#wrestling

From the managerial perspective, Sir Oliver Humperdink, a heinous sort for most of his career, said the release of pentup emotions might even have been healthy for mind and soul. "As heels, we were able to be as annoying and politically incorrect’ as possible.We were able to say and do what everyone probably wanted to say and do, but, for one reason or another, could never, ever get away with. And, by being able to do so, I generally found that my fellow heels were much more 'easygoing' than our babyface counterparts who had to 'toe the line. ↗

— Greg Oliver

#wrestling #life

This “who’s on top” banter continues until one wrestler (who has slyly gone to hide behind a chair) leaps upon his rival with an animal cry. The pair then proceeds to create a series of tableaux that appear to be from the Kama Sutra, Vatsyayana’s ancient Indian textbook of carnal satisfaction. Occasionally, the tension is broken by a wrestler who picks up a large object, such as a table, to throw on the other’s head, as if suddenly disgusted by his forbidden love. ↗

— Lady Arabella Snark

#pro-wrestling #snark #humor

Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love here in Memphis. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#grown #here #judging #know #like

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis. ↗

— Bill Goldberg

#basis #daily #daily basis #number #part

It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story. ↗

— Owen Hart

#beating #dead #dead horse #fake #find

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#becoming #best #between #ceased #city

As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#federation #happen #say #they say #world

It seems like it has been forever. But i getbthe feeling that forever hasn't even started yet. ↗

— John Passaro

#family #inpirational #motivational #special-needs #wrestling

I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be. ↗

— Bret Hart

#sports #wrestling #inspirational

In wrestling, nothing exists unless it exists totally, there is no symbol, no allusion, everything is given exhaustively; leaving nothing in shadow, the gesture severs every parasitical meaning and ceremonially presents the public with a pure and full signification, three dimensional, like Nature. Such emphasis is nothing but the popular and ancestral image of the perfect intelligibility of reality. What is enacted by wrestling, then, is an ideal intelligence of things, a euphoria of humanity, raised for a while out of the constitutive ambiguity of everyday situations and installed in a panoramic vision of a univocal Nature, in which signs finally correspond to causes without obstacle, without evasion, and without contradiction. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#intelligence