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Judeccahedron posted:Yeah, other promotions have made big gimmicks with Jason Voorhees, Leatherface, Freddy Krueger, the Humungus from Mad Max, etc. The especially messed-up part about the "Nightmare Freddie" gimmick (at least when Doug Gilbert played him) is that it was actually played as a face gimmick quite a bit. This poo poo went down ALL THE TIME in Memphis. Even as late as the last time they tried to revive a weekly show there, "Jerry Lawler's Memphis Wrestling," Lawler wrestled one of the movie monsters. In 2010. Side note, Memphis' Lord Humongous was Sid Vicious for a while in the late 80s.
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MassRafTer posted:Just like when condominiums were burned in Waco brother. God laid some heavy poo poo on those branch davidians, brother.
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Halloween Jack posted:How It'd definitely be one of the more esoteric signs in the audience. 
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smarky would it be to carry a "Jerry Lawler is a humanoid" sign to Raw?
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Zack_Gochuck posted:How 'bout that Tank Abbot? :pulls out knife: I could loving kill you right now, you know that, right?
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sk posted:About a month old now, but here's a WWE Classics interview with Kevin Sullivan on the Dungeon of Doom. I fell down a rabbit hole looking at some of the dumb things done near the end of WCW. Not sure I even looked at the Sullivan interview, looking at WCW's blunders and the Most Absurd Champions of WCW/WWF/WWE history.
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CombineThresher posted:Keep in mind that he's like 5'7" tops. In the early 80s he was a musclebear, though.
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MassRafTer posted:If you tuned into Tuesday Nitro you'd get to see that twice a week! Along with Fabulous Ones music videos. It's the best.
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MassRafTer posted:Spoilers man, I thought team WCW was going to win and we'd be rid of the New World ODOR until 2000! Wait, isn't that what happened? It came back with Jarrett/Hart/Nash/Hall, right? Right?
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...so the original Snitsky character ("It wasn't my fault!") was modeled after Russo, or the other way around?
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I technically went to the same university as Arnold Schwarzenegger. Honky Tonk Man and I went to the same high school. Not at the same time, though
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Neodoomium posted:I hope Rey's case for getting his mask back was "C'mon, man. WCW." I read somewhere (internet lol) that it was also due to the fact that Rey Misterio Jr was the one who lost his mask, and since Rey Mysterio was working in WWF that it was acceptable.
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natetimm posted:He rose up from the grave full grown to tombstone Hulkamania into injury. Hulkster got his win back later brother. HH
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MassRafTer posted:Lance Russell is the greatest wrestling broadcaster. 
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Pope Corky the IX posted:The most perplexing thing of turning the third hour into sort of a preshow is that they were unopposed. They had a full hour to put on a few cruiserweight matches, run a few angles to keep people tuned in, maybe start a match people want to see at 8:55pm that's guaranteed to go past Raw's 9pm start time, etc. They just wasted it. In the before times, they were doing 2-hour shows with an immediate replay, so you could watch the first hour of Nitro, switch to Raw, and then flip back to Nitro for the last hour when Raw was done. Switching to 3 hours disrupted that and forced fans to choose, mostly for sheer hubris.
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Sandman McMahon posted:To be fair, despite the fact everything about it sucked, DDPs debut feud was with the Undertaker. Acting like he was just some curtain jerking midcarder from the start is a bit disingenuous. The one that ended a month or so later with SaraTaker pinning DDP clean in the ring? That feud?
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TIL the Hardy Boyz theme is apparently pubic domain/stock music.
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Flight Bisque posted:The dream is over. Once you add it's 75% chance of failing if it was to go 1 on 1 and add 66 2/3%s, it had a 141 2/3 chance of failing.
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DJExile posted:they were still paying Buffer to announce. When did that end? They had to continue until close to the end, yes?
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:Correct. This was during Jericho's debut in WWE the fall of '99. Not sure if it was in the unedited version of his Millennium Countdown debut or shortly thereafter. Feb 2000: The Rock tells Kevin Kelly to go make himself a glass of Shut Up Juice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9eeCr_MJVM I remember reading that MIGHT have been a direct response to The Juice gimmick in WCW. IDK if I have the timeline right though.
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Rusty Shackelford posted:I like Bret Hart because he’s got family values, he’s loyal, he really genuinely likes his fans, even though he may hate the morals of America. He really inspired me to do many different things in my life. He taught me that I have a gift and to use it to it’s fullest potential. And now I’m going to school for computer graphics, and I owe it all to Bret. Four years ago, I never would have gone to school, but when I started liking Bret, everything changed. Omfg I loved that clip
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Rusty Shackelford posted:And now I’m going to school for computer graphics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTPsZUJtwPw&t=35s
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Shane Douglas debuted in 1986. He was also 35 in 2000. Honestly, it looks more and more like Goldberg had more of a claim to New Blood than most of the New Blood.
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