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In over TWENTY YEARS Bob Holly>Never proceeded beyond lower mid card >Injured himself 4 times >Stiffed over 40 opponents >Never learned what the Internet is >Never had a good gimmick >Never had a good character >Never did a decent promo >Never had more than a 3 star match >On a 2000 episode of "Smackdown", Bob "Hardore" Holly suffered a broken arm after attempting to stiff a relatively green Kurt Angle, after an argument backstage ensued about Angle going over >On a 2002 episode of "Smackdown", Bob "Hardcore" Holly stiffed a young Brock Lesnar during a powerbomb, leading to Lesnar dropping Holly on his neck, breaking it >On a 2003 episode of "Tough Enough" Bob "Hardcore" Holly took a hot tag in a training match and proceeded to stiff hit and slam a trainee >After Mike Lockwoods death in 2003, by suicide, Bob "Hardcore" Holly refused to go to his funeral, calling Mike a "quitter" in his autobiography >During his ECW run in 2006, Bob "Hardcore" Holly used backstage connections to change the outcome of his matches with CM Punk, one of which he would refuse to tap out, and another where he went over the young star >During a run in 2007, Bob "Hardcore" Holly, who was suffering with a Staph Infection, would intentionally refuse to clean his own gym equipment, potentially infecting his gym mates >During his WWE run in 2007, Bob "Hardcore" Holly entered in to several arguments wherein he argued that the much younger Cody Rhodes should ultimately not go over him, instead using backstage connections to set up an angle where Cody becomes Bob's protege, maintaining that the spotlight be shared between both >During an appearance at a UK promotion in 2009, Bob "Hardcore" Holly repeatedly stiffed Thomas "The UK Kid" Jones in a TLC match, resulting in a visibly annoyed Jones stiff hitting Holly with a chair, breaking one of his ribs
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Love bob stories>During a Smackdown filming in the early 2000s, a last minute change in venue necessitated the production staff to leave it to the early arrivals in the locker room to get in touch with all the wrestlers due to arrive for the show >Holly, who had been travelling alone after 3 days resting a sprained wrist, turned up at the original venue to find the crew missing >It later transcribed that no one in the locker room had Holly's personal mobile phone number, and Vince himself only had a landline number that had been disconnected
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>While Bob was generally liked in the company, he always had a chip on his shoulder for a few wrestlers, and would be cold and refuse to make conversation with them >Mick Foley, Billy Gunn and Al Snow used to R/P/S on who would have to car share with Holly from the airport >On one such occasion, an argument ensued about Mick, who had been unlucky enough to draw "the Bob card" 3 times in a row, refused to pick him up and went straight to the venue, feigning ignorance >Bob called Undertaker (lockerroom leader) on the situation and during wrestlers court, Mick had to buy Bob a 6 pack of beer every weekend for a month
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>Bob, generally perceived as "set in his ways", was having trouble with his cellphone in the mid 2000's >Dustin Rhodes (Goldust) who was back at the company during one of his many returns to the company, offered to help Bob with his cellphone, a now 7 year old Nokia 3210, and found that the battery had died >Dustin then went out to a local superstore and purchased a brand new state of the art Nokia 6070 for Holly, and helped him put all his contacts on it >A few weeks later, Dustin noticed that Holly was using his old 3210 >Holly explained to Dustin that "I know what I like, Dustin" and confessed that he traded the 6070 in to a pawn shop for another Nokia 3210, and swapped out the battery from his old one
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>After a well documented fight between Steve Blackman and JBL that resulted in Blackman getting the better of JBL, Bob Holly and Ken Shamrock, drunk, were being driven to the hotel with Blackman, who was sober but very high on how JBL had pissed him off >Bob, seizing an opportunity for a few laughs at JBL's expense, ended up poking fun at Blackman saying "I reckon in a square go, John could kick your ass", resulting in Blackman looking to prove he could beat up JBL when he got out of the car >Bob Holly and Ken Shamrock were apparently in fits of laughter after Blackman forced JBL to apologise, knowing that Blackman would have likely caused some reasonable and lasting damage JBL
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>Holly, who by 2007 had been looking at retiring from full time competition, decided to quit WWE on a split decision when he approached creative for his long term plans and was told "We'll have something for you next month, you'll be doing dark shows with [Cody] Rhodes until then" >He approached Vince and told him he wouldn't be renewing his contract after Night of Champions 2008 >Vince forgot to pass the message on the creative, who had worked out a whole end of year plan for Holly >Apparently Vince had completely forgotten to tell creative that Holly had left
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>Bob, who was using his innovated "Alabama Slam" as a finisher, was told he needed something more high impact for sizzle reels >Eventually, Holly relented and was given the Falcon Arrow >Despite never liking the move, the move itself got over >Vince Russo once jokingly called the move the Hollycaust and apparently it stuck, and Holly, incredibly offended, used the heat in an attempt to let him change his finisher back >Holly would frequently meet with creative, highlighting how his jewish friends had been offended at the reference >Creative would eventually relent and let him drop the move, but not after a year of calling it the Falcon Arrow again
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>>17693980 >Never had more than a 3 star match According to who?
