VJeff posted:

How do wrestlers deal with the language barrier when calling a match on the fly?

El Gallinero Gros posted:

It seems to depend. A lot of times the vet calls, but there are variants. Like if the vet is a guy who knows he's in there with a younger but superior worker and the vet is really limited, he may let the younger guy call it (an example of this would be that Hulk Hogan not only let Jericho call their matches, but according to Chris, would ask what they were doing that night since Hogan knew Chris could make him look good, which is pretty plausible).

I know Ricky Steamboat has said that when he was in the NWA, the heel called it because the heel spends most of the match on control; he actually used that dynamic to explain why he felt Lex Luger was underrated, because he and Luger had a pretty well regarded match that Luger called because he was the heel.

Apparently, some guys are real assholes about insisting on calling, I've heard this about HHH more than once.

With Dean and Seth I'd think Dean would defer to Seth, since Seth seems extremely well regarded by his peers as a worker.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Beeboo Crawshanks

The Kimoa Kid posted:

If anyone has any articles or interviews or podcasts or whatever about this kind of stuff, please share them, I find it absolutely fascinating

Gavok posted:

I seem to recall some situation at an indie show where Hacksaw and his opponent (both likely very drunk) got in a heated argument during the match over who was supposed to be calling it and one of them just stormed off.

Aesop Poprock posted:

Still love that Jericho heard this and had enough faith in Shelton to pull off whatever he wanted that he just blank slate threw himself at him

freeranger posted:

I always laugh at that Beeboo Crawshanks name.

Did this take place at a house show or during a tv taping?

Minidust posted:

What were the plans (if any) for Finn Balor as Universal Champion? I’m assuming he was just gonna trade with Rollins for a bit.

Minidust posted:

What were the plans (if any) for Finn Balor as Universal Champion? I’m assuming he was just gonna trade with Rollins for a bit.

Randaconda posted:

I wish Roman would just go away at this point.

Since that's not likely, he needs a heel turn. (also not likely)

Randaconda posted:

This looks harsh in hindsight.

Cornwind Evil posted:

So I recently was watching one of those 'Finishers used in X Year' Youtube compilations, and they had Ric Flair on it with the Figure Four. And it popped a question into my head.

How often did Flair, at least during the first half of his career as King Heel, actually WIN a match with the Figure Four? I suspect it was more of a "put the babyface in peril" move rather than something that tended to finish matches: I'm guessing he tended to actually win the match either through trickery (roll ups and whatnot) or treachery (cheap shots, eye pokes, foreign object strikes, etc), because as far as I know, Flair never had any sort of 'impact' style finisher.

I know he beat Terry Funk in that I Quit match with it, but by then Flair was starting to transition to 'so respected that it was hard for him to work as a heel'. I was thinking more the period between his back injury and the cusp of the 90's.

DeathChicken posted:

Also how he beat Savage for the WWF title.

fatherofmustard posted:

He was going to feud with KO

VJeff posted:

All we know is that a feud with KO and Jericho was in the cards. Dave also says there was plans for a program with Roman.

It's absolutely impossible to guess beyond that because you dunno how Goldberg is gonna factor into things. But presumably, at some point, one way or another that belt winds up on Brock.

projecthalaxy posted:

I hope this is the right thread for this. My young nephew is a fan and has asked for wrestling figures and a ring for Christmas and his birthday and as the resident smark of the family, I have been tasked with obtaining them. I have been out of that game for like 18 years, so I am looking around. There is the WWE Crash Cage ring that seems to be the state of the art, but there are also a ton of seemingly unofficial/third-party rings. Is the official WWE Trash Talkers ring considered the best one to get or is there like a better ring out there? Also, has anyone bought any of those third party accessory packs they have on Amazon and stuff? He wants tables and stuff. Is there a better thread to ask?

projecthalaxy posted:

I hope this is the right thread for this. My young nephew is a fan and has asked for wrestling figures and a ring for Christmas and his birthday and as the resident smark of the family, I have been tasked with obtaining them. I have been out of that game for like 18 years, so I am looking around. There is the WWE Crash Cage ring that seems to be the state of the art, but there are also a ton of seemingly unofficial/third-party rings. Is the official WWE Trash Talkers ring considered the best one to get or is there like a better ring out there? Also, has anyone bought any of those third party accessory packs they have on Amazon and stuff? He wants tables and stuff. Is there a better thread to ask?

Cornwind Evil posted:

So I recently was watching one of those 'Finishers used in X Year' Youtube compilations, and they had Ric Flair on it with the Figure Four. And it popped a question into my head.

How often did Flair, at least during the first half of his career as King Heel, actually WIN a match with the Figure Four? I suspect it was more of a "put the babyface in peril" move rather than something that tended to finish matches: I'm guessing he tended to actually win the match either through trickery (roll ups and whatnot) or treachery (cheap shots, eye pokes, foreign object strikes, etc), because as far as I know, Flair never had any sort of 'impact' style finisher.

I know he beat Terry Funk in that I Quit match with it, but by then Flair was starting to transition to 'so respected that it was hard for him to work as a heel'. I was thinking more the period between his back injury and the cusp of the 90's.

Aphrodite posted:

Ringside Collectibles sells rings that are proper scale and everything with swappable turnbuckle pads, aprons, mats etc. for like $50.

Edit: When they have sales that is, which is pretty often. Keep an eye on those.

There's also an official scale ring that came with Goldberg and has some LEDs to mimic the new setup. TRU was clearing them out a while back but I doubt you can find them cheap anymore.

Endless Mike posted:

"Best" is kind of subjective. Looking at what Amazon has, I would consider this to be the best, but it's certainly lacking in more fun features like a shark cage that the more kid-oriented rings have. On the other hand it's huge and has Ryback on the box so it can't be too bad.

The accessory packs are probably fine. I'm pretty there's official WWE ones, but I doubt he'd care as long as they're cool and good and in roughly the right scale.

MassRafTer posted:

Flair was a babyface more than you'd think during his peak years and would win with it.

Halloween Jack posted:

Randaconda posted:

one of the best wrasslin' gifs

Admiral Joeslop posted:

Daniel Bryan won all of wrestling at 30 with the Yes Lock. I think that whole show is my favorite wrestling event, discounting 14 year old me as a supermark in the late 90s

Pope Corky the IX posted:

And some guy made Triple H tap clean at Wrestlemania XX

Sandman McMahon posted:

If anyone can top it that’s a topic I’d be extremely interested in.

Cage Kicker posted:

What are you talking about? HHH didn't have a match at Wrestlemania XX, the show ended after Undertaker v Kane

Sandman McMahon posted:

If anyone can top it that’s a topic I’d be extremely interested in.

Sandman McMahon posted:

If anyone can top it that’s a topic I’d be extremely interested in.