#Gene LeBell

[deadpresidents]

I don’t know how the Grim Reaper caught Gene Lebell, but he had to have been cheating. If it had been a fair fight, Judo Gene would be using that cloak as his newest black belt.

#RIP #Judo Gene Lebell #Gene Lebell #Martial Arts #Martial Artists

[reginaldstroudus]

Judo Gene Lebell Never Taught Bruce Lee Or Submitted him, They Were Frie...

#youtube #Bruce Lee #gene lebell #judo #enter the dragon #green hornet

[mrmegamanfan]

Ric Flair passed out twice during his last match, "Judo" Gene LeBell has passed away at 89 years old, the latest NJPW G1 Climax results, updated card for AEW Dynamite tonight.

#Ric Flair #Gene LeBell #g1 climax #AEW Dynamite #pro wrestling

[ringthedamnbell]

Wrestling With Sin: 452

Wrestling With Sin: 452 featuring Missy Hyatt, Raven, Saturn and much more...

Brian Damage This is the 452nd installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of stories that delves into the darker, underbelly of pro wrestling. Many of the stories involve such subjects as sex, drugs, greed and in some cases even murder! As with every single story in the Sin series, I do not condone or condemn the alleged participants. We simply retell their stories by researching…

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#Bearcat Wright #Judo Gene Lebell #Konnan #Missy Hyatt #Perry Saturn #Pro Wrestling Arrests #Pro wrestling scandals #Pro Wrestling Sex Scandals #Raven #WCW #Wrestler Arrests #Wrestling scandals #Wrestling With Sin #WWE

[cryptotheism]

A Review of The Way Of The Shadow Wolves: The Deep State And The Hijacking Of America by Steven Segal

Alleged rapist and human trafficker, cop groupie, washed-up action movie star, and personal friend to Vladimir Putin, the paradox of Steven Segal is how he manages to stick around despite being –by damn near every account– a universally unpleasant vacuum of charisma. I could go on, but I feel that no introduction of Steven would be complete without the tale of the headlock. Legends tell of Steven’s conflict with legendary martial artist and hollywood stunt coordinator “Judo” Gene Lebell. Allegedly, the two fell into an argument on the set of the film Out For Justice. The crux being Steven’s claim that he was “immune” to being choked unconscious. Allegedly, LeBell called his bluff, and put the actor in a headlock. A headlock that resulted in Steven losing consciousness, and control of his bowels. Steven denies the story. He also wrote a book.

The book is garbage, but garbage in a way that can be easily overstated. I wanted to take a page from other reviewers of this book, and call the text what it is; a fever dream of exhausting mediocrity, swaddled in delusions of grandeur. I wanted to whale on it. I wanted to denounce it like some ridiculous fire-and-brimstone preacher of internet literary criticism. But this does not capture the core, the essence of Way of the Shadow Wolves. There is a paradox at the heart of this text, a contradiction that even now I struggle to describe. Because despite everything, despite the balls-to-the-walls premise, the disastrous prose, and the buckwild plot, this book is deeply and powerfully boring. To call it a fever dream is to imply that it might be exciting. 

Some books are bad in a way that must be experienced firsthand. This is not one of those books. In a way, I feel that you’ve already read this book. You know Steven Segal. You met him in elementary school, when he told you he has “every black belt.” You met him in college when you tricked him into smoking a bag of oregano. You met him at your most recent family gathering, where you were trapped in an awkward one-sided conversation about “those people.” The bad-ness of Steven’s work is deeply familiar. 

We have our boots. We have our waders. We have our shovels. But, before we wade into the shit, there is one more thing we need to get out of the way: The Shadow Wolves are real. In 1972 the United States government agreed to the Tohono O'odham Nation’s demand that border enforcement agents patrolling their land have at least one quarter native ancestry. The result being the specialized unit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers known as The Shadow Wolves. In the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog film, Dr. Eggman states that they are who trained him in the art of tracking. 

WAY OF THE SHADOW WOLVES

Let us cook Way of the Shadow Wolves from scratch. Think of every dogshit C-list action movie you’ve ever seen. Ideally, you want the trash cuts of post-9/11 hysteria marbled with ex-cia heroes and vaguely arab villains. Drop it all into a stockpot. Next, roughly dice some comic books and kung-fu movies, the more racist the better. Now add some datura, it doesn't matter if it's edible or not, because you saw a native American in a movie make something like that once and you’re totally 1/64th Cherokee. Add a whole can of Qanon and a whole can of racism. Boil until you have pacing thicker than mud. 

