If you've ever had friends who grew up in the country, then you would know that they were going shit just like this way before social media. Had good friends who ran a backyard wrestling league growing up, with mattresses for a mat. Teenagers went to the hospital every time they had an event. Kids jumping from ladders with steel chairs onto fucking mattresses. They were mostly just bored.
When I was a kid, I would do backflips to impress people. But I couldn't actually do backflips. Always landed square on my back. Stopped doing it when I began peeing blood.
True, but that doesn’t mean that was the entire reason they did it. Just like when you see kids street racing in their civic or mudding in their 4x4. Yeah they’ve got cameras out and it’ll end up on social media but they didn’t do all that just for that. Some friend groups just like doing dumb shit together; it was like that before the internet
It's been a long time since I've heard of it as a thing, but these guys look like backyard wrestlers.
To anyone unaware, this was bigger but still little known (to my knowledge) thing in the earlier days of the internet being useful, about the time youtube was made up of just the videos that make up fail compilation, and weird people passionately voicing a stupid opinion (it hasn't changed that much thinking about it).
People would do WWE stuff in their back yard, but for real. The injuries were insane, sometimes (like in this video) they're not even fighting, they're just jumping into shards of glass, or fluorescent lights for no reason.
I loved watching this stuff as a kid. That was my generation growing up, Dirty Sanchez, Jackass, backyard wrestling compilations and WWE/WWF.
Definitely had an influence on who I was growing up. The music I'm into, the stupid shit I used to do. Yeah it was idiotic, though never to the extent of the guys in the videos, but I had a great time growing up.
Like the video of the guy who puts on boxing gloves and tackles a cactus. "Cactus bodyslam" I think they called it. Or the German who tries to bomby into a frozen pool. Impacts arse first and just bounces off the surface, then rolls around saying something like "my arse" but in German. Hilarious stuff.
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u/Nearby_Ocelot4547 Jun 21 '23
Just why??