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God, you are not wrong.  quote:
This looks like a video game.
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Eclipse12 posted:I can kinda see his logic in the Yoko fight. Vince wanted Hogan to lose the title to Hart at Summer Slam but Hogan refused because he felt Hart was "too small" to ever plausibly best Hulk. Yokozuna was big, so that made it okay and they decided he would lose at KotR instead. But, and I'm guessing now, Hogan still didn't love the idea of being beaten fair and square so he needed to lose only because the opponent cheated. And it had to be special, not just salt in the eyes or a low blow. Hence, flaming camera. Supposedly Hogan came up with the photographer angle, with the idea that it would turn out to be Tiger Hattori. WWF didn't go with that plan, on the grounds that literally no-one in Dayton, Ohio (which is to be referred to for the remainder of the show as "the heartland of America" because Vince McMahon is hugely embarrassed at running a PPV out of Dayton, Ohio) would have any goddamn clue who Tiger Hattori is, and because the entire angle would exist purely to give Hogan a reason to go and work for New Japan to no benefit for WWF. However, they did keep the photographer gimmick, then subsequently never really mentioned it again or followed up on it, possibly as a big "gently caress you" to Hogan or possibly the intention was always to have that as an excuse to do a rematch if Hogan stuck around. The rest is pretty much accurate - at that point in time:
It was pretty much inevitable that Hogan's days with WWF were numbered, although it seems like they got cut short quicker than anticipated as McMahon has to very abruptly shove Lex Luger (a man with incredible obliques and almost no charisma to speak of) into Hogan's position, and I can't stress how poorly that's going to go. Hogan will spend about a year figuring out if there is an inlet, canal or fjord that will allow him to catch that purse thief before one of Ted Turner's people shows up to ask, "exactly how ridiculous and unreasonable are we talking, here?", and that's how we get Hulk Hogan vs Brutus "Hogan's BFF" Beefcake as the actual factual main event of Starrcade 1994, the time that they put all of the bad guys in WCW plus two movie dudes in a big cage so that Hogan could beat all of them at once, or the time that Hogan changed his part in a battle royal while it was happening for no other reason than so he could come back at the end and overshadow Randy Savage winning the title.
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PotatoJudge posted:She's so good at that, staying perfectly straight and rigid through the fall. Best one was when she started it with no opponent there, her tag team partner catches and stands her back up, drags the opponent over then tips Maki over. Any chance you know where to find video of this?
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FullLeatherJacket posted:Supposedly Hogan came up with the photographer angle, with the idea that it would turn out to be Tiger Hattori. WWF didn't go with that plan, on the grounds that literally no-one in Dayton, Ohio (which is to be referred to for the remainder of the show as "the heartland of America" because Vince McMahon is hugely embarrassed at running a PPV out of Dayton, Ohio) would have any goddamn clue who Tiger Hattori is, and because the entire angle would exist purely to give Hogan a reason to go and work for New Japan to no benefit for WWF. However, they did keep the photographer gimmick, then subsequently never really mentioned it again or followed up on it, possibly as a big "gently caress you" to Hogan or possibly the intention was always to have that as an excuse to do a rematch if Hogan stuck around. Thank you for sharing all this. I absolutely love reading "behind the scenes" stuff.
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Apr 8, 2021 15:18
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Ahhh Harvey Whippleman, seen here as Downtown Bruno. And yes that is Tugboat/Typhoon/Shockmaster to the left https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JSfB4C-wPU
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FullLeatherJacket posted:It was pretty much inevitable that Hogan's days with WWF were numbered, although it seems like they got cut short quicker than anticipated as McMahon has to very abruptly shove Lex Luger (a man with incredible obliques and almost no charisma to speak of) into Hogan's position, and I can't stress how poorly that's going to go. He's one of the biggest legend stars ever in this..- God! And your t-shirts are too tight too, Billy!
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There shall be no besmirching of Thunder In Paradise in this thread, got it?!  Edit: As I was watching Bear Country on Dynamite yesterday, I realized they remind me very much of Earthquake and Typhoon MakaVillian fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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Apr 8, 2021 16:25
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Mulaney Power Move posted:what about suburban commando It's a fairly solid family comedy. Also, I like to imagine that movie as what Hollywood would have come up with if they tried to make a Lobo movie in the early 90's.
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i remember three scenes. hulk hogan tosses a cd or something at a space villain and it severs his hand to reveal a lizard hand hulk hogan is incline pressing a car engine for exercise christopher lloyd blasts a red light he always gets stuck at with a space gun
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MakaVillian posted:Edit: As I was watching Bear Country on Dynamite yesterday, I realized they remind me very much of Earthquake and Typhoon Bear Country can work though
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I remember Hulk Hogan intimidating a car alarm, and intensely scrutinizing both the movie and my WWF tapes in a personal pre-internet era to figure out if it was really the Undertaker and why the hell they wouldn't credit him as they did Hogan.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:i remember three scenes. Did Hogan go back on the 'roids when he left WWF? He sure seemed to get bigger again after KotR, in which, as was mentioned by FullLeatherJacket, he was a lot smaller than his old days.
