Finish Him…Up,Down,Back,Back,A…Fatality!

By Matt

From: http://knucklesunited.com/

This has got to be one of the best fatalities I have ever seen aside from Liu Kang turning into a dragon and eating the upper half of your body. For some reason I don’t think this is what they had in mind when they asked for a chair. Video after the jump.

11 Old School WWF Wrestlers With the Worst Side Jobs

From: http://www.11points.com/

Over the weekend, I found myself browsing deep in the annals of Hulu, and there, I came upon a channel called WWE Classics. It's got a few hundred clips of old matches... many of which are from the late '80s and early '90s, when pro wrestling was my bona fide obsession.

Back then, the WWE was the WWF. (I know the World Wildlife Fund somehow strong armed them into changing the initials... but that still ranks up there as one of the stupidest name changes in history. Right next to Football Bowl Subdivision, Chad Ochocinco, and Two Guys and a Girl with no pizza place.)

Over the same weekend, in a completely unrelated event, I also found my way onto the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, looking at salary data for hundreds of jobs. That's what I do on my weekends. Watch old wrestling clips and look at data. It's a modern miracle I have a girlfriend.

I decided to combine those two web stumblings into one list and do an homage to the WWF of my formative years. In that era, WWF overlord Vince McMahon had a penchant for giving wrestlers gimmicks where they had other side jobs outside of wrestling. He's outgrown that now... it took about two decades too long, but he finally realized that fans aren't more likely to cheer, boo, or buy tickets to see someone just because he's billed as a wrestlin' plumber.

Here are the 11 old school WWF wrestlers who have the lowest-paying side jobs, based on the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

1. Koko B. Ware - nonfarm animal caretaker ($21,500/year) - Koko wrestled in the era before black guys finally broke through the WWF's upper card glass ceiling. (Even now, when they do, it's a tenuous situation at best. Wrestling is right up there with scone baking as a mostly honkified business.)
   
   Koko's gimmick was The Birdman... he would bring his parrot, Frankie, to the ring with him. I chose him as the representative for the nonfarm animal caretaker because Jake "The Snake" Roberts was eventually less defined by his snake wrangling and more by his psychological warfare (and debilitating alcohol and drug addiction). Plus, if Jake was a real caretaker, he would've found a way to stop the Earthquake from repeatedly crushing his snake Damien with butt splashes.
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Hillbilly Jim, Henry O. Godwinn and Phinneas I. Godwinn - farmworkers, farm and ranch animals ($22,920) - Hillbilly Jim was popular in the mid '80s. He was brought back in the mid '90s to try to make the fans like two obese wrestlers whose names acronymed down to HOG and PIG. Clever acronyms were never Vince McMahon's strong suit. (Besides HOG, PIG and the aforementioned WWE, he also had the XFL -- where the X stood for NOTHING, not Xtreme.)
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Paul Bearer - funeral attendant ($23,270) - The Undertaker actually makes a much better living from his side job, more than $58,000. Paul Bearer's lower-level position isn't quite as lucrative. Although he does hold in his hands an all-powerful urn, so that might let him charge rates a little bit above the mean.
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake - barber ($26,610) - I always understood that, because he was a barber, he had the tattered clothes. I could even kinda justify the brightly-colored fishnet gloves. But I could never quite figure out the purpose behind the bowtie. Maybe, since this side job is so low paying, he had to take an additional side job as a Chippendale? Or a bowtie model? Token for the Nation of Islam?
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. "The Model" Rick Martel - models ($30,160) - The average model pulls in $30,000 -- but I assume that's for, like, posing with a bottle of Castrol at an auto industry trade show. Once Rick Martel debuted his fragrance Arrogance he had to be making BANK. Just like other famous fragrance makers like Coco Chanel or Christian Dior or Frederick Coolwater.
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Duke "The Dumpster" Droese - refuse and recyclable material collectors ($32,790) - I would say this was one of Vince McMahon's worst gimmick ideas ever -- I mean, how successful can a wrestling garbageman ever be? -- but the gimmick was actually Droese's idea. What I can blame on McMahon: Having the ring announcer say that Droese hailed from "Mount Trashmore, Florida."
   
   Unless that's an homage to Mount Splashmore from "The Simpsons" (which I am almost positive it's not), the concept of Mount Trashmore makes Parts Unknown seem grounded in reality.
   
   [Edited 3/23 at 10:15 AM: Turns out there actually is a landfill in Florida that's referred to as Mount Trashmore. Kind of invalidates that rant. Oh well.]
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. The Bodydonnas: Skip and Sunny - fitness trainers and aerobics instructors ($34,310) - Many wrestlers have found heel success by coming out and insulting the general fitness level of the crowd. Ravishing Rick Rude was so good at it that we looked forward to it; as a boy, I remember going nuts when I was at the Richfield Coliseum and he called us all "fat, out-of-shape, Cleveland couch potatoes."
   
