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Luigi Thirty posted:I don't really follow wrestling anymore but I know enough to find Botchamania hilarious. Deathmatch wrestler is less dangerous than it appears, but still plenty dangerous. In the past year's Tournament of Death in CZW, Lucky tHURTeen had his back utterly gashed by a light tube and was just bleeding everywhere - so they bandaged his back up and he wrestled for 10 more minutes. People do get hurt, but you'd expect a lot more serious injuries. Big Japan Pro Wrestling is a fed where the main event is almost always a deathmatch, and they do some talent trading with CZW. The big difference between the two companies, however, is Big Japan has a lot of really loving good wrestlers, while CZW... well, they still have Drake Younger I think.
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Sep 13, 2013 14:01
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I have never cared enough to confirm it. The TV title has a film strip which makes me unreasonably mad.
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Can anyone recommend me some good Goldust matches? A friend of mine recently decided they loved him after seeing him on Raw this week as part of the "best for business" angle and asked me to find some of his old stuff. I was only a kid when he was peaking, so I don't really remember what his high points were.
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Frankenstein Dad posted:Can anyone recommend me some good Goldust matches? A friend of mine recently decided they loved him after seeing him on Raw this week as part of the "best for business" angle and asked me to find some of his old stuff. I was only a kid when he was peaking, so I don't really remember what his high points were. The Wrestlemania 12 match with Piper is a lot of fun.
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Frankenstein Dad posted:Can anyone recommend me some good Goldust matches? A friend of mine recently decided they loved him after seeing him on Raw this week as part of the "best for business" angle and asked me to find some of his old stuff. I was only a kid when he was peaking, so I don't really remember what his high points were. The Blacktop Bully vs Dustin Rhodes in a King of the Road match from Uncensored 95. It is not a good match, but one that needs to be seen to believe
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Goldust's run with Booker T in the early 2000s was amazing. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27z2d_booker-t-meets-goldust-in-supermark_fun
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It's at the tail end of his career, but his series of matches against Sheamus on WWECW were pretty drat good.
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Goldust's match against the Warrior is the 4' 33" of wrestling- he was injured and the entire match is just them walking around the ring for eight minutes.
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Where did the New Jack gimmick of playing his entrance theme during his matches originate from? I've tried to watch some early ECW matches of him, but they always cut the song off. After he went solo, the practice was already in place.
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Frankenstein Dad posted:Can anyone recommend me some good Goldust matches? A friend of mine recently decided they loved him after seeing him on Raw this week as part of the "best for business" angle and asked me to find some of his old stuff. I was only a kid when he was peaking, so I don't really remember what his high points were. Both of his matches with Sheamus from ECW/Superstars. Good psychology, good finishes, good brawling. His time in WWE'S ECW in general seemed to light a fire under his rear end, he worked really hard and seemed to enjoy working with the younger talent. Also, Black Gold (his team with Booker T) regularly was the highlight of RAW and PPV's when they were together. In particular, the match where they they faced the un-Americans for the tag team championships at Summerslam was quite good. The match where he beats Razor for his first IC title is good too, very psychology heavy (if I'm remembering the right match, I might be thinking of the rematch). When I stop and think about it, them being a team, with one feeling he's the weak link and them agreeing to go their separate ways but not turning on another, while the better worker of the two chases the world title is sorta similar to Team Hell No. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Sep 13, 2013 |
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Jake Soo posted:Where did the New Jack gimmick of playing his entrance theme during his matches originate from? I've tried to watch some early ECW matches of him, but they always cut the song off. After he went solo, the practice was already in place. I know there were some Gangstas matches in ECW where the song played until it was over, so it's probably something they just decided to start doing one day.
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What happened to the wrestling book thread? I could have sworn there was one. I wanna talk about Hardcore Holly's book and I want to see if Jimmy Korderas's book is any good.
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Frankenstein Dad posted:Can anyone recommend me some good Goldust matches? A friend of mine recently decided they loved him after seeing him on Raw this week as part of the "best for business" angle and asked me to find some of his old stuff. I was only a kid when he was peaking, so I don't really remember what his high points were. I liked the Undertaker/Goldust casket match back in the day. I'll have to watch it again, but I remember loving the finish.
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AmbassadorFriendly posted:What happened to the wrestling book thread? I could have sworn there was one. I wanna talk about Hardcore Holly's book and I want to see if Jimmy Korderas's book is any good. It's been archived. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2758664
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John Cena posted:They have TV? They had a show on public access back in the day, don't know if they still do
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Tarodia posted:They had a show on public access back in the day, don't know if they still do wasn't it called Fake You! TV? what a dumb name
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Tato posted:It's at the tail end of his career, but his series of matches against Sheamus on WWECW were pretty drat good. I think it goes without saying that if somebody was in the ECW revival, they probably had surprisingly good and enjoyable matches/feuds.
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WWECW was basically proto-NXT-plus-Christian after all the ECW originals left, so it's not all that surprising.
