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smikey posted:Yeah, I've just always been a Chavo fan, weirdly. Ever since his debut in WCW. chavo guerrero isnt even the best chavo guerrero
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Zeroisanumber posted:Also I loved Rowdy Roddy Piper and I'm glad that he turned out to be just normal wrestler crazy instead of a monster. don’t watch his promos from when he faced Mr T. Or his programme with Bad News Brown at Wrestlemania 6.
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britishbornandbread posted:don’t watch his promos from when he faced Mr T. Or his programme with Bad News Brown at Wrestlemania 6. Or his Jimmy Superfly Snuka promos
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NienNunb posted:my first favorite wrestler was Chris Benoit lmao PEX parachute account spotted. I'm glad this thread exists on C-SPAM because it gives me an excuse to tell someone about a dream i had last week (no joke): There had been a french revolution style uprising in the united states, and instead of actual guillotines for the public executions, Booker T was doing repeated top rope guillotine legdrops on extremely rich people. After several successful executions, i could tell he was getting tired, and woke up to my alarm thinking, "this is so inefficient". After thinking about it, I'm kinda surprised no one is trying to channel all the anger in the youth of today into mock battle against their billionaire oppressors. I bet you could sell tickets to have some bald dude calling himself "Meff Mezos" get chokeslammed into an garbage compactor once a week.
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smikey posted:Yeah, I've just always been a Chavo fan, weirdly. Ever since his debut in WCW. It felt so good seeing him in GLOW, and reading the various interviews where the actresses say how great he was as a trainer.
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shiksa posted:fell into a new youtube channel and there really wasnt a good guy in the monday night wars huh lol
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davidbix posted:Whenever I see how badly made these videos are, I keep wondering if it's worth the time investment to try to do them better myself with better reporting to boot. there was a good wrestling youtube program, showbuckle, but then new japan gobbled it up because they didnt want any footage on youtube being used to, say, translate stories from the history of njpw to an entire english-speaking audience giving context to all of the self-referential poo poo they're always doing. can't have that happen. but yeah the standard for wrestling youtube video things is hilariously low in general.
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I'm just keep posting questionable wrestling gimmicks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLkUPBBXKOw Shad Gaspard & JTG as "Cryme Tyme" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9iMe9EH1rg Juventud Guerrera, Super Crazy, & Psichosis as "The Mexicools" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wm6bVy9aWg Farooq, Rocky Maivia, D-Lo Brown, Kama (& later Owen Hart) as "The Nation of Domination" the best part of the Nation is every few months some idiot on some website/twitter feed is advocating for a new Nation with all the black wrestlers on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HkmGtpsc-4 Papa Shango
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Peanut President posted:I'm just keep posting questionable wrestling gimmicks The Jung Dragons were a group of 3 guys who dressed like ninjas and would do kung fu. One guy was from Japan (and was in the original Kaientai, not the "choppa choppa your peepee" angle group that WWE later), guy 2 was Korean but born and raised in Texas. Guy 3 was a loving redneck from South Carolina that they stuck in a mask.
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prince albert was "lord tensai" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEAIH79tnY4 lets see wwe wanted to make kenzo suzuki "hirohito" before his wife said absolutely no fuckin way. then they just did basically EXACTLY what heel nakamura has done since mania last year to the letter, but less ball shots. seriously, its not an era of wwe worth watching but holy poo poo they ran the exact same "japanese guy who sarcastically pretends he doesn't speak english" to "japanese guy who sarcastically does uncle sam patriotism stuff" progression until they got bored and stopped booking both of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-w4H5a2u4c
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Peanut President posted:I'm just keep posting questionable wrestling gimmicks quote:Tonight a new tag team, Cryme Tyme, will be introduced to the Raw audience. In an effort to humor and entertain our fans the tag team known as Cryme Tyme will be parodying racial stereotypes. quote:The vignettes, which aired weekly, featured Cryme Tyme robbing people while an announcer dubbed their actions "training exercises" designed to work on things like "speed", "agility", "drive", "endurance", and "intensity". 
