Wrestlers who just look like and act like they're dickheads in real life

mayordenis

sky88 wrote: »

Just after seeing him tonight but David Starr looks like dick and honestly talks some load bulls**t

Also a phenomenal pro wrestler tho like many dicks in the industry

I find this strange, this thread is about real life dickheads, whats about David Starr says real life dickhead?

Seems a very decent guy.

fermanagh_man

Worked near a hotel where wrestlers stayed in Belfast maybe 10yrs ago

Cena completely blanked about 6 young kids dying to met him, that always stuck with me, a photo or autograph would have been the best thing ever for them but he was a complete prick.

Big show couldn't have been nicer, he's bigger than you can imagine in person
Rey mysterio another nice guy who took time to chat with fans

BDI

Balls Mahoney seemed nice in person, my son fell over years ago just walking past his stall and he stopped everyone queuing for autographs and sat with him until he stopped crying. Son who’s a teenager now didn’t even know who he was, was just passing,

A fella who used to do a bit of commentary had nothing nice to say about any of the other American lads that came over to work the indie scene. He said they all get drunk and try act the hard man starting fights etc

ShagNastii

sugarman wrote: »

I recently watched back the Louis Theroux Wrestling documentary from circa 2000 when he trained with WCW. Absolutely everyone he tried to speak to seemed like massive dickheads... Roddy Piper, Goldberg, Randy Savage and one or two other feature.

They were all backs against the wall and far far far too serious to Louis.

The vibe I always get off the wrestling business is that it's wholly over flowing with thin-skinned people. This near default setting comes cross in a large percentage of shoot interviews. Sometimes the bitterness and pettiness from present wrestlers and wrestlers of old borders on cringy.

TimesArrow

Interesting thread... there’s definitely quite a few who come across as dicks in real life. But I don’t reallt even include Nash, Orton, Brock as they don’t seem to care and that’s just their normal personality.

Cena and Rollins (especially cena) just strike me as highly disingenuous and insincere.

Other mentions to Flair, Sasha, Punk, Hogan, Bully Ray, Enzo,

Itssoeasy

TimesArrow wrote: »

Interesting thread... there’s definitely quite a few who come across as dicks in real life. But I don’t reallt even include Nash, Orton, Brock as they don’t seem to care and that’s just their normal personality.

Cena and Rollins (especially cena) just strike me as highly disingenuous and insincere.

Other mentions to Flair, Sasha, Punk, Hogan, Bully Ray, Enzo,

Yeah I've never bought the whole cena sunshine and rainbows act. His twitter account is just full of these typical American phrases. He's known to have **** over the nexus getting a win at survivor series(I think) even though edge and either Jericho or orton or both were all for them going over but wade Barrett heavily implies that cena pull a fast one.

sky88

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Yeah I've never bought the whole cena sunshine and rainbows act. His twitter account is just full of these typical American phrases. He's known to have **** over the nexus getting a win at survivor series(I think) even though edge and either Jericho or orton or both were all for them going over but wade Barrett heavily implies that cena pull a fast one.

It was edge and Jericho who tried to talk him out of it remember hearing them talk about it on jerichos podcast

Honestly I think even the majority of the good guys in wrestling have prob craped all over stuff as let’s face they all have egos

Lithium93_

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Yeah I've never bought the whole cena sunshine and rainbows act. His twitter account is just full of these typical American phrases. He's known to have **** over the nexus getting a win at survivor series(I think) even though edge and either Jericho or orton or both were all for them going over but wade Barrett heavily implies that cena pull a fast one.

sky88 wrote: »

It was edge and Jericho who tried to talk him out of it remember hearing them talk about it on jerichos podcast

It was Summerslam 2010, where Edge & Jericho tried talking Cena out of the original plan.

Honestly I think even the majority of the good guys in wrestling have prob craped all over stuff as let’s face they all have egos

It's show business, everyone's got an ego, or highly inflated opinion of themselves.

B.A._Baracus

sky88 wrote: »

Honestly I think even the majority of the good guys in wrestling have prob craped all over stuff as let’s face they all have egos

Absolutely.
Big money and fame involved in WWE.
But apart from egos, wrestlers are "needy cu*ts" to quote Al Snow :pac:

It's gas tho. Like, this is only my opinion, but why does WWE need road agents / producers for matches when you think about it?
... Someone could argue that when you have two inexperienced wrestlers going at it a producer will help. That's fine but main eventers also have producers.
... One could say it's so whatever creative wants happens. A fair point.

But I'd say a large portion of needing a producer is because you cant simply allow two guys to put together their own match :pac:
Who ever has the most pull will be trying to eat up the other. You'd have nothing but squash matches if someone didn't step in :pac:

LineOfBeauty

On a thread about dickheads in pro wrestling the last name I'd have expected to crop up is Matt Riddle. That guy is a gent, ridiculously laid back and honestly if anyone deserves success it is him. Was lucky enough to meet him once and he really couldn't have been nicer, just a legit cool guy.

soiseztomabel

Lio Rush, Rollins

B.A._Baracus

LineOfBeauty wrote: »

On a thread about dickheads in pro wrestling the last name I'd have expected to crop up is Matt Riddle. That guy is a gent, ridiculously laid back and honestly if anyone deserves success it is him. Was lucky enough to meet him once and he really couldn't have been nicer, just a legit cool guy.

