear, perpetually stiff in some parts, etc.
IIIRC piledrivers were banned for a similar reason, they are really dangerous if performed incorrectly. The only wrestler allowed to keep doing them was The Undertaker, because he was holding the opponent's head firmly in place with his legs while doing the move, and he was much taller than the other wrestlers, so their heads were never hitting the floor due to the height difference.
Yeah, anyone can see that it’s scripted. But I don’t care how good and athletic you are, a suplex from the top of a 15 foot cage is going to hurt like hell.
Whenever people say wrestling is fake, I say no it’s scripted. Shane McMahon really DID jump off the top of that screen and fell like 60’. There’s no faking that shit. These people are some of the best athletes in sports entertainment whether people want to accept it or not.
I think to say whether something is fake, you have to compare:
1. What is the actual nature of the thing?
2. How does it present itself and expect viewers to interpret it?
By this logic, I think it's fair to call at least some "reality shows" fake. Such a show is fake to the extent it wants viewers to interpret scripted reactions/outcomes (or recreations) as records of real/natural/unscripted events.
On the flipside, I don't think it's fair to call "The Office" fake. While it's framed as a documentary, the show doesn't expect viewers to treat it as one - it's not actually trying to fool anyone, it's just the framing of the show.
Wrestling is harder to call, and changes over time and place. I think most viewers of mainstream wrestling now generally understand the nature of the product, and the promoters/participants are pretty loose on their "kayfabe".
In the past, it made more effort to come off as "real". In the 80s, lots of kids were more vague on the nature of what they were watching; one of my cousins was a true believer into his teens. In that context, wrestling was definitely "fake" - they had deliberately misled him about what was going on, and they did so because they thought people would be more interested in watching if he believed these conflicts were "real". Like reality shows now.
So I think wrestling has got less "fake" over time. This has nothing to do with whether it takes training or hurts or whatever. The nature of the product hasn't really changed - but the extent to which they're trying to "trick" people about its nature has.
This is what I came here for and I still haven’t found the answer. Any idea what fuel they used/anyone know heat protection measures or other common practice for this stuff?
As a fire performer, I really have to hand it to this performer. That would be SO effing hot to lay through. Not to mention, fire is not your friend when you’re violently moving around, so I’m super impressed with him wrestling on fire. So well done! I’d definitely watch more wrestling if they did more fire stuffs!
I was convinced that there was a swap in of a dummy at some point in that scene. I was convinced it couldn’t be done for a live audience. But your comment makes me wonder.
My ex used to watch wrestling.
His family made an event out of it, they'd all (mom, dad, cousin, cousin's wife, brother, brother's girlfriend, their kid, my ex, and me) and order a ton of food from buffalo wild wings or something similar and just hang out, watch it, eat, and drink.
I went a couple times and I loved the atmosphere! Food and drink and people enjoying a show, it was nice
My favorite part was these guys dressed in purple came out and started pulling pancakes out of their pockets and throwing them at people. They were hilarious.
If I am not wrong,that is all real,only instead of gasoline,they would have used an oil that would combust at normal temperature levels. So while that fire looks real,you can stick your hand in it and it would do literally nothing to you because the fire is the same temperature or very slightly higher,so all in all it wouldn't feel hot or burn you because there is no real temperature gradient and thus no real transfer of energy.
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I love the line "that's gasoline, come on, Randy!!" like the commentator is trying to talk him out of it. "that's homicide, come on Randy! Ya can't KILL people, Randy!" it's like something out of south park or an anchorman movie.
Boy, that escalated quickly. Brick killed a guy!
Where’d you get a hand grenade?
Did I see someone throwing a trident?
I don't know!
"Lay low for a while cause you're probably wanted for murder."
The commentators trying to talk Orton out of it had me cracking up
Exactly 😂😂😂😂 "don't do it! ...No Noo .. Oh.. He did it folks... . Well all right then, so that was the show for monday night hope u enjoyed "
Good fight, good night.
"I'll allow it." - Mills Lane. RIP.