Way of the Shadow Wolves is a police procedural meets a spy thriller, a fast-paced action drama about elite agents on the fringes of the law who have the huge sweaty meaty balls to do what needs to be done for our country. It is Steven's attempt at the action schlock he embodies as an actor. Our hero is John Gode: Shadow Wolf. Reservation-born native American tracker, ICE agent, and Kung-Fu master. I believe he might have been described at one point. If he was, I do not care. Steven does not care. It does not matter. John Gode is Steven, and he’s the most badass dude to ever not be gay. He is: Special Agent Shaman Cop. He’s gonna beat up the deep state. That’s all you need to really need to know. In fact, it is shocking just how little you need to know about this book. 

We begin in a movie theater, where our protagonist is alone, watching the end credits of a movie about the atrocious treatment of native Americans on behalf of the united states government. When the film finally ends, John says to himself “It’s about time.” He gets up to leave. The chapter immediately ends. My compliments to the chef. A delightfully bland apéritif of a character introduction. Steven uses the essential point of first contact with our protagonist to tell us vital information like “He doesn’t like it when movies are long.” or maybe “He didn’t like this movie about the trail of tears.” It is unclear. To quote English-Albanian philosopher Dua Lipa, “Go girl, give us nothing.”

I have been dancing around the quality of the writing. It seems impossible to approach without the footing of a new paragraph, an opponent that requires full-focus, an all-out assault. It is nigh-incomprehensible. I hate comparing bad writing to drugs. It feels too easy. But there is a specific air to Way of the Shadow Wolves. There is a distinct cadence, simultaneously manic and lethargic, that comes from attempting to write while day drunk on over-prescribed amphetamines. And make no mistake, if Steven was not entranced by the muse of Too Many Uppers And Downers At The Same Time, if he wrote this thing stone sober, that is worse. Small quotes will not do the writing style justice, you must see for yourself how sentences flow into each other:

“The desperado’s mind went back in time to a small town in Mexico twelve years before, where he first met his two cohorts when they were thrown together by a tragic set of circumstances. Their parents had been gunned down by a cartel who was at war with a competing cartel for control of the area, which was a pathway to the American border near Nogales, Arizona. All three had been shepherded to a local mission where they were being cared for by the Franciscans, who were becoming overwhelmed by the growing number of children left homeless due to the rampant killings by the warring cartels . . .”

Labyrinthine. A paragraph structure that would feel more at home with Calvino, or Garcia Marquez at his most experimental, though stripped of its deft control and musicality. Segal will regularly change temporal perspective in the middle of sentences. A single run-on sentence will begin in the past, have a middle clause in the present, and then return to the past by the end. There is a downright massive cast of characters for a 200 page book. Damn near every chapter introduces three or four more names, and we are lucky if Steven describes them before discarding them entirely. This book is a slog. I find myself losing patience with Steven. 

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Some time has passed since I began writing this review. Originally, my approach was surgical disassembly. I was going to go over the plot, summarize its anatomy, pick apart its flaws with surgical precision. But the more I cut, the more I felt as if I was the butt of a joke. I was performing an autopsy on a clown, pulling sheets of colorful rope from its gut, and the cadaver was laughing at me. 

There is a moment, about halfway through. A woman approaches John at a bar. An assassin, who later attacks John in the parking lot with karate. A furious series of crescent kicks, effortlessly blocked by John Gode, who punches her in the ribs and knocks her to the ground. Realizing that her martial arts are defeated, she draws her gun, but John Gode is too fast. He fires his own weapon before she can get the shot off, killing her instantly. “Her round went upward toward the sky as she fell backward with eyes wide open, seeing nothing.”

This scene stuck with me. It illustrates one of the critical flaws at the heart of Way of the Shadow Wolves. Nothing hurts John. Nothing even gets close. He does not struggle. He does not sweat. He does not bleed. Steven clearly intends this scene to be badass, a moment where his self-insert hero defeats a dangerous enemy without trying. This book is an action movie, but John’s untouchability makes every action scene read as a moment of profound and boring cruelty. This was not a contest of master martial artists. This was an adult kicking a child in the throat.

