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in wrestling they say real poo poo for fake reasons, until it's time to have fake fights for real reasons it's like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? e: man should I explain that? eeeeeeeeeeeehhhh I'll explain that if anyone asks me to. otherwise it can just be some stupid poo poo I said. this way everybody wins 👍 Cubone fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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Feb 7, 2022 03:25
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this happened right before the "mystery partner" was revealed in a 3 on 3 tag match right after this gif ends, bray points at the fan being dragged away and can be heard on the live airing laughing and saying "is that your guy?"
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Feb 8, 2022 09:18
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one of my favorite parts of Rusev Day was John Cena randomly putting it over I can’t remember the context but he said “You’re really gonna do this to me? On Rusev Day?  ”which popped the crowd and I’m betting was unscripted and Vince probably didn’t like it, but at this point Cena is worth more to the WWE than they are to him
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Feb 10, 2022 03:02
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Feb 10, 2022 20:32
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I'm pretty sure he got the Mr. rear end gimmick because Road Dogg got mad one time and said "you do not call him billy, you will address me as Mr. Dogg and you will address him as Mr. rear end" and the next week the crowd was full of "Mr. rear end" signs
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Feb 11, 2022 05:18
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dangerstepp posted:And don't forget to mention the time he killed Miss Elizabeth. 
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Feb 11, 2022 05:30
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it's kinda cool that wrestlemania 10, 20, and 30 all ended with a popular, accomplished technical wrestler that was small (by wrestling standards) and wwe didn't seem to like winning the big belt in the main event there's also weird little parallels, like how bret and bryan both also wrestled a match earlier in the night, 20 and 30 both ended in a triple threat with triple h and/or triple h's friends, and bryan and benoit won with almost the exact same move (lebell lock/crossface crippler... brownie points if anyone can even explain what the difference is) also... now that I've typed that, I'm realizing each of them had a name that started with a B. but sure tell me Wrasslor the God of wrestling isn't real, athetits
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Wp-8QLES0
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Lance Storm got to fire the first shot of the invasion angle, and I was never a WCW guy so I didn't know that he wasn't really a huge deal over there (if I'm not mistaken), and, I thought he was so loving awesome. I immediately went and made a Lance Storm create-a-wrestler in WWF No Mercy and I was mad because they didn't have his pants and then I just... never saw him again. like dust in the wind  also, nth-ing the sentiment that Raw Report is blessed and good, thank you Eclipse12
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Feb 17, 2022 19:34
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gbs but from 2004 posted:where did road dogg end up after the attitude era? Did he stay at WWE and only just get fired or something? yes e: well he went to TNA and the indies for a while, but then he was a backstage guy at WWE and last I heard he's fired I remember because sometimes somebody would ask "who the gently caress booked this match?" and somebody else would respond "oh you didn't know?" lol and then earlier this year wwe fired all of triple h's friends e2: I should probably read the thread before responding Cubone fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Feb 20, 2022 |
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Feb 20, 2022 20:12
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Trollologist posted:Can someone explain for to me how Scott Steiner went from "strong man" to "chainmail clad manic ranting about numbers who appears to be the living embodiment of human growth hormone"?
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Feb 25, 2022 08:53
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jesus christ who gives a poo poo
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Feb 28, 2022 00:20
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more effortposts, less slapfighting about whose wrestling opinions are the most like lame tacos
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Feb 28, 2022 00:21
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:what was the name of the guy who spit apples at people. He was fun carlito caribbean cool shadow puppet of a posted:Then shut up and name some other wrestlers so I can tacoize them. carlito caribbean cool
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wow, not going to wrestling shows because jim cornette might be christian is like if you went to taco bell and john cena was a lovely taco
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Cornwind Evil posted:
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Mar 3, 2022 21:35
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having a cable show isn't a small thing according to Paul Heyman, losing that was a big factor in ECW going under https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO1oFYqatks
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Jonny Nox posted:I think I'm just as bad because I'm having a hard time not wading in with "AKCHUALLY..." and drawing things out.
