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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 7:53:24 GMT -5
...before they were big?
So I am from the same town as Sarah Logan (Southern Indiana outside of Louisville), have a few small stories; back in my senior year of high school (when Barack Obama won the first time), I got really into politics and went around in a suit telling kids to vote for me for president in 2036. Just kind of a silly gag. In 2015 Sarah had gotten into the business, was connected to Mad Man Pondo, JCW, the deathmatch style, and I believe had already trained in Japan. She was doing backstage segments with WWE, but still lived in our local area. I went into Gamestop and noticed she was working as a clerk. I introduced myself. Interestingly, she remembered me! I assumed the age gap would have gotten in the way, because I knew her from the indies, didn’t remember her from high school. She was a freshman when I was a senior; she brought up my whole running for POTUS schtick, and I was amazed. I bought some used video games and talked to her for a few minutes, cool little interaction. Later, I added her on Facebook and she made a post asking people to reply with their top memory of her, and I mentioned that whole story, and how I was amazed she remembered the "running for president" memory. She replied with, "I still do!" Thought that was cool. The coolest part of it was the December 2, 2019 RAW/Main Event taping in Nashville; she worked Natalya as part of Main Event, and I went down and was lucky enough to have a seat in the first couple rows. There was a spot where she walked up the ramp for a bit to get away from Natalya, and I walked over to the aisle and screamed, "Go Sarah, yeah!" I wasn't sure if she realized it was me when she looked over for 1/10 of a second, so I messaged her on FB after just for the hell of it with, "Did ya see me?" She replied, "I did, looked right at ya!" And I responded with, "Hell yeah, great match!"
So anyway, that was pretty awesome. If you go back and watch Natalya/Logan from the 12/05/19 edition of Main Event you can see the moment where it happened. Just to have gone to a show and sort of "interacted" during a match with a wrestler you kinda, kinda knew, is pretty cool.
I did some really small level indy announcing in my area in the 2010s, and her first boyfriend owned the second indy promotion I announced for (they had broken up by the time I announced), and she was on several cards with friends of mine, but I never personally interacted with her in the indy scene of Kentucky/Indiana. A good friend of mine in high school even paid for her initial trip to Japan, which I thought was pretty cool.
So anyway, some of this post was just to tell this story, but I might as well add some part of it to give something for folks to reply with other than, "Cool!" Has anyone here ever grown up with any workers or known them before they got big? I know we're getting to the point that early WFigs kids are old enough to be "in the business," so I'm sure I'm far from the only one. Maybe some of you knew some folks in the indies before they got big.
I know Sarah is gone, but she hasn't been gone long, her old stable is still active, and her husband is employed, so hopefully this can remain in this board.
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Post by CM Poor: DeepFigureValue on Apr 19, 2021 9:50:39 GMT -5
I saw Matt Bloom at a grocery store in Boston yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn't want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 10:00:40 GMT -5
Not allowing Bloom to leave with the candy for free? Clear anti-Semitism. Boston is an Irish-Catholic city, so I'm not surprised. He's probably dealt with that his whole life, Catholic anti-Semitism goes back to the Middle Ages. The only Boston Jew who ever really made it out alive was Leonard Nimoy. And even he's dead now.
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Post by CM Tusk on Apr 19, 2021 13:13:36 GMT -5
This thread is already an all timer
Wow
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Post by Valbroski on Apr 19, 2021 13:34:19 GMT -5
Adam Copeland (Edge)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 13:38:13 GMT -5
Did you see him when he was still in the Canadian indies back in the ‘90s?
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Post by Valbroski on Apr 19, 2021 13:46:11 GMT -5
Did you see him when he was still in the Canadian indies back in the ‘90s? Yeah, we’ve been friends for years. He even hooked me up and tossed his shirt to me at Extreme Rules 2010. I know people will argue the point or say he just tossed his shirt and it wasnt for me. But they are just haters. When was the last time babyface Edge or heel Edge ever tossed his shirt to the crowd? Regardless....in the end, I have it and thats that.
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Post by Thunder Chunky on Apr 19, 2021 13:58:36 GMT -5
Did you see him when he was still in the Canadian indies back in the ‘90s? Yeah, we’ve been friends for years. He even hooked me up and tossed his shirt to me at Extreme Rules 2010. I know people will argue the point or say he just tossed his shirt and it wasnt for me. But they are just haters. When was the last time babyface Edge or heel Edge ever tossed his shirt to the crowd? Regardless....in the end, I have it and thats that. I think if we look really close into the crowd, we can see you rip the shirt away from a kid.
