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Title: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: WindupAtheist on August 30, 2007, 08:10:38 AM
Okay, so back in the early nineties Razor Ruddock was a heavyweight contender best known for going the distance with Tyson.  A decent fighter who was never able to beat the really elite guys like Tyson or Lennox Lewis, he eventually retired after winning the Canadian heavyweight championship.  If nothing else, at least he had the sense to go out on a winning streak with his health intact.  After that he just sort of faded into obscurity.

Until now. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=G026zRhcCAE)

Something about this just strikes me as deeply funny.  I mean, go look at his website (http://razorruddock.com/).  Look at the box in the upper left corner where he proclaims himself a "fighter-inventor".  Look at the fucking pictures of him in a lab coat.  Apparently building a trash can with a lever in it to crush garbage is serious motherfucking science.


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: Yegolev on August 30, 2007, 08:17:41 AM
OK, first off, that is hilarious, especially where his head is in the trash can.  Second, did you also doubt the George Foreman Grill?  I have been waiting for someone to invent a device to knock the shit out of my garbage.  It's a gold mine, unless Mike Tyson comes along and invents a better garbage control device.  That would be even funnier.  And Don King would end up taking all the profits.


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: HaemishM on August 30, 2007, 09:04:11 AM
The head in the trashcan is Absolut Awesome (TM).


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: Oban on August 30, 2007, 02:14:54 PM
Mike Tyson ear muffs.

"Guaranteed never to let go"


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: Righ on August 30, 2007, 06:22:48 PM
Motherfucking forum Youtube overlay bullshit.

Are we sure that's not an SNL video?


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: Trippy on August 30, 2007, 07:12:45 PM
Motherfucking forum Youtube overlay bullshit.
You don't like it?


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: WindupAtheist on August 30, 2007, 09:33:47 PM
This is way more fun than the Foreman grill.  That grill was just something some company produced and decided to get a celebrity endorsement for.  But this thing?  This is an actual case of a retired boxer deciding that the world needs a hand-powered trash squasher, and filming himself buried up to his neck in garbage in an effort to prove it.

In all seriousness though, I have to say I'm pleased to see the guy is doing okay.  A lot of these boxers just don't know when to give it up.  Holyfield has another fight coming up at age 44, and he's probably going to get his skull crushed in Moscow by this Russian guy Ibragimov.  Holyfield isn't broke, either.  He made something like $150 million in his career, and I haven't heard anything about him blowing it all.  He just can't give up the life.  Ruddock was never half as successful as Holyfield, but at least he went out on a high note and then found something else to do with his middle age besides letting men young enough to be his son punch him in the head.

Anyway, speaking of boxers and comedy, Larry Holmes is pretty fucking funny even though he doesn't mean to be.

First, the infamous video of him leaping off the roof of a car into a pile of cops trying to drop-kick (http://youtube.com/watch?v=m-XVCW95nHU) Trevor Berbick back in the day.

Then the completely random re-enactment (http://youtube.com/watch?v=mNnuJFf5GBU) of the event I found while looking for the above video.

And an Eddie Murphy performance of Raw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9MynfxG5vM) other than the one that was made into a movie, with Tyson in the audience and Murphy doing his (surprisingly good) Holmes impression.  "Mah name i' Lerrah Homes, ah lahk sewp!"

Oh, and a Cracked (http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=1682) pitch for the Larry Holmes Grillmaster X-L.


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: Trippy on August 31, 2007, 07:18:50 AM
I moved the popup discussion over to the popup thread:

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=10478.0


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: HaemishM on August 31, 2007, 07:44:23 AM
Oh, and a Cracked (http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=1682) pitch for the Larry Holmes Grillmaster X-L.

Le art.


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: stu on September 18, 2007, 05:08:08 AM
I was flipping through the channels and saw Holyfield box a wrestler on WWE a couple weeks ago. I think that was right after Vince McMahon told the crowd Steve Austin might be his son. Sad.


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: Big Gulp on September 18, 2007, 05:34:46 AM
I think that was right after Vince McMahon told the crowd Steve Austin might be his son. Sad.

No way did Vince McMahon father Lee Majors.  I don't even see him being old enough to have fathered the bionic woman, let alone the six million dollar man.


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: Ironwood on September 18, 2007, 06:06:00 AM
I believe he's referencing 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin.  He's a good man to have if you're in need of a Guinness.


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: Bunk on September 18, 2007, 06:26:47 AM
Just to make all of your days even worse, I'll fill you in on the end of that storyline - McMahon fathered a leprechaun.


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: stu on September 18, 2007, 07:01:14 AM
http://gumgod.com/host/images/wei_31_littlebastard.jpg (http://gumgod.com/host/images/wei_31_littlebastard.jpg)

Say it ain't so.


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: stu on September 18, 2007, 07:03:06 AM
I think that was right after Vince McMahon told the crowd Steve Austin might be his son. Sad.

No way did Vince McMahon father Lee Majors.  I don't even see him being old enough to have fathered the bionic woman, let alone the six million dollar man.

lol. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. My bad.


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: HaemishM on September 18, 2007, 08:28:51 AM
http://gumgod.com/host/images/wei_31_littlebastard.jpg (http://gumgod.com/host/images/wei_31_littlebastard.jpg)

Say it ain't so.

WHAT...

THE...

FUCK????


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: Yegolev on September 18, 2007, 09:47:00 AM
He told me to burn some things.  Be back later.


Title: Re: Boxer, inventor, scary head in a garbage can!
Post by: Phildo on September 20, 2007, 10:37:23 PM
Can someone please hack into the employee login?  I'm dying to know what kind of privileged info they get!