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DeathChicken posted:It kind of sounds like when Booker T lost his music and his pyro and the letter T (really) to Stevie Ray.
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Tyma posted:I vaguely recall a very brief storyline in which a main event face had failed to take the title away from some heel in a position of great power, and as a result for losing, was busted all the way back down the card, to jobber status. Are you thinking of the reboot Nitro where all of the Millionaire's Club wrestlers had their pyro removed and they would randomly just turn off their music during the entrances?
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Sep 9, 2014 02:10
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LividLiquid posted:He never lost his music and Pyro. Just the letter T. And it was to Ahmed Johnson, known in WCW as Big T. he absolutely lost the music because the feud was over the intellectual property of "Harlem Heat" of which his letter T was included
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oatgan posted:he absolutely lost the music because the feud was over the intellectual property of "Harlem Heat" of which his letter T was included yeah, he ended up with some sort of easter bunny music or something e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s7iSOeWhgY
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Sep 9, 2014 03:13
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sk posted:yeah, he ended up with some sort of easter bunny music or something It was such a nice changeup when he came out to it in Superbrawl 2000. 5 minutes before, Tank Abbott helped Big Al shave his beard.
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Sep 9, 2014 03:28
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oatgan posted:he absolutely lost the music because the feud was over the intellectual property of "Harlem Heat" of which his letter T was included I really miss WCW from this period just for the sheer "what the gently caress" factor every week like Goldberg voiding Scott Hall's WCW contract by literally eating it. It was just this absurd stupidity that TNA could never match.
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Sep 9, 2014 06:02
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Justin Godscock posted:I really miss WCW from this period just for the sheer "what the gently caress" factor every week like Goldberg voiding Scott Hall's WCW contract by literally eating it. It was just this absurd stupidity that TNA could never match. If only Mike Gillis could've done this to void Luongo's contract with the Canucks.
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sk posted:yeah, he ended up with some sort of easter bunny music or something  This really happened? Well, I mean it was WCW - of course it happened.I had stopped following wrestling in the early mid-90's, when WCW was still respectable. In going through things like the 3rd Man podcast, shoots, and reading various threads over the years, it honestly seemed like a place where anything was possible.
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Sep 9, 2014 06:27
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I know there was the Jeff Jarrett angle in TNA where he had to work his way from the bottom, which included being a janitor, and he did not have music for a bit.
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Sep 9, 2014 06:54
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Ghostpilot posted:
There wasn't much respectable about early to mid 90's WCW
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Sep 9, 2014 08:56
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purkey posted:There wasn't much respectable about early to mid 90's WCW Sure the finishes, the production, the angles, the entrance music, and the general use of very good talent were all poor... But the wrestling was pretty good (Hogan/DOD aside). Any other old-timers like me miss Dubbya-See-Dubbya?
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Sep 9, 2014 10:56
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Foley was forced by Vince and The Corporation to wrestle for the first time ever as "Mick Foley" on RAW and beat his friend Terry Funk to win his job back. They also took away his music, so maybe that's what you're thinking of.
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I was listening to the Mick Foley interview on Steve Austin's podcast. THey get around to talking about Marc Mero and...Marc Mero was the first guy to get a guaranteed contract in the WWE? Was Mero considered the next big thing or something?
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BigRed0427 posted:I was listening to the Mick Foley interview on Steve Austin's podcast. THey get around to talking about Marc Mero and...Marc Mero was the first guy to get a guaranteed contract in the WWE? Vince thought Johnny B. Badd was going to be the next big thing. Unfortunately, he got Marc Mero.
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What's Sandman up to these days? I heard Tommy Dreamer on Austin's podcast saying that Sandman is doing a lot better, and I want to check in on my favorite train wreck.
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EugeneJ posted:Foley was forced by Vince and The Corporation to wrestle for the first time ever as "Mick Foley" on RAW and beat his friend Terry Funk to win his job back. They also took away his music, so maybe that's what you're thinking of. This isn't quite accurate. He decided himself he wasn't going to wrestle as Dude Love to please anyone any more, and was PUNISHED by having to wrestler Funk. After he won, he was re-embraced by Mr McMahon. Cut a promo about hating having to dance with the bikini-ladies and everything, one of those real Russo "is...is this real?" angles (for one show). That episode is on the Network if you fancy watching it. It's good stuff.
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magnum_valentino posted:This isn't quite accurate. He decided himself he wasn't going to wrestle as Dude Love to please anyone any more, and was PUNISHED by having to wrestler Funk. After he won, he was re-embraced by Mr McMahon. Cut a promo about hating having to dance with the bikini-ladies and everything, one of those real Russo "is...is this real?" angles (for one show). The match itself between Funk and Foley is also pretty good.
