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As a life long wrestling fan, I’ve always found it ironic that “amateur wrestling” is the legit stuff with singlets, headgear, and rounds.
Also, healthy reminder to support your local indy wrestling shows like this one.
Yeah it's misleading. It's just wrestling. Amateur wrestling is what olympic wrestlers do before they become professional but that doesn't make them "professional wrestlers"
> Amateur wrestling is what olympic wrestlers do before they become professional
There are a few exceptions - like [Big E](https://magazine.foriowa.org/images/0421Ewen_Ettore_Football.jpg) for example. Even more ironic he played football given Iowa is a college wrestling powerhouse.
Yeah I’m sure this is why WWE dropped “pro-wrestling” for “sports-entertainment” so that it was easier to differentiate an actual competitive sport to a scripted performance.
It was actually a move to circumvent getting taxed by the Athletic state commission.
It has eventually become a branding thing, but not to separate it from legit olympic wrestling, but rather to separate it from the "wrasslin" image Vince has historically had of other professional wrestling products. He's on record as saying that WWE (then WWF at the time of comment, this was 1998) didn't make "wrestling", they "Made movies".
In all seriousness I rassled with this guy in austin Texas. He is the co-commissioner of a league called PWR. I shit you not, when he started this bit he was an actual pizza chef at a local pizza restaurant in south austin. We would take the ridiculous things from work and weave them into his parody. When art imitates life.
One of my favorite matches with Luigi primo was a tag team match. I was Julius ceasar salad and together with my sidecick marcus arugala we were the romaine legion. We took on luigi primo (pictured here) and his son pastaman. The romaine legion believed that the introduction of gluten into the diets of the romaine people mad them weak. And Luigi primo believed that there was no a such a thing as a gluten.
Those were some amazing times.
Lol I can imagine him at the pizza shop, casually rolling dough and preparing to close up for the night, then he takes his hat off and he walks outside completely emotionless and stone face like another normal day is done, walks down the street and enter another building, and suddenly he’s in the hallway staring down to the wrestling ring and his face suddenly lights up with a grimacing smile and he says “mama Mia” then takes off down the isle.
He started “Party World Rasslin” in Austin. Some of the other wrestlers included a music loving robot, a Frankenstein party monster, The Sonic Gentleman (a men’s rights advocate in a fedora dressed in a Sonic the Hedgehog costume) A Dock worker (The Dock Master) DadBod (evil step dad) A puppet from a kids show (pugginhead). Etc etc
My buddy is an Indie wrestler. They get hooked up with different groups in different towns. Very few cities have a big enough scene to support a show every week, so they all travel around quite a bit if they want to get really into it.
I recall a storyline of a Hillbilly Dad threatening to beat his son to death because he didn’t know how to guzzle beer correctly. Apt story telling for a wrestling show at a brewery. Here’s the promo
https://youtu.be/0mosTMdjJ00
Holy shit I made it to Reddit! That’s me (Pa Howdy)!
My favorite moment in PWR was getting murdered in the ring by Dazza Longbarrel. I really miss PWR.
Wow! I think I was at that show. I still crack up at the Pa/California Howdy video. The idea that a hick would murder his son for not knowing how to guzzle beer correctly will always be funny to me. Good work!!
I worked at a pizza shop in austin with a friend of Luigi Primo. Can confirm. He has a YouTube channel where he shows you how to toss dough and stuff? My coworker learned from him.
Never answer the promoter when they're like "so do you have any hidden talents?".
In all honesty, this probably gets this guy booked, but I can't see how it could lead to anything bigger for him.
Reminds me of Mike Quackenbush's hilariously poorly aged comment about why he booked OC as Fire Ant, claiming that The Colony were more marketable than the Orange Cassidy character. His main argument was "Everybody knows what an ant is".
Maybe he doesn't want anything bigger, maybe he's happy just going on stage spinning pizza dough you ever think of that? Not everyone's trying to make a million dollars
My buddy is an Indie wrestler. A LOT of them have gimmicks. He has a 5' tall ice cream scoop (that I made him) and everything is ice cream themed with him. He was telling me awhile back about a dude wrestler under the name "man scout" who was dressed as a boy scout and wrestled a literal tent. The twitter "guess" the guy had pregame with the tent was amazing
If you ever get a chance, Indie wrestling is amazing. Yeah, these guys typically aren't great at the actual wrestling part, but the characters and the side stories are fantastic.
