These are some of my favorite boxing photos of all-time, Patterson could throw his punches with so much force that both of his feet would leave the canvas and it would look like he's floating in the air, really cool images.
In June 1959, Patterson had lost his title in shocking fashion to Ingemar Johansson. The Swedish heavyweight had unleashed what he called the "Toonder" of his right hand and knocked Patterson down seven times in three rounds. Humiliated, Patterson vowed revenge, driving himself in training and cultivating a "hatred" for Johansson. On June 20, 1960, fighting with focus and fury, Patterson became the first man to regain the heavyweight crown, shrugging off Johansson's right to score a devastating fifth-round knockout. Said Patterson, whose final left hook left Johansson twitching on the canvas, "I never want to hate like that again."
Like I said, Floyd Patterson was a total gentleman in life, but when that bell rang, he was something totally different, his viciousness was frightening. But that's the nature of the sport, it's primal combat, and you either eat, or be eaten.
"I remember looking in the mirror before going to the fights, and I said, you probably will not come back as the winner, you will probably be defeated again. But, when they raise his hand, he's going to have difficulty getting it up, which meant that I was going to give him a very tough fight."
Check this out, this image shows the Arena of Nimes, a well-preserved ancient Roman amphitheater located in Nimes, Southern France. The ancient Roman empire had many provinces, stretched out all across Europe and even into Africa.
Getting back to professional wrestling, I was watching a WCW match from the late 90s or early 2000s the other night, Bret "Hitman" Hart vs Sting, and while I was watching the match it dawned on me how sad it was that Bret Hart's career pretty much ended in 1997 when he left WWF to join WCW. Watching that match with Sting the other night, I was amazed at how smooth and matter-of-factly Bret Hart methodically dismantled Sting, took him apart and looked damn smooth doing it. The Hitman was born to wrestle and it's a shame that his career, for all intents and purposes, ended in 1997 when he left WWF. There are a lot of reasons Bret Hart didn't work out in WCW. When he arrived at WCW, the NWO was in full swing and Hulk Hogan was "the man", and Hogan didn't get along well with Hart, and Hogan with his ego and controlling ways wasn't going to make room for Hart, and let's face it, Hogan was calling the shots over there. There's also the fact that Goldberg came along, and he was a huge draw, everything was built around Goldberg and they didn't need Hart. But you also have to blame WCW for not booking Hart the right way, they really failed to capitalize on the Montreal Screwjob fiasco, more on that later. But Bret "Hitman" Hart is one of my favorite wrestlers of all-time, he was famously called "The Excellence of Execution", because he was just that, he could execute any wrestling move you can think of, and make it look smooth as silk. The Hitman is one of the greatest technical wrestlers who ever lived, he was also surprisingly athletic and could pull off some acrobatics. He had a good build, he looked jacked, but not steroids jacked, strong and compact, just the right height, and he was just a natural, he knew his way around a wrestling ring like nobody's business, he could also hold his own on the mic. Sick highlight video right here.
Bret Hart came from a wrestling family, Bret had four brothers who also wrestled professionally: Bruce, Keith, Owen, and Smith. Additionally, his brother Dean also had some wrestling experience. Therefore, a total of five of his brothers were involved in wrestling. Bret's father, Stu Hart, taught Bret and all of his brothers how to wrestle, Stu Hart taught a lot of professional wrestlers how to wrestle, he ran a school for wrestling in the basement of his home, it was called "Stu Hart's Dungeon", and he would basically take his students down there and stretch them out, put them through pure hell, toughen them up, and teach them the necessary skills. I think Bret's mother once commented about how she would constantly hear the screams coming from the basement, from the dungeon. Let's get a photo of the Dungeon in here.