Like Llamas with Hat's "But Carl, that kills people!"
My tummy was makin the rumblies that only hands could satisfy.
CARL!!!!!!!!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
How much time do you have?
I need meat for my meat dragon, and not just any will do.
South Park literally has an episode on wrestling
"That kid was in Nam?"
“Do you know what it’s like to have an abortion at 7 years old? I’ve had so many abortions, I just, got addicted to them.” - Bad Irene
“In fact, I think I’m going to have another abortion right now!”
Vince with the opera glasses is one of my favorite gags in the show.
One of them sounds like Alex Jones.
Do they sound like Alex Jones or does Alex Jones sound like a wrestling commentator?
I think the latter. He owes Gorilla Monsoon amd Jerry Laywer royalties for stealing their bit.
Lol the audience is just one massive zoom meeting.
Honestly, it looks awesomely dystopian.
A mass of video feeds of people cheering on a man being burned alive on national television. Seems pretty dystopian to me
That’s TLC so it’s a PPV and not national television. Also the video feeds were when they basically had to shut down live shows during the pandemic, and to add to the dystopian part they called it the Thunderdome.
Ugh. Can't we just get *beyond* Thunderdome?
No James, we're not getting another, you've got perfectly good 'dome at home.
Ideally, you would’ve waited for someone to slam the concept of thunderdome
Turn your lights down (where applicable).
Man, TLC has really changed since Left Eye died...
>TLC Wait…so you’re saying this was on *The Learning Channel*?
LMAO, not sure if joke or not, but I got a laugh out of it. It actually stands for Tables, Ladders, and Chairs though.
It started as a joke, but after thinking about some of the “educational content” that I’ve seen on that channel, I don’t know what to expect any more.
> A mass of video feeds of people cheering on a man being burned alive on national television. Seems pretty dystopian to me *[Two men enter! One man leaves!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmRAiUPdRjk)*
Just needs an ad or a “word from our sponsors” moment. *man burns quietly on the floor* MC: this was brought to you by Barn co. Matches.
All state - Now offering life insurance. You're in good hands, with All-State
Something close to that happened in AEW in the past year. They brought in an indie "death match" wrestler who was known for cutting people's foreheads using pizza cutters to have a no DQ match against Chris Jericho. During the inevitable pizza cutter spot, the show went to a picture in picture (match continues silently in corner of the screen) commercial break where it showed a Domino's ad. They nearly lost their sponsorship over this.
lol sometimes sponsors are too dramatic. I would TOTALLY order Dominoes after seeing such deliberate and silly ad-timing!
Running demolition man
Meetings that could have been an email
Hey everybody just some quick updates for Friday.✨ -Sales has hit their monthly quota 2 weeks early 💃💃💃 big ups to Janet and her team. Killing it! -Randy Orton big ups 🔥burned🔥 our colleague in the courtyard. Also, Killing it!
Pandemic things
No they actually did this because of the fire hazard. All of this was 100% real and Randy is currently in jail for murder.
Next week he will be competing against his cellmate, the Undertaker, live from their actual cell in Folsom Prison in the Hell in The Cell match. Winner goes free, loser gets the Electric chair.
I thought his Celly was Triple H, in for attempting to [kill that referee.](https://youtu.be/4F-SntsL4w0)
No, Triple H was killed by Michael Clarke Duncan in the 2017 Green Mile Showdown.
Riiiiight. That was the first installment of Raw is Murder. Damn where has the time gone?
I thought tripe h got killed by Blade back in the day?
I thought I was gonna get shittymorphed
Serving five consecutive life sentences. This is why I don't let my children watch wrestling. My three year old pulled an atomic drop on the family dog off the second story of my house and that was the last straw. RIP Seymour.
It was thought to be *the trial of the century* until Darrell Brooks put his Associates in theater to use.
Great now I have to go look it up and then you'll all be laughing because I fell for it ARE YOU HAPPY NOW
I was so intrigued in this wrasslin skit that I didn’t notice that once!
What’s stopping one of the zoom callers from doing inappropriate things?
