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Dammit people, the puppets part of Vince's song has nothing to do with the previous line. It's "PUPPETS! Will find their place in line..."
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They're saying "Muppets". The whole song is about Miz.
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THE GAYEST APPAREL posted:They're saying "Muppets". The whole song is about Miz. Miz? It's about Puppet H. Everything is about Triple H.
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Are there any 'forgotten' gimmick match types? Stuff that sounded like a good idea at the time, but afterwards, everyone else who watched agreed that they are never doing that again.
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Unlucky7 posted:Are there any 'forgotten' gimmick match types? Stuff that sounded like a good idea at the time, but afterwards, everyone else who watched agreed that they are never doing that again. The odds are pretty high that we'll never see another Punjabi Prison match.
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Unlucky7 posted:Are there any 'forgotten' gimmick match types? Stuff that sounded like a good idea at the time, but afterwards, everyone else who watched agreed that they are never doing that again. Reverse Battle Royal?
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Unlucky7 posted:Are there any 'forgotten' gimmick match types? Stuff that sounded like a good idea at the time, but afterwards, everyone else who watched agreed that they are never doing that again. Funny you should ask: http://www.wwe.com/videos/wwe-rankd-extremely-bad-gimmick-matches-26114659 Also a good amount of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_match_types Where does the term "Catch as Catch Can" come from? I know what it means, I just don't get the phrase itself. Catch as catch can what?
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sticklefifer posted:Where does the term "Catch as Catch Can" come from? I know what it means, I just don't get the phrase itself. Catch as catch can what? It's probably a really old British/Irish colloquialism. I'm guessing it may have once been catch as can catch but over time it became catch as catch can. English is weird.
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Unlucky7 posted:Are there any 'forgotten' gimmick match types? Stuff that sounded like a good idea at the time, but afterwards, everyone else who watched agreed that they are never doing that again. - Mike Adamle's Championship Scramble. - Undertaker did a bunch of Bodybag Matches against Ultimate Warrior at house shows, a couple years before they realized that caskets would work better. - Bret Hart lost the title to Bob Backlund in a Towel Match, which they've thankfully never done again because it's theoretically impossible for the face to win. - Randy Savage and Crush had a variation of a Falls Count Anywhere Match where you had to pin the guy outside the ring and then he had ten seconds to make it back into the ring.
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Gavok posted:- Bret Hart lost the title to Bob Backlund in a Towel Match, which they've thankfully never done again because it's theoretically impossible for the face to win. I believe you, but why is it impossible for the face to win?
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Unlucky7 posted:Are there any 'forgotten' gimmick match types? Stuff that sounded like a good idea at the time, but afterwards, everyone else who watched agreed that they are never doing that again. Do they still do hair matches? Or has the fading away of the mullet made it no longer viable?
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Shima Honnou posted:Do they still do hair matches? Or has the fading away of the mullet made it no longer viable? Hair matches are still huge in Mexico.
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Swagger Dagger posted:I believe you, but why is it impossible for the face to win? Slightly exaggerated to say literally impossible, but is very in heel's favor. Face's cornerman is more likely to care about him and throw in the towel, than the heel's cornerman cares about him. jscolon2.0 fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jan 25, 2014 |
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jscolon2.0 posted:Slightly exagerrated to say literally impossible, but is very in heel's favor. Face's cornerman is more likely to care about him and throw in the towerl, than the heel's cornerman cares about him. A heel is also more likely to give in and beg for the towel to be thrown in.
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Unlucky7 posted:Are there any 'forgotten' gimmick match types? Stuff that sounded like a good idea at the time, but afterwards, everyone else who watched agreed that they are never doing that again. The monster truck sumo match? 
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jscolon2.0 posted:Slightly exaggerated to say literally impossible, but is very in heel's favor. Face's cornerman is more likely to care about him and throw in the towel, than the heel's cornerman cares about him. Right. It was Owen Hart in Bob Backlund's corner and I kept wondering why he would ever throw the towel in, since they were both heels and it was never established that they were close or anything.
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Unlucky7 posted:Are there any 'forgotten' gimmick match types? Stuff that sounded like a good idea at the time, but afterwards, everyone else who watched agreed that they are never doing that again. Battlebowl
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sticklefifer posted:Funny you should ask: http://www.wwe.com/videos/wwe-rankd-extremely-bad-gimmick-matches-26114659 That video doesn't really hold. Santina/Vickie was a hog pen match, wasn't it? And I'm certain somebody had a tuxedo match with Ricardo a couple years back.
