home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- ³US Pro Wrestling²
- ----------------¹
-
- The sport of Pro Wrestling has become
- very popular in recent years. There
- are two main federations - the WWF and
- the WCW (formerly NWA). Both of these
- federations have their pros and cons.
- The WWF has loads of shitty gimmicks,
- for example they give their wrestlers
- crappy names and personas such as 'The
- Undertaker' and 'I. R. S.' (initials
- for the American Tax Dept.). Most of
- these wrestlers have moves which have
- something to do with their gimmick -
- I. R. S. has 'The Writeoff' and
- Undertaker has 'The Tombstone'. Also
- the WWF often stages plainly fake
- publicity stunts such as the Ultimate
- Warrior getting bitten by a snake which
- was so obviously plastic. They really
- hype up these events.
-
- Many WWF wrestlers used to wrestle in
- the WCW. For example, the Undertaker
- was Mean Mark Callous in the WCW and
- Sid Justice who everyone reckons is
- soooo good was known as Sid Vicious and
- was beaten in 2 minutes 30 seconds by
- the 7' 7" El Gigante. They come to the
- WWF for the better money it offers as
- more people (thick American brats)
- watch WWF than WCW.
-
- The World Champion of the WWF is Hulk
- Hogan. The Intercontinental champion
- is Bret Hart and the tag team champions
- are the 'The Legion Of Doom'. For
- those of you who do not know what a tag
- team is it is two wrestlers wrestling
- as a team against another two
- wrestlers.
-
- In the WCW, the World Champ is Ric
- Flair, the US Champ is Lex Luger and
- the Tag champs are the Steiner Brothers
- (probably the best tag team in the
- world). WCW's wrestling superiority
- over the WWF is best indicated by the
- way in which the Steiners humiliated
- the former WWF champs The Nasty Boys
- when they were in the WCW.
-
- There are basically two types of
- wrestlers - ones who rely on strength
- and ones who rely on skill and speed.
- Examples of strength (or power)
- wrestlers are Lex Luger, Hulk Hogan,
- Sid Justice/Vicious, Ultimate Warrior,
- Earthquake and The Warlord. Examples
- of skill/speed wrestlers are Ricky 'The
- Dragon' Steamboat, Ric Flair, Bret 'The
- Hitman' Hart, Mr. Perfect, Sting and
- The Rockers tag team. You do of course
- get mixtures of skill and power such as
- the Steiners, Lex Luger and Davy Boy
- Smith (The British Bulldog).
-
- There are however, problems with
- wrestling on TV. It is usually only on
- Satelite TV such as BSkyB and generally
- all you see is WWF. WCW is only on for
- an hour or two a week. Also, WWF
- matches are usually all good,
- established wrestlers against beginners
- or preliminaries as they are
- known. These matches tend to be short
- and boring with the prelims getting the
- shit kicked out of them. An exception
- to this is the Supercards, like the cup
- finals in Football. These take place 3
- or 4 times a year and have names such
- as Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble, Great
- American Bash and Summerslam. This is
- where top class matches are to be seen.
-
- Wrestling fans are crazy. They wear
- T-shirts with their favourite wrestlers
- on them, have wrestling bed covers,
- hats, lunch boxes, pants (shock the
- skids into submission), toliet roll
- (wipe your arse on your most hated
- wrestler) and anything else that'll
- sell. Part of the reason they love
- their sport so much is that wrestling,
- like no other sport, has Goodies (yay!)
- and Baddies (boo!). Sometimes a baddie
- becomes a goodie (yay!) but sometimes a
- goodie becomes a baddie (b.. - oh fuck
- it). These goodies are known as 'fan
- favourites' (because that's what they
- are) whilst the baddies are known as
- 'rulebreakers' (because that's what
- they do). Sometimes a rulebreaker will
- attack a fan favourite when he's not
- expecting it and a feud will start.
- The wrestlers will have match after
- match until a winner emerges. The
- loser crawls into a corner and cries.
-
- Some of you may have heard that there
- is going to be a wrestling game on the
- Amiga by Ocean. A conversion of WWF
- Wrestling in the arcades. Well, this
- is a pretty shit wrestling game. If
- you want to play a good one check out
- Taito's World Wrestling in the arcades,
- it's bloody excellent (and will someone
- please convert it???). Wrestlefest is
- a new wrestling arcade game that I
- haven't yet played but it sounds pretty
- cool.
-
- Well, to finish this article I'll give
- you some of my favourite matches:
-
- Hulk Hogan vs Ultimate Warrior -
- Wrestlemania 6
- Ric Flair vs Rick Steamboat
- Rick Steamboat vs Macho Man
- Randy Savage - Wrestlemania 3
- Steiners vs Lex Luger & Sting -
- Starcade '91
- Macho Man Randy Savage vs Ultimate
- Warrior - Wrestlemania 7
- Hulk Hogan vs King Kong Bundy -
- Wrestlemania 2
-
- If ya like this article and would like
- to see another, send in some
- suggestions - my address is in the ads
- section.
-
- Well, see ya later. And remember, if a
- lamer gets in your way at the video
- store - clothesline him!
-
- Stop Press! Summerslam has been and
- gone. Bret Hart beat Mr. Perfect for
- the Intercontinental belt, The LOD beat
- the Nasty Boys for the tag belts and
- Hogan & Warrior (yet again) beat Sgt.
- Slaughter & co. But typical WWF, there
- was a wedding ceremony (!) at the end,
- which was a load of old ....
-
- ³ written by Chris Powell
-