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AmbassadorFriendly posted:What happened to the wrestling book thread? I could have sworn there was one. I wanna talk about Hardcore Holly's book and I want to see if Jimmy Korderas's book is any good. I'm actually planning on making a book thread next week sometime, if my schedule allows it.
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Has there ever been a Fencer gimmick in pro wrest.? I am pretty sure WWE never had one at least I would cheer for a fencer who has decided to branch out and become the heavyweight professional wrestling champion of the world.
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Supreme Allah posted:Has there ever been a Fencer gimmick in pro wrest.? I am pretty sure WWE never had one at least There was Cryme Tyme.
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Supreme Allah posted:Has there ever been a Fencer gimmick in pro wrest.? I am pretty sure WWE never had one at least The closest approximation I can think of is the British version of Kendo Nagasaki.
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I'm watching a old Vader VS Cactus Jack match from WCW Saturday Night in 1993 Did Tony Schiavone call WCW Saturday night by himself or did the WWE edit out who ever was calling with him? Sidenote, I forgot how much Schiavone sucked.
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BigRed0427 posted:I'm watching a old Vader VS Cactus Jack match from WCW Saturday Night in 1993 He was probably calling it with Ventura, they cut Ventura out of commentary whenever they can.
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MassRafTer posted:There was Cryme Tyme. Masterful.
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MassRafTer posted:He was probably calling it with Ventura, they cut Ventura out of commentary whenever they can. That's interesting. Why do they do this?
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What can you guys tell me about the Shockmaster? Who thought it was a good idea to put a guy in a bedazzled Stormtrooper mask?
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Perfidus posted:That's interesting. Why do they do this? I think the WWE has to pay royalties to him every time they use something with him in it? I forget why though.
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BigRed0427 posted:I think the WWE has to pay royalties to him every time they use something with him in it? I forget why though. Ventura sued them and won.
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Smoking Crow posted:What can you guys tell me about the Shockmaster? Who thought it was a good idea to put a guy in a bedazzled Stormtrooper mask? I wonder this as well, because even if he DIDN'T trip and fall on his face, I can't possibly think he would've been taken seriously. Especially with that Cookie Monster voice. I want to say it was probably a rib by Kevin Sullivan on Fred Ottman, but given the other WCW gimmicks at the time, it might have actually been Just That Bad.
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Supreme Allah posted:Has there ever been a Fencer gimmick in pro wrest.? I am pretty sure WWE never had one at least Does this count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46duiLNlRI4&t=163s MassRafTer posted:There was Cryme Tyme. Dang.
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sticklefifer posted:I wonder this as well, because even if he DIDN'T trip and fall on his face, I can't possibly think he would've been taken seriously. Especially with that Cookie Monster voice. I'm pretty sure the Shockmaster gimmick was Ole Anderson's brainstorm, and most of Ole's booking assumed that the current year was still 1970, so there you have it.
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Shockmaster almost seems like the type of gimmick Jerry Lawler would have come up with in the 80's to do a quick hotshot of the title with, like Lord Humongous, Bota the Witch Doctor, or Tarras Bulba. Except he was a face, and an even worse worker than those guys.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Shockmaster almost seems like the type of gimmick Jerry Lawler would have come up with in the 80's to do a quick hotshot of the title with, like Lord Humongous, Bota the Witch Doctor, or Tarras Bulba. Except he was a face, and an even worse worker than those guys. I liked the Earthquake Who was behind the La Parka and Psychosis(?) dub over promos in WCW? I loved me some skull daddy, even if La Parka will forever be the chairman of my heart.
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Were there ever any Jakked/Metal matches that could honestly be said to be three stars or higher? I've been reading through the match results for the various shows and it's remarkable how boring I remember the matches being, even as a grade schooler.
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So years ago, during the 'Drunk Hawk' angle, Hawk walks out to ringside in the middle of the match. He stumbles over to the announcers' table, puts on a headset, and says something like "Hey Jerry, remember that time at the Mid-South Coliseum you told me not to sell your piledriver?" on live air. I was always confused as to why they'd say stuff that, at worst, could expose the business, or, at the least, just went over everyone's heads. Q: So did anyone get in trouble for that comment? Q: What were some other inside-reference comments/references that have made it on the air since then? Q: Was this after Vince pretty much admitted the business was all a work?
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Wouldn't this have been right around when Russo was on creative? Because, yeah.
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Red posted:So years ago, during the 'Drunk Hawk' angle, Hawk walks out to ringside in the middle of the match. He stumbles over to the announcers' table, puts on a headset, and says something like "Hey Jerry, remember that time at the Mid-South Coliseum you told me not to sell your piledriver?" on live air. For other inside references on air, look up Kevin Nash doing commentary on Thunder on his last day as booker. He's just blatantly saying stuff like "I don't remember what I booked here." or "When you see a video package of a guy, you know he's going over."
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