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DeathChicken posted:La Parka had his awesome fat guy corkscrew. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO-HfHdGLfg
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sticklefifer posted:Has there ever been a stable comprised entirely of high-flyers? Most stables seem pretty well balanced. I want to say Filthy Animals, but Konnan and Disco weren't really flying dudes. I guess the Mexicools would count too, even though they were more ground-based by the time they all got to WWE. Special K in RoH was exclusively bad indie highflyer spot monkeys
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Mick's "Carnies/Racists/Perverts" entry should basically be "Wrote The Hardcore Diaries." I had only that book to keep me company on a three-day train ride and it still pisses me off how bad it was. Hardcore Diaries was a horrible, garbage book. Countdown to Lockdown was better, but maybe it's just because I had my sights set so low after that HD crap.
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What makes Hardcore Diaries so especially bad? Like, I rarely hear ill spoken of Foley and his writing around here but when Diaries comes up no one has anything good to say about it.
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oatgan posted:Special K in RoH was exclusively bad indie highflyer spot monkeys Brian XL and Abyss were in Special K at various times.
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Require More Fire posted:What makes Hardcore Diaries so especially bad? Like, I rarely hear ill spoken of Foley and his writing around here but when Diaries comes up no one has anything good to say about it.
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MassRafTer posted:Brian XL and Abyss were in Special K at various times. Brian XL was a spot monkey. Still, nobody would call Abyss a highflyer.
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Endorph posted:It's 50% him creeping on divas and 25% him rambling incoherently about his 'great' ideas that were actually terrible. To expand a little on the latter part, Foley was really obsessed with the idea of having one last huge top guy run in the 2005-2006 range and spends good chunks of the book having his hopes to "make" John Cena in the same way that he got Triple H and Randy Orton really over get dashed, and things like that. That part of the book is actually an interesting window into both the modern WWE creative process and Foley's desire to have one last big run (which ultimately led him to that sad run in TNA).
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Brian XL was a spot monkey. Still, nobody would call Abyss a highflyer. Maybe I am thinking of Slugga then? They had a big rear end bodyguard at some point.
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MassRafTer posted:Maybe I am thinking of Slugga then? They had a big rear end bodyguard at some point. Slugger was the other big guy with Special K indeed. Plus, Joey Matthews was in Special K as well, and he wasn't really a high flyer either. Heck, during his run with them they even made it a point to have him wrestle like a cheap "Jerry Lawler in Memphis" knockoff while the other Special K members were doing 630 corkscrew backwards rana moonsault planchas onto their own faces.
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The real answer is the greatest stable of all time, The Flying Elvises. God I hate you TNA.
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MassRafTer posted:The real answer is the greatest stable of all time, The Flying Elvises. God I hate you TNA.
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Endorph posted:Early TNA had some amazing gimmicks. Remember those two dudes whose gimmick was that their dicks were gigantic? No, the gimmick was that they were literal giant sentient cocks. The Johnsons.  PSA: If your dick actually looks like either of these guys, please get tested. flashy_mcflash fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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Endorph posted:Early TNA had some amazing gimmicks. Remember those two dudes whose gimmick was that their dicks were gigantic? No, no their gimmick was they were human dicks being humiliated by the least convincing Ivy League dandy ever.
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No, I know those dudes, but there were two other dudes who stuffed tubesocks down their shorts to give the illusion of having a ginormo-sausage.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8H0DJRGNMs wwe also had a team called the dicks although i think they were just meant to be chipendale rip offs. Lance storm had a huge dick gimmick for a week when he was changing gimmicks also about every week. Basically stuff like this is what your parents/friends who hate wrestling walk in on.
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Endorph posted:No, I know those dudes, but there were two other dudes who stuffed tubesocks down their shorts to give the illusion of having a ginormo-sausage. I think one of them was half of The Naturals?
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jeffersonlives posted:To expand a little on the latter part, Foley was really obsessed with the idea of having one last huge top guy run in the 2005-2006 range and spends good chunks of the book having his hopes to "make" John Cena in the same way that he got Triple H and Randy Orton really over get dashed, and things like that. That part of the book is actually an interesting window into both the modern WWE creative process and Foley's desire to have one last big run (which ultimately led him to that sad run in TNA). Wasn't there also something about him believing that having Terry Funk bite Vince's rear end would make Funk / Dreamer / Foley at One Night Stand into the hottest angle WWE had seen in years? (And then him pouting for 20 pages when Vince said, "No, actually, Terry biting me in the rear end is not going to kickstart business.")
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Endorph posted:No, I know those dudes, but there were two other dudes who stuffed tubesocks down their shorts to give the illusion of having a ginormo-sausage. I've been forcing people to watch every TNA Weekly PPV and we're up to the end of 2003 and I don't remember this at all. Maybe the Hot Shots were that team and it got lost in a memory of all of the other horrible poo poo they did.