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As someone who hasn't had access to the SAP audio for RAW for a while, about how much leeway did/does the current Spanish announce team have when talking about current angles or calling a match? I always used to laugh when they'd called Mason Ryan "Batista II" and was pretty amazed that they scooped the official English language WWE team by calling Reigns, Rollins & Ambrose "THe SHeild" about a week before they official used that name.
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Gavok posted:Right. It was Owen Hart in Bob Backlund's corner and I kept wondering why he would ever throw the towel in, since they were both heels and it was never established that they were close or anything. Outside of that particular one, heels can be friends though. A Brock/Heyman Towel match could probably be pretty good. All hail the Brock Lock.
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SirDippingSauce posted:As someone who hasn't had access to the SAP audio for RAW for a while, about how much leeway did/does the current Spanish announce team have when talking about current angles or calling a match? I always used to laugh when they'd called Mason Ryan "Batista II" This is the best thing ever and I kinda want to find a way to have subtitled Spanish commentary now.
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Unlucky7 posted:Are there any 'forgotten' gimmick match types? Stuff that sounded like a good idea at the time, but afterwards, everyone else who watched agreed that they are never doing that again. sticklefifer posted:Where does the term "Catch as Catch Can" come from? I know what it means, I just don't get the phrase itself. Catch as catch can what?
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Can't see an actual "set your opponent on fire" Inferno match ever being held again.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Dammit people, the puppets part of Vince's song has nothing to do with the previous line. It's "PUPPETS! Will find their place in line..."
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Thauros posted:Can't see an actual "set your opponent on fire" Inferno match ever being held again. Besides gimmick matches that were done once and never again (I'm not holding my breath for another King of the Road match) one thing you don't really see any more are 60-minute broadways. They were slow and boring even when wrestling was slower than it is now, and you could usually figure out in the first 10 minutes when a match was going to be an hour-long broadway.
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Has anyone heard of a westler named The Great Schmenge?
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I vaguely remember reading something years ago about an exploding glass cage death match?
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I haven't seen an Empty Arena match in a long time, and those were pretty common in the old days.
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Halloween Jack posted:Outside something like CZW, yeah. Not 60 minute, but NJPW did two 30 minute broadway main event matches last year. Okada and Tanahashi had a widely predicted one during the G1, as well as a Nakamura/Okada vs Tanahashi/Naito (four Dome main eventers) tag match on the last big house show before the Dome. Both were rather well received by the crowd and got ****+ from Big Dave. omgomgomg posted:I haven't seen an Empty Arena match in a long time, and those were pretty common in the old days. Just watch TNA or AJPW  .
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Luigi Thirty posted:I vaguely remember reading something years ago about an exploding glass cage death match? I believe FMW once planned that for a match involving Onita sometime in the mid-90s, but people realised that having a glass cage, rigged with explosives, might just be bit too dangerous even for FMW and cancelled the idea.
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What was the reason for eliminating the King of the Ring PPV? Was it buyrates? Surely King of the Ring would bring in more viewers than Over The Limit or Battleground or whatever.
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Astro7x posted:What was the reason for eliminating the King of the Ring PPV? Was it buyrates? Surely King of the Ring would bring in more viewers than Over The Limit or Battleground or whatever. It was a lame gimmick that rarely did anything for the guy who won it, and WWE hates tournaments anyway.
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Astro7x posted:What was the reason for eliminating the King of the Ring PPV? Was it buyrates? Surely King of the Ring would bring in more viewers than Over The Limit or Battleground or whatever. It did really poorly on PPV because fans didn't see it as important and hate paying for unknown matches. Same reason Cyber Sunday was such a failure. KOTR couldn't even bring in ratings for the special 3 hour Raws it was on.
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Was it just me or was King of the Ring similar to the Rumble in that it guaranteed a title shot, but at Summerslam instead of Mania? I know Brock won it in 2002 and they storyline-d it into making him the #1 contender for the title, but I can't remember if that was just an in-general #1 contender or if it was specifically to get a title shot at Summerslam.
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It's more like it was a gimmick that couldn't do anything for a guy who was already poo poo (like Billy Gunn), but could do plenty for a guy who could run with it. Bret, Owen, Stone Cold, they were all way better off after they won it than they were going in. Regal probably would have been too if he hadn't been Wellnessed like five minutes later.
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Memento posted:Was it just me or was King of the Ring similar to the Rumble in that it guaranteed a title shot, but at Summerslam instead of Mania? I know Brock won it in 2002 and they storyline-d it into making him the #1 contender for the title, but I can't remember if that was just an in-general #1 contender or if it was specifically to get a title shot at Summerslam. That only happened a couple of times. Brock, Mabel..any others?
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