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Did sting ever come down from the rafters after Owen fell?
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May 23, 2020 19:24
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HOT! New Memes posted:Did sting ever come down from the rafters after Owen fell? WCW did a bit where a sting dummy fell about a year before Hart’s death. That didn’t age well.
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May 23, 2020 19:53
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HOT! New Memes posted:Did sting ever come down from the rafters after Owen fell? didn't WCW do something tasteless a year later at the arena?
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May 23, 2020 19:58
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They had Kanyon get thrown off the top of a cage. Same arena, just over a year later
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May 23, 2020 20:01
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Raskolnikov38 posted:didn't WCW do something tasteless a year later at the arena? Yeah they threw Kanyon (hopefully a future Dark Side episode) off a triple cage and IIRC the announcers did the quiet 'this isn't a work' thing that's reserved for real incidents.
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May 23, 2020 20:01
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HOT! New Memes posted:Did sting ever come down from the rafters after Owen fell? flashy_mcflash posted:Yeah they threw Kanyon (hopefully a future Dark Side episode) off a triple cage and IIRC the announcers did the quiet 'this isn't a work' thing that's reserved for real incidents. There's also a really weird show-closing angle where Sting gets the New Blood bloodbath, beat down, and then left hanging from his rappelling hook.
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May 23, 2020 21:51
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The figure of 80 feet for the fall sounds like an insane number when you hear it but it's even more insane when you see that distance picture, jesus
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May 23, 2020 22:16
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What I've always wondered was we're there one or two assistants up there with Owen helping him into the rig? If so, did they stay there and watch him drop? Did he step off that walkway in the darkness of the arena and immediately the clip give way to his weight? Chilling.
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May 23, 2020 23:09
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Two guys, seemingly. The replacement (cheap) rigger WWE hired, and one other. Second guy claims to have looked away for a second when they started lowering Owen, looked back and he was gone.
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May 23, 2020 23:13
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Martha's book has an account based on the interviews with the riggers. There were 3 people up there with him. He had to climb over the railing, getting a hand to get his cape over and not caught up. Apparently Owen was sitting there hanging a for a few minutes before it happened. They describe that he was hanging there shoulders parallel to the bottom of the catwalk, then there was an audible click as the shackle opened.
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May 23, 2020 23:19
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6 pounds of pressure. my three year old could open that.
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May 23, 2020 23:23
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I merged the available photos together to give a better depiction of Owen's fall https://i.imgur.com/baEIxHw.jpg https://i.imgur.com/buCbWap.jpg
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May 23, 2020 23:55
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I don't think any one photo has put that distance into complete perspective before. Horrific.
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May 24, 2020 00:53
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One thing this week disabused me of was the notion that Owen was about half way down before the clip detached. For some reason that was always what I thought had happened. I honestly had no idea he had basically fallen from the catwalk.
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May 24, 2020 00:57
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Finally watched it and I just feel sick. I remember everything about the time when I found out Owen died. At school and had 2 friends who were total wrestling obsessed like me at the time, every PPV (monday afternoon for us) we would take turns going to the library during lunch and getting the results online so we could discuss it in class with each other later in the day. But this time I remember the friend whose turn it was this PPV come running out to find us at lunch just saying Owen had died and just feeling so numb. He was one of my absolute favourites and what Jericho said is 100% the way i've felt for so long - Angle, Eddie, Benoit, Regal, Jericho, Edge, Brock even ... all those matches Owen could have had... gently caress Vince McMahon, I can't wait until there is a big expose style documentary like this about him down the line which hopefully has him remembered as a vile piece of poo poo.
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May 24, 2020 08:07
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thepokey posted:Finally watched it and I just feel sick. I remember everything about the time when I found out Owen died. At school and had 2 friends who were total wrestling obsessed like me at the time, every PPV (monday afternoon for us) we would take turns going to the library during lunch and getting the results online so we could discuss it in class with each other later in the day. But this time I remember the friend whose turn it was this PPV come running out to find us at lunch just saying Owen had died and just feeling so numb. He was one of my absolute favourites and what Jericho said is 100% the way i've felt for so long - Angle, Eddie, Benoit, Regal, Jericho, Edge, Brock even ... all those matches Owen could have had... Vince would get a
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May 24, 2020 08:16
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Unperson_47 posted:Vince would get a A 10-part "Last Dance" style miniseries on Vince and WWE would be great
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May 24, 2020 15:57
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It's difficult to imagine something more hagiographic than The Last Dance, but a McMahon doc like that could take the cake Maybe something more like OJ: Made in America
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May 24, 2020 16:09
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Coaaab posted:It's difficult to imagine something more hagiographic than The Last Dance, but a McMahon doc like that could take the cake At least with a Jordan-type documentary, you can put Vince on record with everything and after the fact people can point out the bullshit I don't think Vince has ever been confronted on-camera with many of his numerous scandals/failures (ringboy scandal, Savage leaving in 1994, WBF, etc.) and it would be fun to see how he holds up
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May 24, 2020 16:18
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No need to wonder about it, look at what Trump does
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May 24, 2020 16:49
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Trump's far more of a coward. You push Vince enough and the mask starts dropping, if his interviews are any indication.