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lol yeah cryme time was... something else, and not that long ago! also jtg has one of the best tweets of all time after wwe finally remembered he was still on the payroll and fired him https://twitter.com/jtg1284/status/477169517723152385?lang=en
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shiksa posted:lets see wwe wanted to make kenzo suzuki "hirohito" before his wife said absolutely no fuckin way. then they just did basically EXACTLY what heel nakamura has done since mania last year to the letter, but less ball shots. seriously, its not an era of wwe worth watching but holy poo poo they ran the exact same "japanese guy who sarcastically pretends he doesn't speak english" to "japanese guy who sarcastically does uncle sam patriotism stuff" progression until they got bored and stopped booking both of them. Yeah I posted the hirohito vignette yesterday, always a classic. does Aleksander Rusev, who's bulgarian (he even has a giant bulgarian flag tattoo) being booked as evil russian count as racism? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfd5v_iwHGo edit: oh yeah and his manager "The Ravishing Russian" Lana
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And who can forget poor Alex Wright wrestling as neo-nazi/matrix cosplayer BERLYN with his tag team partner THE WALL (brother!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j8do6PTb5E
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Peanut President posted:oh yeah and his manager "The Ravishing Russian" Lana She's not even Russian. She's from Florida.
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Forceholy posted:She's not even Russian. She's from Florida. the first part should be incredibly obvious to anyone who's ever heard her speak in character
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Jun 11, 2019 21:06
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Robbing Jerry Lawler is a pretty good face move at least.
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Forceholy posted:She's not even Russian. She's from Florida. She spent time growing up in Soviet Latvia so she can do an accent, but lmao even when WWE were pushing one of their lovely movies starring her and Edge it's like "WOW look at how good her American English is, she's almost an American!" Then she shows up after hiatus last year finally being allowed to drop it because thankfully they didn't make her keep up the gimmick for the E! reality show and everyone acts like it never happened. Also ngl that Hirohito splash graphic owns, and Ed Weigel could tell me drinking bleach owns and I'd seriously consider it
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shiksa posted:the undertaker is straight up a nazi Aww son of a bitch.
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Cryme Tyme is actually still around on the indies somewhat. There’s a Indy show here in Dallas the night before the G1 Dallas show that’s advertising Cryme Tyme vs Lucha Bros.
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Lars Sullivan and Brock Lesnar should start a tag team called the racist homophobic pieces of poo poo. Hire me vince.
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The best part about Cryme Time is that JTG remained employed with the WWE for literal years and did absolutely nothing, everyone is 100% convinced they just forgot he existed and he collected the paycheck without saying anything when they finally did fire him, he tweeted "drat why I had to pick up my phone!!" lmao
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I thought the story was they didnt want ex-employees blabbing to the media how lovely of a company they are, so just never fired anyone.
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Fentry posted:My first favorite was Owen Hart. After he died my favorite was Chris Benoit. I don't call anyone my favorite now Make Lars Sullivan your new favorite.
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With all the talk about WWE being lovely to racial minorities let's not forget they're also lovely to women! Most notably the time they made Trish Stratus crawl on all fours and bark like a dog in a segment so awful it looks like WWE has had all clips of it purged from Youtube.
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Rarity posted:With all the talk about WWE being lovely to racial minorities let's not forget they're also lovely to women! Most notably the time they made Trish Stratus crawl on all fours and bark like a dog in a segment so awful it looks like WWE has had all clips of it purged from Youtube. AJ Lee was pretty much run out of wrestling by misogynistic bullshit and backstage idiocy. I couldn't believe it when that one woman from American Ninja Warrior said she wanted to be a pro wrestler. It's like someone saying, why sure, I would love to walk into this rotating wall of blades thank you very much
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Rarity posted:With all the talk about WWE being lovely to racial minorities let's not forget they're also lovely to women! Most notably the time they made Trish Stratus crawl on all fours and bark like a dog in a segment so awful it looks like WWE has had all clips of it purged from Youtube. During one of Linda's Senate campaigns they went on a purge of A TON of Vince related Attitude era stuff. I remember not being able to find the 2001 interview he did with Bob Costas anywhere, despite it being all over YouTube months prior.
