Heroes of the Squared Circle Meta: Country Clark Kent

Country Clark Kent comes from a long and distinguished pedigree of, well... wrestlers with rural backgrounds, like...



Yes, like Hillbilly Jim. Overalls and all. He wrestled in overalls. For some reason the person who uploaded one of the better promotional vids of him won't let me embed it (afraid there'd be too much Hillbilly Jim love?), but here's the link and it really is worth a watch.

Other wrestlers in this vein include the "brother" team of Festus and Jesse:

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Clark and Bruce also do a shooting star press, which is one of the more difficult moves in wrestling. Here's what it looks like in midair as performed by Evan Bourne:



Holy crap.

It's a move that the WWE only allows certain proven wrestlers to do because it's dangerous, and to be honest there's probably no way a guy as big as Clark should be doing it, but...Clark and Bruce are special.

Here's a video of a bunch of different shooting star presses:

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