Comments on: UFC vs WWE https://freakytrigger.co.uk/sport/2008/11/ufc-vs-wwe Lollards in the high church of low culture Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:04:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Flexo https://freakytrigger.co.uk/sport/2008/11/ufc-vs-wwe/comment-page-1#comment-665751 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:04:18 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12936#comment-665751 Well,,, On german sports TV the “The ultimate Fighter” episodes are casted at the moment. This is the first contact with UFC. The only thing that makes UFC exciting is the “real” aspect. It just hurts watching the fist exploding in the opponents face and there is some kind of excitement and some kind of strategic touch of the fights. Not that bad.
But finally I prefer professional Wrestling. Entertainment aspect, story line, characters last up to 30 or 40 years in the business and some of their children too. Variations of different matches, which enable the wrestlers to perform amazing stunt actions.

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By: Martin Skidmore https://freakytrigger.co.uk/sport/2008/11/ufc-vs-wwe/comment-page-1#comment-546792 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:33:35 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12936#comment-546792 I remember him first appearing in the WWE, and when I saw this big man with huge muscles I thought he’d be dead slow – then he jumped up onto the apron and vaulted over the ropes. So I assumed he at least wouldn’t have any real skills, and they said he had been an amateur champion. I’ve never seen it live – I did see British pro wrestling live once, around the mid-’70s, but the standards of athleticism in that are rather different, especially at the biggest end. I recall Pat Roach (who’s had a moderately successful acting career) as British heavyweight champ – his role was an unstoppable big guy, like Lesnar or the Undertaker or someone – but he was of very moderate size in US terms. Big Daddy, whose most athletic move was falling on an opponent (termed a splash), was about the same weight as Kane, who leaps off the top rope at people, and about 80 pounds less than Kamala, who also did the splash, but leaping from the top rope halfway across the ring to land on the other guy.

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By: Elisha Sessions https://freakytrigger.co.uk/sport/2008/11/ufc-vs-wwe/comment-page-1#comment-546234 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:40:32 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=12936#comment-546234 Lesnar is incredible.

If you’ve ever see “pro” wrestling live and in person there is no doubt that most of these guys are just amazingly physically skilled. Astonishing that they can do what they do, really, given that they are hoisting about twice times my body weight around.

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