I find myself losing patience with Steven. I am running out of humorous ways to describe this vapid tripe. This is, in my mind, the greatest condemnation of bad writing. There is no hell lower than being boring to mock. I see myself as a sort of sommelier of the awkward and disastrous. I will be the first to tell you “Wait! Don’t throw that out! There are things to be learned!” But Steven repeatedly proves himself to be a sort of Alchemist of Shit, capable of transmuting theoretically interesting bullshit into just fucking nothing. If this book deserves credit for anything, it is its miraculous ability to squander its own premise. 

Why write this? Any of this? Steven clearly does not read. Or, if he does, he seems to subsist entirely on a diet of comic books about monkeys that do kung-fu. Why write this? At some level it all comes down to “because Steven wanted to” right? 

Right? 

But I cannot shake the feeling. To call this book masturbatory is to imply that Steven might have enjoyed it. There is a desperation to the power fantasy here. To be feared by men, desired by women, revered by all, yaddah yaddah yaddah, all the same trite excretions of blunt masculinity. But there is something else. Steven wants the same thing that every conspiracy theorist wants; a simple world. A world he can understand. Steven is exhausted, overwhelmed with a world he feels he can neither effect nor understand. I am exhausted. 

I fear my earlier allusions to expressionist novels may have been more spot on than I imagined. Way of the Shadow Wolves has a plot in the sense that Sunny-D contains fruit juice. Its presence is a formality, a ceremonial hat worn for tax purposes. The plot is there, but it is unimportant. This is not a text that can be debated with. Because within the world of the text, politics is not complex. It is not actually a web of interconnected groups, each with their own interests, rivalries, alliances, and historical contexts. Behind all of it is two things: Good guys, and bad guys. The good guys are all working together, and the bad guys are all working together. 

I find myself losing patience with Steven. I fear my earlier allusions to expressionist novels may have been more spot on than I imagined. Way of the Shadow Wolves has a plot.

John Gode finds a human tooth in the desert. It belongs to a body, a body of a woman described in lurid detail. Nearby, he meets a young native American man, a man who calls himself Sweet Tooth. The body is missing teeth, missing hands, missing feet. A trademark cartel killing. A young native American man. “I’m gonna be like, your assistant right?” A buddy cop dynamic. Meeting the task force. Tailing an ICE van full of cartel soldiers. A hostage situation. A shootout in the desert. Far away, faceless men in suits with masonic ranks plan a mass killing. Some sounded like they had Arabic accents. Freemasonry. Interrogation with a snake. The corpse was a woman. The woman was a reporter. She had the evidence on a flash drive, evidence that proved the existence of the deep state. What if its all connected? A sex scene, or almost a sex scene. A sex scene interrupted. A shootout in the desert. Kung Fu assassins at a bar. A cartel defector. A shootout in the desert. What if its all connected. They’re working with the Jihadists. The USA is already “half latino.” The government is paying the cartels to ship Jihadists north across the border. They’re well-trained and well armed. You can’t trust anyone. A terrorist defector who hears the voice of the prophet. The ghost of John’s grandfather. The sun sets over the Sonora. A shootout in the desert. They kidnapped John’s mother. Bring them the flash drive. They’re planning to bomb the casino. A shootout in the desert. The police chief was a traitor. The Catholics are in on it. Its all connected. A shootout in the desert. Assault by night. Rescuing the hostage. A knife dipped in pigs blood. A pit of vipers in the sonora. 

Steven ends a chapter with the line. “They had functioned like a well-oiled machine that had just saved two innocent lives. All lives matter. Do they not?” 

I am tired. I find myself at a neighborhood block party, trapped in a conversation I’ve had a thousand times. This time the man on the other end is a sweaty divorcee in range glasses who looks like a sunburned thumb. Last week, it was a woman with a necklace of crystals and blonde hair bleached blonder. “Haha yeah” I say, looking down at my phone. “Burgers look good this year huh?”

Thank you to my Patreon supporters who made this review possible.

