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Golden Bee posted:JTG is small AND flippy. Shad is large and also in charge. That's why they work so well together! Are there any other nobodys/internally developed talents that WWE has allowed to use their real names for?
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Paul Revere 3000 posted:There's these two schmoes called John Cena and Randy Orton that use their own names, but they probably don't have any big plans for those guys anyway. I'm surprised they let anybody keep their real name, after how Lesnar and Angle have jumped ship. It seems like the only way they keep it is if they were brought in as a somebody from another discipline (like Henry and Angle being Olympians, and Lesnar's collegiate success)
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CVagts posted:There's really no way for me to ask this without sounding insulting, but...did Sandman ever have formal training on how to be a wrestler? He was more in shape for the ECW revival in 2006 than he was back in 1996-97, and I don't remember any of his matches not being a clusterfuck of weapon spots (this worked in ECW back then; I'm just curious).
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Where did the term "John Cena's Stupid Team of Idiots" come from? Was this on a show or just a PSP thing?
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As I recall, one of the few times HHH used a gimmicked sledgehammer, he legit popped out one of Mick Foley's kneecaps. I remember this because after the refs threw the "X" for real medics, Trips came back out and kept attacking Mick to give a storyline reason why he was going away. It's the little things like that that make me love him (mick foley that is  )
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bobkatt013 posted:I am pretty sure Steen does not do steroids. Is ham a steroid?
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm honestly amazed Stallone has never done any WWF programming. I just watched the GLOW documentary on Netflix, and it was really amazing that they basically took actresses and turned them into wrestlers in a matter of weeks. Also, that Ivory was a GLOW girl. They really nailed the fun and storytelling of wrestling, and I don't know that you could do what they did again today with that level of success. Really bittersweet movie without a really big happy ending. Mount Fiji  EDIT: Adding question: If I wanted to get into professional wrestling as a booker or promoter, and there are no local promotions near me (Seattle), what are my options? How would I even break in? Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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sleepingbuddha posted:Seriously? I'm from a podunk town of 16,000 that has a local promotion. If Seattle really has no minor league, then you could do really well starting one, I'd hope. We had TCW (Tulalip Championship Wrestling) which broke even doing shows out of the casino, but they folded and now there's nothing in the area. There's a wrestling school in Everett that I think does shows just of their grads as part of their training, but nothing with a gate and more than 8-10 friends and family. Seattle might just be too smart for wrestling to take hold. Then again...
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Batista's original face turn in Evolution was pretty great. He started out as the silent enforcer in Evolution, was instrumental in destroying Randy Orton after his first title win (the iconic "thumbs down" moment from Trips to Electric Chair Drop Orton, immortalized in dinosaur form), then the slowly-growing rift between him and Trips/Haitch, culminating in Batista giving a thumbs-up to challenge not-HHH in a title match, only to give a thumbs-down at the end (a neat callback) and then he becomes a face by turning on Evolution. It was really, really well done, and it's the last time a slow-burn paid off so handsomely.
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Spikeguy posted:I've been on a Tajiri kick with the Network. Any recommendation of matches with him at his most scheme-y? Three-Way Dance at One Night Stand 05 (Tajiri/Super-Crazy/Little Guido) is amazing. But really just watch both of those shows (05 and 06), because they're awesome. Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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You're forgetting the rambling, nonsensical and TV-14 promo about the Kansas City Crackhead that tagged along in the car the Rock stole to joyride in, and isn't the Rock awesome guys? 
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Only once.  I'd say Dreamer was a face for 99% of his life, but I have no idea what he got up to in TNA
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STAC Goat posted:Awesome won the title off Taz in a three way dance in an impromptu match on Taz's last night before he left for WWF. A couple of months later Awesome signed with WCW and showed up on Nitro while still champ, not dropping the belt first like Taz did. Is it just a booking thing, how come certain people just go together?
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Manwithastick posted:What are some of the best WWE ideas dropped almost immediately?
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triplexpac posted:Speaking of great stuff WWE dropped, they used to have this really cool prediction game on their site. You'd pick guys and they would get points based on wins, appearances, finishers hit, weapons used, etc. It was awesome. Oh man I loved the WWE Fantasy GM game. Sooooo good. Broken as poo poo when you got 3 pts per weapon shot and had Sandman on your team 
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Die Laughing posted:""On the sixth day, God created Mankind. He must not have been having a very
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The Grey posted:There was one fan that had a white t-shirt on, and it immediately becomes red because Spike's blood was smeared all over it.
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Who is the worst 'spectacle' wrestler of all time? King Kong Bundy? Giant Gonzales? Great Khali?
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Rusty Shackelford posted:Giant Gonzales by far. I don't know why you would consider Bundy in that list. The only King Kong Bundy match I've ever seen was Wrestlemania III, and he (and that match) were real bad. He's just a paler Big Daddy V at that point.
