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Halloween Jack posted:The Red Rooster? Is that supposed to be funny? Is that supposed to be...Hugh Morrus?
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Basic Chunnel posted:his history with Benoit is pretty interesting. I'd like to see those matches again, I hear they were brutal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQIXQpbjic&t=4155s 1:09:15 if it doesn't jump
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They had that one funny chess themed promo where Benoit was in front of a board, going on about his bishop taking Kevin's queen. Then they go to Sullivan in front of a board, Sullivan kicks the board over and says he isn't going to play chess, he's going to go beat the hell out of Benoit.
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Best part about that last Nitro we watched with the creepy Benoit/Nancy home video was that Sullivan was super-pissed off and you'd expect anybody on the planet to be terrified of getting in the ring with him afterwards... and then his opponent turns out to be Arn Anderson who doesn't give a single gently caress and proceeds to beat the poo poo out of Sullivan and put a beating on his buddies trying to help Sullivan too 
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The most recent OSWReview makes me realize how much of a nonentity Dave Penzer was as an announcer. In the right situations, a good ring announcer can be an important part of setting the mood for a big money match. Penzer, on the other hand, announced everyone as "HUUUUUUUUUUU huuuuuuuuuuu", faintly in the background as the commentators discussed the nWo. I didn't even remember his name until they brought it up, all my memories of WCW's ring announcing revolved around Michael Buffer.
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Solomonic posted:Penzer, on the other hand, announced everyone as "HUUUUUUUUUUU huuuuuuuuuuu", faintly in the background as the commentators discussed the nWo. I always figured this was a part of the general sound-mixing problem that WCW seemed to have, which made wrestlers talking to the camera on the way to the ring so difficult to pick up as well. I absolutely can hear the "HUUUUUUUUUUU huuuuuuuuuuu" in my head as well, it always irritated me how inaudible the ring announcer was.
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He was fine in TNA. Which reminds me - has anyone here read Gary Michael Capetta's book? If so - any good?
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EugeneJ posted:He was fine in TNA. Yeah, it's pretty good. He talks about driving Abdullah the Butcher around; Abby would sleep in the car all day, then force Gary to barhop with him all night so he wouldn't have to shell out for a hotel room.
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EugeneJ posted:He was fine in TNA. If it doesn't take three pages to pronounce NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKITTTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFf's name, it's a waste of time.
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Jerusalem posted:I always figured this was a part of the general sound-mixing problem that WCW seemed to have, which made wrestlers talking to the camera on the way to the ring so difficult to pick up as well. I absolutely can hear the "HUUUUUUUUUUU huuuuuuuuuuu" in my head as well, it always irritated me how inaudible the ring announcer was. Is there a video that shows this HUUU huuu thing? Sounds funny.
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triplexpac posted:Is there a video that shows this HUUU huuu thing? Sounds funny. They discuss it on the most recent OSW Review episode, where they provide a few examples.
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Tonight at 8 PM, WCW presents: THE MATCH OF THE CENTURY! THE BATTLE OF THE ICONS! WCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan vs "THE ICON" "Rowdy" Roddy Piper! For all of the backstory to this match, WCW aired this video to explain things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa1Q6xpoM8c In the semi main event, our favorite wrestler faces his biggest threat... "THE TOTAL PACKAGE" Lex Luger vs "THE" Giant For the WCW Tag Team titles... Champions, THE OUTSIDERS face THE FACES OF FEAR, MENG AND THE BARBARIAN! FOR NINE BELTS!!! WCW Cruiserweight Champion Dean Malenko vs J-Crown Champion THE ULTIMATE DRAGON For no belts!!! JUSHIN "Thunder" LIGER vs REY MYSTERIO JUNIOR For the US BELT! DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE vs EDDY GUERRERO! As part of a creepy storyline: JEFF JARRETT VS CHRIS BENOIT! For some reason... 8 PM TUESDAY NIGHT http://www.psp-tv.com/r/BadMoviesWorseWrestling Naitch did some digging, so when you tune in there will be a boatload of new FABULOUS ONES VIDEOS! Also a rerun of the greatest match of all time, ICE TRAIN VS JERRY FLYNN Akira Hokuto vs Madusa
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God help me, I am genuinely intrigued by the Hogan/Piper match, though not for optimistic reasons. I don't think I've ever actually seen the match.
