Is this normal in pro wrestling

[Alpo]

I don't watch wrestling.

 

The girl in panel one is a pro wrestler. And she's going down for the match. And she is obviously not going to wrestle with those ice wings on. They are apparently just for show at the beginning.

 

https://pixietrixcomix.com/pixie-trix-comix/do-not-adjust-your-sets

 

I seem to recall an episode of Bones where they had midget wrestling. Dwarf wrestling. Whatever the term. And one of the wrestlers used the name the Iron Leprechaun. He goes out before the match dressed like Lucky, from Lucky Charms. With a suit coat and a derby, both of which he removed before he got into the ring.

 

So is that a fairly normal thing in pro wrestling? The wrestlers come down to the ring wearing weird outfits designed to get people's attention. Then they take them off before they actually get to wrestling?

Edited March 11 by Alpo

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

It’s all show. As I recall, the  NY Gaming commission went to court because a match wasn’t licensed. NY lost because pro wrestling is an exhibition, not a sporting event.

Edited March 11 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984

[Subdeacon Joe]

Some interesting ads on that page, Alpo.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Would YOU bet on a match with a predetermined outcome?

 

[Alpo]

12 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

Some interesting ads on that page, Alpo.

I wouldn't notice. I use an ad blocker. The only thing I noticed was Giselle advertising her other comics. And yes, most of those comics are NSFW.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

2 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I wouldn't notice. I use an ad blocker. The only thing I noticed was Giselle advertising her other comics. And yes, most of those comics are NSFW.

It’s a good story at least — yours, not the comic.

[Subdeacon Joe]

3 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I wouldn't notice. I use an ad blocker. The only thing I noticed was Giselle advertising her other comics. And yes, most of those comics are NSFW.

 

That's is what I was referring to. 

[Dantankerous]

Rule number one:

 

Nothing is ever normal in All-Star Wrestling.

 

Rule number two:

 

See rule number one.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

 I haven't watched pro wrestling since about 1962.  A friend of Mom's was a school teacher during the week, but was Gentleman Jim on Friday Nights and Saturdays.

 

When he told me the bare truth about pro wrestling.  I watched a couple of more matches to see if I could spot the phoniness.  I couldn't see anything but, so I quit watching it altogether.

 

Ho hum!  I miss it about as much a Custer would have missed all those Indians.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

So is that a fairly normal thing in pro wrestling? The wrestlers come down to the ring wearing weird outfits designed to get people's attention. Then they take them off before they actually get to wrestling?

I haven't watched "wrasling" since Hulk Hogan left the WWF. However, at that time, yes, many of the more colorful characters would come down the ramp in some kind of fancy outfit to start their match, removing most of it to fight. Occasionally, the "bad guy" would attack the "good guy" WHILE he was doing so. That guy usually lost.

Here's something to give you an idea how some of them appeared. After they got in the ring, most of them just fought in shorts.

[Alpo]

A good friend of mine was a big wrestling fan. He was over sister and brother-in-law's house one day playing trivial pursuit.

 

Now for those that have never played, or those that have not played in a while and might not remember, there are cards. Each card has six questions, and each question has a color beside it. And as you go around the board the spaces that you land on are different colors. The color you landed on specifies which colored question you will be asked.

 

But when you get to the winning spot, you have to answer one more question. And the other players get to decide which of the six questions on the card they will ask.

 

So Keith is sitting there and the others are discussing it. "Ask him the geography one. He's terrible about geography." And everybody agreed so they asked him the geography question on the card.

 

What is the capital of Mongolia?

 

And they were all stunned when he replied, "Ulan Bator".

 

HOW IN THE HELL DID YOU KNOW THAT??

 

"That's where the Mongolian Stomper comes from."

