@GeekingForJesus One should hope. His career was over shortly after this though, and he was replaced by newer, equally inexperienced wrestlers who might do the same thing. What needs to change is the surrounding culture. Hopefully at least their managers have changed based on the incident to discourage that crap though.
@phambo101 Well he wasn't really doing anything I'd call "messing with him." I mean, what do you mean messing? Talking to? Should people not go near them because wrestlers should be expected to be dangerous morons? No, I'd like to think of wrestling as a noble performance art.
The reporter didn't tell the wrestler he was a bitch or that he was weaker than the reporter. He just said, "I think it's fake," then turned the mic over to the wrestler for response. The wrestler should refuted him.
ROFL of course its fake, they get hurt or injure only when they fuckt up a move, whos going to win or lose its already aranged from weeks ago, also seriously? Dont you see them when their fighting, they move so slow ahahaha XD and wheb they push each other to the ring why the hell do they run back to get stumped lol, its just stuopid
I don't care how big he was, way to much rage and narcissism coming from that big boy. I'd be throwin punches right after the first slap. I wouldn't even care if I got the shit literally kicked out of me, it's the principle of not backing down in the face of adversity, dumb reporter, he prolly hit you cause you disrespected him.
@CombatMedicBuddy Well the reporter didn't disrespect him, he asked him a legitimate question and gave him a chance to respond.
Also, if the much smaller reporter took the unprofessional liberty of trying to hit him back then the reporter would probably have been fired instead of receiving a $425,000 settlement from the huge dumbass there.
The wrestler would have been way better off just saying it's not fake. Hitting the reporter didn't prove anything except that reporters aren't fighters.
I am yet to see anything but fake wrestling from the US. We used to get proper wrestling on the TV hear in the UK every weekend on grandstand. But it was stopped and now we get wwf. What we call “wet wosses fake time tv”. I don’t know anyone over about ten that watches wwf. I am certain there must be real wrestlers in the US so why are they not on TV?
It's choreographed but it's not FAKE...I mean the wrestlers DO get hurt and injured... They DO feel pain! Yes, their are script writers who develop storylines and the fights are choreographed but the pain is real... It takes skill and athleticism to be a wrestler...For the sake of entertainment they are doing SO MUCH for the fans...
@cmjproductions1986 Then the wrestler should have said so and actually made a case for why wrestling is real despite being predetermined and choreographed instead of hitting the reporter.
i hate people who say wrestling is fake, yeah its not a sport, its not win or loose, its entertainment, just like going to cinema, videogames and vast majority of tv, u could say it like this, wrestlings as fake as porn cos they aint really making love but theyre still fucking
@ryancrich The difference is that actors don't claim the things in their shows are really happening. Wrestlers often try to act like their fights are real and determined by who's the better wrestler.
Say I walked up to a soldier, maybe a badass soldier like a U.S. Marine or w/e. And I say to him, "I think our military's fake, and doesn't fight in any actual wars." Would you expect that marine to hit me?
I wouldn't. Since war is real and I'd look a little like a jackass just for suggesting it's fake, he'd probably look at me like a moron for a minute. He might get mad. And he'd tell me that it's more real than I know.
@pkemrin so your complete overreaction was to make a point that this guy overreacted? then yes, I totally agree with you, but I never claimed otherwise.
@ryancrich Nothing I've done has been an over reaction. It's not like I've said anything over the top here. I don't think wrestling is real fights, I think it's performance art. That doesn't mean it's not impressive or demanding.
And if it WAS real, there'd be even less reason for the guy to hit the reporter. That would be an over reaction to the point of being bizarre. A chef doesn't flip out when you ask if he's really cooking. A soldier doesn't flip out when you ask if there's real war.
@pkemrin yes I agree with you, why do you keep on saying stuff to me? You must be the only person in the world that can have a debate with someone who has exactly the same points as yourself.
