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Midnightghoul posted:2008 Cena Yeah, 2008 Cena and 2010 Edge. I wouldn't even really count Mr. Perfect as a surprise entrant. They went into the show making a medium-sized deal out of the fact that Perfect, Goldust, Val Venis and Godfather would be showing up. It's even in the show's intro.
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Ganso Bomb posted:This is a super fun question to try and nail down. It has to be someone from the 70s/80s who never quite made that leap into the Mania era. Battle Royal with NFL players at 2.
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Rusty Shackelford posted:Battle Royal with NFL players at 2. drat! I did a quick Google for him + WrestleMania and didn't see anything at first glance. Edit: Coming back to this - Ken Patera, Steve Williams, Brian Pillman, Bobo Brazil? Maybe Bruno Sammartino if you don't count him managing his son at WM 1. Ganso Bomb fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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PUNKS DIET SODA posted:Downtown Seattle is hard to park in so just keep that in mind
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did bruce prichard ever actually work a match that wasn't a battle royal? I was watching the gimmick battle royal and he does worked stomps and elbows and punches and they look surprisingly good
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Looks like he had three singles matches in 1992 against James Beard for the Global Wrestling Federation, one of which was a boxing rules match.
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LividLiquid posted:HOW DID YOU NOT TELL ME THIS WHEN YOU LIVED HERE?!!!
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Hi J-Ru, can you add the CMLL time slots to the YouTube link? Mondays - Arena Puebla - 10 PM ET Tuesdays Arena México B Show - 8:30 PM ET Fridays- Viernes Espectacular- Arena México A Show - 9:30 PM ET
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Done!
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Might be good to mention tjpw as a joshi promotion on ddt universe
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Which wrestler can make the biggest fart?
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UnlimitedSpessmans posted:Might be good to mention tjpw as a joshi promotion on ddt universe Done, I hadn't actually been aware of that so thank you!
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Which wrestler can make the biggest fart? kelly kelly
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Low Desert Punk posted:what is everyone's single favorite chop? not chop sequence, one chop From last thread but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs5GgFA_8bw
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quote:what is everyone's single favorite chop? not chop sequence, one chop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t025fmkPY4c Willie Mack more like Willie Smack.
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Seams posted:is there anyone stronger than roderick strong? Have you witnessed the power of Roman Reigns?
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Rusty Shackelford posted:Kamala was in the Gimmick Battle Royal at 17. Dammit I forgot about that one. Kamala was legendary amongst my friends and I as a kid. His original WWF run had ended by the time anyone started watching wrestling but we all knew who he was due to the LJN toy line. He was never on the old PPVs though so none of us actually saw him until he returned in 1992. Rusty Shackelford posted:Ivan Putski, Dick Slater, and Professor Toru Tanaka are my guesses. I was thinking more "wrestlemania era" when I asked this but those are good answers. I still can't believe Zeus was scheduled to headline at one point. Ganso Bomb posted:drat! I did a quick Google for him + WrestleMania and didn't see anything at first glance. These are all good answers too. I'm surprised Patera didn't make it in an early battle royal.
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I had it in my head that Bruno was in the battle royal with the NFL guys too.
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Shine posted:Have you witnessed the power of Roman Reigns? Have your witnessed his hurricarana?
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Helicity posted:Is there an effort post somewhere on how/why Inoki almost destroyed NJPW? Not an effort post, but from what I understand, he was concerned about the rise of MMA in Japan, and wanted to have his guys prove how tough they were... in shoot fights against MMA guys. It went about as well as you think it would.
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NienNunb posted:Were the hardcore matches done by the old ECW ever as violent as CZW and their Tournament of Death? ECW rarely got into proper death match territory, just a lot of plunder and walk & brawls. There was the Taipei Death Match between Axl & Ian Rotten where they each had taped fists covered in broken glass. A handful of barbed wire matches, light tubes weren't really a thing until Big Japan later in the '90s.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I had it in my head that Bruno was in the battle royal with the NFL guys too. He was. The Wild Samoans never wrestled at Mania, and Sika had made a brief comeback in the mid-80s.
