Wrestling's history with props is glorious. Rife with comedy, drama, and teeennyyy tinnyyyy little ladders for awesome Little Person TLC matches.
Surely a lot of the responses will come from the attitude era, which gave us beer trucks, prop guns, forklifts, bowling balls, manequin heads, nightsticks, and more silicone chest enlargements than you can count.
What are your favorites?
Bad example:
Awkward Halftime Heat Forklift Shot.
Good Example:
Awesome Extreme Rules 2014 Forklift Jump
Mr. Socko has to rank up there as one of the all time great props that have been used in wrestling.
ReplyDeletePepe.
ReplyDeleteI can't quite explain why, but I hate belt shots. I always have, but the audience seems to often buy into them, so to each their own, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI love them! They seem more definitive then a chair shot so when someone kicks out it's always a big moment.
ReplyDelete<3 Pepe
ReplyDeleteJim Cornette's tennis racket was my favorite just because of the noise it made when he hit someone with it.
ReplyDeleteEasier to get in the ring and discard when the ref's not looking.
ReplyDeleteKatie Vick.
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ReplyDeleteso in this thread... we're giving props to props?
ReplyDeleteThank you for the "WeeLC" compliment, it was a great match surprisingly. Probably because thet totally committed to the concept and everyone involved busted their tails and looked great.
ReplyDeleteCan you feel that?
ReplyDeleteYou better hold on
This one's about to get bumpy
Hahahahahahaha...
She's a ten, hellbent, I'm in heaven tonight
Six speed seex scene playin' out in my mind
One look, I'm hooked, motor runnin'
Rev'd up, my heart startin' pumpin'
Are you ready for the best damn ride of your life?
Gimme a "hell"
Gimme a "yeah"
Stand up right now
And gimme a "hell"
Gimme a "yeah"
Stand up right now
Get ready to go
She ain't movin' slow
She's takin' control
Pushin' the pedal to the floor
I'm beggin' for more
You better hold on tight
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Got a taste, can't be saved, I'm a junkie for life
She fuels my fire and adrenaline high
My need for speed's got me gunnin'
One touch, she screams "keep it comin'"
Are you ready for the best damn ride of your life?
Gimme a "hell"
Gimme a "yeah"
Stand up right now
And gimme a "hell"
Gimme a "yeah"
Stand up right now
Get ready to go
She ain't movin' slow
She's takin' control
Pushin' the pedal to the floor
I'm beggin' for more
You better hold on tight
Hahahahahahaha...
Almost home
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey (come on)
Hey, hey, hey, hey (yeahhh)
Gimme a "hell"
Gimme a "yeah" (hell yeah)
Stand up right now
And gimme a "hell"
Gimme a "yeah"
Stand up right now (right now)
Gimme a "hell"
Gimme a "yeah" (yeah)
Stand up right now
And gimme a "hell" (hell)
Gimme a "yeah" (yeah)
Stand up right now (right now)
Get ready to go
She ain't movin' slow
She's takin' control
And pushin' the pedal to the floor
I'm beggin' for more
You better hold on tight
Gimme a "hell"
Gimme a "yeah"
And gimme a "hell"
Gimme a "yeah"
Hell
Hey, hey, hey, hey [x4]
You look like youve seen better days!
ReplyDelete"What are your favorite professional wrestling props?"
ReplyDeleteThe divas
Hey no problem! You seem like you were involved with the Match.
ReplyDelete-Suspicious Eyes- Jerry Smaller, is that you?
...what the fuck?
ReplyDeleteFavorite use in a match? Any time Paul E. Dangerously hit someone with his 80s/90s cellphone, mostly because if you put "Paul Heyman hits someone with his phone" in a script today you'd get laughed out of the room.
ReplyDeleteAlthough my favorite prop is probably the Million Dollar Belt.
I think somebody forgot their meds today.
ReplyDeleteI like them because it's a bit more symbolic than just a chair- it's using the prize itself to influence the outcome.
ReplyDeleteSunny's vagina was a favorite prop of the wrestlers.