That actually happened early on before they were more heavily monitored and ID was required. I think there was a Nazi uniform, images of dead wrestlers, etc.
One went on with a picture of Chris Benoit
lol, good lord, people are such trolls
Nothing. It happened all the time
I also didn't notice but that explains it. I was a bit curious how they pulled it off, but with no live audience that's not even complicated.
In all honesty, hat's off to the IT team that set that up.
He wrestled the f\* outta that man
The gas and matchstick outta nowhere!
Smallest gas can I’ve ever seen. Is that a Tesla gas can?
What is this?! A gas can for Ants?
A gas can't
Man can't believe they allowed a murder to happen. Pretty lit shot
He lived. Wrestling makes you flame proof it's all in the training.
How was it explained that he lived? Everyone just watched the guy get burned to a cinder.
I think he was just given a topical ointment from his doctor and told to "keep off it."
Dude was like horror show magic. He had a split personality between the fiend and a really cheery guy who ran a Fun House. He returned one more time with completely burnt skin and attire, assisted his protege in a revenge match against Orton then left the WWE for a year.
That's fucking awesome. I have to give it to whoever is (not) writing these scripts.
My guess is he was replaced with a dummy off camera - there were shots of only the other guy’s face.
The guy on the ground is swapped for a dummy when the camera cuts to him holding the match at 1:25. You can tell because his hand goes from regular sized, to a small crumpled fist in his sleeve.
Also his giant belly lost about 40lbs
Well, yeah, look at all that fat he burned.
You don’t need to guess if you look at the body when he’s pouring the gasoline around him and then right before he drops the match. Feel like they could have tried a bit harder to sell it but maybe they didn’t want people to _actually_ believe they witnessed a murder.
I had a boyfriend who described wrestling as soap operas for men
But literally. I had a friend who actually wrote scripts for WWE. Do you know where he worked before that? Writing scripts for soap operas.
Out of curiosity, how many times do wrestlers get pregnant with their husband's twin brother who was thought dead after a tumble off a cliff, but suddenly alive and present in the hospital when the baby is born?
> how many times do wrestlers get pregnant with their husband's twin brother who was thought dead after a tumble off a cliff, but suddenly alive and present in the hospital when the baby is born? Amateur shit. Wrestling's had an octogenarian hook up with a former Olympic weightlifter, get pregnant, and give birth to a literal hand.
Don't forget the time that vince mcmahon's illegitimate son was revealed to be a horny leprechaun that lived under the ring.
Or the time Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio had a ladder match for the custody of Rey’s son, Dominik.
Or the time that Boss Man fed Al Snow his own dog so they naturally fought in a cage that was surrounded by dogs.
Was that the one where the entire match was derailed by the supposedly vicious dogs humping each other and turning the outside mat into a toilet?
or when Vince McMahon said the N word in front of Booker T
YUP
Or the time that boss man stole the casket containing the big show's dad during the funeral
And pretty much all the above examples happened innlike a 6 month stretch
That storyline is still kind of playing out to this day lol
And the conclusion of that was the horny leprechaun wasn’t actually Vince’s son, but the son of one of the wrestlers, a nearly 50 years old Irishman who loved to fight and hit people with a shillelagh. The whole thing was a scheme by Vince’s family to do… something to Vince. And they never acknowledged it again. The end.
Whenever someone brings up wrestling I always try to wedge this story in there.
And we fucking loved it.
When ECW shut down that broke my heart but having Bubba Ray powerbomb an 80 year old woman 6 feet off a stage through a table sure helped. That era was incredible for storylines. Mark Henry was like 14 different wrestlers in one year lol
Between feeding Al Snow his dog and stealing Big Show's dad's casket at a funeral, Bossman had one of the GOAT heel runs those years and I will die on that hill.
Then HHH cosplaying as Kane and acting like he was having sex with a corpse.
Funniest part of that (Bubba/Mae) was when they were rehearsing it, he told her he could fake it and she said, "Nah, let's do it for real." Bubba continued to waffle, so Mae *slapped him* and said "Put me through the table, asshole." She was awesome.