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Jerusalem posted:God help me, I am genuinely intrigued by the Hogan/Piper match, though not for optimistic reasons. I don't think I've ever actually seen the match. I'm not sure if I have either. I have no memories of it, but I think it was on a tape a friend put together of some of the worst wrestling ever.
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Jerusalem posted:God help me, I am genuinely intrigued by the Hogan/Piper match, though not for optimistic reasons. I don't think I've ever actually seen the match. The hosed up part is that it isn't even their worst WCW match.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:The hosed up part is that it isn't even their worst WCW match. If we're counting tags it might not even be in the bottom 3. TUNE IN TONIGHT EVERYONE!
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EugeneJ posted:He was fine in TNA. It's a fun book with tons of stories about various wrestlers. One of my favorites is about Undertaker and Buzz Sawyer in WCW. Undertaker and Capetta are driving to the next town and Taker tells him about how he's got a score to settle with one of the boys. Before he was a wrestler, Undertaker borrowed a couple thousand dollars from his brother so he could get trained by Buzz Sawyer, but Buzz skipped town stealing everyone's money. Bodyslams posted:"I had to go to my brother and tell him that I lost his money. But I made two promises. One to him and one to myself. I promised him that I'd do whatever it took to pay him back. But it was going to take time. There wasn't much I could do to make that kind of money fast. It took me almost a year, bouncing at a local bar, to get enough cash together to make things right with my brother." "What was the other promise?" Capetta goes on to say that if Undertaker did anything that would get him fired because Buzz's friend Ole Anderson was the booker. Buzz went on to pass away from a drug overdose in 1992.
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Bodyslams is a great read because GMC comes off as such a weirdly normal dude. Half of his road stories are about how wrestlers who traveled with him had to come on his many shopping trips to buy presents for his family. He's one of the few people who got close to both management and talent, but isn't a super sleazy guy so there isn't much dirt. It's mostly interesting stories about his interactions with people in a very interesting time for wrestling.
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Starrcade 96 is the only WCW PPV I ever bought, and I regret it to this day. This was long past the days where I could beg my mom to order wrestling and negotiate that it would be part of my birthday or Christmas present. I had to hand her cash, and despite Dean/Dragon and Rey/Liger, I was pissed and never ordered another WCW PPV again.
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MassRafTer posted:Bodyslams is a great read because GMC comes off as such a weirdly normal dude. Half of his road stories are about how wrestlers who traveled with him had to come on his many shopping trips to buy presents for his family. He's one of the few people who got close to both management and talent, but isn't a super sleazy guy so there isn't much dirt. It's mostly interesting stories about his interactions with people in a very interesting time for wrestling. Supposedly Harvey Wippleman's book is more of the same, I wanna read it. What makes it interesting is that Harv traveled with Sid a lot, and being a nut wasn't just a gimmick for Sid.
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The ending of the actual Hogan/Piper match at Starrcade 96 was one of the more surreal things I've seen in wrestling, and I once watched Vince McMahon get unsettled by the appearance of his more innocent on-screen persona from the 1980s in a mirror.
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Jerusalem posted:I once watched Vince McMahon get unsettled by the appearance of his more innocent on-screen persona from the 1980s in a mirror. Wait what? Explain!
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Perfidus posted:Wait what? Explain!
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Did he start talking to it, and everyone else in the room insisted it wasn't there, and then the reflection disappeared and he kept talking to it so we didn't know whether he was crazy or what?
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Many people didn't pay it much mind, despite the internet making GBS threads itself at Warrior in the mirror, so I don't know how easy it's going to be to find. Edit: Much like the time Kane had a fantasy sequence. On live television.
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Just watched Sting and Flair vs Muta and Funk in the Thunderdome from Havoc 89. What a terribly booked match. How on earth can you make a tag team cage match follow tag rules. And the entire time Funk and Muta were basically double teaming one of them in the ring while the other stood on the apron and watched. I get that Flair and sting were supposed to be faces, but it's not like it would have been out of character for Flair to break the rules even if he was a face in a match that's basically no DQ. Also towards the end Muta forgot the cage was electrified. Did Ole book this match?
