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That's a lot of words to say "racist promoters thought all Pacific Islanders are the same and booked them together"
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Now I'm just thinking of that Royal Rumble where Yokozuna and the Headshrinkers met up, all kind of looked at each other, then the three of them did the Headshrinker taunt and teamed up
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Benne posted:That's a lot of words to say "racist promoters thought all Pacific Islanders are the same and booked them together" Hey pal I could use a lot more!
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DeathChicken posted:Now I'm just thinking of that Royal Rumble where Yokozuna and the Headshrinkers met up, all kind of looked at each other, then the three of them did the Headshrinker taunt and teamed up I need to see a clip of this.
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They were good words, for the record
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ShootaBoy posted:I need to see a clip of this. Yokozuna was in the '93 and '96 Rumbles only, IIRC. '93 had both 'Shrinkers, and '96 only had Dancing to Make a Difference Fatu. '93 had Samu get tossed after just a few minutes by Undertaker, and Fatu was gone by the time Yoko came in. Maybe it wasn't a Rumble, but just a random Battle Royale?
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they did a lot of house show battle royals in the early to mid 90s. that thing could have happened at one of those, and maybe they even televised in some markets or something. or it's just one of those undocumented online things that slip through. cagematch isn't perfect
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ShootaBoy posted:I need to see a clip of this. IIRC, that was from the Taker-Yoko title match at the 94 Rumble. Yoko and the Headshrinkers (along with a gaggle of other heels) beat up Taker during the match and the trio gave him the taunt then.
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I swear I saw Jamal and Rosie under different names on some Florida indie tv show late one night, pre-WWE
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Randaconda posted:I swear I saw Jamal and Rosie under different names on some Florida indie tv show late one night, pre-WWE they wrestled in WXW pre-WWE, which was Afa's Florida based indie, as The Island Boys Ekmo and Kimo
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Alaois posted:they wrestled in WXW pre-WWE, which was Afa's Florida based indie, as The Island Boys Ekmo and Kimo holy poo poo, that's been bugging me for years. thanks, dude
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The Rock is not genetically related to the Anoa'i family. His grandfather, Peter Maivia was blood brothers (which I guess is considered a *very* strong bond in Samoan culture to the point of being considered blood family, but don't quote me on that) with Reverend Amituana'i Anoa'i, the father of Afa and Sika; grandfather of Yokozuna, Roman Reigns, Rosey, Umaga, and RIkishi; and great-grandfather of the Usos.
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Was Mutoh billed as a face in the US ever? I have this vague fever dream type memory of him getting a face vignette as Super Black Ninja but that would have to be in WCCW and that's before Ninja Turtles set off the ninja craze for kids I think.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Was Mutoh billed as a face in the US ever? I have this vague fever dream type memory of him getting a face vignette as Super Black Ninja but that would have to be in WCCW and that's before Ninja Turtles set off the ninja craze for kids I think. TNA
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STAC Goat posted:So is Barbarian. And Snuka was Fijian. But they always got booked with the Anoa'is so to some extent or another they get mixed up in there. And all Tongans, Samoans and Fijians are all culturally (and in the case of Fijians, ethnically too) diverse. Where I live, if you call a Samoan a Tongan, and vice versa, you're asking for an asskicking.
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I watched Joe vs Kobashi recently, so I'm wondering, what are some other good matches with no commentary?
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Grocery Store Death match https://youtu.be/IqaIXbdCCRY
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fatherofmustard posted:I watched Joe vs Kobashi recently, so I'm wondering, what are some other good matches with no commentary? PWG used to do DVDs where you could choose the audio track: with or with out commentary. Dunno if they still do that now or if it stopped when it stopped but there's bound to be some bangers.
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Vagabundo posted:And all Tongans, Samoans and Fijians are all culturally (and in the case of Fijians, ethnically too) diverse. Same where I live but with "hispanics/latinos". Call a Dominican guy Puerto Rican and you're in some serious trouble. But it turns out wrestling doesn't understand such nuances as "THAT'S NOT THE SAME loving PLACE!" for some reason.
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Re: themes https://youtu.be/PoV5Nv_r0WA Anybody else hearing Jake The Snakes theme in the opening of this?
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Re: themes Absolutely. Also, Song release year: 1982 Jake Roberts WWF debut year: 1986 For fun, here's Jake's AEW theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q81EW2fw6Y
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Eddie Guerrero WCW theme - https://youtu.be/0RL8SMWtb2g HBO's Oz - https://youtu.be/zgogiwYGeOE
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Eddie Guerrero WCW theme - https://youtu.be/0RL8SMWtb2g I always thought Eddie's theme was just War's 'Low Rider' on slow-mo.
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Red posted:I always thought Eddie's theme was just War's 'Low Rider' on slow-mo. Yeah, same fatherofmustard posted:I watched Joe vs Kobashi recently, so I'm wondering, what are some other good matches with no commentary? After a certain point in the first DG 6 man for ROH, they just shut up, wisely
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Re: themes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6p5Q6_JBes
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How did the J-Crown come into existence?
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Liger thought it’d be cool if all the major junior belts got unified in one eight-man tournament featuring all the champions
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Was Akeem the African Dream a rib that Vince found hilarious, or did he think it was actually a good idea? Dude seemed to take it and run with it.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Was Akeem the African Dream a rib that Vince found hilarious, or did he think it was actually a good idea? Dude seemed to take it and run with it. It was a shot at Dusty Rhodes for effectively using a lot of jive in his patter. Story goes that Dusty told promoters to not book black workers if he was in their territory as they did not need them, since they had Dusty.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:It was a shot at Dusty Rhodes gently caress, Vince was/is petty, wasn't/isn't he? Between that and the polkadots...
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vince did a lot of things to try to own virgil runnels
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Smoking Crow posted:vince did a lot of things to try to own virgil runnels Is there a story behind Sapphire? Everything about her was terrible. Everything.
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Red posted:Is there a story behind Sapphire? Everything about her was terrible. Everything. Bad News Allen went to Vince and told him that Sapphire was a racist name to use so Vince changed it to Sweet Sapphire. Whether or not using a name from Amos and Andy was Vince trying to take another dig at Dusty or just his own brain being terrible and racist is up to the viewer to decide.
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Little late on the themes talk, but Asuka's theme is pretty similar to a King Crimson riff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgcK6gtx9aw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SkaPAPzxyo A much more obvious ripoff is Jericho's WCW theme just blatantly being Evenflow, and it's not remotely subtle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gUNsskAEis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbgtVFlyCQ And this is just WWE ripping themselves off, but Val Venis's theme was a rework of Rick Martel's Model theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKJmlMXPbm4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdSFkbrKfq4
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You know how there’s the Can anybody set me up with the longest transition from leaving their feet and being the “deliverer” of a DDT? I’m looking for that Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 chain-move revert-into-manual-into-grind-into-caveman bullshit.
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Jericho's 1st theme in WCW was a rip off of "Faithfully" by Journey, I think he's said
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:You know how there’s the I could swear I’ve seen someone do a deja vu ddt but I can’t seem to find it
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:You know how there’s the With some wrangling, you could consider a brainbuster a DDT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4TqRceRjhQ
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:You know how there’s the Marko Stunt's done some wacky poo poo where he springboards, gets caught, tossed, thrown again and then does a DDT.
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