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  1. Was Sullivan also booking the Sting/Luger/Hogan/Savage main event angle where Sting was trusting Luger's word even though Luger was taking advantage of him while Hogan and Savage were being such good frenemies that they belonged on a WB teen drama together? Or was that Bischoff? That angle got cut short by the nWo, obviously, and actually, it really helped introduce the nWo angle because it was a built-in transition that explained why WCW's main eventers could be easily picked apart by an outside force, but it was fantastic in its own right. I think some people thought it had started to spin its wheels by February or so, but in retrospect, that was obviously because it was now an elongated intro for the nWo angle. There's all sorts of little stuff there in the undercard that's great, too, particularly DDP being broken down completely after the Johnny B. Badd feud and then finding a way to build himself back up. It was booked perfectly and felt organic, largely because DDP a) is very likable and b) the Diamond Cutter is a great finisher and the way that it was presented really got him over, too. The Four Horsemen angle with Paul Orndorff that hinged on Brian Pillman leading Arn to doing something that he didn't want to do was also awesome, but unfortunately got cut short by Orndorff having to retire. Even the goofy stuff (IT'S NOT HOT!; Women's Shoes - 2, Hulk Hogan - 0) was enjoyable, IMO. Don't know how much of that is Bischoff and how much is Sullivan, though.
    5 points
  2. https://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/2018/12/6/18129352/larry-the-axe-hennig-dead-age-82-wwe I started watching wrestling in the mid-70's, the AWA. Hennig, (my auto-correct has now tried twice to spell it Henning. No, dumbass, it's HENNIG!), was always at the front and center. Face or heel, he always put on a great show. Then his son came and out-shined the OTHER well-known son on the show, (Greg Gagne) and went on to greater Perfect things. There was a bar I used to bounce at that he was really good friends with the owner. Larry came in with him one time. I was sitting with my gf at the time and some friends. They all noticed this huge guy walking in, and I explained who it was. He was sitting with the owner, who knew I was a big fan. I walked over and he introduced me to Larry. Shook his meat hook, told him what I fan I was, same of his son, whom I had also met a couple times. (Curt was a big time fan of this country band I used to work with in the mid 90's. He and Animal would come out all the time to watch us. Wore OUR merch, too!) We bs'ed for a couple minutes, wished him the best, went and sat down. My gf at that time would put up with my wrasslin' and sometimes watch with me. She had an idea about the industry. She immediately got up and went and introduced herself. Said her condolences on his son, blahblahblah, then said: "I was wondering if you could do a favor for me?" Larry: "Sure! What is it?" Gf: "Would you piledrive me?" Larry: blanklook.......... LAUGHS HIS ASS OFF! Gf: "I thought so." walks back to table. I've always loved that story. RIP, Mr. Hennig. Tell Curt hi.
    5 points
  3. He's just waiting there to tell him he cut their budget by 75%.
    4 points
  4. I always interpreted the Varsity Club as a bunch of dumb jocks who followed this really smart D&D geek because he could help them cheat on tests, and make them effective roofies. While at the same time Sullivan was manipulating them into doing his bidding. Like for instance, kidnapping Precious. Edit: also remember his nickname was “The Games Master” which sounded like a play on the title “Dungeon Master”. The whole Varsity Club angle was way too layered for its time.
    4 points
  5. Bryan looks like The Dude, if Walter died too, and he didn’t have anybody else around to keep him from completely snapping like he did near the end of The Big Lebowski.
    4 points
  6. Or if you're an old bastard you might think they are riffing on a line in "Ziggy Stardust"....
    3 points
  7. Becky's new motto: You will know me by the trail of my dead.
    3 points
  8. Same here. I figured Scott would find a way out of the quantum realm, but part of me wondered if they would have to try and get him out. So something I wondered about while talking this over with friends last night, but why doesn't Thor just get Tony and Nebula off of Titan using the Bifrost? If he somehow knew exactly where to go in Wakanda to fight everyone off even though he had never been there before and wouldn't have any knowledge of the fight being on Wakanda, then he probably would be the one to get Tony and Nebula back to Earth because surely he could see that too? Maybe we get that anyway, but it was surprising seeing Tony drifting off in space ready to die. I mean, there's a 0% chance that happens, but it was interesting to see. I'm so fucking stoked for this. I still can't believe this opens a month after Captain Marvel.
    3 points
  9. 3 points
  10. Lemme tell you something, baby, dont' worry about the Royal Rumble. Ain't nobody left in this need to be winning either one of them anyway. The vacation is what matters and vignettes of the winners on vacation. Let's say Mahal and Foxy win and pick a boat trip as their vacation. Recently retired Rhyno recently purchased a marina. Rhyno takes them out on a boat, jokes about the Jericho Cruise get made, Foxy can wear a ridiculous captain's hat. Then R-Truth pops up and when Mahal questions why he's on the boat, Truth tells him he's on his vacation from winning the MMC which angers Mahal and a fight breaks out which leads to Rhyno and R-Truth dumping Mahal overboard which leads to the Singh Bros. dressed like pirates picking Mahal up and chasing the other boat to a desert island where Carmella shows up on the beach and calls for a dance break and then we see Hornswoggle pop up from under the water and plant a bomb on the boat and the 2018 MMC officially ends with a boat blowing up. There's your goddamn pyro, pal.