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I think I may have mentioned this in GBS recently, but I once ate at Hulk Hogan's restaurant in Tampa Bay while on a work trip. The interior was so garishly red and yellow it felt like a circus tent, and the food was slightly worse than you would get from an Applebees. On the plus side I got to see Jimmy 'The Mouth of the South' Hart eating some appetizers while wearing sunglasses indoors and night, and there was a respectable memorabilia display: 
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I live in Minneapolis but never ate at pastamania while it was here. I did used to drive by the old sign, which some other business must have taken when it closed and hung up, before they finally took it to the dump though: 
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Vince MechMahon posted:I live in Minneapolis but never ate at pastamania while it was here. I did used to drive by the old sign, which some other business must have taken when it closed and hung up, before they finally took it to the dump though: I would pay to see a match done in that lot. Or as DLC in a video game
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Prof. Crocodile posted:I think I may have mentioned this in GBS recently, but I once ate at Hulk Hogan's restaurant in Tampa Bay while on a work trip. Is that the restaurant that had the long dress code sign that was entirely things a black guy might wear despite the fact that most of it was also things hogan wears (bandanas for example)?
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Bonzo posted:I would pay to see a match done in that lot. Or as DLC in a video game Sadly it fell off in a snow storm and has since vanished.
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Mrs. Dash posted:Is that the restaurant that had the long dress code sign that was entirely things a black guy might wear despite the fact that most of it was also things hogan wears (bandanas for example)? hahaha he's the worst
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*pulls out comically long list* the worst? well actually...
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Apr 8, 2021 19:10
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"We only get one shot at this, Hulkster. The perfect restaurant to encapsulate all that is Hulkamania. The brand that takes you beyond wrestling. The restaurant that is the epitome of all you stand for, all you fight for, and how you view yourself in the zeitgeist of America. What is your vision, sir?" "Spaghetti."
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Rarity posted:Bear Country can work though I just meant physically Also Suburban Commando was pretty good Eclipse12 posted:"We only get one shot at this, Hulkster. The perfect restaurant to encapsulate all that is Hulkamania. The brand that takes you beyond wrestling. The restaurant that is the epitome of all you stand for, all you fight for, and how you view yourself in the zeitgeist of America. What is your vision, sir?" They absolutely didn't get past the fact that Pastamania sounded good MakaVillian fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ss_DNXNweQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4FGhFkCJKc
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MakaVillian posted:I just meant physically I was just getting another slam in on Earthquake for Gavok 
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Vince MechMahon posted:I live in Minneapolis but never ate at pastamania while it was here. I did used to drive by the old sign, which some other business must have taken when it closed and hung up, before they finally took it to the dump though: Mods please make this the background image for this thread tia
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Well this is wholesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP8Qcy7vpFI
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Apr 8, 2021 20:52
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Jesus Dynamite is a whole lot of non-match content this week. Just so much talking. Plus, I don't care about Mike Tyson one bit and now he's coming back next week? Spare me. Did enjoy Sting calling out Jake the Snake on being a lovely mentor though.
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Such a lovely mentor when he taught Sting how to do a DDT Sting somehow learned it completely in reverse
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also jeez the Good Brothers are such aggressively non-characters that match was a story between the Bucks and Omega and secondarily Moxley but the only reason the Good Brothers were in the picture is Matt and Nick would look right twats doing flips on their own
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Eclipse12 posted:"We only get one shot at this, Hulkster. The perfect restaurant to encapsulate all that is Hulkamania. The brand that takes you beyond wrestling. The restaurant that is the epitome of all you stand for, all you fight for, and how you view yourself in the zeitgeist of America. What is your vision, sir?" Well, he's Italian.
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We don't need no reasonable explanations, thankyouverymuch
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Mrs. Dash posted:Is that the restaurant that had the long dress code sign that was entirely things a black guy might wear despite the fact that most of it was also things hogan wears (bandanas for example)? holy poo poo yes it was! and we talked about it all through dinner. how did i forget that!?
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Animal-Mother posted:Well, he's Italian. Pasta also has one of the higher profit margins in restaurants. Dry pasta costs nothing.
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I almost forgot to keep posting macho man
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Everything in AEW is so cute. Best Friends. Hugging. Everyone is all happy. Dark Order wanting Adam Page cuz he's so handsome. It's so wholesome I love it
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The brandon cutler dungeons and dragons game with the best friends and librarians is a fun listen if you're into that sort of thing
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It'd be a lot easier to like the guy if he wasn't a controlling psycho with his wife. Lanny Poffo best Poffo.
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The idea of "___ was a piece of crap in real life" comes up now and then, and that's not a surprise, given the history of performers. I think to enjoy wrestling as a hobby you have to, on some level, consider the characters separately from the people who performed them. But I also get it if for some fans that doesn't work for them or if certain performers their real world lives are too heinous to tune out, such as Chris Benoit. I can't really watch his matches anymore. I'm not sure if a case-by-case basis is better or worse because you have to draw increasingly more lines in the sand or start making value judgments about which terrible thing is "okay" enough to still like the character and which isn't. So whenever I'm watching wrestling I have always have this asterisk in the back of my brain that says: *it saddens me that a lot of these people had/have some serious mental, anger, or addiction issues in real life and I hope that, by the end, they acknowledged their sins and atoned for them and both they and those they hurt find peace
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