241 points

This is a factually accurate meme lol! He ratted out Jesse “The Body” Ventura for trying to start a wrestlers union way back in 1986!

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Iirc Macho Man Randy Savage was also instrumental to unionization efforts and the company turned him heel for it. The result? Everyone loved Macho Man Randy Savage as a heel more than they ever loved him as a face. There’s something extremely relatable to all of us about a guy who tries to speak up about injustice but doesn’t get the traction and has to go back to making the magic our companies don’t deserve

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57 points

Better to be a heel than a scab.

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Macho Man was just plain likable all the time. He always cut the greatest promos, had an ego larger than life, and he’s one of the best things about the Raimi Spider-Man movies. Anytime I think of the wrestling greats, I think of Randy Savage.

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9 points

When we were kids my brother and I met him once at a mini golf course in Florida. He was very nice even though we were assholes interrupting his family time.

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4 points

Ooooh yeah!

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19 points

Macho Man also released a diss track about Hulk Hogan.

A little tangential but how often do you get a chance to reference this?

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7 points

Randy Savage started his WWF career as a heel. Initially, he didn’t have a manager, so a bunch of heel managers would attend his squash matches and marvel at how amazing he was ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIXztSSNr0 ). Then after a few matches and promos, he finally announced that he had chosen a manager: Miss Elizabeth ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_G1iMUbbBs ) (In reality, I’m pretty sure he and Elizabeth were a package deal; she would be slated to be his manager/valet before he came to the WWF)

He definitely seemed like a good, genuine dude and someone that was good at most every aspect of pro wrestling (maybe not as technical as Brett Hart, but who is?) regardless, though.

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29 points

I heard that story as part of the Behind the Bastards series on Vince McMahon. It was an excellent and very entertaining four- or five-episode series.

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8 points

Did not know there was a BtB about Vince McMahon. I’ll have to check that out

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four- or five-episode series.

It was six episodes. That’s how much was needed to cover how much of a piece of shit Vince is.

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2 points

That one and G Gordon Liddy. I especially liked in one of the later Liddy episodes where he said he doesn’t like doing more than 3 or 4 because it gets monotonous, but that Liddy’s life was so bonkers that he just couldn’t decide what to cut!

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6 points

What a little bitch.

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130 points

To add to the fire also a; Wife beater and racist.

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60 points

and a compulsive liar

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55 points

So, ticks all the boxes to be a conservative role model

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28 points

The original Orange Man, if you will.

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24 points

Wait, you mean he wasn’t going to be the original bass player for Metallica??? Lol

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0 points

Don’t forget cheater. Sex tape.

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1 point

Oh fuck. I forgot about Thiel helping him. No wonder he supports Trump. A damn circle.

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117 points

Why does Trump have so many d list celebs promoting him? They are all so old and irrelevant and just trying to grasp at the spot light once more. They don’t care about him. They just desperately want to be recognized once more

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60 points

I think you just asked a question and then immediately answered it

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30 points

Sometimes i gotta type/ write it out to make it make sense

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33 points

Because the C+ List celebs won’t touch weird creepy Donald Trump!

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29 points

You also have to consider the audience Trump is trying to please. Who is going to pull more people? Steve Mnuchin talking about Trump glowingly or a clown wrestler that Trump’s fans remember as a childhood hero backing their pick?

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10 points

Let’s also remember that Trump literally wrestled in WWE.

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Well, he didn’t wrestle, he had bobby lashley as his proxy then gave Vince McMahon a hair cut, buuuut, Trump is in the WWE Hall Of Fame.

He did clothesline Vince lol.

And just to make me feel better, here’s Stone Cold giving Trump a Stunner

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4 points

He didn’t wrestle, he did a few shitty spots with his friend and fellow rapist Vince.

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True. That was my peak wrestling watching era.

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1 point

Excellent place to pick up on the skills to stealthily cut one’s ear during an exciting performance.

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7 points

How many of them got on Epstein’s plane?

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2 points

Reminder that Trump himself is in photos with Epstein.

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4 points

I think a lot of has beens hitch onto whatever they think will pull them back into the spotlight. Trump is easily manipulated like that. Compliment him and if he retreats you, you’ve got a million new followers

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I mean, Hulk isn’t exactly a d-lister. The guy still gets huge pops at wrestling shows. It’s more that he’s absolutely trashed his rep with younger people by constantly being a disgusting piece of shit.

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0 points

At wrestling shows being the key. You can’t get better than a D-lister if you only perform in D-list entertainment.

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4 points

I think you might be seriously underestimating how big a deal wrestling still is in America. We’re not in the glory days of the eighties anymore but it’s still capable of catapulting people like John Cena to mega stardom. Cody Rhodes has barely been back in WWE for a year, and he’s already been added to Call of Duty: Warzone. AEW is the baby brother to WWE and they’re now regularly selling out Wembley Stadium. None of that is small time.

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Damn that would hurt Hogan’s feelings to be called D list. That dude can sell out the Astro done. I saw him vs the Rock at Skydome and it was one of the most epic crowds and crowd reactions I’ve ever witnessed. The guy is a piece of shit, but as an entertainer he was top tier. Billions of fans at his peak.

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You need to calm down. I haven’t watched wrestling in 20 years and hate the guy as a person. I’m just pointing out a fact and you’re foaming at the mouth

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When the world seems full of Hogans, look to the Andre the giants instead. Edit: Oh and throw them off hell in a cell, plummeting 16ft through an announcer’s table

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I would, but the Hogans are plentiful and thriving, while the Andre the Giants of the world are either dead or being threatened by the Hogans.

Evil wins daily. We live in a world where “evil” has profoundly established itself as the leading paradigm for all of humanity, and all of us lost a long time ago, sometimes before being born.

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5 points

The world isn’t static and losses can be won again.

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45 points

Fuck that hotdog colored pieces of trash. No clearer proof of there being no god then every time that traitor carney draws breath.

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8 points

I mean yeah he’s totally a carny but don’t hate on carnies, they’re all carnies.

Actually come to think of it, I think most politicians are pretty much carnies at this point.

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6 points

Going from town to town… Dishonest with the locals… Try to get as much money as they can… Hmmmmm

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7 points

Smell like cabbage…

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Many. I don’t think most.

But many, and there are DEFINITELY the RUBES - carnies and rubes were made for each other.

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