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There are 4 dead guys in the 1997 Royal Rumble alone. Mil has it locked down for sure.
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https://youtu.be/2lAAq9c8Mf0 A long time ago, I had talked about wanting to find the episode where Dino Bravo did an airplane spin that was featured in the movie Encino Man. And well. There it is, in all its VHS-style degraded quality.
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Drew McIntyre posted:what living wrestler has had the most opponents who are now dead? it's probably some old luchador if i had to guess. terry funk
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STONE COLD 64 posted:terry funk How is he still alive?
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iamsosmrt posted:How is he still alive? His horse was sick.
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Does anyone have that image of Tanahashi which showed his living room? He had a wall with a bunch of albums arranged on it. I think he posted it to social media but i haven't been able to find it.
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:https://youtu.be/2lAAq9c8Mf0 This is the kind of obsessive wrestling rabbit hole poo poo I love.
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FWIW my first wrestling show was WWA in 2001. 1 Juventud Guerrera (C) Def. Psicosis WWA International Cruiserweight Title 2 Vampire Warrior Def. Luna Vachon "Black Wedding" 3 Devon Storm Def. Norman Smiley Tables 5 Brian Christopher Def. Disqo 5 Konnan & Nathan Jones Def. Lenny Lane & Lodi 6 Buff Bagwell Def. Stevie Ray 7 Jeff Jarrett (C) Def. Road Dogg It had Mike tenay and some other lad doing commentary over the PA as the matches were going on. I got to shake Bret Harts hand by elbowing some children and my friend who idolised Bret out of the way. I always preferred Shawn but what are you going to do. The best matches I saw: British Strong Style vs. Tyler Bate/Angel Cruz/B. Cool Matt Riddle vs. Speedball Mike Bailey War Machine vs. Kings of the North Devlin vs. Walter Ospreay vs. Walter Riddle vs. Ospreay I've actually seen so many amazing ones I forget.
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Actually going back to best matches tue v mustache mountain at the albert hall nxt shows last year was a real banger to watch live.
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Drew McIntyre posted:what living wrestler has had the most opponents who are now dead? it's probably some old luchador if i had to guess. Taker's gotta be up there. I mean, The Streak alone has more than its fair share.
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Bad Wolf posted:Taker's gotta be up there. I mean, The Streak alone has more than its fair share. Snuka, Gonzalez, Bundy, and Bossman going by Streak and post-Streak. EDIT: WrestleMania matches only, that is. Pope Corky the IX fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Jun 18, 2019 |
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Bad Wolf posted:Taker's gotta be up there. I mean, The Streak alone has more than its fair share. Not to mention his debut match was against a team of four guys where only two are still alive.
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With regard to living wrestlers with the most dead opponents, the guys that immediately come to mind are Mil, Flair, Race, and Liger for wrestling so many people in so many places.iamsosmrt posted:How is Terry Funk still alive?
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Johnny Saint isn’t officially retired, he’s gotta be up there
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Aesop Poprock posted:Johnny Saint isn’t officially retired, he’s gotta be up there I'd imagine the UK wrestling scene isn't quite the graveyard that it is in the states though.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I'd imagine the UK wrestling scene isn't quite the graveyard that it is in the states though. Yeah but I mean he debuted in 1958
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the best description i ever read of johnny saint's fighting style stated he started doing a load of "stuff" to his opponent
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For guys who are regularly active I'd bet Chris Jericho is a sleeper on this one.
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Honestly the answer is probably the same as "whichever living wrestler had the most opponents, period"
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Guys, can you do me a massive favour? Did any matches on Raw or Smackdown go two segments this week?
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Which one Bryan/Rollins?
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When did the Japanese Wresting Promotions start sending their talent on excursions to Mexico? I found a book that vaguely references Luchadores working in Japan and Japanese wrestlers coming for tours in Mexico around the 50s, but nothing about having long term learning excursions.
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Jenkem Delivery posted:When did the Japanese Wresting Promotions start sending their talent on excursions to Mexico? I found a book that vaguely references Luchadores working in Japan and Japanese wrestlers coming for tours in Mexico around the 50s, but nothing about having long term learning excursions. I’d have to do more reading/research but excursions have been around a while, more so to the US during the territory era or the UK in the 70s/80s though. I’m sure WWF swallowing the territories forced their hand in that regard. Also my first live show was the Wrestling Dontaku where Bullet Club formed and the main event was Okada-Suzuki, brilliant.
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Misawa's and Sayama both did Mexico for a bit, not sure if someone did one earlier though
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Misawa's and Sayama both did Mexico for a bit, not sure if someone did one earlier though
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I'm curious about the prevalence of Mexican influence in Japanese wrestling. Ultimo Dragon's Toryumon system is famous, but I've noticed that there are a lot of indie wrestlers in Japan that got trained in Mexico (outside of the Dragon system), so I would be interested to know how all of these guys got the idea to go to Mexico.
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I remember the reason Ultimo Dragon was sent to Mexico was simply cause there were no spots left for jr heavyweights in Japan.
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Liger had massive success after training in Mexico so I'm sure that influenced some of the smaller guys too.
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Adaptabullshit posted:I'm curious about the prevalence of Mexican influence in Japanese wrestling. Ultimo Dragon's Toryumon system is famous, but I've noticed that there are a lot of indie wrestlers in Japan that got trained in Mexico (outside of the Dragon system), so I would be interested to know how all of these guys got the idea to go to Mexico. Part of it is the influence of Mil Mascaras. Mascaras was a huge star in the late 60s and early 70s and influenced not just a generation of wrestlers but also some of the writers like Wally Yamaguchi. He and Gran Hamada (who had gone to Mexico on excursion and wrestled a very lucha based style) formed UPW in the early 90s which was a lucha based promotion in Japan that used luchadors as well as Asai and the future M-Pro founders. So you have Asai who owes his stardom to Mexico and Wally who was a huge proponent of the style going on to form two of the most influential groups of the next ten years. The line basically goes Mil coming to Japan to Hamada going to Mexico, to Asai going, UPW kind of bringing it all together and then Toryumon and M-Pro forming after that. (Although Ultimo was in WAR first.)
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why has everyone forgotten about super delphin 
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STONE COLD 64 posted:why has everyone forgotten about Gran Naniwa
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Pro wrestling on Wikipedia is dire.
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Suplex Liberace posted:Pro wrestling on Wikipedia is dire. Counterpoint https://twitter.com/AHROOMEE/status/1128544375644942339?s=19
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How was Velveteen Dream/Orange Cassidy?
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Can somebody explain the Young Lion system in detail? Like where do they begin, what training do they do, is the excursion mandatory, etc. I've been thinking about guys like gaijins like Juice Robinson, Jay White and David Finlay, did they all have to go through it the same as the Japanese guys? How would Juice's previous experience in WWE have played into it, if at all?
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Somebody better versed will go into the other details, but for Juice at least they offered him the chance to go straight into their main roster but he said he was happy to be a Young Boy and learn the ropes along with everybody else. You can see it paid dividends, he looked like a team player, got to know the system in a strange country, and people immediately took to him for being humble on top of what appears to be his already very approachable and likeable personality. He also got a recommendation from Matt Bloom too which probably helped a huge amount. From memory, Jay White grew up not realizing there was any wrestling other than WWE until he went to England and found out they had wrestling there, and then got offered the chance to go to Japan where he discovered holy gently caress these guys are REALLY into wrestling.
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From my understanding Juice got a bit of a fast track through being a Young Lion but White and Finlay got the full experience.
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