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Reality Sinner posted:Lars Sullivan and Brock Lesnar should start a tag team called the racist homophobic pieces of poo poo. Hire me vince. At least Brock sequesters himself from humanity when he's not hitting Vince up for money.
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forkboy84 posted:They donated to the Trump campaign. Just seem your average lovely billionaires rather than the McMahon special level of awful. A) Donald Trump's Inaugural Committee, along with a group of NFL owners B) To the NFL's lobbying branch C) To the Democratic Congressional Committee D) To the Senate Majority PAC (which contrary to the name's implication in 2016 is a Democratic PAC) E) Various state/federal candidates in Florida, both Democratic and Republican It sucks to give Trump inaugural money (or to back some of the GOP people he backed in Florida) but Khan's political contributions read like a Very Wealthy Business/Businessman that is trying to grease the wheels on both sides, and the majority of the time that is not the Republican side in Khan's case. He did contribute to Mitt Romney in 2012, but again, I'm not here to defend Khan as much as contrast him with the McMahons. So the McMahons, who not only have literally supported Trump since the 1980s (and particularly in 2016), but also personally made large contributions to various GOP/Conservative PACs, Mitch McConnell, Roy Blunt, Barbara Comstock, Mia Love, Ryan Zinke, Marco Rubio, a John Bolton PAC(?!), Chris Christie, Ben Sasse, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. and the only non-GOP contribution on record for either of them is Linda giving some money to Joe Lieberman when he was running as an independent in 2006. Undertaker's political contributions are basically the same (with a healthy helping of the NRA) as the McMahons. Not a lot of other wrestlers appear to put WWE/World Wrestling Entertainment/Wrestling in their occupation/employer, so it's hard to say what else (if anything) anyone else has donated, though Kane appears to have given a lot of money to local libertarians and the National Libertarian Party, and Johnny Nitro/Mundo/Impact gave money to Obama and Hillary. The Khans -- while far from perfect and subject to plenty of criticism -- are unquestionably a Less lovely Company/Family than the McMahons and WWE, though I feel like at least 32 of the NY64 would each individually make this true, regardless of Trump ties.
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Edge & Christian posted:I know in previous threads in the wrestling forum that looking things to see precisely what kind of bad actor a person acting bad is has been seen as a bad thing because when people are bad why potentially find something to suggest they are not all bad or that maybe they didn't do every bad thing attributed to them but to expand on this, Shahid Khan (owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars, All Elite Wrestling, and a bunch of other poo poo) primarily gave political donations in the past several years to welp I’m out
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Edge & Christian posted:C) To the Democratic Congressional Committee Sons of bitches 
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Khan was also one of the first NFL owners to tell Trump to gently caress off about the whole kneeling thing and supported the players who were kneeling. I'm pretty sure he's the guy who said that Trump was just doing this because he was still mad the league didn't allow his trashy rear end to become an owner. In conclusion, Khan is a land of contrasts.
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Edge & Christian posted:though Kane appears to have given a lot of money to local libertarians and the National Libertarian Party, and Johnny Nitro/Mundo/Impact gave money to Obama and Hillary. Kane is well known to be Libertarian. Hell he's a loving mayor now down in Tennessee as Libertarian.
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Joshi wrestling always sounds so cool to me, but the fanbase kinda grosses me out, so i can never quite get into it. the Joshi match that AEW put on at Double or Nothing loving rocked, though. if you've ever wanted to see some sick 80s Joshi wrestling, this match between Chigusa Nagoya and Dump Matsumoto (yes, Dump) is real good and an interesting peek into Joshi wrestling that spent seem dominated by softcore photobooks and otaku dudes. the crowd is almost entirely teenage girls, and it is LOUD. the match itself is a hair v hair match between the biggest babyface in the business and the best makeup contouring in the business. warning: blood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JvTSP7VorE (a huge thanks to wrestlespania for introducing me to this match) and a bonus video of Chigusa, this time including her tag team partner, Lionness Asuka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u10Dv7rZEQc
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Peanut President posted:Kane is well known to be Libertarian. Hell he's a loving mayor now down in Tennessee as Libertarian.
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