Al Snow on Ole Anderson Try Out 

Basically the mob

And the reason for that is, back then when people thought wrestling was real....it attracted people who actually wanted to fight, who were more likely to be jocks, ex miliatry men, criminals etc. Now that everyone KNOWS its fake you got drama majors that really just want to be famous getting in the ring. Very interesting shoot when you consider Al Snow really was the first person to lift the lid on this along with the WWF back when he was on Tough Enough and Bob Holly was showing the kids the way things used to be done. They pretty much through Bob under the bus, (not Al but the WWF)

It’s really interesting.👍

True. Seemed like a mix of legit tough guys, misfits, and psychos.

And it was more popular back then now wrestling is a joke

Holy shit

That’s how Hogan broke in…and his leg.

Lies

Everyone always has a story about walking in 4 feet of snow 0 degrees up hill both ways 5 miles just to go to school at the age of 5

ole was reasonable, but he had a masterclass ability to ignore the inner voice, that might tell him no...

The voice of "Fucking!"

Yes if Old is the voice of reason you must be in a really fucked situation

Legend says one can still hear that voice echo : "that was the absolute shits"

LMAO

He doesn't have to. There are plenty of wrestlers who has. And rightfully so.

he probably pulled a muscle

He made the Barbarian cry with a nerve pinch on his elbow. Gene knew where to get people.

Alex Batey Best sub two minute Jimmy Cornette story ever, haha. Gene was a crusty old bastard with no qualms about putting the hurt on another person, period. That being said I never heard a bunch of rotten shit about him like you do Ole.

Gene didn’t elevate to the position in the business Ole did.

Possibly *needlessly* brutal.

@@Eidenhoek possibly, but it does toughen you up for the hashness of life.

Hodge's working was more dangerous than anyone else's shooting

the starrcade match wasnt the first dog collar match between them, they did that match at house shows as well.

Perry Saturn said it was more intense than Ranger training.

Depending on the person and muscle development and your reps you put in everyday you can get strong as fuck from push ups and if you focus on your breathing it can help cardio

It's because Al snow is full of shat

💯

Sounds kinda like seal training, weeding out the weaker people.🤔

Very possible if I ever go to Atlanta again.

Thanks for the reply

@@TheHannibalTV Did you ever make it back to Atlanta? I think Ole would definitely respect you because of your resume. And that he probably can't touch his fingers around your wrist.

It will be posted in the coming weeks.

sounds like you got worked fam

Do you guys ever listen to the points being made...

If you listen carefully, there were two groups participating. There were the guys off the street who wanted to be wrestlers and then there were the guys that Ole was really training for the business. The point of the "open tryout" for pro-wrestling back in the day wasn't to find new wrestlers, it was to show those guys off the street that pro wrestlers were athletically no joke and to convince them that it was all real. Back in the day, you got into being trained for pro-wrestling by knowing somebody or being noticed by somebody. You got in by being invited in. Those open try-outs were always a work designed for marks.

To Ole Anderson everyone was the drizzling shits, except him. To hear him tell it, he invented Pro Wrestling, and the exclamation point...

"Ole Anderson was the drizzling shits."- Ole Anderson

I laughed so hard at this comment!

It's a tactic in book camp and the military ..break the persons will and they are yours to do as you please because you wont resist.

Its not much different from the military. The only way you test people's character alot of the time is to take them to their limits. Its rough, but it weeds out the quitters and the guys with bad attitudes. Its better to get people out of there who don't want it fast than to have them and others waste six month figuring out that they don't want it.

Why

I believe Gene became a Deputy Sheriff after his Wrasslin career. Just imagine that eye twitching once he pulled you over

hes a pro wrestler dude u think hes remotely close to telling the truth

Well none of the guys doing that routine were wrestlers yet, and I HIGHLY doubt any of the active wrestlers were doing anything close to that as regular training. The point of this was to beat the shit out of people who say they want to be wrestlers and try to see if they break before agreeing to train them.

@@JackgarPrime I think _his_ point was that pro-wrestlers are essentially like carnies. Notorious liars.

You were not meant to wrestle after all that. You were meant to get beat up. Back in the day, that was part of the process for getting in. Its really a test of a guys character and a test of how bad he really wants to do it. 90% of guys that get put in any kind of tough situation will fold or walk away. They were the looking for the few that keep going no matter how bad it got. And its really true that the only way you can test the character of most guys is to take them to their limits.

Of course not

Depending on the era, as well as the trainer

That’s right. Ole details it in his book- a scam to fleece marks and toughen up the business’s rep

the donut store???

SKULLFACE But Dusty sold tickets, that's what matters. His charisma got him over, not his body

Dusty was an athlete in West Texas University. A lot of wrestlers went there either in football and amateur wrestling.

Jay Burgess actually, if you go back and look at his stuff as the gaint in wcw he was in great shape. Plus this was the mid 90s, Al broke in way before that.

SKULLFACE You can be fat and a good athlete at the same time. NFL players for example.

DuckTalesWooHoo1987 considering other things I've heard from other old school guys, I can see this being true. Hulk Hogan talks about Hiro Matsuda breaking his leg on purpose on his first day training. Sid talks about Tojo Yammamoto(sp?) beating him with a stick to toughen him up. It was different back then, they presented it as real and they needed to make sure you were tough enough to be there and that you weren't gonna go running your mouth that it was fake.

Wonderboy1126 what the fuck do you know,

Listen to some Stu Hart stories.

Alex Batey Yup! They didn’t refer to their training as “the dungeon” because it was easy.