Happ Hazzard
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35 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Because the promotions that tried figured out it made no sense at all, and you need to figure that out as well.
It makes no sense at all to have the heaviest womans weight division being called Featherweight.
35 minutes ago, Ace said:Because 135 lbs. shouldn't be called heavyweight. There's literally no gain to it. Nobody cares anymore who the "heavyweight" champion is.
People should care who the champions are. It's the job of promoters to make them care.
UFC will soon have 4 womens champions, at Strawweight, Flyweight, Bantamweight and Featherweight. It would be much easier for the casual fan to understand and easier to promote if they billed them as Featherweight, Lightweight, Middleweight and Heavyweight. It's counterproductive to have Cris Cyborg, a big jacked up fearsome female fighter being billed as the Featherweight champion.
If there's an argument against this (and not "nobody cares, it doesn't matter") I'd like to hear it.
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How does it make no sense?
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7 hours ago, Casey said:
Good luck finding a bunch of female fighters that are 206-265lbs to fill that Women's Heavyweight division you keep mentioning. It'll basically be Gabi Garcia fighting her shadow, and a bunch of women that were fighting on Indian reservations the week before with hardly any training or skill.
You're missing my point. There will never be a 265lb womens division, which is why the heaviest viable womens division should be renamed heavyweight. I'm not advocating changing the divisions, just the names.
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The weight classes are named based on the male classes. The heaviest womens weight class should be heavyweight. Cyborg is not a featherweight woman.
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Do any promotions hold womens fights at any weight above Featherweight? I've always found it ridiculous that the womens weight classes have the same names as the mens classes at the same weight. If there's just 4 classes, call them heavyweight, middleweight, welterweight and lightweight.
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Does it have to be 10,000 paid? Just hold an free show outdoors in a park or something on WrestleMania saturday. Or on the beach like Bash at the Beach then they can claim everyone on that beach is in attendance.
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Forsyth was bigger, and for longer.
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They broke the mold when they made Bruce. Probably the biggest household name in the history of British television, everyone from 8-80 has grown up watching him on Friday and Saturday night light entertainment TV.
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What's the deal with the "North Bay" territory? Never heard of that one and there aren't really any major cities in that area. Was it just an offshoot of Toronto?
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It was a strange time for the Horsemen. They fought Doom at Halloween Havoc yet were definitely heels that night as they tried to pull off the imposter Sting ploy to have Sid win the title. Then at Starrcade Arn and Barry got a face reaction against Doom, Sid teamed with Spivey against 2 heels and the Skyscrapers were massively over as faces, then by the end of the night Flair was unmasked as the Black Scorpion and the other Horsemen were in the cage beating up Sting and Dick the Bruiser.
Doom should definitely have stayed around for longer. I heard Reed had a drug problem and his wife wanted him off the road, that may have applied to him leaving the WWF in 1988 though (but may have also been the reason for him leaving WCW in 1991).
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Were Doom supposed to have turned face in late 1990? They feuded with the Horsemen, Sting substituted for Butch Reed and teamed with Ron Simmons to defend the tag titles against Flair and Arn, then Doom lost the titles to the (heel) Freebirds.
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What was the deal with the Kensuke Sasaki vs One Man Gang match that took place after the Starrcade '95 PPV? Why have a match like this after the PPV instead of before? Why have Gang win the belt, then restart the match and have Sasaki win, then have Gang as the champion anyway?
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Even if Montreal hadn't happened, I don't see Bret being in WWE all these years. They'd have either fired him when cost cutting at some point or he'd have quit, they'd have been on bad terms for a while then he'd have gone back for the HOF a while later.
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Who owns the rights to the original GLOW? Still David McClane? Maybe it will end up on Netflix or Amazon. Or maybe WWE will buy it for their Network.
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I'm on episode 8. It is an excellent TV show.
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Heart Attack according to Alvarez.
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Buddy Wayne passed away. This is the pacific northwest guy that did jobs in WWF and WCW, trained Bryan Alvarez and regularly appeared on his radio shows back in the day. RIP.
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I always heard that Giant had one match before WCW. Where it was, I don't know. Did Larry Sharpe promote his own shows?
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How many matches did Mr T have? Any more than the 3 I know about (WM1, WM2 and Starrcade '94)?
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Yeah he did, AFAIK Zeus had exactly 5 matches 3 in WWF, (SuSl '89, SuSe '89, NHB: The Match) 1 in WWC with Abby, and the Doomsday Cage debacle in WCW).
But I count Zeus as a celebrity, not a wrestler. Otherwise guys like Mr T and Gene Okerlund would count).
When was El Gigante's first match? Was it GAB '90?
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Was Kevin Nash the first wrestler never to wrestle in a territory?
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Did any promotion play a wrestlers entrance music after they won a match before the WWF started doing it? And when did the WWF start doing it?
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Was Eddie Sharkey continually training guys from the early 80s and early 2000s and just no-one made it big between the likes of Hawk, Animal, Darsow, Nikita etc until Aries?
Your Wrestlers RIP Thread
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Very sad news, he always seemed so young, strong and healthy. RIP.