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Prof. Crocodile posted:So from what gather from this thread, pro werestling is now in its post-modern period, where there is no longer any pretense of substance or deeper meaning and everything is either hollow consumer mass-marketing (WWF) or a cheeky send-up of the conventions of the genre (AEW). the problems with the respective companies (or at least how they're framed) are more or less as you say, but neither company is guilty of their respective shortcomings in absolute your wording, forgive me, makes it sound almost nihilistically cynical, and I wouldn't go that far at all. there are still tons of people in the business who are passionate about this unique form of storytelling and put their hearts and minds and bodies into making it great, and there's still plenty of compelling stories being told we're geeks on the internet, and geeks on the internet are always going to tend towards tribalism and hyperbole as they frame their pet fascinations in terms that suit their personal preferences, and goons in specific have a particular love of iconoclasm MJF cut a promo a short while ago about... well, I'm not going to be able to do it justice, but it would be insane to me for someone to suggest that this is somehow guilty of not taking itself seriously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAf6epYTUAM this is a man telling a story of when he was a defenseless child, and his hero walked away if you're into video essays, this one by Super Eyepatch Wolf is a pretty good run through of the positives of current day wrestling as entertainment and it uses plenty of recent examples to illustrate
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shadow puppet of a posted:And my personal fave el gigante.
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Tazz's son looks like a cartoon character from like a really bitching anime about kickboxing or smething
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having a grouchy but harmless hater-in-residence is a sign of a healthy ecosystem. the forums are healing
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I miss ryback it was such a great part of wrestling to have this weird giant baby-shaped muscleman hanging around, lifting weights and demanding to be fed he had such a weird voice and face and head shape and he called himself "da BIG guyyy  "I love him  me on the left
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late, but I'm watching AEW Revolution and I know it makes me a huge mark but I actually stood up and got chills when william regal walked out to broker peace between mox and danielson loving perfect despite it being really close and kind of anyone's game and just happening to tip one way (which is a great way to book it when it's part of an angle to set up a team) they still had me sold on the "not over yet" vibe n the immediate aftermath and regal legit mentored both of them, but I somehow didn't see it coming at all great stuff
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I'm gonna do it... I'm gonna post the leg break 
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the crowd response to sufferin succotash was great it was like "woo- ...oo?  "because Roman did... like, I guess as good of a job as anybody could be expected to? it really seems like he's about to say something cool, and then it takes a second to sink in, and then they chant for him anyway and he looks as surprised as anyone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRFWb4Ia3r0&t=110s the promo as written is just SO bad quote:Brother? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. Yeah, yeah- nah, I'm not sorry. But look at you, you're just so full of yourself now. Actually, you're full of something else. You are a sniveling little suck-up sell-out full of suffering succotash, son! Yeah, I know, that was not easy to say. My brother here, my so-called brother here, he's got donkey dung for brains. What I'm trying to say is, I'm gonna kick your rear end.  imagine anybody trying to get this over imagine Sir Lawrence Olivier trying to get this over I mean, The Rock could do it, but
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tbh I don't understand how the World Wildlife Fund had a leg to stand on to me that's like Monster.com and Monster Energy Drink suing each other like... they're not in the same business. no one was confused about this
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worked shoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye8TGJmBlA0&t=138s
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Foxfire_ posted:There was a negotiated agreement between the two in 1994 where World Wrestling Federation agreed (among other things) to not use "WWF" in broadcasts. 