#Steven Segal Review

[beesmygod]

I'm actually bummed about YouTube as a whole bc We're in Hell and Channel 5 both turned out to be rapists and just kept making videos so now when I need inoffensive background noise at work my eyes glaze over and I type in "bossa nova" like literal elevator music is better

tumblr is fucking with me and wont let me post the whole post without telling me why but i think bc of all the links i put its getting flagged as spam lol. bear with me as i update this post

oneshorteye: speed run history vids about sierra games and their ilk. interviews with the creators. https://www.youtube.com/@OneShortEye

anomaly documentaries: short form docs about weirdness in the world mostly prior to 2000. delivery and presentation like a 1990s educational video. not edutainment. https://www.youtube.com/@AnomalyDocs

atrocity guide: similar in tone to the above. not as dark as the name would suggest. https://www.youtube.com/@AtrocityGuide

anyaustin: seeks out mundane, odd, tranquil, haunting, or idiosyncratic areas in video games. sometimes roleplays as a census taker to determine the unemployment rate of video game citites https://www.youtube.com/@any_austin

drripVHS: a hero, a legend. uploads rips of VHS tapes he picks up from thrift stores in the portland oregon area. soooooooo many RLM wheel of the worst picks can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/@DrRIPVHS

taskmaster/bbc shows: a shocking amount of british tv shows are uploaded in full on youtube by official accounts. taskmaster fucking rips lol https://www.youtube.com/@Taskmaster

bobby fingers: irish artist who creates dioramas of famous people and events while collecting an oral history of the event and everything surrounding it. this is underselling his production quality by a lot. subjects include mel gibson's drunken arrest and steven segal getting bodied by gene lebell https://www.youtube.com/@bobbyfingers

danooct1: computer enthusiasts who runs old, weird viruses from the 1990s-2000s on his machines. its funny how many of them were little pranks. https://www.youtube.com/@danooct1

primm's hood cinema: funny guy reviews hood movies. simple as. https://www.youtube.com/@PrimmsHoodCinema

treytheexplainer: history nerd (history student?) explains really, really, really, really, REALLY old stuff. but funny stuff. https://www.youtube.com/@TREYtheExplainer

ann reardon and how to cook that: an aussie mom who creates frankly astoundingly beautiful confectionery creations. started to debunk dangerous 5 min craft vids after becoming alarmed at their proliference. also shows how to fix your busted ass cakes and explains why they fucked up. https://www.youtube.com/@HowToCookThat

MEpearl: i love georgette i would move heaven and earth for her and her opossums she rescues. shes insane (strongly positive) https://www.youtube.com/@MEpearl

tara a devlin: some aussie who translates and plays obscure horror games of varying quality from japan. VERY obscure and weird stuff. fun. https://www.youtube.com/@KowabanaJapan

#long post

[choke2sleep]

Nighty night. Gene Lebell demonstrates his sleeper.

#wrestling #sleeper #sleepered #sleep #sleep well #puthimtosleep #pro wrestling #sleeperhold #deep sleep #puttosleep #shh sleep #sleeper him #wrestling sleeper #go to sleep

[kungseyesfr]

⚡Breaking News: "Judo" Gene LeBell passed away last night.

"Judo" Gene LeBell, best known for his catch wrestling technique that later became an influence in both pro wrestling and mixed martial arts, has passed away at 89 years old.

LeBell started catch wrestling at the age of 7, training under Ed “Strangler” Lewis and later trained in judo. He was also trained by the likes of Karl Gotch and Lou Thesz. In 1963, he accepted a challenge to fight boxer Milo Savage in an early mixed martial arts bout that saw LeBell score the win with a rear naked choke.

In pro wrestling, he ran NWA's Los Angeles territory, NWA Hollywood Wrestling, from 1968 through 1982. He also served as the referee for the Muhammad Ali/Antonio Inoki match that took place in 1976. He wrestled his final pro wrestling match in 1981, against Peter Maivia in NWA Hollywood Wrestling.

In recent years, he had accompanied Ronda Rousey to the ring during mixed martial arts matches. He also judged MMA fights through 2018.

🙏🏻 R.I.P. "Judo" Gene LeBell - another one gone too soon! Your legacy will live on forever!

#judo #grappling

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

was no one going to tell me Gene LeBell passed away or was I suppose to watch a new Wrestling with Wregret video and find that out for myself?

[hachiyapersimmon]

Judo-practitioner Gene LeBell passed away at 89 yesterday. While he has many great accomplishments, let us remember he made Steven Seagal shit himself while in a headlock because Seagal thought he was more skilled than Gene LeBell at martial arts. lollerskates!

