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[Alex]

Vader is the last "big fucking guy" that I ever really got into, guys today like Big Daddy V just look fat and not intimidating no matter how many times they beat up Tommy Dreamer.

His WWF run was kind of a disappointment, but he holds the distinction of being the only guy I ever immediately recognize in Japanese wrestling video games. That mask is fucking iconic.

[phil5329]

If you have not read this before

https://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/boymeetsworld.htm

Please to be doing so now.

I'll choose ERA 2. And no I do not remember the black teacher.

[Rusty Cooledge v2]

Don't forget to swing by the P-boi forums (if they ever get fixed) to tell everyone how your episode turned out.

My episode turned out great! I chose era 4 and had it be about shawn trying to find himself featuring the red hair chick!

my name is rusty cooledge by the way, nice to meet you guys!

[Jim]

Like some other people have said, Vader wasn't so hot when it came to making it look stiff without actually kicking the shit out of your opponent. On the other hand, he shitted some folks up like it was nobody's business, and sometimes that's what you pay to see.

You also can't stress enough that he had a fucking eye pop out of its socket thanks to a Stan Hansen punch. The eye... out of the goddamn socket.

[Illinois Smith]

The really amazig part is that he just shoved it back in and proceded to beat the shit out of Hansen.

[Hanstock]

Vader is fucking amazing and possibly the best monster heel ever in the history of anything. The bullshit politics he had to put on with in WWF must have been incredibly frustrating, but at least he choked out that Kuwaiti television host and then got to be a gaijin legend in Japan.

[Rusty Cooledge v2]

WWF he was basically just brought in as a monster to be fed to the giant killer kid with mirrored chaps, as opposed to working so long for WCW as the top heel and then one day WOOPS HOGAN NOT HURT BY POWERBOMB

[Pronounced Bran-dun Ky-la]

Once you talk about Boy Meets World, that's pretty much when a Vader conversation is about to end.

New wrestler for 10/29;

Chuck Taylor

[A Link to the Matt]

Isn't that the guy who made the Hi-tops?

[B]

I feel like Chuck Taylor is a prime example of the problem facing GOOD wrestlers on the independent circuit. Some young guys (a cream of them) will go into wrestling and have a ton of natural charisma, talent, a good idea, etc., and almost nobody to teach them how to actually be wrestlers. So you get the Chikara thing that a lot of people (almost 40) like and a lot of people (me) don't of 5'5 120 pound guys doing planchas on each other and completely unrelated comedy skits inbetween. It's funny, yes, and it's entertaining, but that's as far as any of those guys are ever taught to go.

Will you see Gran Akuma as a WWE superstar? I don't know if he wants to be one or not, but no, you won't. Will you see Quackenbush competing for the cruiserweight title on PPV? No, you won't, even though he's been wrestling for 200 years and he and Reckless Youth and Christopher Daniels are responsible for about 80% of the guys wrestling at your local garage and armory. But will you see CM Punk as ECW champ? Yep. Will you see Colt Cabana in a WWE ring? Yep. The difference (besides height and weight, obviously) is that Punk and Cabana learned WRESTLING in addition to their schtick. So when they are wrestling in front of 40 people they can have fun and wrestle in front of 40 people, but when called upon to wrestle in front of 12,000, they can switch it up and do what entertains 12,000. It's an aspect of wrestling that very few people understand or even WANT to understand, because a lot of people, including I'd say the majority of people here, prefer the having fun in front of 40 people stuff. And that's totally cool, and that's why the wrestling in front of 40 people stuff exists like it does.

The short version of the point I'm badly making is that I can see a lot in Chuck Taylor, and I wish he had somebody emphasizing the fundamentals (passing, lay ups) for a while instead of the fun stuff (slam dunking) so he could make a real career out of it and be around 15 years from now.

[Hanstock]

also he look like andy samberg

[emily]

Well I don't want to do him, so he doesn't look that much like Andy.