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A few pages back we had a question how much indie wrestlers made, but what about big league guys? The other day I read that the Undertaker was paid half a million dollars for his match against Kamala at SummerSlam '92 (and Kamala himself "only" $13,000). Now I was well aware that guys in his league didn't exactly work for a case of beer and a grubby 20, but half a million (in 1992 no less) is, well, a lot and rather overthrows all my notions, extremely hazy as they were, of how much money is actually involved in this business at this level.
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I just watched CHIKARA's Scornucopia the other day and at the end of the first match they lift a kid from the audience into the ring and perform an improvised finish with him. He even gets the pin (well, he gets to join in a dogpile, at least). Sadly that moment doesn't seem to be on youtube. ... or, uh, at least I think it's improvised, but now that I think of it, given the nature of this sport... 
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Feb 8, 2011 21:03
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MrBling posted:one of the ice creams making a kid cry
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Feb 8, 2011 21:19
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Nothing says badass barbarian king like a plastic water bottle and a symbol designed in 19th century Prussia.
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Mar 2, 2011 10:36
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I think at one point the official story was that it contained his parents' ashes.
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Mar 4, 2011 10:25
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I vaguely remember a match between Undertaker and Kurt Angle that ended by Angle hiding under the ring, Undertaker dragging him back out and going for the pin buuuut SURPRISE it's not Kurt Angle but rather Kurt Angle's identically dressed brother or cousin or something who he was going to introduce later this evening. So thanks for ruining the surprise Undertaker! Must have been at one of the big PPVs. My question is twofold: who came up with this bollocks, and did anything ever come of it? (And "where did that happen" too I guess so threefold.)
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Mar 10, 2011 10:08
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Manwithastick posted:Not sure if it counts but apparently Los Ice Creams is whoever is spare backstage that night (Mostly Quack) For what it's worth a lot of the time one of them reminds me of Hallowicked.
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May 2, 2011 17:37
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Satire Forum Mom posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cHefF4FmHg
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May 12, 2011 15:25
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I remember someone posted the Stigma/Hydra(UMB/Delirious one some time ago but only pointed out Delirious. Who is pretty much the one guy in the picture who stays completely recognizable.
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Jun 12, 2011 09:09
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Is there seriously no other wrestling-related person with a birthday on December 16th than William "The Refrigerator" Perry? Frankly I think that's stretching more than a bit. Oh well at least no one can take Bill Hicks away from me.
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Jul 21, 2011 18:01
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Delirious doesn't seem to be around quite as much as he used to, either. The biggest themed events each year are King of Trios (the big one, amultiple day tournament with teams of three, usually they go all out for this and bring in people from all over the world), Young Lions Cup (singles tournament, more or less a rookie showcase) and Cibernetico (16-man elimination match with two teams of eight). Season finale shows tend to be pretty interesting too as they bring storylines to a close.
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Sep 13, 2011 06:19
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Wheresmy5bucks posted:There's nothing more extreme than stairs/chairs/sledgehammers in the modern day, but I'm fairly sure that anything Foley used was legit - thumbtacks, barbed wire, etc. *barbed wire 2x4 comes out* Buddy: "Oh poo poo, but that's a prop, right?" *barbed wire 2x4 visibly gets caught in Foley's shirt* Buddy:  Although I do remember reading that at least in WWF/WWE, the tips of the bars were always blunted. I thought that made sense back then but I'm not so sure anymore if anyone would go to the trouble of grabbing a wire cutter and snipping off hundreds of tiny barbs when neither of the guys in the ring would probably care either way. e: the German commentators would always stress how ladders, traffic signs and chairs were actually very light aluminum to verbally take the edge of the action. Always thought that was really odd. The original commentators didn't do that sort of thing, did they? My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Jan 28, 2012 |
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Jan 28, 2012 13:14
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I can't imagine it's very easy to walk that line between downplaying the action for the network's conscience's sake and not breaking kayfabe. Zapf and Schäfer definitely were/are huge tools though. Oh man, remember how they'd switch to black and white once things got bloody or cut to the crowd/freeze-framed the video right before high imapct moves? Bloody ridiculous. Once they started that poo poo I pretty much quit watching. ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:if you go back and watch the match again, they switch out the 2x4s. Foley got clobbered with the real one, and HHH was gouged with the plastic tipped one and apparently regretted it because it looked poo poo
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Quarex posted:Then you have Umaga ... and, well, pretty much any Samoan wrestler, wearing tribal gear and/or being incoherent
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flashy_mcflash posted:How would you play the Million Dollar Man/JBL/Del Rio aristocrat gimmick as a babyface?
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I think one of the reasons that Heyman fought for the CM Punk gimmick is he saw the other stuff that Punk was offered: One was a gimmick where he'd be deaf.
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triplexpac posted:The other time I can remember him taking a Titantron bump was when Steve Blackman knocked him off. Everyone just remembers that as "that time Shane fell off the tron" not "that time Steve Blackman knocked Shane off the tron"
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Convenient to throw under the bus in the event he'd gently caress up and kill Shane?
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Does Charles Wright count? He didn't wear a mask as Papa Shango, but the make-up was extensive enough that you would never know who was under it. I believe it went Papa Shango, Kama the Supreme Fighting Machine, Kama Mustafa, the Godfather, the Goodfather, the Godfather. How about Dennis Knight, who first was in WWF as pig farmer Phineas I. Godwinn and later as Mideon? God if there's one thing I don't miss from 90s wrestling it's that naming scheme. Anyway not exactly main event material, but definitely known names if you followed the WWF during those times. I would also mention Nelson Frazier as Mabel and Viscera but you did mention unidentifiable and, well, let's not kid ourselves. e: Al Snow? Started out as Avatar and became somewhat well-known as Leif Cassidy before the Al Snow gimmick. My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Sep 8, 2012 |
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Frot Lesnar posted:A friend used to work in their video department
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Domalom posted:35 bin bags full of Betamax tapes with 'WCW' written on the side.
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CBJSprague24 posted:(pay the wrestlers and staff)
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Sydney Bottocks posted:They sure did!
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Our reasoning for trying wrestling holds on each other in school was usually "they say it's fake, well let's put that to the test and see which of those actually hurts." In true kid wrestling fan fashion we didn't think things all the way through. I'm just glad we stuck to holds, honestly.
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Thauros posted:I'm honestly surprised CHIKARA's never done one, that would a perfect gimmick for them. At the very least it would have been a cool temporary thing when Mantis had the eye of Tyr with the obvious MGS tie-in. That match practically writes itself.
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If you'd asked me a month or even just a week ago what the chances were of me ever crowdsourcing information about Sean Waltman's rear end in a top hat in a public place we probably would have transitioned to not being on speaking terms quite quickly, but here I am reading all those quips about it in every thread and getting the feeling I missed something and drat if that's not exactly what I'm doing right now. e: kind of figures that I'd notice someone asked the exact same thing in the assholes thread right after I put this poo poo on the internet forever My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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Mar 28, 2013 07:16
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Blindly guessing, but Nash had just left and they needed a tall guy?
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EugeneJ posted:Ludvig Borga served in Finland's parliament I think Sidenote: with the ridiculous number of cross-referencing categories his wikipedia entry has ("Finnish sportsperson-politicians", "Professional wrestlers who committed suicide") you'd think there was one for wrestlers that became politicians. But maybe that sportsperson-politician one leads somewhere.
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And further, do ban people if it's the smart thing to do even if an evil corporation wouldn't.
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quote:simply decided wrestling "wasn't the right career for her"
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