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voodoo · Jul 2, 2006, 10:42 PM

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...pe%3Asv_movies

A documentary on backyard wrestling from various places in the US offered free on Google video. It isn't very well done or all that interesting, because it lacks a point and depth, but it is a door-to-door view of so called 'backyard wrestling' that seems to be found all over the US.

Basically this is six to twenty-six year-olds performing *fantastically* stupid stunts. These kids are repressed, stupid, retarded or all of the above. They are dumb, talentless and yet many have dreams of becoming pro-wrestlers.

All they are doing is hitting each-other with light-rods, throwing themselves on tacks and barbed-wire, setting themselves on fire and generally doing stupid and dangerous stunts for a crowd that is sometimes nothing more than their moms, girlfriends and the random person who happens to be walking by. Wheee.

Am I shocked? Nope. This just makes me roll my eyes all the way back to stare at my frontal lobes. Especially when I listened to one kid declaring that people who couldn't take pain were fags and that he was so cool because he could fall on thumb-tacks like the hombre he is.

They even have some parents endorsing them, although only some. Most are, unlike their offspring, quite normal and concerned and probably wondering what they did wrong in the upbringing of that furure-nominee of the Darwin awards.

Wikipedia has some info on this phenomena: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_wrestling

Their mom helps out setting up the match between these two brothers. Cute.

For the less adventurous kiddies - or to get new ideas, there's always Bakcyard Wrestling - the video game.

Damn these kids are dumb.

V

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jul 2, 2006, 10:46 PM

It's like watching retarded, redneck, primates.

Kevin · Jul 2, 2006, 11:12 PM

Next thing you know, they will be sodomizing each other.

Shawn Grimes · Jul 2, 2006, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Next thing you know, they will be sodomizing each other.

I guess you haven't seen volume six of this grotesque behaviour

Kevin · Jul 2, 2006, 11:28 PM

No I can't say I have.

Kerrigan · Jul 2, 2006, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Next thing you know, they will be sodomizing each other.

Saturday night's alright for fightin, get a little action in.

Kevin · Jul 3, 2006, 12:08 AM

It's Sunday night.

Landos Mustache · Jul 3, 2006, 12:13 AM

I still don't get why wrestling is so popular. It is so obviously fake and receptive. When you see the audience on TV they all look like retarded cavemen.

the US sure loves it fake wrestling.

Kevin · Jul 3, 2006, 12:22 AM

Not just the US. Canada loves itself some backyard wrastlin too!

http://www.safety-council.org/info/sport/wrestling.html

Admired by his young male fans for his technical abilities in the squared circle, Benoit is disturbed by the emergence of hundreds of backyard and basement wrestling federations in Canada and the United States that find adolescent and young adult gladiators attempting to replicate the moves they see their pro-wrestling heroes perform.

Kerrigan · Jul 3, 2006, 12:24 AM

Originally Posted by Kevin

It's Sunday night.

NOoo! It's Saturday Night, silly!

invisibleX · Jul 3, 2006, 12:28 AM

Most tv is "fake". Some take it for the entertainment it is.

Not that I can see how semi-nude oiled up men would appeal to anyone. Well, almost anyone.

Landos Mustache · Jul 3, 2006, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by invisibleX

Most tv is "fake". Some take it for the entertainment it is.

Not that I can see how semi-nude oiled up men would appeal to anyone. Well, almost anyone.

None of them are appealing. They usually have white trash mullets and are balding. All the muscles and oil in the world are not going to help with that.

Kerrigan · Jul 3, 2006, 12:45 AM

What's even funnier is when these pro wrestlers hire a ghost writer and release their own book. Like we're expected to believe that these guys, who have never even read a book, can write 400 pages of publishable content.

invisibleX · Jul 3, 2006, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

None of them are appealing. They usually have white trash mullets and are balding. All the muscles and oil in the world are not going to help with that.

Might appeal to some. Three words: Lonely gay redneck.

Landos Mustache · Jul 3, 2006, 12:56 AM

Originally Posted by invisibleX

Might appeal to some. Three words: Lonely gay redneck.

I can't even imagine rednecks finding other rednecks attractive.

- - e r i k - - · Jul 3, 2006, 12:58 AM

Am I getting old? I hate the Jackass generation already.

Kevin · Jul 3, 2006, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by invisibleX

Might appeal to some. Three words: Lonely gay redneck.

Rednecks don't exist in Canada. Just ask SWG.

