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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBfELfPyLvs Looks like that's also a trash can lid instead of a chair, which I suppose is a bit safer but he still gets brained with that thing. It's not even the most horrifying spot in this match, though, that german and that diving headbutt... 
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The DX vs. McMahons feud in 2006 was terrible and unfunny for the most part, but DX showing this clip on the 'tron and Triple H doing his best impression of Vince's dancing was beautiful.  Jerry Lawler's reactions to the whole thing were also pretty great, for once he sounded like he genuinely found it hilarious.
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The best part of that quote:Chavo deserves to be pushed so much more 
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I hated the "You're Gonna Pay" theme, partly due to the awful lyrics but mainly because Bikertaker circa 2003 was the worst (Michael Cole's "OH MY, VINTAGE UNDERTAKER" commentary did not help). That said, the instrumental version he had during his 2002 heel run was pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzgS15w0Ae8 He seemed to use at least a couple of different versions of the instrumental as well, but this is the one I'm most familiar with since it was in SD: Shut Your Mouth.
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Good Listener posted:I'm trying to remember when he started doing the STF, was it during a feud with Angle? It seems like when you face a submission wrestler for a while, you magically learn one like Edge's sharpshooter or Sheamus's cloverleaf.
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Oh yeah, I completely forgot Chris Masters was involved in that match.
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DeathChicken posted:Somewhere along the line he beat Sabu with it, which given it's Sabu might be the most bullshit thing ever. "I shrugged off losing half my arm to barbed wire, but man, this loose STF is too much!"  I had forgotten that too why did you remind me oh god2005-06 was not a good time to watch WWE if you liked anyone that wasn't Cena. (Okay, that's a slight exaggeration but seeing him steamroll over everyone during that SuperCena run was absolutely soul-crushing) DMorbid fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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Expected this when I clicked the link, wasn't disappointed. I've always liked Goldust's theme myself.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:How many wrestlers have worked through a match after sustaining a severe injury that they should definitely have stopped for? As an example, I don't know his name, that Japanese guy who broke his arm in the middle of the match then invented the Ganso Bomb because he couldn't lift the other guy for a powerbomb. I also know of Austin/Hart though that's kind of borderline since the match didn't really "continue". In another match a few years later, she destroyed her knee on a metal guardrail while doing a plancha and couldn't walk, so obviously she tied a bandage around her leg and dragged herself back into the ring. She apparently wasn't able to finish that match, but it was certainly not for the lack of trying.
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Yuriy posted:sounds like she's loving retarded edit: to be fair Akira Hokuto loving owns, but that poo poo was still dumb as hell
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I wanted to see the verbal debate.  The main thing I remember from that angle was Coach trotting out Goldust and Vader (who looked like he weighed a metric ton) to act as his muscle, mostly because that was also when Vader fell on his rear end while exiting the ring.
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Germansimp posted:That was just pure stupidity, even for CZW. Let me guess, that move probably didn't even end the match, right?
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CoolCat posted:I really want to see short Japanese HBK... wait, wrong Japanese HBK (seriously though, that theme is a proclick)
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remusclaw posted:There should definitely be a mini era for that dreadful period where Raw all about guest hosts. Of course, depending on who you ask, that era is still going strong. 
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THOSE INTIMIDATING PUSH-UPS FROM THE BIG BAD BOOTY DADDY  I don't remember if that was in the promo but it should have been.
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Heavy Metal posted:Did it originate somewhere? Googling "mans meme" doesn't help me out. Is there a legendary web comic that invented this mans meme or something?
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He also played a marine in a movie. That's the same thing, right?  (seriously, he started doing that poo poo around the time The Marine was coming out)
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checksin posted:What's the actual chronology of the Tiger Driver? I've seen that move described three different ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVvofWP8sqI Tiger Driver '91 starts from the same position as the original one, but obviously ends with the head drop we all know. Misawa introduced that variation in a match with Akira Taue in, well, 1991. Tiger Driver '98 is entirely an American indy thing, I believe.
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Today I learned that Fozzy has a song called "One Crazed Anarchist". Sadly, it's not a version of Jericho's Pearl Jam ripoff WCW theme, which would have been infinitely better.
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Yeah, I figured, that's why I brought it up. Speaking of Jericho's WCW music, it always weirds me out when I watch a show on the Network and the song's been dubbed over with Break the Walls Down. I understand why they had to overdub it, of course, but hearing his WWE theme on a WCW show just doesn't sound right. 
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Jerusalem posted:I recall Chris Jericho coming out ONCE to a really weird song called "King of my World" and then from the next week they were just back to Break the Walls Down.  It debuted at Survivor Series 2002 with Saliva performing the song live during Jericho's entrance (sadly I couldn't find a video on Youtube, but it's probably on the Network version of the PPV), and then he used the studio recording the next night on RAW. The song was actually written by Jim Johnston, so it wasn't just a case of WWE advertising the new Saliva album (which they did by using "Always" as the Survivor Series 2002 theme) and they probably meant for it to actually replace "Break the Walls Down" as Jericho's theme.A couple of years later, Jericho used Fozzy's "Don't You Wish You Were Me?" from the WWE Originals album for... maybe two or three weeks? I thought that was a perfect fit for his obnoxious wannabe rock star persona at the time, but of course it didn't stick either. Honestly, I've never been a fan of "Break the Walls Down" because I've always thought an old school rock and metal guy like Jericho should have a more... well, rocking theme song.
