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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Local wrestling history that you might not be familiar with:
LEX HAD A HOLD ON PRO WRESTLING TREND
I suppose I get as depressed about as many things as the average guy, but I have rarely been as depressed as I am about what`s happening with professional wrestling. Namely, that it`s become chic.
Pro wrestling is now broadcast over MTV, along with the rock videos. It is discussed on trend-watching television shows ranging from ''Late Night With David Letterman'' to ''Good Morning America'' to ''20/20.'' It is endorsed by trendy celebrities such as Gloria Steinem, Cyndi Lauper and Geraldine Ferraro. It is written about in trend-conscious newspaper feature sections--such as this one, which carried a major story on it last week.
In short, pro wrestling has become a fashionable part of the culture, along with BMWs, health clubs and Tex-Mex restaurants. I mourn this development. For my first great passion in this life was professional wrestling, and I can promise you, there was nothing trendy about it then.
Crowds gathering to watch Lex's Live Wrestling broadcast from Memorial Hall in Columbus, Ohio on WLW-C (now WCMH)
In the late `50s, at the age of 11 or 12, I would go down to Old Memorial Hall in my hometown of Columbus every Saturday afternoon for the telecast of ''Lex`s Live Wrestling.'' ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' was hosted by Lex Mayer, a plump, owlish local Chevrolet dealer. Lex would call the action from his ringside broadcast platform, and would climb down to the floor between falls to peddle used Chevies that had been driven in through a loading dock door.
This all happened because of an accident of geography. Central Ohio was midway between two major wrestling cities--New York and Chicago--so the wrestlers could pick up an extra payday as they traveled by stopping off and
Pro wrestling has become a fashionable part of the culture, along with BMWs, health clubs and Tex-Mex restaurants, performing for Lex. ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' had an enormous home viewing audience, but the only people who showed up in person seemed to be children like myself, and extremely elderly men and women who walked with canes and trembled in their seats. This was because the price of admission was only 50 cents, and we didn`t have much else to do on a Saturday afternoon.
The cast of characters on ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' was colorful, to use an understatement. The hero of heroes was Buddy ''Nature Boy'' Rogers, a posturing, swaggering, blond-haired stud with an Elvis sneer. His tagteam partner was the Great Scot, who wore tartan trunks. An evil Japanese villain was Oyama Kato, who, during a Chevy commercial, once put Lex Mayer into ''submission'' with his sleeper hold. (As Lex was ''collapsing'' to the floor, his eyeglasses fell off; he straightened up, retrieved the glasses, put them back on and then continued his collapse.)
Fritz Von Goering was an alleged Nazi whose hometown was always announced as Berlin, but who in actuality lived above a bar over on Town Street and could often be seen shopping at the Lazarus department store. A vain, dapper, much-hated tagteam was made up of Handsome Johnny Barend and the Magnificent Maurice. (Barend would grab the microphone from Lex`s hands and announce to the Central Ohio airwaves, ''Women of Columbus, you are pigs! Pigs! Handsome John and Maurice would rather go out with barnyard animals than with you, women of Columbus!'') The only black person ever to appear on ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' was one Reginald ''Sweet Daddy'' Siki, who invariably was introduced by ring announcer Al Haft Jr. as hailing from ''Trinidad, Jamaica.''
This was all pretty thrilling for a young boy not yet in his teens--I was a total expert on such matters as the figure-four grapevine hold and the koko bop, the latter which involved knocking out an opponent with a vicious blow delivered from your forehead to his forehead. And as I say, pro wrestling was anything but fashionable at the time; the only instance that I can recall pro wrestling making the local paper came when a Columbus wrestler named Buddy Austin--a pug who only was used as fodder when the national stars came through --was arrested in a tavern brawl and identified himself to the police as Buddy ''Nature Boy'' Rogers.
Thus, the next morning, it was duly reported in the newspaper that Buddy
''Nature Boy'' Rogers had been arrested for drunk-and-disorderly, when it had instead been Buddy Austin. Nature Boy Rogers wept openly on ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' the next Saturday when explaining to Lex the depth of the humiliation he felt because of Austin`s duplicity; the two Buddies settled the dispute the only way wrestling disputes were settled in those days--with a Texas Death Match at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum.
''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' eventually went off the air, and all of us little boys who had paid our 50 cents every Saturday grew up and moved on. Wrestling was thought to be a `50s phenomenon that would never come back.
