Guess whose 37 today

[Guest Quik]

My God, Benoit's way past his prime and is hogging the spotlight. He should do the right thing and job that title to Orton and then retire. He's gonna kill the company with his politics!

[Brett Favre 0]

I feel so special. My birthday is one day after Benoit's. We're practically twins.

 

BTW, Benoit can go like 10 more years. If Ric Flair/Hogan can go that far into their careers, i'm pretty sure a tremendous worker like Benoit can go twice as far.

[Downhome 0]

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[EdwardKnoxII 0]

Eddie is, or will be, 36. He was born in 1968. If you looked closely on SD, you could see some gray creeping into his facial hair.

And yet Eddie looks WAY younger then Chavo.

[Tawren 0]

What day is today

It's Benoits birthday

What a day for a birthday

Lets all watch some tapes

[Guest Corino 1000]

Yeah, but Bret and Flair didn't screw up their necks, did they?

Flair screwed up his back......

[Guest Loss]

And Flair had the same neck injury that many of the current WWE crop have now back in 1987. They put him in 8-man tags and short matches mostly so he could work through it.

[CanadianChick 0]

Eddie is, or will be, 36.  He was born in 1968.  If you looked closely on SD, you could see some gray creeping into his facial hair.

And yet Eddie looks WAY younger then Chavo.

Chavo's only like two years younger though, isn't he?

[Guest I Got Banned for Sucking]

37, eh? I thought he was in his early-mid 30s.

 

As long as he can work, he's fine. And in what is one of the largest understatements ever, yes he can.

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

Eddie is, or will be, 36.  He was born in 1968.  If you looked closely on SD, you could see some gray creeping into his facial hair.

And yet Eddie looks WAY younger then Chavo.

Chavo's only like two years younger though, isn't he?

Yeah that's my point. Ever since Chavo started losing his hair he looks WAY older then he really is. Hell my dad and brother in law had a hard time buying that Chavo was younger then Eddie.

[Guest The Bandit]

Wow. I didn't know alot of these wrestlers were that old. I thought Eddie was 27. And i didn't think Booker was anywhere near 40. Nor rikishi.

[Guest Mad the Swine]

And Flair had the same neck injury that many of the current WWE crop have now back in 1987. They put him in 8-man tags and short matches mostly so he could work through it.

I think I've got it narrowed down to October 1986. But yep, a whole lot of tags with Tully for the rest of the year. Cracked C5.

 

He has been working this year with a pinched nerve or a herniated disc or two (C7/C8 area) in his neck.

 

And of course, the broken back that was mentioned earlier. He probably came back too quickly from it (four months).

 

There's no way Benoit can make it another 18 years.

 

And I'm not even mentioning Flair's other injuries along the way.

[Guest Choken One]

How Gullible are you...I mean Eddy started in wcw in 1995...so you thought he was 18 when he debuted?

[Use Your Illusion 0]

It's obvious Benoit is getting old and is past his prime so he should job the title to a member of the younger generation like Triple H.

I agree.

 

 

And if not Triple H, what about the new guy on Smackdown?

 

 

I think his name is The Undertaker.......

I'll ignore the sarcasim and agree.

 

Shut up, I know.

 

UYI

[Guest The Bandit]

How Gullible are you...I mean Eddy started in wcw in 1995...so you thought he was 18 when he debuted?

Well im sorry if I havent been watching wrestling that long. And I'm very sorry that I have a life and tend not to know the exact ages of wrestlers.

[Guest Loss]

"Having a life" doesn't mean you don't know how old wrestlers are. There are 24 hours in a day and plenty of time to do plenty of things. There's no reason to condescend to those who are devoted wrestling fans.

 

[Guest I Got Banned for Sucking]

"Having a life" doesn't mean you don't know how old wrestlers are. There are 24 hours in a day and plenty of time to do plenty of things. There's no reason to condescend to those who are devoted wrestling fans.

 

Exactly. You registered on this forum, did you not?

 

And if someone corrects you as Choken did, don't chuck a hissy fit about it and contradict yourself, thus making you look stupid.

 

As I said, you registered on this forum.

[Guest Your Olympic Hero]

Bret wasn't past his prime from 1993-1997. It was the peak of his career.

He was at the peak of his career success-wise... but I don't think talent-wise. Think of how many phoned in matches he had in 95 with the whole 5 moves of doom thing. I'd like to see some of his mid-80's Stampede stuff and see if he was better then.

[Guest Loss]

1995 saw him with as much sheer talent as he ever had, though, and phoning in matches was something Bret did at his best and at his worst. You could also cite his opponents and card placement that year. From what I've seen of his Stampede work, he was every bit as mechanically strong as he was from 1992-1997, but he was still learning to connect with the crowd and he hadn't really established his strong points well enough to effectively convey them.

 

That said, I may be making an unfair comparison. Bret started playing "the man" in 1993 or so, and that means wrestling in a different role and wrestling with more portrayed confidence. I truly think that "top dog" was the only role Bret ever really mastered though -- he wasn't a particularly inspiring "young gun on the rise" and there were far better tag wrestlers, especially in that era.

 

Aside from Vader at times, he was the best heavyweight in US wrestling for most of the mid 1990s.