What are your thoughts on the Von Erich family? Fritz Von Erich Kerry Von Erich Kevin Von Erich David Von Erich Mike Von ErichChris Von Erich
I think AEW is getting cancelled soon.#SlumpNation
Paul can't book
>>21468251Kerry had a dimes look but I spent 2-3 days going through a lot of von erich stuff and came away thinking they are largely overrated. Literally none of them can cut promos, maybe David was the best there. They just come across awkward to me.
>>21468251Before I knew who Kerry was, I assumed the Texas tornado was just some run of the mill mid card wrestler and didn't really think much of him. It wasn't until much later that I realized who he was and what family he belonged too. Still, he wasn't really that good, in terms of charisma, had didn't really have any.
I think it's an incredible story, but world class is probably my second least favorite territory just beating out the AWA.
>>21468251A story with so many twists and turns that it sounds totally fake. I did a deep dive into the entire family and some of the shit Fritz pulled to keep his kids out of jail alone was crazy>>21468333I agree. They were incredibly over in a smallish pond as the boys next door. They had a ceiling even before the deaths started and Fritz was running memorial shows every 4 months selling the dead kid's 8x10s
>>21468251I shoot don't know the specifics of this family other than they all anhero'd. What's the best doc covering them? Is the movie good?
>>21470799Just watch their dark side of the ring episode.
>>21470799Dark Side episode is good. Also the Lapsed Fan podcast does a very, very detailed deep dive into WCCW, its rise and fall, and the interlinked fates of the Von Erich boys as Fritz drove the promotion off the cliff.
>>21470782>A story with so many twists and turns that it sounds totally fake. I did a deep dive into the entire family and some of the shit Fritz pulled to keep his kids out of jail alone was crazyPlease do tell anon
>>21470799The movie is watchable but the brothers being played by manlet actors took me out of it
>>21470839Just at a start, Fritz controlled the boys' public image and their finances extremely closely. Far more than even a micromanaging wrestling promoter could get away with. At one point he was taking all but the minimum they needed to live, ostensibly because he knew they'd spend it on drugs, but just as much because he was a psycho. He worked with a Christian broadcaster who gave them a sweetheart TV deal, which meant that the drunk, drug-addicted brothers had to be Dallas sweethearts, boys next door, even though they were constantly getting arrested for DUIs and other nonsense. At one point one of them got stopped at an airport with drugs and Fritz claimed that the Freebirds had planted the drugs on them to get them thrown in jail during a feud. The trouble really started when Fritz pulled his local connections/power in Dallas to get them probation or off scot free for drug busts and DUIs. Kerry, for example, famously loses the foot in one of several drunken accidents, and eventually he gets into shit Fritz can't get him out of. Rather than face up to it, he kills himself four days later. If at any point any of the boys (minus the one who died as a child) were held accountable in a sane way, so much tragedy could have been avoided. Also, Fritz was the biggest carny to ever carny. He milked every kid's corpse for all they were worth. "Heaven Needed a Champion" is a shitty novelty song that he sold (allegedly splitting profits with a charity or something) LPs for at memorial shows. Total scum of the earth
>>21470866Fucking movie showed just some drug use, thanks anon
>>21468251A sad chapter in wrasslin history. I have to give Kevin some major props for still finding the will to live after all that he's been through.
>>21468251Von erich sounds like a German supervillain name
>>21473503That's because Fritz played a Nazi heel when he was a wrestler. Then his kids used the kayfabe last name afterwards.
