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Why was The Crow Sting so cool and will there ever be a dark 90's grunge gimmick as cool as that again? (the kind of 90s dark grunge gimmick where the wrestler never utters a word, but has magical powers that allow him/her/they to appear behind their enemy from a puff of smoke or burst through the center of the ring with a baseball bat, or maybe transform themselves from a gross sweaty ringside fan to cool dark 90s face painted freak a la a magician's trick?)
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Which wrestler can make the biggest fart? I think it was against most fire codes for Andre The Giant to fart indoors
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Sep 8, 2019 16:43
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Halloween Jack posted:It was cool because it was a gimmick change that worked for the character, the gimmick caught lightning in a bottle with regard to the 90s zeitgeist, and the company was committed to building it. you're right it was goth, Raven was grunge. never the less, I think what I'm really trying to say here is lets have some vampires again. bring back THE BROOD
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Sep 9, 2019 20:28
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lost my old email posted:gangrel was so fuken cool man like not actual cool but liike wrestling cool like syxx-pac still thinks that he and his buddies wearing fubu shirts and doing decades old johnny carson bits was actual cool i do not have the heart to tell him otherwise hell freakin yeah 
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Sep 9, 2019 20:41
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Apologies for kramering in here with an unrelated question to the current topic but I remember buying a VHS tape of WWE (I think it might've been before the rebrand) Best of Hardcore Title matches hosted by Tazz. One of the matches featured was a women's hardcore match that I'm pretty sure was between Tori and Ivory. The reason I'm bringing this up is because I vividly remember a spot where they wrestle to a backstage area and Ivory (I think? maybe it was the other way around) took a hot iron to Tori's back and burned the poo poo out of her with it and I even remember seeing the mark it left behind and the blood curdling scream Tori belted out. Thinking back on it, I can't believe that spot even happened and am super curious to know what the deal was behind the scenes about it, like, was it agreed to beforehand? Was it improv and if so how did Tori handle/react to it after the match? Has to be a gnarly triangle shaped scar on her back forever now you'd think. I don't know, maybe I just marked out super hard and it was a really well done work or maybe I hallucinated it. Does anyone else remember this match?
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Nov 8, 2023 20:58
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Barry Bluejeans posted:So here's the match in question, timestamped to when the iron appears: Ok, yeah that makes sense. I just remember being mindblown by the spot because holy poo poo a hot iron?! I'm still impressed by it all these years later even though it (rightfully) turned out to be a work.
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Nov 8, 2023 21:28
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Shard posted:Ivory was so jacked she ruled I definitely remember being intimidated by her and I only felt that way about one other female wrestler at the time and that was Jacqueline (Chyna too I suppose). Ivory vs. Jacqueline would've been a pretty good match think, I don't recall if that match up ever happened though.
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Nov 8, 2023 22:31
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Edge & Christian posted:They had 34 televised matches with each other, including eleven singles matches mostly on secondary shows, and none of them appearing to go more than three minutes. I've certainly seen at least a few of those matches in that case, but I don't recall and that's likely more on my dumb teenaged stoner brain than it was on the matches being forgettable.
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Nov 9, 2023 02:12
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Who would be widely regarded as the stiffest in the ring in recent history (let's say... the past 30 years or so) I wonder?
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Nov 9, 2023 02:17
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MassRafTer posted:They were almost certainly forgettable. You know what isn't forgettable but I wish was? That one time Mae Young exposed her puppies on some live ppv (I've forgotten which one in a twist of cruel irony)
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Nov 9, 2023 02:36
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Nehru the Damaja posted:The Steiners beat the everliving gently caress out of jobbers when they weren't sexually assaulting them in the showers 
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Nov 9, 2023 02:54
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little munchkin posted:not sure of the reasoning but yea they were prosthetics more mentally scarring than actual old lady boobs somehow
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Nov 13, 2023 12:47
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Nov 14, 2023 16:34
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STONE COLD 64 posted:sometimes i just watch terry gordy mid-south squash matches where he gets bored with his opponents and goes after drunk rednecks in the crowd instead One of my favorite wrestler/fan interactions is the unhinged chain-swinging maniac Bruiser Brodie chasing legit terrified Japanese fans through the bleachers just going berserko mode
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Nov 16, 2023 16:00
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:Some five hour long AJW shows with full English subs for promos even, it's great. I need this in my life
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Nov 17, 2023 13:11
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6QGvnk2_mE 
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Nov 17, 2023 14:10
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If my memory serves I seem to remember an interview where it was mentioned that there was a last minute issue with the guitar (or really the lack therof) and it was pressing to get one to the venue ASAP. An inexperienced assistant was sent frantically to find a guitar from a local pawn shop or music store and the assistant just bought a real resin lacquered (very hard finish meant to protect the instrument from wear and damage) six string guitar in a frenzied haste and the rest is spinal compression history.
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Dec 1, 2023 22:02
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Has there ever been a botched kickout that actually changed the results of a match? Or at least caused controversy in a non-worked way?
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I bet the reactions from the wrestlers were pretty funny, especially from the ones that were supposed to lose. Like trying badly to not look shocked or surprised and sell it. "What!? I won?.... uh, I mean yeah! I won!" lol
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