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Crossposted from the WWE thread:Castomira posted:I don't consider Moolah to have ever taken part in Women's Wrestling. I mentally sequester everything I know about her into its own terrible classification simply called "Moolah Bullshit." VogeGandire posted:Yeah, but a pretty good case could be made for her being the sole reason women's wrestling is not taken seriously outside of Japan.
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Has there ever been a woman wrestler who could legitimately be compared to CM Punk in terms of mic ability? I've been thinking about the couple dozen or so Diva vignettes and promos I've seen since I got into wrestling, and it occurred to me that there haven't really been many women in the WWE who ever really got great on the mic. I remember Ivory being pretty good, Trish being the best of a narrow field, and now AJ Lee, but not really anybody else. Is there any woman wrestler in any promotion who people could reasonably call the best?
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Sep 5, 2013 20:35
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Supreme Allah posted:Vicki Guerrero As good as she is, I'm trying not to compare wrestlers to managers with this question.
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Sep 5, 2013 21:04
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Does the WWE not do Lumberjack matches anymore? I can't think of the last time I've even seen one...
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Sep 6, 2013 21:33
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kidcoelacanth posted:Literally like two months ago at Payback. 
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Sep 6, 2013 21:40
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Does the WWE still include banned/controlled moves in their video games, like the various piledrivers, frankensteiners, vertebreaker, et al? What about politically stigmatized moves, like the diving headbutt or crippler crossface?
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Sep 7, 2013 12:40
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Jack Krauser posted:I don't see why the crossface and diving headbutt would still be missing from the games when Daniel Bryan exists. Isn't Bryan's crossface different from Benoit's though? And I thought the diving headbutt was shunned because of its role in concussions and neck injuries.
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Sep 7, 2013 14:07
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budreck posted:I cannot figure out how a PG show geared towards kids airs until 11pm. It's a school night and most kids shouldn't be up that late. It's only 11 PM on the East Coast. Here in Hawaii it ends at like 4 PM.
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Sep 8, 2013 07:21
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In 2000, did the WWF try to solicit Rulon Gardner to become a professional wrestler and enter a program with Kurt Angle? I vaguely remember reading reports about this happening, but I was like twelve at the time.
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Sep 11, 2013 18:55
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Were there ever any Jakked/Metal matches that could honestly be said to be three stars or higher? I've been reading through the match results for the various shows and it's remarkable how boring I remember the matches being, even as a grade schooler.
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Sep 15, 2013 02:55
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What, exactly, is the commentating style of Carlos Cabrera and Marcelo Rodríguez like? I don't speak a word of Spanish so I don't have any way of appreciating it, but I've often wondered if their commentary is better than Cole and Lawler's to a bilingual fan. Is Rodríguez a heel? Does he have character traits, or is he more generic? Do they do translation when a wrestler is cutting a promo in English?
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Sep 16, 2013 19:22
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Has anybody ever been DQ'ed in a Royal Rumble match? What's the kayfabe reason why somebody doesn't just bring in a steel chair and whirlwind everybody in the ring with it?
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Sep 24, 2013 13:48
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rappinrodney.ogg posted:The WCW Power Plant was a shitbox that provided an insane physical regimen and little else
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Sep 27, 2013 06:14
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Did Justin Gabriel ever do anything that got him in trouble with the booking staff? I can't imagine why he'd be a jobber so consistently, other than that he puts heels over well.
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Sep 28, 2013 02:02
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oatgan posted:The best spears come from guys who used to play football and actually know how to tackle someone. Now I wish Summer Rae's finisher was a spear. 
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Oct 4, 2013 17:59
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I hesitate to ask a question about Colt Cabana because they always seem to result in a derail, but have Raven or Goldberg ever corroborated his stories (or provided their own) about facing antisemitism while employed with the WWE?
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Oct 23, 2013 18:43
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I honestly don't know if I can think of a more hilarious way for two men to plunge to their deaths.
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Oct 23, 2013 20:26
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What was the deal with the WCW Light Heavyweight championship? I can't even begin to imagine who thought it would have been a good idea to introduce a new belt and then completely get rid of it a year later.
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Nov 4, 2013 02:13
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Is there any kind of pro wrestling culture in mainland China? I ask because I know a decent amount about the PRC and have never heard anybody from China talk about anything even resembling pro wrestling. Has the WWE ever done tours, house shows, etc there?
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Nov 14, 2013 12:04
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"One Two, This on?" is probably my favorite stinger of all time, and I'm not even a fan of HHH.
