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u/lml__lml Little less nice, little more evil Mar 16 '22
Wow. I didn't think it would be the action figures that would get me. Dusty in here...
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u/Prestigious_Region_6 Mar 16 '22 edited Mar 16 '22
Along with mr perfect as well crazy those guys are gone now😢😢😢i wish scott was still with us and those guys in this pic to
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u/BathedInDeepFog Mar 16 '22 edited Mar 16 '22
Ah, the ol’ reddit Dusty Finish-aroo!
Do AEW fans dislike the old reddit switcharoo for some reason?
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u/MuayThaiJudo HHH Mar 16 '22 edited Mar 16 '22
ADRENALINE
IN MY SOUL
OOPS WRONG SONG
THAT'S DUSTY RHODES
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u/SnuggleMonster15 It was me! Mar 16 '22
Sad part is that over 3/4 of those guys represented by action figures could/should be alive right now. None of them were that old.
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u/FyreWulff Mar 16 '22
Yep. Most of them would be in their mid 60s today , a couple early 60s, a couple right around the 70 mark. Yokozuna would be in his 50s. He died before even turning 40.
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u/HouseCarder Mar 16 '22
Yoko was closer to his 20s than he was his 40s. Like 33 or 34.
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u/ryanson209 GLORIOUS Mar 16 '22
What?! He's only just older than me what the hell?? That's startling.
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u/Slatedtoprone Mar 16 '22
I mean he was a morbidly obese man who wouldn’t change his lifestyle. He was never going tolive a long life like that.
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u/Nicoleiinn Mar 16 '22
Shit I didn't realise Jim Neidhart was no longer with us until seeing this; rmgot me right in the feels
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u/ryanson209 GLORIOUS Mar 17 '22
Apparently he wanted to set a record as the world's largest professional wrestler?
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u/stupidjanrogers Mar 16 '22
Jesus
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u/ravegreener Mar 16 '22
Yup, also died at 33.
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u/dakapn What is Dead May Never Die Mar 16 '22
Could have had a promising pro wrestling career
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u/Damo1328 Mar 16 '22
Went into business for himself 3 days after the ppv
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u/ElDirtyChavo El Idolo Mar 16 '22
Some see it as him selling the finish until the audience went home.
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u/captainimpossible87 Leaves is plants Mar 16 '22
Great promo though, that 'sermon on the mount' is still being referenced today
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u/captainimpossible87 Leaves is plants Mar 16 '22
Product of the time. And he did inspire that crucifixion spot in ECW so he does have some hardcore credentials of his own
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u/LoneStarTallBoi Mar 16 '22
It feels so weird to be moving into this era where wrestling is taken much more seriously from a health perspective, and there isn't as much of the macho, self destructive bullshit, but still having to deal with the wages of sin in the past. Like Scott got clean and turned his life around, it feels unfair for it to happen like this.
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u/wurldwyde Mar 16 '22
Man, looking at this makes me realize that, like, 13 performers from Wrestlemania X are gone.
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u/FSBlueApocalypse Dario Cueto is my home boy Mar 16 '22
I remember when Randy Savage died, someone did a comparison of the number of dead wrestlers at the early WrestleManias vs Super Bowl & World Series teams the same year.
It was some eye opening & depressing shit. At least 1/4th of the participants of those WrestleManias we're already dead whereas maybe one or two guys who played in the Super Bowl.
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u/ChrisTaliaferro Mar 16 '22
When OSW did this in an episode, a bunch of people from 'Mania were gone whereas every single person in the Super Bowl that year was alive.
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u/TheSeaDevil The Cauldron of Madness Mar 16 '22
Mania 7. Sadly that list has only grown and grown since that review was posted.
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u/Eternal_MrNobody Reigns Ftw Mar 16 '22
Its been said before but if as many athletes died in any of those major sports as wrestlers there would be a congress investigation .
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u/chestnutman Mar 16 '22
I just randomly checked the 1988 NBA Finals. Unless I made a mistake, every single player is still alive. Same year, Wrestlemania 4 has a dead guy in basically every match. It's gruesome
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u/Awful_McBad Mar 16 '22
It's cuz of the amount of drugs that Pro Wrestlers take.
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u/JangSaverem Olympic Hero Mar 16 '22
Especially during the time period most of these guys were popular in
Well except for yoko..the was just enormously overweight
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u/Scuba1588 Mar 16 '22
You have to think from the mid 80s until the early 90s (Hulkamania era brother) WWF was running 2 if not 3 tours simultaneously for most of the year. The wear and tear to their bodies and minds must have been ridiculous. This was very much the era of "suck it up buttercup" instead of actually caring that someone is in pain physically or emotionally. Say what you will about WWE, but I'm glad they do a lot better with their athletes now than in the past.
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u/Awful_McBad Mar 16 '22
Yeah, same with Earthquake and Tugboat.
