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ZDar Fan posted:Why did WWF rename Kerry Von Erich in the 80's? Was it just a matter of the Von Erich name not meaning much outside their region? Same reason they did it with everyone-so that they could market him as their own creation. Although, in reality, Kerry got off easy on the gimmick front, since I always remember him being announced as "The Texas Tornado" Kerry Von Erich.
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 17:09 |
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Another Person posted:but what the gently caress is New Jack's deal? Dude is a legit psychopath.
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 17:11 |
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Another Person posted:Watching Forever Hardcore, and I've never paid too much attention to ECW before, but what the gently caress is New Jack's deal? Dude is a legit psychopath. Like, terrifying. Also he fell off during a scaffold match and his brain got scrambled and he's been hosed up ever since.
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 17:14 |
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On the other hand he really likes Molly Holly since she gave him sunflower seeds once. Yeah, the guy is legitimately insane.
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 17:20 |
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ZDar Fan posted:Why did WWF rename Kerry Von Erich in the 80's? Was it just a matter of the Von Erich name not meaning much outside their region? From what I remember reading old magazine interviews with him when I was a kid, his regional nickname "The Modern Day Warrior" was way too close to "The Ultimate Warrior" so they changed it when he came on board. (I may not be remembering that correctly.)
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 18:28 |
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What was so awful about the Raw ZZ Top hosted to make it so universally hated?
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 18:54 |
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Mob posted:Mike Adamle loving SUCKED sk posted:mike adamle invented the championship scramble and that should be enough for you ingrates The whole "current champion" thing didn't matter because the current champion didn't have to get pinned. It also has the distinct honor of being the match that stripped CM Punk of the title without him actually defending it, because "we need the belt for HBK/Jericho", and because "we don't want Punk as champion so whatever, lets not even let him drop it in a match".
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 20:51 |
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Why is WWE dialing back on Jim Johnston in favor of CFO$?
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 20:57 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:Also he fell off during a scaffold match and his brain got scrambled and he's been hosed up ever since. it was not a scaffold match but him and vic grimes fell off of a balcony through a table very badly and vic grimes landed on new jack's head but also new jack was hosed up way before then
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 21:02 |
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Bigass Moth posted:What was so awful about the Raw ZZ Top hosted to make it so universally hated? Here, have a recap of that show. quote:John Cena started Raw off, announcing that the main event would be Priceless vs. Cena and Triple H and began to say how excited he was for it. Randy Orton interrupted him, however, and after a brief standoff between Legacy and Cena and Triple H, Orton set up the main event so that he was also involved in it. Was this written five years ago or this week? You'd never be able to tell except for the ridiculous amount the roster has turned over.
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 21:15 |
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I mainly remember Seth Green for facing off with Orton and looking like Little Mac going up against Bald Bull.
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 21:19 |
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Red posted:Why is WWE dialing back on Jim Johnston in favor of CFO$? I thought he was doing their movie soundtracks now but apparently not.
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 21:21 |
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Whose recap was that? It always annoys me when I'm looking up results from an old show and it's more like a review than a recap. I remember OWOW had a stretch of like a full year where the reviewer called the Bella Twins "whores" every single week just because they would show up with the celebrity guest Raw GM.
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 22:20 |
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sk posted:mike adamle invented the championship scramble and that should be enough for you ingrates no he didn't it had been done for the hardcore belt years earlier
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 22:41 |
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epitasis posted:no he didn't it had been done for the hardcore belt years earlier The WM2000 battle royal required the champ to be pinned for the title to change hands. Also, I think that all of the title changes in that match actually counted as official reigns. Someone petition Triple H to rewrite history and make the scramble reigns count. The Brian Kendrick deserves it.
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 22:49 |
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 23:06 |
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Bigass Moth posted:What was so awful about the Raw ZZ Top hosted to make it so universally hated? As bad as that show was, I still think the Slammys hosted by Dennis Miller was the worst RAW ever.