So, The Montreal Screwjob was a controversial incident in professional wrestling where the pre-determined outcome of a match was changed without the knowledge of one of the participants, Bret Hart, in order to ensure he lost the WWF Championship to Shawn Michaels. This happened at the Survivor Series event in Montreal, Canada, on November 9, 1997. Hart, who was leaving the WWF for WCW, didn't want to lose the title in his home country and had a verbal agreement with Vince McMahon to forfeit it on a later date. But McMahon didn't trust Bret to surrender the belt, he thought Bret might take the WWF belt with him over to WCW and throw it in the trash live on WCW television, the WWF women's champion had done that just months prior and embarrassed Vince McMahon, so McMahon hatched a plan to just straight up take the belt from Bret without Bret knowing it was going to happen, to screw Bret over. So, the match was set, Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels at Survivor Series on November 9, 1997 in Montreal Canada, Bret Hart's home, it was the main event that evening. Bret Hart had no idea what was about to happen, he thought he would keep the WWF title and lose it the next night in WWF Monday Night Raw, he thought. The match started, and about ten minutes into the match Vince McMahon comes out to ringside, Shawn Michaels had Bret Hart in the sharp shooter, Hart's finishing move, and Vince McMahon tells the referee to ring the bell, he yells to the referee, "If you don't call for the bell to be rung, you a$$ is fired", so the referee calls for the bell to be rung. The bell is rung and Shawn Michaels quickly lets go of Bret. Now, Bret Hart immediately knows he was screwed and he walks over to the ropes and looks at Vince McMahon, who is still standing outside of the ring. Then, all hell breaks lose, Bret Hart spits a huge loogie right over the ropes, right at Vince McMahon's face, and I swear to God, Bret's aim was absolutely perfect because that loogie hit Vince right smack dab in the face. Vince stands there looking shocked and wipes the spit from his face, Shawn Michaels quickly runs over to the announcers table and grabs the WWF Championship belt and runs off back to the locker room and then Vince heads back to the locker room area. After that, Bret Hart loses his $hit, he goes over to the announcers table and grabs some of the technical production equipment, monitors, and starts breaking them, because he knows those monitors are expensive and it'll cost Vince some major money, it was insane. After Bret gets it all out of his system, he finally goes back to the locker room area where he runs into Shawn Michaels and Triple H, he asks them right out, "Did you know Vince was going to do that, were you guys in on it?" They lie and say no, and Bret goes to the locker rooms and takes a shower. Once he gets out of the shower, who comes walking into the locker room but Vince McMahon, and there are about 30 other wrestlers in the room watching this unfold. Vince walks up to Bret and tries to look tough in front of everyone and he starts some $hit with Bret, he gets in Bret's face. At this point, Bret is beyond pissed off and he isn't putting up with it, so he hits Vince as hard as he can right in the face, knocks him out cold right there in front of everyone. Afterwards, cameras capture Vince McMahon walking out of Bret's locker room with a Black eye. Nothing fake about what happened in Montreal that night, we were witnessing the real-life issues between Vince McMahon and Bret Hart spill over into the show that night.
But getting back to Bret Hart, it's a real shame that his career pretty much ended after the Montreal Screwjob, he was one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all-time, the guy never had a bad match, he was that great. He's number 2 on my all-time greats list after Ric Flair. Bret Hart was the bridge between the Golden era and the Attitude era in WWF, he took the ball and ran with it after Hogan's historic run ended. Bret was all class, and he was a phenomenal wrestler, phenomenal performer, good on promos, great at putting other wrestlers over, he was the complete package, if I were starting a wrestling company, one of the first guys I would put on my roster is the Hitman. He had some great matches, his Ironman match with Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XII, his match with his own brother Owen Hart at WrestleMania X, and his "I Quit" match with Stone Cold Steve Austin in 1997 at WrestleMania XIII are some of my favorites. I'll never forget the image of Austin, blood covered face, twisted like a pretzel, passing out from the pain of Bret's finishing move, the Sharpshooter, which is also one of the greatest finishing moves ever, he made it famous, and nobody could apply it quite like Bret.
Another thing I always liked about Bret Hart, he would always gives his signature shades to a fan on his way to the ring, it was usually a kid, the Hitman was a total class act.
Check out these photos of Saturn, these are the clearest photos ever taken of Saturn by NASA. Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system, with a diameter roughly 9.5 times that of Earth, in terms of volume, Saturn is about 764 times larger than Earth.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, it has an equatorial diameter of about 88,846 miles (142,984 kilometers), which is over 11 times the diameter of Earth. In terms of volume, Jupiter is more than 1,300 times the volume of Earth, meaning that over 1,300 Earths could fit inside Jupiter. These are the clearest photos ever taken of Jupiter by NASA.
On March 5, 1982, the Venera-14 lander successfully landed on the surface of the Venus, the second planet of the Solar System. In total, it worked for 57 minutes before the atmosphere destroyed it, Venus has a crushing atmosphere with surface temperatures around 847°F (465°C), hot enough to melt lead, and a pressure 90 times that of Earth. The lander managed to convey a color panorama of the surrounding area. This panorama is still the last image from the surface of Venus available to scientists.