The same Matt Riddle?! :pac:
All joking aside tho, how long did you meet him? briefly and also as a fan?
You can't get a beat on someone in that type of interaction. After all, wrestlers are the great workers they are too. Hey buddy, thanks buddy, want a pic? no problem (whilst thinking buy my merch, buy my merch)

soiseztomabel wrote: »

Lio Rush, Rollins

Rollins is meant to be one dick. When he was in a relationship he sent nude pics of himself out and sure enough Kaitlyn's husband come out recently and said how Rollins was sending her dick pics too. You'd get a punch for that.

Of course he is selective. Kaitlyn's husband isn't in the wrestling business... would he dare send Nikki Bella pics when she was with John Cena? absolutely not :pac:

sky88

Omega comes off poorly a lot as well

that whole thing with renting a room from a known sex offender and then denying he knew him but it seems like most in wrestling knew about him

i do think lately if you start looking into most wrestlers lives you'll find something you'll hate about them in one way or another

LineOfBeauty

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

The same Matt Riddle?! :pac:
All joking aside tho, how long did you meet him? briefly and also as a fan?
You can't get a beat on someone in that type of interaction. After all, wrestlers are the great workers they are too. Hey buddy, thanks buddy, want a pic? no problem (whilst thinking buy my merch, buy my merch)



Rollins is meant to be one dick. When he was in a relationship he sent nude pics of himself out and sure enough Kaitlyn's husband come out recently and said how Rollins was sending her dick pics too. You'd get a punch for that.

Of course he is selective. Kaitlyn's husband isn't in the wrestling business... would he dare send Nikki Bella pics when she was with John Cena? absolutely not :pac:

Oh ye very much a wrestler/fan interaction and no illusions that the wrestler's main goal is to sell merch to you during these interactions. My personal interaction with Riddle was after a show, not near a merch table and he was just hanging about in the Tivoli, asked for a pic, 1st one came out bad, he took my phone, asked an OTT person to take the pic, got us into some better lighting, was so cool and normal. I mean, you can't judge a person on a minute interaction, but he could came across so well, so likable and apparently whenever he was over here he was happy to go for the post show drinks with wrestlers and fans. Maybe I'm totally off base on this, but anything I've ever seen about Riddle has always been super positive and my short interaction with him backs up, to me, the view of him online. One of the good guys.

Itssoeasy

Austin Aries from everything I've seen and read about him seems to be a miserable ****er.

Agent Coulson

I'd imagine Punk is a lot more than a dickhead in real life.

PTH2009

Yeah Pete Dunne is someone who might not be the kindest of guys

The White Wolf

PTH2009 wrote: »

Yeah Pete Dunne is someone who might not be the kindest of guys

Followed him on IG for a bit; he and MM come across as tossers.

B.A._Baracus

PTH2009 wrote: »

Yeah Pete Dunne is someone who might not be the kindest of guys

There's just something about the way he looks isn't there.
If you didn't know who he was and saw him walking down the street you'd think he is a skanger lol.

weareallmarks

People I have never met and I just assume are dickheads...


all wrestlers everywhere. They just look weird.

Thats what we are doing here isnt it?

leggo

It’s a fun discussion and we all do it to a degree...but also worth remembering is that there are people who are great at doing the ‘fan game’ and switching on when it comes to shifting merch etc. That doesn’t necessarily make them sound, just as people who aren’t as good at fan interaction aren’t necessarily dickheads. All it means, in reality, is that the ‘nice’ people are good at selling and marketing themselves. With that trait often comes a high level of narcissism, which is something that would cause a lot of ‘normal’ people to be considered dicks. Sometimes people who aren’t good at fan interaction are just shy and socially anxious, traits that would often be associated with ‘nice’ people in a normal context. I’ve seen some people I know who are genuine salt-of-the-earth, do anything for anyone types get hit with the dickhead label, just as I’ve seen actual dopes be lauded online because they’ve got a good Disney face.

These judgements can also be skewed by the agendas of people making them. Fans, for example, often build an affinity towards a certain wrestler by identifying with something in their public branding. They want a relationship and judge a lot based on a tiny interaction whether the relationship they’d imagined came to pass in said interaction. That’s a **** way to have your entire personality judged: whether you fulfilled a specific fantasy a stranger had of you that you can’t be responsible for.

Another thing that comes into play is that if a fan feels you’re their ‘friend’, sometimes they’ll want more and more and more and wrestlers will almost have to eventually act like an arsehole just because said fan isn’t getting the hint (or they have to learn to tolerate a level of attention ‘normal’ people would consider harassment). If the wrestler had left the fan alone and never acknowledged them to begin with, the fan would continue to build that fantasy and support the wrestler. But because they were sound enough to make time to acknowledge them and couldn’t fulfil the day-to-day expectations of the fan, next thing said fan is calling them a dick online and the wrestler is seen as a bully almost if they correct them with the facts. You may think that’s an extreme case but it actually happens a lot. They’re almost better off to just keep a distance to begin with because it can get messy once you open that door of accessibility and expectations are set.

silvervixen84

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Matt Riddle is one for me. Comes off as a very smug man.

Matt Riddle is really sound in real life. I was at a show in Rochester a while back (before he went to NXT obvs), and he was just hanging out at the back of the crowd during the other matches, actively going up to people for the chats. We had a chat with him too, he's very mellow and a cool guy. Seen him do the same at other shows too.

montyrebel

i met joseph connors after titanic wrestling on sunday, he was a great heel in the ring but very friendly after it, so 1st impressions etc may not be accurate