Backstage stories, fights, road stories, etc

[Ruzious]

Not sure where else to post this thought so this thread will have to do...

Rick Martel was one tough son of a bitch. I had completely forgotten that he ended up having a run with WCW during their prime run in 97-98 and was even the TV Champ. He lost the title at SuperBrawl 98 to Booker T and suffered what turned out to be a career-ending injury during the match. About halfway through the match, Booker T hip-tossed Martel across the ring and Martel's leg hit one of the ropes in an awkward way. Martel ended up tearing an inside ligament of his right knee, fractured his leg and suffered cartilage damage. Even after that, he still managed to wrestle and put on a good showing for the remaining 6 minutes of the match. As Bruce Prichard would say "that's one double tough son of a bitch".

Martel definitely belongs in the WWE HOF, imo. In my early memories of WWF, he carried the WWE's top tag team of him and Tony Garrea and was an outstanding babyface. What impressed me most about him was his time in the AWA when he had some brutal matches against Stan Hansen - most where Hansen over-powered him. Hansen's style looked so stiff that I was impressed that Martel was willing to go through those matches. Maybe that's why Martel went back to the WWF. Well, at that point, everyone who was anyone was leaving the AWA to go to the WWF. Can't say I liked his Model character - he was better as a face.

[Dominator83]

So that whole shouting/shoving match between Brock and Jericho...

Jericho was pissed because of Brock busting open Orton, and he was supposedly told by Vince and others that it was all a work. Well this interview with Orton says otherwise.

http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/18270143/randy-orton-thriving-creatively-new-member-wyatt-family-wwe

"Even now, four months later, I don't even know what happened," Orton said. "If it was supposed to happen, I wasn't aware of it. Basically s--- happens in that ring and he's a big old dude and he has some bony-ass elbows and that's all I can say. But there's an art to what we do. We're not trying to kill each other. We got 200 shows a year so taking a blow like that to the head definitely pisses me off because I'm on the shelf for three weeks with a concussion and I had just gotten my boots back on a month before SummerSlam after being out 9-10 months with a shoulder injury. So all those facts pissed me off but when you do this for a living s--- happens."

i was watching that match a couple weeks ago with some of my smark buddies. They claim that Orton sorta provoked that because he kept sandbagging Brock on his suplexes. When you watch them it appears he was.

Anybody agree? or disagree?

[Ruzious]

So that whole shouting/shoving match between Brock and Jericho...

Jericho was pissed because of Brock busting open Orton, and he was supposedly told by Vince and others that it was all a work. Well this interview with Orton says otherwise.

http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/18270143/randy-orton-thriving-creatively-new-member-wyatt-family-wwe

"Even now, four months later, I don't even know what happened," Orton said. "If it was supposed to happen, I wasn't aware of it. Basically s--- happens in that ring and he's a big old dude and he has some bony-ass elbows and that's all I can say. But there's an art to what we do. We're not trying to kill each other. We got 200 shows a year so taking a blow like that to the head definitely pisses me off because I'm on the shelf for three weeks with a concussion and I had just gotten my boots back on a month before SummerSlam after being out 9-10 months with a shoulder injury. So all those facts pissed me off but when you do this for a living s--- happens."

i was watching that match a couple weeks ago with some of my smark buddies. They claim that Orton sorta provoked that because he kept sandbagging Brock on his suplexes. When you watch them it appears he was.

Anybody agree? or disagree?

That would entail both of them "going into business for themselves", and I think both are too professional to do that. But I could be wrong.

[Dunthreevy]

So that whole shouting/shoving match between Brock and Jericho...

Jericho was pissed because of Brock busting open Orton, and he was supposedly told by Vince and others that it was all a work. Well this interview with Orton says otherwise.

http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/18270143/randy-orton-thriving-creatively-new-member-wyatt-family-wwe

"Even now, four months later, I don't even know what happened," Orton said. "If it was supposed to happen, I wasn't aware of it. Basically s--- happens in that ring and he's a big old dude and he has some bony-ass elbows and that's all I can say. But there's an art to what we do. We're not trying to kill each other. We got 200 shows a year so taking a blow like that to the head definitely pisses me off because I'm on the shelf for three weeks with a concussion and I had just gotten my boots back on a month before SummerSlam after being out 9-10 months with a shoulder injury. So all those facts pissed me off but when you do this for a living s--- happens."

i was watching that match a couple weeks ago with some of my smark buddies. They claim that Orton sorta provoked that because he kept sandbagging Brock on his suplexes. When you watch them it appears he was.

Anybody agree? or disagree?

That would entail both of them "going into business for themselves", and I think both are too professional to do that. But I could be wrong.

"Professional" is definitely not one of the descriptive words I would closely associate with Randy Orton.

[Ruzious]

Speaking of Barry O's nephew, I thought he had a much better match with Nokamura than Cena did recently.

[Kembastockton]

"Even now, four months later, I don't even know what happened," Orton said. "If it was supposed to happen, I wasn't aware of it. Basically s--- happens in that ring and he's a big old dude and he has some bony-ass elbows and that's all I can say. But there's an art to what we do. We're not trying to kill each other. We got 200 shows a year so taking a blow like that to the head definitely pisses me off because I'm on the shelf for three weeks with a concussion and I had just gotten my boots back on a month before SummerSlam after being out 9-10 months with a shoulder injury. So all those facts pissed me off but when you do this for a living s--- happens."

I believe something happened none of us know about, and Brock got so ticked that he kicked off in Randy tail. FOR REAL

Another fight that I have not read here so far most of you probably know about. That was Booker T kicking off in Batista's back end for being a snob.