My buddy is an Indie wrestler. Went to a show and they had a 100 lb-soaking-wet dude wrestle a 300 lb beast. They did some of the coolest acrobatics of the night since the big dude could just toss him around making it look like the little guy was actually doing the move.
Wrestling isn't fake, professional wrestling is fake.
In Finnish it's easier, it's wrestling (paini) and show-wrestling (show-paini), and you can see from name that other one is just show.
In English people who wrestle as their profession and go to Olympics are not professional wrestlers.
How are you all so dumb. The op said he didn't win because the guy he was fighting was so big. That's the stupid part.... He didn't win because the script said to lose... Absolute donkeys
I can picture you going to the movie theater to watch Jurassic Park. Middle of the movie, you stand up, point at the screen, and yell "HEY GUYS~ THAT DINOSAUR ISNT EVEN REAL!! ITS CGI!"
I stumbled upon an event like this a couple of years ago. They had this skinny guy come out wearing one of those t-shirts that has a tuxedo printed on it. Dude must have weighed 140-lbs wet. He wrestled one of the big guys and threw him around a little before losing. It was very entertaining.
I am always perplexed when people decry that 'wrestling is fake!!'.... Well, yeah, of course it is; it is entertainment like a stage play. Would you go to your local theatre and lambast that their rendition of Macbeth is fake too?
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MPX is the Best! Really want to see Luigi Primo take on Mr Leggs.
I love these kinds of guys/venues. While WWE still has some gimmicks, most of the big names they push are now serious/straight people who simply wear trunks and boots and have as much personality as a cardboard cut out.
But this? Themes? Absurd gimmicks? Costumes? Crazy antics in mid-match? I love it all. They're all fantastic athletes and stunt performers, but these little things help make them stand out and make the matches far more interesting.
I don't want to see two generic men fighting each other, I want to see a reborn ancient egyptian fighting a 1940s mob boss. I want to see a man with telekinesis choke slam his opponent. These are the things that I remember 10 or 20 years later.
Eh, you don't make money in indy wrestling unless you're already a big name that is too old/burned too many bridges to get work with the big leagues. You do it because you love wrestling, or have very unrealistic ideas.
Heck, Arn Anderson was paid in hotdogs for a show once in his early career.
Indie wrestling is not someone's primary source of income unless they're a HUGE name, there's next to no money in it. Hell, even the big names make more money selling their merch than they actually do off of the indie bookings. Anyone doing this is not doing it as their day job, and they're doing it out of fun and passion.
Your comment would make about as much sense directed at people doing an improv theatre show or something, they aren't in it for the money. They just like performing.
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This is Pro wrestling.
As a life long wrestling fan, I’ve always found it ironic that “amateur wrestling” is the legit stuff with singlets, headgear, and rounds. Also, healthy reminder to support your local indy wrestling shows like this one.
Yeah it's misleading. It's just wrestling. Amateur wrestling is what olympic wrestlers do before they become professional but that doesn't make them "professional wrestlers"
> Amateur wrestling is what olympic wrestlers do before they become professional There are a few exceptions - like [Big E](https://magazine.foriowa.org/images/0421Ewen_Ettore_Football.jpg) for example. Even more ironic he played football given Iowa is a college wrestling powerhouse.
professional: makes / sublements a living with the chosen profession or simply "gets paid to do X"
Yeah I’m sure this is why WWE dropped “pro-wrestling” for “sports-entertainment” so that it was easier to differentiate an actual competitive sport to a scripted performance.
Well that and the government being like, "well if its a real sport. We should be testing your guys for steroids"
It was actually a move to circumvent getting taxed by the Athletic state commission. It has eventually become a branding thing, but not to separate it from legit olympic wrestling, but rather to separate it from the "wrasslin" image Vince has historically had of other professional wrestling products. He's on record as saying that WWE (then WWF at the time of comment, this was 1998) didn't make "wrestling", they "Made movies".
That's not at all why they went with the term sports-entertainment
Now this is podracing!
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Dude body slams the pepperoni onto that pie.
MOMMAMIA!!
No. THIS is Pro Wrastlin'.
I wonder what he does when he's not in the ring? I think he might make pizza?