@ryancrich I'm not sure. I'm talking to several people on this page and I'm notified whenever anyone responds. I think I got you confused with one of the other strings at some point... Oh wait, I was talking to the guy right above your original comment and thought this was still part of that string. I don't think I ever actually meant to talk to you at all. =P
Its a fake sport with real pain.After all that BS theyre told whether they can win or lose which brings to que. is it a real sport? Also permitting the other "opponent?" to inlflict pain on them to me is the same as self inflicted. Its beleived steroids is what makes them so angry but there missing 1 muscle. If I didnt have mine Id be pissed off too! I personally wouldnt take the trade off, I like my pecker too much.
Wresting is fake in one sense, but in another sense it's real. This guy made a good point and in a funny way. The ring is not for chumps and lightweights, it's a very rough sport and you could be permanenty injured for doing something the wrong way. The wrestler here made a great point " is that slap fake ? is that pain fake ?, get in the ring and give it a try punk, before you call it fake ". it's not real fighting and it sure as hell is not boxing or UFC, but it is a sport of skill and pain.
Hahaha, hey if Brock "Roid" Lesnar can win the UFC Heavyweight championship after two matches of just laying down on top other guys than this dude & his pimp hand will win all the UFC titles at once!!!
@ZaikoTV True, as a matter of fact I don't know if you hear this but Brock has recently said..I'll prolly misquote but.. that UFC is easy, train all the time for a short time in hell, whereas the other was fast training..constant matches, repetition, repetition, repetition..and that it really was hell and sucked big time. And your joints get fucked up from the constant beating. He basicially said compared to WWE Zuffa entertainment was easy sauce.
Ah, he's a reporter dumb-ass. He is supposed to ask questions and open his mouth when people don't know no betters. Dumb trashy wrestlers should know not to talk to reporters if they can't keep their cool.
Sure, go ahead and slap me around, if you enjoy a night in county jail, 1 year of probation and court costs. I weigh 200 LBS and I can slap around a 12 year old. That does not prove that I am or am not really fighting another 200 LBS man. I hope he pressed charges.
Of course any meat head on steroids says it's real. Any 5 year old girl can slap someone blondy. My 86 year old grandma can fake wrestle. It's a pussy sport for pussy men. Now boxing is real UFC is real. WWE and RAW and dumb shit like that? No that's dumb and fake. Just a bunch of losers who can't get a real job so they take steroids and get big and fake fight. Well fuck a doodle doo. No one cares.
@doomplayer900 Dude, its choreographed and yes its pre-planned, but from personal experience, that ring is not soft and those guys are fucking prime athletes.
It can be as real as you want it to be baby. ;)
MrPunkster360 1 day ago
Did he get prosecuted? Like he SHOULD have?
GeekingForJesus 6 days ago
@GeekingForJesus He didn't, but only because they settled out of court for $425,000.
pkemrin 5 days ago
@pkemrin I guess next time he'll think twice before assaulting an innocent man.
GeekingForJesus 5 days ago
@GeekingForJesus One should hope. His career was over shortly after this though, and he was replaced by newer, equally inexperienced wrestlers who might do the same thing. What needs to change is the surrounding culture. Hopefully at least their managers have changed based on the incident to discourage that crap though.
Assaulting reporters is bad for business.
pkemrin 4 days ago
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John Stoffer from ABC's 20/20 was a complete idiot for messing with a steroid-pumped wrestler like that circa 1985...And he got what he deserved!!!
phambo101 1 week ago
@phambo101 Well he wasn't really doing anything I'd call "messing with him." I mean, what do you mean messing? Talking to? Should people not go near them because wrestlers should be expected to be dangerous morons? No, I'd like to think of wrestling as a noble performance art.
The reporter didn't tell the wrestler he was a bitch or that he was weaker than the reporter. He just said, "I think it's fake," then turned the mic over to the wrestler for response. The wrestler should refuted him.
pkemrin 4 days ago
ROFL of course its fake, they get hurt or injure only when they fuckt up a move, whos going to win or lose its already aranged from weeks ago, also seriously? Dont you see them when their fighting, they move so slow ahahaha XD and wheb they push each other to the ring why the hell do they run back to get stumped lol, its just stuopid
STERENR 2 weeks ago
the out come of who wins the fight in WWE may be fake, but the moves are real
masterzeek 1 month ago
Stossel can't see murder when it's a foot from his face, then still asks that question. Amazing!
sevenlemon 2 months ago
I don't care how big he was, way to much rage and narcissism coming from that big boy. I'd be throwin punches right after the first slap. I wouldn't even care if I got the shit literally kicked out of me, it's the principle of not backing down in the face of adversity, dumb reporter, he prolly hit you cause you disrespected him.
