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EugeneJ posted:He had a big feud with Bruno Sammartino in WWE We mustn't forget his most important role, as "Crusher" Larry Zbysko in Paul E Dangerously's Dangerous Alliance
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Also AWA World champ for a chunk of the 80s
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BrigadierSensible posted:I thought the "X on a pole" match was designed to get all the drama and tension of a ladder match, (will they/wont they manage to get the thing), but at a greatly reduced risk of injury. Right, and that's kind of the larger point about Russo - occasionally entertaining things happened during his booking stints but most of the time they were by chance rather than design, because he never really understood what he was doing.
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DeathChicken posted:Also AWA World champ for a chunk of the 80s
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Mongo's dog for HOF
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Russo really loves props, and "on a pole" match are all about the props.
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ChrisBTY posted:Is there a nicer way to say 'He made Sid suck less than he had for his entire career up until that point' Sid's 1996 in the WWF was better than anything in his WCW run.  Ironically when Russo became head writer in 1997, Sid lost anything that made him cool.
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A joke in the ADR?Paige thread made me think of this: Did WCW ever make merchandise of Buff's really cool top hat? Did they make other wrestler hats? Similarly, when they de-masked Rey, (to make him more marketable hehe), and put him in the Filthy Animals with the stupid horns, could fans buy versions of said stupid horns?
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BrigadierSensible posted:Did WCW ever make merchandise of Buff's really cool top hat? I don't know about selling his hat in a larger way, but Buff's hat was sold on that QVC special that he hosted.
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RZApublican posted:I don't know about selling his hat in a larger way, but Buff's hat was sold on that QVC special that he hosted. Not mass-producing that hat lost them a big merch opportunity imo, I'd have bought the poo poo out of that hat
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BrigadierSensible posted:A joke in the ADR?Paige thread made me think of this: IIRC, they didn't even sell replica Rey masks, which is baffling
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Buffs hat was responsible for 95% of his success
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That hat was the reason why I liked Buff back then. That, and the Blockbuster.
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They took the mask off Rey because they thought it made him less marketable, so they didn't sell replica masks and by the same token I really doubt they sold those horns.
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Halloween Jack posted:They took the mask off Rey because they thought it made him less marketable, so they didn't sell replica masks and by the same token I really doubt they sold those horns. Fair enough, I don't remember ever seeing any. My thinking was if they do X to him to make him more marketable, (mask gone, horns here), then maybe they would try and market thing X. Follow up question. The horns were stupid sure enough, but were they dangerous? I don't know whaty they were made out of, or if they were hard or soft or rubbery or whatever. Did Rey ever injure himself or anyone else wearing them? Or even, did they come off during a match in a humourous and inept manner?
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I think WCW sold Rey masks after he was unmasked.
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MassRafTer posted:I think WCW sold Rey masks after he was unmasked. That should have been in wcw.txt
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According to a super legitimate poll on my Twitter Page, MassRafTer will now have to decorate his car to look like Grave Digger.
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BrigadierSensible posted:A joke in the ADR?Paige thread made me think of this: 
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I need a Kevin Nash hat. By...Thursday.
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I mean, at least that's in keeping with other wrestlers' action figures ringing up as Hogan's at the cash register.
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I found one on ebay, but they can't get it to me in time. There's lots of DDP ones, though, and I could get it delivered to my hotel in Orlando, but I realized wearing that would be a real dick move to the person behind me.
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Writer Cath posted:According to a super legitimate poll on my Twitter Page, MassRafTer will now have to decorate his car to look like Grave Digger. How in the crap did Meng not win that poll?
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Is this our new Hulk Hogan raft?
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That shirt was printed for an exclusive crowd, only two people were given the shirts - Sting and Robocop
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astrollinthepork posted:I want to watch Nitro since I totally skipped it as a kid. What would be a good starting point? You could join us tomorrow for the start of the Sullivan 2000 era for a really bad starting point.
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Halloween Jack posted:I mean, at least that's in keeping with other wrestlers' action figures ringing up as Hogan's at the cash register.
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astrollinthepork posted:I want to watch Nitro since I totally skipped it as a kid. What would be a good starting point? The night after Uncensored '96 isn't a bad one since it's right about when the Outsiders angle starts, you see some of the most awful moments of the tail end of Hulk's initial babyface run, and also you miss the Uncensored '96 cage match which sucks rear end. (if you happen to be doing a RAW/Nitro simultaneous marathon, you also miss the Michaels/Hart ironman match which also sucks rear end)
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MassRafTer posted:You could join us tomorrow for the start of the Sullivan 2000 era for a really bad starting point. Feels Villeneuve posted:The night after Uncensored '96 isn't a bad one since it's right about when the Outsiders angle starts, you see some of the most awful moments of the tail end of Hulk's initial babyface run, and also you miss the Uncensored '96 cage match which sucks rear end. (if you happen to be doing a RAW/Nitro simultaneous marathon, you also miss the Michaels/Hart ironman match which also sucks rear end)
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astrollinthepork posted:This sounds terrible. Just start from the Memorial Day Nitro in 96 so you can see the start of the angle and skip the horrible build and fallout to Slamboree.
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Okay sounds good because the 3-25-96 starts off with this guy on the left talking and I don't know who he is but he is terrible:
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Yeah Slamboree '96 is in the running for Least Consequential PPV Ever, along with that time WCW decided BattleBowl could be it's own PPV rather than ruining Starrcade
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astrollinthepork posted:Okay sounds good because the 3-25-96 starts off with this guy on the left talking and I don't know who he is but he is terrible: gently caress you.
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astrollinthepork posted:Okay sounds good because the 3-25-96 starts off with this guy on the left talking and I don't know who he is but he is terrible: Mongo is badass. Get out
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