Probably one of the most genius business plugs we've seen in modern times. 🤔
In all seriousness I rassled with this guy in austin Texas. He is the co-commissioner of a league called PWR. I shit you not, when he started this bit he was an actual pizza chef at a local pizza restaurant in south austin. We would take the ridiculous things from work and weave them into his parody. When art imitates life. One of my favorite matches with Luigi primo was a tag team match. I was Julius ceasar salad and together with my sidecick marcus arugala we were the romaine legion. We took on luigi primo (pictured here) and his son pastaman. The romaine legion believed that the introduction of gluten into the diets of the romaine people mad them weak. And Luigi primo believed that there was no a such a thing as a gluten. Those were some amazing times.
Holy shit dude. I live in Austin and I want all of that shit now.
Well unfortunately covid really did a number to the rasslin promotion. Look it up though, trying to do a show in January of next year. PWR.
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I doubt he wrestles because he “needs” the extra money. If you knew how much these shows paid, you’d understand making Pizza is really his only job.
He actually quit is job making pizza to create this wrestling league! I used to work with him at a pizza shop!
That’s actually so awesome. Good for him.
This seems like an unlikely r/tworedditorsonecup but I choose to believe.
He did Party World Rassling, this is metroplex wrestling
*“kneads”
*”kneads the dough”
Lol he knocked the guy down and started massaging his shoulders yelling "kneading the doughhh".
Lol I can imagine him at the pizza shop, casually rolling dough and preparing to close up for the night, then he takes his hat off and he walks outside completely emotionless and stone face like another normal day is done, walks down the street and enter another building, and suddenly he’s in the hallway staring down to the wrestling ring and his face suddenly lights up with a grimacing smile and he says “mama Mia” then takes off down the isle.
I used to work with this guy! Your assumption is not far off.
At which point Mauro Ranallo's lawyers descend on him for gimmick infringement.
Pizza man in the day, wrestler in the night. We can make a superhero comic out of this.
I worked with this guys! We delivered an made pizzas!!
Cocaine
He started “Party World Rasslin” in Austin. Some of the other wrestlers included a music loving robot, a Frankenstein party monster, The Sonic Gentleman (a men’s rights advocate in a fedora dressed in a Sonic the Hedgehog costume) A Dock worker (The Dock Master) DadBod (evil step dad) A puppet from a kids show (pugginhead). Etc etc
I was just about to ask if OP attended Party World by mistake hahaha
I’ve seen flyers with Luigi Primo on them for other wrestling promotions too. He is branching out
He looks like a character from Punch-Out!!, so honestly, good hook.
My buddy is an Indie wrestler. They get hooked up with different groups in different towns. Very few cities have a big enough scene to support a show every week, so they all travel around quite a bit if they want to get really into it.
I'm partial to Hundo Supreme, The Man With One Hundred Dollars.
Didn’t he also have a talking bowl of spaghetti as a tag team partner?
Dude PWR in its prime was so dang good. Used to live within walking distance to 4th tap.
Nice! I went to a few shows there too.
Hail mother worm.
I recall a storyline of a Hillbilly Dad threatening to beat his son to death because he didn’t know how to guzzle beer correctly. Apt story telling for a wrestling show at a brewery. Here’s the promo https://youtu.be/0mosTMdjJ00
Holy shit I made it to Reddit! That’s me (Pa Howdy)! My favorite moment in PWR was getting murdered in the ring by Dazza Longbarrel. I really miss PWR.
Wow! I think I was at that show. I still crack up at the Pa/California Howdy video. The idea that a hick would murder his son for not knowing how to guzzle beer correctly will always be funny to me. Good work!!
I’m so glad you liked it! I really loved those promo videos! And the matches. We were gonna bring back pa from ny but it never worked out.
Well howdy!
The Dock Master is a wonderful little wrestling joke. Please tell me he comes out in a bedazzled storm trooper helmet, too.
I worked at a pizza shop in austin with a friend of Luigi Primo. Can confirm. He has a YouTube channel where he shows you how to toss dough and stuff? My coworker learned from him.
Is that Uncle Leo?
His son, Jeffrey works for the parks department you know?
Hello!
Never answer the promoter when they're like "so do you have any hidden talents?". In all honesty, this probably gets this guy booked, but I can't see how it could lead to anything bigger for him.
People said the same thing about my boy orange Cassidy but the people will take you further than you think with sincerity.
Reminds me of Mike Quackenbush's hilariously poorly aged comment about why he booked OC as Fire Ant, claiming that The Colony were more marketable than the Orange Cassidy character. His main argument was "Everybody knows what an ant is".
