pro wrestling meeting reality so hard right now. I’m very much out of the loop of nba basketball but have peaked by to see here and there how playoff series’ have been going. to non-wrestling fans, how well known is the Danhausen curse? would they have to watch Stephen A Smith to know? I still think the knicks are the UCLA hoops of the pro leagues (they insist upon themselves the way Peter Griffin sees The Godfather) bc they haven’t won a pro title since the 70’s & are always regarded as an arena w/ sponsors around when any other arena gets that job done. but mini tangent aside, would love answers to my wrestling based question :)

halfdecenttakes | Lakers

96 | an hour ago

The Knickerbockerhausens do seem to have the curse behind them.

Teams dropping double digit leads and talking about how it was like they were just unlucky.

Wemby throwing the game off his teammates back.

Nobody could have written this any better for Danhausen. All time run he’s on.

ArmiinTamzarian | Spurs

20 | an hour ago

Danhausen hasn’t cursed us mind you, but the fear he instills in his opponents hearts seems to do enough

halfdecenttakes | Lakers

15 | an hour ago

The uncursing of the Knicks seems to have provided some sort of curse like energy toward the opponents.

I don’t think any of us want to see what would have happened if it was a full on curse.

ArmiinTamzarian | Spurs

8 | an hour ago

The Hawks and Cavs were directly cursed, not sure about the Sixers tho

Also Danhausen was at MSG for the Cavs game 1

Nightmare16164 | Celtics

6 | an hour ago

Sixers are cursed with an awful owner

Jmacz | Celtics

1 | 15 minutes ago

They used up the last of their magical energy beating us.

YerrrKnicks | Knicks

2 | an hour ago

He said all of our enemies are now cursed so that does include y’all unfortunately.

halfdecenttakes | Lakers

1 | an hour ago

They can’t take a chance that he fills their mouth with human teeth though

TrueRedditMartyr | Knicks

1 | 27 minutes ago

Reading this like an announcer said it is hilarious

NerdLawyer55 | Thunder

2 | an hour ago

It’s the implication

WelkingKRool | Pistons

53 | an hour ago

Just in time for the trump curse to turn this series around

ArmiinTamzarian | Spurs

14 | an hour ago

He can curse him too

NerdLawyer55 | Thunder

10 | an hour ago

Pls 🙏

Infamous_Aardvark146 | Celtics

10 | an hour ago

Unstoppable force vs immovable object type beat

Marrouge | Pistons

1 | 27 minutes ago

As long as the Knicks don’t do the dance like the Lions and Tigers did, I think they’ll be alright

WelkingKRool | Pistons

1 | 25 minutes ago

It’s crazy he got two of our teams

itsBillerdsTime

35 | an hour ago

I was tired of his shtick when he first got to AEW. To see where he is now is crazy though. And for THIS? If they get it done these next 2 games. I will never badmouth Danhausen ever again.

Media-critique | Knicks

16 | an hour ago

I will never badmouth Danhausen ever again

Agreed. Life’s already tough. The last thing we want is Danhausen to curse us too.

ArmiinTamzarian | Spurs

5 | an hour ago

Technically he already did, it took a payout in human monies to reverse it

RedHammer1441

4 | an hour ago

Maybe they’ll just never lose another playoff game ever 👀

garfcarmpbll

8 | an hour ago

This will manifest in the form of the Knicks never making the playoffs again.

18_YTC1

4 | an hour ago

tbh Danhausen is more of a sports entertainment gimmick so would’ve fit WWE from day 1. AEW is a good fit for Ricochet and I’d say more Southern rasslin’ types?

halfdecenttakes | Lakers

2 | an hour ago

That’s a stretch.

They do comedy matches on virtually every show lol

itsBillerdsTime

-1 | an hour ago

Yes. I was always a WCW kid, I only ever tortured myself to the cartoony WWE bullshit when WCW died.

RATMpatta

5 | an hour ago

Tbf though WCW also had the Dungeon of Doom, all kinds of things on a pole matches and whatever they were throwing at the wall the last year or so of their existence.

itsBillerdsTime

1 | an hour ago

The pole shit was Russos doing, the DoD was horribly bad, but in a hilarious way.

AH….IT’S NOT HOT

Infamous_Aardvark146 | Celtics

29 | an hour ago

He needs to be on one of the parade floats if they finish the job

Jonald_Draper

14 | an hour ago

Or a blimphausen.

nWo5lyfe | Spurs

1 | 6 minutes ago

Need a 1 day contract, get a number then get said number retired

Caldris

8 | an hour ago

Real Knick fans credit Anne Hathaway for this run.