CombatMedicBuddy 2 months ago
@CombatMedicBuddy Well the reporter didn't disrespect him, he asked him a legitimate question and gave him a chance to respond.
Also, if the much smaller reporter took the unprofessional liberty of trying to hit him back then the reporter would probably have been fired instead of receiving a $425,000 settlement from the huge dumbass there.
The wrestler would have been way better off just saying it's not fake. Hitting the reporter didn't prove anything except that reporters aren't fighters.
pkemrin 5 days ago
I am yet to see anything but fake wrestling from the US. We used to get proper wrestling on the TV hear in the UK every weekend on grandstand. But it was stopped and now we get wwf. What we call “wet wosses fake time tv”. I don’t know anyone over about ten that watches wwf. I am certain there must be real wrestlers in the US so why are they not on TV?
soolerman 3 months ago
It's choreographed but it's not FAKE...I mean the wrestlers DO get hurt and injured... They DO feel pain! Yes, their are script writers who develop storylines and the fights are choreographed but the pain is real... It takes skill and athleticism to be a wrestler...For the sake of entertainment they are doing SO MUCH for the fans...
cmjproductions1986 3 months ago
@cmjproductions1986 Then the wrestler should have said so and actually made a case for why wrestling is real despite being predetermined and choreographed instead of hitting the reporter.
pkemrin 5 days ago
i hate people who say wrestling is fake, yeah its not a sport, its not win or loose, its entertainment, just like going to cinema, videogames and vast majority of tv, u could say it like this, wrestlings as fake as porn cos they aint really making love but theyre still fucking
ryancrich 3 months ago
@ryancrich what a weird thing to say
DaTroof93 3 weeks ago
@ryancrich The difference is that actors don't claim the things in their shows are really happening. Wrestlers often try to act like their fights are real and determined by who's the better wrestler.
pkemrin 5 days ago
@pkemrin not sure if troll or just stupid.
ryancrich 4 days ago
@ryancrich Realist. It's pretty well established that wrestling is a performance art, not actual combat. Slapping reporters doesn't alter that.
If that perception were going to be altered, I'd need to see actual reports and evidence to the contrary.
pkemrin 4 days ago
@ryancrich Oh, also consider this:
Say I walked up to a soldier, maybe a badass soldier like a U.S. Marine or w/e. And I say to him, "I think our military's fake, and doesn't fight in any actual wars." Would you expect that marine to hit me?
I wouldn't. Since war is real and I'd look a little like a jackass just for suggesting it's fake, he'd probably look at me like a moron for a minute. He might get mad. And he'd tell me that it's more real than I know.
The wrestler should do the same.
pkemrin 4 days ago
@pkemrin so your complete overreaction was to make a point that this guy overreacted? then yes, I totally agree with you, but I never claimed otherwise.
ryancrich 4 days ago
@ryancrich Nothing I've done has been an over reaction. It's not like I've said anything over the top here. I don't think wrestling is real fights, I think it's performance art. That doesn't mean it's not impressive or demanding.
And if it WAS real, there'd be even less reason for the guy to hit the reporter. That would be an over reaction to the point of being bizarre. A chef doesn't flip out when you ask if he's really cooking. A soldier doesn't flip out when you ask if there's real war.
pkemrin 4 days ago
@pkemrin yes I agree with you, why do you keep on saying stuff to me? You must be the only person in the world that can have a debate with someone who has exactly the same points as yourself.
ryancrich 4 days ago
@ryancrich I'm not sure. I'm talking to several people on this page and I'm notified whenever anyone responds. I think I got you confused with one of the other strings at some point... Oh wait, I was talking to the guy right above your original comment and thought this was still part of that string. I don't think I ever actually meant to talk to you at all. =P
pkemrin 4 days ago
Its a fake sport with real pain.After all that BS theyre told whether they can win or lose which brings to que. is it a real sport? Also permitting the other "opponent?" to inlflict pain on them to me is the same as self inflicted. Its beleived steroids is what makes them so angry but there missing 1 muscle. If I didnt have mine Id be pissed off too! I personally wouldnt take the trade off, I like my pecker too much.