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>>17694019 Metzler.
Cornette.
Every wrestling fan.
Every wrestler.
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Bob had to be mentally retarded right? He looked and brock and said "ha yeah ima sandbang this dude."
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>>17694020 Cornette loves Holly and said he reminded him of Bobby Eaton (whom he cried for for 40 minutes on his podcast)
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>>17694020 Meltzer’s ratings are horse shit.
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>>17693980 So he raked in a lot of money while never putting himself in a position of high pressure. What's the issue?
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>>17694002 Bob should have went over
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>>17694031 just to put things into context, OP is Rene Dupree
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>>17694031 His autobiography where he constantly bitches and complains about how he was being held down and how he deserved to hold the world title for showing up to work for 15 years
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>>17694031 According to his book he didn't take in much money
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>>17693980 Not enough flips for ya, fagola?
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>>17694098 Not enough sports entertainment for me
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>>17693980 He's a pathetic ass kissing stooge who deserves to be an obscurity
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>Hey, Vince, you should have me win the world title. >And then what, Bob? >I beat everybody.
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>>17694031 He works as a forklift operator nowadays
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>>17693980 >After Mike Lockwoods death in 2003, by suicide, Bob "Hardcore" Holly refused to go to his funeral, calling Mike a "quitter" in his autobiography I MEAN FOLKS....
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>>17693980 Post anime t. Bob "Animecore" Holly
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>thought he was a bigger deal than kurt angle, brock lesnar, cm punk and cody rhodes kek
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>>17694021 There's a dude with a minor learning disability in work that gives me Bob vibes
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His sperg out against Renee is what caused him to be fired. If he had fought him backstage it would have been one thing, but he was such a bitch that he waited to do it in a worked match when the other guy was cooperating with him.
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>>17694418 he stayed on the roster for 5 more years, even outlasted Rene
he got fired for being a pill addict, same as Kennedy and Umaga who were also pill addicts and argued with him over it
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>>17693997 >Vince Russo once jokingly called the move the Hollycaust and apparently it stuck Jesus christ this got me good. I've actually cried abit from laughing so hard
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>>17694497 Over the Edge 1999 out of all PPVs JR called it that even
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>>17694612 Wait bob gave a shit about billy Kidman?
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Even after coming to /asp/ and learning he was a prick as a kid I loved his stiff style. I always knew I was gonna get a good match watching him on velocity and heat every weekend.
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>>17693986 From London and kendrick and rene dupree stories about riding with Bob he was just really boring. He would always just go to the gym and when they went to eat he would get egg whites and steak. There is a funny story paul london tells about benoit and Holly taking him and kendrick under their wing and refusing to let kendrick order pancakes and waffles at some food place and forced him to order egg whites and steak to put some size on him. Benoit was wound tight as fuck
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>>17693983 >Mick Foley, Billy Gunn and Al Snow used to R/P/S on who would have to car share with Holly from the airport >On one such occasion, an argument ensued about Mick, who had been unlucky enough to draw "the Bob card" 3 times in a row, refused to pick him up and went straight to the venue, feigning ignorance This is micks fault for being a cheap ass and wanting to car share. Mick was a millionaire. He could have always rented his own car and told the boys he didn’t want to ride share ever
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>>17694493 I thought Kennedy got fired cause steroids and Orton's jabrone shoulders
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>>17694725 Maybe he liked being with the boys
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>>17694031 I honestly doubt he had more than a 75k contract at the twilight of his career. Don’t forget half of this is taken by taxes and the other half gets taken by hotels and food
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>>17694754 No, mick is famously a cheap ass.
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>>17694749 All around the same time so Vince just got tired of hearing his name and fired hjm. Also he never injured orton, orton and Cena were just scared of his push so politicked him out
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>>17694758 mavens best earning year was 400k. holly was at least making six figures a year probably 100-200 i'd guess by the end
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>>17694981 Maven was one of the better earning mid carders. Steven Richards had been earning 75K every year after the RTC got disbanded (he earned 125K during RTC days)
Basically every one of those job guys who would get few wins here and there were making 75K. Holly would have been one of those.
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>>17694981 Mavester was in the RKO orbiting sphere so he got some more dosh than a normal jobber. Randy used to literally beg creative to get Mave on TV
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Who topped? Randy or the Mavester?
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>>17693980 notice how you never said "never had a good theme song" because everyone knows his theme music fully kicked ass?
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>>17694758 >>17694981 Holly's salary was put at $217,000 in 2006.
