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3 minutes ago, Go2Sleep said:
Between Hayes, Gangrel, and Terri Runnels, the entirety of the Hardys' managerial history pre-Lita could fit this thread.
I completely forgot about Runnels managing them. Now you just reminded me of the Hardy's vs E&C series that Terri created. Of course, Russo being Russo, it was called the Terri Invitational Tournament.
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5 hours ago, Matt D said:
That's one way to look at it.
Another is that they, by their nature, created the demand in the first place. Of course tape traders never found the match no matter if they called tv studios or combed tape lists or bugged Tommy Rich.
How could they? WWE has been sitting on the footage for either fifteen or thirty years. This wasn't a case of them, with their superior connections tracking down a lead. There were no leads to track down.
They caused the problem in the first place by buying up footage and barely doing anything with it and by creating a product with a fanbase whose idea of history is what they're spoonfed so the market isn't there for them to do anything with it in the first place.
It would be like Indiana Jones finding the Holy Grail in his basement after everyone else spent years looking for it. It was just there the whole time. You're happy to have it but he's still sort of an asshole.
This is so douchey, man. They have a shit ton of tapes and very few people to go through them, as the previous two posts have noted. In your mind, what should they have done differently? Not bought the tapes, I guess. Who's to say that, had they not bought the tapes, somebody's grandma wouldn't have ended up with the Last Battle of Atlanta and maybe taped Matlock over it?
Why can't we just be happy we got this instead of being entitled goobers yelling WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?
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16 hours ago, L_W_P said:
I couldn't buy a single one of Dar's kneebar attempts because ZSJ was just laying there not giving a single fuck about it being applied.
Holy fuck this bugged me. He just lay there in the kneebar, then maybe he'd scream a little or wince, then just stop and have a blank expression...then he'd alternate between pain and seemingly musing upon whether to have chips or crisps post match.
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10 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Everyone needs to watch this and a serious discussion needs to be had about get spearing called in the NFL.
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=AW9soqA9LVU
Jesus.
I legit gasped seeing one of these hits in gif form on Deadspin.
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"WWE screwed up with Del Rio! He was so over in Mexico and the indies!"
He got over on the indies and in Mexico because his gimmick was "he stood up to the evil racist WWE." There was literally nothing else to him. So there was nothing special about him once he went back.
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Does anybody else remember the (annual?) "WWF Superstars" magazine?
It was essentially WWF's version of the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe" comic: profiles of every wrestler working for them. Because of the usual publication date lag you see with all wrestling media, you'd occasionally get profiles of guys who were long gone or barely showed up in the first place. I remember seeing a piece on The Missing Link, managed by Bobby Heenan, who was only with the fed for 5 months in 1985.
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8 hours ago, Lawful Metal said:
But seriously, Poor Cam. They were just letting the Broncos rough the passer on just about every single passing play. I hope they let JJ do that to Cutler on Sunday.
Oh shit I didn't consider the ramifications of JJ Watt playing on 9/11. He'll ride into the stadium in a military Hummer driven by GWB and Ted Nugent, wearing a Chris Kyle t-shirt, and punch out anyone who has the temerity to not stand for the anthem. He'll make sure to Instrgram it all, of course.
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Wait wait so if Reigns beats Owens in a non title match he gets added to a 3 way? This shit is so dumb. And didn't Smackdown just do the same thing? I guess the concept of protecting titles is too "rasslin" for Vince.
Also, good riddance to ADR. Dude is boring.
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15 hours ago, Wyld Samurai said:
Key? Wasn't he playing a Coke dealer with an angle that he was selling to Hawk?
I thought he was being groomed for a feud with Make a Difference Fatu, no?14 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:How about Sivi Afi being the third Islander? I believe he only made one TV appearance with them. After Tama left following WM4, Sivi Afi and Haku worked house shows as The Islanders continuing the feud with the Bulldogs.
Speaking of Islanders, what about Barbarian being brought in under his real name as the third and/or replacement Headshrinker?
12 hours ago, Throat said:On an episode of Action Zone, probably in 95 or 96, Michael Hayes said something I couldn't believe made air on a taped show pre-Attitude Era. He and Todd Pettingill were talking about tattoos, and Todd goes "Do you have any tattoos?" And Hayes goes "Yeah, I've got a tattoo! Sometimes it says WWF and sometimes it says World Wre-" and Todd cuts him off and goes to break.
Is that a play on the old "Wendy/Welcome to Jamaica Mon Have a Nice Day" joke? If so, Hayes' takeoff on it makes no sense.
Speaking of Hayes and also speaking of proteges, I remember Hayes taking promising young upstart Steve Cox under his wing and nicknaming him Steve "Do It To It" Cox. It was short lived and is definitely a candidate for the worst nicknames hall of fame.
