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Because it's summer and I'm bored at work. So half of wrestling is trying to present a worthwhile product in the ring. But it doesn't matter how good your matches are if no one shows up, and that's why you gotta talk them into the building. This tournament is designed to figure out who's the greatest talker in the history of wrestling. At least for now. HOW WILL THIS WORK??? Submit UP TO TEN (10) nominations to sasmediasheep at gmail dot com. Put your forums name in the subject title along with Best Wrestling Talkers. You don't have to submit exactly ten but that's the limit. Don't nominate people in here I'll ignore it because I get confused easily. I'll take however many nominees we get and put them into a bracket seeded by whoever gets the most nominations. I'm looking to keep it a nice even number; if we get 20 nods it'll be the top 16, if we get 40 it'll be the top 32 and etc... When it comes to voting I'll make a separate thread just for that, so this can be the discussion thread. WHO CAN WE NOMINATE???? Anyone who talked into a microphone at a wrestling event. Wrestlers, managers, tv announcers, ring announcers, etc... I'm going big tent with this one since they're all on the same team of trying to get your money. HOW SHOULD WE VOTE OH GOD I DON'T WANT TO GET THIS WRONG AND LOOK LIKE A HUGE rear end ON THE FORUMS You'll be voting on the best talker in wrestling history, not the best worker. Ring work or match quality has nothing to do with this tournament, it's all about the gift of gab on the stick. You could be a wrestler on the level of Sid but be able to talk on the level of Sid and it's only the latter that is to be taken into contention. SHOULD WE POST VIDEOS AND TRY TO SWAY OTHERS TO OUR WAY OF THINKING? Oh I suppose. CAN WE NOMINATE SID You can nominate Sid. I figure I'll give y'all a week to nominate so I'll cut off nominations after next Tuesday, May 16th, and seed/start the sucker the next day. Feel free to discuss and post videos here, but a reminder that nominees need to be e-mails to sasmediasheep at gmail dot com and not posted here. Otherwise, have fun!
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Alexa Bliss is the best say what
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# ? May 9, 2017 19:07 |
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Can we eliminate some of the obvious big names first as auto-includes to get more variety in the nominations? I nominate the following as auto-includes: Austin Rock Dusty Ric Flair Randy Savage Jake Roberts e: Scott Steiner
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# ? May 9, 2017 19:22 |
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There's only one man who can win this tournament... https://youtu.be/bmcUTUKO5-Y?t=4m50s
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# ? May 9, 2017 19:22 |
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My dark horse candidate: Ravishing Rick Rude Don't forget the GOAT: Scott Steiner
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# ? May 9, 2017 19:30 |
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Check THIS out: I ain't gonna send you an email.
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Go RV! posted:Can we eliminate some of the obvious big names first as auto-includes to get more variety in the nominations? I agree with this post.
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Go RV! posted:Can we eliminate some of the obvious big names first as auto-includes to get more variety in the nominations? There's ten nominations so people can feel free to do their serious ones and still be able to list a few dark horses, plus I don't feel like getting into a pissing match over who should be an auto-nomination and who shouldn't. I think we'll be fine, plus I'm using total nominations for seeding purposes so I'm looking for some redundancy. dromal phrenia posted:Check THIS out: I ain't gonna send you an email.
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# ? May 9, 2017 19:45 |
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Titus O'neil
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# ? May 9, 2017 19:57 |
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There's a distinct lack of Bobby Heenan nominations in this thread. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
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# ? May 9, 2017 20:28 |
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ecavalli posted:There's a distinct lack of Bobby Heenan nominations in this thread. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. technically there are no nominations in this thread
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# ? May 9, 2017 20:29 |
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heres a hot to tip to make this successful, get apsouthern to do all the heavy lifting
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# ? May 9, 2017 21:19 |
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my posts
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# ? May 9, 2017 21:20 |
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yoshi tatsu, the show where he gave commentary was some of the best entertainment with wrestling in my life
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# ? May 9, 2017 21:34 |
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Val Venis, the Big Valbowski
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# ? May 9, 2017 22:46 |
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ecavalli posted:There's a distinct lack of Bobby Heenan nominations in this thread. Bobby "The Brain" knows that is because people read C. Everett Koop's post and are e-mailing nominations instead of making them in this thread!
