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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 145 points 5 days ago (1 children)

would be the first cage fight i ever watched

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 45 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Ironically, I actually saw the cage fight where The Undertaker took out Mankind. I was visiting someone who was a big WWF fan and they had it playing.

Non-scripted fighting? Can’t say I’ve ever watched that.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Widely regarded as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

It was definitely the peak of the genre.

[–] OS2Warp@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago

I miss ShittyMorph.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

If you look into that event, its not entirely as scripted as you think, which is partly why it was such a shocking event. Mankind did take a huge risk and I'd argue he very easily could have died.

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[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 81 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We really are living in the Idiocracy timeline.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's way worse, Idiocracy had good faith leaders, our are pieces of shit.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

they only had good faith leaders long after the pieces of shit had set the world up in a way where everything would be shit unless someone had some sort of cold storage device for humans that would wake them up 500 years later

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Where can we sign up to be put into cold storage?

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

first you gotta join the army, then be the most average person possible, and also have no drive to do anything. good luck

[–] DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm halfway there! But somehow I'm the second half of the way there.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 66 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We were supposed to see Zuckerberg and musk, but then musks mom said he couldn’t play. Then we were all sad.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 days ago

We all knew Musk would bitch out.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is our regularly scheduled reminder that we absolutely need celebrity death match to be brought back.

Someone just rip the idea off if the rights are unattainable.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

Now a fight to the death, that I could get behind. I'm thinking we give hunter a net and trident, and don jr idk. Gladiator game, nationally televised. Fuck yeah, let's do it.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Okay but I want to be on that fight card. I have challenged Stephen Miller dozens, maybe even hundreds, of times at this point.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure in a fair fight I could take RFK and Kid Rock together.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

RFK and Kid Rock would unironically make a hilarious comedy duo as villains in a Jackie Chan movie

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Promise to also give him a wedgie and a wet willy for me. For the good old times sake.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

I’m gonna make him cry and eat dirt.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Watch Junior try to spin this as a threat on his life and get Hunter gulag-ed. Wouldn't put it past those thin-skinned crybullies.

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I want to see Hunter smash the shit out of stephen miller.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'd like to see anyone clobber PeeWee Himmler, but I'd prefer it to be a minority, and/or a woman. I'd LOVE to see an Abuela beat him into a sobbing feral position with a chancla.

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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

I absolutely hate this timeline 🙄

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago

I'm in! Any situation where trumps get punched in the face is ok by me.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Let's fucking go. Should be a monthly fight.

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[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’ll never happen. They are bullies. Push comes to shove — cowards.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The Orange Shitstain vs the Lunatic Ayatollah would be better.

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull-fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves.

-All Quiet on the Western Front.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

That's the same picture

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (11 children)

I mean the vulgarity of the event is obvious. And the mental image of Hunter bitchslapping Jr is enticing.

However this kind of exchange in itself is so far of the classy scale, more in the trailer park terms of conversation.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 points 5 days ago

I'd watch that.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

There is no yield, only death is the test of it....

[–] ivanvector@piefed.ca 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Just gotta say, the last time I remember two politicians challenging each other to a fight, one of them was Justin Trudeau.

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hoping that they both literally kill each other 😈

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[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

These guys need to cut back on the caffeine. Next, they will be bringing duels back.

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