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1. 'Gorilla Monsoon' is a FANTASTIC name for a wrestler.
1a. It's a fantastic name in general! I've been trying it out in my head in different genres, "Paw! Paw! The Gorilla Monsoon gang is robbing the bank!" and "Foolish Earthling! Now you face the might of...Gorilla MONSOON!"...and they All. Work.
1b. An excerpt from G. Monsoon's wiki page: "Marella totally revamped his image, growing a long beard and billing himself as Gorilla Monsoon, a terrifying giant from Manchuria. Supposedly born on an isolated farm, 'Monsoon' traveled across the countryside with a gypsy caravan wrestling bears, spoke no English, ate raw meat, and drank his victims' blood."
2. While it was relatively easy to get Andre the Giant to fall down, watching three wrestlers try to throw him over the ropes and out of the ring was like watching Sisyphus with his rock.
2a. If Sisyphus's rock occasionally headbutted him.
2b. Which would be totally awesome.
3. Maybe this goes on all the time and I'm not just aware of it, but to my knowledge the rivalry between Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka (Fiji) and The Wild Samoans (Samoa) was the first inter-Polynesian rivalry in U.S. sports.
3a. For some reason, just hearing a wrestling announcer say "inter-Polynesian rivalry" totally tickles me.
4. While the fights I've watched so far have been as fake as cotton candy (even the boxing match. ESPECIALLY the boxing match), watching Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka climb onto Andre the Giant's shoulders, balance there, and jump from that 6'9" height onto the mat? That's a beautiful human spectacle.
1a. It's a fantastic name in general! I've been trying it out in my head in different genres, "Paw! Paw! The Gorilla Monsoon gang is robbing the bank!" and "Foolish Earthling! Now you face the might of...Gorilla MONSOON!"...and they All. Work.
1b. An excerpt from G. Monsoon's wiki page: "Marella totally revamped his image, growing a long beard and billing himself as Gorilla Monsoon, a terrifying giant from Manchuria. Supposedly born on an isolated farm, 'Monsoon' traveled across the countryside with a gypsy caravan wrestling bears, spoke no English, ate raw meat, and drank his victims' blood."
2. While it was relatively easy to get Andre the Giant to fall down, watching three wrestlers try to throw him over the ropes and out of the ring was like watching Sisyphus with his rock.
2a. If Sisyphus's rock occasionally headbutted him.
2b. Which would be totally awesome.
3. Maybe this goes on all the time and I'm not just aware of it, but to my knowledge the rivalry between Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka (Fiji) and The Wild Samoans (Samoa) was the first inter-Polynesian rivalry in U.S. sports.
3a. For some reason, just hearing a wrestling announcer say "inter-Polynesian rivalry" totally tickles me.
4. While the fights I've watched so far have been as fake as cotton candy (even the boxing match. ESPECIALLY the boxing match), watching Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka climb onto Andre the Giant's shoulders, balance there, and jump from that 6'9" height onto the mat? That's a beautiful human spectacle.