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I'm not saying Wrestling is racist, but is there a single Person of Color who debuted in the last 10 years to win a major championship (WWE, World Heavyweight or, god help us, TNA Title)? Sure, Booker T and Rock have been champ, but they debuted long before that. I'm talking about anyone newer. I am aware that AJ Lee, Big E and the Usos all have belts, and that's nice (though I don't think they've ever mentioned that April is Latina), but I mean a real PoC with the top belt.
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Rusty Shackelford posted:Bobby Lashley & Ezekiel Jackson were both ECW champions.  TenaciousJ posted:Does Del Rio count? 
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PUNKS DIET SODA posted:Speaking of race stuff, how many of the posters here are non-whiteys? You mean it wasn't exciting to have three great Mexican superstars come out to the ring riding "Juan Deer" tractors?
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AlmightyPants posted:After seeing that the Usos got the tag titles a question popped into my mind: How many twins in tag teams have ever gone on to to do anything other than win the tag titles? Kayfabe twins or real twins? I think one of the Bashams was an IC champ at one point, or maybe he was just in The Cabinet.
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Hockles posted:When was the last time a non "Superstars/Main Event" type of match ended on some run of the mill move and not someone's finisher? Like a superplex or a guillotine on the top rope? I see it happen like 1/5 of the time on the late 80s PPVs new page
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Pinstripe Hourglass posted:Wait, I thought that got settled? I'm sure I've seen and heard "WWF" plenty of times on the Network... They might have done something as monumentally stupid as blurring the masters back in the 90s when that was a thing, and no longer have a non-blurred version.
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VogeGandire posted:Enter Sandman, purely to make ONS05 CORRECT.
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Writer Cath posted:If Lemmy was so close to Hunter, he'd have been in his wedding party
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MassRafTer posted:gently caress, why do I always think that match happened more recently than it did. Yo that match is real, real good too. I watched it last year and by the end I was so into it, I was like, "gently caress, no, Bob Orton's gonna kill the streak! Not this way!" completely ignoring that a decade has passed. Undertaker and Orton were/are real good at fake graps.
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omgomgomg posted:Did Lawler ever mention that he was Grand Master Sexy's father? Or billy gunn mention dolph ziggler? Did either ever got upset with their children's status in the company? Billy Gunn and Ziggler have both referred to Gunn as Ziggler's "Wrestledad" on Twitter.
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Ty1990 posted:God drat that looks dangerous. You should see Andre's tombstone then. He gets a running start.
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Solomonic posted:One thing I do have a question about is Mr. Kennedy's "repeat the last name" gimmick. I'm guessing it has to be a reference to something - I have the Wrestling Gold collection and they occasionally do it there, too, and I remember in the first few UFCs Rich Goins would do it as well. What was the reason for repeating the name? Kennedy Kennedy.
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Vertigo Ambrosia posted:What exactly is a stinger anyway? I've never heard the term before. A pinched nerve in your SPINE
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fatherdog posted:"pedophile" specifically refers to loving children pre-puberty. loving women under 18 doesn't make you a pedophile, it makes you a super-loving-creepy dude. Ah yes, the "What about the ephebophiles!  " defense
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Khali was actually pretty great in Get Smart, better than WWE alum The Rock who was also in that movie and not very good.
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MassRafTer posted:CM Punk vs John Cena, That Raw Match Everyone Loves
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Dimebags Brain posted:I've already got WWE covered, but my knowledge of stuff outside WWE is woefully inadequate. Could I get some help with stuff from NJPW and ROH, and other Feds that fit the criteria above and happened in the past 3-4 years? Also, if I had to show him just one Tanahashi/Okada match which one should it be? Not joking, it's the Manos: The Hands of Fate of wrestling matches. It is so excreble that your friend will be able to endure any amount of pain from other shows that occasionally don't live up to their potential, just by being able to say "It was still better than that Crazzy Steve/Kaz match"
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Web Jew.0 posted:Do you guys (or Dave or Bryan) have a theory as to why Alberto Del Rio never gets good crowd reactions? He's great in the ring, great on the mic, and been pushed to the moon. I love his douchey mannerisms and he always delivers. What gives? Del Rio was great when he was Mexican JBL that killed Santa. Now, he's literally nothing. Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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Do (or will) wrestlers have rehab matches in NXT (and previously in OVW/FCW), the way pitchers have rehab starts with the Toledo Mud Hens before returning to the main roster? Or once the doctor clears them do they immediately go on the road and add that stress to their comeback?
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Right, it just seems like it'd be healthier (and more productive) to rent a hotel in Orlando for a month and do a bunch of rehab matches in one location without the added stress of having to find a gym and eat road food and drive 8 hours a day and the like.
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fatherdog posted:Technically, you're not allowed to tag in unless you're holding the string. It's nominally to make sure tags only take place in "the corner". One of the best spots of all time involved the tag rope, actually. Bubba Ray Dudly kept running in to mess with the pin/help beat down Scotty 2 Hotty or someone, and the ref said "if you let go of that tag rope again without getting tagged in, I'm disqualifying you" Two minutes later, Bubba Ray runs in to hit a Bubba Bomb or something, the ref points at him, and he holds up the tag rope, which he has untied from the turnbuckle and is still holding.
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