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Edge & Christian posted:Tatanka debuted on WWF television in January 1992, and his main run lasted a little over four years, during which time he got two Intercontinental title matches (both on TV, not PPV) and one tag team title shot. His highest profile victory was against Lex Luger in 1994, probably. Considering how much Corbin is on TV and booked in main event angles it’s actually surprising how few titles he’s held in WWE. His biggest accomplishments have been more symbolic ones like MITB and KOTR, essentially just glorified #1 contender spots that were kinda unnecessary when he feuds with the world champs so often. I think the the only main roster title he had was a single US championship run?
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Weird question but what are the best wrestling shows for sleeping? The first Wrestlemania is shot so dimly lit and hazy, I find it very relaxing, any other shows that give that vibe?
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I find the WCW syndicated shows from the 90s to be really good for that. Pull up a Worldwide on Main Event on youtube and fall asleep. Also any 80s territory stuff is great - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT205hrrP-OuPGHmIzOEYNA
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Eat My Fuc posted:Weird question but what are the best wrestling shows for sleeping? The first Wrestlemania is shot so dimly lit and hazy, I find it very relaxing, any other shows that give that vibe? 1994 Big Egg Wrestling Universe show.
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JOHN CENA posted:weirdly the hiring of the gymini caused matt bentley to receive a cease and desist from using the Michael Shane stage name Huge win for Maverick Matt there.
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Monkeycheese posted:If I recall correctly they burned his undefeated streak on Ludvig Borga too... which in retrospect didn't pay off Eh, it paid off well enough. Luger beating Borga at the climax of the following Survivor Series was the payoff to that feud and was one of the biggest wins in Luger's WWF run. Plus Tatanka's loss and kayfabe injury from it meant having the Undertaker replace him at Survivor Series, which led to a year and a half of bonkers storytelling and Undertaker's first face title shot.
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It always seemed like Tatanka was accidentally given an undefeated streak.
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STAC Goat posted:I'm weirdly resentful of that to this day. I have no idea why. I never even much liked him. I just really don't like calling him Matt Bentley or some reason. Even though... you know... its his name. I mean... how often do you have to call him anything? This is the first time in probably a decade I've even thought about him
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Rusty Shackelford posted:It always seemed like Tatanka was accidentally given an undefeated streak. I remember one episode of Superstars had him up against Kamala. I was immediately interested because they had been playing up Tatanka's streak enough, but Kamala seemed too high on the ladder for Tatanka to go through. That sounds silly, but at the time, he was feuding with the Undertaker. I was curious how hard they were pushing Tatanka in light of that. Instead of going through with the match, Kamala was instead scared off by the Undertaker. For the hell of it, here are the named guys Tatanka had wins over prior to losing to Borga: - Rick Martel - Kato - The Mountie - The Berzerker - Blake Beverly - Repo Man - Papa Shango - Damien Demento - Kamala (count out) - Shawn Michaels - Razor Ramon (house show) - Skinner - MOTHERFUCKING HORACE HOGAN - Doink (house show) - Giant Gonzalez (DQ) - Terry Taylor - Lex Luger (house show) - Bam Bam Bigelow (house show) - Mr. Hughes (count out) - Bastion Booger Surprisingly, while Tatanka got a count out win over Michaels at WrestleMania 9, the setup was that Tatanka cleanly pinned Michaels in a non-title match on Superstars. This is the earliest instance I know of them doing this trope. Also, even after losing the streak, they still put him over Diesel on the house show circuit, albeit through count out. Shortly after, they started doing house show title matches against Yokozuna. They were mostly Tatanka winning by DQ, but gradually just became Yokozuna wins.
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I like that the awful app highlighted your post for me
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Gavok posted:Eh, it paid off well enough. Luger beating Borga at the climax of the following Survivor Series was the payoff to that feud and was one of the biggest wins in Luger's WWF run. Plus Tatanka's loss and kayfabe injury from it meant having the Undertaker replace him at Survivor Series, which led to a year and a half of bonkers storytelling and Undertaker's first face title shot. My main response to that is holy poo poo Luger's WWF run was a pile of poo poo
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Gaz-L posted:I mean... how often do you have to call him anything? This is the first time in probably a decade I've even thought about him
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Speaking of awful WWE poo poo, remember the Minis?
