Talk:Gorilla Monsoon

A fact from Gorilla Monsoon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 February 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that professional wrestler Gorilla Monsoon grew a long beard and billed himself as a terrifying giant from Manchuria as a heel gimmick?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/February.

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6/30/2016: little edit? NO SAYS CLUEBOT!

hey i'm an anonymous person who was just doing a lil wikipedia safari today and i noticed that gorilla monsoon's page here had a "commentary style" section that mentioned some of his phrases and it had "Pandemonium is running wild! You can cut it with a knife!" Outside of that actually making no sense on its own, I happened to grow up watching WWE and I remember his phrases "Pandemonium is running wild! The electricity (in here) is so thick you can cut it with a knife!" so i quickly popped over to edit that little bit about the electricity in so that way the "you can cut it with a knife!" makes sense.

but then a little bit later as my safari had me looking at other pages i was notified that i had a message (odd since i'm not logged in or anything) and it was from a ClueBot saying that it reverted my change cuz [whatever]; looking up cluebot i see it's an anti-troll measure and somehow it must have arbitrarily decided that an anonymous IP addy making a tiny little change like that was most likely vandalism and not anything substantial. So i formally filled out the box to protest the ClueBot-smackdown (wrestling pun lamentably intended) and at the risk of a repeat to more drastic measures i re-instituted the change just now because, hey, you know i'm just doing my little part to help out wikipedia in that people who read the gorilla monsoon article in the future won't be like "huh? whats this business about cutting pandemonium-running-wild with a knife all about?" while they can properly learn about one of gorilla's phrases re: thick electricity.

so yeah my bad to devote a cpl paragraphs in talkback here to a minor lil thing, but i just wanted to do my part to plead my case to say that I AM NOT A TROLL and i only intended to help out wikepedia and/or the greater good with my factually-correct edit. trust me on this one, while i am having a bit of a hard time getting through the abstract of "you can cut it with a knife!" results to find gorilla stuff, i know he said that because it was hardwired into my head circa ages 7-11. that's what gorilla said! someone hook me up to a lie detector! =D

hasta — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3711:B140:7C94:85DD:92C2:E39D (talk) 02:47, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled

Bruno Sammartino Incident

Bill Watts states in his autobiograhy that he witnessed a backstage confrontation between Sammartino and Monsoon. He states that Monsoon quickly found himself in hot water during the incident. Does anyone know the details of the incident?

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move the page to Gorilla Monsoon, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 04:03, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gorilla Monsoon (wrestler) → Gorilla Monsoon — He is easily the primary meaning for the name (and was at the target page until about a month ago when a user moved it without discussing it). For over 35 years he was known as Gorilla Monsoon, as both a wrestler and a commentator and on-screen president of the WWF. Much more prominent than a German metal band, and far more than a fake show from improv group Picnicface Comedy (which doesn't even mention the fake show in their article). Put up a hatlink for those who might be looking for the band. —TJ Spyke 00:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Survey

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.

Support We've got Gorilla Monsoon, a band named after Gorilla Monsoon, and an element of a sketch by a comedy group whose own article is just barely not a stub. JPG-GR (talk) 02:24, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support I was looking for Gorilla Monsoon's page and was surprised at the disambiguation page. The above comment mentions how the comedy group article is pretty much pointless, I want to add that the article on the band is terribly written. I say rename the page back, and there can be a disambig link at the top. --Smart Mark Greene (talk) 02:39, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Band is named after the wrestler and still relatively obscure. As for a fictional show that appears only in a single YouTube video, it's borderline whether that information even qualifies as encyclopedic. So the wrestler is the primary meaning, for our purposes. Andrewa (talk) 12:03, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Primary usage from what I can tell (And shouldn't it have been professional wrestler as the disamb, anyway?) Narson (talk) 14:23, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. D.M.N. (talk) 16:44, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I am not a wrestling fan but this should be primary. Move current content of Gorilla Monsoon to Gorilla Monsoon (disambiguation) and put a note at the top of the wrestler page. Cross porpoises (talk) 19:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support per above, and (per the naming conventions) because Gorilla Monsoon the wrestler would be the primary topic recognized by English speakers compared to an obscure German band clearly named after him. --Chrysaor (talk) 03:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Cool, something I requested worked! Smart Mark Greene (talk) 02:21, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hall of Fame

He was the very first inductee into the WWF Hall of Fame on June 19, 1994.

This is not true. Andre the Giant was the first inductee into the Hall of Fame in 1993, in fact the hall of fame was created to honour Andre. This should be removed. --Tregelen (talk) 05:47, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Began commentating with Heenan.

Gorilla and Heenan had been commentating together since at least September of 1986.

http://www.wwe.com/subscriptions/wweclassics/tv/86challenge/

For those with accounts, the commentary team from the start was Heenan and Gorilla. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.136.201 (talk) 01:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

All-Asiatic Champion?

I just watched the Ali-incident on youtube and Monsoon was announced as "The All-Asiatic Champion." Was this just made up for this event? I don't seem this "title" listed anywhere else. Jackbox1971 (talk) 02:09, 21 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The "event" in question was a WWWF television taping. The McMahons were desperate to create interest in Ali vs. Inoki, as every indication beforehand was that it was going to bomb in the United States. This is why they damn near dragged Bruno Sammartino out of the hospital to return against Stan Hansen. Anyway, to actually address your point, "titles" such as that were commonly thrown around by announcers in those days without regard as to whether they were legit titles.RadioKAOS (talk) 19:50, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bogosity check

From the article:

McMahon needed a new announcer team to head up his television programming, and installed Marella with the recently retired Jesse "The Body" Ventura as the new announcing team.

Before North America at large began viewing WWF programming, the WWF taped and aired full-length house shows from Madison Square Garden, the Spectrum in Philadelphia and the Boston Garden, which aired (and in the case of MSG, for a great many years) on regional cable sports channels. They also later did the same thing at the Capital Centre, which aired on the USA Network (as they were based in the D.C. area in those days, it was akin to the other arrangements, even though USA aired nationally). Monsoon did the annnoucing for most of these shows, replacing Vince McMahon on the MSG shows and Kal Rudman on the Spectrum shows. This was years before he teamed with either Jesse Ventura or Bobby Heenan.RadioKAOS (talk) 19:50, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not really connected to this, but another classic Monsoon line was a wrestler smashing an opponent "into the middle of next week."192.127.94.7 (talk) 17:10, 27 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed edit

"Although remembered fondly by many viewers, Monsoon was voted Worst Television Announcer a record six times by readers of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter in the publication's annual awards poll."

I understand taking the good with the bad, but can we move this part down further into the article? I feel like it tarnishes his legacy having it in the opening paragraph. Kane had "Worst Feud of the Year" seven times, but you don't see that mentioned in the opening paragraph, or anywhere else in the article other than "accomplishments". Stellar420 (talk) 14:31, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was surprised to see this content myself, but I do think it belongs in the lede. For better or worse, the Wrestling Observer is the pre-eminent wrestling newsletter, and its readers voted Monsoon the worst announcer in the business a record six times. Besides the inherent notability of the Observer, multiple writers have covered the result, asserting its value.[1][2][3] Kane is a false equivalency because he was never voted worst wrestler. And then there's WP:OTHERSTUFF.

I've tweaked things a bit. Besides hosting the Observer result, the lede now notes that Monsoon had the "Gorilla Position" named in his honour, is remembered fondly by many, and is regarded as half of the greatest commentary duo in history. Seems fairly well WP:BALANCED. Telekinetics (talk) 19:38, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]