On a positive note, it now looks like Bobby Lashley may actually fight a real MMA fighter.

Its not that the effort the wrasslers have to put in is in question, its a fucken tough business and the toll it takes is tragic with number of Pro wrestlers who dont make their 50th birthday. From my perspective, as someone who used to watch a lot of wrasslin, now that MMA is fairly widely accepted and publicised, why bother with the fake shit. Imagine if guys like Chris benoit, jericho, Guerrero had gotten into MMA, would been some pretty awesome fighters there IMO.

so its not like whoever wrote this is beating a dead horse or anything but christ dude we know wrestling isnt real. The fact is you shouldnt be so quick (and overly thorough) about bashing it. The UFC took its entire promotional, marketing, and PPV blueprint from the WWE. It may be as fake as a set of tits on a stripper, but just like anyone who defends MMA would tell people they couldnt do it, whomever wrote this article certainly couldnt hack it as a wrestler (spare your attempts at steroid and painkiller jokes). If Rampage wants to moonlight as a wrestler, let him, and stop trying to be funny bc that shit stopped when the other ben left. and yeah I used to watch wrestling and stopped about 8 years ago, so that comeback is officially out.

The author of this article seems pissed… Bad day?
Although everyone who commented on this seems pissed aswell… Coincidence?

Im gonna guess that Rampage was forced to do it by the studio that produced A-Team, its called publicity

MRuss not checking his sources? I find that hard to believe!

NOTE: Reposting with modified URLs to avoid being flagged as spam:

@Mike Russell

I know I’ve been critical in the past, but I really wasn’t trying to attack you Mike. And I’m being honest about Rampage’s posts. Here are links to the actual tweets:

hxxp://twitter.com/Rampage4real/status/15721073786

hxxp://twitter.com/Rampage4real/status/15720851477

Perhaps you copied the edited tweets from another source, like hxxp://www.prowrestling.net/artman/publish/WWE/article10012330.shtml? (I see them there edited, also.)

Good, let him go, he will fit right in there. Rolling around, playing pretend with a bunch of drugged up half-letes, with scripted fininshes, it will be just like back when he was in Pride. Hell, he might even win a fight in the WWE.

I can’t wait until they make a fake version of my job where I can make more money without all this damned hard work and pressure to perform.

Why would a big naturally gifted athlete choose fake pro wrestling over MMA fighting? Umm… maybe so you can make more money and not get your face punched in?? Duh!

Yeah I know pro/fake wreslters get hurt and what they do is very physical and sometimes the blood is real… but really I think real fighing would hurt and injure you a lot more.

And if ‘Page went to pro wrasslin’ maybe he could win. No pressure to perform when it’s all scripted. Win and take the glory, lose and blame it on the script.

I think my last comment was flagged as spam because it contained URLs, but if you approve it you will see the links to Rampage’s actual tweets. I’m not trolling.

 I didn’t edit anything, StarWarsKid  Jose Monkey. Keep trolling.

Damn, why did you decide to edit Rampage’s tweets and fix all of his misspellings and errant (and seemingly random) punctuation? That was the funniest part!

For example, you quoted:

“The King (Jerry Lawler) is laid back, Mean Gene was pimp, everybody was damn cool. I would like to go back as Rampage and do the powerbomb.”

Rampage’s actual tweet:

“The King is lade back,Mean Gene was pimp,everybody was damn cool,I would like 2 go back as Rampage and do the power bomb then wowl. Ny next!”

Another, your version:

“John Cena was cool, but Ted [DiBiase] is the man. I want to do a movie with him. Vince [McMahon] was cool as hell, Bret [Hart] is my new home boy, [Roddy] Piper is so down to earth.”

Actual tweet:

“John Cena,was cool,but Ted is the man,I wanna do a movie wit him. Vince was cool as hell,Bret is my new home boy Pipper so down to Earth”

Rampage doesn’t need an editor – he’s keepin’ it real!

Mike>> You really have to laugh at that. The alternative is that you cry for humanity in general.

Christ guys. Lot of anger about a kids TV show.

At least it hints that rampage may be working on rounding off his game a bit. The man hasn’t even attemped a crazy body slam/power bomb in years. Get some of your old flair back Rampage, let’s see a little airtime before you spike some middleweight and get DQ’d re-enacting your pride days.

hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvTNyKIGXiI

^Oh shit here we go…

u callin Brock Lesnar, the UFC Heavyweight champion a fag? That’s a bold statement

I’ve been scarred by spandex. Whenever I see a bleach blonde Mississippi waterfall my first instinct is to stab somebody in the eye socket with whatever relatively sharp object I can get my hands on (screw-driver, pencil, spoon, prison shank), especially if it’s accompanied by clip-on feather earrings and Bosworth blades. I can’t help it, it’s a primal carnal reaction. A gold cross pendant makes it even worse.

