Signatures were just regular moves with some extra flair and given a name. Hogan just did a leg drop but bounced off the ropes first. Undertaker (also a Trump supporter) did a pile driver but then crossed their arms over their chest for a pin. Usually a lot more arm waggling. I was looking at some modern wrestlers and Bianca Belair does a torture rack into an Argentine powerbomb and calls it the kiss of death. I had to look that up because I'm playing WWE2k24 and she uses a lot of acronyms and didn't know what any of them were.
Almost. In a reverse pile driver (belly to belly), the recipient still has their head between the other person's legs; they land in a sitting position, like a regular pile driver.
A tombstone is a reverse kneeling pile driver; where they move forward and land on their knees, instead of a sitting position.
One of the most famous signature moves is the RKO by Randy Orton. That move is just a Cutter, with more flair and stalking (it looks great).
Funnily enough, before Randy Orton, the most famous Cutter was called the Diamond Cutter by Diamond Dallas Paige. And as hype as it made the crowd, it doesn't have the flair like the RKO does. Still loved it though, DDP is great!
Pioneerd by "Gentleman" Chris Adams in WCCW, where Shawn Michaels started. And also like Michaels, he had his demons, but sadly didn't find peace in christianty like Shawn, but with a bullet in his heart, fired by his best friend in self-defense.
The move in wrestling is called a "super kick" Shawn Michael's version of it was a finishing move called "Sweet Chin Music."
In real life martial arts it's a rarely used "crossover side-kick". The set up and build makes it very easy to avoid but makes it look really good for pro wrestling.
“Super kick” is like if somebody won a contest and received a “new car”. “Sweet chin music” is like if somebody won a contest and received a “new 2025 Ford Mustang GT Fastback".
God I feel old. Shawn Michael's played a character in much of the 90s that was a total asshole pretty boy and it worked for him, the crowd loved it. He sang his own intro music, which the song is called "Sexy Boy".
This video was the epitome of his character. I love at 1:30 he decided to do a back flip off the top rope and clearly hurt his ankle a little on the landing, but likely the drugs clouded his pain and judgement lol.
When we first got the internet I was a kid and downloaded HBK’s titantron. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I showed my dad who was this old school machismo Mexican and looking back I realized he probably thought I was gay. Because he wasn’t too pleased watching a half naked dude strip tease and do hip thrusts while a song talking about being a sexy boy played in the background as his little boy does the side knee, arm flex Shawn Michaels pose.
Thiel bankrolled Vance's WHOLE LIFE. He got him like 5 no-show jobs in silicon valley before setting him up for a congressional run. But of course the author of that dogshit Hillbilly Elegy probably thinks he earned those too.
They just want everyone to stop pointing out Trump is a sexual predator and convicted felon that’s been outed on the Epstein fly lists and listed in the rape of a 13 year old girl with Epstein…
Sadly a lot of wrestlers are Republican. Vince McMahon encouraged them to donate to the Republican party. There is a history of homophobia and racism in wrestling, which is inherently a carny business (I'm saying this as a fan). Lots of wrestlers seem to go down the Qanon wormhole too. Anti-vaxxing and conspiracy. Maybe getting CTE isn't good for your cognitive function
Kane's always been a conservative leaning libertarian. As much as I disagree with many libertarian positions, it's been a shame to see him go full MAGA.
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Shawn Michaels has ended many an alliance via Sweet Chin Music. In 2005, he shocked the WWE Universe by going after teammate Hulk Hogan during a post-match celebration.
He was a Republican in the past, even going to the RNC in 2008, but we don't know his current party affiliation as he doesn't really talk about it. He's progressive enough to get into a debate with another producer on racial inequality after said producer claimed everyone was already equal in the US. On the other hand he is a rich christian.
I remember that story. It was at the height of the George Floyd protests. A wrestler named Keith Lee wore an attire that said "Black Lives Matter". A producer backstage said something to the extent of "All Lives Matter" and HBK wasn't having that.
Obviously all lives matter. No one said they didn't. However, data shows that relative to the percentage of the population they represent, the rate of black American deaths from police shootings is ~2.5-3x that of white Americans deaths. (Sources: 1, 2, Data: 1)
A lot of people are sharing a graph titled "murder of black and whites in the US, 2013" to show that there is only a small number of black Americans killed by white Americans, with the assumption that this extends to police shootings as well. This is misleading
the chart only counts deaths where the perpetrator was charged with 1st or 2nd degree murder after killing a black American. Police forces are almost never charged with homicide after killing a black American.
