Posted on 07/31/2025 11:43:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
Steroids & leukemia & clot shot.
Pro wrestling is scripted. If you look at what they do to their bodies, you really can’t call it “fake.” Yeah, I know, semantics, but they’re athletes. A lot more than they used to be 40+ years ago, which was one of Hulk’s selling points to be honest. You still had big doughy guys like Dusty Rhodes who were huge because of their charisma, then here came Hulk with a great combination of microphone skills and those “24-inch pythons.” Between the talk and the look, he was special. (He wasn’t actually very special in the ring, to be frank, when you compare him to other in-ring performers of the ‘80s.)
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When I’d go to wrestling matches in Birmingham AL in lower budget leagues than the WWE it was obvious it was scripted, and they stomped the floor to make punches sound louder, and the floor seemed to have shock absorption built into it in some fashion to take away most of the impact of body slams. But at the same time it required a lot more strength and physical beating than I’ll ever have.
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