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I remember his voiceovers from WWF Attitude. He had a good evil laugh, at least. Also it's kind of funny to hear Farrooq ramble about the apocalypse.
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The Brood's entrance was loving rad though.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FgN3UEM2P8
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Jul 26, 2014 01:11
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Professor Funk posted:The Brood's entrance was loving rad though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz63YgE6dos
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Outside of the Wrestlemania disaster against Lesnar, how do people generally view Goldberg's WWE run in 2003? I'm going through it right now on the Network, and I honestly think it's not half bad. Goldberg was never the most versatile worker, but the crowd seems like it was really invested in him and he always had that exciting presence. I'm having a good time watching his big PPV matches (I'm at Unforgiven now).
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Jul 26, 2014 02:59
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Professor Funk posted:Outside of the Wrestlemania disaster against Lesnar, how do people generally view Goldberg's WWE run in 2003? I'm going through it right now on the Network, and I honestly think it's not half bad. Goldberg was never the most versatile worker, but the crowd seems like it was really invested in him and he always had that exciting presence. I'm having a good time watching his big PPV matches (I'm at Unforgiven now). The Elimination Chamber match with Goldberg is one of the reasons I hated HHH for a long time. I don't know how much damage it did in the long run but it pissed me off so bad.
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Professor Funk posted:Outside of the Wrestlemania disaster against Lesnar, how do people generally view Goldberg's WWE run in 2003? I'm going through it right now on the Network, and I honestly think it's not half bad. Goldberg was never the most versatile worker, but the crowd seems like it was really invested in him and he always had that exciting presence. I'm having a good time watching his big PPV matches (I'm at Unforgiven now). It was received well-enough at the time. Goldberg comes in, has a few big-money matches then get a World title reign. The missteps were mostly due to it happened right in the middle of HHH's reign of terror so we got crap like him retaining at SummerSlam 2003 and winning the drat thing back two months later after Goldberg was finally given it.
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Jul 26, 2014 03:28
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Sir Jebus posted:The Elimination Chamber match with Goldberg is one of the reasons I hated HHH for a long time. I don't know how much damage it did in the long run but it pissed me off so bad. Going back to the negative mark out moments, that's a good candidate for that. Also a great example of what kind of booking caused the company to fall so far. They couldn't stop cutting their nose to spite their face. Goldberg's run can be boiled down to that one match. They had him around for a bit, had him beat Rock, put him in stupid comedy vignettes, and waited too long to pull the trigger on making him champion even though HHH was injured. He looked like a killer in the match, and you figured they had something. Then they go with the gently caress finish and there was really no going back. After that match, the buzz was gone.
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Jul 26, 2014 04:04
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Rock put him over like a million bucks too. "The Rock ain't never been beaten that fast in his life."
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Jul 26, 2014 07:30
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2002 and 2003 were pretty much peak "Triple H beats a guy The Rock put over to prove some childish point."
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Jul 26, 2014 07:37
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With all of the podcasts, shoots, and Heyman Hustles, has Heyman ever addressed the dumb idea of merging WCW and ECW during the Alliance era?
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Jul 26, 2014 09:24
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Spikeguy posted:If I remember correctly, this was the promo that sent Matt Hardy from the hottest babyface on Raw at the time that everyone was excited for back down to some rear end in a top hat. I consider this the worst single promo in the history of wrestling. Completely serious.
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Jul 26, 2014 16:35
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Bard Maddox posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKzh18yGKo0 I lost it after "Do you like seeing people get hosed for free?"  His face shows the moment. I swear, you can see a reaction being held back after he realizes what he just said.
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Jul 26, 2014 17:01
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King's "oh no, oh no no no" is my favorite.
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I missed the conversation about it, but yeah, Triple H over Booker T might have been the exact moment I flipped from "regular wrestling fan" to "jaded internet wrestling fan." I even LIKED Triple H at the time. But it just made no goddamn sense. It'd be like if this year at Wrestlemania, after all that buildup, the main event ended with Batista powerbomb and pinning Daniel Bryan in the middle of the ring. Then Batista gets a mic and goes "Yeah, I guess you WEREN'T good enough to be champion." and confetti starts raining down.
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Blast Fantasto posted:I missed the conversation about it, but yeah, Triple H over Booker T might have been the exact moment I flipped from "regular wrestling fan" to "jaded internet wrestling fan." You are forgetting the most important part of that feud, the whole racist component.
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Jul 26, 2014 17:42
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I remember CM Punk reenacted this promo on Art of Wrestling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Zn4R4CzsE
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Except Punk wasn't able to turn off enough of his natural charisma to accurately replicate it.
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Blast Fantasto posted:It'd be like if this year at Wrestlemania, after all that buildup, the main event ended with Batista powerbomb and pinning Daniel Bryan in the middle of the ring. That would have been my favorite mark out moment!