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he took A BLOOD OAT
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I remember Terry Funk, while he was an announcer partnered with Chris Cruise in WCW on one of the syndicated shows, hyping the debut of "Big Titan" from England for a week or two. Then it never happened.
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1) Nobody active will ever go after Vince in court because wrestlers are all marks who, no matter what, always think they have one more WWE run in them.
2) Nobody past active age will go after Vince because wrestlers never really retire and you never know when WWE might need you.
If the Punk lawsuit goes through, maybe he should go scorched earth and just go after WWE on the independent contractor thing. But, see point one. Lawsuit or not, another Punk WWE run is not outside the realm of possibility.
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2 hours ago, BrianS81177 said:
"The Lumberjack" Jos LeDuc
I remember seeing pics of Haku's coronation in WWF Magazine and LeDuc was in the group shot, though I never saw him work TV. I assume he was on that set of tapings but then they never aired his matches.
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Dana couldn't get off her back because those massive new performance enhancements were weighing her down.
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I have a small computer in my living room that is connected to one of my TV's HDMI inputs. I use a bluetooth keyboard/touchpad combo to control it and that's how I watch WWE Network and any other online stuff or legally downloaded content. It's a $300 - 400 expenditure that I don't regret.
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I saw a guy crossing the parking lot at a Petsmart a few days ago wearing this. The only acceptable variation on the overdone "keep calm..." thing.
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I'd be absolutely delighted to find out that these are just token meatheads that HHH hired for a long con. Like Vince asks for a status report on the Performance Center so HHH sends these workout videos to Vince, who watches them half turgid (who am I kidding? Completely erect.) and is like GODDAMN PAL NXT IS DOING GREAT! THE FUTURE IS IN GOOD HANDS! LOOK AT THAT VASCULARITY.
Then HHH is free to sign any and all smaller, lest vascular and superior workers he wants and the chairman is none the wiser. He's literally running a fake PC full of jacked lunkheads just for Vince's benefit.
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True. But you'd think they'd learn their lesson between injuries and the fact that the most successful NXT call up to date (Owens) is not exactly the poster boy for guys who would get kicked out of Planet Fiteness for gymtimidation.
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So instead of workers, the Performance Center is pumping out future panelists for How Much Ya Bench?
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15 hours ago, Vader does my taxes! said:
Yes, and in Japan afterwards.
A fair handful of guys wore singlets/short legs before the Steiners. King Kong Bundy, the Russians (Nikita, Uncle Ivan, etc.), a couple guys in Japan. I'd have to rack my brain, but there were territory guys with that look well before the Steiners. I think Dutch Mantell wrestled in a short-legged singlet and furry boots at one point.
Right, but the question was specifically about the singlet with shorts, not the nut hugger. I remember Mantell, the Russians and Bundy all wearing the latter, not the former.
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THAY WANTED MAY TO BREAK UP WITH MOY PAWPAY
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@A_K My point was piling up THREE cliffhangers in the final minutes of an episode is amateur hour, tryhard, hamfisted garbage, done only because a cliffhanger is usually more interesting than the payoff -- especially on a show that is more often than not very dishonest with its cliffhangers.
Look at the episode before last. Cisco is spying on Darlene for the Dark Army! Darlene smacked him with a bat! What's going to happen next? Holy shit, the ground of the show literally just shifted! And then the payoff was.....Cisco was just telling them he has her and she's safe? And she overreacted? Amazing. They just pulled a bait and switch that added up to nothing just for the sake of having a cliffhanger.
Again, I like this show, but it's definitely all style over substance. Really good looking shots, neat little narrative contrivances, ballsy plot twists, etc all camouflage the fact that there's some dishonest, sub-par storytelling going on.
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On 9/3/2016 at 8:16 PM, Casey said:
Roadies is just trying to be Almost Famous: The TV Series right? That's what it feels like. I don't know how I feel about this show and I'm already 4 episodes in.
I was going to start Ray Donovan but it's been on the air for 3 years or something and I really don't want to binge watch that many seasons in two days. HBO doesn't have any newer shows, that I'm aware of, that I could binge on in one night. Showtime and Starz shows are usually hit or miss (as proven by Roadies). Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
I've never seen Roadies but the commercials make me think Cameron Crowe is to music what Jim Ross is to College Footbaw. A guy who is doing one thing but clearly wishes he had done the other thing, which was always his true love.
Ray Donovan is awesome. This season has been a little darker than the previous ones, but it's definitely worth your time. Just don't go into it thinking it's a procedural where Ray and his wacky friends "fix" a new case every week, because most criticism of the show seems to come from people who expected that kind of bullshit.
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Holy shit I thought "ADR is doing a presser at Hooter's" was a joke. God damn.
LOL @ Paige's career trajectory. Start wrestling in your mid teens, fight to get to the biggest wrestling company in the world, throw it all away on Midlife Crisis Guy. Why can't I shake the feeling they're going to leave the presser in his new Corvette?