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THE GAYEST APPAREL posted:Here's a pic of him a kangol is very different from a fedora thank you very much it's like comparing apples to carrots
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sticklefifer posted:So I was reading through some results a couple years ago, and I totally forgot that the Iceland volcano erupting completely boned an entire episode of Raw, because they were in England that week. Worse, it was the go-home show. What the hell was the plan for the PPV if the majority of the roster couldn't make it back to the US to compete? They sent the talent overland to airports that were open so if they couldn't get people back for Raw they'd just keep sending them South until they could get them to the US for the PPV.
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Was there anything remarkable that happened with the Nitro Girls? (On camera or behind the scenes) The only thing I can really remember is: - DDP's wife started them. - Larry Zybysko drooling over the blonde one. - HBK married one. - Kevin Nash said in one of his promos that he was "eating Korean tonight", which was secretly a reference to the Nitro girl he was dating.
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Jan 15, 2014 05:44
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Stacy Keibler was one for like a minute, Booker T married one.
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budreck posted:What happened to Big Zeke? Meltzer actually mentioned what's up in a daily report recently. The poor guy is having his forth hernia surgery and has been out because of, well, hernia issues.
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Smoking Crow posted:You can't tell me that's not Rick Ross. oops, read wrong nvm
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When is the last time in WWE they filmed someone walking through the backstage area to the entrance way and to the ring (ie Goldberg)? That was always one of my favourite little things about wrestling. Made a match seem that much more exciting and important and gave it that sports feel.
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the only time that sticks out in my head in recent memory was that Miz promo from when he was US Champion years ago.
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sexy_trash posted:When is the last time in WWE they filmed someone walking through the backstage area to the entrance way and to the ring (ie Goldberg)? This one in particular ruled. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ-79b70GV4
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Jan 15, 2014 13:13
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That commentary at the end makes me laugh.
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The Grey posted:Was there anything remarkable that happened with the Nitro Girls? (On camera or behind the scenes) Vince Russo made them all on-screen characters and there were a couple feuds between them
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Aurain posted:That commentary at the end makes me laugh. I think Cole was mesmerized by Morrison's movements (and abs  ).
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Jan 15, 2014 14:04
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Bigass Moth posted:If someone like Meltzer, Bryan Alvarez or Bill Apter shows up at a WWE event are the wrestlers supposed to act like they don't know them or is it all ok? Meltzer & Alvarez were at the WWE Network announcement and interviewed a few guys. Cena said something like "We don't get to talk very often, so do you have any questions?" to Meltzer, which to me sounds like he acknowledges he knows him. Austin popped huge when he saw Dave, but he's Stone Cold and he can do whatever he wants.
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Jan 15, 2014 15:41
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triplexpac posted:Austin popped huge when he saw Dave, but he's Stone Cold and he can do whatever he wants. I know this is a wrestling thread, but when your kids open presents on Christmas morning, do they 'pop' when they unwrap that new PS4?
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Jan 15, 2014 15:47
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Red posted:I know this is a wrestling thread, but when your kids open presents on Christmas morning, do they 'pop' when they unwrap that new PS4? Do you get upset every time someone uses commonly understood slang to get a point across quickly?
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Austin was visibly excited (in a positive way) when he saw Dave Meltzer.
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Maybe I've missed something recently but why do they never do the "face is forced to tag with rival heel against other heel tag team" thing like they used to? I swear that was used on every show I watched as a kid.
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:Maybe I've missed something recently but why do they never do the "face is forced to tag with rival heel against other heel tag team" thing like they used to? I swear that was used on every show I watched as a kid. I remember it as far back as... 2008? 2009? It's sort of migrated into "Make two opponents team together"
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They did it last Wrestlemania with Sheamus/Orton/Show vs. The Shield
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triplexpac posted:Do you get upset every time someone uses commonly understood slang to get a point across quickly? I just think it's funny when people use wrestling slang in non-wrestling situations. "Batista has a lot of heat at the local Gold's Gym for not wiping down machines when he's done." "John Cena went on David Letterman and put over Fruity Pebbles cereal huge. Cena is said to be campaigning for the cereal to be pushed on TV more often."
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I don't see a problem with people using wrestling terms when describing things that are related to wrestling. Austin is a wrestler. Dave Meltzer is a wrestling journalist. it's fine. also, referring to your second example there, pushing isn't strictly a wrestling term. marketers push products.
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Cardboard Box posted:I don't see a problem with people using wrestling terms when describing things that are related to wrestling. Austin is a wrestler. Dave Meltzer is a wrestling journalist. it's fine. Me neither - it's just funny to read. quote:also, referring to your second example there, pushing isn't strictly a wrestling term. marketers push products. Yeah, but in comparison to a wrestler, "pushing" cereal on Raw is funnier. Although, I was thinking more of the words 'put over' as the focus of that example.
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Jan 15, 2014 18:12
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Why and how Linda McMahon lose her Senate races?