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Post by CM Tusk on Apr 19, 2021 14:01:59 GMT -5
Did you see him when he was still in the Canadian indies back in the ‘90s? Yeah, we’ve been friends for years. He even hooked me up and tossed his shirt to me at Extreme Rules 2010. I know people will argue the point or say he just tossed his shirt and it wasnt for me. But they are just haters. When was the last time babyface Edge or heel Edge ever tossed his shirt to the crowd? Regardless....in the end, I have it and thats that. I think I know you. Were you ever recorded at an airport?
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Post by CM Poor: DeepFigureValue on Apr 19, 2021 14:04:31 GMT -5
I have Jeff Harty's phone number
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Post by JP on Apr 19, 2021 14:06:11 GMT -5
I met Jack Perry (Jungle Boy) at a restaurant once - we’d accidentally been given his table. Apparently he was fond of the restaurant and had a specific table he liked, and the management had messed up and gotten their days wrong, (it was Tuesday and they thought he was coming on Thursday or something like that).
Anyway, the manager, completely embarrassed (this is a pretty nice restaurant) comes by and says “I’m so sorry, but we’d like to move you to another table if you could be troubled, and we’ll gladly compensate you for the cost of the meal and any other meal you’d like while you’re in town.” My sister and cousin were both like “Yeah that’s cool.” and I kind of played the bunghole a bit. “I’m sorry, I just don’t understand. We’ve been here for 15 minutes - we’ve just ordered. Can’t we finish our meal here?”
Then out of nowhere Jungle Boy shows up next to the manager and says “Paul, these guys can finish. We’ll be at the bar. I got some time.” And I (having a huge crush on Jungle Boy) said “Oh wow, uh… I had no idea. Please feel free to give them the table.” Jack was grateful, shook my hand and said thanks, then gave me a card with his number on it and told me to give him a call later.
After working up the nerve, I gave him a call that night, and to make a long story short, we had a glorious 11 month love affair, man on man, that I shall never forget. Our bodies intertwined as one, and from the beauty of Morocco, to the French Riviera, to the snorkeling in the Galopagos, Jungle Boy and I made glorious gay love to each other on six of the seven continents.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 14:16:30 GMT -5
It is going to take a lot to top this in 2021
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 14:19:59 GMT -5
I met Hulk Hogan back when he was just starting in the AWA.
He came into the store I owned at the time looking for the freshest, ice cold beer we had.
I directed him back to the cooler and said here you go brother, the pick of the litter, just for you jack.
He grabbed 3 6 packs, and we go to get him checked out and as I am finishing the order, I said, brother, I cant wait for Hulkamania to run wild jack.
He told me he was going to use some of the stuff I just said in his promos, and if it catches on, would take care of me for helping him get out of Minnesota.
Low and behold, everything I pitched him took off like a wild fire, and the bastard still has not given me a dime to this day.
Brother
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Post by Valbroski on Apr 19, 2021 14:20:14 GMT -5
I met Jack Perry (Jungle Boy) at a restaurant once - we’d accidentally been given his table. Apparently he was fond of the restaurant and had a specific table he liked, and the management had messed up and gotten their days wrong, (it was Tuesday and they thought he was coming on Thursday or something like that). Anyway, the manager, completely embarrassed (this is a pretty nice restaurant) comes by and says “I’m so sorry, but we’d like to move you to another table if you could be troubled, and we’ll gladly compensate you for the cost of the meal and any other meal you’d like while you’re in town.” My sister and cousin were both like “Yeah that’s cool.” and I kind of played the bunghole a bit. “I’m sorry, I just don’t understand. We’ve been here for 15 minutes - we’ve just ordered. Can’t we finish our meal here?” Then out of nowhere Jungle Boy shows up next to the manager and says “Paul, these guys can finish. We’ll be at the bar. I got some time.” And I (having a huge crush on Jungle Boy) said “Oh wow, uh… I had no idea. Please feel free to give them the table.” Jack was grateful, shook my hand and said thanks, then gave me a card with his number on it and told me to give him a call later. After working up the nerve, I gave him a call that night, and to make a long story short, we had a glorious 11 month love affair, man on man, that I shall never forget. Our bodies intertwined as one, and from the beauty of Morocco, to the French Riviera, to the snorkeling in the Galopagos, Jungle Boy and I made glorious gay love to each other on six of the seven continents. I have serious man love for Adam (Edge), so I understand.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 14:21:16 GMT -5
Next ten aren’t allowed to use gay sex, rape, drugs, or usual tropes from Family Guy or South Park. At least DFV used unique surreal imagery. Hogan one wasn’t bad.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 14:30:32 GMT -5
I forgot my other one.