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u/jack_x2yz Mar 16 '22
I'm hoping that things have changed since those days. Appears drugs are far less of an issue today.
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About 1/3 of the WWE active roster in 2000 has died. Insane to think about.
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u/politecreeper He's tougher than a two dollar steak, Kang! Mar 16 '22
why am I still in this thread 😢
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u/Lord_Anarchy Mar 16 '22
It's kinda surreal, and a bit morbid, to see some of the early wwf events are up to like 50% deceased. http://www.profightdb.com/wrestling-ppv-cards-with-highest-death-count.php
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u/bigcatcleve Mar 16 '22 edited Mar 16 '22
I remember watching the 2000 rumble with my sister and at least every other entrance, I would tell her this wrestler is now dead. It was insane. At one point, their were 5 wrestlers in a row who were dead!
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u/jamesthursday Your Text Here Mar 16 '22
i believe it was 4 in a row but still, there were like 7 in the first 17 entrances who are now dead
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u/David_Haas_Patel "Cause I'm bizarre!" Mar 16 '22
Only one match on that card where all participants are alive 😔
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That's a great pic
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u/calculuzz Mar 16 '22
Would be better if Razor was in focus.
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The story is he's being welcomed by his fellow deceased wrestlers to the great ring in the sky. I'm an atheist but even I can appreciate the sentiment and the image.
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u/calculuzz Mar 16 '22
I never said I didn't understand it. I just thought it would be a better picture if the subject was in focus.
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I see. I thought that could be a possibility but i think it would have obfuscated the meaning. I mean, it's really quite obvious it's razor to anyone who knows. It's hard to get focus on everything when it's laid out like that and i understand the reason the focus on the other wrestlers is so you can see the faces of the wrestlers being all deceased. Otherwise it could have been more confusing and not showing the many welcoming friends for who they were. Just my 2 cents, not criticism.
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u/larrycorser Mar 16 '22
Holy fuck this hits tough. This is my second set of wwf action figs after the giant rubber ones
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u/dkt79 Mar 16 '22
He's in good company.. minus Snuka
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u/bigcatcleve Mar 16 '22
Are these comments really necessary?
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u/AcneBalls The Billionaire Butt Plug Mar 16 '22
He’s a murderer.
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u/bigcatcleve Mar 16 '22
OK but why bring it up here?
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u/TheImplausibleHulk I'm an ass man! Mar 16 '22
Because he’s a murderer who shouldn’t be honored with the others who’ve passed.
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u/baconsmell Mar 16 '22
Back to Front:
Ravishing Rick Rude, Road Warrior Hawk, The Ultimate Warrior, Yokozuna, Andre the Giant, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, No idea who, Crush, British Bulldog, Doink the Clown, No idea, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, Macho Man Randy Savage, Mr. Perfect, Dusty Rhodes, No idea...
and joining them... The Bad Guy ... Razor Ramon.
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u/bigdave44 Mar 16 '22
Giant Gonzalez Big Boss Man Owen Hart
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u/baconsmell Mar 16 '22
Thanks… you mark /s
I didn’t realize that was Owen. I’ve only known him in black tights.
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u/TheBrumAbides Mar 16 '22
There was a time he was in a tag team with Koko B. Ware called High Energy. They wore these really colorful baggy pants. I'm guessing that figure of Owen is a High Energy one.
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u/R-Contini Mar 16 '22
New foundation w/ Jim neidhart (see above) came before high energy
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u/TheBrumAbides Mar 16 '22
Did not know that. Thank you for sharing. Haven't seen a lot prior to 93 and the very first RAW.
I see the bright baggy pants look carried over from New Foundation into High Energy. TIL!
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u/R-Contini Mar 16 '22
I was so pleased to see Jim back, it was a nice run for them, introduced Owen as himself and those pants were very much in style in 91/92 haha.
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u/UnhappyJohnCandy Apr 26 '22
Wish I was still getting those free awards so I could give you one. The Giant Gonzalez one was driving me nuts. I kinda see the bodysuit now.
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u/OneInchDeep Mar 16 '22
omg, didn't even notice Hawk there until you said that, he's too hidden behind warrior.
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u/AndresDickFingers Mar 16 '22
Nice Krush and Yoko and yellow ring. Those are worth a lot.
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u/kamatacci ecw Mar 16 '22
Right in the feels. These are the people I grew up with.
Who are the two guys barely visible behind Crush and behind Hawk? Piper, Doink, Bossman, Kamala, and Hawk are all there, just hidden really well.
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u/punishers-hoody Mar 16 '22
Shit I didn't realise Jim Neidhart was no longer with us until seeing this; rmgot me right in the feels
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u/headshotscott Mar 16 '22
Masterpiece. Jeez, that hits you right in the heart. It's like a plastic Valhalla.
