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MassRayPer posted:YETI?????? AND THE YET-TAY!!
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Pneub posted:Hall NEEDS to pull a poster of this screenshot out of a box during a match some time before he dies (while making the face in the portrait).  not quite bored enough to animate this.
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May 21, 2010 20:30
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DJExile posted:AND THE YET-TAY!! Favorite pre-NWO WCW clip. YE-TAY Reading up on the Black Scorpion. gently caress, that was dumb.
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is it just me, or in almost all old WCW clips does it look like there's a thin haze of smoke throughout the arena?
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May 21, 2010 20:54
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Wasn't that pre-NWO? I have no recollection of Hogan wearing black and white prior to joining the New World Order. And now I just reminded myself that that was 15 years ago and I am old. WCW is evil.
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May 21, 2010 20:56
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Lamuella posted:is it just me, or in almost all old WCW clips does it look like there's a thin haze of smoke throughout the arena? There often is. Smoke from all that fancy pyro, and occasionally-inadequate ventilation. You still see the same thing occasionally on WWE, but it's pretty rare these days.
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DannoMack posted:Wasn't that pre-NWO? I have no recollection of Hogan wearing black and white prior to joining the New World Order. And now I just reminded myself that that was 15 years ago and I am old. WCW is evil. The first time Hogan wore black, it was because the Dungeon of Doom and the Giant had turned him over to the Dark Side by shaving his mustache and hurting his immortal body, even causing him to think Sting had turned on him (because Luger already had, even though his gimmick change was just over-enthusiasm rather than a Saturday morning cartoon monster like the others). Then he was the meat in a Giant/Yeti sandwich, the most dignified visual in wrestling I'd ever seen (at the time). Then he ripped off all the black on PPV and there was yellow and red underneath. I find myself dumber now having typed that out. Jesus gently caress.
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May 21, 2010 21:08
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Dario Delfino posted:Mustache superpowers vs. HoF ring superpowers... I honestly can't decide which is worse.
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MrBling posted:I probably need a better hobby... Also, a better language.
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May 21, 2010 21:27
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404GoonNotFound posted:Mustache superpowers vs. HoF ring superpowers... I honestly can't decide which is worse. Congratulations, you just booked the next TNA PPV main event.
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May 21, 2010 21:36
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MrBling posted:I probably need a better hobby... I want your WCW ><
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May 21, 2010 21:58
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I was re-reading The Death Of WCW book recently and its hilarious how similar the situations with the dying days of WCW are and how TNA is currently. Hogan pulling his ratings tricks (Making sure he's in the highest rated segments, blaming ratings on the workhorse midcarders), Russo pulling his excuses and same old bullshit (citing burnout, needing to relocate, blaming everyone and everything but himself), Bischoff being brought in to bail water out of the sinking ship (he was fired from WCW at one point and brought back to try to save it), Ted Turner shoveling money into the company blindly because he was a wrestling mark until he was taken out of power and couldn't bail them out anymore (Which Dixie is currently on step one of), blowing money on talent that won't help ratings, not advertising PPV's at all in advance or even giving a match listing and then complaining about buyrates, hotshotting belts until they mean nothing and no one cares who has them and so many more. The fall of WCW really is nearly exactly where TNA is currently at.
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May 21, 2010 23:05
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There is one major difference. WCW took under 2 years to sink, TNA has been doing this poo poo since 2006.
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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:There is one major difference. WCW took under 2 years to sink, TNA has been doing this poo poo since 2006. </Cassidy>
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DJExile posted:AND THE YET-TAY!!
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I posted:Did anyone in WCW actually know what a Yeti is? The entire Dungeon of Doom seems like a story that someone's 8-year-old kid came up with after looking at their friend's DnD manuals once then applying it to WCW. I can't believe they actually used pretty drat competent wrestlers on that poo poo. I didn't remember Earthquake, Meng, and Beefcake were in on this nonsense.
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I think you know your company sucks when your own talent is telling your audience on live television to switch over to the competition. You've probably all seen it, so there's no point in posting the Scott Steiner Monday Nitro promo where he just completely buries WCW and Ric Flair for like a good 20 minutes.
