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Not the greatest installment but the Backlund story is funny. Also, Hornswoggle joins in on a prank against a friend of a fan and Buff Bagwell gets tanked backstage. This installment also closes with three Virgil stories.


http://deadspin.com/5946696/bob-backlund-is-an-insane-person-more-wrestler-run+ins

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  1. spicollidriverSeptember 27, 2012 at 8:06 AM

    Bob Backlund = awesome.

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  2. Mike TrainerSeptember 27, 2012 at 8:28 AM

     That's MR. Bob Backlund to us mere mortals.  And yeah, he's awesome.

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  3. Nick SaikleySeptember 27, 2012 at 8:32 AM

    Plebeians.

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  4. Ryan MurphySeptember 27, 2012 at 8:56 AM

    There's always at least one story in these that makes me crack up with its writer's self importance. I love the one where the guy made "I saw Doink but didn't talk to him" sound like The Agony and The Ecstasy. 

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  5. Mike TrainerSeptember 27, 2012 at 9:25 AM

    I just love how many of these stories paint the writer as a total douchebag.  I just want to tell these people "You want to know why a wrestler has a reputation for a bad attitude with fans?  Because they're constantly bothered by people like YOU."

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  6. Mike TrainerSeptember 27, 2012 at 9:27 AM

     Don't be lugubrious.

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  7. Eric GriffithSeptember 27, 2012 at 9:52 AM

    Yes and more yes. Most of these people seem insufferable.

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  8. Eric GriffithSeptember 27, 2012 at 9:53 AM

    Honestly, I'd be disappointed if that story ended in any other way.

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  9. Eric GriffithSeptember 27, 2012 at 9:53 AM

    I'm glad someone pointed out in the comments that most of those "doinks" almost certainly aren't WWE Doink. *rolls eyes at stupid stories*

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  10. Lerxst_PrattSeptember 27, 2012 at 10:18 AM

    "Virgil went on to have a conversation with himself for about 20 minutes,
    with an audience of just me and a guy who was trying to politely
    moonwalk away from the booth."

    The moonwalk part was awesome.

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  11. MyronBSeptember 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM

     They need to do a skit with Damien Sandow and Bob Backlund.

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  12. Topher0820September 27, 2012 at 10:57 AM

    Yup, most of the stories with negative wrestler reactions start with "so
    me and my drunk bros went up to him and told him he sucked ass right to
    his face BUT THEN he has the nerve to ignore us and wave us away when
    we asked for an pic! what a jerk"

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  13. Christopher HirschSeptember 27, 2012 at 11:20 AM

     Would be a great continuation of Mr. Sandow's serial.

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  14. Adam CurrySeptember 27, 2012 at 11:39 AM

    Even if it was WWE Doink, which one? Weren't there 3 or 4 different guys in the clown suit?

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  15. Eric GriffithSeptember 27, 2012 at 12:31 PM

    That too!

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  16. Ryan MurphySeptember 27, 2012 at 2:22 PM

    My friend has a FB album dedicated to all the wrestlers he's met, I had to ask him which Doink it was just to be a smartass, and he claimed he's met all of them, albeit some in different gimmicks. He has pictures up with Eugene and the Brooklyn Brawler, and one of him & Steve Keirn I think, so those are legit. But no way to know if the Doink he has a pic with is Matt Borne or some other yokel. I have doubts he ever managed to get one with Ray Licachelli.

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  17. MaffewofBotchamaniaSeptember 27, 2012 at 7:32 PM

    Axl Rotten was possibly going to WWF in 1997? That's even crazier than Big DIck Dudley's similar claim.

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  18. Brendan NewtonSeptember 30, 2012 at 10:44 PM

    I know! I loved how he was talking so seriously about how he met "Doink" when that's on the same level as coming back from the Mall at Christmas and bragging about having met Santa Claus.

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