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Giedroyc posted:You can complain about heel Cole today but nothing on Earth (hmm maybe Mark Madden) was worse than attitude era Lawler when there was a woman on screen. A month late, but holy poo poo this. I just got done watching a Road Dogg/Owen Hart match where, if Road Dogg won, Debra had to "show us your puppies", and Lawler spends the entire time screaming about how great tits are. PUPPIES ARE A MAN'S BEST FRIEND, JR! YOU'RE NOT A DOG-LOVER?
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Here's a question, as I watch utter fucktonnes of old RAW: Why do they always describe a hit as being to the *body part* of *name* instead of to *name's* *body part*?
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Apr 26, 2011 15:16
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El Duke posted:Smackdown Six I've seen this referenced a few times now, what is it?
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Apr 28, 2011 17:31
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I just want to say that this thread has taught me so much about wrestling over the last few weeks. Question: What's a hot tag? I hear it all the time, but I still haven't quite figured out what it means.
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Apr 29, 2011 19:08
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flashy_mcflash posted:A hot tag is when a face has been getting beat down for a while and being actively prevented from getting to their corner. Eventually they make it and tag in the other guy who comes in "like a house of fire" and takes out everyone in a flurry of lariats. Gotcha. I thought it was like an actual technical thing and not just a euphemism for "the faces come back to win". Follow-up, unrelated question: What's the real story about Hogan slamming Andre in front of seventeen million fans?
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Apr 29, 2011 19:23
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I watched Wrestling With Shadows the other day and it got me wondering: Obviously management screwing over a wrestler has happened, has a wrestler ever gone "screw this" and hosed up the script to win? It doesn't seem like it would ever happen, because A) how could it when the ref is listening to management and B) they'd get fired, but I thought I'd ask
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Apr 30, 2011 04:10
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:Dickeye, you make all of us feel like badasses by allowing us to flaunt our knowledge in this thread. Keep them coming. My options for asking questions are either here, or a thread on another forum, where I was told to come back once I had knew all about Japanese indy stuff, so no problem. Like I said, I'm learning a lot from this thread, between new responses and working my way through 400 pages of old ones. It's like a crash course in wrestling (Attitude Era marathon is a crash course in "sports entertainment" that doesn't suck.)
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Apr 30, 2011 04:34
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Buddy of mine linked me a youtube of that Muta match where he rips his opponent's mask off, and the guy does a character change literally midmatch, and it ruled, does that count?
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Apr 30, 2011 04:45
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That Sekimoto/Ibushi match is great partly (mostly) because Ibushi sells every hit like it was real. Also, my favorite part of that Muta/Liger match is when Liger leans back and roars (right after spitting on Muta) and he looks like Gene Simmons on PCP.
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Apr 30, 2011 04:54
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Grant DaNasty posted:Basically this, You forgot the FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN MILLION SCREAMING HULKAMANIACS BROTHER!
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Apr 30, 2011 05:52
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Lone Rogue posted:Never, ever show Hokuto vs. Kandori to someone new to Joshi. It's loving amazing and loving brutal at the same time. It'll just cripple them for any future Joshi. Show me.
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May 1, 2011 22:58
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I keep seeing "the WWE style" referenced. Can someone elaborate on what this is?
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May 9, 2011 03:47
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sportsgenius86 posted:He almost crippled Miz with a botch at ER Really? What happened?
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May 9, 2011 14:28
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There was a talk a couple pages back about entrance music that inspires an "oh poo poo" moment, and how Cena's has too much build to pull that off, and I have to agree. They need to trim down that intro so that it's like two seconds and BRRRRRRRRAPADOOOOOO
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May 9, 2011 20:07
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Atticus Finch posted:You want to cut down the modern equivalent of a glass breaking? It holds that build for way too long. You get the "oh poo poo" moment plus about thirty seconds of waiting, which defeats the point of the oh poo poo. Your "aw gently caress" shouldn't be 30 seconds of instrumental.
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May 9, 2011 20:28
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Tyma posted:You.. get to pop twice o.O I guess. I just think that having your pop followed by thirty seconds of nothing is stupid.
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May 9, 2011 20:32
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Here's a question: The gently caress is a jabroni, and how does one beat it?
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May 9, 2011 21:04
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Oh. Well that makes "jabroni-beating" considerably less awesome.
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May 9, 2011 21:09
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Hirams Bitch posted:You need to understand that the Rock considers everyone who is not the Rock a jobber. Jabroni-beating just got cooler.
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May 9, 2011 22:14
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Rapadoo is a great "Aw poo poo it's Cena", he comes out at the end of the "word", salutes, runs down. You get the same intro, without the instrumental, and it'd work a hundred times better. Especially with a quicker, higher energy intro, that wait is bad. It's different if it's the Undertaker and his slow, methodical song and the bells. Speaking of which, the lights dropping out in Raw c. 1998 is a great "awww gently caress" pop.
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May 10, 2011 00:41
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LAWLandMine posted:So I got in an interesting discussion with a friend about titles in wrestling. This all stemmed from the backlash the WWE has received about the title being taken off Christian. My friend had brought up something Stone Cold had said about titles, I don't remember the exact quote but I believe it was something along the lines of, If you aren't in the business to win the World title then why are you a wrestler? Someone else on here mentioned that he achieved a lifelong dream, got to hug his best friend about ten seconds after it, and has a world title belt in his study, regardless of what comes next. I can't imagine him being too bent.