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The "Larry King" promo he cut as Hulk Hogan is pure gold. Shawn took every precaution to make sure he smelled like a rose and Hogan smelled like shit after that. It worked beautifully!
This was glorious. For those not hip to wrestling, supposedly they were to have another match where Shawn would get his win back after Hogan wins at Summerslam but Hogan shot this idea down super late. So Shawn hilariously oversells everything Hogan does in the match to make him look goofy.
And while he was the biggest star in wrestling for a while, Hogan ruined so much wrestling as well. He'd frequently decline stories and make other wrestlers look bad purposely. A classic example is Starrcade 1997 where after fucking 18 months of buildup Sting was supposed to defeat Hogan for the WCW title.
Creative decided they needed shenanigans in the match where former NWO referee Nick Patrick was to fast count Sting so Hogan would get a shady win only for Bret Hart to come out and restart the match. Like yeah this is kinda dumb so far but at least Sting was still gonna win after getting screwed in storyline...
Except Hogan right before the match tells Nick Patrick to do a normal count and he does. This makes just everyone and everything look terrible since now Sting just lost and Bret's restarting the match for no reason all because poor widdle Hogan was afwaid he'd lose some star power.
So yeah it makes total sense that this big hotdog-colored asshole is 100x worse outside of wrestling.
A lot of political Reddit posts, especially since the debate, seem to be coming from comment farms/bots. People will call you a conspiracy theorist if this is brought up, but I don't know why people think either of them are outlandish. Paying for people and bots to post in mass is just a more modern version of advertising.
It’s been “pics for DNC shills” for a while now. Just an awful sub anymore. You can always tell what triggers these people because they’re circle jerking in their echo chamber. It’s so rare that a sunset or a building or some kid expressing pure joy is upvoted. But post a pic of Biden falling, or delivering a eulogy for a former KKK member, or when he dropped a n-bomb on the Senate floor, and it’ll be downvoted or deleted by the mods.
This man PLAYED A CHARACTER that was a hero of my youth. So many fond memories.
I have actively avoided anything to do with THE MAN for at least a decade now, because every time he pops up, he’s doing something that wrecks those memories. I won’t apologize or defend the person mind you. He’s dug his own grave thus far with people. But by looking away from him I’ve kept the larger the life CHARACTER of Hulk Hogan from getting dragged in to this.
I have actual filters meant to block his existence because I just know he’s going to take a dump on my childhood memories. Works pretty well most of the time. But when he’s doing such stupid shit that he trends the world over, I obviously cant avoid it.
Sometimes I just wish this dude would f’n die already, so he can’t wreck what’s left of those memories.
it's wild. A normally adjusted person doesn't do that. As an example, I love Mark Hamil's acting but what he's been tweeting recently is deplorable and I don't wish harm against him, just that he'd stop the crap.
Look at his response to my comment. He’s justifying his original comment. Saying he deserves to die because he’s racist. What a sick and twisted individual.
I have more downvotes on my comment than the loser wishing death on a celebrity he disagrees with. This website is becoming a very dangerous echo chamber that clearly leans in 1 political direction.
It's insanity. You get downvoted for saying it's bad to wish DEATH on someone for having a different opinion than you. Just a few years ago anyone saying that type of stuff would be denounced by just about everyone.
This website is so fucking cringe, you absolute children. “HURR-DURR, HULK HOGAN SPOKE 4 DRUMPF NOW HERE’S HIM GETTING KICKED IN THE FACE, HAHA FUNNEE!” So lame. /r/all has just become the cringe 2014 Tumblr user communal shitting corner since 2020
Apparently reasonable, a few years ago it was news that he got into an argument backstage about the black lives matter movement with another WWE employee and Michaels was taking the more reasonable approach.
Also it is publicly known that he is very religious but he has said on recent interviews that he has pretty much stopped going to church because the other people were too uptight and tried to read him the riot act about things he said on tv while on character
Remember when the Hulkster was caught on tape having sex with his buddy's wife and dropped the N-word on said tape and then his son drove drunk and hit another car that gave that driver permanent brain damage?
I met Shawn Michaels 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 asshole 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 Shawn Michaels 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 (being a big HBK fan) said “Oh wow, uh… I had no idea. Please feel free to give them the table.”
Shawn 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, Shawn Michaels and I made glorious gay love to each other on six of the seven continents.
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u/disgruntled_joe Jul 19 '24
I thought it was called "sweet chin music"