Quotable Wrestling

[Guest Alfdogg]

"He JUMPED through the window to escape! What an act of cowardice!"

 

- Bobby Heenan, following the Rockers' breakup

[MikeCampbell]

"He kicked him in the Uterus!" - Bobby Heenan

[JHawk]

WCW Power Hour, fall 1990.

 

Paul E. Dangerously: "Maybe the Black Scorpion is Saddan Hussein."

Jim Ross: "Don't you think he's a little busy right now?"

[Dan]

My all-time favorite quote about wrestling:

 

"Just look at what I do for a living. My mother worked two jobs so I could graduate from NYU. If she could see me now, working with lesbians, midgets, faggots, freaks, druggies, dirty old men and all the other types of creeps." -- Herbie Freeman, ca. 1950s

[MikeCampbell]

'You don't need music to wrestle. You need balls, big ones!' - From the movie Bodyslam

[Strummer]

The '10 Years Ago in the Observer" article today features one of my all time favorite lines.

 

Goldust (impersonating Dusty Rhodes) during his match with Bradshaw:

 

"Bump 'round fo' me boy I dun' popt' dis territory"

 

For some reason that line has stuck in my head for the last ten years and I still say it from time to time

[Dan]

“You think it's fake!? What's that? Is that fake? What the hell's wrong with you, that was an open hand slap.” --- Dr. D. David Shults, 12-28-1984

[Loss]

"Dusty Rhodes should buy a ticket to India. In India, cows are worshipped." -- Adrian Street

[JHawk]

Rob Feinstein: "Do you think Verne pushed Greg too much?"

Bobby Heenan: "I don't think he pushed him enough. He should have pushed him off a cliff."

[Bigelow34]

"Ok, Ok...I sold out...I sold out Madison Square Garden!" - Mick Foley, One Night Stand 2006

[MikeCampbell]

"Old Clint shoots those guns, brother. When I shoot a gun, someone gets pregnant! I've got a pregnant horse at home!" Roddy Piper

[Kronos]

"We're all glad that Sunny stopped working 42nd St long enough to come up here!"

 

-- Marlena, RAW 2.24.97

 

BTW, I totally dug the Rick Rude entrance that Sunny made during this segment. The more rasslin I watch, the more I realize the greatness of Rude.

[JHawk]

Jim Cornette: "I expected you to be all muscular today, Tony. I heard before the show that you were working with a dumbbell. Oh, hi David."

[Loss]

Promo quotes from a random episode of Worldwide in January of '86:

 

"The first time, the devil made me. The second time, well, that was on my own." -- Baby Doll when David Crockett asked her about her first day with Dusty Rhodes

 

"Harley Race! You're a nut! In St. Louis, I'm gonna doublecross you! If you think I'm doing a job for you, you're sadly mistaken." -- Ric Flair

[JHawk]

"He's pulling Hogan's hair out!"

Bobby Heenan: "That won't take long!"

[Guest secondcoming]

"Hey, Hudson...I see you have wavy hair...It's waving goodbye" - Scotty the Body GWF

 

or, who could forget the infamous "...AND YOUR T-SHIRTS ARE TOO TIGHT TOO, BILLY!!!" - Luger

[Guest secondcoming]

so, in the tradition of the stickied "Quotable Wrestling", and something I saw today while watching One Night Stand 95...I thought I would start this:

When quotable wrestling goes horribly wrong. Something that was said, that in retrospect ended up being really bad...

The quote I am referring to is Joey Styles calling the Tanaka/Awesome match:

 

"Suicide Dive by Mike Awesome...and its a shame he didn't succeed in taking his own life"

 

now...I understand nobody could foresee future events...but, that's pretty fucking bad

[goodhelmet]

I am going to combine this with the original thread. No need to have two.

 

As for your quote, that is down right fucked-up.

[Marty]

Heyman was apparently feeding Styles (and Foley) lines that night over the headset, so I'm assuming that one came from Heyman (due to Awesome, without a contract, going to WCW with the ECW title). It's funny, because Mike Awesome, in a shoot interview he did, said that Heyman never had any problems with him during the Alliance era, which shows you how full of shit Heyman can be.

[Guest secondcoming]

(Re: HTM vs. Steamboat for the IC Title on Superstars)

 

McMahon: "An undeserving title opportunity in my book."

Jesse: "Why?"

McMahon "I don't think he deserves it."

 

 

brilliant commentary

[Kronos]

JR and King on Backlash 2007. Melina has climbed the ropes and has Mickie hanging in the air by her neck. Lawler is questioning if that move is legal.

 

JR: "I don't think so, King. You've only been in the business 30 years. You know it's not legal to use the ropes. It wasn't legal last week or last decade."

 

King: "JR says that's not legal."

[Guest secondcoming]

JR and King on Backlash 2007. Melina has climbed the ropes and has Mickie hanging in the air by her neck. Lawler is questioning if that move is legal.

 

JR: "I don't think so, King. You've only been in the business 30 years. You know it's not legal to use the ropes. It wasn't legal last week or last decade."

 

King: "JR says that's not legal."

ha...I don't know why, but I read this twice, and both times I literally laughed out loud

[Kronos]

JR and King on Backlash 2007. Melina has climbed the ropes and has Mickie hanging in the air by her neck. Lawler is questioning if that move is legal.

 

JR: "I don't think so, King. You've only been in the business 30 years. You know it's not legal to use the ropes. It wasn't legal last week or last decade."

 

King: "JR says that's not legal."

ha...I don't know why, but I read this twice, and both times I literally laughed out loud

 

It is quite amusing. Here it is, starting about 1:20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCPxoEnBDfo. Listening back, I misquoted a bit because they say something in between the two lines. But I just love JR's tone when he admonished Lawler.

[Jkeats]

JR and King on Backlash 2007. Melina has climbed the ropes and has Mickie hanging in the air by her neck. Lawler is questioning if that move is legal.

 

JR: "I don't think so, King. You've only been in the business 30 years. You know it's not legal to use the ropes. It wasn't legal last week or last decade."

 

King: "JR says that's not legal."

ha...I don't know why, but I read this twice, and both times I literally laughed out loud

 

It is quite amusing. Here it is, starting about 1:20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCPxoEnBDfo. Listening back, I misquoted a bit because they say something in between the two lines. But I just love JR's tone when he admonished Lawler.

 

I think they way they actually say it is even funnier. Lawler's "Come on ref, JR says that's not legal" is such a great dig at Ross' admonishment.

 

On that always cracked me up and I wish I could remember which ppv or Clash it was from. Maybe a Road Wild?

 

Dusty Rhodes and Larry Zbyszko are doing the show open and Dusty blurts out: "It's so cold it'll freeze the boogers up in ya nose!"

 

...Beat

 

...Beat

 

...Beat

 

Larry: "WHAT?!?!"

[Sean Liska]

Heyman was apparently feeding Styles (and Foley) lines that night over the headset, so I'm assuming that one came from Heyman (due to Awesome, without a contract, going to WCW with the ECW title). It's funny, because Mike Awesome, in a shoot interview he did, said that Heyman never had any problems with him during the Alliance era, which shows you how full of shit Heyman can be.

Heyman could have just denied Awesome the pay day and the chance to make an impression on Vince McMahon by not booking him in a match. They didn't wrestle the type of match that Vince would like, but it was still a chance to impress on a national platform. Heck, Awesome beat Tanaka and then powerbombed a referee afterwards. He was put over as strongly as anybody on the show. I don't know if the commentary was an attempt to inject some of the real-life emotion of the old ECW into the show and create a heel in the match or if it was venting or what.