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Helicity posted:Is there an effort post somewhere on how/why Inoki almost destroyed NJPW? Do you have an Observer subscription because Dave's 1996(?) G1 article details the history of the promotion and how Inoki's corruption almost destroyed the promotion in the 80s. OH! You meant when he almost destroyed it in the aughts. I don't think there is so here are the big points. First he double crossed Hashimoto in a match Hashimoto absolutely needed to win. Hashimoto was arguably their biggest star, and definitely their biggest healthy star as Chono and Mutoh were both in physical decline. (Mutoh would reinvent himself and have one last great in ring year a bit later.) Hashimoto left and formed Zero One. After this you started seeing the overuse of guys who were perceived as shooters, putting stars in shoot fights and other weird calls like bringing in Chyna. MassRafTer fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Sep 8, 2019 |
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Why was The Crow Sting so cool and will there ever be a dark 90's grunge gimmick as cool as that again? (the kind of 90s dark grunge gimmick where the wrestler never utters a word, but has magical powers that allow him/her/they to appear behind their enemy from a puff of smoke or burst through the center of the ring with a baseball bat, or maybe transform themselves from a gross sweaty ringside fan to cool dark 90s face painted freak a la a magician's trick?)
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Which wrestler can make the biggest fart? I think it was against most fire codes for Andre The Giant to fart indoors
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Yeah if you believe that Andre drank even half the beer he’s purported to have had, he was ripping some big ones
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Dick Bastardly posted:Why was The Crow Sting so cool and will there ever be a dark 90's grunge gimmick as cool as that again? (the kind of 90s dark grunge gimmick where the wrestler never utters a word, but has magical powers that allow him/her/they to appear behind their enemy from a puff of smoke or burst through the center of the ring with a baseball bat, or maybe transform themselves from a gross sweaty ringside fan to cool dark 90s face painted freak a la a magician's trick?) What I've seen of Jeff Hardy as Willow in TNA is a bit like this. I don't know for sure though, because what I've seen also looked really horrible.
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MassRafTer posted:Do you have an Observer subscription because Dave's 1996(?) G1 article details the history of the promotion and how Inoki's corruption almost destroyed the promotion in the 80s.
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Can somebody explain these stories in greater detail for me? What was the deal with Suigi planting drugs on Io Shirai and her boyfriend (??) and how was AAA involved? What happened in the fight between TARU and Super Hate which lead to Voodoo Murders being disbanded?
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Davros1 posted:He was. Sika was in the battle royal at WreatleMania IV
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Can somebody explain these stories in greater detail for me? That was a simple one. The dude who was the Japanese liason for AAA had a grudge with Nosawa for some reason or other, he promised Sugi a contract extension if he planted the weed, and Shirai just happened to be travelling with Nosawa as they were in a relationship at the time.
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PublicOpinion posted:Has anyone here gone to a 3-2-1 Battle! show in Seattle and if so what's the parking situation like if you're coming in from out of town? Their shows have two locations. One is in a gym which has no parking lot itself but is near a lot of places - including a church - where you might be able to park. The other is a bar close enough to Pike Place Market that you can use the parking garages there. That's my guesses anyway, I don't drive here.
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TTBF posted:I don't drive here.
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Helicity posted:Is there an effort post somewhere on how/why Inoki almost destroyed NJPW? There's a video effort post on YouTube about Lesnar's njpw run, and the first half of the video is about Inoki's weird insistence on mixing mma with pro wrestling. For instance, insisting on having Hashimoto do a shoot fight but not telling him about it. Imagine Vince just feeding Roman to a legit MMA guy without even telling him it's a shoot.
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Hellblazer187 posted:There's a video effort post on YouTube about Lesnar's njpw run, and the first half of the video is about Inoki's weird insistence on mixing mma with pro wrestling. For instance, insisting on having Hashimoto do a shoot fight but not telling him about it. Imagine Vince just feeding Roman to a legit MMA guy without even telling him it's a shoot. Man if the main event of Wrestlemania 31 was Brock legit shooting on Roman with Roman completely in the dark that would've been quite the spectacle.
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TriffTshngo posted:Man if the main event of Wrestlemania 31 was Brock legit shooting on Roman with Roman completely in the dark that would've been quite the spectacle. I suppose it's not a great comparison because I don't think Roman has actually been that much of a draw for WWE. Hashimoto was one of their top guys and the move of having him just get beaten to a bloody pulp by a nobody MMA fighter supposedly hurt his drawing power big time. I'm on mobile and don't feel like searching for the mini documentary on YouTube, but it should be easy enough to find.
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