Rip Rogers may not be the most well-known professional wrestler to step into the ring, but he is certainly gaining some buzz on social media lately.
Known for his stints in Georgia Championship Wrestling and WCW during the “NWA” era, he served as a jobber who put over the likes of Brian Pillman, but his biggest notoriety came when he participated in BattleBowl 1993 as Road Warrior Hawk‘s tag team partner.
He was known for his post match antics, such as complaining to the referee for his opponent cheating to pick up the victory, causing Rogers to throw a temper tantrum, amongst other antics.
Rogers would go on to retire from professional wrestling at 48 and would become a trainer for OVW (Ohio Valley Wrestling).
In a recent post from his Twitter account, Rogers would rip (pun intended) into the young wrestlers for their style amongst Indy Wrestling promotions:
“Every Indy match now: handshake, drawn out move exchange, this is awesome chant, strike exchange, dive, no sell Indy strongstyle, dive, more strikes, no sells, dive, flippy floppy sequence, dive, hit everyone with each other’s finisher then Humpty Dumpty we all fall down.
Fight forever chant, rinse and repeat until every move is useless and means nothing, dive, take unsafe shot that looks like shit and hurts like hell then roll up finish. Hand shake and hug after match. Everyone’s hands raised. All these guys chant.
Go home and type on social media thanking your opponents and company for the match and telling others they should book these guys…….. dive.”
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