#hachiyapersimmon #unsanitary cw #steven seagal cw

[identifying-wrestling-moves]

hey! i was wondering if you had a good encyclopedia-esque resource for wrestling move names! i was trying to find one but had no luck, the closest was a(n evidently rare) WWE Magzine from like 2008 that just listed a bunch of wrestler's finishers

It's incredibly difficult to find a single source for move names! Some move names are wildly different in different countries, some move names may 3 to 4 common names for it, in extremely rare cases some moves don't really have a proper name at all. Still, there are plenty of ways to read up on wrestling moves!

Wikipedia has an okay list of wrestling moves with descriptions. These descriptions can help you identify names of other moves (i.e if you see a move start with a double underhook it's likely called "double underhook something.")

The pro wrestling wiki is a bit all over the place organizationally but there are pages similar to the Wikipedia list. Also, if you've seen a wrestler do a move before but don't know the name, that wrestler's page on the wiki will probably have the name of the move you're looking for on it.

Funnily enough, the largest list of wrestling moves I've seen in a single source come from video games. Wrestling games often have a lot of moves along with a visual to show what the move is. However, I find that for a portion of these moves the names aren't correct in literally every wrestling video game I've ever played. Still, if you've got a game you'll probably learn the names of quite a few moves!

I've used all of the above at one point or another in my life. I've also identified moves through Twitter threads, pro wrestling tutorial videos, seminars, official show recaps, and of course just watching matches! I've never fully read any of the books, since they're either expensive (Gene LeBell has a book but it's like over 200 dollars) or they seem to be somewhat limited in scope.

While there isn't a single definitive encyclopedic source that I know of, there's a ton of information out there that will enrich your knowledge of wrestling moves. If I find a really good source though I'll be sure to mention it somewhere on this blog. Good luck!

#asks #noellevanious #a resources page wouldnt be a bad idea!

[boomerissimo]

Bruce Lee, l'unica volta che fu messo in riga

Bruce Lee era il più forte, finché… Qualcuno riuscì a mettere in riga anche il maestro dei maestri #boomerissimo #brucelee #quentintarantino #film #cinema #UnoCinema

Era il più grande e non mancava di mostrarlo a tutti. Fino a quando… Il più grande artista marziale che il mondo abbia conosciuto era anche un uomo sicuro di sé e delle sue capacità, atletiche e recitative. Gene LeBell e Bruce Lee interpretati da Boomerissimo- Boomerissimo.it Non peccava di falsa modestia e la storia gli ha dato ragione, a cinquant’anni dalla sua morte conta ancora milioni di…

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#anni70 #boomerissimo #bruce lee #serietv

[darkarfs]

Fun fact: there has been both a movie about cops who become wrestlers (Bad Guys, 1986, the whole thing's on Youtube currently, with Adam Baldwin, Ruth Buzzy and "Judo" Gene LeBell) and an hour-long series pilot about wrestlers who then become beat cops (Tag Team, with Roddy Piper and Jesse Ventura, 1991, also totally on Youtube with the commercials still intact!! There are TWO ads for the ALL-NEW TWIN PEAKS in that one!)

[mox-is-good]

Gene Lebell taught Danielson the Lebell lock, and also choked out Steven Seagal on-set when he said he was "immune to being choked unconscious" so by the transitive property Bryan Danielson could choke out Steven Seagal

[jovanybjj]

Gene LeBells Memorial will be held on October 9, 2022, 12pm at Hayastan MMA Academy. PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS : It was Sensei Gene LeBells wish to have any type of memorial to be held at the Hayastan dojo. The address of the academy is 7229 Atoll Ave, North Hollywood, Ca 91601. Let’s celebrate Genes life which are filled with wonderful memories, stories and a Hall of Fame Career! Due to limited space, It is advised that only former students, colleagues, Close friends and family attend the memorial. This is essential to read and follow. No children please. 1. Parking— please park on the streets (Atoll) or on Sherman Way. 2. Please dress comfortable, preferably in your dojo shirt, stuntmen t shirt and etc… just like how Sensei Gene knew you! 3. Please be there on time. 4. No children's adults only If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Gokor Chivichyan Directly. 818-826-4656 Thank you Hayastan MMA Academy (em Hayastan MMA Academy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjWTxiApvQr_lOPwsuwbEOe2SW_BhHs4OmoT1g0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=