I used to love ECW.

I remember growing up and staying up until like 1am to catch their shows on like channel 95 or something every Saturday.

They also put on a couple of shows at Century II in Wichita which I attended.

Good stuff.

Critical but stable condition, heavily sedated. I have no idea how much brain damage he might have suffered;



Jerry “The King” Lawler, who suffered a heart attack during WWE’s “Monday Night Raw,” is in critical but stable condition, recovering from coronary angioplasty in the Cardiac Care Unit of a Montreal hospital.

Lawler’s ex-wife, former WWE diva Stacy Carter, tweeted this morning that he had undergone a procedure in which “a [stent] and a balloon” were implanted and he “is still heavily sedated.”

In a statement, WWE said: “As of this morning, Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler is in a cardiac care unit and all his vital signs are stable. WWE will provide additional information as it becomes available. We continue to wish Jerry all the best for a full recovery.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...e377_blog.html

This thread reminded me of this old post, one of my all-time favorites - http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...51&postcount=7

he's gonna be OK.
'cause all the little Hulksters were saying their prayers and taking their vitamins!
oh yeah brother!

Always amazes me what threads get pages of responses on CP.

Pro wrestling has a changed a lot over the years. Decades ago it was goofy fun for the whole family, kind of like a traveling circus. I never liked the circus but I have fond memories from my childhood of going to the shows with my family. And then watching these same guys on TV. When I had young children of my own in the 80's and 90's we would watch it on Monday nights during the NFL off season. We knew it was a joke. But it was a goofy "in joke" and we had a lot of fun with it. I haven't seen much lately that I enjoy. I haven't watched it in art least five years, maybe closer to ten. But some of these old school guys gave me a lot of entertainment. It's sad to see them in bad shape (or dead) now.

http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/news/9...o-brain-damage

No brain damage. That's good.

I don’t watch as much as I used to be but every now and then I flip it over. It seems to me that its more performing and acting now than actual wrestling. Theres always been characters of course, but now its like 30 minutes of a scripted act in the middle of the stage before any actually wrestling begins.

Probably saved by callouses from all the years of getting it knocked around.


Too soon?

It's NEVER too soon for good jokes. Kudos:thumb:

And here we have the opposite. Very original. I have NEVER seen or heard about this before. Thanks for your contribution :clap:

It's been that way since like 1990.

Wow, that is incredible. Good to hear.

Yeah, I had that discussion with my kids when it went to crap. The shows on broadcast are just giant commercials for the pay-per-views. I had them time the matches versus the periods of inaction and they finally got it. That's when we stopped watching.

Yup. It's been that way ever since television and consolidation killed off the territories system.

Before, a wrestler could succeed with a shallow gimmick. No need to develop his character through many, many storylines because once he ran through his character in one territory he could then go to a different territory -- where no fans knew about you -- and go through the same story over again against a different opponent.

When the territories died off, wrestles needed to constantly keep their gimmicks fresh. Thus, increased time spent on the mic, developing new stories outside of ring-work.