haws bah gawd 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 The Undertaker will probably will require hip replacement surgery, he is working with a really sore hip and is on borrowed time. This type of surgery usually sidelines wrestlers for atleast 2-3 months. --Credit: ProWrestling.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anyone else think it might be about time for 'Taker to hang up the boots? Thoughts? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 If you have to have a hip replaced, you should be drawing social security, not no-selling for young talent in a wrestling ring. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carnival 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 i vote retire already. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Si82 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 Anyone else think it might be about time for 'Taker to hang up the boots? Yes. When you have to have a hip replaced it's time to give it up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vyce 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 Absolutely retire. As soon as you start talking about having your joints replaced with artificial parts, your days of bumping around the ring are finished. If he continues afterwards, he'd only look as ridiculous in the ring as the others who've had this type of surgery (Piper, Hogan). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MillenniumMan831 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 When did he ever bump around the ring? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Trivia247 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 nice to see the haters come out the woodwork. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haws bah gawd 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 Im not hating on the guy. Taker has had a very long career, and it still over with the crowds. I agree with everyone else though, once you get something as severe as a hip replacement, its time to cut your losses and move on. Perhaps 'Taker could become an "enforcer" or sorts for someone. But he will probably receive the standard-issue "road agent" role that most wrestlers take upon retirement. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
franchise632 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 But for the love of god make him put a few people over on the way out. Let him rest up and give some a huge rub by beating Taker at next years WM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Hass of Pain Report post Posted April 15, 2005 He doesn't need it immediately or anything. It's just one of those things that he knows he will probably need to do sometime in the future, it's not like he is going under the knife and out of action anytime soon as the newsbit leads you to believe. My feeling is that Taker will be around for at least five more years now. He is working a limited schedule and always put over strong, the Taker isn't going anywhere. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuperJerk 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 And people wondered why I was such a big advocate of Taker loosing at Mania this year... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Black Lushus 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 was Orton's shoulder injured prior to WM or did it happen there? If it was prior, it doesn't make sense for Orton to have won only to instantly lose all that momentum being out for 6 months... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest LooneyTune Report post Posted April 15, 2005 Saying someone should retire is "hating"? Jesus christ people need thicker skin. Undertaker should put someone over though, and I don't mean the "I'll sell your finishing move for 3 seconds before I pin you clean" type of putting someone over either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuperJerk 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 was Orton's shoulder injured prior to WM or did it happen there? If it was prior, it doesn't make sense for Orton to have won only to instantly lose all that momentum being out for 6 months... Imagine if the Monday after Wrestlemania, Batista beat the guy who'd just beaten the Undertaker. By losing, Undertaker would have elevated two guys instead of zero guys. Then when Orton came back in 3 months, he could claim Batista only won because of his battle with Undertaker the night before, and that if Orton could beat Taker then he'd have no trouble beating Batista now that he's healthy. Did it make sense for Orton to go over? Not only yes, but hell yes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 nice to see the haters come out the woodwork. Because a guy with a fake hip should still be wrestling? Saying someone should retire is "hating"? There's lots of Angle hating going around too, then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slickster 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 Well, Piper had his replaced back in 1997 and he was in an active wrestling role regularly until 1999. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 Well, Piper had his replaced back in 1997 and he was in an active wrestling role regularly until 1999. Age in the Cage isn't a good argument for letting people continue to wrestle, though. Flair didn't get a replacement did he? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taker666 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 I'am not gonna say when he should retire. let the man himself make that decision. not us!. If he feels he could still go in the ring than he should continue to do so. he still has a huge fanbase out there and thats including me who will continue to support him. although if he decides he wants to retire than I will support him on that to. hes part of the reason why I perfer SD! over Raw. I'am not ashame to say hes my favorite superstar in the WWE. sure hes the not the greatest wrestler but hes definlly the most entertaining IMO. I still think Undertaker is still pretty damn good in the ring. certainly much better than Flair, Triple H and some of the new OVW Breed. some of the matches hes had with Booker, JBL, Kurt Angle, Orton, and Cena have all been really good. hell even his matches with Heidenreich were decent. hes only 43 so hes got plenty of years left to go if HE doesn't decide to retire soon. I heard Eddie Guerrero is currently 40, and isn't Benoit getting up there to? I guess its time for them to retire to then right? I'll be waiting for the return of the Undertaker. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Black Lushus 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 I'am not ashame to say hes my favorite superstar in the WWE. sure hes the not the greatest wrestler but hes definlly the most entertaining IMO. YOU'RE a UT fan???? Get the fuck out! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bob_barron 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 nice to see the haters come out the woodwork. You're horrible. You do realise that the hatred for the Undertaker is just not blind hate but people have good reasons for not liking the guy and hoping he retires? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Enigma 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 Wait... Why hasn't anyone questioned the source of this newsbit...ProWrestling.com ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tbondrage99 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 I think Taker is great, he has a true legacy in the business. But I dont want to see him around him in the ring to much if he wouldne be able to do anything. It would be cool if he retires from active wrestling and became a manager or GM or something of that nature, I wouldnt really be able to see him as a GM with the whole Deadman thing but I think he could make a great manager. With that said he can still come out of retirement for one night every year, and I dont think I have to say what night that would be. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carnival 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 I think he's only got 1 or 2 years max that he is gonna wrestle. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Hass of Pain Report post Posted April 15, 2005 Wait... Why hasn't anyone questioned the source of this newsbit...ProWrestling.com ? It's pretty much taken word for word from The Pro-Wrestling Torch Newsletter, only stripped of the basic rules of grammar and paraphrased as The Undertaker needing immediate surgery rather than the original newsbit in the newsletter, which said that there is a chance that The Undertaker may need to get some work done on his hip at some point down the road, but it's nothing that will keep him out of the ring for now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Special K 0 Report post Posted April 15, 2005 Well, Piper had his replaced back in 1997 and he was in an active wrestling role regularly until 1999. (badly) At first I read this as 'Piper had his back replaced' Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vern Gagne 0 Report post Posted April 16, 2005 That's how I read it has well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vyce 0 Report post Posted April 16, 2005 nice to see the haters come out the woodwork. You're horrible. You do realise that the hatred for the Undertaker is just not blind hate but people have good reasons for not liking the guy and hoping he retires? Absolutely. Like HHH, Taker has reached the point where he will never be more over than he is now. But, unlike HHH, Taker doesn't have youth on his side (and to an extent, neither does HHH, but Taker's got to be older than Trips by at least five years or so), and now we find out he's got a bum hip which is so bad it needs to be replaced. It all goes back to what I've been saying for a loooooong time: Taker's ONLY good for putting people over at this point. That's ALL he's good for. But they won't do it. And the Taker apologists will say something like, "He'll do it one day..." Yeah, well, when? Now that he's only got one good hip? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jericholic82 0 Report post Posted April 16, 2005 Well, Piper had his replaced back in 1997 and he was in an active wrestling role regularly until 1999. (badly) At first I read this as 'Piper had his back replaced' wow a back replacement (said in same tone as apu saying oh its a head bag) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gary Floyd 0 Report post Posted April 16, 2005 Damn, there's alot of people getting injured lately Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vyce 0 Report post Posted April 17, 2005 Damn, there's alot of people getting injured lately Well, it ain't ballet, bah gawd. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
