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I've been reading the worst athlete encountered thread and I am wondering if anyone
out there has some cool wrestling stories - -past or present.
Lets hear it.
 

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When I was young, my dad and I watched big time wrasslin' all the time. He got me tickets one time to see none other than the legend "Andre the Giant." Let me tell you guys, this was the largest human I've ever seen. Also on the card was the Iron Sheik and he tossed out a fireball for the crowd.

I was always told Andre cold drink 100 beers during a night out at the bar and actually palm a bowling ball and after seeing him in person, I have no doubt.
 

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Andre was also supposed to be one the nicest people in and out of the ring.
I remember seeing Warner Wolf of channel 2 ( WCBS ) news in NYC interview the Giant back around 1990 or so --
it was hilarious -- here's the clip ( hopefully it pastes correctly )


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actually after looking at the video and seeing the clothing and hairstyles --
that Andre the Giant interview must have been
around 1980 or so.
 

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Funny that you star this thread. I was going to post my experience with a wrestler in that thread but didn't consider him an athlete.

At the Knickerbocker Arena in Albany, I attended many WWF events as a kid. At one in particular, I left my seat and was heading up the stairs to go to the bathroom. I get to the top (there were curtains to keep the light out) I go to walk through the curtain and Golddust and Marlena were standing there. He told me to go sit the fuck down! Guy truly was a freaking creep.
 

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so Im in Biloxi at a live Monday night Raw wwe event around 8-9 years ago (Before Katrina) After the last match there was a dark impromptu match between Randy Orton and HHH.

Somewhere along the way HHH gets his tights yanked down but not for the typical RIc Flair moonshot length but for a really long time.

It had to be at least 1 minute, all the while they are doing regular moves off the ropes, trading punches and such while HHH has his complete arse exposed to the crowd.

Everyone was just laughing their asses off watching and thinking , "When is he going to pull up his shorts?"

Some people thought that maybe he didnt realize it, but that was kinda hard to imagine.
It was hard to believe that he didnt pull them up at some point, I dont know if he was trying to not break character or just being funny.

HHH gets the RKO and is laying ass up face down in the middle of the ring and gets turned over and pinned. Only after the match
does he pull his tights back up.
People were talking about the whole thing and cracking up while walking out the arena.....


Well we are staying at the Grand Biloxi and Im playing cards later that night and
I hear that a couple of wrestlers are in the bldg, so I go looking for them.
It turns out that Randy Orton and Maven were doing a little gambling and I ran into them.
I got Maven to take a picture of me getting a simulated RKO from Randy.
Told him I enjoyed his performance and asked what was the deal with HHH, was that a work, did he know his pants were down.

He didnt answer and just gave me a big shit eating grin that I interpreted as "HHH thought it would be funny and it was planned"
Who knows.


2 afterthoughts

1. He couldnt get away with it today as it would be posted all over social media in a heartbeat.
2. I realized after the fact that I totally ignored Maven, except to ask him to take the picture.
I didnt even acknowledge him really, probably happens to him alot when hes with a bigger star, He
probably would have appreciated a little ego stroke.
 

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funny i just posted this in the athlete thread, sean michaels jammed his finger in my chest and threatened to kill me about ten years ago
 

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Andre The Giant was wrestling here at a local field house back in the late 80's. A buddy of mine was workng the event and apparently Andre was too big to fit into the bathroom stall & he really had to shit - so he went into the shower and shit next to the drain in the floor. My buddy said it looked like an elephant took a dump.
 

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I went to an armory one time to watch a match and don't know if you guys remember or not but Colonel DaBeers was in the main event. He told the crowd he wouldn't fight until people threw money into the ring. So of course a bunch of dudes threw dollar bills in and he shoved it in his shorts and the fight was on. I think he had a little handle bar mustache if I'm not mistaken.
 

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I went to an armory one time to watch a match and don't know if you guys remember or not but Colonel DaBeers was in the main event. He told the crowd he wouldn't fight until people threw money into the ring. So of course a bunch of dudes threw dollar bills in and he shoved it in his shorts and the fight was on. I think he had a little handle bar mustache if I'm not mistaken.

I've been watching old AWA wrestling classics on ESPN classics channel-
last week saw col debeers fighting against sheik adnan el casey - -
lots of running around the ring and not doing much else -- lol.
 

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Burrhead Jones had some success over the years in various southern based promotions but in the late 70's he was mostly a jobber in Southeastern Championship Wrestling.

People loved him though and I often saw him around town and he always spoke to fans. He also did a pretty famous commercial for A+m furniture.

"Good credic, Bad credic or no credic at all, come to A+m furniture."

It was so bad it got lots of attention.

He was the ultimate hustler as one time we went to a show and he sold us the ticket, wrestled in one of the matches and then became the janitor after the show!

