Pacman does it again ... (no legal trouble this time)

[BigWillie]

Just ... WOW! When you think he can't surprise you anymore than he does already.

I'm not even going to comment on this. I think I only need to say this ...

:laugh2:

http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/57742/TNA-signs-Adam-%5C

TNA signs Adam “Pacman” Jones
Posted by Larry Csonka on 07.30.2007

The suspended NFL player is headed to the 6-sided ring.

Late last week TNA Wrestling signed suspended Tennessee Titan cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones to a contract that will see the NFL star perform as a wrestler. Jones is currently suspended for the entire 2007 NFL season, without pay, for personal conduct problems off of the field. Under his suspension, Jones is not allowed to attend the Tennessee Titans' training camp. He is currently trying to get his suspension reduced to 10-games. Reportedly the Titans has no issue with Jones getting involved in professional wrestling.

Credit: PWInsider.com

[the kid 05]

at least he can fight and not get into trouble for it

[SupermanXx]

1) what's so bad about that and
2) why do you give a damn

[DMOB]

What is he gonna do bite the other wrestlers ankles?

[dbair1967]

What is he gonna do bite the other wrestlers ankles?

no, he'll probably have a member of his possee do anyone that kicks his rear in

David

[CrazyCowboy]

Another good wrestler.......

[Yeagermeister]

He's gotta pay the bills some how :D

[Big Dakota]

Good sport for the no account thug.

[BrAinPaiNt]

It is kind of funny to hear about this.

At one time, when the NFL players were not getting paid very much, there were some that would do the wrestling circuit.

Wahoo McDaniels I believe did both wrestling and football until he made wrestling his full time job.

[HighTechDave]

It is kind of funny to hear about this.

At one time, when the NFL players were not getting paid very much, there were some that would do the wrestling circuit.

Wahoo McDaniels I believe did both wrestling and football until he made wrestling his full time job.

wow, suprised any here knew about Wahoo. Used to watch him on saturday night wrestling at the sportatorium.

welp, at least some of my memory banks work, lol

[BrAinPaiNt]

wow, suprised any here knew about Wahoo. Used to watch him on saturday night wrestling at the sportatorium.

welp, at least some of my memory banks work, lol

Yes and if memory serves he played some with the Dolphins.

[HighTechDave]

and OSU in college?

[Yeagermeister]

I'm not sure if wrestled while playing but Ernie "Big Cat" Ladd played in the nfl also.

[03EBZ06]

What will be his wrestling name, "Make it Rain"?

[cleverusername]

I was curious, so I googled football players turned Wrestlers and found this article. I didn't know La'roi Glover wrestled.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/8527119

...

Football and wrestling always have had close links. Many football stars had long careers as wrestlers, including Hall of Famers Bronko Nagurski (http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/536662) and Leo Nomellini (http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/536667), and stars like Ernie Ladd. Some fooled around with it, like Lawrence Taylor (http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/536702) or William Perry. Many other wrestlers have football backgrounds that fell short of NFL success, like Florida State All-American Ron Simmons or Larry "Lex Luger" Pfohl. Still others, like Jim Nance or La'Roi Glover (http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/3507), were successful college wrestlers as well as football players.

In 1992, the Sacramento Surge won the World Bowl with a defensive tackle named Bill Goldberg. After a brief turn with the Falcons, he re-emerged in WCW as Goldberg and became one of the hottest properties in wrestling. Jim Criner, line coach with the Surge, once laughed about Goldberg's success: "If you'd told me he'd out-earn the whole team, I would have said you were crazy!"

Never earning quite so much was Amsterdam Admirals tight end Josh Wilcox, son of NFL Hall of Famer Dave. Josh already had professional experience in the Pacific Northwest when he joined NFL Europe; among his trainers was Matt Borne, best known as Doink the Clown.


