General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[King Kong Booty]

I've never known you to say this, usually you know

Well I was about 7 when this pic was taken a few years before I started my research

 

[Chris]

I go back and watch wrestling from the 1970s

 

[King Kong Booty]

I go back and watch wrestling from the 1970s

I mean I’ve seen some vintage porn just not all of it lol

 

[Chris]

Sometimes I feel like I've seen all the pre 80s footage out there online until something else pops up

 

[King Kong Booty]

I’ve also watched a ton of pre80s wrestling

 

[Chris]

I've been listening to pre 1900s research on a podcast

 

[Chris]

Last one was about this wrestler that pretended to be a different one to swindle promoters but the funniest thing is he was missing fingers and no one questioned that it had never been noted the real guy was

 

[Blazehausen]

Wait wrestling existed before 1995?

 

[Chris]

He lost his fingers wrestling a bear

 

[Chris]

The real guy found out and they actually worked matches which the narrator concluded were almost surely worked matches

 

[Chris]

The newspapers slammed it for being fake

 

[Chris]

Which it turns out they did a lot back then, no one ever actually bought this shit outside of hillbillies and rednecks tbh

 

[Chris]

Yusuf İsmail - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Chris]

This guy was also cool to learn about

 

[Chris]

His last match before dying on a shipwreck was for a "world championship" which none had fully been established yet and he won