Originally Posted by Iceman King Gertner (Post 5349683)

I just finished watching all the 1998 WCW Worldwide episodes in order. And they say the Corona Virus has been terrible. Look at what I accomplished!

Just over halfway done the 1997 Shotgun Saturday Nights.

Originally Posted by drave (Post 5349719)

You should start a thread where you post your favorite match from whatever it is you are watching. I know that could be tedious, so just pick 1 maybe?


"Gertner's Greatest Grappling Extravaganza" or some shit.

Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball (Post 5349725)

Van Hammer in 2000 looks exactly like this guy:

Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball (Post 5349760)

See to me that's the best sort of show to look back on, the thrown together ones.
I like seeing people come and go week to week.

I just don't know how many Hardbody Harrison matches I can handle.

Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball (Post 5349795)

You know that thing where you drift off in class at school or in a group and then you drift back in and foolishly say something that has just been said by someone else and totally give yourself away?

That's Art Donovan watching wrestling.

I keep cracking up everything he asks how much someone weighs. Gorilla and Randy are pretty short with him now. It's freaking gold.

Originally Posted by The Dastardly One (Post 5349796)

Is this guy one of the wrestlers?

Originally Posted by PWI

Crenshaw also noted that whether the notion that professional wrestling is sport or entertainment for audiences has become the crux of one of Anthem’s claims for dismissal. One of the claims made against Anthem Wrestling by Jarrett and GFE is that the GFW Amped! Material being used violated The Tennessee Personal Rights Protection Act. Anthem has argued against this because sports broadcasts are exempt under Tennesee law.

Stating this “may be the most interesting genuine issue of material fact”, Crenshaw reviewed a number of previous legal cases that led to some sports stating professional wrestling falls under sport while others have decided it falls under entertainment.

As to where professional wrestling falls for this case, Crenshaw ruled:

“For its part, the Court has no hesitation in concluding that Greco-Roman wrestling – as reintroduced in Athens, Greece at the first modern Olympics in 1896, and as practiced by high school and college athletes in gymnasiums and auditoriums across the country – is a “sport.” Professional wrestling is different, of that there can be little doubt. Some of its mystery over the years has been due to professional wrestling’s penchant for “kayfabe”: In the world of wrestling, the portrayal of staged events as real – the suspension of disbelief that is central to the proceedings – is known as kayfabe. For decades, maintaining kayfabe was de rigueur: “babyfaces” (or “faces”) [good guys] and heels [villians] didn’t ride together or associate in public, and reporters got slapped for suggesting that wrestling was fake. The line between kayfabe and reality began to blur during pro wrestling’s popularity boom during the late ’90s, and these days – thanks to the omnipresence of social media, the sunshine of the internet, and the WWE’s forays into reality TV – kayfabe is effectively dead. While “kayfabe” may now be dead, the staged performances and elaborate personas are not. In fact Plaintiffs proclaim that “professional wrestling involves a script, a predetermined outcome, and ‘out-of-arena’ content that involves storytelling and drama” that is “akin to live action theatre where the audiences does not know the outcome of the event, but the actors and actresses do.” Whether that is the case, or whether professional wrestlers are “athletes engaging in highly dangerous feats of athletic display” as Anthem Wrestling contends for the jury to decide.”

So, the jury will decide, at least for the scope of the lawsuit, whether professional wrestling is sport or entertainment.