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[blowflyfag]

Hey friends!!! I just wanted to show off all my wrestling Kandi! I’m going to a show tonight. It’s a local wrestling show and I’m super excited since it’s my first show!!!

[fangirlmary]

Story of Stone Cold vs. Dude Love | Over The Edge 1998

I was not aware that this feud existed before watching this video. I guess I need to do more research.

[salemshotspot]

They’re the only family ever actually [I’m obsessed with this dynamic, this edit feels like a poor take on eraserhead and I’ll never grow tired of it]

TAGS: @outsiderswolfpac

[tolietpaperdreams]

i love mick foley just look at him

cutie patootie <3

[glitterxdeath]

silly little guy

[joearlikelikeswrestling]

[mrjinx87]

This has been the most pro wrestling election of my lifetime and I hate it.

Can this cursed election just happen already? We still got 2 more weeks of this shit? We really need to rip the band-aid off.

[seanwaltism]

how it feels hcing presumed-cis wrestlers as trans

[wings-twitch]

[indeedgoodman]

[machobusta]

Dude Love makes his way to the ring for a match against Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

WWF One Night Only September 20, 1997

[recca1]

Last night I got to meet the God of wrestling, Mick Foley he was so sweet especially sense I was sobbing and I got to give him a big hug ☺️

Obviously had to pick the picture from hell in the cell it's iconic anddd he also gave me a card! He was genuinely so nice to everyone and I'm pretty sure my aunt tried to invite him to her wedding 😭

[mrs-foleys-baby-boy]

July 7 and 14, 1997

When all you want in this world is love and acceptance, and the people you seek approval from want nothing more than to keep you down, sometimes you need to resort to drastic measures.

And for Mick Foley, sometimes those drastic measures involve turning into a sexy hippy.

Since this was a little bit of a longer series of clips, I wanted to dip my toe into some basic editing. Hope you enjoy!

[salemshotspot]

please tell me your mankind + goldust + taker thoughts because i watched your amv and was interested and intrigued i wanna know how you perceive them in your mind

OMG I'VE BEEN WANTING SOMEONE TO ASK ME THIS FOR SO LONG! I'LL TRY MY BEST TO EXPLAIN IT IN A WAY THAT MAKES SENSE [for a bit of context all the clips I'm going to be talking about are from 1996 + I have them saved if anyone wants to see a certain one!] So when mankind's debut was being teased he would always be alone in dark places talking about how he's a 'freak' both physically and emotionally [my favourite quote from these teasers is 'on the eight day God created mankind, why was he having such a bad day?'] and he later goes onto talk about how both of his parents grew to resent him due to either his anger [he says something about how his father thought he was too out of control and needed to be 'numbed'] or his deformity [he says his mum used to always wake him up so her friends could hear his music but once it stopped she started to resent him or something like that] and I believe that because of that not only does he have parental issues [like hell he frequently calls Goldust 'mommy' and says he's her little boy who needs to protect her] but further more I hc that he has a twisted kind of religious guilt which is why he's so 'crazy' [trying to destroy himself and possibly end up dead because God clearly made a mistake with him which you can either read as him trying to deform himself sm he's unrecognisable and therefore nothing like what God created him to be or you can read it as he feels if God couldn't love him then there's no point in living because he was created as pure evil and pure evil must be punished/cleansed from the world.

Now as I've stated before mankind sees Goldust as a mother figure and I think it's for two reasons; one, his own mother rejected him for being a 'freak' so he believes no 'normal' person could love him so he finds comfort in someone else who is, as Vince McMahon always puts it on commentary, 'a bizarre one' but also because Mankind's mum 'always woke him up for the music' which made him feel wanted, he clings to Goldust's theatrical nature as it reminds him of his mum [and side note, Goldust clearly takes on the role really well, there's footage of him literally in Mankind's boiler room, a place he feels safe and grounded, a place he calls his home being so tender with him, comforting him like every child wants their mother to do.]

Before I go onto The Undertaker, for context, in '96 the three men had a feud; from his debut Mankind always attacked The Undertaker and then when Goldust and The Undertaker began feuding Mankind would frequently come to his rescue [clearly closer with Goldust, playing into the stereotype of a 'mamas boy.']

I feel like there's two ways to view The Undertaker in this dynamic; one being as Goldust is a mother figure to Mankind he could view The Undertaker as a father figure [in his debut teasers there's light implications that Mankind's mother and father weren't on agreeable terms, especially when it came to how to raise Mankind so the conflict could remind him of that and as his mother was implied to be more tender, even if she was still rejecting him, he would be more inclined to 'protect' her and in turn protect Goldust from The Undertaker] but also you could argue his religious guilt could absolutely manifest in a hatred for The Undertaker because, as previously mentioned, I think that Mankind would be drawn to death and self-destruction as an attempt to either defy God or cleanse himself from the world and as The Undertaker is very much symbolic of death [he's literally 'the dead man'] he could be angry at death for refusing to take him and the closet he can get to attacking death realistically is via The Undertaker.

Also this is exclusive to the amv but I do hc Goldust and The Undertaker as a couple and the 'and your dearest fantasy is to grow a baby in me' was intended to be a way of saying that Mankind is a monster, a creature, he was never seen as a human even as a baby and deep down The Undertaker wishes he could start again and have a family with Goldust and have a baby rather than a creature. I'm sorry I'm weird and have weird little hcs but I really hope that made sense and I explained everything properly! If there's anything I didn't explain properly/anyone has any other questions about my hcs for *any wrestlers* please lmk [either via dming, commenting, asking etc] and I'll be more than happy to answer/re-word anything :)

[calypso-bennett]

Mick Foley being choke slammed through your roof to deliver you presents. You get extra stocking stuffers if you leave him milk and thumb tacks.

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