Oh wait, yes they do!

http://www.safety-council.org/info/sport/wrestling.html

Landos Mustache · Jul 3, 2006, 12:47 PM

Well we might as well give these rednecks something to do so they stop chasing around their attractive cousins.

yakkiebah · Jul 3, 2006, 03:33 PM

Rednecks? These guys are more like skat0r-mtv-metal-punks-whateva types.

smacintush · Jul 3, 2006, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by yakkiebah

Rednecks? These guys are more like skat0r-mtv-metal-punks-whateva types.

I guess you didn't see that family at the beginning or "The Lizard"…

voodoo · Jul 3, 2006, 03:39 PM

Rednecks... probably some, but these are kids from all over. From California, through the bible-belt and to the east coast. They exist even in the UK as demonstrated in the movie and probably more places.

That doesn't change the fact that this is *so* stupid (and clearly most popular in the US by a *wide* margin)

V

yakkiebah · Jul 3, 2006, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by smacintush

I guess you didn't see that family at the beginning or "The Lizard"…

I guess you didn't see the rest of it.

ort888 · Jul 3, 2006, 03:40 PM

This was the subject of a recent Onion podcast...

"Backyard Wrestling Turns Out To Be Self-Correcting Problem"

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49618

Jul 3, 2006, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

What's even funnier is when these pro wrestlers hire a ghost writer and release their own book. Like we're expected to believe that these guys, who have never even read a book, can write 400 pages of publishable content.

I believe the wrestler Junkyard Dog (mid-1980s) had a Ph.D. in psychology. When asked why he was a wrestler, he simply said "I make more money being a wrestler." I'm sure he's not alone.

Kerrigan · Jul 3, 2006, 05:04 PM

And what wrestling book did he write?

Kevin · Jul 3, 2006, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

(and clearly most popular in the US by a *wide* margin)

Peter · Jul 3, 2006, 06:46 PM

there was a documentry in the UK about this a few years ago too. Retarded.

nredman · Jul 3, 2006, 07:41 PM

i have never watched "Backyard" wrestling before - i watch pro wrestling from time to time but mostly for the drama and entertainment, not for the wrestling

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jul 3, 2006, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by nredman

i have never watched "Backyard" wrestling before - i watch pro wrestling from time to time but mostly for the drama and entertainment, not for the wrestling

Don't you find it repetitive though? I mean how often can you watch someone run from backstage into the ring and whack another guy with a folding chair with the announcers saying "I can't believe what I am seeing"?

Judge_Fire · Jul 4, 2006, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

the US sure loves it fake wrestling.

Hey, they do world tours, too. I noticed Smacktown was in town some time ago

J

kaze0 · Jul 5, 2006, 02:47 PM

Wow. This is the most one sided thread I've ever seen. What's wrong with backyard wrestling? It's the same thing as donig a play. They aren't reallllly trying to kill eachother.

Landos Mustache · Jul 5, 2006, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by kaze0

Wow. This is the most one sided thread I've ever seen. What's wrong with backyard wrestling? It's the same thing as donig a play. They aren't reallllly trying to kill eachother.

Donig a play?

Hit your head wrestling?

Gossamer · Jul 5, 2006, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by kaze0

Wow. This is the most one sided thread I've ever seen. What's wrong with backyard wrestling? It's the same thing as donig a play. They aren't reallllly trying to kill eachother.

Did you watch the video at all? Kids were hitting each other fairly hard with barbed wire baseball bats, smashing each other onto barbed wire-covered sheets of plywood, and other stupid stunts. They had cuts and sores all over, after the matches they would quite often be bleeding a lot.
Last time I was in a play I didn't see any of that happening. Maybe this thread is one sided because we're on the right side.

voodoo · Jul 5, 2006, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Backyard wrestling is as stupid as it is popular in the US. It is very very stupid.

V

Landos Mustache · Jul 5, 2006, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

Backyard wrestling is as stupid as it is popular in the US. It is very very stupid.

V

I think boxing is equally stupid. Not fake and white trashy like wrestling but stupid overall. Even the boxers are the dumbest things on earth from all those head injuries.

Gossamer · Jul 5, 2006, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

I think boxing is equally stupid. Not fake and white trashy like wrestling but stupid overall. Even the boxers are the dumbest things on earth from all those head injuries.

I never found boxing very entertaining, it's kind of boring minus the four good hits per round, from what I've seen.

nredman · Jul 5, 2006, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Don't you find it repetitive though? I mean how often can you watch someone run from backstage into the ring and whack another guy with a folding chair with the announcers saying "I can't believe what I am seeing"?

yes it is repetitive - but sometimes they come up with some funny stuff....at least its funny to me. i maybe catch a few minutes once or twice a month.