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Nov 24, 2013 07:29
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To what extent can the blame for the 2000-2001 phenomenon of "X-Pac heat" actually be placed on Sean Waltman? I hated him back then, but the more I hear about him nowadays, the more sympathetic I'm becoming to his situation at that time, especially because in retrospect he actually had a ton of really good matches. Was somebody deliberately keeping him stale because it was safe, or was it his idea to keep beating the Wolfpac/DX horse long after anybody gave a poo poo? I mean, the Acolytes and Mideon/Viscera in 2000 were both relics of defunct 1998/1999 angles, but they both got reinvented eventually. X-Pac never really did. Also, was "Bossman heat" ever really a thing? I never remember him getting anything but honest heel heat, even during the Magic Coffin Ride phase of his career, and he seemed fine as a toady for the McMahon-Helmsley Regime. Then again, I never saw Ray Traylor when he was in WCW so I have no idea how lovely he was in that run.
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Nov 28, 2013 12:33
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What demographics in Japan are most into NJPW, et al? Is it mostly 20 to 40 year old adult males, or is its popularity more universal? What are the chances some random middle school girl knows the name of, say, Okada?
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Dec 1, 2013 01:27
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Has Bray Wyatt actually been announced as being from Lafayette, Louisiana since leaving developmental? I know that Erick Rowan and Luke Harper being from Snake Bight hasn't been brought up.
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Dec 13, 2013 11:15
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Has either of the Usos ever been booked in a singles match? It's funny to me how, more than any two wrestlers in WWE right now, they're treated as a hivemind.
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Dec 17, 2013 17:05
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flashy_mcflash posted:I have definitely seen them in singles matches though and they're not as good as their tag matches.
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Dec 17, 2013 17:29
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flashy_mcflash posted:Oh I found it, it was this episode of Slam:
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Dec 17, 2013 18:21
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If I'm ever in Atlanta, is it worth it to check out Abdullah's restaurant? Is it even still around?
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Dec 19, 2013 09:24
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This has been bugging me for a while: Is there any kind of consistent logic to a professional wrestler's decision to wear a singlet, underwear-style tights, or pants-style tights? When I was a kid I thought that it was just the chiseled guys wore small tights, but there are plenty of ripped guys (Scott Steiner, et al) who wear pants. Plus you have dudes like Regal who never really looked great in the underwear-style tights, but wear them anyway. Is it just a matter of personal preference, or is there some method to it?
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Dec 28, 2013 19:19
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Has anybody ever actually used the Death Star as a finisher? It seems like too realistic a hold to ever actually use in pro wrestling, but I've seen it listed places as a pro wrestling submission.
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Dec 30, 2013 14:43
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I've been watching some 1997 PPVs lately, and I have to ask, is there some reason WWE seems to have completely forgotten Ken Shamrock ever existed? They never promote any of his matches on their YouTube channel, never bring him up on commentary or anything, and despite being in ostensibly pretty great shape (by wrestler standards,) he's never showed up on a nostalgia show or as a surprise Rumble entrant or anything. Did he burn his bridge with WWE or quietly go crazy or something?
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Jan 1, 2014 00:03
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MassRafTer posted:Ken Shamrock went very crazy
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Jan 1, 2014 00:14
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I'm continuing to watch 1997 WWF, and what was the deal with Scott Putski? I saw him pop up on an old Raw, and apparently he was gone before too long, despite being a second-generation wrestler with a Batista-esque physique. You'd think that'd be somebody WWF would have wanted to push, and... I've never even heard of him. What happened there? VVVV: Ah. Castomira fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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Jan 2, 2014 13:20
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CopywrightMMXI posted:It should also be noted that the really bad part of 1995 was during Diesel's reign as champ. Things drastically improved after he lost the title in November.
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Jan 3, 2014 15:43
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Do WWE matches still technically have time limits? I know that obviously there's no chance that it would ever actually matter, but are they even still implied to exist, or in kayfabe is it just understood that matches can hypothetically go on all day?
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Jan 6, 2014 21:05
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Writer Cath posted:Which cliches do you guys hate?
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Jan 10, 2014 01:44
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Supreme Allah posted:I didn't forget about this, I'm still looking but any combination of words after 'CM punk promo' bring up pages of talk about his famous promos. I tried 'punk promo bumps match', 'punk promo long', and a bunch of crap. I'll pick it up later because I know it came up in a GDT when it happened. In hindsight, that was a good thing, because the match was pretty great and it was Jericho's last match before his departure anyway.
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Jan 11, 2014 10:02
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I remember reading a consensus on a wrestling forum back in 2000 or so that at least one of the lyrics in Test's theme song was "Hey Kevin Nash, you don't got any come."
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Jan 23, 2014 19:13
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The New Age Outlaws only narrowly took the record for longest time between title reigns from Fabulous Moolah, right? She held the record of thirteen years (by pinning Ivory in 1999) until this year's Rumble. Or am I mistaken?
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Jan 30, 2014 08:30
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Hockles posted:It's gotta be Backlund.
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When's the last time anybody used brass knuckles in WWE? Did their disappearance (if there truly was a disappearance) coincide with the switch to PG, or did it have something to do with the legality of brass knuckles in general?
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