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mithenCountry 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:
(When the WWE let them go in 2007 they claimed it was because they got lost on the way to the arena and never found it.)
Or one of my favorites, Jimmy Wang Yang:
"HIllbilly" or "Redneck" wrestlers are almost always faces, in large part because well, intellectual types are nearly always heels. I promise poor Clark is going to have other gimmicks someday, but I got having too much fun with this part of his career and so he's been stuck in it longer than I expected. *pats Clark*
Oh, and while we're on the topic of Clark's wrestling style, I thought I would share a couple of videos of the aerial moves he does with Bruce, like the diving hurricanrana. The best example of the move I could find is by a woman wrestler, Lita, who had a signature move called the "Litacanrana" which was a thing of beauty:
Now just imagine Clark doing the jumping and Bruce doing the catching.
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:
Country Clark Kent: More Acrobatic Than a Hillbilly Gimmick Should Probably Be.
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:
(When the WWE let them go in 2007 they claimed it was because they got lost on the way to the arena and never found it.)
Or one of my favorites, Jimmy Wang Yang:
"HIllbilly" or "Redneck" wrestlers are almost always faces, in large part because well, intellectual types are nearly always heels. I promise poor Clark is going to have other gimmicks someday, but I got having too much fun with this part of his career and so he's been stuck in it longer than I expected. *pats Clark*
Oh, and while we're on the topic of Clark's wrestling style, I thought I would share a couple of videos of the aerial moves he does with Bruce, like the diving hurricanrana. The best example of the move I could find is by a woman wrestler, Lita, who had a signature move called the "Litacanrana" which was a thing of beauty:
Now just imagine Clark doing the jumping and Bruce doing the catching.
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:
Country Clark Kent: More Acrobatic Than a Hillbilly Gimmick Should Probably Be.
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Date: 2013-05-30 09:30 am (UTC)I recognized the Litacanrana video from when I first googled the move when it was mentioned in your story. :-) She looks brilliant!
Wow, and the last video makes me wonder how many wrestlers have been seriously injured during their career?
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Date: 2013-05-31 04:22 am (UTC)Basically, yes, lol. Festus (the slack-jawed one) had a gimmick where he transformed from an idiot into an unstoppable fighting machine whenever he heard a bell, and then back when he heard it again. So a lot of his matches involved his opponents trying to find bells that would make him stop fighting, lol. It was...ridiculous.
Wow, and the last video makes me wonder how many wrestlers have been seriously injured during their career?
*winces* So many. Pretty much everyone. There's a horrible underside to wrestling which is that pretty much everyone is dependent on pain pills, and there's a LOT of painkiller abuse in the community, because everyone is in pain all the time. Plus there are wrestlers who have actually died in the ring (Owen Hart is probably the most famous example, he died when he fell from a catwalk when he was supposed to be rappelling in). And the huge number of concussions have left a terrible toll as well (in one case a wrestler murdered his family and committed suicide, and there's a belief that the number of concussions he had suffered might have had something to do with that). OK, now I've depressed myself. T_T I'm only very lightly going to touch on these kinds of grim events (the Hart death will show up, the painkiller addictions and murder-suicides, no) because this is a fun fantasy world of cute boys wrestling each other. :)