Which - compared to the others at the time - is quite low given how many years he had been working with the company. But fuck it, that's still a big salary and if he was prudent with it it can go far.
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>>17695111 That's their downside, they got paid extra for shows, games etc. but those extras would probably be in the dame relation as the downside.
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>>17695546 >boob hooley is a Louisefag based beyond belief
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>>17694725 That explains why Mick made sure to bury him as unfunny in his book. While Mick and Al Snow would find clever ways to call each other gay, Bob would be like "You two faggots fuck each other."
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>>17693980 >During an appearance at a UK promotion in 2009, Bob "Hardcore" Holly repeatedly stiffed Thomas "The UK Kid" Jones in a TLC match, resulting in a visibly annoyed Jones stiff hitting Holly with a chair, breaking one of his ribs I need footage of this
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>>17693980 Kurt Angle broke his arm with a moonsault. It was also why Kurt's moonsault started missing all the time.
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>>17693980 NGL Bob sounds like a boomer
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>>17695555 do any of these go on infinitely?
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>>17693988 This is actually based of Bob though especially if you know that phone
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Was the anime thing actually based on something or just a meme?
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>>17693980 Should have gone to Japan
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>>17694043 Makes sense.
Shitters like Jinder and Kofi got to be WWE champions.
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Let it go Rene, Bob's still not gonna fight you at Bloodsport, no matter how many pilled-up tirades you post on your channel
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>>17693980 page 10 is where the real threads are
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>>17696593 Yeah bobcore was a trailblazer, huge anime fan in the 90’s-00’s while also being the shoot strongest guy in the business. Say thank you, nerds.
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Doesn't bob have a story in his book about wrestling a bear?
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>>17699733 dunno about bob but dutch mantell wrestled bears
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>>17693980 Bob's gimmick was that he was the ultimate badass, tougher than Austin, Undertaker, Steve Williams, and Steve Blackman and all your favorite action heroes
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>>17699988 But he loses and doesn't draw dimes
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>>17700009 But he's still the toughest man to ever exist in wrestling... according to Bob himself
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>>17693980 Bob Holly in the shivering cold winter of 2000 was in Minneapolis after a house show and fought every man in the bar and won
In 2003 while recovering from neck surgery Bob Holly killed six bull sharks with his bear hands after seeing them in his binoculars
In 2001 while bird watching Bob Holly beat a poacher to near death and left him in the woods but still took his gun
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>>17694612 Hollycaust
Bob you midcard king
You champion of champions
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>>17693980 >>17693983 >>17693986 >>17693988 >>17693990 >>17693993 >>17693997 These are all based af! Holly was a keyed wrestler. There needs to be more Hardcore Bob Holly's
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>>17694021 For real. And he must gave known he was a shoot wrestler too.
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>>17701831 Bob is shoot hilarious but not by design, he's what happens when a low IQ guy gets in to wrestling
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>>17694021 Bob alleges that Brock was sick that night and he didn’t sandbag him because it would have been as stupid as it looked, of course it’s worth as much a carny’s word.
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>>17701988 >when a low IQ guy gets in to wrestling think about that part for a while, anon
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>>17700162 In 2008 after leaving WWE, Bob Holly was at 7-11 getting coffee when a robber came in and tried to rob the store, Holly then broke the gunman's hand and kicked him in the balls so hard he died from testicular trauma
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>>17694758 >Half of 75K is taken by taxes Do you know how taxes work? There is no way you're losing half of 75K to taxes, you're nowhere close to a 50 perfect effective tax rate at that salary
Even less so if you're taking write offs from being an IC
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In 2012 Bob Holly encountered Bigfoot, he promptly slapped the creature across the face and it walked away In 2002, Bob Holly got arrested for reckless driving, he promptly fist fought every one of his cell mates in the county jail and all the responding officers, Vince learned about this and said "Good job, Bob" In 1999, Bob Holly got into a standoff with the ATF with just a bottle of whiskey and a handgun - and won In 2005, Bob Holly was at church when he stumbled upon an exorcism being conducted - the demon fled after he said he'd rip it out, beat it up and bathe it in holy water
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>>17696608 Would've gotten Brodie'd anywhere else. Hell he got KWAB'd in the UK for being himself and UK wrestlers are notorious pussies.
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>>17693980 him and al snow are absolute cancer
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Bob seems like the kind of guy who became a carny during the time when carnyism was being replaced by hollywoodism. He doesn't just think wrestling is real, but that he is going to give someone in a dive bar the shoot worm if they ask him for directions
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>>17695623 Nothing lasts forever.
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he does sound like an unlikable asshole thank god brock put him in his place
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>>17703428 Got any video of that?
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Wish there was still guys like him around, I love those sadistic matches where it's obvious Holly or APA were told to go out and stiff the shit out of somebody to teach them a lesson
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