My favorite tag team in wrestling history is the "Road Warriors", they were huge in the 80s and they later were rebranded as the "Legion of Doom" when they entered WWF in 1990. I actually like the Legion of Doom name better, I grew up watching them as the Legion. The tag team consisted of Hawk and Animal, they were both built like tanks, had mohawk type hair, their faces painted, and would wear spiked shoulder pads to the ring. Most people consider them the greatest tag team of all-time, they just had an awesome look to them and you could tell they were just born to be a tag team.
When they were known as the Road Warriors in the 80s
When they were known as the Legion of Doom in the early 90s
The Legion of Doom had this finishing move, where one of them would set their opponent on his shoulders while the other would climb to the top rope and clothesline the opponent off of his shoulders, it was called the "Doomsday Device" and it is not a finishing move I would want to take, it was scary as heck to watch, you would always hold your breath, very dangerous if it wasn't done just right. A wrestler named Henry Godwinn had his neck broken in 1998 from the move. The recipient of the Doomsday Device would most always do a backflip after being clotheslined off the shoulders, and it was just a scary finishing move, you had to admire anyone with the stones to take it.
Hangman Adam Page, who wrestles in AEW and just won the title last night, has one of my favorite finishing moves of today's wrestlers, it's called the "Buckshot Lariat", where he flips over the rope and uses his momentum to deliver a brutal clothesline.
I still remember when Hangman Adam Page did that Buckshot Lariat off the referees back and clotheslined the guy over the rope and through a table, one of the sickest things I've ever seen in professional wrestling.
This was one of the craziest things I've seen in professional wrestling, the night Seth Rollins was almost impaled by a metal spike that was attached to the bottom of a steel cage. Rollins picked a bad spot to try to enter the cage and he was almost impaled through the back by the spike as the cage lowered. Thank goodness he was able to get out of the way just in time.
This is one of the craziest things you'll ever see, that time Johnny Knoxville challenged Butterbean to a boxing match in a department store. Didn't end well for Knoxville.
Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals. A lot of iconic photos have been taken of Michael Jordan, but these Three are my favorite, because these photos really show you the fire that burned inside of him, how deep the desire to win inside this man was, to have food poisoning and not only go out and play, but drop 38 and will his team to victory. I remember watching that game and he looked physically awful, you could see it in his face and body, I legit thought he was going to collapse and die. I've had food poisoning, and it's beyond a miserable experience, I couldn't imagine playing a full basketball game with it. Out of all the athletes I've ever seen, I've never seen such a burning desire to win inside anyone like I have Jordan, he's the most competitive athlete I've ever seen, his drive to win was absolutely relentless, he was almost borderline psychotic about winning.
Jordan on Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals:
If I knew then what I know now about what I would have to go through in Game 5 of the 1997 Finals at Utah, I don't know if I would play. If the outcome was guaranteed to the game, then I'd probably go through it again. But if the outcome wasn't assured, there's no way I would do it again. I could have died for a basketball game. I played that game on heart and determination and nothing else. I didn't have any food, any energy, any sleep or anything else. I don't even remember a lot about that game. I have never felt as awful physically as I did in that game.
I woke up at three in the morning with what seemed like stomach flu. I couldn't keep anything down and I couldn't sleep. I took something that I thought would make me drowsy, but the symptoms were so severe I never got back to sleep. By the time I got to the arena I was fighting to stay awake. I just sat back in the locker room drinking coffee, trying to wake up enough to play the game. I didn't have anything in my stomach and the coffee really didn't do anything to wake me up. By halftime I was getting dehydrated, so I started drinking what I thought was Gatorade. But someone had mistakenly handed me a bottle of GatorLode, which is what you are supposed to drink after you have finished a difficult activity. By the time we went back out for the second half I felt bloated on top of being exhausted. I had continued to drink coffee, which ultimately only helped the dehydration come more quickly. There were times in the third and fourth quarters that I felt like I was going to pass out. I remember thinking, "Get this game over so I can lie down." In the fourth quarter, right before the three-pointer that won the game, I had become almost completely dehydrated. I was shivering, but I continued to sweat. On that last shot, I didn't even know whether it went in or not. I could barely stand up. When I got back into the locker room the doctors were really concerned because I didn't have anything left. I was cold, yet I was sweating and dehydrated. They wanted to give me intravenous fluids, but I made it over to a table, lay down, and starting drinking Gatorade. That's all I did for about 45 minutes. All for a basketball game.
