#Rocco Rock

[blowflyfag]

Pro Wrestling Illustrated: September 1996

Public Enemy: “They’re Insane In The Membrane!”

HAVOC INC. PAYS THE PRICE FOR HERO WORSHIP

It’s one thing to respect an opposing team. It’s another thing to worship them … even after they just gave you the worst whipping of your life 

By Dave Rosenbaum

[Public Enemy’s Johnny Grunge applies a rear chinlock on Havoc Inc.’s Hollywood as Hollywood grimaces in pain. The punishment PE dealt out to Havoc Inc. would get much, much worse, though. ]

WE DON’T KNOW if Aretha Franklin���s friend ever found out what R-E-S-P-E-C-T meant to her, but here’s what it meant to Havoc Inc., a team that might have put Public Enemy a little too high on a pedestal.

“They’re insane in the membrane!” said Rocco Rock of Public Enemy. “You gotta be a fool to get into that ring without a little bit of respect for your opponent, but there ain't no room in wrestling for hero worship, not when your heroes are going to kick the livin’ crap out of you!”

Put even more succinctly by Public Enemy’s Johnny Grunge, “They always dreamed of getting their butts kicked by Public Enemy. Well, they got their wish and then some!”

***

Two men named O’Dog and Hollywood fell in love about three years ago–and not with each other! The object of their desire was a wrestling tag team, Public Enemy.

But this is no Goldust story. It’s about two wrestlers who saw a tag team and immediately said, “We’ve gotta be like them!” Rock and Grunge was the tag team O’Dog and Hollywood dreamed of being.

“You see those guys in the ring and know that’s what tag team wrestling is supposed to be all about,” Hollywood said. “You’re talking about two wrestlers who had been around a whole, but they never clicked until they made a team. They’re fearless, and they’re great wrestlers, too.”

[Hollywood used to love watching Rocco Rock set opponents up on press tables, then send them crashing through those tables. He probably never thought Rock would someday try it on him!]

Hollywood, who checks in at 6’4”, 275 pounds, and O’Dog, whose vitals are 5’10”, 180 pounds, had spent five years wrestling for independents in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Oregon. They are a streetfighting team that never could distinguish themselves from the other streetfighting teams and had settled into a life of making ends meet.

They were also fans. O’Dog and Hollywood were regularly in attendance at ECW matches in Philadelphia when Public Enemy wrestled. They’d sit at ringside, make mental notes of what they saw, and once even had the chance to shake their heroes’ hands.

“I don’t remember it,” Grunge spat. “Not that it was worth remembering.” So enthralled was Havoc Inc. with PE that O’Dog and Hollywood sent a letter in care of WCW to Public Enemy that described in detail why Rock and Grunge were the greatest Tag team in the world. 

“We didn't see any harm in that!” O’Dog said.

“Stupidest thing anybody’s ever done!” Grunge said. “It ticked us off. If some tag team’s gonna copy us, they better get it right and just do it. Public Enemy asks no questions, we just kick butt. You do sissy stuff like writin’ gushy letters and you’re askin’ for trouble from us. We had to teach them a lesson about what being tough is all about.”

It’s March 22 at an Int’l Pro Wrestling card in Leighton, Pennsylvania, and Havoc Inc.is about to realize its dream of being in the same ring as Public Enemy. What they don't know is they’re about to be destroyed by PE.

Since arriving in WCW late last year, Public Enemy has only occasionally competed on independent cards. But tonight, Grunge and Rock are wrestling in tiny Lehighton because they want the chance to violently meet the team that admires them so. 

[Havoc Inc.’s O’Dog had Rock on the run early in the match, but the advantage didn’t last long. PE had a message to send to Havoc Inc. On this night. They delivered it in very violent fashion!]

“We thought they’d like to shake our hands or maybe enjoy a few knees to the gut from us,” Rock chortled. “Maybe they’d enjoy having their necks broken by the best tag team in the world. That’ll give them something to tell their grandchildren about … if they’re still capable of having grandchildren!”

