Also, not to be pedantic, but it's Magneto. Not Magnito.

I tend not to be too careful with initial submissions, since I always have to go back and fiddle with the tags after its up due to some bug in the site. I also have front page privileges, so it's usually not an issue, but this sub went to the hopper for the suffrage of the rabble for whatever reason. I couldn't do nothin' till it came out the back end. I'll fix the tags, but the title will be a silent reminder of Magnito's folly.

I thought you might have been making fun of Hugh Jackman's pronunciation, and I was like, that's not cool man. He's got a speech impediment: being Australian.

Damien Sandow is yet another young talent that they are under-utilizing. I've often heard him described as a combination of the Poffo brothers: The mic work of Lanny Poffo, with the in-ring ability of Randy Savage. Why they don't give him a proper run is beyond me. Same goes for Ziggler now that we're on the topic.

Don't get your hopes up about Sandow. He's debuted under other gimmicks (Idol Stevens around 2004ish) before, and this is his third or fourth run. They don't know what to do with him.

Paul Heyman went on Stone Cold's podcast (a delightful pdocast) not too long ago, and Sandow came up. Heyman says they linked him backstage, but over time felt he's not assertive enough. For example, Sandow didn't link pink trunks they gave him to wear for his gimmiick. He never told Vince he wouldn't wear them, he just whined about them. So the agents (former wrestlers like Arn Anderson) and writers felt he wasn't aggressive enough to deserve what he wanted, and they stopped letting him be a featured guy.

THAT'S THE SORT OF THING THAT CAN AFFECT YOUR WINS AND LOSSES IN WRESTLING.

Sandow is great, but yes, probably doomed until he gains more confidence somewhere else. There are so many factors that go into a successful career in WWE (read: the only successful career possible in pro wrestling), and actually being entertaining in the ring is pretty much at the bottom of that list.

I don't know, the magnetism had me going there for a minute. If it's fake, how do you explain that?

But I wouldn't feel bad, not all wrestlers can act (Batista for example), and not all wrestlers can perform incredible feats (John Cena, who is immensely strong and in perfect shape, but is not very talented when it comes to doing actual moves). You could probably take either of them.

Wolverine's skeleton is made of metal. If it was real magnetism his whole body would have been pulled over, not just the mike. Geez, you people will believe anything.

God forbid anyone have some silly fun in a "sport" that mostly consists of sitting on each others faces.

Also, this could have been a time when Wolverine didn't have metal on his bones, did you ever consider that?? Check your fucking FACTS first before you badmouth the authenticity of this amazing sport. Ram that down your peehole you little birch.

Real sports: anything that involves a bunch of millionares kicking or throwing a ball to each other. With loooong periods of nothing happening in between.

Real fun sports: Wrestling

Riskbreaker, if you ignore the fans (like all sports, I guess), then MMA is really great. There are very few millionaires mostly due to Dana White's love of Ferraris and it's guys (and some girls) just beating each other up. It's not as fun as pro wrestling but it's pretty fun.

At the risk of sounding like an MMA-uber-dork, it was a lot more fun in the early days, before everyone figured out the best strategy to win. The early UFCs, where you'd see Street Fighter type matchups between sumo wrestlers and kung fu guys, were awesome AND entertaining. Now it's just match after match of dorks spamming God Tier characters like Iori and Kyo.

I love Royce Gracie, he's a childhood hero and a better man than I, but the ground game sorta ruined the spectacle.

I like MMA, fully agree with the crowd that follows it being annoying, which also applies to many other "serious" sports. Is also safe to say that most wrestling fans are aware of wrestling being a peformance. So, anybody coming to them with the cliche "U KNOW IS FAKE RITE?" is just wasting their time.

I'm not going to say there are no crazy obnoxious fanboys in wrestling as well, but answer me this: when was the last time a riot began during a wrestling match? I like soccer as well, but it's a sport that attracts some of the worst human beings i ever had the "luck" of meeting. It wouldn't be such an issue if it wasn't for the clubs actually filling their stadiums with such trash. Say what you want about WWE and wrestling in general, but these companies usually have zero tolerance towards crazy fanboys doing stupid shit in the middle of a show.

IIRC, the ECW had a few riots, but most of them were probably works.

I simply cannot get into wrestling these days (despite spending much of the late 90s and early 2000s as a fan), but the "U KNOW IS FAKE RITE?" crowd is infinitely more embarrassing than any full grown adult who may own a John Cena shirt or something. Basically they're worse than any actual pro wrestling fan who should "know better".

Also, Royce changed my life and that is not an exaggeration.

Wait, you mean Sergeant Slaughter didn't betray America after all!? Oh man, I am so relieved for GI Joe.

He was a double agent, all his anti-america angles were simply false flags.