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joshtothemaxx posted:I didn't remember Earthquake, Meng, and Beefcake were in on this nonsense. They made Earthquake alter his tiger tattoo into a shark. He was Shark Boy's unenthusiastic uncle. He did cut a nice "I'm a man, not a fish" promo once, though.
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EricCrapton posted:I think you know your company sucks when your own talent is telling your audience on live television to switch over to the competition.
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Dario Delfino posted:They made Earthquake alter his tiger tattoo into a shark. He was Shark Boy's unenthusiastic uncle. He did cut a nice "I'm a man, not a fish" promo once, though. I thought he changed his tattoo of his own volition. Though I remember loving that promo.
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TL posted:I thought he changed his tattoo of his own volition. Wiki confirms that. I was going off memory. I've been GISing for a few minutes now, and I can't find any pics of Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker as the Leprechaun. Don't even remember what he looks like. Anyone have a pic or screencap handy? I wanted a visual comparison to Hornswoggle.
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Dario Delfino posted:Wiki confirms that. I was going off memory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1-kbwuOJS0 There isnt really a lot of footage of him, but I found some in the archives.
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LividLiquid posted:I thought he said that people changed the channel whenever they saw Flair, not that people should change the channel to the WWF. Does it really matter? He's a WCW employee pointing out how completely lovely WCW is on live WCW programming.
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May 24, 2010 20:18
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Ironically enough, throughout 1999 and 2000 WCW would traditionally see a ratings spike during Flair segments.
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the more I think about it, the more I decide that WCW is perfectly summed up by the Chris Jericho Action Figure story.
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Lamuella posted:the more I think about it, the more I decide that WCW is perfectly summed up by the Chris Jericho Action Figure story. Mind explaining for the rest of us?
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404GoonNotFound posted:Mind explaining for the rest of us? Chris Jericho's action figures were set so that when they were bought, the receipt would say either "Sting" or "Hogan". They subsequently got the revenue money for the sales. http://wfigs.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=classicwrestling&action=display&thread=102800
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Moose Bigelow posted:Chris Jericho's action figures were set so that when they were bought, the receipt would say either "Sting" or "Hogan". They subsequently got the revenue money for the sales.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Mind explaining for the rest of us? Shortly before Jericho left the company, his fiancee went to a toy store to pick up a Jericho/Malenko action figure set, since it would be Jericho's last WCW action figure. It rang up as a Hogan/Sting set, giving Hogan credit (and residuals) for moving more merchandise. EDIT: gently caress, etc. disaster pastor fucked around with this message at 22:30 on May 24, 2010 |
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Moose Bigelow posted:Chris Jericho's action figures were set so that when they were bought, the receipt would say either "Sting" or "Hogan". They subsequently got the revenue money for the sales. "WCW rigged the polls on their website so that if people voted for Kidman/Rey for example as MOTN the vote would actually go to Hogan/Sid. Hogan used this as evidence that Billy Kidman "couldn't headline a wrestling show at a flea market"." So even the TNA Top 10 poll is a rehash? This. loving. Company 
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At this point I have to believe that someone is behind the scenes in TNA reviewing old dirtsheet stories and tapes from WCW and trying to re-create it as closely as possible.
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Well in Russo's case he doesn't need to review anything because he's only capable of doing the exact same things over and over again on his own.
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Moose Bigelow posted:Chris Jericho's action figures were set so that when they were bought, the receipt would say either "Sting" or "Hogan". They subsequently got the revenue money for the sales. Holy Jesus loving Christ.
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Moose Bigelow posted:Chris Jericho's action figures were set so that when they were bought, the receipt would say either "Sting" or "Hogan". They subsequently got the revenue money for the sales. I read about that. That seems to be the hardest thing for me to believe just because of the lunacy of it. But then again, WCW, so I don't know what to think.
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Moose Bigelow posted:Chris Jericho's action figures were set so that when they were bought, the receipt would say either "Sting" or "Hogan". They subsequently got the revenue money for the sales. How did I never hear about this? HOLY poo poo that is incredible.
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Dylar Addict posted:quote:
Thus proving once more that Terry Funk is the greatest person alive.
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Endorph posted:Thus proving once more that Terry Funk is the greatest person alive. But did the horse stay out of prison? 
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at the age of 55, Funk wrestled a 60 minute time limit draw against that horse, in a match that saw him moonsault off a 16 foot balcony
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