Speaking of tight ends, Niklos' own Frankfurt Galaxy have sent at least three players to wrestling, including tight end Chad Fortune, a star in 1991 and '92. Chad never found wrestling stardom, but once formed a tag-team with former Louisville quarterback Erik Watts, son of Cowboy Bill Watts, himself a college football player. Fortune favors Fortune, however, and he turned to USHRA racing, where he drives Karl Malone's monster truck, Power Forward, often wearing a Superman suit.

Another Galaxy player, 6-foot-10 tackle Russ McCullough, turned to wrestling with about as much success as fortune. He convinced another Galaxy player, German-born defensive tackle Stefan Gamlin, who played at Arkansas State, to take up the business. Now listed at 6-7 and 335 pounds, Gamlin moved on to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) competitions, including a huge Japanese matchup against Bob Sapp (http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/133575).

Sapp would have been NFL Europe's greatest wrestling success story, except he couldn't make the roster of the Scottish Claymores. Now he's a marketing phenomenon in Japan, a multimedia super star, the equivalent of something between Hulk Hogan and Michael Jordan. His match with American-born sumo champion Akebono (Chad Rowan) drew television ratings in Japan that made the Super Bowl look like Mayberry RFD reruns.

The Bears drafted Sapp as an offensive lineman out of Washington. With great size, he was a "mauler" but never really could establish himself as an NFL lineman. He attempted to make the conversion to the D-line in Europe, but at the time the Claymores were loaded with talent there, including two national players who figured in the rotation. Sapp, at about 6-4 and 330, had tremendous strength and great straight-ahead speed, but according to Jim Tomsula, then the Claymores' line coach, he lacked the lateral movement and awareness.


"I would have loved to work with him," Tomsula said, "but we couldn't give him the chance."
Sapp did some training as a wrestler in the U.S., but it was in Japan, where he plays a rather traditional "savage beast" role, where he became a phenomenon, both in wrestling and in various MMA promotions, although it has to be said that his 52-second victory against Gamlin in a 2003 K-1 tournament had more than a touch of the wrestling "squash" match about it.

Another almost was former WWE champ Brock Lesnar (http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/502864). A college champion, Lesnar attempted last season to make the Minnesota Vikings as a defensive tackle. You might remember college wrestler Carlton Haselrig became an All Pro with the Steelers, despite never playing college football. Lesnar showed some promise, but was raw, and turned down the chance to hone his skills in Europe, partly to further recover from wrestling injuries, and partly because the money and time away from his family didn't work.

Word now is that Lesnar wants to try again, as an offensive lineman, a la Steve Neal (http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/245401), another guy with no college football experience who's an NFL starter. This time around, he might be amenable to a season in Europe, where he might be a great marketing bonus to the league. And he can always ask Glover, a top college wrestler at San Diego State, if his year in Europe helped him toward the Pro Bowl.
Are you paying attention, J.R.?

[Hostile]

If the music from the game Pacman isn't his ring intro then he's an even bigger idiot.

[LaTunaNostra]

I don't get it.

This guy is going to risk his chance to come back to the NFL next year because he got hurt prancing around a 'ring', or didn't have the savvy to duck a flying chair hurled by a trained entertainer masquerading as an athlete.

His agent better make sure the 'matches' are even faker than usual, because say what you will about 'professional wrestlers', the best of them are masterful showmen and know how not to get hurt.

[Zaxor]

I don't get it.

This guy is going to risk his chance to come back to the NFL next year because he got hurt prancing around a 'ring', or didn't have the savvy to duck a flying chair hurled by a trained entertainer masquerading as an athlete.

His agent better make sure the 'matches' are even faker than usual, because say what you will about 'professional wrestlers', the best of them are masterful showmen and know how not to get hurt.

too bad that doesn't work with real life:(

[Yeagermeister]

I don't get it.

This guy is going to risk his chance to come back to the NFL next year because he got hurt prancing around a 'ring', or didn't have the savvy to duck a flying chair hurled by a trained entertainer masquerading as an athlete.

His agent better make sure the 'matches' are even faker than usual, because say what you will about 'professional wrestlers', the best of them are masterful showmen and know how not to get hurt.

He probably won't actually wrestle just be a manager or something.

