Detroit police officer Alex Murphy goes through a pretty crappy first day on the job. It starts with Red Foreman and friends turn him into Swiss cheese, then his corporation-backed police force doing this to him:
Thus, Murphy becomes RoboCop, serving and protecting in one of the most violent socio-political satires in cinema. He’s also Jesus, but that’s another article.
We’re not here to talk about that. We’re here to talk about when RoboCop got into professional wrestling. (You knew this. It was in the headline. Read.)
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, there were two top organizations in professional wrestling, Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation (now known as World Wrestling Entertainment) and World Championship Wrestling (now known as Wrestling Cautionary Tale). The WWF was known for having insane characters such as snake handlers, hairstyling strippers, and neon-dripping, tie-dyed space Neanderthals. As a counter-balance, World Championship Wrestling was built for wrestling fans that wanted their professional wrestling less like McMahon’s circus and more “realistic” with wrasslers like Barry Windham, Steve Williams, Somedude Regularguy, and other grapplers that look like they worked alongside your dad at the cannery. However, the hyper-grounded WCW still left room for mysterious ninjas …
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… and guys that really, really love BELLS.
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During 1990, the WWF was the more popular of the two organizations, stemming from the younger fans’ meteoric love of superhero-like good guys Hulk Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior (unlike those jerkhoses playing them, Terry Bollea and Jim Hellwig). Those two headlined and drew big money as the main event of 1990’s Wrestlemania VI.
The Executive Vice-President of WCW at the time, Jim Herd, wanted that money from the youngsters. He wanted those kids’ money. Bad.
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Enter RoboCop.
Despite RoboCop being so violent that it had to be trimmed to achieve an R-rating, it was incredibly popular with young ‘80s kids that watched it on VHS at their older cousin Jeff’s house because Aunt Mary is cool and doesn’t care if young kids watch ultra-violent movies as long as they go to church. Seeing that untapped market, cartoons, and toys were immediately made from the character. With this in mind, the producers of Robocop 2 were really looking for that youth boost to add more ticket sales to the 1990 summer box office. What better way to reach kids with their brand of theatrical violence than through the theatrical violence of pro wrestling?
So a deal was made for RoboCop to show up and back up the blond dynamo called Sting.
Uh, no, the other one:
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With RoboCop at his side, Sting could even the odds when he went up against Ric Flair for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at their next pay-per-view, Capitol Combat ‘90. Sting wouldn’t have to worry about Flair’s cronies, The Four Horsemen, from interfering in the match since RoboCop would take care of them if they refused to comply. But, you know, without shooting a torrential bullet swarm.
The Time RoboCop Became A Pro Wrestler … Sort Of
Source: Pinoy Daily News
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