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 23:11 |
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That recap was worse than the actual show
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 23:12 |
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sk posted:mike adamle invented the championship scramble and that should be enough for you ingrates Also known as the worst gimmick match since Beat the Clock
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# ? Sep 23, 2014 23:25 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Also known as the worst gimmick match since Beat the Clock Wrong, Beat the Clock gave us Heath Slater beating Seth Rollins that one time
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:10 |
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Has there ever been a wrestling angle based around a fixed match or an attempt to fix a match? I don't mean a worked match like wrestling is in reality, but like a heel manager trying to bribe his client's opponent to take a dive. I'm not saying this would be a good idea for multiple reasons, but I'm curious if it's been done, and how often and successfully if it has. TL posted:Same reason they did it with everyone-so that they could market him as their own creation. Although, in reality, Kerry got off easy on the gimmick front, since I always remember him being announced as "The Texas Tornado" Kerry Von Erich. He was the "Texas Tornado" Kerry Von Erich at first but slowly became just the Texas Tornado by the end of his WWE stint.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:20 |
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Thauros posted:Has there ever been a wrestling angle based around a fixed match or an attempt to fix a match? I don't mean a worked match like wrestling is in reality, but like a heel manager trying to bribe his client's opponent to take a dive. Fingerpoke's the obvious one but I'm sure there have been other tries.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:29 |
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Don't post entire show recaps ffs.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:31 |
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Fat Lowtax posted:Fingerpoke's the obvious one but I'm sure there have been other tries. Yeah that would count, but collusion between buddies wasn't what I was really thinking of.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:34 |
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Luigi Thirty posted:Wrong, Beat the Clock gave us Heath Slater beating Seth Rollins that one time hmm yeah that's a very cool thing
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:35 |
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stupid
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:35 |
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The best part of that quote:Chavo deserves to be pushed so much more
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:37 |
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Thauros posted:Has there ever been a wrestling angle based around a fixed match or an attempt to fix a match? I don't mean a worked match like wrestling is in reality, but like a heel manager trying to bribe his client's opponent to take a dive. Godfather did this all the time, but with his hos instead of money. Also I may be wrong but I feel like Ted Dibiase did this at least once.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:41 |
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:Godfather did this all the time, but with his hos instead of money. Also I may be wrong but I feel like Ted Dibiase did this at least once. It's weird, DiBiase would seem to be obvious, but while I remember him buying the #30 slot in Rumbles an attempting to buy the title from Andre I can't recall him ever trying to bribe an opponent.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:46 |
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Thauros posted:It's weird, DiBiase would seem to be obvious, but while I remember him buying the #30 slot in Rumbles an attempting to buy the title from Andre I can't recall him ever trying to bribe an opponent. At one of the Old School Raws, he paid IRS to climb out of the ring during a battle royal, giving DiBiase the win.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:48 |
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Mob posted:That recap was worse than the actual show My favourite part was his need to declare things as "Standard Matches" as if we have no ability to infer that.
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Red posted:At one of the Old School Raws, he paid IRS to climb out of the ring during a battle royal, giving DiBiase the win. The best part was that DiBiase wasn't even IN the match.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 00:58 |
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There was that time Mark Henry was supposed to lay down for Orton, then changed his mind and killed him instead.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 01:00 |
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Thauros posted:Has there ever been a wrestling angle based around a fixed match or an attempt to fix a match? I don't mean a worked match like wrestling is in reality, but like a heel manager trying to bribe his client's opponent to take a dive. I guess Hogan laying down for Jarrett when Bischoff fired him counts. And I swear at some point Stephanie told someone to lay down for a title change in a promo in the ring, but I can't remember the context.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 01:01 |
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Drew Carrey tried to bribe Kane at the 2001 rumble.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 01:11 |
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Thauros posted:Has there ever been a wrestling angle based around a fixed match or an attempt to fix a match? I don't mean a worked match like wrestling is in reality, but like a heel manager trying to bribe his client's opponent to take a dive. Ric Flair paid people off to take dives for David. I believe El Dandy was one.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 01:21 |
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When Cena was in Nexus, Barrett made him and Otunga lay down for Slater and Gabriel to give them the tag titles
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 01:24 |
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JBL made HBK throw the match against him during their bankruptcy angle in order to get a #1 Contender spot against Cena at Royal Rumble 09.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 01:40 |
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Big Coffin Hunter posted:Godfather did this all the time, but with his hos instead of money. Also I may be wrong but I feel like Ted Dibiase did this at least once. Ah, the Attitude era.
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# ? Sep 24, 2014 03:43 |
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Halloween Jack posted:I remember this one vividly because he tried it on Regal during his lumberjack phase. When Regal chose the hoes, Godfather was disappointed about not getting to wrestle, so he said "England ain't nothin' but a place fulla fags" and set Regal off. It's ok if Regal didn't get really strung out at the end of the gimmick, it would have been revealed that he was gay and compensating by being a lumberjack
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