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CombineThresher posted:Wrestlers have awful taste in music and wrestling itself is perpetually 10 years behind pop culture. That said, I'm sure someone somewhere came out to "Dr. Feelgood," that era of Crue was made for pro wrestling. Lots of wrestlers pre-WWF semi-hegemony came out to pop songs, even at the first Wrestlemania. But pretty quickly Hogan switched from Eye of the Tiger to Real America, US Express lost Born in the USA, JYD stopped using Another One Bites the Dust when he went to WWF, even the Road Warriors dropped Iron Man when they eventually headed to WWF. ECW (and later ROH) used a ton of (unlicensed or in the case of ECW dubiously licensed) pop songs, and territories in the late 70s/80s did too, but WWF and WCW became big enough they probably did not want to pay money/fight legal battles over it.
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CombineThresher posted:Wrestlers have awful taste in music and wrestling itself is perpetually 10 years behind pop culture. That said, I'm sure someone somewhere came out to "Dr. Feelgood," that era of Crue was made for pro wrestling. oh, didn't know it was a Motley Crue song, thought for a second that someone was genuinely suggesting a Dr. Feelgood dong for my money, I'd go with Roxette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1VwjWXefFs
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Oct 13, 2023 15:54
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WCW in the 90's fully realized they could take bangers from popular alternative bands and use them as entrance music. But why spend money on licensing when you can have Jimmy Hart change one note and re-record the song? (Seriously, how did WCW not get sued for that?)
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CopywrightMMXI posted:The MSG crowd turned on HBK against Sid at Survivor Series 96. This is what I was going to post. This was absolutely awesome and Vince got so mad about it that he came out on the next Raw and basically told the fans they were stupid and wrong for booing Shawn. Then in the VHS/DVD releases they changed the audio so that it sounded like the audience was booing Sid instead of cheering for him It was so pathetic
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rujasu posted:WCW in the 90's fully realized they could take bangers from popular alternative bands and use them as entrance music. But why spend money on licensing when you can have Jimmy Hart change one note and re-record the song? Vanilla Ice was on their advisory board.
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Elephant Ambush posted:This is what I was going to post. This was absolutely awesome and Vince got so mad about it that he came out on the next Raw and basically told the fans they were stupid and wrong for booing Shawn. Then in the VHS/DVD releases they changed the audio so that it sounded like the audience was booing Sid instead of cheering for him Vince's reaction was so great in how broken he came off. It was like Chris Parnell's crying rant in Anchorman, where he was all distraught and disappointed.
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Sid was pretty good at unintentionally getting face reactions, between that and eliminating Hogan at the 1992 Rumble
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DeathChicken posted:Sid was pretty good
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DeathChicken posted:Sid was pretty
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Don't judge me.
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When I was in 5th grade we had a teacher who was gigantic and had the same curly blond hair as Sid. One day we worked up the courage to ask if they were brothers but, sadly, they were not.
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Didn't Sid skip shows all the time to go play softball
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Didn't Sid skip shows all the time to go play softball I thought it wasn’t that he skipped shows but worked his schedule around softball season
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Didn't Sid skip shows all the time to go play softball Sid took semi-pro softball extremely seriously but apparently he was pretty good at it too. Can’t blame him.
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Maybe not pretty but I think Sid had the best look ever in terms of American pro-wrestling of that time. If I wanted to show some alien this pro-rasslin' thing, I would show them a pic of peak Sid, or a video of him screaming and walking down the aisle while fist bumping fans. That man...that man is the soul of Professional Wrestling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo8iOOU_5Io I'm totally serious, too. I think you can count the list of wrestlers with a better "Look" than Sid on one hand.
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the SID pyro onwed, way better than when The Rock set his name on fire.
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NikkolasKing posted:Maybe not pretty but I think Sid had the best look ever in terms of American pro-wrestling of that time. If I wanted to show some alien this pro-rasslin' thing, I would show them a pic of peak Sid, or a video of him screaming and walking down the aisle while fist bumping fans. That man...that man is the soul of Professional Wrestling. I want to high five this post. Sid looks like a hulked-out Michael Rooker/Henry decided to go to a leather bar, he has this fantastic intensity and looks like a real-life action figure.
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Holy poo poo I never made the Michael Rooker As Henry comparison but you're totally right. God drat Sid ruled.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:God drat Sid ruled the world
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NikkolasKing posted:Maybe not pretty but I think Sid had the best look ever in terms of American pro-wrestling of that time. If I wanted to show some alien this pro-rasslin' thing, I would show them a pic of peak Sid, or a video of him screaming and walking down the aisle while fist bumping fans. That man...that man is the soul of Professional Wrestling. One of my favorite entrance setups. I love how close the fans are and how jammed it makes everything feel. Sid rules.
