PDA

View Full Version : Kickboxers beaten down by Pro Wrestlers



BuddhaPalm
04-28-2005, 16:51
Found this on another forum:

http://www.1wrestling.com/news/newsline.asp?news=22516

WWE SUPERSTARS TOSS AROUND DRUNKEN LOUDMOUTH KICKBOXERS
By: Joey Styles
4/27/2005 9:40:42 AM

WWE SUPERSTARS TOSS AROUND DRUNKEN LOUDMOUTH KICKBOXERS

Note from Joey Styles...this story makes the kickboxers sound like innocent victims which was not the case. Regardless, telling pro wrestlers that what they do is fake and that they cannot fight is a great way to get your *** kicked. There are many pro football players, boxers, kickboxers, who have found this out the hard way. The only people I have met who can kick *** better than pro wrestlers are MMA fighters but they almost never start trouble.

From UK Tabloid Newspaper, THE SUN...
Now that's a big fight out
By ANDREW PARKER

BOOZED-UP kickboxers fought an unscheduled bout with American telly wrestlers — in a posh hotel lobby.

Terrified guests dived for cover as the fighters squared up after a martial arts show, sending feet, fists and glasses flying.

They watched amazed as the boxers lashed out with a flurry of acrobatic spinning kicks and punches, while the touring grapplers hurled their opponents around the reception hall.

Ex-world kickboxing champ Kash “The Flash” Gill — 6ft 3in and 11st 6lb — claimed he was dragged around in a headlock by 22st, 6ft 5in wrestler Dave “Demon of the Deep” Batista, 36.

One boxer was thrown over a table full of drinks and another over a baggage trolley before the row spilled outside.

A car park security barrier was smashed before police broke up Sunday’s midnight fight at the Hilton Hotel at Birmingham’s NEC complex.

The punch-up followed a kickboxing exhibition match for 500 guests, organised by 37-year-old Kash.

He said: “It had been a great night, but one of our tables was a bit rowdy after having too much to drink. In reception one of our blokes accidentally bumped into one wrestler and said sorry straight away.

“The wrestler said, ‘You will be’ and it all kicked off. The wrestlers were all giants and three of them had one of our blokes on the floor.

“I ran out to try to calm things down, but next thing I knew one wrestler had me in an armlock and was throwing me around like a doll.

“Somone told him I was a kickboxing champ and he backed off. But it was quite nasty with a couple of bloody noses and ripped shirts and T-shirts all over the lobby.

“It was probably the boozers on our side who started it, but the wrestlers didn’t use their strengths in a professional way and were out of order.”

One hotel worker said: “It was mayhem for about 15 minutes. The boxers were saying wrestling was fake and that the big guys couldn’t fight — so they just grabbed them.”

A World Wrestling Entertainment spokesman said: “Our guys were checking in when the boxers began making remarks. They weren’t happy.”

Police confirmed officers were sent. A spokesman said: “We sorted it out without any arrests.” :laugh:

Ben Dugsmith

Oz82
04-28-2005, 16:55
Drunks aren't very good sparring partners. They tend to fall down on their own quite often enough! :laugh:

John Bennett
04-29-2005, 09:33
One hotel worker said: “It was mayhem for about 15 minutes. The boxers were saying wrestling was fake and that the big guys couldn’t fight — so they just grabbed them.”

Moral of the story:

Do Not Provoke Grapplers. :wink2:

CEB
04-29-2005, 09:48
Size Always Matters.

Gene Williams
04-29-2005, 14:10
I would have paid good money to have seen that :)

Cliff Hargrave
04-29-2005, 15:31
Moral of the story:

Do Not Provoke Grapplers. :wink2:

and those were fake grapplers! Imagine what some REAL grapplers would have done !
:D

John Bennett
04-29-2005, 16:18
> "and those were fake grapplers!"

True.

An Aside: For a while there was a professional wrestling school located 1 block over from my jiu-jitsu club. I stopped in to watch them sometimes and chat with the owner. (Cost: $1500 for 3 months!!! PLUS 10% of your earnings for a year!!!)

(No, I wasn't trolling for students, I was angling to sub-let his building. :))

They actually were pretty good at basic submissions like Hammer-locks, neck-cranks, heel-hooks, etc.

What was amazing was their ability to SUFFER. Flips. Body Slams. Head-ramming. Et al. Over-and-over, for hours. Blyech.

Those guys were skilled enough to be quite dangerous. What they lacked in skill they more than made up for in stamina and courage. I'd prefer to go against a kickboxer anyday over those guys!

yukwon
05-10-2005, 11:11
Pleae don't be to harsh on about this comment, but...

What some people don't realize is that some of (not all of) the "fake" wrestlers do have a "real" wrestling background. They then choose not to persue any future of possible olympics or things like that, and go on for the big bucks, television. Then you have people like Ken Shamrock who tried his hand at Pro Wrestling with then WWF(Which didn't last long).

G Hendrix
05-10-2005, 14:41
Kickboxing gives MuayThai a bad rep, by association.

Good advisor
05-11-2005, 04:47
hah, to be truthful those kickboxers should have kept their (OPIONINS) to themself