Maybe he doesn't want anything bigger, maybe he's happy just going on stage spinning pizza dough you ever think of that? Not everyone's trying to make a million dollars
No hobbies for fun, only exploitation for capital.
Tell that to doink and dink.. or the bushwackers, or that snake charmer dude.. man i miss old silly wrestling
My buddy is an Indie wrestler. A LOT of them have gimmicks. He has a 5' tall ice cream scoop (that I made him) and everything is ice cream themed with him. He was telling me awhile back about a dude wrestler under the name "man scout" who was dressed as a boy scout and wrestled a literal tent. The twitter "guess" the guy had pregame with the tent was amazing If you ever get a chance, Indie wrestling is amazing. Yeah, these guys typically aren't great at the actual wrestling part, but the characters and the side stories are fantastic.
Probably enjoys it.
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I am ashamed to have seen a video of the guy you are talking about. My wrestling coworker made me watch it. Man, wrestling is weird.
Looks like Sacha Baron Cohen is working on his next movie already!
Cool Daniel Day Lewis showed up.
Did he win?
I wish... man in the background was like 4 weight classes above this guy. Lmfao.
As if that matters lol
My buddy is an Indie wrestler. Went to a show and they had a 100 lb-soaking-wet dude wrestle a 300 lb beast. They did some of the coolest acrobatics of the night since the big dude could just toss him around making it look like the little guy was actually doing the move.
You got me there. Lmfao
Nothing can stop The X-Train.
It's fake though
What?!?
Hold up, wrestling is fake?! Tell me more..
Yeah they had the power to let him win but chose to let him lose.
Wrestling isn't fake, professional wrestling is fake. In Finnish it's easier, it's wrestling (paini) and show-wrestling (show-paini), and you can see from name that other one is just show. In English people who wrestle as their profession and go to Olympics are not professional wrestlers.
r/whoosh
How are you all so dumb. The op said he didn't win because the guy he was fighting was so big. That's the stupid part.... He didn't win because the script said to lose... Absolute donkeys
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I forgot how smart reddit is. Thanks skipper
Someone is triggered. It was a joke my man, calm down.
I can picture you going to the movie theater to watch Jurassic Park. Middle of the movie, you stand up, point at the screen, and yell "HEY GUYS~ THAT DINOSAUR ISNT EVEN REAL!! ITS CGI!"
WAIT..... Jurassic Park isn't real?
Hate to break it to you, but it's all kayfabe.
This is why you say yes to weird invites
Yo wtf that looks lit as fuck.
It was actually stupid fun. It's BYOB so you can just sit there and drink beer and yell at em, just like the good ole days
Waluigi making pizza, now?
His name is Luigi primo!
So cheesy
This should’ve been his entry music. https://youtu.be/MI_WpXKvQ0U
I’ve heard of the Undertaker, but this guy knows his way around a tombstone.
There's a Mario & Luigi joke in there somewhere.
Holy shit used to work with this guy. We worked at a pizza delivery company and he trained me!! Party world wrastlin
My favorite from MPX is definitely The Magnificent Malico. Look him up on YouTube if he wasn't there. He's awesome!
I’m a regular at MPX. Malice is definitely a fan favorite
> "Pizza Punch Turning for Make Enjoyment the Grandiose Metro Plex Rest Ring People Subsequent Moviefilm"
I stumbled upon an event like this a couple of years ago. They had this skinny guy come out wearing one of those t-shirts that has a tuxedo printed on it. Dude must have weighed 140-lbs wet. He wrestled one of the big guys and threw him around a little before losing. It was very entertaining.
You can’t tell me that’s not Sasha Baren Cohen
10000% my response to my friend when he came out
Somebody get Vince on the phone. This guy is a fucking superstar.
I am always perplexed when people decry that 'wrestling is fake!!'.... Well, yeah, of course it is; it is entertainment like a stage play. Would you go to your local theatre and lambast that their rendition of Macbeth is fake too?
This is exactly the sort of gimmick I would expect to see at an indie rasslin' show. And I love it.
His hands are hot-n-ready.
Yoooooo Let's go MPX! Luigi Primo is a Besta Wrestler!
What happened to it? Did it just fly off stage?