This is still one of the greatest plays I've ever seen and it really shows you what a complete player and all-around nightmare Jordan was on the court. He steals the ball, saves it from going out of bounds, and then puts up one of the greatest shots I've ever seen in basketball history.
Of course you have to mention his shot in the 91' Finals. He switches the ball from his right hand to his left hand, in midair, and lays it up with his left hand on the other side of the rim, ridiculously difficult to do, one of the greatest shots in basketball history. I actually used to try this shot on the court and never could get it to drop.
This is one of the sickest and most difficult shots I've ever seen, Jordan gets bumped in midair by Ewing, and is still able to make the shot despite his body being totally contorted sideways.
A lot of people don't realize that Jordan actually shattered the crap out of a backboard. This happened during an exhibition game in Trieste, Italy, on August 25, 1985. Jordan, playing for Stefanel Trieste, dunked with such force that the backboard shattered into pieces. The event even inspired a popular line of Air Jordan 1 sneakers, known as the "Shattered Backboard" colorway.
You can use MJ as a template with anything you want to do in life, the blueprint to winning. Forget basketball, he showed us the attitude we need to have to win.
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These are some of my favorite boxing photos of all-time, Patterson could throw his punches with so much force that both of his feet would leave the canvas and it would look like he's floating in the air, really cool images.
In June 1959, Patterson had lost his title in shocking fashion to Ingemar Johansson. The Swedish heavyweight had unleashed what he called the "Toonder" of his right hand and knocked Patterson down seven times in three rounds. Humiliated, Patterson vowed revenge, driving himself in training and cultivating a "hatred" for Johansson. On June 20, 1960, fighting with focus and fury, Patterson became the first man to regain the heavyweight crown, shrugging off Johansson's right to score a devastating fifth-round knockout. Said Patterson, whose final left hook left Johansson twitching on the canvas, "I never want to hate like that again."
Like I said, Floyd Patterson was a total gentleman in life, but when that bell rang, he was something totally different, his viciousness was frightening. But that's the nature of the sport, it's primal combat, and you either eat, or be eaten.
"I remember looking in the mirror before going to the fights, and I said, you probably will not come back as the winner, you will probably be defeated again. But, when they raise his hand, he's going to have difficulty getting it up, which meant that I was going to give him a very tough fight."
Check this out, this image shows the Arena of Nimes, a well-preserved ancient Roman amphitheater located in Nimes, Southern France. The ancient Roman empire had many provinces, stretched out all across Europe and even into Africa.
Yeah, why not. Some awesome overhead shots of the ancient Roman Colosseum.
Music time, how about some 80s.
Getting back to professional wrestling, I was watching a WCW match from the late 90s or early 2000s the other night, Bret "Hitman" Hart vs Sting, and while I was watching the match it dawned on me how sad it was that Bret Hart's career pretty much ended in 1997 when he left WWF to join WCW. Watching that match with Sting the other night, I was amazed at how smooth and matter-of-factly Bret Hart methodically dismantled Sting, took him apart and looked damn smooth doing it. The Hitman was born to wrestle and it's a shame that his career, for all intents and purposes, ended in 1997 when he left WWF. There are a lot of reasons Bret Hart didn't work out in WCW. When he arrived at WCW, the NWO was in full swing and Hulk Hogan was "the man", and Hogan didn't get along well with Hart, and Hogan with his ego and controlling ways wasn't going to make room for Hart, and let's face it, Hogan was calling the shots over there. There's also the fact that Goldberg came along, and he was a huge draw, everything was built around Goldberg and they didn't need Hart. But you also have to blame WCW for not booking Hart the right way, they really failed to capitalize on the Montreal Screwjob fiasco, more on that later. But Bret "Hitman" Hart is one of my favorite wrestlers of all-time, he was famously called "The Excellence of Execution", because he was just that, he could execute any wrestling move you can think of, and make it look smooth as silk. The Hitman is one of the greatest technical wrestlers who ever lived, he was also surprisingly athletic and could pull off some acrobatics. He had a good build, he looked jacked, but not steroids jacked, strong and compact, just the right height, and he was just a natural, he knew his way around a wrestling ring like nobody's business, he could also hold his own on the mic. Sick highlight video right here.