[LaTunaNostra]

He probably won't actually wrestle just be a manager or something.

Well that'd be a shame, Yeager, because he does have experience repeatedly banging heads into floors, and it's be interesting to see him do it to a 350 pound man, rather than read about him doing it to a woman.

[Yeagermeister]

Well that'd be a shame, Yeager, because he does have experience repeatedly banging heads into floors, and it's be interesting to see him do it to a 350 pound man, rather than read about him doing it to a woman.

He could pull an Andy Kauffman and wrestle women :laugh1:

[LaTunaNostra]

He could pull an Andy Kauffman and wrestle women :laugh1:

LOL

I think you nailed it with 'manager'. That way he gets to 'dress' the part, swagger around with that toothpick hanging out of his yap, bust a few verbal caps on his adversaries, and demonstrate his trigger finger twiddling skills.

[Yeagermeister]

LOL

I think you nailed it with 'manager'. That way he gets to 'dress' the part, swagger around with that toothpick hanging out of his yap, bust a few verbal caps on his adversaries, and demonstrate his trigger finger twiddling skills.

Just as long as we don't get in to how he puts on his socks :D

I don't need that much info

[LaTunaNostra]

Just as long as we don't get in to how he puts on his socks :D

I don't need that much info

:lmao2: :lmao2:

yeah.

[HighTechDave]

hey "cleverusername, do you have a bigger pic of that Cash signature with the Cowboy finger? I want it, it is awesome! Want to blow it up, and put it next to the Beer fridge in the garage!!!

[iceberg]

It is kind of funny to hear about this.

At one time, when the NFL players were not getting paid very much, there were some that would do the wrestling circuit.

Wahoo McDaniels I believe did both wrestling and football until he made wrestling his full time job.

i'd not do it. well, i say that but my biggest concern would be how much $$$ am i making acting/wrestling? if i'm not making near what i could be making as an NFL player, why risk the injury that could stop me from making max potential $?

[iceberg]

I don't get it.

This guy is going to risk his chance to come back to the NFL next year because he got hurt prancing around a 'ring', or didn't have the savvy to duck a flying chair hurled by a trained entertainer masquerading as an athlete.

His agent better make sure the 'matches' are even faker than usual, because say what you will about 'professional wrestlers', the best of them are masterful showmen and know how not to get hurt.

heh - i see i'm not the only one wondering about this move. :)

[Yeagermeister]

i'd not do it. well, i say that but my biggest concern would be how much $$$ am i making acting/wrestling? if i'm not making near what i could be making as an NFL player, why risk the injury that could stop me from making max potential $?

It's TNA he can be making much :laugh2:

[03EBZ06]

Jones was suspended by the NFL for his link to a Las Vegas shooting at a strip club over the NBA All-Star weekend that left former 1980s AWA pro wrestler Tom Urbanski, who was managing the club, paralyzed from the waist down.
I wonder if Wrestlers harbor any negative feelings toward Pacman, enough to hurt him if Pacman ever got into a ring.

[jcblanco22]

I don't get it.

This guy is going to risk his chance to come back to the NFL next year because he got hurt prancing around a 'ring', or didn't have the savvy to duck a flying chair hurled by a trained entertainer masquerading as an athlete.

His agent better make sure the 'matches' are even faker than usual, because say what you will about 'professional wrestlers', the best of them are masterful showmen and know how not to get hurt.

Here's the thing about TNA wrestling within the context of the business. The in-ring style is way "stiffer" than WWE's "sports entertainment" BS. A considerable number of guys on their roster honed their skills in Japan and Mexico, where the only "fake" parts of the sport are the pre-determined outcomes and a few pulled punches here and there.

The guys in TNA often incorporate more than a few legitimate amateur holds in to their matches and go for long periods in the ring---not a bunch of 5 minute "sports entertainment" style matches there.

For those that follow TNA and will get the following reference----how great would it be to see Jones have to get in there with the "Samoan Submission Machine" Samoa Joe?!! :laugh1: