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A thread for my love of Argentine wrestlers of the 1970s and 1980s

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Explaining who and why would take far too long. Instead, here's a compilation video of various competitors making their ring entrance. Feel free to select your favourites:

 

 

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1 minute ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Explaining who and why would take far too long. Instead, here's a compilation video of various competitors making their ring entrance. Feel free to select your favourites:

 

 

For real?

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Here are some more wrestlers from "Titanes En El Ring", picked basically at random:

 

 

Jean Pierre, El Beatle Frances:

 

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El Hombre Vegetal:

 

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El Ejecutivo:

 

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There's niche....and then there's niche....

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El Escoces McAberdeen:

 

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Richard El Americano (before he transitioned to Caitlyn):

 

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Frutolino:

 

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3 minutes ago, Paul Bearer said:

For real?

 

This thread is gonna pop, just watch.

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Doctor Karate:

 

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El Agente Secreto 009:

 

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El Androide & Professor Demetrius:

 

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The title alone catapults this into the top 5 of my favourite threads.

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Big, big fan of the pre-globalisation take on American pop culture, especially in countries that had poverty and/or dictatorships. Dunno if anyone's seen the documentary "Disco and Nuclear War" but it touches on the same areas and it's just the greatest aesthetic ever as far as I'm concern. It's a world where everything is a Poundland knockoff toy version of the real deal. 

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The theme tune compilations are on Spotify as well. Here's what "Hippie Jimmy" walked to the ring with:

 

 

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Wrestling androids, mummy's (that look a bit like El Santo), and musketeers/centurions: my idea of wrestling heaven.

 

There was a rumble few years ago in Preston where a wrestling moth entered the match, and then the heels turned the lights on and off to disorientate it for an easy elimination, but alas, otherwise mostly lost from the modern thing.

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A big hello from Giant Gonzales (and his little friend)

 

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E l Androide wrestles like he went to the same no selling school John Cena and Mil Mascaras did

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16 hours ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Here are some more wrestlers from "Titanes En El Ring", picked basically at random:

 

 

Jean Pierre, El Beatle Frances:

 

Jean+Pierre+el+Beatle+Franc%C3%A9s+02.JP

 

El Hombre Vegetal:

 

El+Hombre+Vegetal+II+01.JPG

 

El Ejecutivo:

 

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The first and third guy are the same guy, just like in the video Mr Olympio would appear about 5 guys later minus the Afro wig.  I swore it was the same dude (not like rebranding hasn’t happened in wrestling).  Anyway my favourites were Mr. Olympio and the Swamp Thing.  Proving I watched the whole video.

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Quite probably the best thread EVER!

I saw some wrestling today, someone dressed as a Mummy against a 'good guy'

The most striking thing was that it was transmitted in 1981, IIRC, but the way that everybody was dressed you would have thought that it was actually 1972.

 

 

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