Bret Hart came from a wrestling family, Bret had four brothers who also wrestled professionally: Bruce, Keith, Owen, and Smith. Additionally, his brother Dean also had some wrestling experience. Therefore, a total of five of his brothers were involved in wrestling. Bret's father, Stu Hart, taught Bret and all of his brothers how to wrestle, Stu Hart taught a lot of professional wrestlers how to wrestle, he ran a school for wrestling in the basement of his home, it was called "Stu Hart's Dungeon", and he would basically take his students down there and stretch them out, put them through pure hell, toughen them up, and teach them the necessary skills. I think Bret's mother once commented about how she would constantly hear the screams coming from the basement, from the dungeon. Let's get a photo of the Dungeon in here.
This is the Hart House in Calgary where Stu Hart's Dungeon was, Calgary actually designated the house a historical landmark because of it's fame.
So, The Montreal Screwjob was a controversial incident in professional wrestling where the pre-determined outcome of a match was changed without the knowledge of one of the participants, Bret Hart, in order to ensure he lost the WWF Championship to Shawn Michaels. This happened at the Survivor Series event in Montreal, Canada, on November 9, 1997. Hart, who was leaving the WWF for WCW, didn't want to lose the title in his home country and had a verbal agreement with Vince McMahon to forfeit it on a later date. But McMahon didn't trust Bret to surrender the belt, he thought Bret might take the WWF belt with him over to WCW and throw it in the trash live on WCW television, the WWF women's champion had done that just months prior and embarrassed Vince McMahon, so McMahon hatched a plan to just straight up take the belt from Bret without Bret knowing it was going to happen, to screw Bret over. So, the match was set, Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels at Survivor Series on November 9, 1997 in Montreal Canada, Bret Hart's home, it was the main event that evening. Bret Hart had no idea what was about to happen, he thought he would keep the WWF title and lose it the next night in WWF Monday Night Raw, he thought. The match started, and about ten minutes into the match Vince McMahon comes out to ringside, Shawn Michaels had Bret Hart in the sharp shooter, Hart's finishing move, and Vince McMahon tells the referee to ring the bell, he yells to the referee, "If you don't call for the bell to be rung, you a$$ is fired", so the referee calls for the bell to be rung. The bell is rung and Shawn Michaels quickly lets go of Bret. Now, Bret Hart immediately knows he was screwed and he walks over to the ropes and looks at Vince McMahon, who is still standing outside of the ring. Then, all hell breaks lose, Bret Hart spits a huge loogie right over the ropes, right at Vince McMahon's face, and I swear to God, Bret's aim was absolutely perfect because that loogie hit Vince right smack dab in the face. Vince stands there looking shocked and wipes the spit from his face, Shawn Michaels quickly runs over to the announcers table and grabs the WWF Championship belt and runs off back to the locker room and then Vince heads back to the locker room area. After that, Bret Hart loses his $hit, he goes over to the announcers table and grabs some of the technical production equipment, monitors, and starts breaking them, because he knows those monitors are expensive and it'll cost Vince some major money, it was insane. After Bret gets it all out of his system, he finally goes back to the locker room area where he runs into Shawn Michaels and Triple H, he asks them right out, "Did you know Vince was going to do that, were you guys in on it?" They lie and say no, and Bret goes to the locker rooms and takes a shower. Once he gets out of the shower, who comes walking into the locker room but Vince McMahon, and there are about 30 other wrestlers in the room watching this unfold. Vince walks up to Bret and tries to look tough in front of everyone and he starts some $hit with Bret, he gets in Bret's face. At this point, Bret is beyond pissed off and he isn't putting up with it, so he hits Vince as hard as he can right in the face, knocks him out cold right there in front of everyone. Afterwards, cameras capture Vince McMahon walking out of Bret's locker room with a Black eye. Nothing fake about what happened in Montreal that night, we were witnessing the real-life issues between Vince McMahon and Bret Hart spill over into the show that night.
Vince McMahon after being punched by Bret Hart
Vince McMahon after Bret Hart spit on his face.
One of the monitors that Bret Hart destroyed after the Montreal Screwjob.
If you want to see a great documentary about the Montreal Screwjob, Dark Side of The Ring, season 1, episode 2, you will not be disappointed.