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Abrasive Obelisk posted:Why and how Linda McMahon lose her Senate races? Republican campaigning in a state that's generally voted Democratic in recent years for starters. Conneticut was once solidly Republican on the national level but the last Republican to take the state in a Presidential election was Bush 41 in 1988. Running against a popular AG the first time and the McMahon name/WWE reputation didn't exactly help. Thauros fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Jan 15, 2014 |
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Thauros posted:Running against a popular AG the first time and the McMahon name/WWE reputation didn't exactly help. I like how they left McMahon off lots of stuff so it just said "Vote Linda."
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It also led to that giant Vince Face right after it was announced she lost.
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It was also easy to refute a lot of her bullshit considering she and her family have been on television for the last thirty years. For instance, after Lance Cade ODed, she claimed she had never met him and then footage came out of the two of them on screen together at some point years ago. Then when Chris Nowinski spoke out about how they were "kicking dirt on the guy's grave" Linda remarked that Nowinski and Cade were total strangers who had never met, so Lance never would have confided in him. Even though they were tag partners for a year and worked together for five years.
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Abrasive Obelisk posted:Why and how Linda McMahon lose her Senate races? Her campaign was pretty consistent with the research showing that there's a certainly threshold below which political unknowns can't compete no matter how much they spend, and there's a point of diminishing returns beyond which spending more money doesn't make much difference. Her stances were also fairly insipid Republican bullshit: Low taxes good, government spending bad, deficit bad, low taxes for rich people magically creates jobs, etc. As far as her involvement in wrestling goes, there were two specific things that hurt her. The first was a 1989 memo to Pat Patterson concerning a steroid scandal, in which she told him to fire on-call doctor George Zahorian and warn him that the feds might be after him. The second was Lance Cade's death; when reporters asked her about it, she replied that she didn't know him, compared him to Heath Ledger, and said that addiction problems were nobody's fault, certainly not the WWE's. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jan 15, 2014 |
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Let me just say that those two elections were a terrible time to live in Connecticut and be a wrestling fan. (HEY KARMINE UR VOTING 4 LINDA RITE? ugh) On a related note I sincerely think that Linda lost a lot of voters with just how much advertising she was putting out. I forget the exact numbers (Meltzer once said between the two campaigns she spent about $100 per registered voter in the state), but at the time it was really, REALLY clear that she was willing to spend money to pester voters.
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The campaigns were worth every penny because they produced the greatest picture of Vince ever.
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All that campaign spending was worth it for the Stephanie McMahon dream sequence. If you weren't watching at the time, this really needs to be seen to be believed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6DiN0UNuvc Still have to remind myself that this was an actual thing that aired on an actual WWE TV broadcast. Oh Vince.
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They also could gave destroyed her even more if they showed certain clips - Steph talking about 9/11
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bobkatt013 posted:They also could gave destroyed her even more if they showed certain clips - Steph talking about 9/11 WWE and their attorneys went on a rampage between 2010 and 2012 demanding that YouTube, DailyMotion and any other video sites take down any clips they specified. They targeted the more brutal matches from the previous fifteen years, all the raunchy stuff like the "live sex celebration" and anything that could be used against her like that very same Stephanie 9/11 speech. Her opponents in the primaries, the elections and the press all noted this when they were trying to find footage to back up some of their stories and assertions.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:WWE and their attorneys went on a rampage between 2010 and 2012 demanding that YouTube, DailyMotion and any other video sites take down any clips they specified. They targeted the more brutal matches from the previous fifteen years, all the raunchy stuff like the "live sex celebration" and anything that could be used against her like that very same Stephanie 9/11 speech. Her opponents in the primaries, the elections and the press all noted this when they were trying to find footage to back up some of their stories and assertions. Yet I can confirm that they left a smackdown up after the London Bombing with the attack on Undertaker and the Mexicools.
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bobkatt013 posted:Yet I can confirm that they left a smackdown up after the London Bombing with the attack on Undertaker and the Mexicools. Well, of course they couldn't get everything, but they sure as poo poo tried pretty drat hard.
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Also wasn't the whole "Stand up for the WWE" ads basically just "vote for Linda" ads and kind of illegal in a sense?
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Minidust posted:All that campaign spending was worth it for the Stephanie McMahon dream sequence. If you weren't watching at the time, this really needs to be seen to be believed: Even though it's dumb as hell. I like this. Also because it has what PSP surely believed was Vince's reaction to Daniel Bryan having success in the post summerslam shows.
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achillesforever6 posted:Also wasn't the whole "Stand up for the WWE" ads basically just "vote for Linda" ads and kind of illegal in a sense? Yeah, basically. Well it was less "vote for Linda" and more "don't let those media bullies talk badly about your precious WWE!"
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Halloween Jack posted:Linda McMahon was a political outsider, she was a Republican going after Senate seats which have been Democratic for a long time, and she was up against experienced politicians. Her involvement with WWE hurt her, but that's a double-edged sword; she would never have gotten far without WWE millions. Her Republican opponents accused her of "buying" the nomination by spending $21 million to their <$3 million apiece. I wonder if she would've done better in North Carolina? She sounds like a southerner, was born in NC (both Vince and Linda grew up in my hometown of Havelock!), and has a lot of roots to Carolina. And that state leans a lot more to the right.
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