ReplyDeleteGotta ask, have you ever seen The Red Pill subreddit on reddit? Thoughts on it? I think you may fit in there.
ReplyDeleteNo. I mostly avoid reddit since everyone there seems to be a giant douche nozel
ReplyDeleteBest: the singapore cane
ReplyDeleteWorst: the sledgehammer
You are mostly right, yeah. Esspecially in this Red Pill place. Here's their "mission statement": The Red Pill: Discussion of sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men.
ReplyDeleteThere's a terrible movie called "The Art of Getting By" that has some words to live by - the context may be weird, but the idea is that "If you throw a woman against a wall and start to kiss her, odds are she'll kiss back".
ReplyDeleteObviously throwing is a strange word - but the message is clear. Confidence Creates Cuddles.
I don't like you
ReplyDeleteI didn't either until about 3 months ago. Now I like me quite a lot.
ReplyDeleteYou shouldn't. You don't have any redeeming qualities.
ReplyDeleteHaving confidence is great advice for getting women (having confidence is great in most situations). But there's having confidence and following guys like that Pickup Artist. What a fucking douchbag, I kept wanting to punch him in the face.
ReplyDeleteCornette's racket and Dangerously's phone.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you "liked" yourself plenty of times even before three months ago.
ReplyDeleteThis is a masturbation reference
ReplyDeleteNo discussion of Pepe, Chavo Guerrero's horse in WCW? Talk about a guy that took a lousy gimmick and really ran with it.
ReplyDeleteHow great was it when ever Shawn Michaels would steal cornettes racket, chase him around the ring with it while Jim screamed in terror and then hbk would catch him and spank cornettes ass with it. So damn funny
ReplyDeleteNo! What the hell man! This is a veiled reference to autoerotic exfisiation.
ReplyDeleteum
ReplyDeleteThe urn was pretty cool. I liked how heels could steal it and fuck with taker and when Paul Bearer would rally taker back in the match with it.
ReplyDeleteYou enjoy watching men spank other men? Ok then.
ReplyDeleteI've read about that guy, it makes me feel icky. It's fun to be able to break down the rules of attraction in a qausi-science, but it takes the fun out of it, no?
ReplyDeleteI like the tiny cowboy hats worn by Angle and Austin in that Invasion skit.
ReplyDeleteAlso when Undertaker came back at SummerSlam 94 to face the fake one and Paul Bearer carried that huge urn that doubled as a spotlight.
he has stated he wasn't able to see his penis until 3 months ago, so I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteno a prop for a certain worker, but I think many others will like this video, too:
ReplyDeletewww.youtube.com/watch?v=xnK6G0fvsDA
regarding "pick up artists": http://xkcd.com/1027/
ReplyDeleteIsn't all wrestling gay if you look at like that? A powerbomb is some dudes face in a guys crotch until that guy pulls him up to put his face in the other guys crotch.
ReplyDeleteBerserkers sword was pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteI know I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end... but fireballs made for an amazing visual most of the time.
ReplyDeleteMind changed: the megaphone. What a great vehicle for Jimmy Hart to turn up his annoyance to 11.
ReplyDeleteBig Gold Belt was the best prop of all
ReplyDeleteDamien the snake had to be the most over prop in history right?
ReplyDeleteThey are probably my least favorite gimmick, just because it never seemed to fit the gimmick of the guy using them. Kane using a fireball, fantastic, it fits... Hogan or Lawler using one? Bullshit.
ReplyDeleteAt least Lawler did it right.
ReplyDeleteThat it was....
ReplyDeleteActually Elizabeth was. She just stood there and looked pretty.
ReplyDeleteFarva?
ReplyDeleteI just watched the WeeLC match earlier, 5 stars! 5 stars all around!
ReplyDeleteHell no. It's the dude who plays the pedophile gimmick. He always writes stupid stuff then gets it to show up as "guest"
ReplyDeleteYou are not worthy of dead Roger Ebert's slacks.
ReplyDeleteTangent...anyone remember when Pedro Martinez befriended a midget and always kept him around the Ref Sox clubhouse?
