more funny wrestling facts

Subject: more funny wrestling facts Fri 13 Nov 2009, 6:46 pm

Unpleasable Fanbase (ENTIRELY! Nothing Vince McMahon does pleases the 'Smark' community, it's gotten to the point where you can not watch Raw go into a discussion thread and insult a segment you vagely heard about and be agreed with. No MATTER the actual quallity)

Never Live It Down: To the Canadians, Shawn Michaels is forever known as the guy that screwed Bret Hart out of the WWF Championship. They would chant "YOU SCREWED BRET!" whenever he appears in Canada. Likewise, Bret Hart is still remembered by casual fans for him being screwed out of the title.

The typical Smart Mark response towards a Triple H victory would be, "OMG TRIPLE H BERRIES HIS OPPONENT, LULZ!", despite the fact that, although Triple H has more or less acknowledged that he has backstage influence, he still has to answer to Vince McMahon, who is his father in law.

Fan Dumb (Oh dear GOD the Fan Dumb! I'll give you an example, John Cena hasn't held a world title since the Backlash PPV and when he finally DID go after the title he lost his first two attempts to Randy Orton the Heel Champion (Which means he is a weak coward) Cena finally defeats Orton at Breaking Point and we're already hearing "CENA BURIED ORTON!" It was one fucking match and he's been taking the fall against Orton since Wrestlemania 24! Then again this is also...)

At Survivor Series 2008, after several months of announcing, John Cena finally returned to the rings after being injuried at Summerslam, got a title shot for the World Heavyweight Championship, and won. The next day, cries in the various wrestling forums were endless. However, these guys didn't mentioned that EDGE DID EXACTLY THE SAME THING, except that he didn't even fight (well, if you count as a fight appear at the very end of the fight, spear Triple H and Jeff Hardy, and pin Triple H).
Same goes for the next PPV, Armaggedon, in which Jeff Hardy, after almost a year trying, finally won his first WWE championship. All the people who complained about Jeff's victory were the very same who said that said title needed a brand new champion. Maybe what they wanted to say was that it needed a new heel champion.
After Batista's latest return, he announced that he was moving back to SmackDown!; people complained about that for two reasons: they either didn't want Batista screwing up the awesome-as-of-late SmackDown!, or they hated that the RAW main event would only have John Cena and Randy Orton in it (since Triple H and Shawn Michaels had reformed DX again). Note that these are the same people that are constantly crying and complaining whenever Batista wins a title - or even a title shot. But it doesn't stop here. Batista then announced that he was going to remake his old tag team with Rey Mysterio and go for the Unified Tag Team Championship; lots of complaints came out of this, saying that Cryme Tyme and The Hart Dynasty deserved a shot at the tag titles more. Once again, these people complained that the tag team division had very few teams. Wonder what those people would say if Batista decided to go for the World Heavyweight Championship?
- That the Batista Code had kicked in again.
- We want to see good tag teams go after the titles, teams such as Miz and Morrison, The Hardyz if Jeff was still active, Primo and Carlito, etc, not Batista and Rey Mysterio.

Subject: Re: more funny wrestling facts Fri 13 Nov 2009, 6:52 pm

Examples:

