Me too. I loved the old NWA and then Glow… and on Saturday Nights, one of the channels I had would play one of the Mexican wrestling leagues and the Texas wrestling league…
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PM = Prime Minister; Trudeau was an MP (Member of Parliament) at the time of the fight.
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Pro wrestling helped bring about postmodernism, you’re saying? 
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Now when you put it that way it seems much more sinister 
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Eh, yeah… I guess. What ever floats your boat
Though the last pics I saw him in he was basically cosplaying in India. Seemed rather culturally insensitive, but I concede I don’t know as much about him as in US politics. His dad’s policies were kinda shit, though.
What is Glow?
My cousin was really into the whole Wrestling thing. I guess I saw some of it on Saturdays (the live action and the cartoon.) I guess I did kinda like Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant. I think I even got some of the cards because they were cheap and why not? I knew a lot of the other wrestlers from around that time, this was back when it was still WWF. I just never got into it. I knew it was fake, and I guess the macho bravado of the interviews kinda turned me off. I was never really into loud aggressive things, I guess. Used to hate lawn mowers. But hey, I have my guilty pleasures, so what ever passes your time!
I will say I bought that autobiography by Mankind, and read about half of it before I gave it to my BiL I bought it for, and it was really interesting.
Yeah, it was kind of amazing, and the show they did about it was great. I can’t wait for it to come back.
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GLOW was the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, back in the day. Much like the male wrestlers, each fighter had her own persona, costume, and rivalries. They used to do silly comedy skits between bouts, if I’m remembering right. I used to love it for its goofiness and superhero-type appeal. My dad liked it too… for other reasons. 
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Same; I was really surprised by how good the Netflix series was.
Dude, you didn’t watch GLOW as a kid? Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling? It was a wrestling league out of LA of just women. It was campy good fun:
https://gorgeousladiesofwrestling.com/
There is also a great documentary about it on Netlfix (or it was on Netflix):
AND there is a Netflix show, which is loosely based on GLOW, called GLOW, which was produced by Jenji Cohen:
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Well, I remember fiddling with the antenna to pick up the original GLOW, because it was on one of the low-power UHF stations in my market. I don’t know if it ever got as popular as WWF did.
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Trump doubled down by expanding the possible challenges to both mental and physical - which just doubled the ways in which Trump would have his ass handed to him. It’s funny that Trump even thinks his tough-guy act is even remotely plausible.
I mean, he is. Clearly. He can walk more than 30 feet without a golf cart, unlike Trump, so we know he’s tougher. Trump is basically falling apart in front of our eyes every time he spends any time in public.
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That would be a big “Nope.”
It only ran from 1986 until 1989, whereas the WWE is still going.
They had a really good doc about it that made me tear up just a tad:
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I don’t think we had that where I lived. Too racy? Or if it was a cable thing, that’s why. The Topeka market had kinda shit syndication options. We only had 4 channels too!
I have seen the Glow series on netflix, no idea it was based on that. Neat. The Doc looks interesting, I might check that out.
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Not even remotely. The WWF (now WWE) was pretty much the only pro-wrestling league to go national the way it did. Prior to that, most wrestling leagues were regional affairs, which were sort of governed by teh National Wrestling Alliance. World Championship Wrestling was the biggest player there, and eventually merged with the WWE, which is what we know today (lots of the old WCW stars eventually became known outside of the southern region thanks to that merging (Rick Flair, Sting, the Steiner Brothers, to name a few I remember)…
My brain has weird things in it…
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You should! It’s a sweet documentary, actually. Teared up at the end of it.
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That’s the bit I understood, what I don’t get is why would people pay to watch him eat ice cream, why specify ice cream
If that would be wrong, then I don’t want to be right.
-sign me up for the kegger!
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I’d prefer to see them fight.
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