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Randaconda posted:Until he got hurt,Martel was a good midcarder for WCW. "Aside from all of the career ending injuries, it was a good 2 month run"
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:With World of Sport starting next week on ITV with a pretty sweet TV deal we might need a thread for discussion. Do you think we'd be better served by a dedicated thread or a general British/European wrestling thread? That's cool, when is it airing?
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bessantj posted:That's cool, when is it airing? July 28th at 5pm.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I've started watching OSW Reviews; has anyone ever revealed who the original opening singer was supposed to be, that no showed and got replaced by Okerlund? I gave a quick look around the internet and didn't see anything. AFAIK it's never been said
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NikkolasKing posted:Who was the first heel you cheered for and do you remember why? All I knew as a kid is that The Dungeon of Doom were like real life super villians and honest to god I thought they had real life magic powers.
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Were the Headshrinkers or the Orient Express presented as full 3-man units at any point? Or did Seone/Kato just replace Samu/Sato outright? I’m assuming it’s the latter because I recall the whole Ax/Smash/Crush thing feeling very different and novel to me when it happened.
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Suplex Liberace posted:Make the brit wres thread Euro Wres makes more sense imo. You've got WXW and OTT as well, they both have things happening, imo.
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Minidust posted:Were the Headshrinkers or the Orient Express presented as full 3-man units at any point? Or did Seone/Kato just replace Samu/Sato outright? You are correct, Seone and Sato were replacements.
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Stealth Tiger posted:I have been a fan of Ric Flair and Arn Anderson since pretty much day 1. And I totally understand all the Razor Ramon mentions. All those awful goofy gimmicks from the early 90s, and Scott just strutted out there bigger than everybody else wearing all this jewelry and talking slower, because he didn't need to say very much. It really made him stand out. Everyone else just came across like desperate try-hards. Honestly, I see a bit of him in Naito
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Kato replaced Sato, but Sato came back a while later for a handful of 6 man matches before leaving again.
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I'm reading Chris Charlton's new book and decided I need to look into some UWF as they're about the only Japanese company I never bothered to at least check out. What are some matches or shows I should check out?
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:July 28th at 5pm. Brilliant, thanks.
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On the 'first heel you cheered for' bit, I think it was Demolition. Maybe the Mountie because  But the real thing I wanted to say was I went to an ROH show a few months ago and there was a kid there, maybe 5 years old, who was SUPER into Rhett Titus of all people. He kept screaming SQUISH HIM RHETT CRUSH HIM. So for that kid his answer might be Rhett Titus which is hilarious to me
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I honestly got into wrestling a little late for my age group in school so around sometime in the 2000s and I loved HHH. I still remember the first time I showed my cousin wrestling and he got really really heated when he beat the poo poo out of Earl Hebner on a RAW or something Also makes me think of how my grandpa would always get really angry when I watched wrestling because it was “fake bullshit” and then Kane chokeslammed a ref and he got mad and was like “and now this guy is beating up a harmless ref! He should be in jail!”
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The Berzerker posted:On the 'first heel you cheered for' bit, I think it was Demolition. Maybe the Mountie because thats probably his kid lol
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Is there a Zack Sabre Sr?
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naM sdrawkcaB posted:Is there a Zack Sabre Sr? Nope
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In the Observer, Dave reports that Negro Casas wants to wrestle El Hijo del Santo at his 40th anniversary show but says that won't happen because of all the heat between Santo and CMLL. What is the heat between them about
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who do you figure wears the staunchest muffler in the ring.
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Cavauro posted:who do you figure wears the staunchest muffler in the ring. Obviously not Dusty’s since it abandoned him the first moment it had a chance to
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Hypothetical question; let's say Vince decides not to buy out all those WCW contracts that he eventually did. Does the XWF have a chance? It blows my mind that there was a fed (even if only for a short while) that had a ton of WCW refugees, WWF people, and new talent, in 2001. The episodes I skimmed on YouTube had what seemed like hot crowds; I assume they were told to cheer, or it was faked in, being a Universal Studios lot.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Hypothetical question; let's say Vince decides not to buy out all those WCW contracts that he eventually did. Does the XWF have a chance? It blows my mind that there was a fed (even if only for a short while) that had a ton of WCW refugees, WWF people, and new talent, in 2001. The episodes I skimmed on YouTube had what seemed like hot crowds; I assume they were told to cheer, or it was faked in, being a Universal Studios lot. There were two of them. WWA started up in the fall of 2001. It didn't have a chance. No TV station was interested in them even with TV pilots filmed. The product was mostly bad and they were clearly going to just rely on the WCW wrestlers as headliners which wasn't going to work.