Ha. Here it is, bigger than racquetball in the `80s, with a whole new cast of heroes and villains. It won`t be long until a pro wrestler makes the cover of People magazine, and as far as I know the wrestlers probably already have been featured on ''Entertainment Tonight.'' I don`t know what Gloria Steinem and Geraldine Ferraro can be thinking about--but I don`t imagine that Steinem and Ferraro would be so quick to endorse pro wrestling if they had run into Fritz Von Goering in the shoe department of Lazarus, as we so often did. Lex, you were born 30 years too soon.
Entire article: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-02-25-8501110481-story.html
More: http://www.t2buck.com/rasslin.htm
Re: In the late `50s, at the age of 11 or 12, I would go down to Old Memorial Hall in my hometown of Columbus every Saturday afternoon for the telecast of ''Lex`s Live Wrestling.'' ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' was hosted by Lex Mayer, a plump, owlish local Chevrolet dealer. Lex would call the action from his ringside broadcast platform, and would climb down to the floor between falls to peddle used Chevies that had been driven in through a loading dock door.
Just sayin': In the late 50s I was 11 or 12, I never saw it live: however, I use to watch that show.....
LEX HAD A HOLD ON PRO WRESTLING TREND
I suppose I get as depressed about as many things as the average guy, but I have rarely been as depressed as I am about what`s happening with professional wrestling. Namely, that it`s become chic.
Pro wrestling is now broadcast over MTV, along with the rock videos. It is discussed on trend-watching television shows ranging from ''Late Night With David Letterman'' to ''Good Morning America'' to ''20/20.'' It is endorsed by trendy celebrities such as Gloria Steinem, Cyndi Lauper and Geraldine Ferraro. It is written about in trend-conscious newspaper feature sections--such as this one, which carried a major story on it last week.
In short, pro wrestling has become a fashionable part of the culture, along with BMWs, health clubs and Tex-Mex restaurants. I mourn this development. For my first great passion in this life was professional wrestling, and I can promise you, there was nothing trendy about it then.
Crowds gathering to watch Lex's Live Wrestling broadcast from Memorial Hall in Columbus, Ohio on WLW-C (now WCMH)
In the late `50s, at the age of 11 or 12, I would go down to Old Memorial Hall in my hometown of Columbus every Saturday afternoon for the telecast of ''Lex`s Live Wrestling.'' ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' was hosted by Lex Mayer, a plump, owlish local Chevrolet dealer. Lex would call the action from his ringside broadcast platform, and would climb down to the floor between falls to peddle used Chevies that had been driven in through a loading dock door.
This all happened because of an accident of geography. Central Ohio was midway between two major wrestling cities--New York and Chicago--so the wrestlers could pick up an extra payday as they traveled by stopping off and
Pro wrestling has become a fashionable part of the culture, along with BMWs, health clubs and Tex-Mex restaurants, performing for Lex. ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' had an enormous home viewing audience, but the only people who showed up in person seemed to be children like myself, and extremely elderly men and women who walked with canes and trembled in their seats. This was because the price of admission was only 50 cents, and we didn`t have much else to do on a Saturday afternoon.
The cast of characters on ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' was colorful, to use an understatement. The hero of heroes was Buddy ''Nature Boy'' Rogers, a posturing, swaggering, blond-haired stud with an Elvis sneer. His tagteam partner was the Great Scot, who wore tartan trunks. An evil Japanese villain was Oyama Kato, who, during a Chevy commercial, once put Lex Mayer into ''submission'' with his sleeper hold. (As Lex was ''collapsing'' to the floor, his eyeglasses fell off; he straightened up, retrieved the glasses, put them back on and then continued his collapse.)
Fritz Von Goering was an alleged Nazi whose hometown was always announced as Berlin, but who in actuality lived above a bar over on Town Street and could often be seen shopping at the Lazarus department store. A vain, dapper, much-hated tagteam was made up of Handsome Johnny Barend and the Magnificent Maurice. (Barend would grab the microphone from Lex`s hands and announce to the Central Ohio airwaves, ''Women of Columbus, you are pigs! Pigs! Handsome John and Maurice would rather go out with barnyard animals than with you, women of Columbus!'') The only black person ever to appear on ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' was one Reginald ''Sweet Daddy'' Siki, who invariably was introduced by ring announcer Al Haft Jr. as hailing from ''Trinidad, Jamaica.''
This was all pretty thrilling for a young boy not yet in his teens--I was a total expert on such matters as the figure-four grapevine hold and the koko bop, the latter which involved knocking out an opponent with a vicious blow delivered from your forehead to his forehead. And as I say, pro wrestling was anything but fashionable at the time; the only instance that I can recall pro wrestling making the local paper came when a Columbus wrestler named Buddy Austin--a pug who only was used as fodder when the national stars came through --was arrested in a tavern brawl and identified himself to the police as Buddy ''Nature Boy'' Rogers.
Thus, the next morning, it was duly reported in the newspaper that Buddy
''Nature Boy'' Rogers had been arrested for drunk-and-disorderly, when it had instead been Buddy Austin. Nature Boy Rogers wept openly on ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' the next Saturday when explaining to Lex the depth of the humiliation he felt because of Austin`s duplicity; the two Buddies settled the dispute the only way wrestling disputes were settled in those days--with a Texas Death Match at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum.
''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' eventually went off the air, and all of us little boys who had paid our 50 cents every Saturday grew up and moved on. Wrestling was thought to be a `50s phenomenon that would never come back.
Ha. Here it is, bigger than racquetball in the `80s, with a whole new cast of heroes and villains. It won`t be long until a pro wrestler makes the cover of People magazine, and as far as I know the wrestlers probably already have been featured on ''Entertainment Tonight.'' I don`t know what Gloria Steinem and Geraldine Ferraro can be thinking about--but I don`t imagine that Steinem and Ferraro would be so quick to endorse pro wrestling if they had run into Fritz Von Goering in the shoe department of Lazarus, as we so often did. Lex, you were born 30 years too soon.
Entire article: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-02-25-8501110481-story.html
More: http://www.t2buck.com/rasslin.htm
Re: In the late `50s, at the age of 11 or 12, I would go down to Old Memorial Hall in my hometown of Columbus every Saturday afternoon for the telecast of ''Lex`s Live Wrestling.'' ''Lex`s Live Wrestling'' was hosted by Lex Mayer, a plump, owlish local Chevrolet dealer. Lex would call the action from his ringside broadcast platform, and would climb down to the floor between falls to peddle used Chevies that had been driven in through a loading dock door.
Just sayin': In the late 50s I was 11 or 12, I never saw it live: however, I use to watch that show.....
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Ronda Rousey Says WWE Fans Were ‘Ungrateful’ and Didn’t ‘Appreciate’ Her Time with the Company
https://people.com/sports/ronda-rou...d-didnt-appreciate-her-time-with-the-company/
How WWE Can Use Ronda Rousey's Heat to Create Unforgettable Storyline
https://bleacherreport.com/articles...ouseys-heat-to-create-unforgettable-storyline
Orchestrated story line where she gets some time off and then comes back as a heel?
https://people.com/sports/ronda-rou...d-didnt-appreciate-her-time-with-the-company/
How WWE Can Use Ronda Rousey's Heat to Create Unforgettable Storyline
https://bleacherreport.com/articles...ouseys-heat-to-create-unforgettable-storyline
Orchestrated story line where she gets some time off and then comes back as a heel?
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Crump's brother
Moxahala Park Carnie/ Rehoboth Strangler
She has to be a heel when she comes back. She is the one to beat Becky Lynch.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
I don't think Rousey and her husband are currently hurting for money.
"As of 2020, Ronda Rousey net worth is estimated to be around $15 million. Travis Browne is an American mixed martial artist with has an estimated net worth of $500 thousand."
It's definitely "work" and takes a toll on her body. The possibly always exists that after taking some time off to be with her family she gets an ever better contract with WWE, (i.e. more money and/or less appearances, etc.).
Then again, she's 33 and her biological clock is ticking (who knows?) maybe she is just taking time off to have a child of her own.
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And yet they were called “essential” by Florida after a large contribution, allowing them to fulfill the live show part of their Fox and USA contracts.
They are possibly the sleaziest company in history, and that’s saying something.
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I don't disagree but I do think a lot of the performer releases were coming either way....especially guys like Ryder, EC3, Rusev and also Sarah Logan. None of them were really being used or used correctly.
The timing and optics are awful...
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The EC3 hire never made much sense to me. Promoting him up from NXT to the main roster was equally baffling. He’s a stiff with little to no mic skills.
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Howard Finkel has passed...heaven has a “nnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww announcer”
2020 can fuck right off
2020 can fuck right off
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