    3 points
  11. I understand. Like, there's a difference between going on about a guy like Hulk Hogan, who's reward for a life of shitbaggery is to be a multi-millionaire, as opposed to Dynamite, who spent the last quarter century or so destitute in a wheelchair. Tommy did his time.
    3 points
  12. Mad Queen Nikki Cross could be fun. Where is Sanity?
    3 points
  13. What happened to Kongo Kong? They spent all that time having him pursue Abyss, he eventually faces and beats Abyss to become the new monster, then he feuds with Johnny Impact... gets dived on in a pool and disappears for months. I know they like to rotate people in and out, like how Grado and Joe Hendry aren't booked now, but it seems odd that he's been gone so long after such a push.
    2 points
  14. That trailer was great and I hope we get nothing else until the movie comes out even though I know that won;t be the case.
    2 points
  15. Pro Wrestling Elite. Or possibly Elite Pro Wrestling.
    2 points
  16. Michael Pena to explain how Ant-Man got out.
    2 points
  17. When you make MISAWA lose his shit...
    2 points
  18. Best part of 205 this week was Kalisto giving the young Asian girl in the front row a trading card & sombrero and her looking back at him in complete disgust. Like, even youngsters can see through the cheating tactics and unfair advantage of Lucha House Party.
    2 points
  19. It also helped that he had that voice modulator. Plus he had this wet look to him in promos, and in the ring. Like he was either a dead prisoner that Bossman drowned, or he had just rose from the San Francisco Bay after escaping Alcatraz, and didn’t brother toweling himself down.
    2 points
  20. Sullivan booking had "IT'S NOT HOT!" on top, so take that into consideration.
    2 points
  21. Virgil looking for fans to hustle. I can't believe they made the sign.
    2 points
  22. Apparently what I really meant by this was "I'm going to impulse buy it tonight." So I guess I will be seeing what all the fuss is about.
    2 points
  23. That’s a version of the Spider-Man Noir suit, which is interesting since Spider-Man Noir is also in Into the Spider-Verse, as is Miles.
    2 points
  24. He is fully doing the "window crank middle finger" deal. Hella funny.
    2 points
  25. Dynamite is kind of pro wrestling in the form of a person, isn’t he? All the good and bad that that entails in human form.
    2 points
  26. Kevin Sullivan with a filter is one of the great minds in wrestling. However, it's like the brilliant artist who is creating a masterpiece and needs a guy with a baseball bat standing behind him to hit him over the head when it's finished before he spoils it with self-indulgent nonsense. Sully really needs that guy standing behind him.
    2 points
  27. Even though I know that it automatically saves the pelts, I for whatever reason still ran with the damn fish, like this...
    2 points
  28. I'm not about to clutter up an "In Memoriam" thread with all the verifiable foul shit that he did. I can't find it in me to praise him as a human being, but he was one of the three greatest wrestlers of my lifetime (and the only one that wasn't Japanese). I'm sure that he went out the same way he lived, a miserable hard bastard to the very end. Thanks for all the great matches, DK, hope you find some peace now.
    2 points
  29. I'm now all in on M'Baku being the de facto king of Wakanda and being a stand-in Panther.
    1 point
  30. A teaser doing what it's meant to. Looked like Cap is wearing the Super-Soldier/SHIELD suit from Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Yay! Thanos cares about selling, he's still limping ; ).
    1 point
  31. Really good top two matches here and chaotic ending. Would've loved to have had Sydal in Ultimate X but dug the match with Page here a lot. Always great to see Raven involved in any way so I loved that surprise appearance and hope for more of that. I like Taya's new entrance, her and Tessa's rivalry has been good stuff.
    1 point
  32. Your brain, I took it out and washed it while you were asleep. Pretty dirty, lots of old beer cans. It spoke to me and told me the truth.
    1 point
  33. How many more white guys does New Japan need? Who do they think they are, Lucha Underground? The situation with EVOLVE could've been avoided if Gabe didn't try and get cute and have WWE guys beat IMPACT's tag champs. If the goal in booking LAX was to draw locally then the match to do would've been LAX vs. Dickinson/Jaka. Team Pazuzu explodes in New York. Speaking of New York and that Eli Drake BFG open challenge to anyone from New York, you know who's also not from New York? Joey Janela from New Jersey.
    1 point
  34. Every parent of a small child thought “Baby Shark” immediately.
    1 point
  35. Kieron Gillen's new book, Die, is really good. At this point, I can't remember the last book he's written that I didn't dig.
    1 point
  36. If Dynamite wasn't such an asshole, he wouldn't have achieved what he did. It drove him. It basically drove him and hundreds of guys who followed him off a cliff, but they were sure going fast in a bright red sports car along the way.
    1 point
  37. I could happily go the rest of my wrestling-viewing life without seeing someone charging shoulder-first into the ring post. I think Rollins can get a bit of a pass for outright eliminating his old finishers. He stopped using the curb stomp because he couldn't use the move at all; there's no way using the pedigree as a near-fall would go over well; he does attempt the ripcord knee now, from time to time.
    1 point
  38. Look how lame that WWF crowd reaction is to that. If that was a WCW crowd you'd have people jumping from their seat, and high-fiving, or hugging the stranger next to them because a man just got his head spiked into the mat. I mean look at this... No DDT, no powerbomb, no clotheslines, just Steve"Mongo" McFuckin'Michael.
    1 point
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