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ARMBAR A COP posted:Speaking of awful WWE poo poo, remember the Minis? It sucks that Mascarita Dorada and Mascarita Sagrada, two legitimately fantastic wrestlers, were both in WWE for years but never got the time their skill would allow because they were slotted into the Funny Little Mexican role. Also it was the Juniors division, complete with birthday party balloon logo.
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I Before E posted:It sucks that Mascarita Dorada and Mascarita Sagrada, two legitimately fantastic wrestlers, were both in WWE for years but never got the time their skill would allow because they were slotted into the Funny Little Mexican role. And even more depressingly it was originally planned as a serious cruiserweight division, a WWE answer to the New Japan Super Juniors with people like Milano Collection AT and Mistico, but Johnny Ace took it off Court Bauer and just decided to book people like Super Porky in comedy matches instead.
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ARMBAR A COP posted:Speaking of awful WWE poo poo, remember the Minis? Not to familiar with little person wrestling outside of WWF but I remember that Max Mini was legit a really impressive athlete and put on some fun matches in 97-98. Shame those matches are filled with horrible little people jokes and WWF loves to do this thing where they treat little people like children which always creeped me out.
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bartok posted:Not to familiar with little person wrestling outside of WWF but I remember that Max Mini was legit a really impressive athlete and put on some fun matches in 97-98. Shame those matches are filled with horrible little people jokes and WWF loves to do this thing where they treat little people like children which always creeped me out. Yup! Just watched Max & Mr Lucky vs El Torito and Piratita Morgan last night. Some of the flips and counters into armdrags are loving insane. This particular match suffered because Sunny was the guest ring announcer so Lawler was mixing short jokes with being a giant perv.
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I could be mistaken, but whenever I watch a WWE mini match, there's always this weird noise in the background. It sounds like a man chortling wildly to himself, and it intensifies whenever the taller wrestlers get humiliated.
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Your TV room is haunted by Brian Pillman. I hope you don't have carpet in there.
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What exactly was the deal with Mr. Hughes? He kept turning up in promotions throughout the nineties and his whole thing seems to be "suit, frowns."
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Claytor posted:What exactly was the deal with Mr. Hughes? He kept turning up in promotions throughout the nineties and his whole thing seems to be "suit, frowns." He had a cool look but was the pits in the ring.
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Is there a reason why Lufisto has never been signed to a major promotion?
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Vandar posted:Is there a reason why Lufisto has never been signed to a major promotion? WWE wouldn't sign a woman with her bodytype for years, and TNA really wouldn't either unless they had a wacky gimmick for her. When things opened up where you didn't have to look a very specific way she was debating retirement and not a big enough name where WWE would just sign her to keep her away from other places.
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MassRafTer posted:WWE wouldn't sign a woman with her bodytype for years, and TNA really wouldn't either unless they had a wacky gimmick for her. She also had a stroke at one point
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Remember the pay disparity thing that AJ Lee brought up that started the whole "Women's Revolution" thing in WWE? Was that ever fixed or practically addressed in any way? I.E. Does WWE now pay it's women wrestlers comparably to it's men?
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BrigadierSensible posted:Remember the pay disparity thing that AJ Lee brought up that started the whole "Women's Revolution" thing in WWE? I imagine a Charlotte Flair or Becky Lynch is paid something close to a top male star. Especially if you still get a bonus for main-eventing Mania. But Carmella or the like is probably still shat on.