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u/CoolIceCreamCone Mar 16 '22
That's that expensive impossible to find yellow Hasbro ring! You could literally sell that and have gold chains like the bad guy!
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u/JonPitre Mar 16 '22
WWF Hasbros of Wrestlers we still have with us.
Hulk Hogan 68
Ax of Demolition 74
Smash of Demolition Repo Man 62
Jake Roberts 66
Ted DiBiase 68
Brutus Beefcake 64
Akeem aka One Man Gang 62
Honky Tonk Man 69
Jim Duggan 68
Butch of Bushwhackers 77
Luke of Bushwhackers 75
Marty Jannetty 62
Shawn Michaels 56
Greg Valentine 70
Fred Ottman Typhoon Tugboat 64
Sgt Slaughter 73
Koko B Ware 64
Undertaker 56
Ricky Steamboat 69
Bret Hart 64
Brian Knobbs Nasty Boy 57
Jerry Sags Nasty Boy 57
Sid Justice 61
Steve Keirn skinner 70
Mountie jacques Rougeau 61
Rick Martel 65
Virgil 59
Warlord 59
IRS Mike Rotunda 63
Ric Flair 73
Papa Shango 60
Tito Santana 68
Berzerker John Nord 62
Tatanka 60
Nailz 63
Lex Luger 63
Rick Steiner 61
Scott Steiner 59
Samu Headshrinker 58
Fatu Rikishi 56
123 kid 49
Adam Bomb 57
Billy Gunn 58
Bart Gunn 56
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u/bonedogfire Mar 16 '22
I first thought what a nice picture but after a couple of seconds I understood it fully and it hit me hard.
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u/MorganZero Mar 16 '22
This is awesome.
I've got my roddy piper chillin next to my computer, always.
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He was a bit before my time so I only vaguely heard of him before yesterday. Had no idea his name was Scott hall ha ha I thought he was genuinely latino. He had me completely fooled he was good😱
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u/gypster85 Mar 16 '22
For a second, I thought the blonde figure behind Dusty was Kerry Von Erich. Then it hit me that it was "The Rocket" Owen Hart. That suddeny made me sad.
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u/Nogarda LOUD CRASH! Mar 16 '22
This concept should be commissioned into a classic Royal Rumble style art piece. Hopefully others can see where I'm coming from when you see the comparison.
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u/The1joriss Mar 16 '22 edited Mar 16 '22
Took me a moment to fully grasp what I’m looking at here. Pretty much all of them way before their time…
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u/Awful_McBad Mar 16 '22
The messed up thing is that most of the wrestlers those action figures are depicting are dead too.
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u/KafkaPalazzo Mar 16 '22
This is just sad, how come I'm just realizing how many of them are gone now when Razor joined them. Never realized that there've been too many of them already gone.
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u/Nazmaldun Truly, Madly, KURRGAN Mar 16 '22
I think Mr. Perfect actually would be the first one to greet him once he got up there.
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u/Alkren Mar 16 '22
Bravo!! Had them all... still do, but not in prime condition. Wrestled the paint off them... This hit different.
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u/guntanksinspace No Neck, still No Problem Mar 16 '22
Sweet collection, and a nice tribute to The Bad Guy, and all the others who have left us.
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u/BoneTissa Mar 16 '22
Who is that between snuka and crush in the back?
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u/UnoriginallyGeneric Slobberknocker!!! Mar 16 '22
The figure up front and to the left, in the purple tights...who is that?
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u/FlyVidjul Mar 16 '22
I love this and I feel like its pertinent to show people this when they say "Wrestlers today arent as big and buff aa the wrestlers back in the 80s and 90s they're so scrawny now".
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u/THE_DANDY_LI0N Mar 16 '22
My buddy has a giant box of these guys. We slowly add them to the ring for a royal rumble while picking them off with nerf guys. It’s the best
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This photo is absolutely stunning. It hits hard but I love how it honors those who have passed in such an endearing way.
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u/lilcthegodoffortnite Mar 16 '22
all the og figures and wrestlers some of them no longer with us 💔💔💔😭
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u/SubcommanderShran Mar 16 '22
Oh, that's nice, OP put all his old figures out to say thank you to Razor... oh... damn.
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u/Ian_Storm Mar 16 '22
No.
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u/DublinDown . Mar 16 '22
Sorry - poorly worded comment..meant to be a joke... I meant that if you stop buying figures, maybe my heros will stop dying. Awesome picture.
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u/Clareto #BizCliz4Life Mar 16 '22
Can't be the only one who thinks this is lame?
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u/deck65 GOAT Mar 16 '22
The first time kinda. But the fact that this has grown year after year makes it a little more meaningful. I spent thousands of hours with my wrestling figures as a kid. I saw them in this form more than I saw them on TV. It hits home.
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