ReplyDeleteAlso, its not really a prop but the Lex Luge steel forearm was awesome
:reads the lyrics:
ReplyDeleteOh it's that Rev Theory song that was the theme of ONS08. Song gets me pumped.
One of these days I'll tell the story of how I thought he was pointing at my fly to symbolize it was down, but in actuality wanted me to put some pasta in a bowl for him.
ReplyDeleteIt was an awkward moment.
I loved when Norman Smiley stole it and ran it through a conveniently placed wood chipper.
ReplyDeleteYour favorite prop was the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima
ReplyDeleteI am planning on changing my avatar soon to fit the gimmick you guys gave me.
ReplyDeletehow the hell did that guy get such a sweet job?!
ReplyDeletei think the fact that you have a yellow lego dude (i know he's from the movie) disproves their theory
ReplyDeleteyou don't hate them; you even has one as an avatar!
Lita was a great prop for Essa Rios, Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, Matt and Jeff at the same time, Edge, Punk....
ReplyDeleteJimmy Hart's megaphone is the GOAT
ReplyDeleteThe big twist? Abeyance is Asian! Whatatwist!
ReplyDeleteThey just slapped the gimmick on me because I accidentally mistook a Japanese manager for Fuji.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what exfisiation is, but it sounds painful.
ReplyDeleteNo need, I got the gist from this trailer.
ReplyDeleteThat would be a big twist.
ReplyDeleteHe uses THAT yellow dude becuase he gets "wiped out" early in the movie and comes back retarded. It fits.
ReplyDeleteWatching Paul E.'s phone explode on impact was always fun. He must have gone through a lot of those things.
ReplyDeleteShawn's matches were great in '96, but his character was just so lame. This is another prime example.
ReplyDeleteSemi-TJ: Finally tracked down the Dailymotion clip of the WeeLC match. Based on Scott Keith's composition of the ratings system, this falls under "Almost showstealing midcard match." which would be like.....***1/4? I can't in good conscience think higher than that cause the bout did drag a bit in the middle.
ReplyDeleteyeah but on the flipside, he chose the good cop one instead of the bad cop one. he easily could have perpetuated hatred
ReplyDeleteLol.
ReplyDeleteYep, rasslin is pretty damn gay if you examine it close enough. Esspecially if you watch it with a rock hard erection....which I totally don't.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen Jinder and Drew take those type of bumps in a long time.
ReplyDeleteLink?
ReplyDeleteBeen watching a lot of 97/98 WWF on the network and goddamn those midget matches with max mini were pretty good.
ReplyDeleteThose were impressive, especially that one with the 2-3 ladders and tables, but we all know the real highlight spot was the Savage elbow through the LP announce table. That ultra-meta spot alone was worth at least half the rating.
ReplyDelete▶ Wv6xaiyyU7oo5kfaqnlV - Video Dailymotion
ReplyDeleteRocco.
ReplyDeleteWe have a guy here who does a pedophile gimmick? What the hell? Ok, gimmicks on the blog are done people.
ReplyDeleteHEY ME NEITHER...I LOVE PUSSY
ReplyDelete*looks around to make sure magoonie isn't spying on me, goes back to watching the warrior/hogan Greco-Roman knuckle spot from wm6 in slow motion*
If you don't like seeing Jim Cornette cower in terror before being beaten with his own weapon he brought to the ring for cheating with I don't know what to tell you.
ReplyDeleteHe chose the good cop because he's easily eradicated. He's weak, that's how Abeyance views the Asian population.
ReplyDeleteHe did it I'm 1 thread. He kept commenting about Scotts daughter. He was to stupid to realize tho that the disqus notification emails still had his name on them. It was some "wrestler 008" dude.
ReplyDeleteIn the same match, watching Shawn spank Cornette with the racquet was lame... but beating the fuck out of Vader with it was awesome.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Didn't see you posted this
ReplyDeleteTJ: So as of today, I know someone who took a Diamond Cutter. I went to college with a girl who works for Elite Daily, a humor site, and they did a video with DDP that's pretty funny. She appears at the 1:11 mark and again near the end: http://elitedaily.com/humor/diamond-dallas-pages-diamond-cutter-last-forever/
ReplyDeleteIt was no Bob Orton cast
ReplyDeleteNelson de la Rosa. One of my favourite baseball pictures is Pedro wearing goggles while holding him up: http://cache.boston.com/images/bostondirtdogs//Headline_Archives/pedro_reuters.jpg
ReplyDeleteSo uhhhh....what's going on?
ReplyDeleteI'll take Forgotten Classics of the 90's for $400, Parallax.
ReplyDeleteI hate them too, esp. when someone bladed after. To quote the Mormon song in "South Park", DUMB DUMB DUMBDUMBDUMB!
ReplyDeleteGilberg's sparklers. Those cracked me up EVERY TIME.
ReplyDeleteGen X FTW!!!
ReplyDeleteI never got this sick in the 90's. I think the flannel shirts deflected that shit.
ReplyDeleteOwens Slammy
ReplyDeleteAngle's medals and Jimmy Hart's megaphone.
ReplyDeleteSocko was a good one.....until it became a parody after the 5th or 6th appearance.
ReplyDeleteTrue story. About a year ago one of my cats got fleas and needed me to give them a flea bath... he was less than thrilled about this and bit the ever loving shit out my forearm because I had a short sleeve shirt on. Well the first bath didn't totally get the job done and I didn't want to have to pry his teeth loose from my arm again... but the only long sleeve shirts I won are dress shirts I don't want to get dirty... except the flannel from the 1990's that I could never bring myself to throw away despite not having worn since about 2000... well I put one of those on proceed to wash my again not happy cat (Lion-O because Gen X) who again attempted to latch on to my arm but was thwarted by my flannel shield. It really is a functional garment to go along with the last good era in fashion.
ReplyDelete(I wonder how many people are surprised to find out I have pets)
I'm surprised you own an inferior animal.like a cat. Dogs FTW
ReplyDeleteYou're a cat person. Huh. So is Mrs. Stranger. Coincidence? For the record, I have never been a cat person, and was a dog person until very recently, thanks to a new puppy 2 years ago. Completely turned me off.
ReplyDeleteFlannel needs to make a comeback.
Its ok, someday the other testicle will drop and you will be a real boy.
ReplyDeleteI actually never intended to have any pets... but I have picked up these 2 as strays over the last 5 years... the other one (44: After President Obama) is without a doubt the most loyal creature on Earth.
ReplyDeleteUntil then I'm stuck with a voice like Meekins
ReplyDeleteDon't worry you (and everyone else ever) is still more entertaining than he is.
ReplyDeleteSo Abeyance has a second reason to dislike you.
ReplyDeletegeneration x ends in the early 80's
ReplyDeletePeople have given the obvious Damien and the Megaphone, but I have to go with one that was ridiculous but still over as fuck...
ReplyDeleteHead. Al Snow made that fucking schtick work almost forever.
Also, Al Snow and Steve Blackman being called "Head Cheese" is a huge miss. They should've went with "Lethal Head" instead. It was RIGHT THERE!
People born in that time frame came of age in the 1990's
ReplyDeleteHe's still pissed about an Asian fucking up the curve in his calculus class
ReplyDeleteRick Martel's Arrogance.
ReplyDeletei guess. i always just find it weird when people pine for the 90's. early 90's maybe, but overall the 90's were shit
ReplyDeleteTruth be told, the song above, "Come to my Window" and "I'm the Only One" are pretty much my go-to drive fast in a car kinda pissed off jams.
ReplyDeleteTrish Stratus's rack
ReplyDeleteHarvey Whipplemans wife
ReplyDeleteYou are a metal guy, you kind of have to think that.
ReplyDeletewell, i also just love the pop culture of the 80's in general
ReplyDeleteActually yeah, I am surprised you have pets. Dunno why.
ReplyDeleteStacy Keibler's mind.