   The Bodydonnas tried that but, without having even one-two-thousandth the charisma of Rick Rude, any reaction was nothing more than a Pavlovian trigger based on hearing the name of the city. Skip was definitely more suited for his low-paying side job than for wrestling... at least the theatrical elements of wrestling.
   
   Sunny, at least, ushered in the WWF's era of fake-breasted blonds... an era that, from what I can tell, has exploded today to the point where it's actually impossible to keep track of all the fake-breasted blond women the WWE has on the payroll.
   
   
   
   
   
   
8. Coach - coaches and scouts ($35,580) - This guy was Mr. Perfect's manager for a while in the early '90s. He would blow his whistle for almost the entire match. It's not as annoying as it sounds -- it was actually far, far, far more annoying.
   
   
   
   
   
   
9. Tugboat - sailors ($35,880) - It was never clear if this guy was on a tugboat or if, because of his size, we were to believe that he might actually BE a tugboat. I'm going with option A because of the cringe-inducing lil' sailor's hat he's got on.
   
   
   
   
   
   
10. Doink the Clown - entertainers and performers, misc ($35,820) - During my wrestling phase, I often found myself in the position of defending pro wrestling to the traditional dissenters. Things like "evil clowns who wrestle" made my position exponentially more difficult to defend.
    
    
    
    
    
    
11. Big Boss Man - corrections officers and jailers ($41,340) - With that fairly reasonable side salary he shouldn't be on this list. And he wouldn't be if the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracked the annual salary of vikings... if Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart was actually an iron worker... or if I'd decided to count Val Venis under the occupation "pipelayer."
    
    
    
    

Classic WWE Moments: Macho Man Randy Savage Interviews

This week in WWE classic moments, TPS profiles the one and only Macho Man Randy Savage. Known for his flashy outfits, his beautiful manager Elizabeth, and his patented elbow drop from the top ropes, Savage’s Macho Man persona quickly became one of the wwe’s top draws of the late 80’s and early 90’s.

Savage was one of, if not the most, charismatic wrestlers of his time. He was a two time WWE champion, a onetime intercontinental champion, and a four time WCW champion. Even with all these accomplishment in the ring, fans may have truly loved the Macho Man for his out of ring charisma.

Here is a montage of classic Macho Man Randy Savage interviews showcasing what the Macho Madness was all about.

10 Sexiest WWE Divas- Wrestling Chick Countdown

1. Maria Kanellis

The sexiest WWE diva had the most copies of her Playboy magazine sold out of all the other WWE girls.

2. Candice Michelle

Candice, the WWE champion got even more popular after the infamous Playboy naked shoot

3. Lita

Amy Dumas is sadly a retired diva, but remains one of the best female wrestlers ever who changed the opinion of many people that

4. Torrie Wilson

Torrie Wilson is a WWE SmackDown! diva who scored not one, but two Playboy covers. Since everyone was impressed with her first Playboy appearance, especially Sable who wanted to do a pictorial together with Torrie, making it of the hottest Playboy divas photo shoots…

5. Amy Webber

The model/actress Amy Weber is best known for her time as Miss Amy in the ring of Smackdown! Weber retired in 2005 due to reported harassment from some of the wrestlers, since she was a mean girl on show, but she remains in our memory one of the sexiest WWE divas ever!

6.Christy Hemme

Christy Hemme is a very sexy and attractive TNA wrestler and WWE diva! But, for a beautiful redhead, this isn’t enough, so Christy is also known for her careers in acting, singing and modeling.

7. Stacy Keibler

Also known as the bet legs of WWE federation! Stacy Keibler is an American actress and a former WWE diva who started wrestling as one of the Nitro Girls in WCW. She retired from wrestling in 2006 and is focused on her acting and keeping that hot body ever since…

8. Ashley Massaro

The diva search winner of 2005, Ashley is one tough chick, proving that by participating in ‘Survivor: China’. With one of hotter pictorials in Playboy, Massaro justifies the sexy wrestling diva image…

9. Michelle McCool

Michelle McCool is a WWE SmackDown! diva who used to be a seventh grade teacher! Could you imagine the hot Miss. Cool teaching you somethin?

10. Trish Stratus

Trish Stratus or Patricia Anne Stratigias is a former Canadian fitness model and a former pro wrestler. She retired from WWE in 2006 after winning her 7th Women’s Championship, which is a WWE record so far! Trish was even proclaimed ‘diva of the decade’