It’s questionable after this one. A match that many thought would be totally one-sided ends up being very competitive for a while. Once they get control of the match, though, Public Enemy draws out the affair and teaches Havoc Inc.a lesson in violence and mayhem. Public Enemy sends both of their opponents crashing through wooden tables, Rocco Rock with a somersault, grunge with a crushing elbowdrop. The match spills outside of the ring and into the bleachers, where Havoc Inc. are spectators to their own beating.

[Havoc Inc. do take their worship of PE to the extreme. They even write on the tape they use on their wrists (above), which is something Rock and Grunge often do. Looks like Grunge wasn’t too flattered (below).]

With the fans on their side, Rock and Grunge crush the upstarts and leave them battered. Havoc Inc. looks like it has been through a war but strangely, O’Dog and Hollywood are smiling.

“Now we want The Gangstas,”Hollywood said, “That would make our year! Public Enemy and The Gangstas. Can you imagine that?”

Can you believe it? “I swear, I would’ve killed them if they came up to us and thanked us for nearly ending their lives,” Grunge said.

“I definitely would’ve finished the job.” Rock added.

Maybe they should have, because O’Dog and Hollywood are unflappable. 

“You have to pay your dues and learn your lessons in wrestling,” Hollywood said. “We learned our lesson tonight about what it takes to be at Public Enemy’s level. Maybe we have some work to do,  but that’s okay.”

Said O’Dog: “I'm just mad that we didn’t get a chance to shake their hands.”

No, but Public Enemy shook everything else on a night of glorified violence for Havoc Inc.

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[sesamenom]

quick 15min doodle, bc I'm working on (currently only hypothetically tho :c) Something based on that post about "would mae survive castle dracula"

inspired by this snippet of a conversation w @nelyoslegalteam

[frenchfry99]

Voice claims for Lilly! Yay!

Lilly Silly: Elmo (Sesame street) / Milky Way Cookie (CRK)

singing voice: Elmo's song (Sesame street)

Mob Lilly : Tiny Tina (Borderlands 2)

[elvis1970s]

Interesting 1973 article on Rocco Laginestra, by legendary music writer Lillian Roxon. I stumbled upon it by accident, there are couple of little Elvis snippets in the centre and right hand column...

The writer notes that the previous year, 1972, Elvis made more money for RCA than any other year of his career.

[tarantula-pop]

Flesh For Lulu, circa 1985

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

forever n ever in love w falcone family they're so fucked up

[moregraceful]

why does Davis Schneider constantly behave like he's playing a one man game of gay chicken with everyone around him. Which of his social-emotional-sexual needs are not getting met. There's easier ways to become a wag, surely, then getting drafted and clawing your way through the minors to get to 40 man roster.

[iamdangerace]

Flesh For Lulu, Head Out Of This World Live (place and date of recording unknown) from COSMIC MIND FUCK (2024).

The album title, 'COSMIC MIND FUCK', is taken from a Nick Marsh doodle found on a reel-to-reel box which contained some of these 'lost' tracks.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Rocco’s just a rock, Zoë!

[chernobog13]

SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN (vol. 1) #84 (April, 1965). Cover by Curt Swan.

Leave it to Jimmy to not think through his latests hare-brained scheme. "I'll put two giant monsters together to make a movie. What could go wrong?"

I love how Titano is like "Hold on a minute, Butane Breath, I gotta kill this guy!"

Not at all inspired by King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962).

And I'm sure this issue did not - in any way, shape, or form - inspire the last issue of Konga that was released later the same year:

[notyourmoon4528]

All I have to say is Elmo × Rocco is exactly how I imagine Qimir × Mae

Nuf' said

https://x.com/TODAYshow/status/1819375992961458586?t=PKmq1OMKxT5GY2_617APGw&s=19

[ask-the-cyclone]

Mischa. How do you feel about being Virgil’s father?

(/j)

What? The rat? I am not his father! He is a rat!!

*busts out laughing*

*trying not to giggle*

Okay it is not that funny!

[trashpandaperson]

Ok so

[therich4270]

A slightly modified work of mine from early 2022. That year a meme spawned where old clips from Sesame Street became popular. They were from an episode where Zoey had a rock she named Rocco and pretended it was a real person, which drove Elmo insane. It’s always hilarious to see Sesame Street characters go off the rails, and this instance of Elmo having none of Zoey’s nonsense is no exception!