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2008-09-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Beavis 2008-09-10 08:30|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Noooo! Next thing, you're going to tell me Bat Boy isn't real, either.

I'm so disillusioned.

Posted by Mike 2008-09-10 10:05|| 2008-09-10 10:05|| Front Page Top

#2 I am not fond of wrestling and I never watch it on TV but:

First: We don't know how big and strong is boy friend. We have images of an Obama-like guy when
it could be that he is Hulk Hogan-like but 22 years old againt a 59er.

Second: We don't know if the fight was fair or if Flair (that I don't know) was hit by surprise and/or with a bat or similar object.

Wrestling is fake but you still need to be strong in order to lift the other guy and
agile when it is you who is being lifted and thrown around.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-10 10:47|| 2008-09-10 10:47|| Front Page Top

#3 or if Flair (that I don't know)

Acquaint yourself WOOOOO

Posted by Beavis 2008-09-10 11:25|| 2008-09-10 11:25|| Front Page Top

#4 IIUC, earlier pro-wrestlers came from, well, free or greco-roman wrestling and were often quite good at it, in addition to being athletically gifted. Nowadays, I think more and more come from other sport backgrounds, and so are not able to actually perform the moves except as choregraphies. The origins of pro-wrestling as the "catch as can catch" fights is also very interesting, talk about a rough and shoddy past.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-09-10 12:43|| 2008-09-10 12:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Flair probably tried to talk the boyfriend to death. My old hero, "Dick the Bruiser",would have given him one heluva smack...and only one would have been needed.

Posted by borgboy 2008-09-10 13:09|| 2008-09-10 13:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Good thing they didn't have to call in Leaping Lonnie to give somebody a pile driver.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-09-10 13:15|| 2008-09-10 13:15|| Front Page Top

#7 NAW!!

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-09-10 13:48|| 2008-09-10 13:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Cops: Ric Flair roughed up by daughter's boyfriend.

50¢ "The Nature Boy" was promoting his career again.

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2008-09-10 15:16|| 2008-09-10 15:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Wow! Two stories with North Carolina in them today! wonder if there is any connection.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-09-10 15:33|| 2008-09-10 15:33|| Front Page Top

#10 If wrestling was fake, this hillbilly wouldn't bet on it. I bet with fellow coal miners and I usually win.

No. I am not toothless, although I lost a couple in a fight with a cheater.

Posted by Bushlover 2008-09-10 17:42|| 2008-09-10 17:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Lulz, flair a wimp... there can only be one... and here him is!

Awesome bad guy of muh yoof. Commie eye-gouger

Posted by .5MT 2008-09-10 19:13|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-09-10 19:13|| Front Page Top

#12 ...It just ain't been the same since Maniac Mark Lewin vanished and the Fabulous Moolah passed away...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2008-09-10 21:01|| 2008-09-10 21:01|| Front Page Top

#13 THE HELL YOU SAY, but we love it anyhowz.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-10 22:30|| 2008-09-10 22:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Flair OWNS all those clowns.

The Nature Boy was Da MAN.

Him, Arne and Ole Anderson, I remember all them - Bl4ckjack Mulligan, Big John Studd (had dinner with him once, very interesting character), Wahoo McDaniel, Dustry Rhoades.

All fun.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-09-10 23:43|| 2008-09-10 23:43|| Front Page Top

#15 To be the man, you gotta beat the man!

Posted by OldSpook 2008-09-10 23:57|| 2008-09-10 23:57|| Front Page Top

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