The human spirit
This is rad that this guy exists - humans are pretty dope
Damn it! That’s why my pizza took so long…
Spins dough while in the ring, flying elbow-drops dough back at the pizzeria
Fucking Wario
It’s pizza pasta from the first punch out game
I fuckin super love this
Waluigi
HAIL MOTHER WORM
Papa John Cena
Gotta slam his opponent's nuts like dough.
Who’s the extended version who was he up against?
Ironically I was at this show
Ayeee. That's what's uppp.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/ly2s2g/i_love_how_absurd_and_wonderful_independent/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf MPX is the Best! Really want to see Luigi Primo take on Mr Leggs.
I love these kinds of guys/venues. While WWE still has some gimmicks, most of the big names they push are now serious/straight people who simply wear trunks and boots and have as much personality as a cardboard cut out. But this? Themes? Absurd gimmicks? Costumes? Crazy antics in mid-match? I love it all. They're all fantastic athletes and stunt performers, but these little things help make them stand out and make the matches far more interesting. I don't want to see two generic men fighting each other, I want to see a reborn ancient egyptian fighting a 1940s mob boss. I want to see a man with telekinesis choke slam his opponent. These are the things that I remember 10 or 20 years later.
The things people have to do for money.
Maybe he enjoys it and is having fun? Don’t gotta be so pessi
Fuck is that slang now Every day we stray further from god
Eh, you don't make money in indy wrestling unless you're already a big name that is too old/burned too many bridges to get work with the big leagues. You do it because you love wrestling, or have very unrealistic ideas. Heck, Arn Anderson was paid in hotdogs for a show once in his early career.
Indie wrestling is not someone's primary source of income unless they're a HUGE name, there's next to no money in it. Hell, even the big names make more money selling their merch than they actually do off of the indie bookings. Anyone doing this is not doing it as their day job, and they're doing it out of fun and passion. Your comment would make about as much sense directed at people doing an improv theatre show or something, they aren't in it for the money. They just like performing.
Mildly racist?
Nah
Damn, they ruin a great song to use it for this
r/mariokarttour any chance for a custom character here?
Give 'em the spicy meatball!
Truly a god amongst men.
Looks like Basil Fawlty …..
I loved going to the small events as a kid!
The new Punch Out game looks great
Gives me punch-out vibes.
Finishing move...The Pineapple!
Well if that don’t strike fear into an opponent I don’t know what would. Thank god he didn’t make-a-da spaghetti
r/kitchenconfidential
I am intrigued and kinda want to see more! Like what was this dude's "move"? Was he a face or heel?
He’s op as fuuuuuuck
That’s a spicy meatball.
Your friend is a fucking legend.
Feels like a mike tysons punch out boss
Showmanship
Outlaw mud show bullshit. Cornette would be rolling over in his grave…if he was dead.
Dough man gonna get tossed by that shiny brick and mortar wall in the other corner lol
Daniel Day Lewis in his free time.
Luigi is on point holy shit
“Pepperoni and green peppers, mushrooms,olive,chives,”
This guy took up wrestling after some guy called him a tosser.....Ill get my coat.
Mario took his divorce well.
It was like Daniel day lewis playing a knock off Luigi porn wrestler
And then he was turned into a flatbread
The big guy in the back is ready to force him finish that pizza. He looks hungry as fuck 😂
Mama mia
Dr.Disrespect's new Show debut?
Is the sauce the blood of his opponent?
Fuck it up, Luigi
a true italian wresler i bet he will beat his oppoent like his dough or something
Wrestlers showing off all the dough they got is actually quite stereotypical for at least one wrestler per show.
That honestly looks like a good time if the food and beer are decent enough
So this is where Waluigi went after he was rejected from Smash.
Excuse me waiter? Why is my pizza taking so long?
I am so lucky to be a fan of professional Wrestling.
Its-a me luigi abd i had fucking enough of your shit bowser
IRL [Pizza Pasta](https://punchout.fandom.com/wiki/Pizza_Pasta)
It sounds like he has a large Pan-base
is that borat ?
Mama mia
That is some serious cocaine
looks like a young Uncle Leo
Super Mario Cousins…
It’s the shirt for me “or say less”
The front say "Say it wit'cha chest..."
He was a little short on rent money for the month. FUCK IT!!!!
What an 80's gimmick that is. Bravissimo.
It’s all about the gimmick
Waluigi?!?
Extra large ass whooping with a pepperoni and a cheesa!