NerdLawyer55 | Thunder

2 | an hour ago

Supermax eligible player

wasdxqwerty

9 | an hour ago

danhausen already lifted the curse on NYK but Stephen A Smith is still cursed hahahah

beefixit | TOR

7 | an hour ago

MSG is the Knicks home arena. MSG is also practically WWE’s home arena. It all makes too much sense!

Anglefan23

1 | 15 minutes ago

It literally was WWE’s home arena for decades in the 1900s. That has faded as the company became more global and MSG more expensive to run, but they still try to put extra juice into the shows when they’re at MSG

beefixit | TOR

1 | 10 minutes ago

I didn’t wanna go into all the nuances but what you say is true. It’s damn true!(Nice username)

iamwearingashirt | Raptors

8 | an hour ago

It’s crazy. Their longest win streak all season was 8, and that involved 3 sub .500 teams and a double overtime.

Now they pull off 13 straight from high intensity competition that is trying to adjust from game to game.

This is the most improbable playoff run I’ve ever seen.

HokageEzio | Knicks

4 | 37 minutes ago

This is tied for the 3rd longest win streak in franchise history regular season or playoffs.

Portmanteau_that | Hornets

7 | an hour ago

would they have to watch Stephen A Smith to know?

God, grant me ignorance for a thousand lifetimes

Siicktiits | Heat

6 | an hour ago

Props to danhausen for using this power for the knicks and not himself… dude needs to be cursing everyone that crosses his path.

paperbuddha

6 | an hour ago

Fans who watch wrestling and people whove seen it on sports shows know about Danhausen and the curse. People who don’t watch wrestling or haven’t seen it on sports shows don’t know about Danhausen and the curse. I hope that clears it up.

WantedMan61 | 76ers

6 | an hour ago

It does for me. I have never heard of this Danhausen or any curse. Pretty big NBA fan, haven’t watched wrestling since the days of Bruno San Martino and Gorilla Monsoon. Around the time of Reed, Frazier, and Bradley.

Edit: TIL it’s Sammartino. Well I’ll be

18_YTC1

4 | an hour ago

woah old school wrestling fan! thoughts on the Southern Rasslin’ style?

WantedMan61 | 76ers

1 | an hour ago

Lol. Haven’t watched since I was around 10 years old, so I’m probably not the one to ask. Haystacks Calhoun was pretty good though!

AttilaTheFun818

1 | 4 minutes ago

Danhausen’s gimmick is basically what if Conan O’Brien was possessed by a demon. He’s “very nice, very evil” and just wants “human monies”. He’s will curse you to get his way, and lift the curse for more human monies.

He’s not a great wrestler, but is funny as all hell. He basically follows cartoon logic.

Saucy_Totchie | Knicks

4 | an hour ago

Danhausen Curse ✅️

The Pope’s Blessing ✅️

Power of Friendship ✅️

Pride Month ✅️

Anne Hathaway, Mariska Hargitay, Martha Stewart and Suni Lee watching ✅️✅️✅️✅️

What else you want to throw in?

bv0198 | Knicks

1 | 32 minutes ago

Danhausen clears that fraud corgi

Mike-XL

1 | 30 minutes ago

That’s kinda insane, not gonna lie. Lmao

Dear_Profile_5251

2 | an hour ago

Simply insane

RoboTropics | Bulls

2 | an hour ago

Does anyone remember when the Knicks came out to the nWo theme? And it was like the first time they played the nWo song on TNT in like 15 years.

I would love to see them do that for Game 3.

TheMightyCatatafish | 76ers

1 | 19 minutes ago

Lifting the curse is one thing. But it’s as if Danhausen has cursed the rest of the league. Which to my knowledge, he hasn’t.

But yeah. Danhausen is not to be trifled with.

NerdLawyer55 | Thunder

1 | an hour ago

It’s still real to me dammit!