ReplyDelete#ItWhatsInsideThatCounts
Iron Maiden and Judas Priest were replaced with Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. Fair trade, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteBecause I seem like a self centered, heartless prick?
ReplyDelete#ItsAllPinkOnTheInside
ReplyDeletei more or less have respect for soundgarden and will admit to listening to pj's "ten" like crazy, but other than that, i hated grunge and associated
ReplyDeleteBTW Abeyance just private messaged me and warned me to keep the cats away from you because you would serve them for dinner.
ReplyDelete******* easy
ReplyDeleteThe Smackdown Fist.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/321728/The-Second-Episode-of-The-WWE-Warehouse-Unearths-The-Smackdown-Fist.htm
Death Row Records. Best thing about the 90s
ReplyDelete#AsiansAreYellowAndSlantedAccordingToAbeyance
ReplyDeletePssst...your beef curtains are showing.
ReplyDeleteMelissa Etheridge is your pissed off music?
i was only really into PE and a little NWA
ReplyDeleteOh piss right off! I was in the middle of linking that and got called away from my desk. I come back, and you've done it.
ReplyDeleteand right there is the difference between Top 5 and non Top 5
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rspwfaq.net/2013/02/great-match-of-day-midnight-express-v_9.html
ReplyDeleteGreatest Racket shot EVER. And I'm sorry, but if I hear that as a ref, I'm turning.
b/c you're standing over superman's prone body
ReplyDeleteHe survived!
ReplyDeleteSo you have a vagina then.
ReplyDeleteTen Pounds of (engraved) Gold to the head wouldn't cut you somehow? I know gold is soft, but come on...
ReplyDeleteTo me, it's better than a chair, because it's more "compact" and easy to deliver.
You are having none of his nonsense today it would seem
ReplyDeleteThat's not liking... And it's asphyxiation.
ReplyDelete... you just did.
ReplyDeleteTwo very good ones.
ReplyDeleteBut lacks the satisfying "thwack" of a chair or Kendo stick. And blading is dumb 90% of the time in my book, but yes, it looks especially silly after a belt shot.
ReplyDelete... and unless the ref's out, or it's no DQ... sound is not a smart thing. (I'm using real logic in a wrestling match, so feel free to disregard.)
ReplyDeleteYou could fire a cannon at someone and as long as the ref isn't facing it head-on, he's not gonna see or hear it. Long live the Glass Joe refs.
ReplyDeleteDon't know if you are making fun of my spelling or don't know what it is. Anyway, it's where you choke yourself and jerk off leading to a mind blowing orgasm.
ReplyDeleteleave mickie james out of this
ReplyDeletei know someone who had to have surgery for that as a kid
ReplyDeleteKANYON DID IT
ReplyDeleteWas it you? It was you wasn't it?
ReplyDeleteI'm very tired, and also annoyed with myself that I've opened the gates for Meekin to write an essay for us about the time he and Roger Ebert were just kicking back, eating pasta and pointing at each other's crotches.
ReplyDeletelol, no it wasn't. both my boys arrived on time
ReplyDeleteI was teasing you because of your spelling.
ReplyDeleteAsphyxiation is the word you were looking for.
I'll try and stop being a dick now.
Yeah that isn't any good for anyone. Good job. ASSHOLE
ReplyDeleteAlthough very rare to find one in general, it's nearly impossible to find a Soundgarden fan I don't like. They were very rarely an "it" thing, so douchey people didn't jump on their bandwagon. They were/are very talented, so people who know good music know them. And they didn't try to write above people's heads or write protest songs, so self-important pricks rarely listened to them.
ReplyDeleteThe greatest use of "OverBoobed Trish".
ReplyDeletemy knowledge of them is the "louder than love/batmotorfinger years." anything past that gets lost in the 90's to me
ReplyDeleteRey Mysterio as a lawn dart
ReplyDeleteThe Model's Arrogance and the Mountie's shock stick, especially when he poured water on the guy first.
ReplyDeleteThe Head and Shoulders shampoo bottle that Too Much used to beat Al Snow and Head at KOTR 98.
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