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https://twitter.com/LanceStorm/status/1308444031723081728 This tweet just gave me a nostalgia burst that made me come here. Can anyone fill me in on what happened to any of the famous Scoopsters of the early 2000s IWC? The Scott Keiths, Rajahs, Scotsmen (goon!) & Chris Hyattes and so many more I'll never remember. I visited these old wrestling sites daily and printed out reams of paper of news & columns from places like rajah, scoopthis, onlineonslaught, 411, lethalwrestling and so many more i can't name but can see the frontpage of in my head. Any info on where any of these sites or people went would be fun to read Zoobtro fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Sep 22, 2020 |
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Sep 22, 2020 20:16
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Rajah is still around and last I checked looked exactly like it did in 1999
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Zoobtro posted:https://twitter.com/LanceStorm/status/1308444031723081728 Hyatte passed away this year
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This post reminded me that my earliest exposure to Puro news online was from Herb Kunze usenet posts in the 90's and now I feel old
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Zoobtro posted:This tweet just gave me a nostalgia burst that made me come here. Can anyone fill me in on what happened to any of the famous Scoopsters of the early 2000s IWC? The Scott Keiths, Rajahs, Scotsmen (goon!) & Chris Hyattes and so many more I'll never remember. I visited these old wrestling sites daily and printed out reams of paper of news & columns from places like rajah, scoopthis, onlineonslaught, 411, lethalwrestling and so many more i can't name but can see the frontpage of in my head. Any info on where any of these sites or people went would be fun to read Though even Mr. Tito can no longer keep up the pace of a PHAT Daily Column, and last updated his blog in July.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:This post reminded me that my earliest exposure to Puro news online was from Herb Kunze usenet posts in the 90's and now I feel old Hello, fellow RSPW oldhead. Looks like someone thoughtfully archived some of his posts: http://rspw.org/tidbits/
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Scott Keith has his own blog/website and isn't as much of an rear end in a top hat as he used to be, but the comments sections and most of the other reviewers there are terrible.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Hyatte passed away this year wow. your post lead me here, https://prowrestlingstories.com/pro-wrestling-stories/chris-hyatte-wrestling/ i guess this is exactly what i was looking for unfortunately
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Zoobtro posted:https://twitter.com/LanceStorm/status/1308444031723081728 CRZ is at https://crz.net/ and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crz?s=21
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RajahWWF forever, gently caress Lords of Pain
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I've started rewatching wrestling for the nostalgia kick during work from home lockdown and I've fallen deeeep into the rabbit hole and have many questions that don't deserve their own threads. First I want to ask about IWA Kawasaki Dream / King of the Deathmatch 95. I was a big Foley fan as a kid and remember ordering this VHS from RF video. I rewatched the card last week and had a great time. I read Foley's first book but don't remember whether it was covered, and I'm curious about the booking of the main event and to what extent the weird ending is intentional. So in the final it's Cactus Jack and Terry Funk, who have already had a cross-promotional feud for years at this point. The booking feels to me like it's setting up a babyface win for Terry, with Tiger Jeet Singh interfering in the match to help Cactus. The end comes when Terry, understandably frankly, just kinda keels over after knocking Foley off a ladder into the barbed wire ropes. Foley crawls over him for the pin, Terry kicks out late just after 3, and the ref calls it. After that as Foley gets his hand raised Terry staggers off in pain without looking back. Foley stays in the ring yelling "Terry, don't go!". He gets a mic and keeps yelling Terry's name, then just says to the crowd, "Terry Funk is one hell of a man. Domo arigato!" Now backstage, Foley cuts quite possibly the best drat promo in his life as he talks about how he was happy in the US but felt forced to follow Terry on a quest to Japan because the feud was eating away at him. He basks in the glow of having finally loving beaten Funk, but says he still doesn't feel like a king and wanted to shake Funk's hand. "He was hurt? Well so am I Terry!" It's a pretty baffling sequence of events but also honestly works great, probably way better than a straightforward Funk win. Anybody got the story on this and to what extent it was planned?
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Ah, the fun days of Scotsman vs The Internet Scoopsmen, where there was a leaderboard and you'd get points based on the most outlandish poo poo you could get wrestling scoop sites to print.
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jesus WEP posted:Rajah is still around and last I checked looked exactly like it did in 1999
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Tato posted:Ah, the fun days of Scotsman vs The Internet Scoopsmen, where there was a leaderboard and you'd get points based on the most outlandish poo poo you could get wrestling scoop sites to print. Adrian Adonis signs with WWF was the greatest of all the fake news articles. I miss Scotsman’s old site that had the recaps of all his feuds. For other old IWC personalities, last I heard was that Mike Samuda (MiCasa) committed fraud, Sean Shannon transitioned and then kind of disappeared, and Rick Scaia kind of kept Online Onslaught around for a while off and on. Does anyone know what happened to Eric S. from 411? I can’t even remember how to spell his last name so I can’t google him.
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