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Putting Warrior on commentary would just be inviting FCC fines and hate speech suits.
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# ¿ Oct 25, 2013 23:11 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 05:44 |
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Who the hell doesn't like Prime Time Wrestling? Monsoon/Heenan, man!
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2013 08:06 |
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I have always felt, for whatever reason, that WWF run ins felt a lot less cheap and more engaging than WCW ones. I think most of that is probably down to JR selling his surprise. He always sounded so indignant.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2013 21:02 |
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MassRafTer posted:I believe it did better, SVDM ended up being a surprising disappointment. That intro is still amazing, though.
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# ¿ Dec 14, 2013 08:08 |
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pathetic little tramp posted:Say what you will about Hogan but he at least wasn't pushing himself as champ at age 55 like old Gagne. Hulk Hogan was 50 years old during his last world championship, actually.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2014 16:12 |
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Scott Steiner, in the later years of WCW, had effective creative control because everyone backstage was terrified of him. Rightly.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2014 19:30 |
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Angular Landbury posted:IIRC Kevin Nash had some sort of creative control in his later WCW contracts. No idea if it was Hogan-level though. I don't think he had a creative control clause, he was just booker for a while so he used it to put himself over.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2014 20:19 |
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haljordan posted:I'm still trying to wrap my head around that Piper segment from last night's Nitro That was something loving else. I'm still not sure what they expected to happen there.
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2014 17:05 |
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Was Piper just allowed to script all his segments himself, or something? That's honestly all I can think of, is a coked up Piper backstage somewhere going "Yeah, I'll wrestle Earthquake! And a boxer! And a MMA guy!"
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2014 17:30 |
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bobkatt013 posted:He also makes political cartoons. Also current day WWE needs more monster trucks. Calling it: a monster truck sumo match is how HHH gets out of eating a pin at Wrestlemania.
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2014 21:56 |
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"Eric, we're looking at losses upwards if $60 million this year. We really need to renegotiate the big contracts if we want to rein in spending." "Why contain it? S'cool."
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# ¿ May 22, 2014 16:32 |
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This is a stupid question but I have to know for sure. Is that seriously Jeff Jarrett's actual voice? Like, not an affectation or something? That's just what he sounds like?
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2014 17:36 |
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Is there a particular reason they treated Flair like such poo poo when they weren't actively neglecting him, or was it just the general "WWF guys are better than our guys" attitude at its peak?
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# ¿ Aug 7, 2014 00:41 |
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Red posted:Instead of recap packages, why don't we get more videos about stuff outside the ring? An outside video/vignette promo can really build up a match. We don't get promos about what happens outside the ring because nothing loving happens outside the ring anymore. Every single feud is built on "he cost me a match!", which only works as the reason for a feud when wins and losses mean something, which they don't, because we see the same people trading wins every week. Like, it's weird. What WWE could really use right now is more sports entertainment.
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2014 20:07 |
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Pope Corky the IX posted:What do you think they're doing with the Bella twins? What more do you want from people? I actually kind of like what they're doing with the Bellas! I want them to also do it with people more charismatic than Brie. (Nikki is actually a pretty good heel)
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2014 21:08 |
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Von Linus posted:This is not remotely important, but when Roddy Piper was coming in to feud with Hogan, and he does a music video, and they say 'THERE'S A MESSAGE FOR HOGAN HERE' and the song is about how this girl is cute and how he wants to bang her, what message was I supposed to draw from that? The message is just "Piper wants a match with Hogan." There are shots of a marquee with "Hogan vs. Piper" on it.
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# ¿ Oct 10, 2014 15:40 |
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If they had waited until Starrcade, would Hogan have done the clean job like that on PPV? Goldberg was closer to Hogan's idea of "on his level" than 97 Sting.MassRafTer posted:The summer of '99 is the worst period in WCW history because it's so boring and confusing everyone forgets it exists and just remembers the Russo stuff that came after. I understand Carmen Electra drove a hummer?
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# ¿ May 18, 2015 12:34 |
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The real question is where are the Hulkaroos and Hulkayoos? Was Hogan lying?
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# ¿ May 26, 2015 14:43 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Antonio Gnocchi? Not since Rome... And Clare was gone.