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My favorite thing about the Gimmick Battle Royal (aside from Heenan's "By the time Sheik makes it to the ring, it'll be Wrestlemania 38") was Nikolai Volkoff coming out to the Finnish national anthem instead of the Russian one. You'd think they'd get this one right since Volkoff used to sing the anthem before every match, but ehh, close enough, I guess.
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Kennel posted:I don't know what it is, but it's not Finnish anthem.
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Good to know I'm not going crazy, then.
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I always thought the springboard flying rear end Rey Mysterio started using when he couldn't do the West Coast Pop anymore (due to always fighting bigger guys and/or his knees exploding) looked hilariously terrible.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Can't wait for Takeover Azerbaijan
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Hockles posted:Wait, is that like when Austin hands you a beer?
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Tazz also had some prior commentary experience from ECW, working with Joey Styles while healing up from an injury. He did a pretty good job in the booth, and I remember Joey introducing him at one point by saying "My broadcast partner is called Peter Senerca, but you know him better as... Taz" edit: Also, speaking of Jerry Lawler's anti-ECW stuff, I really didn't like it when they brought back that shtick in 2006. Back in the 90s, Lawler was this obnoxious rear end in a top hat heel so of course he'd bury ECW and everything involving it, but by 2006 he was firmly a face announcer who would make lame jokes and talk about puppies. When he'd go on an anti-ECW tirade, it felt really weird and forced because everyone knew ECW was a WWE brand now, and when he was done ranting about Extremely Crappy Wrestling and bingo halls he'd go right back to his normal face persona. DMorbid fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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extradite THIS! posted:And this was in Finland where we didn't get ECW at all, so Tazz would've been known to us only for the time he was in WWF. (talk about extremely crappy wrestling  )
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Halloween Jack posted:The best thing about Pumaman is that his mystical abilities give him all the powers of a puma--seeing in the dark, super-strong claws, sensing danger, flying, and teleporting.
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I totally forgot Viscera and Rosey died. Hayabusa is the one that hit me the hardest on that list, he was one of my all-time favorites and had just recently regained enough mobility to walk into the ring one last time. 
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forkboy84 posted:Yeah, watching old PWG, you can tell 2003 is like a whole different world away from where we're at today. Excalibur & Disco Machine on commentary could often come across as racist, homophobic, although a lot of it was also just reminiscent of the type of edgy "humour" white guys in their early 20s would go for because pushing boundaries was fun and it all felt free of consequence and largely harmless, and then you got a bit older and you look back on it and oh god it's embarrassing and a bit horrifying you ever thought it was funny. And yeah, it wasn't just the commentary, Chris Bosh among other of the wrestlers could be very uhhhhhhh early 2000s Internet edgy.
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I still remember people wanting Kennedy to beat the Undertaker's streak. No, really, that was a thing for a while.
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I didn't even find Kennedy's shtick all that great at the time, to be honest. His entrance gimmick was fun for a little while because he had a great ring announcer voice, but that poo poo got old fast and I don't remember any of his actual promo work being particularly good, or his wrestling for that matter. He certainly wasn't as bad in the ring or on the mic as some of the other guys WWE was pushing at the time, but I never saw him as more than an upper midcarder at best.
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BGrifter posted:
Man, that's awful. Poor guy.
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I used to burn a bunch of CD-Rs like that to introduce my friends to older and/or non-WWE wrestling stuff. I wonder if I still have those discs somewhere.
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When I started watching in 2001, Chris Jericho was my favorite wrestler from day one and I continued to cheer him when he turned heel and won the WCW title from The Rock, and then when he won the undisputed championship later on. I think I finally started to boo him during the feud with HHH because HOLY poo poo TRIPLE H IS SO COOL  Obviously, Jericho was also booked as a total geek loser and doing stupid bullshit with Steph at that point, which was about a million times less entertaining than I was used to, so I just kinda gave up on him for a while. Of course he soon became one of my favorites again, when I started to understand how wrestling works.As for booing faces, I don't think I had a particularly negative reaction to anyone. I started to find Bikertaker kind of lame by 2003, but I didn't actively hate him or anything even though I'd been reading forum comments about how much he sucked. I couldn't stand Cena a couple of years later, but by that point I was firmly an internet fan so that was kind of expected.
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Edge & Christian posted:My first exposure to Super Dragon was some video from like ten years ago with a fake Super Dragon that I remember being like Bastion Booger sized threatening to come back.
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Randaconda posted:Vince totally knew, and had made a deal not to use the WWF initials overseas because of it, but since Vince thinks contracts only applies when he wants them to, he ignored it and (rightfully) got spanked in court.
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