Wow what anger and hatred. Before reading this, never knew a person could actually be prowrestlingaphobic. Did the Ultimate Warrior show the writer his special “love hold” when he was ten years old?

May The Iron Sheik make you humble, old country way.

@ Cryin’Sars

Wrestling is fags performing for fags, so what the fuck are you talking about fag? If you call that shit entertainment I bet you’ve got Jerry Springer’s signature tattooed on your ass cheeks and you go to Walmart just to eat at McDonald’s every other day in your spandex tights, cowboy boots and sleeveless Dokken concert tee. Or have you been too busy snorting lines of crank off Ric Flair’s shriveled old cock to get out of the trailer? Please stab yourself in the testicles repeatedly with a rusty ice pick to prevent any conceivable chance that you might possibly replicate your DNA. Immediately.

No, seriously, do it now. Find a hammer or a large rock or some other blunt instrument if you can’t get something resembling a rusty ice pick and smash yourself in the balls, just like Japanese Deathmatch.

all you fags who knock pro wrestling can suck it, its entertainment and everyone knows its fake, so just like when u go to the movies and know its not real, watch wrestling and enjoy it for the entertainment it is fags

I used to watch wrasslin’ as a kid, but there is no one in MMA that could get me motivated to watch it now as an adult. Not even if Dana White would agree to a handicap match against Vince McMahon and Mean Gene Okerlund.

onemorepunch… lmao

I had no idea that Ted Debiase and Jerry Lawlor (RIP Jim Carrey) were still in the scene. wtf. Mean Gene? Are you serious?

Man, I can be a real dick sometimes. I think I was out of weed or something…

dranokills +1000

HearDaRiddum Says:
Wed, 06/09/2010 – 04:37

fuck who wrote this shit. it seems like all cage potato does is talk shit on rampage. so he did a skit for WWE, he enjoyed it as a kid and had an oppurtunity to play a out something he wanted when he was a kid. its like when u jump back on a basketball court after a few years it brings back memories or meeting your child hood hero. cage potato is dying because of u shit writers. BF was the best writer u guys had.
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on behalf of all of potato nation let me be the first to say : EAT A BAG OF DICKS!
Go to bloody vagina and post your shit.

@fatbelly Frank…To answer why a talented college wrestler would choose fake fighting in spandex over MMA…It’s a toss up. You can either choose to fight 3 or so times a year, training probably 12 weeks per fight (250ish days) and earning maybe something in the realm of $250k per fight plus endorsements…or you can choose to wrestle a few times a week traveling 250-300 days a year…but as a top tier guy make MILLIONS of dollars. Just ask Brock Lesnar. He left wrestling due to the schedule and toll it took on him, but not until after he made his millions.

If you bring Rampage and Kimbo to the WWE I’ll watch it on YouTube

Yes, i did love me some pro rasslin’ back in the day. Ask me about some NWA. Go ahead. I spotted Ricky Morton about five years ago, and the guy still had the platinum blonde mullet–i imagine he was wrestling at a local show that night. I honestly don’t know if i matured (cause in so many ways, i haven’t) or the storylines got all retart, but i just can’t get into it anymore. Not interested.

Judging by this two minute clip, however, the storylines got all retart.

I can respect the athleticism and toughness of the performers, but i just can’t get motivated to watch. It just seems silly anymore.

“Serious question. Does anyone other than 10-year-old kids actually watch wrestling?” No they don’t except Phatassi.
And now here’s a thing, now that MMA is here, and guys can earn money from Real fighting, why would anyone choose the pro wrasslin career path? if you had some athletic ability and say a college wrestling background, wouldn’t you go for the real thing rather than setting yourself up as basically a glorified stunt man in Spandex.
I used to watch a bit of Pro wrasslin when guys like the Rock actually entertained, but the five minutes I’ve caught over the last 10 or so years is lame as fuck

Alf… remember Alf? He’s back… in pog form.

Here’s more news… Rumpage may fit in the 205 class at weigh-ins, but he looked like a string bean in the ring next to the wrestlers. When he ripped [most] of his shirt off, he might as well have been Erkel standing there.

