Exposing the Business....
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Question - A lot of wrestlers, asked about their "most embarassing moment in the ring" nominate a "em-bare-ass" incident ......not a big deal among Japanese sumo fans I'd guess, but still getting a big reaction in the US.....
Z-Man - It's just part of the business. I mean, sometimes it just so happens that when one guy grabs another guy's trunks they go up his butt like a T- back outfit. Generally they grab their trunks and pull them back down, but my best guess is that, if the fans respond, some guys leave them up. Some may think it looks cool or that the "office" might like it or that it might help them get a ring-rat later that night.
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Z-Man - Well I generally
had real tight elastic around the legs and waist etc. So did Pillman. Some
guys wear T-back style undertights or something to that effect, like male
strippers wear. Other guys would have 2 pair of the same color tights on,
with one cut smaller than the outside pair.
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(from The Tom Zenk Collection Vol 13) "
If you're a good worker you barely touch an
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Question - It's interesting that matches are so closely worked and timed that it DOES seem incongruous to stop, even momentarily, to adjust your trunks. On a related matter, you sometimes see a match where an established worker 'monsters' a well built younger wrestler, including deliberate trunks pulls, and it looks more like gratuitous humiliation ......
Z-Man - I'm not sure
of the psychology of it. You'd have to ask Dr. Freud .... but in
wrestling, all the people with stroke in, or with the office, get good
workers or well built job guys to make up for their age or lack of training
in the gym. It makes a guy like Page, Sullivan, Flair look great beating
up on someone with a body or with youth on their side - things that they
themselves clearly lack. So mainly it's just to make a guy with stroke
look good. But with some guys there may be an element of deliberate humiliation
involved ...that's certainly something Kevin Sullivan would have thought
about to get over with. Sometimes, the heel who was "so clever," like Sullivan,
brag about their cute move and how aggressive their style is. And I know
when the red light is on some guys - more than others - take advantage
of the job guys.