Parts Unknown's most famous resident would have to be former WWF wrestler The Ultimate Warrior.
- Which was mocked in the 2005 Take That DVD, "The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior".
WCW took things one step further with the Man of Question (later Hugh Morrus), who was announced at least once as "from Parts Unknown, height unknown, weight unknown." Geez, guys, can't anybody get him up on a scale?
- And then there was the infamous "WCW Special Forces", whence hailed The Patriots: Todd Champion and Chip the Firebreaker.
- And the less infamous but no less absurd "Web City", the hometown of Arachnaman, WCW's Captain Ersatz for Spider Man (one of many masked wrestlers portrayed by Brad Armstrong).
Former WWE wrestler The Boogeyman is announced as from "The Bottomless Pit".
Hack Myers was famously introduced throughout his career as from "The Last House On The Left".
- So is ROH wrestler Sami Callahan.
WWE wrestler The Undertaker is something of a subversion, as he's always been announced from "Death Valley". While there is an actual town called Death Valley in California, the conspicuous lack of a state has always led fans to believe that this was just a Parts Unknown-style descriptive hometown. However, recently, WWE has aired vignettes featuring The Undertaker which seem to take place in California's Mojave Desert, which would seem to back up the idea that Taker calls the real town of Death Valley home.
- He wasn't always announced as being from "Death Valley". During his "American Bad-Ass" biker gimmick, he was announced as being from Houston.
Spoofed in the Futurama episode "Raging Bender", where a wrestling robot is described as "hailing from, and made of, Parts Unknown".
Deuce and Domino are from "The Other Side Of The Tracks".
Ring of Honor's Delirious is from "The Edge Of Sanity"
- In the same vein, short-lived WWF wrestler Damien Demento was from "The Outer Recesses of Your Mind"
Sid Vicious (the wrestler, not the musician) was from "Wherever He Damn Well Pleases"
In the women's pro wrestling organisation SHIMMER, Amazing Kong had a regular hometown (Tokyo, Japan)... but her weight was announced as "Weighing None Of Your Damn Business".
Short-lived WCW wrestler Blackblood (Billy Jack Haynes under a mask) had "A Little Town in France" as his hometown. Short-lived because he sucked, and also because Jim Ross couldn't resist mocking that line ("A little town in... What is it, Smallville?").
- Wrestle Crap's induction of the 1991 Great American Bash (which was so awful it made the audience "WANT FLAIR!") notes this as being the worst hometown in the history of wrestling, sentences after saying exactly the same thing about Yellow Dog's hometown, "the Kennel Club." It's hard to say which is actually more embarrassing.
Blitzkrieg was introduced as being from "The Cosmos".
In Homestar Runner, The Announcer delivers this a few times; he said that Strong Mad and Strong Bad were from Parts Unknown in "Marshamallow's Last Stand", and just Strong Bad in the e-mail "Lady... ing"
- Later, in "Strongest Man in the world", Mr. Bland is said to hail from "The middle of the road," and Señor Havin' A Little Trouble is just said to be "from foreign lands".
- And, in the e-mail "Yes, wrestling" Strong Bad's in-ring persona Il Cartographer is said to be from "the age of exploration".
Once spoofed in an old Drabble comic strip. The father, a masked wrestler, was pulled over for a traffic stop and was in full costume. He even had a kayfabe driver's licence, with his address listed as yes, Parts Unknown.
TNA wrestler Black Reign (Dustin Rhodes) is introduced as being from "the deepest darkest corner of his mind", as he has a Split Personality gimmick.
- Also in TNA, after the breakup of Team Canada in 2006, Eric Young is billed as coming from "an undisclosed location".
- His Superhero gimmick Super Eric comes from Metropolis. I wonder if he is a neighbour of Chris Hero.
- After splitting from Robert Roode, Young was billed as coming from "Freedomland, USA". Now that he's dropped the Super Eric gimmick, he averts this trope: he's billed as being from Nashville.
Speaking of TNA Shark Boy (and Sharkgirl) comes from the Deep Blue Sea.
MsChif is from The Inferno
Cactus Jack is from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. A real place I thought I'd mention for its badass name.
- Which sounds a lot less badass when you learn it's actually named after the game show.
Lufisto is from Montreal...Japan
- In the same vein, while Rob Van Dam and Sabu were tag-teaming in ECW, Van Dam was often announced as being from Battle Creek, India; when he wasn't, Sabu was announced from Bombay, Michigan.
ECW's Dudley clan all came from Dudleyville. Bubba Ray and D'Von Dudley kept it for part of their WWE careers.
- This was personalised for each member of the clan: Big Dick, for example, came from the "Twisted Steel section of Dudleyville".
Former ECW/WWE wrestler The Blue Meanie came from Pepperland.
This troper's personal favorite: while working for the Too Good To Last Wrestling Society X promotion, Jimmy Jacobs was announced as being from "The Dark Side Of A Broken Heart".
The short lived tag team New Breed hailed from the year 2002, where robots are common and Dusty Rhodes is the U.S. President.
Almost every wrestler (ever) of Asian descent has been announced as being from "Japan." Just... Japan.
- This has been slowly changing in recent years, however. While Tokyo, Japan is given most of the time, there have been wrestlers announced as being from places such as Kyoto or Yokohama. Other nationalities still get this, though, such as The Great Khali being announced as being from just India.

Subject: Re: more funny wrestling facts Sat 14 Nov 2009, 2:53 am

Parts Unknown isnt far off from Planet Jordan, actually..Dudleyville is a further drive. I went to The Dark Side of a Broken Heart and chilled there for a while...not good for long-term living; neither is The Edge of Sanity, look at Serial.

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