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May 10, 2011 00:54
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Atticus Finch posted:What's "shooting the half"? Throwing a half nelson and pushing them over onto their back, in Greco-Roman it's babby's first pin technique.
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May 10, 2011 14:33
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Kermit's awesome. So is the Miz. There you go.
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May 11, 2011 21:57
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Karmine posted:Probably my two favorite things in the world are comedy and wrestling. Can someone point me in the direction of some of the funniest matches in wrestling history? Kaiju Big Battel if you can find it. Chikara iwth a Godzilla bent, right down to the cardboard city in the ring. One of the Chikara guys actually did commentary for KBB.
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May 25, 2011 04:03
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:KBB also shares Gavin Loudspeaker, ring announcer extraordinare, with Chikara. They had a team at the 2008 KoT. They match wasn't that funny, but the pre match promo and finish were both great. Gavin Loudspeaker is the guy I was talking about, I bet, on KBB he was Louden Noxious. e: Quick google tells me I'm right.
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May 26, 2011 03:39
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apsouthern posted:Gavin was Louden Noxious for quite a while in CHIKARA as well, then came back one day having swapped his suit for leather trousers and changed his name to Gavin Loudspeaker and started singing songs before shows Dude owns on every level and is the reason I want to like Chikara.
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May 26, 2011 16:46
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George Kaplan posted:My favourite was always ArmDragon, the wrestler with a dragon on his arm. It was basically CAW as himself while wearing a dragon hand puppet, and he had to do all his offence with that one arm. I'm losing it here. Question: What the hell is Daniel Bryan's gimmick?
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May 27, 2011 19:16
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OK now, for shits and gigs, pretend that those names mean nothing to me. Because they don't. (this post comes off dickish but I really don't know anybody outside of someone who's either consistently appearing now or just a Big loving Deal)
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May 27, 2011 19:21
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Lone Rogue posted:Chris Benoit without Ruthless Aggression. So he kills his family but he's a nice guy?
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May 27, 2011 19:24
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Lone Rogue posted:He doesn't have a family to kill. He only has a dog and Benoit left the dog alone. I just found a picture of Asparagus wearing the WHC belt. Dog owns. Wanna pet that dog.
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May 27, 2011 19:27
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Lone Rogue posted:Triple H: Do I get my win back? What's the story behind this? Also, UMB loving rules.
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Jun 12, 2011 01:17
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Well, Warrior beat Triple H after Warrior took the pedigree and stayed down for about half a second. Was Warrior supposed to lose? Stupid question it was against Triple H.
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Jun 12, 2011 01:40
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Captain Charisma posted:Is this your first month watching wrestling or something? Yeah I've posted a couple times about how I just started watching at Wrestlemania and I've actually got a thread where I'm watching Attitude Era stuff for the first time so thanks for being a dick I guess. Also thanks for the answer too.
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Jun 12, 2011 02:30
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Dead Snoopy posted:D/X didn't dominate the storylines and show the way the nWo did WCW's. I guess D/X was the nWo without the 'take over the company and assimilate everyone like the Borg' booking. It didn't become obmixious the way nWo did. D-X is pretty goddamn obnoxious about the time they run-in on every match. Coincidentally this is the part I'm stuck watching!
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Jun 12, 2011 17:08
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Don't forget when it came back as a tag team (Triple H/HBK) in...2006? It was the same time as Spirit Squad. HBK did a run-in and superkicked whover and JR absolutely lost his mind about D-X reuniting.
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Jun 13, 2011 01:00
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Lone Rogue posted:Dean Malenko, Master of 1,000 Holds. Mike Quackenbush, Master of the Same 1000 Holds as Malenko
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Jun 15, 2011 06:22
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CVagts posted:Any angle that basically says, "Everything else we do is fake, but THIS is real, we promise!" is stupid Counterpoint: The Ministry angle kicked off with Vince saying "Mark Calloway really thinks he's the Undertaker and he's after my family". Can somebody link me a video of Daniel Bryan doing the double entrance thing, where he went back and came out again as Bryan Danielson? BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jun 26, 2011 |
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Jun 26, 2011 17:38
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Here's a question: When's the Smackdown Six period? I'm trying to find something I can do in shorter bursts than that stupid Attitude Era thread, adn I figure a couple months' worth of awesome matches is a bit more manageable (I know it's more than a couple months, I'm saying that's all I'd commit to at once).
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Jun 27, 2011 19:46
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El Duke posted:The high point of the time is October of 2002. That's when the tag team tournament starts, highlighting several matches between Eddie/Chavo, Rey/Edge, and Benoit/Angle. You can go back a bit further for quality stuff because Angle and Benoit were feuding in the months prior, and Rey and Angle before that, along with other feuds involving those six, all causing a lot of good stuff, but the period that really defines them is all of the tag tournament stuff and several matches after. Cool, thanks. I'm gonna poke around, see what I find, try to get a month or so's worth. The other thing I'd ask is, what's some choice WCW to review? Looking for both a really high point and a really low point.
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Any era, and a general timespan focused around one or two particularly memorable shows would be best if at all possible. Like, an example based on the one incident I know of (that I'm going to try not to review since I don't have anything new to say), "Watch from *date* to *date*, that'll get you the lead-up to and fallout from the Fingerpoke." I'm trying to keep it down to one to two month stretches to avoid the burnout that came with the Attitude Era thread. Really, I'm looking for bad WCW moments more, because I have more fun making fun of stupid bullshit than I do talking about the good stuff. Except Val Venis.
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