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TheSwizzler posted:If John Cena comes to the ring to Wig Wam on his next appearance I predict that might result in history's biggest crowd pop I would mark the gently caress out
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Prof. Crocodile posted:John Cena had also said that he hates Serbia. Because he is Albanian. he never said that
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re: hhh he's an unscrupulous politicker and a big doofy chode, but he loved wrestling and took it very seriously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4DWg8OHSo0&t=27s is it a good thing to take your profession so seriously that you think it doesn't count unless you're annihilating your own body? 🤔 probably not but you could never say that he didn't put everything he had into it. (like... how was this guy friends with kevin nash?) it's easy to forget because he's wanted so badly to be that guy for so long that he habitually fought to put himself above where he should be, and he succeeded way too often, and frankly it's hilarious that he never got that "thank you hunter" chant but circa 2001, he really was among the best in the world. if you go back and watch the three stages of hell match with austin (warning: it's an hour), he was about or almost as good as he said he was, and that's a pretty high bar
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TheSwizzler posted:A wrestlenerd classic link here. A series of quotes without context from the Observer Newsletter regarding WCW: quote:"A Sting mannequin sped down from the ceiling. When they went to beat the doll up, it was a real life human they dragged to the ropes that pretended to be the doll. As Hogan made fun of the dummy, the dummy unmasked, revealing real Sting, and unable to unhook himself while beating up the NWO (he) looked ridiculous" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: December 15, 1997
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wee-man body slamming sami zayn was the equivalent or better of hulk hogan body slamming andre the giant, an essay
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whoever said cody is dedicated to being total white meat babyface, yeesh you weren't kidding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_gsyVqO-yk well gosh, on one hand I always try my best and don't have a bad word to say about anything, but on the other hand I work really hard and love my family 
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Szyznyk posted:I only know Patrice O’Neil, and that’s because he bombed terribly and joked about it on Opie and Anthony. he said she fired him like 6 times
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re: the comics industry would love to effortpost about this at length if I could (recovering from eye surgery) but basically DC and Marvel only look like they're doing well if you compare them to themselves and each other (and even so, DC has taken to obfuscating its unit sales) we actually have a pretty good picture of what the comic book industry would look like if it hadn't chained itself to a shrinking and aging core demographic because unit sales in graphics publishing overall were actually up 68% last year from 2020, which was up 17% from 2019 in spite of the pandemic, and that was up 32% from 2018. growth in calculated retail value was even steeper but it wasn't spider-man and batman it was stuff like this:   these are the biggest selling titles from the two biggest comic publishers in the united states in 2021: Scholastic, and Viz Media. (yeah) children's and YA (young adult) graphic novels are absolutely massive right now you know how people used to say comics are for kids? well, kids never stopped liking comics, even when the people writing superman stopped liking them back children's and YA graphic novels saw unprecedented growth roughly beginning when Scholastic started republishing Bone in the mid-2000's, then an absolute explosion when Raina Telgemeier showed up, and then... they kinda just never stopped exploding see Marvel and DC had basically willfully ignored the gigantic non-core segment of their audience for so long that it created a vacuum in the market that big name publishers like Scholastic and Simon & Schuster gladly stepped up to fill in as soon as they realized it was there. and it's still being filling in if anybody's interested in reading further, I recommend this analysis of last year's Bookscan but I think this is the most relevant bit: quote:Depending on your exact definitions of intended audiences, it appears that seventeen of the Top 20 is intended for children or middle readers. Four of the Top 20 are Manga, and if you are looking for a “Marvel / DC-style” comic, you are not even in the top hundred-and-fifty! In fact, the first DC comic to appear is at #164 with the middle reader aimed Teen Titans: Beast Boy (with Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven coming in at #200, and former best-selling Watchmen not showing up until #250) As for Marvel? Their very first appearance isn’t until (gulp) alllll the way down at #892 with Infinity Gauntlet – this means that Scholastic’s Miles Morales: Shock Waves radically outperforms any published-by-Marvel comic, coming in at #202 (We’ll talk more about this below) there's also a pretty good Forbes piece from a few years ago covering the market shift: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2019/01/18/as-comics-direct-market-struggles-a-surprising-publisher-rises/ quote:Lots of factors account for the decline, including the lack of many true blockbuster hits last year; the self-defeating tactics of large publishers to extract maximum revenue out of a small and unrepresentative group of hardcore collectors; falling costs of digital back issues via subscription services and sales, making it less necessary for readers to follow every series in real time; and general headwinds facing many small, urban-based businesses, such as rising rents and labor costs, which put a pinch on their ability to order extra copies. In the comic book direct market, orders from the distributor are usually non-returnable, which puts huge pressure on retailers to not over-order titles that might not be salable (prices for recent back issues of most comics are near zero), but not under-order on titles that might end up being sleeper hits. Even small miscalculations can be the difference between a good month and catastrophe.
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