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# ? May 9, 2017 23:04 |
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Mean Gene deserves a nod. He always had the greatest hype and enthusiasm for some of the dumbest poo poo ever. He excitedly played along with the Gobbledegooker for gently caress's sake.
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# ? May 9, 2017 23:42 |
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Terry Funk you banana nosed egg sucking fool
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# ? May 9, 2017 23:49 |
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OP if I send you an email you aren't going to sell my address to unscrupulous folk over the internet for personal monetary gain are you? You have to tell me if you are. Also does the "It's still real to me" guy count? Coz that was on microphone, and I found it entertaining
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# ? May 9, 2017 23:52 |
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Nick Bockwinkel, Jake the Snake, and Bobby Heenan. i'm not emailing you
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# ? May 10, 2017 00:02 |
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Can we make this the Smackdown gameday for tonight?
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# ? May 10, 2017 00:16 |
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It's Jake The Snake. Contest over.
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# ? May 10, 2017 01:00 |
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super macho dude posted:It's Jake The Snake. Contest over. If I've got 21, he's got 22.
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# ? May 10, 2017 01:28 |
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How has Foley not been mentioned yet?
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# ? May 10, 2017 01:34 |
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the godfather but NOT the goodfather
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# ? May 10, 2017 01:34 |
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Vince McMahon absolutely deserves consideration Let's also throw in CM Punk, Paul Heyman, the Miz, and heck, why not Enzo Amore
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# ? May 10, 2017 01:48 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:OP if I send you an email you aren't going to sell my address to unscrupulous folk over the internet for personal monetary gain are you? I tried to but there were no takers, even at the price of "free." And it's still real to me guy counts sure why not someone's gotta lose in the first round.
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# ? May 10, 2017 03:44 |
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dsriggs posted:There's only one man who can win this tournament... I believe you mean this gentleman.
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# ? May 10, 2017 03:58 |
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I can't imagine anyone but Heyman winning this. Punk is good, Cena is good, coked up Macho Man was always fun, the Brain was real good, but Heyman is a guy I want to see talking even when he's almost never going to be involved in a physical confrontation at all. The Brain fits in that category too, so I'll be surprised to see anything but a Heyman/Heenan final.
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# ? May 10, 2017 04:02 |
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MRT will be annoyed at me for saying this, but Piper. His 90's/00's stuff (I liked his HOF speech, though) is embarrassing but his late 70's and 1980's stuff was ridiculously good at getting heat. Also, Jerry Lawler. It's hard to believe now, but Lawler was one of the top 5 promos of the 80's. And this may get a laugh or 2 but I'm serious: New Jack. Couldn't wrestle for poo poo but man was he a captivating promo. "I have a criminal record and I'm a college graduate, so I know how to make decisions". What a choice line. Dark horse suggestion: Eddie Kingston. The promo he cut before High Noon is the best promo in Indy wrestling history. And the promo that ends with "You can call me sick, but it's a cold world, bundle up" is pretty great, too. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 04:13 on May 10, 2017 |
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Jumpin Jeff Farmer
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# ? May 10, 2017 04:42 |
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I saw Eddie Kingston's name brought up so like can we do vetos here?
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# ? May 10, 2017 04:51 |
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RacistGuidingLight posted:I saw Eddie Kingston's name brought up so like can we do vetos here? depends how much money ya got?
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# ? May 10, 2017 06:01 |
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A lot. The most I think.
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# ? May 10, 2017 06:17 |
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I think someone should nominate Superstar Billy Graham
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# ? May 10, 2017 06:21 |
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raven was ok. i dont want to vote though. and i wouldn't vote for him. But here i am so what The gently caress is going on in this world
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# ? May 10, 2017 09:14 |
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It's obviously Big Sexy Kevin Nash.
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# ? May 10, 2017 13:58 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBbdh1HHKc
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# ? May 10, 2017 14:23 |
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Rowdy Roddy Piper you tasteless goofs
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# ? May 10, 2017 17:01 |
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I'm gonna come out of left field and nominate Bubba Ray Dudley. and Chris Jericho.
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