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@allan_cheapshot
Sep 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
If you're a pro wrestling fan and the only pro wrestling history you've learned is via WWE produced documentary then you should literally question everything about what you know.
Where should we start?

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Or the one where Vince could pay back the loan to buy the WWF directly from the profits WWF was making.
The last tweet was the truth to and true colour to the Vince "was up against it from day one" rubbish that's span.

I'll hand it over to you guys. What are some WWE narratives that are completely untrue.

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May 6
A follow-up to the WWE pay-cut thread, because the company-side defence now being discussed deserves a more serious answer the outrage I've noticed. The argument is that some talent work far fewer dates than when older deals were signed, so WWE sees the old number differently. 🧵
That argument is not absurd. Fewer house shows mean fewer bumps, fewer flights, fewer rental cars, fewer hotels, fewer nights away, and less money spent getting from one town to another. For many wrestlers, that schedule change may be a genuine improvement.
WWE talent have traditionally carried more of that burden than fans realise. Flights are generally the exception. Hotels, rental cars, food, gear and other self-presentation costs have often sat with the wrestler.
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May 5
The WWE pay-cut story is not best understood as a morality play about greed, or a simple test of whether talent should walk away. It is a story about bargaining power: who has it, who thinks they have it, and who discovers the contract was not the real protection. 🧵
Reports say a number of WWE people have been asked to accept cuts, with one “pretty majorly pushed” talent reportedly asked to take 50 percent less. New Day reportedly declined restructuring and left, others accepted reduced terms.
Roman Reigns-level names were not being asked. The pressure seems to fall on the expensive middle: known enough to cost money, not central enough to be protected.
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Feb 17, 2024
How do you beat a drunken giant? You don't.

In one of the strangest REAL moments in Pro Wrestling history, a drunken André showed what happens when you don't want to cooperate with your opponent. Andre the Giant vs. Akira Maeda - The match that turned in to a shoot. [thread] 🧵
André's opponent, Akira Maeda, was a true tough guy. Akira would often compete in worked MMA styled bouts. (This was in 1986; long before MMA became popular.)
In Japan, pro wrestling can be taken seriously. At the time, "American style" pro wrestling was considered a lesser form of entertainment.
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Dec 27, 2023
#OnThisDay in 1987: Big Van Vader made his NJPW debut by virtually killing Antonio Inoki dead, defeating him in three mins.

Fans at Sumo Hall were NOT HAPPY. They rioted. As a result, New Japan was banned from running events in Sumo Hall for over a year. [mini thread] 🧵
And yet when he was in AWA they wouldn't let him beat Greg Gagne. This shows how NJPW were forward thinking about creating a new monster heel, where, AWA weren't, and thus eventually died.
Leon White wasn't the first choice for the Vader gimmick. That was Sid Vicious. He wasn't their second choice either; that was the Ultimate Warrior. Leon was actually set to debut for New Japan rival All Japan, but NJPW worked out a deal and snatched him away for themselves
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Nov 15, 2023
Today would’ve been the 71st birthday of Randy Mario Poffo, best known to wrestling fans as Randy "Macho Man" Savage. [Thread] 🧵 Image
Born in Columbus, Ohio to an Italian-American father in Angelo and Jewish mother in Judy, Poffo had athletics in his family: his father was a well-known wrestler in the 1950s and 1960s and was featured on Ripley's Believe it or Not! for his ability to do lots and lots of situps.

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Randy was in the St. Louis Cardinals' minor league system for four seasons. In between his third and fourth seasons in baseball, Poffo wrestled, breaking into the business in 1973 as "The Spider", based off the popular comic book character Spider-Man.


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Aug 20, 2023
THE QUESTION: WHAT IS THE BASIC APPEAL BEHIND PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING?

Answers are from 1955: 🧵 Image
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"Pro wrestling is a hippodrome, with the grunts and groans of the wrestlers and the shrieks of the spectators to give it stark reality. It's a great show that fascinates its fans, rough enough to seem authentic and funny enough to amuse....."
".... It's comedy and drama, with the laughs following hysteria."
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