Guys like him were not making that much money from just wrestling.
 

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Andre The Giant was wrestling here at a local field house back in the late 80's. A buddy of mine was workng the event and apparently Andre was too big to fit into the bathroom stall & he really had to shit - so he went into the shower and shit next to the drain in the floor. My buddy said it looked like an elephant took a dump.

Thats some funny stuff. I can imagine that was a pretty accurate description of his load size, considering how much food he consumed.
Reminds me of that old SNL skit where the Hulk (John Belushi) takes a dump
at a superheros party.

You just know he backed up a whole lot of toilets in his day.
I dont know how he would manage with all these low flow toilets of today.
 
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funny i just posted this in the athlete thread, sean michaels jammed his finger in my chest and threatened to kill me about ten years ago

please do tell more... he alongside stone cold, hhh and mankind are my favorite wrestlers, i stated watching just before the "attitude era", stopped in the early 2000's after the WCW merge and after the scripts began sucking or I just grew up. IRDK.

Ive heard bunch stuff about hbk... he probably was the greatest performer out there, the more athletic in his prime... but that he was a complete asshole outside the ring, lots of ego, lots of backstabbing or sabotaging other wrestlers, and lots of drug use especially alcohol and coke.

He's a changed man now supposedly but it would be nice to see what caused this... did you sell him bad coke?
 
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I remember scalping tickets at the Showboat in Las Vegas back in the early 80's...I bought a ton of 12.50 tickets and sold them from anywhere from 25-50 bucks each....the wrestlers would then meet up afterwards and gamble together in the casino...this is where Hulk Hogan started his career..in the AWA....
 

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Andre The Giant was wrestling here at a local field house back in the late 80's. A buddy of mine was workng the event and apparently Andre was too big to fit into the bathroom stall & he really had to shit - so he went into the shower and shit next to the drain in the floor. My buddy said it looked like an elephant took a dump.

Not calling you a liar but so many different people claim that they knew a guy who saw Andre the Giant take a shit in the shower. It's common knowledge that he didn't use toilets. What a disgusting human being he was. Too many stories out there of him being a giant asshole to people who asked for autographs.
 

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Bruno Samaritano used to play pinnochle with my dad and friends when in town. As kids we used to do monkey bars on his biceps and he would toss us around and make us laugh all the time. We have some old family footage somewhere of a party with him and some randoms. ..
 

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I went to a few back in the late 80's and got to see Hulk Hogan wrestle in the 3rd row. It was against Paul Orndorff. The place went absolutely nuts when he came out, it was freakin awesome. I'm 37 now and still get goose bumps when I think about it, amazing.

Early 90's saw a couple more, Brother Love was freakin funny. I went to one show were it was like 6 hours long and they were taping multiple shows including Saturday Night's main event. Some of the wrestlers wrestled 2 or 3 times which was weird.

I took my son last year (11) and it was more funny that entertaining, of course I'm getting older. The women are amazing these days that wrestle but not the same. I also don't follow it anymore other than stopping every once in awhile when my son is watching.

Quick edit, got to see a local fair show from the 1st row and the Missing Link was wrestling. Got to feel the ring and even though it's fake the ring floor was much harder than I expected. It had to hurt getting slammed around in there.
 

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Funny you mentioned Orndorff...he and some other named wrestlers(my memory is shot)were staying at the same hotel as my travel soccer team back in early 80's....most of the kids from all the teams were trying to get their hotel room number and prank them....after about 12 hours of this nonsense of kids(10-11 year olds)running rampant in a Maryland days inn, I believe?....the staff went nuts...called out all the coaches and parents to quell the situation...yeah, good luck....this is pre 9/11 and before every parent and kid became pussified....the coaches and parents were either getting lit at the bar or making the scene at the outdoor pool....so, the staff must have finally persuaded the wrestlers to come out from their rooms and just bite the bullet and sign autographs and say hello.....hahaha, not happening either...this is where the story gets outta hand...nightfall hits, most of the parents are lit like a Xmas tree, and here comes Paul Orndorff I assume heading out to the arena....this guy w/obviously no brain and half a bag on gets in his face and asks why he wouldn't sign autographs for his kid....and w/o breaking stride Orndorff elbowed this guy what must have been 15 feet thru the lobby airborne....me and the 4-5 other people next to me were in awe/laughing our asses off....
 

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And as a kid the most obscure venue....was on the infield of Roosevelt Raceway ....and yes the trotters were still,running....actually correct that, it wasn't the infield, it was on the concrete towards the finish line they just set a ring up and wrestled between races...now mind you, there is about 8-10 minutes between trotter races so you can figure out how quick the matches were....believe it was either NWA or AWA....I mean talk about the perfect diversion...my cuz and me are into the wrestling and my old man bets the rent away
 

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