There's a retarded pro wrestler now?

I don't get it . . .

The professional wrestler is retarded . . . what, exactly, is supposed to be the gimmick?

Ya they introduced him like 4 months ago as bichoff's mentally challenged nephew, his promos are like Brick from Anchorman in that they are semi-coherent but obviously out of place. He wrestles normally but steals everyone else's moves. He's a crowd favorite and gets applause most of the time, nobody seems to have complained too much so Vince hasnt had to pull him off the air....

I hate Triple H

Wrestling has fallen so far in the last couple of years. I remember when people (like me) could admit they liked wrestling in public. The WWE fuckin' sucks, and NWA:TNA just feels like WCW lite. RIP ECW.

F.T.W. Kid

There is a retarded pro-wrestler: all of them.

His move set is basically the airplane spin, the Stunner, Rock Bottom, and an imitation of lifting his leg and pissing on the opponent when they are down on the mat. He's the current tag team champ on RAW, but I think he messed up his knee at a recent PPV.

Randy Savage already used the retard gimmick years ago.

Actually, his in ring routine is pretty similar to Hulk Hogan's old one.

Does anyone think it's kind offensive that they would use a gimmick like this, I feel sorry for this guy who has to go out every night in front of a crowd and act like a retard, they already have Triple H.

Is this really more offensive than all the asians who can't speak english? The current arab-american angle vince is trying to draw heat from? or fuck for those who don't know they had a NECROPHILIA angle last summer? not to mention Lita losing a baby, the gay angle and so on....

I remember when they're used to be The Warrior (or was it 'Ultimate' warrior?), Earthquake, The Undertaker (the original tall dude who never spoke), British Bulldog, and these two twins who were grungy, and a bunch of other personalities in American wrestling's heyday. It used to be fun, for a kid anyway. I stopped watching after 14 years of age.

A retarded wrestler comes as no surprise, but still...disappointing.

As posted elsewhere, Nick Dinsmore's a good worker making the best out of a shitty, shitty gimmick.

Finally, someone for the fans to identify with.

I concur.

Hey, I've got a joke for you. A priest and a rabbi walk into a bar. Fuck off.

Hey, it's that unfunny guy.

It just so happens to be my wrestling gimmick.

True. I haven't been paying much attention to wrestling but when I do catch it some of the angles they're doing are just pathetic.

I have a theory: He will quit being a retard at some point. Someone will piledrive his head into some stairs or hit him over the head with a chair, and he will be a regular guy. Mostly I think so because the retard shtick is a bit offensive and it gets old really quick.

I mean... not that I would watch wrestling...

C'mon, now, Lita losing the baby- that's a CLASSIC angle, retold through out the years. We were all just wondering when exactly she was going to take her abortion bump, yeah Snitsky's a generic, not-so-talented, but-oddly-charismatic, by-God-Vince-loves-him-a-hoss big man, but some of that It's Not My Fault stuff was gold. Especially when he punted the baby into the crowd. Genius, I tell you.

Or he'll become a super genius.

Wasn't George The Animal Steel the original retarded wrestler?

Tell that to the Bushwackers.

Kinda. He wasn't "special", like Eugene. He was just...bizaare. BTW, George Steele was actually a teacher and coach at a high school in Michigan. Wrestling was a part-time thing for him.

Speaking of retarded wrestlers, did they ever give an explanation for Kane's face magically not having horrible burn scars? I don't watch for ages and the next thing I know, Kane is walking around with a shaved head and no mask. Tired of pulling the "OMG, it's not Kane, it's UNDERTAKER!!!" switcheroo?

He looks like the comedian who plays Doug's nephew on King of Queens. With a fro.

I think it was a case of "the scars are mental rather than physical" or some such horseshit. When they first took the mask off of Kane, his face looked more like he'd been cleaning a not especially dirty chimney. Then they gave up with that.

As for Eugene, the guy who IS Eugene, Nick something or other, is out for a few months now. At the PPV a couple of weeks back, he ruptured a tendon in his knee. He dislocted his kneecap, but finished the match. They popped the kneecap back in, figuring that was it, but he'd done further damage. It's ironic that in the very next match, Lita blew out her ACL in her knee.

I miss ECW. Currently "acquiring" a bunch of old ECW PPV's off the net. (Fuck paying $50 per DVD.) Also getting hold of ome Japanese stuff, ROH, CZW etc...

Fuck WWE and they're bullshit. McMahon is clueless and needs to be killed. As does Steph, And her husband. I think we might spare Shane though.

Ultimate fix: Fire all the asshat comedy and drama writers they currently have, and put Heyman in charge with an ECW ethos of letting the wrestlers have some creative input.

Like that'll ever happen. I'll stick to my non-crap feds.

Yeah, the guy who was head writer at the time was a huge comic book fan, and he basically cribbed the Dr. Doom story to write that storyline. Well, except for the necrophelia, of course.

Go, Ring Of Honor!

Ultimate fix: Fire all the asshat comedy and drama writers they currently have, and put Heyman in charge with an ECW ethos of letting the wrestlers have some creative input.

He actually had a booking job on Smackdown, but fucked that up when he was caught listening in on confrence calls he wasn't invited to be part of.

Pro wrestling is coming up with new ways to identify with viewers all the time.

Oh ho! A zinger about fans of pro wrestling being retarded. My, how that joke never gets tired. Someone, quick, tell it again! Quickly now, before it gets stale.

Pro wrestling is coming up with new ways to identify with viewers all the time.

I didn't think it was that funny, but what the hey.

No one likes to be made fun of, but the next time you're at a live event, regardless of the promotion, take a good hard look around. It's not exactly a brain trust.

I used to watch wrestling back in the day of DX vs The Corporation. That was good stuff. Then they took down DX and the whole "McMahon-Helmsly Regime" came into play and it all turned to shit. Only thing saving it was Mankind. Not Mick Foley... Mankind. Then he lost the crazy mask and got "fired", and WCW got bought out, and its been unsavable since.

I still do the Bushwhackers walk. Not on purpose, of course.

No, ECW going under was the final nail in the coffin.

I will never call it WWE.

Sounds wrong.

It lost my interest when WCW got bought out and it became like EA with football. A goddamn monopoly.

Call it what you want, its gonna be what it is. Entertainment reflects that fact that the compnay was never about the wrestling anyway- its always been about the spectacle. Not that great matches haven't come out of Stamford.

ECW going under was not the final nail in the coffin- there was a slim, slight chance that when WCW commited suicide, maybe Paulie could've gotten his shit together, found a boatload of cash, kept everyone paid and happy, brought some of his big talent back in to the fold, landed a decent TV deal, maybe, you could've had a competitor. That's a lot of ifs and maybes.

WCW collapsing in on itself is the primary reason wrestling is where it is now.

The boom of the late 90's was an aberration.

I've heard about this. Does anyone have a link to someplace I can see the promo clip itself?