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Shiki Dan posted:G. Gordon Liddy and Herb are your first indicators that Vince McMahon is eternally a mark for any kind of rub from anyone with anything remotely resembling mainstream press.
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Gavok posted:Hoping you at least get to 1990. Not only is it important to wrestling history for two very different debuts, but the overall format of the show is very unique and interesting.
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Gavok posted:Their theme song "All-American Boys" is one of the most brilliant wrestling themes ever written. It's upbeat and starts off sounding like a great babyface theme, but they mention at the end of the first verse that they think long hair is dumb and the preppie look is where it's at. Then in the second verse, they say how much they hate rock 'n' roll, talk up Barry Manilow and spend the second half of it badmouthing Americans in French. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UUe1dA3DmA
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Jerusalem posted:80s WWF was full of weird stuff like that, particularly in main events with Hogan. Babyfaces would cheat regularly against heels, and it was always supposed to be like,"Well the heels are getting their comeuppance!" except there were plenty of times where the only "bad" thing the heel had actually done was to beat up the face during the course of the match.
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Rarity posted:At this point, Shawn starts getting a bit silly. He takes an atomic drop from Shawn... And judging from (my memories of) OSWReview, you should see plenty of "Rugged" Ronnie Garvin over the next couple of shows.
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Don't feel bad about that. With that ton of material you go through and write out, errors happen. This one just happened to conjure up a very funny image in my head of Shawn bumping like got that Atomic Drop from an invisible Hogan.
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You can really see that they're getting a handle on what makes the Rumble interesting in 1989, even if they overdid the "tag teams coming out conveniently close together".
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rare Magic card l00k posted:Best Feud, behind the winner, Jim Duggan vs. Ted DiBiase.
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Rarity posted:And also I've got to give some credit to Schiavone, he was fantastic on commentary. He sold everything like it was the most amazing thing he'd ever seen and it made a great match even better. 
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Are you talking poo poo about the President from The Fifth Element?
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Nov 9, 2017 20:51
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Marmaduke! posted:Nah let's have the beautiful Demolition pic I mentioned earlier.
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Burtus I'm still laughing at Burtus. e: I really like the story of the Garvin/Valentine feud reading about it. Unfortunately, it was before I started watching, so I can't speak to the reality of it.
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rare Magic card l00k posted:WWF (or rather, Titan Sports) finished 5th in Best Promotion.
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Jerusalem posted:Kind of like King Booker who went completely deranged for his run as King of the Ring and it absolutely ruled. My favorite part was when he was trying to make everyone's names more classy and called Jerry Lawler "Jerome".
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Aesop Poprock posted:It's a really good thread
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I always liked his guest appearance on Police Squad's opening credits.
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Too many matches without much in stakes is a common theme with the early Wrestlemanias.
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Don't apologize for liking KroniK, Rarity. I know it's en vogue making GBS threads on them, but them murdering guys with the double chokeslam was great and all that mattered about them.
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I think we all know how it ended: Hawk will never get to the barber and get a different haircut.
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Rarity posted:It'll be fine, we all know America never puts anyone over 
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An Actual Bear posted:Also wasn't Kurosawa Manabu Nakanishi?
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Feels Villeneuve posted:the Nasty Boys owned, you just needed to put them with a team as unprofessional and dangerous as they were, by which I mean either the Steiners or the LOD
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That sweater does make him look like a lame idiot, though.
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Gavok posted:"Ugh. What a brush." 
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Gavok posted:It's doubly funny to me because "take a WCW champion and give him an inane gladiator gimmick" is something WWF would be guilty of years later. 
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Apr 25, 2018 22:29
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Gavok posted:Half of them featured guys we'll know in the years to come with alternate names.
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May 29, 2018 19:44
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I, like, knew the Flair/Funk I Quit Match was in 1989 as was the Flair/Steamboat trilogy, but it never hit me that they were in the same year until now. If that makes sense.
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Jerusalem posted:The only reason I remember is because I rewatched the main event of WrestleWar 89 about 1000 times and that ended with Funk losing his mind and attacking Flair after the match when he wouldn't give him an automatic title shot.  It's all coming back to me now...
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Gaz-L posted:Good lord, at least upgrade to Civ V, woman!
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exploded mummy posted:also way to forget about Big Daddy
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Jul 2, 2018 12:48
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I think the Sherri version of Sexy Boy is better just because the line "He's just my sexy boy, he's not your boy toy" makes more sense.
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Rarity posted:Bret's out first and he's traded in his old pink Sgt. Pepper jacket for a leather one. It's not as flashy but drat, he looks like the coolest fucker on the planet. 
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Jason Sextro posted:don't be hating on the Rarities, the Worst Hair Award has one of the strongest contender pools I've ever seen.
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Rarity posted:Andre's lovely horizontal suplex should have been a real contender but I forgot about it at time of writing
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Rarity posted:And as long time Rarity followers will know I'm notorious for fizzling out on my PSP writing projects. I'm really glad that I can tie a bow on everything here and call it a complete piece of work. So let's not call it never, let's just call it not now. Also the video made me vote the thread Gold Gold again, just in case I hadn't before.
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