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NikkolasKing posted:Maybe not pretty but I think Sid had the best look ever in terms of American pro-wrestling of that time. If I wanted to show some alien this pro-rasslin' thing, I would show them a pic of peak Sid, or a video of him screaming and walking down the aisle while fist bumping fans. That man...that man is the soul of Professional Wrestling. Totally agreed and I think the one person I’d add to this is Vader. Show those aliens the Masters of the Powerbomb.
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Sandman McMahon posted:Totally agreed and I think the one person I’d add to this is Vader. Show those aliens the Masters of the Powerbomb. Back in the AOL days one of my Internet friends complained that some PS1 wrestling game was unrealistic because Vader was doing moonsaults. They were pretty messy but really drat impressive for a big guy.
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neoaxd posted:Has there ever been a 1v1 battle royale? Like first person to throw the other over the top rope wins. Does it qualify if they remove the ropes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY13Zr3Q3eI
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CombineThresher posted:Wrestlers have awful taste in music and wrestling itself is perpetually 10 years behind pop culture. That said, I'm sure someone somewhere came out to "Dr. Feelgood," that era of Crue was made for pro wrestling. I remember in AJPW Johnny Ace was coming out to a version of Kickstart My Heart in 2000.
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What was that one wrestling project where some money mark filmed a ton of poo poo with a bunch of indie names and then none of it ever saw the light of day
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Nobody say AEW Dark
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History Comes Inside! posted:What was that one wrestling project where some money mark filmed a ton of poo poo with a bunch of indie names and then none of it ever saw the light of day The Wrestling Retribution Project? It eventually got released VOD I believe.
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He never actually released it on VOD even though he said he would during lockdown and I'm still mad about it. Wrestling Revolution/Retribution Project probably would have been bad but it's one of the most interesting things to me since it was before Lucha Underground but had that same vibe with original characters. (Though tbh they both owe a lot to WSX). I want to see Kenny Omega break that drat chandelier 
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Didn't Jericho give him 50 grand or something?
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Is there like a top 5 of greatest "wrestler steals the opponent's finisher" moments? I always popped for that as a kid. The disrespect!
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:He never actually released it on VOD even though he said he would during lockdown and I'm still mad about it. Wrestling Revolution/Retribution Project probably would have been bad but it's one of the most interesting things to me since it was before Lucha Underground but had that same vibe with original characters. (Though tbh they both owe a lot to WSX). Supposedly everyone was made to wrestle WWE TV style matches so we aren't missing out on too much.
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Sex Farm posted:Is there like a top 5 of greatest "wrestler steals the opponent's finisher" moments? I always popped for that as a kid. The disrespect! Austin Aries hitting CM Punk with the Pepsi Plunge and only getting a 1 count comes to mind
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Sex Farm posted:Is there like a top 5 of greatest "wrestler steals the opponent's finisher" moments? I always popped for that as a kid. The disrespect! I dunno, but I would put CM Punks Buckshot lariat attempts on there.
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Sex Farm posted:Is there like a top 5 of greatest "wrestler steals the opponent's finisher" moments? I always popped for that as a kid. The disrespect! The Young Bucks hitting the Golden Trigger on Kenny Omega always stands out to me. That match was so drat good.
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The Young Bucks doing the Golden Lovers' finisher and him kicking out at 1. Austin and Rock stealing each other's finishers a ton at Wrestlemania X-7 and 19. During the 4 pillars four way match each member doing the finisher of their respective mentors.
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Sex Farm posted:Is there like a top 5 of greatest "wrestler steals the opponent's finisher" moments? I always popped for that as a kid. The disrespect! Okada stealing the High Fly Flow during the WK10 rubber match between him and Tanahashi is up there
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Sex Farm posted:Is there like a top 5 of greatest "wrestler steals the opponent's finisher" moments? I always popped for that as a kid. The disrespect! Shawn put Bret in the Sharpshooter in a match one time
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Taffy Torpedo posted:Shawn put Bret in the Sharpshooter in a match one time That's it that's the winner
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The Cameo posted:Okada stealing the High Fly Flow during the WK10 rubber match between him and Tanahashi is up there Anyone trying to get Okada in wrist control is tempting fate with their flagrant disrespect
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