Yes, it’s true: Andy Warhol liked professional wrestling…or at least he said he did. Here is a clip from a 1985 show I’ve never heard of, The War to Settle the Score, which was a mixture of professional wrestling and MTV style pop music. Warhol appears towards the end, after a bunch of nonsense from Hulk Hogan, Mr. T, and Captain Lou. Good luck.
Click here to watch this because MTV is awful…or maybe it’s WordPress who sucks.
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Tagged '80s, Andy Warhol, Hulk Hogan, Mr. T, MTV, professional wrestling, The War to Settle the Score, wrestling, WWE, WWF
I really never watched WCW back in the ‘90s; I wasn’t really a wrestling fan in the ‘90s. I saw one or two pieces of Nitro and remember seeing Hulk Hogan, sporting that fake black beard and riding a motorcycle, and something else involving the NWO but that’s about it. At that point I watched ECW (if I watched wrestling at all). I personally believed the people walking around in NWO shirts were idiots and professional wrestling was for children and rednecks. I still believe this, even though I’m a fair-weather fan, but there is something more to professional wrestling than steroid fueled muscle heads posing to kiss.
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Tagged Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, Cruiserweight, Dean Malenko, Diamond Dallas Page, Eddie Guerrero, Eric Bischoff, Goldberg, Hulk Hogan, Juventud Guerrera, Monday Nitro, Nitro, NWO, professional wrestling, Ric Flair, Sting, The Giant, The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro, WCW, WCW Monday Nitro, wrestling, WWE
On Sunday evening I went to TNA Wrestling’s pay-per-view extravaganza Destination X, held live at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. I went to one of these years ago and didn’t really have a good time; tonight I had a blast. I’ll be the first to admit professional wrestling is plain stupid but that doesn’t mean it’s without merit. The documentary Beyond the Mat sums it up the best when it states, “professional wrestling is theater at its most base.”
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