But getting back to Bret Hart, it's a real shame that his career pretty much ended after the Montreal Screwjob, he was one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all-time, the guy never had a bad match, he was that great. He's number 2 on my all-time greats list after Ric Flair. Bret Hart was the bridge between the Golden era and the Attitude era in WWF, he took the ball and ran with it after Hogan's historic run ended. Bret was all class, and he was a phenomenal wrestler, phenomenal performer, good on promos, great at putting other wrestlers over, he was the complete package, if I were starting a wrestling company, one of the first guys I would put on my roster is the Hitman. He had some great matches, his Ironman match with Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XII, his match with his own brother Owen Hart at WrestleMania X, and his "I Quit" match with Stone Cold Steve Austin in 1997 at WrestleMania XIII are some of my favorites. I'll never forget the image of Austin, blood covered face, twisted like a pretzel, passing out from the pain of Bret's finishing move, the Sharpshooter, which is also one of the greatest finishing moves ever, he made it famous, and nobody could apply it quite like Bret.
Another thing I always liked about Bret Hart, he would always gives his signature shades to a fan on his way to the ring, it was usually a kid, the Hitman was a total class act.
Until he turned heel, then he started flipping the kids off. God I love professional wrestling!
In all seriousness, Bret "Hitman" Hart was the man.
Just enjoy the music.
Check out these photos of Saturn, these are the clearest photos ever taken of Saturn by NASA. Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system, with a diameter roughly 9.5 times that of Earth, in terms of volume, Saturn is about 764 times larger than Earth.
Here's a comparison of how big Saturn is compared to Earth, you can see Earth up next to Saturn.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, it has an equatorial diameter of about 88,846 miles (142,984 kilometers), which is over 11 times the diameter of Earth. In terms of volume, Jupiter is more than 1,300 times the volume of Earth, meaning that over 1,300 Earths could fit inside Jupiter. These are the clearest photos ever taken of Jupiter by NASA.
On March 5, 1982, the Venera-14 lander successfully landed on the surface of the Venus, the second planet of the Solar System. In total, it worked for 57 minutes before the atmosphere destroyed it, Venus has a crushing atmosphere with surface temperatures around 847°F (465°C), hot enough to melt lead, and a pressure 90 times that of Earth. The lander managed to convey a color panorama of the surrounding area. This panorama is still the last image from the surface of Venus available to scientists.
Just a beautiful shot of the most famous and iconic sports photo ever taken.
Ad Astra. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. One of the best space movies ever made. Starts off with a freakin' bang.
My favorite tag team in wrestling history is the "Road Warriors", they were huge in the 80s and they later were rebranded as the "Legion of Doom" when they entered WWF in 1990. I actually like the Legion of Doom name better, I grew up watching them as the Legion. The tag team consisted of Hawk and Animal, they were both built like tanks, had mohawk type hair, their faces painted, and would wear spiked shoulder pads to the ring. Most people consider them the greatest tag team of all-time, they just had an awesome look to them and you could tell they were just born to be a tag team.
When they were known as the Road Warriors in the 80s
When they were known as the Legion of Doom in the early 90s
The Legion of Doom had this finishing move, where one of them would set their opponent on his shoulders while the other would climb to the top rope and clothesline the opponent off of his shoulders, it was called the "Doomsday Device" and it is not a finishing move I would want to take, it was scary as heck to watch, you would always hold your breath, very dangerous if it wasn't done just right. A wrestler named Henry Godwinn had his neck broken in 1998 from the move. The recipient of the Doomsday Device would most always do a backflip after being clotheslined off the shoulders, and it was just a scary finishing move, you had to admire anyone with the stones to take it.
The Doomsday Device was no joke.
Hangman Adam Page, who wrestles in AEW and just won the title last night, has one of my favorite finishing moves of today's wrestlers, it's called the "Buckshot Lariat", where he flips over the rope and uses his momentum to deliver a brutal clothesline.
I still remember when Hangman Adam Page did that Buckshot Lariat off the referees back and clotheslined the guy over the rope and through a table, one of the sickest things I've ever seen in professional wrestling.
This was one of the craziest things I've seen in professional wrestling, the night Seth Rollins was almost impaled by a metal spike that was attached to the bottom of a steel cage. Rollins picked a bad spot to try to enter the cage and he was almost impaled through the back by the spike as the cage lowered. Thank goodness he was able to get out of the way just in time.
This is one of the craziest things you'll ever see, that time Johnny Knoxville challenged Butterbean to a boxing match in a department store. Didn't end well for Knoxville.
Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals. A lot of iconic photos have been taken of Michael Jordan, but these Three are my favorite, because these photos really show you the fire that burned inside of him, how deep the desire to win inside this man was, to have food poisoning and not only go out and play, but drop 38 and will his team to victory. I remember watching that game and he looked physically awful, you could see it in his face and body, I legit thought he was going to collapse and die. I've had food poisoning, and it's beyond a miserable experience, I couldn't imagine playing a full basketball game with it. Out of all the athletes I've ever seen, I've never seen such a burning desire to win inside anyone like I have Jordan, he's the most competitive athlete I've ever seen, his drive to win was absolutely relentless, he was almost borderline psychotic about winning.
Jordan on Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals:
If I knew then what I know now about what I would have to go through in Game 5 of the 1997 Finals at Utah, I don't know if I would play. If the outcome was guaranteed to the game, then I'd probably go through it again. But if the outcome wasn't assured, there's no way I would do it again. I could have died for a basketball game. I played that game on heart and determination and nothing else. I didn't have any food, any energy, any sleep or anything else. I don't even remember a lot about that game. I have never felt as awful physically as I did in that game.
I woke up at three in the morning with what seemed like stomach flu. I couldn't keep anything down and I couldn't sleep. I took something that I thought would make me drowsy, but the symptoms were so severe I never got back to sleep. By the time I got to the arena I was fighting to stay awake. I just sat back in the locker room drinking coffee, trying to wake up enough to play the game. I didn't have anything in my stomach and the coffee really didn't do anything to wake me up. By halftime I was getting dehydrated, so I started drinking what I thought was Gatorade. But someone had mistakenly handed me a bottle of GatorLode, which is what you are supposed to drink after you have finished a difficult activity. By the time we went back out for the second half I felt bloated on top of being exhausted. I had continued to drink coffee, which ultimately only helped the dehydration come more quickly. There were times in the third and fourth quarters that I felt like I was going to pass out. I remember thinking, "Get this game over so I can lie down." In the fourth quarter, right before the three-pointer that won the game, I had become almost completely dehydrated. I was shivering, but I continued to sweat. On that last shot, I didn't even know whether it went in or not. I could barely stand up. When I got back into the locker room the doctors were really concerned because I didn't have anything left. I was cold, yet I was sweating and dehydrated. They wanted to give me intravenous fluids, but I made it over to a table, lay down, and starting drinking Gatorade. That's all I did for about 45 minutes. All for a basketball game.
This is still one of the greatest plays I've ever seen and it really shows you what a complete player and all-around nightmare Jordan was on the court. He steals the ball, saves it from going out of bounds, and then puts up one of the greatest shots I've ever seen in basketball history.
This is one of the greatest moves you'll ever see on a basketball court, Jordan's skills were ridiculous.
Watch the way Jordan anticipates Scottie Pippen's miss free throw and comes busting through the door like gangbusters, sick play.
Bulls vs Mavericks, 1992, ridiculous.
Of course you have to mention his shot in the 91' Finals. He switches the ball from his right hand to his left hand, in midair, and lays it up with his left hand on the other side of the rim, ridiculously difficult to do, one of the greatest shots in basketball history. I actually used to try this shot on the court and never could get it to drop.
Hmm. Bulls vs Blazers, 1990.
Classic Jordan story from Karl Malone.
This is one of the sickest and most difficult shots I've ever seen, Jordan gets bumped in midair by Ewing, and is still able to make the shot despite his body being totally contorted sideways.
Jordan had more moves than a barrel of fishhooks.
Jordan dunks on Alonzo Mourning with authority not once, but twice in the same game.
A lot of people don't realize that Jordan actually shattered the crap out of a backboard. This happened during an exhibition game in Trieste, Italy, on August 25, 1985. Jordan, playing for Stefanel Trieste, dunked with such force that the backboard shattered into pieces. The event even inspired a popular line of Air Jordan 1 sneakers, known as the "Shattered Backboard" colorway.
The "Shattered Backboard" Air Jordan's. An original game-used pair sold for $444,080 through Goldin Auctions back in 2024.
I'll leave off on Jordan by saying, he is the GOAT, if you can't see why, you haven't looked hard enough.
You can use MJ as a template with anything you want to do in life, the blueprint to winning. Forget basketball, he showed us the attitude we need to have to win.
This is the tallest man in history, his name was Robert Wadlow, and he was an astonishing 8'11".