The wrestling is over the top and corny and he still didn’t fit in. Go back to what you do best, criminal… running through the streets like a maniac in your truck.

Did Rampage really tweet ‘childhood’ as ‘child hood’? What are you talking about, Q…a particular stretch of time in your life or the place where your baby-momma lives?

I’m not here to tell people what to watch, but after the fact that “professional” (?) wrestling is completely fake, where’s the draw? The super gay neon spandex? The cheesy “story-lines” and terrible acting? Oh, wait, the concrete floor new car matches and witty locker room banter that adds to the intriguing story-line. That other shit from Japan and the mid-west is more repulsive to me than watching Faces of Death, I’d much rather simply view a live execution than watch two grown man-children roll around in barbed wire and thumb tacks. It just doesn’t compute at all for me.

I will tell you why I went on this rant, however. I understand that “wrestling” and No-Holds-Barred fighting share a dubiously co-promoted and often completely contrived past. The two subjects really share nothing other than the fact that they are live promoted events. I’m just sick of hearing or seeing anything about wrestling. I go out of my way to avoid that insidious garbage and I still can’t escape it. Every time I hear anything from a fan of that crap it’s just a bunch of excuses about how hard it is athletically and how it’s not really super gay, I just don’t understand the finer details of it. You will never catch me on a wrestling fan-site trying to beg for legitimacy for real (that’s right REAL) fighting. I wish I could say the same for wrestling fans.

dude that is the weakest ever… i would rather watch the bachelorette on mondays than raw

Couldn’t give two fucks what rampage does, and leonard Cohen, yeah I really enjoyed that movie myself

“Serious question. Does anyone other than 10-year-old kids actually watch wrestling?”

Yes, we do and not because we think it’s real but because we enjoy watching a scripted fight that, in a perfect world, focuses more on the psychology and build up of the fight as opposed to it being 100% about in-ring competition. Watching professional wrestling gives me a completely different vibe than I get watching MMA, no better or worse. It’s something that I have enjoyed watching since I was young and while I’ll be the first to admit that the product is lacking lately, I can still be found parked in front of the TV every Monday night tuned to WWE Raw three decades into my existance.

The thought that anyone watches WWE because they think it’s real is an archaic belief that was tossed aside in the late ’80 and is more often used as a punchline at the fan’s expense.

WAS THAT VIRGIL AND IRWIN R. SCHYSTER?! I haven’t seen them since like 1993. Bret Hart is back too? I’m sold. screw MMA i’m going back to watching wrestling.

That acting was horriawful. Pretty much par for the course though, they’ll let him in easily.

fuck who wrote this shit. it seems like all cage potato does is talk shit on rampage. so he did a skit for WWE, he enjoyed it as a kid and had an oppurtunity to play a out something he wanted when he was a kid. its like when u jump back on a basketball court after a few years it brings back memories or meeting your child hood hero. cage potato is dying because of u shit writers. BF was the best writer u guys had.

Am I the only one that thought The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke was one of the best movies in the last few years?

nWo 4 LIFE!

If Rampage has issues being away from his family during a training camp he would weep every night for 3/4 of the year with the travel schedule wrestlers live on.

Thinking of Bret Hart, he possibly could have become a great MMA fighter had the sport been around during his youth.

never gave a shit about wrasslin…..

Fake wrestling in the WWE is a perfect fit for Rampage since he has no real wrestling skills.

I could barely stand it when I was five. I had a roommate a couple years ago that was crazy for wrestling, he had nearly as many wrestling dvds as I had MMA dvds (I have about 80 or so) and he had a bunch of 3 or 4 disc tribute dvds to various wrestling “stars” from over the years. The shit was even worse than trying to watch He-man grown up.

I couldn’t believe the ridiculous “extreme underground” shit he had. If you need any more of a case for chemical castration all you have to do is watch some fat inbred allow another piece of fat white trash in a unitard and makeup to stab forks into his forehead for 10 minutes (part of the script?).

Terrible…. just dreadful. A bunch of steroid freaks in speedos. Who the hell want’s to see that really?! Terrible.

im pretty sure a pro wrassling is alot harder than mma. with all his bitching hes done while being a pro fighter, he sure aas hell wouldnt cut it in the wwf.

Perfect next step for Rampage.

Giant black guy with poor acting skills.

He could be part of a twin tag team with Ezekiel Jackson!

Dude, pogs were awesome!

Ugh. I picked up watching it again a few years back but got bored fast.

“That’s turrible”

I’m not talking about tacos, either..