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LvK posted:Where's the best place to buy Chikara DVDs? I'm interested in the King of Trios DVDs but 1.) Smart Mark Videos only has the last two and 2.) I can't justify dropping 60 dollars for the full event right now Other than ebay, where most will be lovely pirated copies, Smart Mark is the only place to buy them (and they have a sale on at the moment so you'll save 25% on that $60). Also, they have 2007 and 2008 as well King of Trios 2007: Night One http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/Chikara-DVD-Feb.-16-2007-King-Of-Trios-Night-1-Hellertown-PA/ King of Trios 2007: Night Two http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/Chikara-DVD-Feb.-17-2007-King-Of-Trios-Night-2-Barnesville-PA/ King of Trios 2007: Night Three http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/Chikara-DVD-Feb.-18-2007-King-Of-Trios-Night-3-Philadelphia-PA/ King of Trios 2008: Night One http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/Chikara-DVD-February-29-2008-2008-King-Of-Trios-Night-1-Philadelphia-PA/ King of Trios 2008: Night Two http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/Chikara-DVD-March-1-2008-2008-King-Of-Trios-Night-2-Philadelphia-PA/ King of Trios 2008: Night Three http://www.smartmarkvideo.com/Chikara-DVD-March-2-2008-2008-King-Of-Trios-Night-3-Philadelphia-PA/
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I'm tired of writing and needed a break so I figured I'd count the number of folks I could think of without using Google or Wikipedia who've done a narcissist gimmick. Buddy Rogers, Ric Flair, Bobby Eaton, Chris Masters, Shawn Stasiak, Scotty Riggs, Lex Luger, Buff Bagwell, Jesse Ventura, Billy Graham, Scott Steiner, Cody Rhodes, Rick Rude, and if you'll be generous, Mr. Perfect. So really only 14 with a possible 15th can I name off the top of my head but I think my point still stands. It's been done to death. Despite that, with the right performer it always seems to work. Honorable mention goes to Muhammad Ali as he bit his entire schtick from pro wrestlers reportedly.
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Sep 24, 2010 10:10
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How quickly we forget Rob Conway e: Based on the appearance of the local wrestlers, he thought it would only take six months to make it to the WWE (then WWF); it eventually took him six years. Conway and his family attend East Audubon Baptist Church in Louisville. He also starred in the movie, "Thugin' It the Conway" featuring Val Venis. Web Jew.0 fucked around with this message at 12:45 on Sep 24, 2010 |
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Sep 24, 2010 11:29
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LividLiquid posted:Honorable mention goes to Muhammad Ali as he bit his entire schtick from pro wrestlers reportedly. Not reportedly, it's fact. He always claimed he took his promos from Gorgeous George who he saw do a radio. Later, he worked with Freddie Blassie and realized he was the wrestler he'd seen and said so during the build-up to the Inoki spectacle. Then he went back to claiming he watched Gorgeous George.
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That's loving awesome.
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apsouthern posted:Other than ebay, where most will be lovely pirated copies, Smart Mark is the only place to buy them (and they have a sale on at the moment so you'll save 25% on that $60). Yessss thank you. I couldn't find them for some reason. Now, the question is, if I had to get one King of Trios event, which one should I sink my teeth into?
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withouth question 09 kot, night two. just awesome.
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LividLiquid posted:I'm tired of writing and needed a break so I figured I'd count the number of folks I could think of without using Google or Wikipedia who've done a narcissist gimmick. Val Venis
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Shawn Michaels? Rick Martel? Sylvan Grenier?
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I think we're getting close to simply naming people who worked as heels at some point. So I'll add Earthquake, Viscera, and the Great Khali.
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TL posted:I think we're getting close to simply naming people who worked as heels at some point. So I'll add Earthquake, Viscera, and the Great Khali. Viscera did have that run as the Love Machine, though.
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Rusty Shackelford posted:Viscera did have that run as the Love Machine, though. This may be the only time anyone has ever said Viscera and run in the same sentence.
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Web Jew.0 posted:Also Mark Jindrak and I guess Cody Rhodes is kinda like that now too. 1) imagine perfection 2) imagine a mirror image of it that's what he looks like
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Moose Bigelow posted:This may be the only time anyone has ever said Viscera and run in the same sentence. Does it count if someone said "Viscera" and the "runs" in the same sentence? Cause I'm sure that fat man has eaten some bad spicy food many a time.
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joshtothemaxx posted:Does it count if someone said "Viscera" and the "runs" in the same sentence? Cause I'm sure that fat man has eaten some bad spicy food many a time. I'll allow it.
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LvK posted:Yessss thank you. I couldn't find them for some reason. Now, the question is, if I had to get one King of Trios event, which one should I sink my teeth into? I like 2010's tournament final but 2009 is easily the best year.