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May 24, 2020 17:21
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DeathChicken posted:Trump's far more of a coward. You push Vince enough and the mask starts dropping, if his interviews are any indication. Or sometimes his inner bully comes out by itself, just ask Bob Costas
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May 24, 2020 17:31
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That's what happens every time someone who is used to being surrounded by yes men gets told no or questioned for the first time in a long time
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May 24, 2020 17:35
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MorrisBae posted:A 10-part "Last Dance" style miniseries on Vince and WWE would be great I want Jon Bois and that Chapo dude to handle it like they did with UFC.
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May 24, 2020 20:25
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flashy_mcflash posted:I want Jon Bois and that Chapo dude to handle it like they did with UFC. wrestlemania 4 and 5 can be treated like ufc 30 and 31
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May 24, 2020 21:57
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Thing is, as a resident of New York City, it was over two years later that 9/11 happened and there was very little personal footage of the disaster. So many of the idiot WWE defenders point to the lack of video from the incident as if it means loving anything.
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May 24, 2020 23:42
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Mr. Carlisle posted:That's what happens every time someone who is used to being surrounded by yes men gets told no or questioned for the first time in a long time Yeah, Vince and Trump are the same basic guy, its just that Trump is a fat guy who has spent his entire life around suits and Vince is a roided up guy who has spent his life around jocks so they both think they're tough guys but only one of them has decades of instinct to actually jump at someone. Because like most of us, even Trump, know that poo poo doesn't actually fly in society. But Vince ain't even lived in society most of his life.
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May 25, 2020 00:06
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Neither Trump or Vince ever got that invite to Little St. James they so desperately want and it eats them up inside.
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May 25, 2020 03:08
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Thing is, as a resident of New York City, it was over two years later that 9/11 happened and there was very little personal footage of the disaster. So many of the idiot WWE defenders point to the lack of video from the incident as if it means loving anything. Unless you mean "shot by an individual and not one of the many film crews operating NYC at any given moment."
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May 25, 2020 03:40
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How does the show get WWE footage? Doesn't WWE own the rights to it?
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May 25, 2020 05:26
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They can use it under fair use because they are a documentary series.
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May 25, 2020 05:31
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Quote from Edge on that night from a show called Inside the Ropes:quote:We’d actually left the building because we weren’t on the show and I think Luna called Dave (Gangrel) because we were riding together and told us and we went to the hospital. Jeff was the only one there and we just sat. We knew but we just sat there. We sat there for hours just thinking that can’t be real, how is that real? Even to this day, it just doesn’t seem real.
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May 25, 2020 06:08
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https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2020/05/owen-hart-bonus-footage-to-air-on-vice-tv-670728/ TL;DR tonight at 8:30PM Eastern is an extended cut of the Owen ep with some bonus footage included; afterwards is the After show, and after that is the extended cut of the Brawl For All ep with its own bonus footage included; in the aftermath of last week's ep being the most-watched ep in the TV station's history, PWInsider says the show's been picked up for a season 3 with official confirmation expected in the next few months when filming can actually realistically begin. Last month they'd talked to Deadline about expanding the show if/when it continued https://deadline.com/2020/04/vice-dark-side-of-the-ring-expand-franchise-1202912188/
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May 26, 2020 20:44
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Dark Side of Chess gonna be lit
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May 27, 2020 01:05
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It's a great series, my partner who only started watching wrestling around the time of Becky Lynch's rise really loves it. It really turns you on to a bunch of stories that wrestling fans take for granted as common knowledge, and even long time fans like me have learned some things. It has a small unfortunate side effect of making Cornette look a lot better than who he really is, but I don't really see the need to pop that bubble, they're never going to be listening to Cornette's show anyway.
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May 27, 2020 01:14
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Eat My Fuc posted:It's a great series, my partner who only started watching wrestling around the time of Becky Lynch's rise really loves it. It really turns you on to a bunch of stories that wrestling fans take for granted as common knowledge, and even long time fans like me have learned some things. Jim's actually super knowledgeable. He just happens to be a lovely person.
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May 27, 2020 02:40
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Jim's actually super knowledgeable. He just happens to be a lovely person. The Owen episode made him look like a super super decent guy, and I've honestly forgotten about some of the dumb/racist things he's done in the past. Cornette has always struck me as a basically decent person who can't process that he might say wrong/dumb things, and thinks such things can't possibly be his fault. Then again https://twitter.com/TheJimCornette/status/1264867773580263424
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May 27, 2020 02:55
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Red posted:The Owen episode made him look like a super super decent guy, and I've honestly forgotten about some of the dumb/racist things he's done in the past. Cornette has always struck me as a basically decent person who can't process that he might say wrong/dumb things, and thinks such things can't possibly be his fault. Bobby Eaton was an incredibly talented worker, but the man had the personality of blank sheet of paper.
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Thank you for being fair to Jim
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