Wouldn't Thunderlips have been arrested?
I mean it looked like he broke Rocky's back and he was assaulting security guards, I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to do that.
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If i remember right Mickey was trying to slow Rocky down to gear toward retirement at the point of the beginning of the movie. So he booked Rocky in these easy fights and fun exhibitions like the one with Thunderlips. All while ducking real competition such as what Clubber Lang was.
Rocky had no idea about this which is why he was upset when Mickey refused to let him accept Langs challenge at first, and when he found out what Mickey was doing behind his back all that time.
Mickey thought Rocky was crazy for taking on the fight so I think a promoter approached Rocky and he agreed on the spot.
shareIn the flesh... bay-beh!
shareI don't follow pro wrestling but my college professor is a big fan. He told me that pro wrestlers work within a script and the results are pre determined. So no, he would not have been arrested. Sometimes promoters use what they call plants in the audience to give the impression that its real. Looks like you been fooled. Do you watch pro wrestling now?
shareGiven the many pearls of wisdom he has imparted upon you Millsey72, I would have never imagined that your 'college professor' was a wrestling fan?
shareHe DVRs RAW and Smackdown every week because its on at the same time as Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN
shareI wish I had a nickel for every "I don't follow _________ but my college professor does and he said __________" post from this goof.
shareI've heard he's also imparted quite a few pearl necklaces on him as well!
shareThe security guards were in on the script? I’m pretty sure Rocky wasn’t.
shareThis whole Rocky vs Thunderlips thing looks a bit stupid nowadays.
In 1982, wrestling was a lot less open to the fact that it was a pre-determined entertainment form. Kayfabe was still alive, and they wanted fans to think it was real. Of course, people began to realise it wasn't a legitimate sporting contest themselves, long before promoters stopped pretending that it was. But it wasn't like it was nowadays, when everybody knows it's a show and nobody pretends otherwise.
In 1982, having a movie scene where a boxer faced a wrestler in a legitimate fight would've been all part of the still existing pretence that wrestling was real. Nowadays, it just looks silly, and makes you wonder why they were doing it.
I was a young adult in 1982. I thought it was very common knowledge among those with more than two brain cells to rub together that pro wrestling was obviously fake.
shareI heard pro wrestling became fake and results pre determined right after the 1st Wrestlemania, which was March 1985
shareI'm sure you did.
shareYea, pro wrestling was real up until the tag team match with Mr T and Hulk at that Wrestlemania. The WWF decided to script this match , because of Mr T's lack of experience, and it worked out so well, that pro wrestling after that all became scripted and results pre determined
shareYep. My friends and I knew it was fake in the 1970s. We were talking about it in front of my older sister and she said everyone knew it was fake when she was a kid in the 60s. I just googled it and read that pro wrestling was considered legitimate up until the 1930s, which is when it first started to become "theatrical and scripted."
So much for millsey's "I heard it became fake in 1985" report. I still hope to one day read a post of theirs that isn't 100% moronic gibberish.
Every now and then one of my posts is a bit misguided. Shame too because I believed in Hulkamania in the 80s
shareIn 1982, wrestling was a lot less open to the fact that it was a pre-determined entertainment form.
I took my wife's younger sister and brother (he a big wrestling fan then and might still be..) to a local wrestling show in 1979, and it was common knowledge that wrestling was a scripted exhibition and not a legitimate sport. It was an entertaining show, sort of like a physical soap opera.
I do recall however being amazed at the amount of people who totally believed what they were watching was real. I'm still amazed.
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I think in 1979, it was real and unscripted. I believe it became scripted entertainment around the time Hulkamania was born
shareI saw an interview with the great Ric Flair, and he said that it was scripted from the time he started. That surprised him, when he heard the wrestlers talking about what would happen during the matches before they started.
So DEBUNKED!
I remember those days. It was so ridiculous, but there were a lot of adults who actually believed it was a real competition. Like any real sport would tolerate someone smashing a competitor with a chair or something while the refs back was turned, and nothing would happen after the match.
Not to mention all those moves where the person who's being moved on clearly goes along with it. One wrestler is bounced off the ropes and makes no effort to avoid the other guy who's got his arm out to clothesline him, just runs right into him.
Pro wrestling needed to have instant replay
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