“Wrestling is a sport where people without pants fight for a belt” is a saying that has been printed on several images. “Wrestling is where men without pants fight for a belt. Ironic, I know” was posted on Twitter on October 30, 2015.
“In boxing, you fight over a belt and a purse” is a similar saying.
Twitter
Jon Smoke ♠️
@jbdomantay
Wrestling is where men without pants fight for a belt. Ironic, I know.
6:37 AM - 30 Oct 2015
Twitter
Jãmes
@jmes_sca
Can’t believe I am about to watch some grown men without pants fight for a belt #WrestleMania
5:23 PM - 3 Apr 2016
Twitter
UGLY_KING_MANSCREW
@king_Manscrew
Mara Wrestling Is Useless unsure emoticon . How Can Men Without Pants Fight For A Belt??
9:36 AM - 11 Apr 2016 from Nelspruit, South Africa
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Wrestling is a sport where two people without pants fight for a belt.
submitted September 22, 2016 by _Mordred_
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Wrestling is a sport where people without pants fight for a belt.
submitted June 1, 2017 by BadderrthanyOu
Twitter
RK3
@Mainevent69
Wrestling: A sport where people fight without pants for a belt 🤣
6:20 PM - 27 Jun 2017
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Wrestling is a sport where people fight without pants for a belt
submitted October 8, 2017 by Old_Oak_Doors
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
Recent entries:
•“Some call it multitasking, but I call it doing something else until I remember what I was doing in the first place” (5/14)
•“It’s pretty crazy how there’s an entire profession we have to make wear body cameras because they lie so much” (5/14)
•“Some call it multitasking. I call it doing something else while I try to remember what I was doing in the first place” (5/14)
•“Them: Show me proof.” / “Me: *Sends proof*” / “Them: You’re a conspiracy theorist!” (5/14)
•“If the government has enough money to give to foreign countries…” (5/14)
More new entries...
Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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