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The Retirement of the Greatest of All Time

gregmo32gregmo32 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭
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At one point he may have been better at his profession than any other person on the planet was at theirs.

Here's to 36 great years...
I am buying and trading for RC's of Wilt Chamberlain, George Mikan, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Bob Cousy!
Don't waste your time and fees listing on ebay before getting in touch me by PM or at gregmo32@aol.com !

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  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭
    I was there; what a great night.
  • kcballboykcballboy Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭
    Overrated
    Travis
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    and soon to appear on Dancing with the Stars......
  • JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
    Okay, pardon my ignorance, but to whom or what is this in reference to? Thanks.

    /s/ JackWESQ
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  • ClemazClemaz Posts: 1,422


    << <i>Okay, pardon my ignorance, but to whom or what is this in reference to? Thanks. >>



    Thats what I was thinking.
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  • rajah424rajah424 Posts: 439 ✭✭
    "The Nature Boy" Rick Flair!
  • mercurynutmercurynut Posts: 3,207


    << <i>"The Nature Boy" Rick Flair! >>



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    I thought they might have been talking about a real athlete!
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,034 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I thought it might have been about Uno the beagle who retired recently.
  • jaxxrjaxxr Posts: 1,258 ✭✭
    Some members of the 1919 AL champion "Blacksox", used a script, for a few of their contests.

    About 1952, some U. of Kentucky basketball team players, adjusted the outcome of some contests.

    Slick Rick, should not be singled out !
    Most truly a great sports athlete and entertainer.

    PS; Not really the original "Nature Boy",
    that would be Buddy Rodgers, a champ in late 50's, early 60's

    Whewwwww !!!
    This aint no party,... this aint no disco,.. this aint no fooling around.
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭
    3 things:

    1- He is an athlete, just because the outcome of the "contests" were pre-determined does not take away from the athleticism involved. If cheerleaders are now called athletes, then so are pro wrestlers!

    2- It's Ric, not Rick :-)
  • MantleMarisFordBerraMantleMarisFordBerra Posts: 1,701 ✭✭✭
    I almost forgot the 3rd thing: Wooooooooooooooooooooo!!
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    dude was old and washed up 15 years ago.

    it's not a sport when the outcome is fixed.

    Entertainers don't retire...he will soon have a reality show on E, or Bravo or TLC or The Amish network.'


    yawn.
  • rajah424rajah424 Posts: 439 ✭✭
    Leo, you wouldn't be talking smack if Flair had you in one of his figure 4's!
  • AhmanfanAhmanfan Posts: 4,389 ✭✭✭✭
    Cheerleading is a real competition, not fixed like wrestling.
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  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭


    << <i>Leo, you wouldn't be talking smack if Flair had you in one of his figure 4's! >>



    He might if he knew that after 2 1/2 seconds he'd be able to move his arms just a little bit and fling Flair off of him.
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    lol
    If I was in a match with Ric flair, i'd immediately go for a folding chair and hit him upside the head....isnt that considered legal in "professional" wrestling?

    Hey, i enjoyed the OLD WWF with backlund and snuka and Sgt. Slaughter for the entertainment it was... it's even more outrageous and over the top today, it is in no way a sport; its an exhibition.

    This is real wrestling:
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  • mrbecker712mrbecker712 Posts: 525
    Wow...a whole thread wasted to a steroid pumping male soap opera actor. Why?
    Atlanta Braves, Charlotte Hornets, Shawn Kemp, Dale Murphy, and Bobby Engram.
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    "Wow...a whole thread wasted to a steroid pumping male soap opera actor. Why?"

    um, this isnt about Barry bonds! lol
  • mreutermreuter Posts: 543
    Cheerleaders also look a lot better in tights.
  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,120 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Give me "Blackjack Lanza", "Sargent Slaughter", the "Iron Shiek" and just to throw it in, give me "Thunderlips" (played by Hulk Hogan in Rocky 3).

    Those and other pro wrestlers from the 60-'s-early 80's are the guys I remember fondly.

    During the Iranian Hostage Crisis during the last year of Jimmy Carter's presidency Sargent Slaughter vs. the Iron Shiek made for great soap opera theater, with its theme of "America and Apple Pie" vs. middle easterners who want to take over the world.
  • gregmo32gregmo32 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭
    ...
    I am buying and trading for RC's of Wilt Chamberlain, George Mikan, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Bob Cousy!
    Don't waste your time and fees listing on ebay before getting in touch me by PM or at gregmo32@aol.com !
  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    what about George "the animal" Steele, Bobo Brazil and Macho Man!!
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    Miss Elizabeth (R.I.P.). The first true Diva of professional wrestling. All others pale when held up against her.
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