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

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17 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

"bad guy" would attack the "good guy"

 

also known as "heels" and "heroes"

[Cypress Sun]

1 hour ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

I haven't watched "wrasling" since Hulk Hogan left the WWF. However, at that time, yes, many of the more colorful characters would come down the ramp in some kind of fancy outfit to start their match, removing most of it to fight. Occasionally, the "bad guy" would attack the "good guy" WHILE he was doing so. That guy usually lost.

Here's something to give you an idea how some of them appeared. After they got in the ring, most of them just fought in shorts.

 

No Dusty Rhodes, Road Warriors or Barry Windham?

 

Sacrilege I tell ya.

 

Btw, Hulk Hogan started out as one of the beat down boys on Championship Wrestling from Florida with Gordon Solie. Alias was Terry Hogan and he was "discovered" by the Briscoe Brothers, Jack and Gerry.

 

FWIW - Miss Elizabeth was my favorite "manager".

Edited March 11 by Cypress Sun

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

My Grandmother was deeply enamored with "Gorgeous George."  Trying to convince her Pro Wrestling was just a show??  No Way.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

23 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

No Dusty Rhodes, Road Warriors or Barry Windham?

Btw, Hulk Hogan started out as one of the beat down boys 

FWIW - Miss Elizabeth was my favorite "manager".

Well, I wasn't going to sit here all day looking for them, Not to mention the bandwidth it would take up here. Even Alpo would get bored looking at everybody we could think of.

While I don't remember him specifically, everybody started out as the No Name Nobody to get beaten up by the Name Wrestler in matches. Well, except maybe Andre the Giant. 

Miss Elizabeth was gorgeous, but useless except to run and get Hulk Hogan when Randy Savage was getting his butt beat. I saw the Tag Team coming after about the second time she did that. At least she didn't do stuff like distract the ref, (She would have been GOOD at that) or hit the other guy with a chair like most "Managers".

[Subdeacon Joe]

I don't watch professional wrestling very often, but I admire those people as superb athletes.   

I'll confess that I prefer the antics of the luchedores in Mexican luche libre to other styles. 

[MizPete]

BabyGirl used to run audio for WWE.  Yeah, it's scripted and coreographed.  Nonetheless, she said she had gained new respect for these guys' athleticism and skill.  She said the danger of getting hurt badly was real if you/somebody else messed up.

The women?  Not so much.  They objected when she (the only woman on the crew) used their bathroom.

[Rye Miles #13621]

The last time I was into wrestling was in the late 50’s. The Gallagher Bros. Bobo Brazil, Tony Marino, Fritz Von Erich and Lord Layton who was the host and commentator and then got into it! Great fun when your 10 yrs old!😂🙄

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

9 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

The last time I was into wrestling was in the late 50’s. The Gallagher Bros. Bobo Brazil, Tony Marino, Fritz Von Erich and Lord Layton who was the host and commentator and then got into it! Great fun when your 10 yrs old!😂🙄

Killer Kowalski and Haystacks Calhoun

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

32 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

The last time I was into wrestling was in the late 50’s. The Gallagher Bros. Bobo Brazil, Tony Marino, Fritz Von Erich and Lord Layton who was the host and commentator and then got into it! Great fun when your 10 yrs old!😂🙄

 

22 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Killer Kowalski and Haystacks Calhoun

Wild Bull Curry, and my favorite, (of the time), his son, Flying Fred Curry. I got to see them live in about 1972 or 3.

[Rye Miles #13621]

24 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

 

Wild Bull Curry, and my favorite, (of the time), his son, Flying Fred Curry. I got to see them live in about 1972 or 3.

I remember them  as well!

48 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Killer Kowalski and Haystacks Calhoun

Yep!!! 

[Will Kane]

For many years, the late James Harris, also known as Kamala the Ugandan Giant, would come to the ring wearing a wooden tribal mask which he removed either before the match formally started or before he “Pearl Harbored” his opponent before the opening bell.

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

On 3/11/2025 at 5:07 PM, Rye Miles #13621 said:

I remember them  as well!

Yep!!! 

This morning another name came to me: Bruno Sammartino. Wikipedia has a page on him.