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Imagine if a Terry Funk rear end biter gimmick created a wrestling boom so great all other forms of entertainment were made obsolete
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MassRafTer posted:I've been forcing people to watch every TNA Weekly PPV and we're up to the end of 2003 and I don't remember this at all. Maybe the Hot Shots were that team and it got lost in a memory of all of the other horrible poo poo they did.
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The Croc posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8H0DJRGNMs The actual titantron was... yea... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoVJdPdJ9Gk (couldn't find a vid of their tron that didn't have the american males theme in it, though)
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Watching the latest OSW Review and WCW's wholesale ripping off of gimmicks is making my head spin. Not even halfway and so far it's the gimmicks ripped off are: Mr. Perfect's Rick Rude's Lex Luger's Ric Flair's It seems that WCW was trying to establish this "passing the torch" motif, but it's just not working. At all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVbAQxhJThY The episode is great, though! I had no idea that WCW was that bad (I'd stopped watching long before any of this). Actually, let me rephrase: I'd heard it was bad. I heard it was horrible. But good god.
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MassRafTer posted:I've been forcing people to watch every TNA Weekly PPV why why would you do this to someone
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sticklefifer posted:why Seemed logical after showing late 95 and early 96 Nitros.
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The WCW Heavyweight Championship belt changed hands 25 times in the year 2000?  Edit: vvv Just got to that part. OSW is summarizing all the changes and I'm stupefied. I'd call it sabotage, but a person couldn't sabotage anything as thoroughly as what was done to WCW. Ghostpilot fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Dec 24, 2013 |
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Ghostpilot posted:The WCW Heavyweight Championship belt changed hands 25 times in the year 2000? Once as a gift.
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Ghostpilot posted:The WCW Heavyweight Championship belt changed hands 25 times in the year 2000? Wasn't there barely over 100 shows in that year? So it would change hands every two weeks?
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Abrasive Obelisk posted:Wasn't there barely over 100 shows in that year? So it would change hands every two weeks? There were multiple instances of the title changing hands twice (or thrice) in the same night. Edit: Oh nice, OSW conveniently made a list on-screen: 1. Jan 16th: Souled Out (Vacated). 2. Jan 16th: Souled Out (Chris Benoit). 3. Jan 17th: Nitro (Vacated). 4. Jan 24th: Nitro (Sid Vicious). 5. Jan 25th: Thunder (Vacated). 6. Jan 25th: Thunder (Kevin Nash). 7. Jan 25th: Thunder (Sid Vicious). Russo leaves WCW. 8. April 10th: Reboot Nitro (Vacated). Russo returns to WCW. 9. April 16th: Spring Stampede (Jeff Jarrett). 10. April 24th: Nitro (DDP). 11. April 25th: Thunder (David Arquette). 12. May 7th: Slamboree (Jeff Jarrett). 13. May 15th: Nitro (Ric Flair). 14. May 22nd: Nitro (Vacated). 15. May 22nd: Nitro (Jeff Jarrett). 16. May 23rd: Thunder (Kevin Nash). 17. May 29th: Nitro (Ric Flair). 18. May 29th: Nitro (Jeff Jarrett). 19. July 9th: Bash at the Beach (Booker T). 20. Aug 28th: Nitro (Kevin Nash). 21. Sept 17th: Fall Brawl (Booker T). 22. Sept 25th: Nitro (Vince Russo). 23. Oct 2nd: Nitro (Vacated). 24. Oct 2nd: Nitro (Booker T). 25. Nov 26th: Mayhem (Scott Steiner). 
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Timby posted:Wasn't there also something about him believing that having Terry Funk bite Vince's rear end would make Funk / Dreamer / Foley at One Night Stand into the hottest angle WWE had seen in years? (And then him pouting for 20 pages when Vince said, "No, actually, Terry biting me in the rear end is not going to kickstart business.") Vince was right but I still want to see that happen someday.
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Mick going on and on about how brilliant it was to make Funk the centerpiece of the Attitude Era in 2005--when Funk could barely walk to the ring--was somehow not the stupidest part of the book.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Mick going on and on about how brilliant it was to make Funk the centerpiece of the Attitude Era in 2005--when Funk could barely walk to the ring--was somehow not the stupidest part of the book. On the other hand, he did admit that the mean-spirited carny dad in Tietam Brown was based on Raven.
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I actually don't think the Terry Funk rear end biting thing was a bad idea for an angle, but I agree that it never would've been the game changer Mick thought it would be.
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Wasn't Vince's justification for poo pooing it not the angle itself, but that Funk was too old and no one would know who he was?
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WeaponX posted:drat, now I want more Mick Foley's terrible ideas. Melina should be heavily involved in main-event storylines.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:What exactly is a "gently caress-finish"? Any finish that isn't a clean pin/submission/KO that's upheld. So, interference in a normal match, ref shenanigans, overturned decisions would all be examples of gently caress finishes. Notable examples: A Dusty Finish is a type of fuckfinish that Dusty Rhodes popularized where it looks like one dude won but then the decision is overturned, leaving ambiguity as to who won and continuing a storyline while "protecting" both parties (sort of)
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