Saturday, July 12, 2008
You got the Cutest little Baby Face!
In professional wrestling there are two types of people. The good guys who are called the Baby Faces. And the Villains. You can start out as one and morph into the other. Such Big time wrestlers like Gorilla Moonson, Hulk Hogan and Gorgeous George have been both at one time or another. I remember when I used to watch wrestling back in the sixties with my grand mother on my fathers side. A nice lady but not too swift. She could never follow the changes. How you could be a baby face but then turn into a villain. She just couldn't keep up.
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Back home in Indiana we had a wrestler named Dick the Bruiser. We watched him on TV every Saturday night around this time in the evening. I think he always won. He never became a villain. Your grandmother could have been proud of Dick the Bruiser. Since Indiana is God's Country, Dick the Bruiser, by simple deductive reasoning, had God on his side.
The villians are (or were) known as heels. In the late 1990s "sports entertainment" moved away from that kind of thing. The preference these days is for everyone to be a bastard.
ECW showed the way back in the mid-1990s. Extreme Championship Wrestling never quite made the big time on their own, but they influenced everyone else. The typical ECW crowd didn't care who the good guy was supposed to be - whoever drew blood first would be the crowd favorite. ECW was based in Philly, so none of this is really surprising.
The best thing ECW did would be to invite the fans to bring every day items to the shows. The fans in the front row could offer these items to the wrestlers to be used as weapons. You haven't really seen professional wrestling until you've seen one man open up another man's forehead with a naked Barbie Doll. Well, that or an Exploding Death Match, but they only do those in Japan.
Here's an example of Philly fans in action.
And here's an example of a Hoosier in action.
Damn:
How about the way they jumped up from under the chairs at the end?
I am from Philly and don't remember this incident.
Those "fans" had pretty good arms and aim!
BTW- Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka was the favorite in Philly til he killed his wife and went to jail.
You know the more I think about it the more I think the internet is just like professional westling. You have your heros and villians and they all have their rooting sections. Some of them are grizzeled veterans and some are young studs just starting out. Bragging, chest thumping, and hidden weapons are par for the course. The Kos Kids vs the Powerline Twins. Texas death match.
Hey I didn't know Pogo was a wrestler too. I mean besides being a doctor and a commenter on Althouse. Sweet.
I wonder if he would wrestle Cyrus Pinkerton. That would be way cool.
I wonder if he would wrestle Cyrus Pinkerton. That would be way cool.
Only if it's an Exploding Barbwire Death Match.
I am from Philly and don't remember this incident.
AJ, I wasn't sure that this had taken place in Philly at first. But after watching the video a second time I heard Joey Styles sign off from the ECW Arena, which was an old bingo hall in Philly.
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