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Jul 26, 2014 20:52
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dialhforhero posted:I lost it after "Do you like seeing people get hosed for free?" I just love the really contrived way he puts his fists up and then goes "I'm gonna gently caress him up. I'm gonna gently caress him up." Also that the level of his voice doesn't change once.
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Jul 26, 2014 21:00
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I sort of remember someone talking about why Ziggler doesn't really get pushed. What was it that happened again? I love the Zigster 
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HogX posted:I sort of remember someone talking about why Ziggler doesn't really get pushed. What was it that happened again? I love the Zigster He's seen as injury-prone and it makes creative nervous.
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Also never underestimate WWE's spite for a guy getting over with the crowd when they didn't specifically want him to get over.
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Spikeguy posted:If I remember correctly, this was the promo that sent Matt Hardy from the hottest babyface on Raw at the time that everyone was excited for back down to some rear end in a top hat. Wow. Not only was that really poorly performed, but the way he talked about Edge's death sounded really creepy to me, he didn't sound like a babyface at all.
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bartok posted:You are forgetting the most important part of that feud, the whole racist component. also 
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Jul 26, 2014 21:17
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It wasn't THAT long. He hooked the leg before the second plane hit.
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HulkaMatt posted:also My MSPaint!! 
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HulkaMatt posted:also oh god I'd never seen this hahahahaha
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Jul 27, 2014 01:44
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Is there some reason that wrestlers in the 80's tended to use orchestral music in their intros, beyond the fact that they were probably cheap / free to use? I'd assume there isn't. I'd totally forgotten that Macho Man came out to "Pomp and Circumstance" and it does not make any loving sense to me.
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Basic Chunnel posted:Is there some reason that wrestlers in the 80's tended to use orchestral music in their intros, beyond the fact that they were probably cheap / free to use? I'd assume there isn't. I'd totally forgotten that Macho Man came out to "Pomp and Circumstance" and it does not make any loving sense to me. He used Pomp and Circumstances because he was a big fan of Gorgeous George and that's what he used. George was one of the first wrestlers to use an entrance theme. As far as the other well known example, I assume Flair simply used the first part of Also Spracht Zarathustra because it was a very famous piece of music with an epic feel. Apparently Elvis used it as an intro theme as well which I didn't know until literally a minute ago. Thauros fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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I learned something today. I always just thought that Macho's gimmick was he's smart and dangerous (And also manly and macho), and to reflect that he wore gloriously bedazzled graduation gowns and came out to Pomp and Circumstance.
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Jul 27, 2014 03:00
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This is random but...why doesn't anyone do Russian Leg Sweeps anymore (in WWE)? I can't remember the last time I saw one.
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Jul 27, 2014 04:13
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Almost positive I've seen Sandow break one out.
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Jul 27, 2014 04:17
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Professor Funk posted:This is random but...why doesn't anyone do Russian Leg Sweeps anymore (in WWE)? I can't remember the last time I saw one. Tyson Kidd did a second rope russian leg sweep at Nxt Takeover
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Sandow does one in nearly every match; I remember because he never actually hooks the leg, which always irritates me.
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fatherdog posted:Sandow does one in nearly every match; I remember because he never actually hooks the leg, which always irritates me. Ah, well that settles that, I guess I just don't pay attention for the two minutes a week that Sandow actually wrestles. 
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Ambrose paid hommage to Sandman by doing a White Russian Leg Sweep to Cesaro on Smackdown this week as well.
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I'm trying to introduce my friend to wrestling since he's a big fan of bad anime about people winning fights with the power of heart and burning conviction so he seemed like a good target. The one thing he was wondering (and I know it happens a lot more in Puro) is if wrestling has a version of a very common trope from those kind of anime: Basically its a fight with two faces in it, where whatever the situation is (tournament with random matches, heel organizing the bookings to pit his biggest enemies against each other, etc) you have two guys who are both honorable, by the book combatants and they neither of them turns heel to win. The drama is obviously tied up in how these good guys don't want to fight other good guys but still do because of honor, respect, etc I was thinking of saying Rock/SCSA as a prime example, but in that case one of them was supposed to be a heel they were both just so over that people were going to scream like it was a Beatles concert no matter what anyone did.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I'm trying to introduce my friend to wrestling since he's a big fan of bad anime about people winning fights with the power of heart and burning conviction so he seemed like a good target. The one thing he was wondering (and I know it happens a lot more in Puro) is if wrestling has a version of a very common trope from those kind of anime: Bryan/Cena from Summerslam 2013 was face/face and had a subtheme of honourable fighting spiritu, complete with mutal face slaps.
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You gotta show the promos in the weeks leading up to it, though, particularly the one that the slaps call back to.
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