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Low Desert Punk posted:what's the biggest upset in wrestling history? Hogan "put over" Jacques Rougeau in his hometown at a house show in their WCW days.
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Bigass Moth posted:Vader squashing Inoki. I like this answer. I'd say it's a good upset when the babyface gets beat so bad the crowd literally starts a riot
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Low Desert Punk posted:I like this answer. I'd say it's a good upset when the babyface gets beat so bad the crowd literally starts a riot To be fair about this one, there were other factors in play that started the riot (like the attempted bait-and-switch with the original main of Inoki/Riki Choshu, for starters).
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Low Desert Punk posted:what's the biggest upset in wrestling history? Bret over Flair for the title.
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Low Desert Punk posted:what's the biggest upset in wrestling history? Ciclope def. Chris Jericho for the Cruiserweight Championship
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Ciclope def. Chris Jericho for the Cruiserweight Championship Yeah that was a pretty good o.... wait a minute.... 
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Jerusalem posted:Me when Jericho had to hand the title back to Triple H after his first title win In 2000 in Ireland, you had to wait until Friday to watch Raw on Sky Sports. Since all my dipshit friends would spoil the results for me anyway, I used to read the Raw report every Tuesday morning on Rajah. The week that Jericho “won” the title, the Rajah report didn’t mention the bit where the decision got reversed. I spent all week thinking that Jericho was the WWF Champion, and then I was completely heartbroken when I saw it actually play out that Friday night 😭
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That's a War Crime and I'll see Rajah.com hang for that 
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jesus WEP posted:Are the sheepherders still the only people to have a ***** match and a -***** match? Yes
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah that was a pretty good o.... wait a minute.... these were the moments that shivone's style shined. I still hear this entire moment in my head with no effort.
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There's that one and,"Hulk Hogan, you can go to hell" which will last forever.
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straight to hell
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Also, Tony was perfectly fine before he stopped giving a poo poo at the end. His sports announcer voice was great for helping it seem like a legit sportiing event.
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What I wonder is, when Schiavone was saying 'don't worry, the cookie sheets don't hurt' or words to that effect, was he being told to minimise it by S&P or someone?
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No love for the midcarder Chris Jericho defeating the two biggest wrestling stars of their era and possibly of all time in the same night to become the first ever undisputed champion and then never being seen or heard from again
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Misawa defeating Jumbo is up there. Baba made the decision the day of the show based on observing the crowd filing in, Jumbo asked if it could be a count out and he said no, because he could see what it'd mean on that day for Misawa to win clean.
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Jericho and Benoit beating Austin and Triple H was a good one.
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titties posted:No love for the midcarder Chris Jericho defeating the two biggest wrestling stars of their era and possibly of all time in the same night to become the first ever undisputed champion and then never being seen or heard from again I still contend that if HHH hadn't been out with an injury, it would have been he who beat both Rock and Austin to become the first undisputed world champion.
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Davros1 posted:I still contend that if HHH hadn't been out with an injury, it would have been he who beat both Rock and Austin to become the first undisputed world champion. Even though he was out, Trips was on the poster for it, so...there's a there there 
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D.N. Nation posted:Even though he was out, Trips was on the poster for it, so...there's a there there WWF Vengeance: 
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D.N. Nation posted:Even though he was out, Trips was on the poster for it, so...there's a there there Looks like someone kept punching him in the nose. Also, why do people talk about the Gorilla/Brain commentary team all the time, but not Gorilla/Body? They latter called PPVs together for a much longer period of time than the former. And while I love Ventura and Heenan, Monsoon was a loving disaster at times. I'd still take him over post-'01 Lawler, but it's like the people who talk up Gorilla the most haven't listened to his commentary in decades. I forget which PPV it was, but he spends the entire goddamn thing trying to make "It's a happening!" into a catchphrase. I think it was an 80s Summerslam he called with Billy Graham, of all loving people.
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FunMerrania posted:Jericho and Benoit beating Austin and Triple H was a good one. They were both upper tier guys who had the storyline reason to win. Benoit beating HHH clean at wrestle mania was a much bigger upset. He was treated as an afterthought even though he won the Rumble.
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Where would be the best place to let you guys know we're streaming old rear end Mountain State matches again, and that currently at 4:24 pm EST that The Canadian Lion himself is in the current chat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgiC3EiZF7c We've missed you guys.
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Zaqtaro posted:Where would be the best place to let you guys know we're streaming old rear end Mountain State matches again, and that currently at 4:24 pm EST that The Canadian Lion himself is in the current chat? in the PSPTV thread probably
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Looks like someone kept punching him in the nose. Him saying 'The external occipital protuberance' about someone's head drove me spare.
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In the AEW thread there's a lot of talk about unions. Every state in Mexico has a wrestlers' union, but I never hear them get talked about when these discussions come up. How credible are the Mexican wrestling unions, and what do they do
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Smoking Crow posted:In the AEW thread there's a lot of talk about unions. Every state in Mexico has a wrestlers' union, but I never hear them get talked about when these discussions come up. How credible are the Mexican wrestling unions, and what do they do they're credible enough to deface someone's car but they aren't really an actual labor union
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Let me guess, they exist to make sure that the old guys have all the power?
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Is there a particularly good book that focuses on the history of women wrestling from the Mildred Burke/June Byers era through all the seedy Fabulous Moolah stuff? I've only learned what I know from posts on here and from reading obituaries of wrestlers in the Observer, I'd like to know if there's a good book that covers the history.
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Sisterhood of the Squared Circle by Dan Murphy and Pat Laprade
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Tato posted:Is there a particularly good book that focuses on the history of women wrestling from the Mildred Burke/June Byers era through all the seedy Fabulous Moolah stuff? I've only learned what I know from posts on here and from reading obituaries of wrestlers in the Observer, I'd like to know if there's a good book that covers the history. not a book but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_and_Dynamite,_Piss_and_Vinegar:_The_First_Ladies_of_Wrestling
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Smoking Crow posted:In the AEW thread there's a lot of talk about unions. Every state in Mexico has a wrestlers' union, but I never hear them get talked about when these discussions come up. How credible are the Mexican wrestling unions, and what do they do After the big strike over wrestling getting on national TV (the wrestlers opposed it believing it would hurt live gates) CMLL co-opted a union, the one that exists in the company to this day. From what I gather it basically does what the "not a union" Cody proposed would do.
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MassRafTer posted:After the big strike over wrestling getting on national TV (the wrestlers opposed it believing it would hurt live gates)
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Easy Diff posted:Wrestlers might actually be too dumb to function, holy poo poo. The NFL still locally blacks out games that aren't sellouts for this exact reason, blissfully unaware that you're just preventing potential fans from ever becoming fans in the first place. It's wild.
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Easy Diff posted:Wrestlers might actually be too dumb to function, holy poo poo. The wrestlers did that because it would make TV stars the only draws instead of the regional stars that drew just as big in the past They were right
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Kennel posted:Let me guess, they exist to make sure that the old guys have all the power? thats basically every AFL-CIO union in the construction trades, sounds legit. (note: i am a union laborer im half just talking poo poo because USW hosed us at my last factory.)
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Easy Diff posted:Wrestlers might actually be too dumb to function, holy poo poo. They were right, actually. The number of house shows (and thus work) declined after TV.
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It also helped end the territory system which I would argue lead to less people making money in wrestling.
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I believe it's pretty well accepted that the total audience for wrestling (for live shows anyway) is smaller now than it was decades ago for that reason.
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Halloween Jack posted:I believe it's pretty well accepted that the total audience for wrestling (for live shows anyway) is smaller now than it was decades ago for that reason. The total TV audience is much smaller too.
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