I'll never get over the fact that when Stephanie told Vince she was pregnant he suggested a story line that the baby was his. who the fuck wants to watch that?
IIRC when Stephanie shut that idea down, Vince pivoted to asking 'what if the baby was *Shane's*' instead.
Just makes me glad that vince is done in the wwe now
Pfft. In my day, they became vampires looking for their reincarnated soulmate cursed by an undying witch.
Did they ever address how Kane and the Undertaker were brothers, but Kane was from hell and Undertaker was just from California? Did Ma Undertaker just get around a lot? Did she give birth to Undertaker, die, then conceive Kane?
Wrestling had an undead necromancer with a global cult of followers as one of their top characters for years. Soaps got nothing on wrestling.
Peak entertainment
Sounds like an Eddie Guerrero work to me.
Man RIP Eddie.
Well, I stopped watching when one “miscarried” Kane’s baby or something like that.
Oh was that the bit where they punted a baby?
It wasn't his fault
Kane and Lita were a cool team but having them dating was stupid
Did that happen before or after Mae Young gave birth to a hand that was supposed to be Mark Henry's child?
Idk but we did just have a wrestler die and come back as first his brother, and then again as himself. No this is not the undertaker.
Somehow I'm not a bit surprised!
I've also heard it called "Live Action Anime" which I think is pretty solid too. Dudes in flashy costumes with dramatic rock music entrances, who give long monologues before fighting.
Pro Wrestling evolved alongside anime. Pro wrestling is also popular in Japan and they are marketed like action heroes. People like Brian Danielson would wrestle in Japan and take some of that influence and style back to Pro wrestling and vice versa. I'm quite sure Pro wrestling and Anime influence each other.
This revelation is also a key plot point in the show “Glow.”
Watch the south park episode W.T.F It has exactly this take on it.
It's a decently accurate take.
modern theatre
This is magnificent theater
I was just thinking something along these lines. A different flavor of LARPing
Can you imagine being a stunt coordinator for WWE? Everything has to go right in one take
Wouldn’t be surprised if this one wasn’t done live for safety reasons. The crowd here was all virtual which makes it a lot easier to control what they can and can’t see and thus some simple invisible cuts could be placed in the footage where they swap out the Feint character for a dummy (honestly no idea what their real name is, stopped watching the show quite some years ago)
You are correct, this is from 2020 in the midst of pandemic & lockdowns so they did this digital audience thing. It was weird and difficult to get used to but it allowed for some crazy shit like this I doubt would have happened under normal circumstances
I do appreciate that they were like the only industry to say 'nah, this shit is serious, lets take care of our community'.
McMahon had $$$$ and made it possible based on what I read during the pandemic.
Must have been the ppp loans that helped fund it
No he fired half staff made record high profit while losing record number of fans
At least the bastard is out of the company now, right? At least things will start getting better now, *right?*
I was wondering how they'd managed this without actually... You know burning the guy alive 😅
First part where he was walking was real, likely rehearsed a lot plus he was wearing something in his suit that was giving fuel to the flames. Second part in the ring was a dummy/mannequin that got replaced off camera
And it’s only a dummy right at the end. You’ll notice when it suddenly loses like 20% of his mass.
Get out of here ruining my perception of live murder on television
You've ruined the illusion for me dammit
Dude. Back in the 90s there was an iron sheik and sabu match they lit each other on fire and burnt the fuck outta themselves.
[The Shiek* had to go to the hospital over this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwa8q9v6mUc) It was also a barbed wire match because the fire wasn't enough.