Geraldtoo 4 months ago
Fake sport is fake.
indiereplicant 4 months ago
THE WWE WRESTLING IS CHOREOGRAPHED WHICH IS FAKE
C3RR3RTYSON 5 months ago
that what you get when you piss off a cunt
Hurlanator 5 months ago
Wresting is fake in one sense, but in another sense it's real. This guy made a good point and in a funny way. The ring is not for chumps and lightweights, it's a very rough sport and you could be permanenty injured for doing something the wrong way. The wrestler here made a great point " is that slap fake ? is that pain fake ?, get in the ring and give it a try punk, before you call it fake ". it's not real fighting and it sure as hell is not boxing or UFC, but it is a sport of skill and pain.
mlcoo17 6 months ago
wat a cunt.
P4TTL1 6 months ago
I never liked John Stossel, so good on Dave for TCOB!
flyinthebug35 6 months ago
I would have just popped him the throat then leg hooked into the ground. He's too tall to handle leg attacks.
PairoftheSocks 8 months ago
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I guess he wants a raise now
drawesomo10 10 months ago
LOL.....I bet that paid well
pillowbugg 10 months ago
Who "thinks" it's fake?
realist283 1 year ago
@realist283 so u think wrestling is real?
Norrbatious 11 months ago
its not dumb questions
TheTitor100 1 year ago
The reporter should be karate 10th Dan or something.
Then this FAKE "BIG" man would get owned and probably even raped XD
libed91 1 year ago
Ofcourse it's fake!
9Iamthewalrus 1 year ago 2
Hahaha, hey if Brock "Roid" Lesnar can win the UFC Heavyweight championship after two matches of just laying down on top other guys than this dude & his pimp hand will win all the UFC titles at once!!!
ZaikoTV 1 year ago 9
@ZaikoTV True, as a matter of fact I don't know if you hear this but Brock has recently said..I'll prolly misquote but.. that UFC is easy, train all the time for a short time in hell, whereas the other was fast training..constant matches, repetition, repetition, repetition..and that it really was hell and sucked big time. And your joints get fucked up from the constant beating. He basicially said compared to WWE Zuffa entertainment was easy sauce.
snowfallzz 11 months ago
@snowfallzz yes you are absolutly right snow
claudias1871 11 months ago
in soviet russia, face slap you
hotlikesummer 1 year ago 2
@hotlikesummer HAHAAHAHAH
kinhotas 10 months ago
I wonder how far this fuck would go in the real UFC business?
angels77100 1 year ago
@angels77100 He would last 5 seconds max!!
six80ususus 1 year ago
Ah, he's a reporter dumb-ass. He is supposed to ask questions and open his mouth when people don't know no betters. Dumb trashy wrestlers should know not to talk to reporters if they can't keep their cool.
poologs 1 year ago
Sure, go ahead and slap me around, if you enjoy a night in county jail, 1 year of probation and court costs. I weigh 200 LBS and I can slap around a 12 year old. That does not prove that I am or am not really fighting another 200 LBS man. I hope he pressed charges.
stevenabb 1 year ago
Of course any meat head on steroids says it's real. Any 5 year old girl can slap someone blondy. My 86 year old grandma can fake wrestle. It's a pussy sport for pussy men. Now boxing is real UFC is real. WWE and RAW and dumb shit like that? No that's dumb and fake. Just a bunch of losers who can't get a real job so they take steroids and get big and fake fight. Well fuck a doodle doo. No one cares.
doomplayer900 1 year ago 26
@doomplayer900 Dude, its choreographed and yes its pre-planned, but from personal experience, that ring is not soft and those guys are fucking prime athletes.
lazycrazybastard 8 months ago