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Showing posts with label wrestling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wrestling. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

"The Greatest Drunk on Earth" by Richard English - Modern Drunkard

Another Poop Read must read. My boy Mess asked me today who I thought held the record for drinking the most beers ever in one day. My initial guess was that it had to be some Eastern European cat because all of those people are crazy and drunk. But I think if you gave me a little time I probably could have figured out the correct "real" answer: Andre the Giant. 7'4" 487 pounds, and the man drank like a fish. Fuck it the man drank like a whale. A blue whale. Here's the story of the time he drank 119 beers in six hours. That's three beers a minute ... for six fucking hours. How many times did he piss? No wonder that dude's dead.

http://www.drunkard.com/issues/10_06/10_06_andre_giant.html

Thursday, August 25, 2011

"The Wrestler in Real Life" by Shane Ryan - Grantland.com

I can not tell a lie. Today the internet came kind of soft. This piece on how complete a fuck-up Ric Flair is was the best I could find, and it's more of a chronology of his white-trash life than anything else. Dude has had the cops called for domestic violence with three different wives. Because they were beating him up. One, creatively, with a cellphone charger, which if you think about it, would probably really fucking hurt.

This whole pro-wrestler-as-complete-degenerate thing is weird. Why are they all so fucked? I guess because they're roided out, white trash who are always on the road? Kind of like small-time rockstars with big muscles and a whole hell of a lot more to prove? Shit who knows? The Nature Boy done fucked up though. WWOOOOOOO!!!! (how's this guy still alive?)


p.s. He is still alive right? I didn't finish the article.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

"GQ Q&A with C.M. Punk" by Tom Breihan - GQ.com

Pro wrestling is still a thing huh? Who watches it? I honestly think my boy Glennzo might be keeping the WWE afloat and that's only because he lives in Nebraska and has nothing else to do.

This guy C.M. Punk is all over the place now. Simmons wrote about him the other day, and now he's getting interviewed by GQ, so I assume he is poised to become relevant outside of the ring somehow. Shrug. Figured you guys might like it. I never got into wrestling because I wasn't allowed to watch it as a kid. But I wasn't allowed to watch Punky Brewster either so what do I know?

I will say this, the article mentions that this dude has female wrestler Beth Phoenix "lounging" on his couch in his Chicago loft. Sounds kind of hot. Then I googled Beth Phoenix. Chicks is balls. If she was on my high school football team she would have been the biggest dude there. Granted we sucked, but still.


p.s. How weird is Punky Brewster as a banned show to watch when you're a kid? Married with Children, The Simpsons, WWF, and Punky Brewster. Might as well have banned me from watching Small Wonder.