Affectionate_Plant71

1 | 24 minutes ago

He couldn’t wait til after the Hawks series?

whenishit-itsbigturd

-10 | an hour ago

What’s with WWE always trying force these weirdos with goofy ass names like “Danhausen” and “Gunther” lmao

deiulei | Rockets

12 | an hour ago

Danhausen is his real last name

whenishit-itsbigturd

-2 | an hour ago

Imagine if Edge was never Edge and they just called him Adam Copeland his whole career

Or if Big Show was just Paul White. No Hulk Hogan, they just called him Terry Bollea

ArmiinTamzarian | Spurs

4 | an hour ago

It could be worse. We could call him…..Cope (if you don’t watch wrestling he had a run under that name not too long ago)

scott_steiner_phd

2 | 43 minutes ago

We could call him…..Cope (if you don’t watch wrestling he had a run under that name not too long ago)

Tag-teaming with Seethe?

greenyquinn | Celtics

1 | 9 minutes ago

Cage & Cope are tag team champions right now under that name

AEW World Tag Team Championship History | All Elite Wrestling

halfdecenttakes | Lakers

4 | an hour ago

They both currently wrestle under those exact names lol.

whenishit-itsbigturd

0 | an hour ago

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it does it really make a sound

18_YTC1

3 | an hour ago

That doesn’t work for me, BROTHER!

DrSwaggenheimer | Timberwolves

3 | an hour ago

Ricky Steamboat (Richard Blood or Dick Blood if you will) has the best actual IRL wrestling name. Same with Jon Moxley (John Goode).

deiulei | Rockets

1 | 21 minutes ago

Imagine having enough clout and name recognition to use your own name instead of one that the WWE creates for you that you would no longer have the right to use once you leave the company. Imagine all the money that you could earn with your own real trademarked name that you wouldn’t have to share with the WWE.

Srg11

7 | an hour ago

In this case, Danhausen was Danhausen way before WWE.

whenishit-itsbigturd

-7 | an hour ago

WWE changes people’s names all the time but thought that one was cool? Fumble

Srg11

5 | an hour ago

They usually do it for copyright reasons so they can own everything about the character but with Danhausen, he’s a merch demon and he’s nothing without that character so guess they had no choice.

Hugo_5t1gl1tz | Hawks

3 | an hour ago

Also I kinda think Danhausen is a cool sounding name 🤷‍♂️

halfdecenttakes | Lakers

4 | an hour ago

He’s like the second biggest merch mover in pro wrestling.

Definitely not a fumble lol

itsBillerdsTime

6 | an hour ago

Danhausen is the guys real last name, Donovan Danhausen. He has had this shtick long before WWE.

BBallHunter | Thunder

4 | an hour ago

Gunther is a normal name in Austria tbf.

Shoot2thrill328 | Spurs

0 | an hour ago

It is but I kinda wish he was still Walter

Infamous_Aardvark146 | Celtics

2 | an hour ago

If what im reading is true…

Poor WALTER

Ornery-Magazine3193

2 | an hour ago

They need to go back to the old school days where you had real monikers like “The Gobbledy Gooker” and “Hugh G Rection”.

18_YTC1

2 | an hour ago

Hugh G Rection was WCW not WWE, show some love to dubya see dubya & southern rasslin’

18_YTC1

2 | an hour ago

to be fair Gunther works it’s not like they gave him a G name like Geronimo or Gerald

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Infamous_Aardvark146 | Celtics

13 | an hour ago

active in: AEWOfficial subreddit

I just had a feeling about this one

NerdLawyer55 | Thunder

5 | an hour ago

Got em

steponmemarasov

-2 | an hour ago

Yeah watching a good wrestling product isn’t the got you’ you think it is

halfdecenttakes | Lakers

1 | 14 minutes ago

Japanese soldier who kept fighting 29 years after the war had ended

yanksareawful

11 | an hour ago

Active in AEWoffical. Lmao

TimeLord41 | Rockets

-4 | an hour ago

I genuinely do not understand his appeal Hes not funny in thr slightest

itsBillerdsTime

-5 | an hour ago

I mean, same dude, ever since he made the jump because of being a CM Punk polisher, I have grown beyond tired of him. But I will give him a pass for this and only this.

halfdecenttakes | Lakers

5 | an hour ago

How can you watch where he is at today and say the only reason he made the jump was because of Punk?

The dude has exploded in popularity and has been used better and more consistently than he ever was in AEW. They failed to do anything with him, he wanted more, and he was objectively correct.

That argument died months ago.

itsBillerdsTime

0 | an hour ago

Because after Punk got fired he was constantly making comments and liking shit on twitter basically just wanting out.

halfdecenttakes | Lakers

3 | an hour ago

Yeah but he was clearly correct that he was being wasted there.

The proof is in the pudding, he won that battle. It’s not like Black where he went back and got cut after meandering around. He’s becoming a staple of the show and is now one of the biggest merch movers in wrestling on the planet.

The Knicks are now 13-0 since Danhausen uncursed them. At this point I think you can’t even blame Wembenyama, the Spurs, or any opponents the Knicks have faced