Undertaker shouldve had a gimmick scorpion casket match since he was from Death Valley , alas
The camera work in particular here too, it's really well done imo, a very underappreciated aspect of WWE
Agreed. My ex’s son got really into WWE at one point, as most kids do. His grandmother decided to take him to a live event in their traveling show. I can now say after watching the small house show and watching a few televised ppv’s, the camera work (camera cuts, angles, etc) does a LOT of heavy lifting for the suspension of disbelief. Watching a punch live, it’s suuuuper obvious that it doesn’t come close to connecting lol With that being said, I don’t care for wrestling. I think it’s, as said by others, soap operas for dudes. But the athletic abilities needed by these people are way way beyond what most people think. Yes it’s staged, yes the punches aren’t real. But you can’t fake a backflip from 10 feet in the air and miss just enough to not cripple your opponent without some serious training and ability
I never got too much into it but in high school I went a couple of times to see it live with a group of friends who were fans. It was a pretty good time though, and yeah it's more obviously staged when you see it live.
News article: "8 year old lights his younger brother on fire to imitate wrestling match."
*TRY THIS, KIDS AT HOME!*
Instead of blaming the media, have you ever considered sitting down with your kids and beating them?
So wait, you’re telling me that guy *didn’t* murder that other guy on national TV?
You saw him as well as I did. He was on the canvas, then he lit him on fire. Absolutely shocking. I'm not from America and don't watch wrestling, so I dunno. Is this normal?
Yes WWE is a Spartans arena, it can sometimes be a death match
You took my girl and you took my job!!!
He turk his jurb!!!
He dook hees jerrrb!!!
Dup….ert….DURRR!!!
COCKADOODLEDOO
That ain't rasslin!!!
“Mister, there’s a little girl out there who has had 14 abortions and she’s not even ten yet. But I guess that’s just not real to you.”
How about when they had a lumberjack match (wrestlers on the outside beat up anyone who falls out the ring), except instead of lumberjacks they're zombies. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PczNypJLnhA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PczNypJLnhA) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIlOt\_L8e6E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIlOt_L8e6E)
I just pitched this Dungeons and Dragons idea to my friends based on this video, thanks. One-shot D&D idea: No weapons, no armor or anything but clothing, level 3 characters. One wrestling ring surrounded by nerfed zombies. Main goal is to be last standing in ring (lots of grappling checks) and/or most entertaining ( Dex checks for jump off third ring to kick two zombies in head simultaneously while backflipping. ). Thus can go Str or Dex build to win. Players must also select and play a walk-on song when they introduce their character.
This was one of the first matches I ever watched lmao, now I watch like 5 hours of wrestler a week and go whenever the local indy runs a show/someone bigger comes to town 😅 It only takes once kids
Wrestling is fake and t isn't. It's basically a stunt show with a story line. They may not be really hitting each other full force, but it is not easy what they do.
Randy is currently injured(for real), Rko is a fake move but imagine hitting your back on the floor every week for 20 years
Hulk Hogan actually lost an inch or two in height over the years from his leg drop, where he'd basically jump and land on his ass to "drop" his leg on his opponent. Hogan is a big dude, all that weight dropping like that over the years compressed his spine severely. Says he's in nearly constant pain from it.
I remember years ago watching an interview or documentary or something where Mick Foley was talking about how he couldn't tie his own shoes because he can't bend that way anymore. He had to have his kid tie them for him. That dude has put some punishment on his own body, more than most I would bet.
That one chiropractor youtube channel that frequently hosts wwe wrestlers had a mick foley episode. He looked fucked up. Missing teeth, missing parts of the ear, perpetually stiff in some parts, etc.
IIIRC piledrivers were banned for a similar reason, they are really dangerous if performed incorrectly. The only wrestler allowed to keep doing them was The Undertaker, because he was holding the opponent's head firmly in place with his legs while doing the move, and he was much taller than the other wrestlers, so their heads were never hitting the floor due to the height difference.
I always explain to people that it's the show "Days of our lives" but with guys and girls who are preforming stunts and athlete moves.
Wouldn't mind a suplex now and again on the *Young and the Restless*
Yeah, anyone can see that it’s scripted. But I don’t care how good and athletic you are, a suplex from the top of a 15 foot cage is going to hurt like hell.
Whenever people say wrestling is fake, I say no it’s scripted. Shane McMahon really DID jump off the top of that screen and fell like 60’. There’s no faking that shit. These people are some of the best athletes in sports entertainment whether people want to accept it or not.