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Was the Ultimate Warrior any good in the ring, or did people just like him because of his insane interviews? EDIT: vv That's pretty much what I expected. Oh well, if nothing else he made screaming incoherently at the camera very entertaining. Taffy Torpedo fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Sep 25, 2010 |
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Stanfield posted:Was the Ultimate Warrior any good in the ring, or did people just like him because of his insane interviews? He was awful. Just terrible. But he had an awesome entrance, was huge, and was pushed to the moon so the people pretty much went with it. But no, he was drat lovely in the ring, and the running joke was he'd blow up during his entrance and have nothing left during the match.
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Sep 25, 2010 12:36
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:He was awful. Just terrible. But he had an awesome entrance, was huge, and was pushed to the moon so the people pretty much went with it. His world title reign was awful and did not do well for business as the WWF would have hoped at the time. I guess 15 second matches weren't cutting it for the main event scene? Want an example of how horrible he was? Check out his title defense against Rick Rude at Summerslam. That is the definition of someone being carried through a match.
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Stanfield posted:Was the Ultimate Warrior any good in the ring, or did people just like him because of his insane interviews? The entrance. If you don't mark for his entrance, you have no soul. Now as a worker, he's one of the worst.
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Lamuella posted:broad question asking for a value judgment here: What's currently the best booked promotion in the US? Not necessarily the one with the best in ring talent, but the one that makes the best use of it. Either PWG, ROH or CHIKARA depending on your preferences really. I would say PWG right now although they've had the questionable Joey Ryan push, CHIKARA has the BDK angle some people don't like and ROH had Strong on top.
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Lamuella posted:broad question asking for a value judgment here: What's currently the best booked promotion in the US? Not necessarily the one with the best in ring talent, but the one that makes the best use of it. PWG
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Yeah, most people would probably say PWG right now. Best booked promotion worldwide is obviously DDT.
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Blinkman987 posted:What is the story behind the David Flair Titantron and subsequent parodies? His original titantron was just like 8 looped seconds and was very bad.
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Blinkman987 posted:What is the story behind the David Flair Titantron and subsequent parodies? I believe the infamous David Flair Titantron is from a brief run (like 2-3 weeks) that David Flair had in WWE. People found it hilarious at how simple and silly the video was, especially the shot of Ric who just seemed so... disappointed.
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I always thought the Greg Helms sunglasses Titantron was funnier, especially since the 8 second looping video apparently has a 3 minute song to go with it
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Faxman posted:I always thought the Greg Helms sunglasses Titantron was funnier, especially since the 8 second looping video apparently has a 3 minute song to go with it Is this real, and not a David Flair-esque take off?
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Sep 26, 2010 00:22
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I dunno, Hogan v Warrior at WM VI was, imho, a pretty awesome match.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:Is this real, and not a David Flair-esque take off? All the David Flair ones have the same music, such as this one, an artistic representation of Daniel Bryan's original WWE run.
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Faxman posted:All the David Flair ones have the same music, such as this one, an artistic representation of Daniel Bryan's original WWE run. It just looks like an homage. But I don't know when that tron appeared, so I'll assume the Helms one was legit.
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The Helms tron is legit, but it was only used a couple of times, immediately after the gimmick change from The Hurricane to Gregory Helms. After he wrestled a few matches as Gregory Helms, they edited in more footage of him wrestling as Gregory Helms.
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Shitty_Wok posted:I dunno, Hogan v Warrior at WM VI was, imho, a pretty awesome match. It absolutely was, but about 80% of that was the spectacle and the rest was a mix of dumb luck and actual hard work.
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Graic posted:The Helms tron is legit, but it was only used a couple of times, immediately after the gimmick change from The Hurricane to Gregory Helms. After he wrestled a few matches as Gregory Helms, they edited in more footage of him wrestling as Gregory Helms. He also went straight to Smackdown where he was given a bigger push as the top cruiserweight.
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Karmine posted:It absolutely was, but about 80% of that was the spectacle and the rest was a mix of dumb luck and actual hard work. This. It's just a really good example of epic main event 80's style booking. Warrior also had really good matches against Savage at WM VII and SummerSlam 92, but it was pretty much Savage carrying the entire thing. There's no Warrior match you can watch and say that it was good because of his performance. There's always another reason it was great, and he kind of happened to be there, too.
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Karmine posted:It absolutely was, but about 80% of that was the spectacle and the rest was a mix of dumb luck and actual hard work. Also every single move was scripted and rehearsed .
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CSammich posted:Also every single move was scripted and rehearsed . That too, which is true of the Savage matches as well.
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Faxman posted:All the David Flair ones have the same music, such as this one, an artistic representation of Daniel Bryan's original WWE run. I always preferred the Scott Hall tron David Flair Style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpy-A6tW2kM&feature=related
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