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Sep 9, 2014 15:40
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Besides Jado, what major company Japanese wrestlers have tattoos? I can think of some deathmatch and indie guys like Jun Kasai, but he's the only one from a major that comes immediately to mind although I know I'm missing someone.
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oatgan posted:he absolutely lost the music because the feud was over the intellectual property of "Harlem Heat" of which his letter T was included
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Thauros posted:Besides Jado, what major company Japanese wrestlers have tattoos? Akitoshi Saito, I think Bull Nakano or some other major woman's wrestler did too?
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I've been watching a lot of New Generation era WWF and I was curious why Bret Hart was mostly relegated to the upper midcard? From what I've seen Bret Hart usually has the best match on the PPV and gets the biggest pops of the night. Was Bret a bad draw as WWF Champion? Was it because of tension with the Clique? Did Vince just not think he could carry the company?
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LividLiquid posted:I stand corrected. Must've blocked this out. Holy hell, what a lovely period. Those first couple months of Kevin Sullivan booking might have been stupider than Russos first run
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bartok posted:I've been watching a lot of New Generation era WWF and I was curious why Bret Hart was mostly relegated to the upper midcard? From what I've seen Bret Hart usually has the best match on the PPV and gets the biggest pops of the night. Was Bret a bad draw as WWF Champion? Was it because of tension with the Clique? Did Vince just not think he could carry the company? Are you thinking of the time where Diesel was on top? Basically whenever business starts going bad, Vince panics and puts the title on a big guy. From what I remember business wasn't bad with Bret on top, but you know Vince... workrate isn't his top priority.
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oatgan posted:Those first couple months of Kevin Sullivan booking might have been stupider than Russos first run I sat through Warrior in a Mirror, but a man thinking he is a dog was a bridge too far.
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LividLiquid posted:Oh, that explains it. The moment Al Greene thought he was an actual dog, I turned the TV off, and didn't watch wrestling on a Monday for the first time since I started. Dario the Wop posted:What about the wrestling?
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I don't know if it's possible to reiterate enough how loving terrible the Dungeon of Doom was. I was nine years old and even I thought it was the stupidest poo poo ever. Even dumber than WWF's endless streams of wrestlers with day jobs.
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Thauros posted:Besides Jado, what major company Japanese wrestlers have tattoos? Tattoos are still fairly taboo in Japan. As you said, the only major company guys I can think of with any visible tattoos are Jado and obviously gaijin (BUTT ANTLERS)
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Tokelau All Star posted:I don't know if it's possible to reiterate enough how loving terrible the Dungeon of Doom was. I was nine years old and even I thought it was the stupidest poo poo ever. Even dumber than WWF's endless streams of wrestlers with day jobs. The hardest parts about watching these old Nitros now is dealing with the loving DoD nonsense. It's not working - at all. The crowd are apathetic towards everyone involved. And yet week after week we're still getting it.
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Tokelau All Star posted:I don't know if it's possible to reiterate enough how loving terrible the Dungeon of Doom was. I was nine years old and even I thought it was the stupidest poo poo ever. Even dumber than WWF's endless streams of wrestlers with day jobs.
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It's funny, back in the day I used to spew hatred and venom towards WCW because they wouldn't stop loving up, now I miss them. TNA is a whole other animal, it never hit WCW's occasional heights.
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Thauros posted:Besides Jado, what major company Japanese wrestlers have tattoos? Out of Dragon Gate you had Magnum Tokyo, Kanda and Tanizaki.
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What is Ric Flair's natural hair colour?
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Another Person posted:What is Ric Flair's natural hair colour? blood red
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Another Person posted:What is Ric Flair's natural hair colour? Brown.
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Dario the Wop posted:It's funny, back in the day I used to spew hatred and venom towards WCW because they wouldn't stop loving up, now I miss them. TNA is a whole other animal, it never hit WCW's occasional heights. Same here, bashing WCW for loving up was like an Internet past time and watching the later Nitro years was like an MST3K kind of experience because you knew it was bad and making fun of it was part of the fun. Now, I really do miss them, TNA kind of fills the void a little bit but to paraphrase Bryan Alvarez, they never had a peak like WCW did which added a lot to their fall.
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WCW also had the benefit of being gently caress up pioneers. TNA is mostly a retread outside of embarrassing nickel and dime stuff.
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WCW finding new and exciting ways to gently caress up was exciting, like Lawnmower Man. TNA employing the same circle jerk of people and failing in the same ways is more like Lawnmower Man 2.
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