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# ¿ May 26, 2015 14:50 |
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No, not at all, especially Jericho. You could argue it for 2003 Hollywood Rock, but 97-99 Rock needed constant interference to keep his belt I think he had one clean pinfall defense in a 5 month IC reign
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2015 09:17 |
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DynamiteKidd posted:You know what you're right this thread is about LOLWWE and LOLHHH and I was silly to think WCW hosed up Warrior's return and probably shouldn't have brought him in in the first place. After all, WWE is silly and HHH has a giant ego and always has to put himself over everybody so nothing else that ever existed could ever be bad or dumb. Lol you're the same guy who kept getting pissy when people were wrong about house number minutiae last night
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# ¿ Jul 29, 2015 18:16 |
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You all told me Lex "Mom Jeans" Luger was good.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2016 02:14 |
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Halloween Jack posted:That's not fair to Lex; half of WCW wore Dad Jeans throughout the 90s. This is why WCW was Always Bad
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2016 11:32 |
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Slapnut BLVD is still the real king
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# ¿ Jan 12, 2017 20:55 |
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Tony's Twitter makes him seem like a real rear end
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# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 00:06 |
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Jason Sextro posted:yeah that's what I'm talking about - the blurred crowd in the back isn't moving at all and you hear all sorts of screaming and boo-ing. Superstars, Wrestling Challenge, Prime Time Wrestling, all those old shows. It's unbelievable. TBH I vastly prefer to this to a dead silent Corpus Christi Raw
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# ¿ May 14, 2017 22:56 |
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It's a great concept for an undercard if you have a strong draw match on top, I think.
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2017 04:00 |
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I would argue Henry Godwinn was a better midcard face and heel than Jeff Jarrett
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2018 08:24 |
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New York Rules
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2018 22:33 |
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LividLiquid posted:So, it's drat near impossible to sink a three-pointer for like, most people on the planet if they were alone in a gymnasium and had ten tries. Now imagine doing it in front of ten thousand people live in an arena and millions watching on TV, with a 7-foot dude waving his hands right in front of you, and it's a loving miracle anybody ever makes one. It is not that hard to sink a three pointer in a gym by yourself, what are you talking about
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2019 08:08 |
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Sandman is a better actor than I expected.
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# ¿ May 23, 2019 07:21 |
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MassRafTer posted:So much worse. The segment with Athena is some of the most vile stuff in wrestling history. And I am not forgetting him keeping Liz on a leash in WCW. I have read so much about wrestling, I have listened to so many old observer radios and read the death of WCW. How have I never heard of this happening?
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# ¿ May 24, 2019 02:56 |
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NikkolasKing posted:Whatever they were like IRL, I always feel bad when I see all these wrestling podcasts. I figure they mostly all exist because ex-wrestling personalities desperately need the money. Some of them seem more like for attention, which is pretty sad, too. A life on the road alienating your friends and family doesn’t leave you with much for old age once wrestling’s done with you.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2019 02:32 |
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The Rockshooter owned
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# ¿ Aug 19, 2019 15:00 |
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forkboy84 posted:Someone on the other forum had the Arn from this pic cropped into his avatar. It's so good, it's about the only photo in his life where Arn looked happy and it's weird. I always have to remind myself Arn is in his twenties in that pic. e: ahahaha he’s younger than Luger, what the fuuuuuuck
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2019 20:51 |
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Ryback was really, really over. He popped a big buyrate for his title match at Hell in a Cell and the guy was charismatic as gently caress, even if he was sloppy. The way he looked, the way he carried himself, he always stood out as different from everyone else. Not anywhere near Goldberg’s level, but he still had it. The Goldberg booking worked until they stopped doing it. Then they gave him a bunch of losses against Punk, the Shield, and a totally pointless loss to Mark Henry, which killed him. Imagine if the Giant had beat Goldberg in the middle of the card.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2019 18:15 |
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coconono posted:yeah he looked like a shaved troll. Would you not pay to see a shaved troll kill a bunch of jobbers
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2019 18:20 |
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MassRafTer posted:Goldberg would do rolling kneebars and some other submission stuff early on. In WCW/nWo Revenge Goldberg has a shitton of submission moves and it owns
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2019 20:54 |
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mearn posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeEGs_ierWo I’m pretty sure some of the wrestlers misunderstood and thought they were being picked as opponents.
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2019 00:33 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 05:44 |
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I like the original Kane/Undertaker storyline, from Taker’s championship win to the blackmail to Hell in a Cell to the Wrestlemania match Which Kane should have won
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2019 22:14 |