"I drove here from Long Island in the snow. I didn't come to see guys wrestle. I don't even like wrestling that much. It's just a bunch of faggots in tights. I wanna see blood. I wanna see guys beat the shit out of each other. Get that wrestling shit outta here."
— A fan quoted at CZW's "Cage Of Death" XV.
"No no, that's wrestling, Tony. You aren't going to see any of that here."
— Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, during the Cactus Jack/Maxx Payne vs. The Nasty Boys Chicago Street Fight, WCW Spring Stampede 94, April 17, 1994.
"It doesn't come much more hardcore than this, motherfucker. You've got staple guns, you've got barbed wire, everything!"
— "Handsome Harley 'Gweedo' Guestello" (Shaggy 2 Dope), before the Mad Man Pondo vs. Fat Fuck Barrel Boy match, Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling Volume 2.
"It's my character. I'm the Trashman! I come out, I throw trash all over the ring! And then, I start eating garbage! And then I pick up the trashcan and I SMASH the guy on it!"
— Frank Reynolds taking the trope literally, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
"There's the Lou Thesz spike to the head!"
— Joey Styles, once during a New Jack match.
"I used to get cut up in the barbed wire for no reason. Now if I do it, I want it to be for a reason, I want it to mean something."
— Sabu
"Danger is the love of my pathetic life. [...] ... Nothing left to lose.".
— Cactus Jack, before a No Rope Barbed Wire Scramble Bunkhouse Death Match, IWA Japan, January 8, 1995
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the Rotten brothers are writing a novel in their own blood."
— Joey Styles, during the Axl-Ian barbed wire baseball bat match, ECW Return of the Funker, ECW Arena, February 25, 1995.
"I'm not a wrassler! I don't grab holds! I use Karate! I use Jiu-Jitsu, okay? I'm not a wrassler! I can beat you up anytime that I want to beat you up! You understand? And the guy behind the camera? Give me the fork so I can stab it on his head. Then you'll know..."
— Abdullah the Butcher, Dark Side of the Ring, "The Killing of Bruiser Brody"