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The Starrcade finish was even worse than I imagined. Looks like I never watched it before because I imagined it would be a major plot point in the post match that it was a big screwjob from Bischoff that the match was non-title. Instead it is just a non-title match and we are left to hate WCW.
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MassRafTer posted:The Starrcade finish was even worse than I imagined. Looks like I never watched it before because I imagined it would be a major plot point in the post match that it was a big screwjob from Bischoff that the match was non-title. Instead it is just a non-title match and we are left to hate WCW. Wasn't it Piper that came up with the contract for the match in the first place? That makes it even worse.
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So much gold in the classic observer this week. Popular band "Wheezer" ("Something about Grunge doing a leg drop through a table on New Jack?") being my favorite.
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MassRafTer posted:The Starrcade finish was even worse than I imagined. Looks like I never watched it before because I imagined it would be a major plot point in the post match that it was a big screwjob from Bischoff that the match was non-title. Instead it is just a non-title match and we are left to hate WCW. The match wasn't that bad for two old dudes workin a crowd, either. A real shame. But yeah that finish was WCW taking a biiiiiiigggg dump on their moneybase. Partially explains why Souled Out did so poorly(aside from being outright terrible). They could have done Piper wins title but the screw job was he was gonna have to defend against Giant, Nash and Hall on the Nitros leading up to Souled Out and then rematch against Hogan on the PPV. Hogan wins and then they gently caress off to the next contender. coconono fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Dec 11, 2013 |
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LordPants posted:So much gold in the classic observer this week. Popular band "Wheezer" ("Something about Grunge doing a leg drop through a table on New Jack?") being my favorite. #Watching Grunge leg drop New Jack through a press table#
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MassRafTer posted:The Starrcade finish was even worse than I imagined. Looks like I never watched it before because I imagined it would be a major plot point in the post match that it was a big screwjob from Bischoff that the match was non-title. Instead it is just a non-title match and we are left to hate WCW.
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Cromulent posted:Starrcade 96 is the only WCW PPV I ever bought, and I regret it to this day. This was long past the days where I could beg my mom to order wrestling and negotiate that it would be part of my birthday or Christmas present. I had to hand her cash, and despite Dean/Dragon and Rey/Liger, I was pissed and never ordered another WCW PPV again. I went through this exact scenario except a year later I relented and went in with my brother to get Starrcade '97. Fool me once . . . etc. Our dad even called us a couple of dummies for wasting our money. Tokelau All Star fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Dec 11, 2013 |
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Was there a cage match in WCW pre-1994 with a jungle motif? I swear before I got into wrestling, I remember some wrestler (Sting?) swinging from a fake vine that was suspended from the top of a steel cage. It must have been during a tv commercial.
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EugeneJ posted:Was there a cage match in WCW pre-1994 with a jungle motif? I don't remember that, but I do remember a commercial with Sting and clips of him wrestling, and the ad ends with him putting his feet up on an office desk: "Just another day at the office." Seems corny, but at least it was something. Red fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Dec 11, 2013 |
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Best Sting commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j65DpagyhI edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKFMYYFG48w I also forgot, they had these big foam fingers that kids could buy at events to wave around to support their favourite wrestler. Notice anything about them? That's right, even for wrestlers like Sting, they were entirely yellow and red in an attempt to make it look like people gave a poo poo about the Hulkster. pathetic little tramp fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Dec 11, 2013 |
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pathetic little tramp posted:Best Sting commercial I love how the subtext in this commercial suggests this is a terminally ill child.
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Chris Gaines posted:IIRC they didn't even bother telling us it was non-title until the match was over. They didn't even really tell us it was non-title when the match was over, they more just acted like we knew all along. The belt is never in the ring, Piper just leaves and Hogan orders Vincent to bring the belt out while sort of saying it was non-title so it doesn't matter. It was more like they were trying to act like the fans knew the whole time they were buying a non-title match while WCW had done everything they could to hide the fact it would be non-title.
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