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A while back I wrote a listicle on the 100 worst WrestleMania moments. I'm thinking of doing the 40-50 worst Summerslam moments. I don't really have the time to sit through every Summerslam, so refreshing my memory with Wikipedia is good enough. That said, are there any non-match dumb moments of Summerslam worth recalling? Interviews, backstage segments, etc?
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Gavok posted:A while back I wrote a listicle on the 100 worst WrestleMania moments. I'm thinking of doing the 40-50 worst Summerslam moments. I don't really have the time to sit through every Summerslam, so refreshing my memory with Wikipedia is good enough. Divas dodgeball.
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Gavok posted:A while back I wrote a listicle on the 100 worst WrestleMania moments. I'm thinking of doing the 40-50 worst Summerslam moments. I don't really have the time to sit through every Summerslam, so refreshing my memory with Wikipedia is good enough. The LOD/Road Warrior entrance with Rocco at Summerslam 92
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What were paydays like in the 80s? Something like a Wrestlemania match, and even the Main Event at Wrestlemania? Obviously the top stars like Hogan are going to get a huge check but how huge were they then? Also, is there conventional wisdom on which era was "bigger", the 80s or Attitude era? I think what I've heard before was that the 80s drew less but lasted longer compared to the Attitude era.
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Gavok posted:A while back I wrote a listicle on the 100 worst WrestleMania moments. I'm thinking of doing the 40-50 worst Summerslam moments. I don't really have the time to sit through every Summerslam, so refreshing my memory with Wikipedia is good enough. The floating poop from the Summerslam 96 pre show.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:The floating poop from the Summerslam 96 pre show. KOTR Winner Stone Cold Steve Austin being in the preshow match too.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:What were paydays like in the 80s? Something like a Wrestlemania match, and even the Main Event at Wrestlemania? Obviously the top stars like Hogan are going to get a huge check but how huge were they then?
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Gavok posted:That said, are there any non-match dumb moments of Summerslam worth recalling? Interviews, backstage segments, etc? Leslie Nielsen trying to find the Undertaker.
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Numero6 posted:KOTR Winner Stone Cold Steve Austin being in the preshow match too. Ah, yes. In a match against Yokozuna where he suspiciously never touched the ring ropes.
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jesus WEP posted:ITS MY WAY OR THE HIGH ROAD it's my rules or the highway
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Baron Corbin posted:it's my rules or the highway
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CopywrightMMXI posted:The floating poop from the Summerslam 96 pre show. ... go on...
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The phone giveaway contest at Summerslam 1997 with Todd Pettengill and Sunny is some of the cringiest and time-wasting poo poo on ANY big 4 PPV in WWF history, and would be worse if not for Sunny's outfit. Also the Brother Love segment in 88 with Jim Duggan. What a total waste of time. Shiki Dan fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Jul 22, 2018 |
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Sandman McMahon posted:... go on... The pre-show that year featured the talent having a pool party in an above ground pool backstage. At one point, everyone freaks out and jumps out of the pool for what looks like a dookie log at the bottom of the pool. TL Hopper retrieves it and takes a bite, as it’s actually a Baby Ruth bar. Basically I think Vince finally saw Caddyshack the week before and thought it was hilarious.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:What were paydays like in the 80s? Something like a Wrestlemania match, and even the Main Event at Wrestlemania? Obviously the top stars like Hogan are going to get a huge check but how huge were they then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIn1v8ERRCk
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TL posted:The pre-show that year featured the talent having a pool party in an above ground pool backstage. At one point, everyone freaks out and jumps out of the pool for what looks like a dookie log at the bottom of the pool. TL Hopper retrieves it and takes a bite, as it’s actually a Baby Ruth bar. Basically I think Vince finally saw Caddyshack the week before and thought it was hilarious. Ah, this makes sense. For some reason I automatically assumed it was a shoot poop.
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