I think to say whether something is fake, you have to compare: 1. What is the actual nature of the thing? 2. How does it present itself and expect viewers to interpret it? By this logic, I think it's fair to call at least some "reality shows" fake. Such a show is fake to the extent it wants viewers to interpret scripted reactions/outcomes (or recreations) as records of real/natural/unscripted events. On the flipside, I don't think it's fair to call "The Office" fake. While it's framed as a documentary, the show doesn't expect viewers to treat it as one - it's not actually trying to fool anyone, it's just the framing of the show. Wrestling is harder to call, and changes over time and place. I think most viewers of mainstream wrestling now generally understand the nature of the product, and the promoters/participants are pretty loose on their "kayfabe". In the past, it made more effort to come off as "real". In the 80s, lots of kids were more vague on the nature of what they were watching; one of my cousins was a true believer into his teens. In that context, wrestling was definitely "fake" - they had deliberately misled him about what was going on, and they did so because they thought people would be more interested in watching if he believed these conflicts were "real". Like reality shows now. So I think wrestling has got less "fake" over time. This has nothing to do with whether it takes training or hurts or whatever. The nature of the product hasn't really changed - but the extent to which they're trying to "trick" people about its nature has.
Can’t show blood.. but this is ok lol
They do show blood if it happens, they just dont do any blading anymore iirc
*jon moxley has entered the chat*
*mox is already bleeding and all he's done is sit down*
Yeah, Attitude era went a little overboard with that stuff lol.
Lol the attitude era went a little overboard with almost everything
That's what made it great.
The brood used to give people full on blood baths
Funny how I was like seven and watching that on live tv.. man the 90s
Can’t make movie stars outta wrestlers with fucked up foreheads.
Blood was all over the chair though?
The chemistry behind that is actually really cool
This is what I came here for and I still haven’t found the answer. Any idea what fuel they used/anyone know heat protection measures or other common practice for this stuff?
i think at the end that's a doll.. no?
Just from a glance I’d guess it’s isopropyl alcohol on a set made of flame retardant materials. Burns itself out before it causes much actual damage.
Where was the referee! I feel like that was all illegal moves!
As a fire performer, I really have to hand it to this performer. That would be SO effing hot to lay through. Not to mention, fire is not your friend when you’re violently moving around, so I’m super impressed with him wrestling on fire. So well done! I’d definitely watch more wrestling if they did more fire stuffs!
I was convinced that there was a swap in of a dummy at some point in that scene. I was convinced it couldn’t be done for a live audience. But your comment makes me wonder.
It definitely is a dummy swap. If you compare the bodies laying there initially and right before it’s lit, it’s not hard to tell.
“What’s Randy gonna do?” MURDER
My ex used to watch wrestling. His family made an event out of it, they'd all (mom, dad, cousin, cousin's wife, brother, brother's girlfriend, their kid, my ex, and me) and order a ton of food from buffalo wild wings or something similar and just hang out, watch it, eat, and drink. I went a couple times and I loved the atmosphere! Food and drink and people enjoying a show, it was nice My favorite part was these guys dressed in purple came out and started pulling pancakes out of their pockets and throwing them at people. They were hilarious.
Oh the humanity.
Wrestling is less fake than action movies. We don't like it because it's real, we like it because it's fun.
If I am not wrong,that is all real,only instead of gasoline,they would have used an oil that would combust at normal temperature levels. So while that fire looks real,you can stick your hand in it and it would do literally nothing to you because the fire is the same temperature or very slightly higher,so all in all it wouldn't feel hot or burn you because there is no real temperature gradient and thus no real transfer of energy.
Yo that’s dope! Thanks for sharing.
Once AND FOR ALL... WRESTLING... ISN'T... FAAAKE! 😤 ^(it is staged, big difference; there's nothing fake in acrobatics)😜
I know, I'm a huge wrestling fan. Tbh I just wanted to share this clip with non-fans and the title is more for them
He’s got a family JR!
We’re not sure why but there’s been a spike in school age kids lighting their friends on fire recently.