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Face paint is an old and well-known element of the pro-wrestling world. Throughout different generations, there have been several memorable performers who did their best work with their faces painted, including (but in no way limited to) guys like Jim Hellwig (Ultimate Warrior), Steve Borden (Sting), and Bill Eadie and Barry Darsow (Ax and Smash of Demolition).
Just like masks, the paint helps to extend a wrestler’s visual style and personality above the shoulders, and care needs to be taken to pull it off right. A good piece can enhance a character and present more cosmetic options than masks. A bad piece, however, can completely nullify them.
Without a doubt, there have been some ugly face paints, but that doesn’t necessarily make them bad. Aja Kong springs to mind… she will not be on this list.
This is simply a collection of the ten more poorly-conceived,...
Face paint is an old and well-known element of the pro-wrestling world. Throughout different generations, there have been several memorable performers who did their best work with their faces painted, including (but in no way limited to) guys like Jim Hellwig (Ultimate Warrior), Steve Borden (Sting), and Bill Eadie and Barry Darsow (Ax and Smash of Demolition).
Just like masks, the paint helps to extend a wrestler’s visual style and personality above the shoulders, and care needs to be taken to pull it off right. A good piece can enhance a character and present more cosmetic options than masks. A bad piece, however, can completely nullify them.
Without a doubt, there have been some ugly face paints, but that doesn’t necessarily make them bad. Aja Kong springs to mind… she will not be on this list.
This is simply a collection of the ten more poorly-conceived,...
- 3/22/2016
- by Luke Lafontaine
- Obsessed with Film
Image Entertainment
Professional wrestling is a haven for the weird and wonderful. During the recent Sting Q&A shows in the UK, it was fascinating to stand and watch as grown men and women posed with the face-painted character. The glee on people’s faces was evident, even though they were effectively meeting another adult male posing in Halloween costume.
This isn’t an isolated case, the likes of Ax and Smash of Demolition still routinely appear in public wearing their trademark face paint. This is symptomatic of everything that’s right with the industry. Even with everything that the core fan base now knows about wrestling, fans do still enjoy meeting their favourites and seeing them dress the way they remember from years gone by.
Characters such as Demolition were awesome first time around, but there was some degree of risk involved. After all, what might have happened to...
Professional wrestling is a haven for the weird and wonderful. During the recent Sting Q&A shows in the UK, it was fascinating to stand and watch as grown men and women posed with the face-painted character. The glee on people’s faces was evident, even though they were effectively meeting another adult male posing in Halloween costume.
This isn’t an isolated case, the likes of Ax and Smash of Demolition still routinely appear in public wearing their trademark face paint. This is symptomatic of everything that’s right with the industry. Even with everything that the core fan base now knows about wrestling, fans do still enjoy meeting their favourites and seeing them dress the way they remember from years gone by.
Characters such as Demolition were awesome first time around, but there was some degree of risk involved. After all, what might have happened to...
- 10/14/2015
- by Jamie Kennedy
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
A lot of people have been talking about Benjamin Morris’ 538 piece, “Are Pro Wrestlers Dying at an Unusual Rate?”
Like Morris, I am neither an actuarial scientist nor a demographer. So, our interpretations of the data should be taken with a grain of salt. My results were somewhat different from Morris’ due to a difference data set and changes in how we calculated actuarial predictions.
Differences in methodology from Morris
I also used Social Security Actuarial Life Tables, but my “expected mortality rates” for the age groups were not the same as Morris’. For each wrestler, I calculated what their age would have been as of today. Then, based on gender, I looked up the number of lives (out of 100,000) that were expected to still be alive and converted that to a percentage. His analysis looked at wrestlers who were on 20+ WWF PPVs through 2002. I went with a...
A lot of people have been talking about Benjamin Morris’ 538 piece, “Are Pro Wrestlers Dying at an Unusual Rate?”
Like Morris, I am neither an actuarial scientist nor a demographer. So, our interpretations of the data should be taken with a grain of salt. My results were somewhat different from Morris’ due to a difference data set and changes in how we calculated actuarial predictions.
Differences in methodology from Morris
I also used Social Security Actuarial Life Tables, but my “expected mortality rates” for the age groups were not the same as Morris’. For each wrestler, I calculated what their age would have been as of today. Then, based on gender, I looked up the number of lives (out of 100,000) that were expected to still be alive and converted that to a percentage. His analysis looked at wrestlers who were on 20+ WWF PPVs through 2002. I went with a...
- 4/22/2014
- by Chris Harrington
- Obsessed with Film
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