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Bulll Pain's post WCW career is far more interesting than his WCW one. He caught on with IWA-MS, Ian Rotten's proto-PWG promotion, and his rep was basically "I am going to stiff the everloving poo poo out of you", to the point where younger guys who worked for Ian regularly would get thrown in with Bull if a)they did something that pissed off the locker room or b)To test their mettle. Sometimes he'd take it too far, though. Take it away, Chris:quote:He relays a story where Eddie Kingston legitimately breaks his ankle during a three-way match with himself and Pain where Pain attempts to slap a submission ON THE BROKEN ANKLE. Kingston, afraid this no-talent is going to further injure him, taps out immediately. Pain panics and wants to go to the finish but Hero calms him down since it's the main event.
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Xerzes posted:Action Zone existed to re-air on cable the matches from the syndicated Wrestling Challenge, as I recall, as well as following the usual WWF formula of b-shows, having a storyline or two within its first few months, then being utterly forgotten by the big names of Raw and Superstars. There's one really great match from the Action Zone period: HBK and Diesel vs Razor Ramon and 1-2-3 Kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dud9ty6TUdE
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thefncrow posted:Hilariously, they still might want to overdub that theme. His WCW theme at the time was a blatant ripoff of Pearl Jam's Evenflow. Even if they could easily get the rights to that bit of music, I bet the WWE lawyers would still be iffy about having it on the VODs in case Pearl Jam finally decided to do anything. The PJ ripoff is part of the Turner Library, it's called "Basketball Highlights #11" . I don't imagine it'd be PJ's lawyers but Turner's, unless they no longer own the rights
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Gaz-L posted:I couldn't make heads or tails of that Survivor Series match graphic so I looked up the card... So they deliberately put heels and faces, some of whom were feuding with each other, on both teams? Who the gently caress thought that was a good idea? (Also there's apparently a women's match on there that would probably have been great if it got time. It didn't.) Yeah, it was an idea to generate interest. They do it in Mexico a lot, as "Parejas Increibles". I remember Ahmed Johnson promising that he had Shawn's back but if the other two hosed with him, he's show them the meaning of medieval, which was the first time I'd heard that word in that context.
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Gaz-L posted:Matt Borne and Brad Armstrong are both guys that fell into the trap of being good workers that were branded as 'boring' so kept getting given goofy gimmicks, or being asked to put over less talented guys. Borne's story is somewhat more complicated than that, he was a guy with a drug problem who had a habit of wearing out his welcome (which is one of the reasons why he stopped being Doink). Borne did well for himself in the Portland territory, which was one of the last hot territories in the U.S.. I agree that the biz missed the boat on him in a sense, though.
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