Monster Trucks look pretty pointless, but they're so fucking cool.
The idea of taking a car and just putting it on top of some big dock off wheels is brilliant. I would have liked to have been there when the concept was created. "Yeah, put it on big wheels. No, bigger wheels. Yeah, then we'll make it dead loud. And fast. And fuck it, we'll drive them up and down dirt ramps." Genius.
To make it even better, there's competitions which see drivers freestyle in the modified pick up trucks, doing things that really weren't intended for the vehicles.
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You clearly have to have balls of a certain size to enter competitions like the Monster Jam, so we're going to go ahead and assume Lee O'Donnell's boxers are XL, as he achieved something spectacular. Landing a front flip.
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Given that monster trucks are a rarity over on these shores, I've relied on BroBible to inform me on how to pull off a front flip in one. According to them the driver has to pop a wheelie, with the back to tyres hitting the ramp so that the truck is flown up into the air. It then somersaults, landing perfectly on all four wheels.
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The crowd goes wild for it because it's pretty sick, and apparently not all that common.
Monster trucks have had a lot of popularity over the years in the US, so much so that once they were written into wrestling matches back in the '90s.
The creative people over at the long gone promotion WCW decided that a Monster Truck Sumo Match was genuinely a good idea, and so decided to put Hulk Hogan - once the biggest wrestler on earth - up against The Big Show - another huge superstar.
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The idea is simple, really. Drive at each other and the man with the most power under the hood will push his opponent out of the 'ring'.
It's worth pointing out that this was the main event at Halloween Havoc in 1995, and somehow ended up with The Big Show, or The Giant, as he was then known, falling off a wall.
'90s wrestling, can't beat it, eh?
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