Back in the 1940s I was stationed across seas, forced to fight fascism without choice under the harsh command of Washington and its military industrial complex. I punched about six and a half Nazis before my partners liberated the camps and watched the Soviets finished off the Axis Powers. I witnessed dark, dark things in Germany though. Destruction, decay, violence, horrible live polka music. I developed severe PTSD. I, Leo Lupton, then returned to North Carolina in ‘45 after the war was over, drowning my sorrows nightly in my liquid of choice, whisky. Finally I fell in love with a woman and moved her into my trailer; her name was Vickie Askew and she had a little runt kid, Vinnie Lupton (somehow I convinced him to take my last name). The kid and I would bicker day and night, him claiming that his real biological dad was a New York pro wrestling promoter named Vincent J. McMahon, and that he’d one day reunite with him, become a billionaire, take over the wrestling world, run many out of business, and destroy me and my covered trailer.
...that day never came. I still live with the kid, but we get along now and watch Taxi reruns. He knows wrestling well and claims that the guy who played Latka Gravas should’ve given “the business” a try.
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Post by PJ on Apr 19, 2021 14:36:26 GMT -5
Did you see him when he was still in the Canadian indies back in the ‘90s? Yeah, we’ve been friends for years. He even hooked me up and tossed his shirt to me at Extreme Rules 2010. I know people will argue the point or say he just tossed his shirt and it wasnt for me. But they are just haters. When was the last time babyface Edge or heel Edge ever tossed his shirt to the crowd? Regardless....in the end, I have it and thats that. Wasn’t that CM Showstopper?
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Post by Valbroski on Apr 19, 2021 14:42:09 GMT -5
Yeah, we’ve been friends for years. He even hooked me up and tossed his shirt to me at Extreme Rules 2010. I know people will argue the point or say he just tossed his shirt and it wasnt for me. But they are just haters. When was the last time babyface Edge or heel Edge ever tossed his shirt to the crowd? Regardless....in the end, I have it and thats that. Wasn’t that CM Showstopper? No I’m Valbroski
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Post by JP on Apr 19, 2021 14:45:03 GMT -5
Wasn’t that CM Showstopper? No I’m Valbroski
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Post by CM Poor: DeepFigureValue on Apr 19, 2021 14:52:41 GMT -5
So I am from the same town as Mojo Rawley (Northern Virginia outside of DC), have a few small stories; back in my senior year of high school (when George W. Bush was getting ready to run a second time), I got really into politics and went around in a suit telling kids to vote for me for president in 2020. Just kind of a silly gag. In 2012 Mojo had gotten into the business, was connected to the Performance Center, NXT, the hype style, and I believe had already played in the NFL. He was doing undercard matches with WWE, but didn't live in our local area. I went into GNC and noticed he was working as a clerk. I introduced myself. Interestingly, he remembered me! I assumed the age gap would have gotten in the way, because I knew him from the NFL, didn’t remember him from high school. He was a junior when I was a senior; he brought up my whole running for POTUS schtick, and I was amazed. I bought some supplements and talked to him for a few minutes, cool little interaction. Later, I added him on Facebook and he made a post asking people to reply with their top memory of him, and I mentioned that whole story, and how I was amazed he remembered the "running for president" memory. He replied with, "I still do!" Thought that was cool. The coolest part of it was the December 2, 2019 RAW/Main Event taping in Nashville; he worked Cedric Alexander as part of Main Event, and I went down and was lucky enough to have a seat in the first couple rows. There was a spot where he walked up the ramp for a bit to get away from Cedric, and I walked over to the aisle and screamed, "Go Mojo, yeah!" I wasn't sure if he realized it was me when he looked over for 1/10 of a second, so I messaged him on FB after just for the hell of it with, "Did ya see me?" He replied, "I did, looked right at ya!" And I responded with, "Hell yeah, great match!"
So anyway, that was pretty awesome. If you go back and watch Cedric/Mojo from the 12/05/19 edition of Main Event you can see the moment where it happened. Just to have gone to a show and sort of "interacted" during a match with a wrestler you kinda, kinda knew, is pretty cool.
I did some really small level NFL reporting in my area in the 2010s, and his eighth girlfriend's dad owned the second franchise I announced for (they had broken up by the time I announced), and he was on several practice squads with friends of mine, but I never personally interviewed him in the NFL scene of Arizona. A good friend of mine in high school even paid for his initial trip to Green Bay, which I thought was pretty cool.
So anyway, some of this post was just to tell this story, but I might as well add some part of it to give something for folks to reply with other than, "Cool!" Has anyone here ever grown up with any workers or known them before they got big? I know we're getting to the point that early WFigs kids are old enough to be "in the business," so I'm sure I'm far from the only one. Maybe some of you knew some folks in the NFL before they got big.
I know Mojo is gone, but he hasn't been gone long, his old partner's girlfriend just got released, and his dad is probably employed, so hopefully this can remain in this board.
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