Robert S
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6 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
One of the worst experiences I've had as a wrestling fan was being there live when he got paralyzed. We knew it was bad, just no idea how bad...
I had a similar experience and know what you mean: a local guy (about 20 years ago) when taking a Styles Clash from Chris Hero tucked his chin and got dropped straight on his head. He had a neck injury and was temporarily paralyzed. The show was almost immediately stopped (somehow they still did a finish - Hero put on some kind of chinlock). Thankfully, the guy's neck was only partially broken and he could walk again a couple of hours later or so. That was his final wrestling match though, he returned as a referee, however.
Regarding Droz: I guess he had a reduced life expectancy, I just hope he did not suffer in the end.
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14 minutes ago, Infinit said:
This seems like a good question for Forbidden Door weekend...
Are Tenzan and Kojima the the most successful regular tag team that became single stars?
What about the Texas Outlaws?
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4 hours ago, hammerva said:
Forgot about the somewhat legendary Jim Duggan vs Matt Borne/Doink "shoot" match in PWS many years ago. That was something that got way more hype then it really deserved. It did bring up a great line on here where Mick Foley mentioned something like 'you really have to some issues if you don't like Hacksaw Jim Duggan'
Just watching his WCW run I would suppose that at least professionally there had to be a bunch of people who were not very happy about him. Often he gave his opponents very little in the ring, even in matches that were designed to be competitive. I don't think I have ever seen it, but there is the Berlyn debut match where Duggan apparently sold little - in a match where Duggan's only job was to get Berlyn over. I have seen a bunch of matches where you think that on paper "that might have been a fun match" but in the end Duggan took 90% of the match barely selling anything.
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3 hours ago, Eivion said:
Its been a while. I recall liking it but preferring the Summerslam match.
The last time I've seen it (3-4 years ago), I actively disliked the Summerslam match. The work itself was fine, but the Flair + Mr. Perfect stuff was a big detriment, killing all the flow of the match. And the whole payoff of the storyline was, that Flair got to be transitional champion.
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21 hours ago, Shane said:
Been months since I've been around the board to see one of these. I was happy to spend some time with it today.
11:16 this time out. I was confounded by the bottom left corner...I took me much longer (22 minutes), but same issue with the bottom left corner for me.
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And the season big bads are the Gorn. I'm kinda ok with this as they're probably the last relatively untouched bad guys from the TOS era.
And it's something different from Borg.
Maybe that is as good as time as any: I hate the Borg as main villains, they are completely one-note "you are going to be assimilated". There is only so much you can do with them besides having them as seemingly unstoppable force. You can have them being a thread to your very existence (like done in Best of Both Worlds and later), you have main characters getting assimilated (again Best of Both Worlds), free a Borg (again Best of Both Worlds (and later), as well as I, Borg and Voyager) and have people deal with the fallout of your planet getting assimilated (Generations, I guess?). You can do so much more with Romulans, Cardassians, Founders, Klingons ...
It was good and well for a couple of episodes in TNG, the movie was also fine because adding the Borg Queen gave it a bit more dimensionality, but bringing them back for Voyager and Picard (and even for one episode Enterprise) was not necessary. Literally any other race would have been more interesting. Well, maybe not in Voyager because the races they came up with for that show also were hit and miss at best.
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Even without the goatee Head aged a lot:
Though I should add that this picture is from an article titled "Anthony Head sometimes doesn’t recognize himself on ‘Ted Lasso,’ and he likes it that way"
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So, what is a greater crime against Wrestling Logic:
- Every Will Ospreay opponent deeply studying their Will Ospreay footage so that they know precisely when and how to duck and dodge , or
- No Tyler Bate opponent ever having watched a Tyler Bate match, and thus not knowing that when he lifts his fist in the air, the one thing you shouldn't do is stand right in from of him with your guard down?
Or something else?
Zombie Undertaker used an elbowdrop as transition for years - I don't think he ever hit that move. The Flair doing the Stevens spot getting clothelined in 999/1000 tries is also a good candidate.
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10 hours ago, nate said:
Did Mr. Fuji ever have a first name, other than "Mr."?
Or "Master", for that matter ...
Cagematch has matches with him listed as "Harry Fujiwara" (early to mid 60ies, mostly in Hawaii), "Masa Fujjwara" (late 60ies to early 70ies, again mostly in Hawaii plus a bit in Vancouver), "The Great Fuji" (for Roy Shire in 75 & 76) and as "Shintaro Fuji" (Australia 67). I would not be certain about the "Masa Fujiwara" name though, in that same time period he is also listed as "Mr. Fujiwara" in Hawaii (and as "Mr. Fuji" during the same period - but I would assume that he was using some version of Fujiwara in Hawaii as long as he was a regular there, i.e. until 71).
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Yeah, that's pretty much how it went for me too (minus someone else making fun of me). In addition to face blindness I seem to be name blind as well (as in if you remove the middle name, I will have problems recognizing the name).
And the face blindness, let's just say if I meet someone in an unexpected place or I see someone for the first time after a couple of years, I will pretend that I did not see them and wait if they react on me. For example, last week when I was watering the flowers at the family grave, I saw a woman who I thought might be my cousin, but I was not sure so I waited for her to great me. That cousin lives in the same small town as me, though to be fair, I only see her every couple of years, she is 10 years older than me and therefore we basically had no relationship when I was a kid (and obviously neither do so now). It really was my cousin, by the way.
And people changing their hairstyle are completely fucking with my brain.
After going over the Wikipedia article of "prosopagnosia", funny that you should mention Brad Pitt, because he listed as suffering from face blindness as well, so he might not recognize you either.
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5 hours ago, Dolphman 3000 said:
Shane McMahon at Backlash 2000
or Vince at Over the Edge 98
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50 minutes ago, just drew said:
You're faster than me. I have no idea. This show rules, though.
It's Anthony Stewart Head, aka Giles from Buffy. He even has the same first name in Ted Lasso (Rupert). He has done a lot of stuff since Buffy (I guess Little Britain would be the most prominent thing I guess), none of which I have seen and, well, Head is now 20 years olders.
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2 hours ago, just drew said:
Started Ted Lasso, and I'm mildly embarrassed how long it took me to figure out that the owner lady is the "Shame" Septa from Game of Thrones. I was like 8 episodes in.
It took me 2.5 seasons to realize who the actor that plays her ex-husband is.
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Silvio Berlusconi has passed away at the age of 86. I might be an asshole but I can think of worse ways to start a week.
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I finished White House Plumbers today and am somewhat shocked about the mediocre reaction by critics (62 on Metacritic). Harrelson, Theroux and Headey knock it out of the park acting wise and the writing (and directing etc.) also is pretty good. There might be a loose end here or there that they introduced that didn't need to be there (for example, I am not sure if the show needed any of the JFK murder speculation - a wink here or there would have been fine, but blatantly saying that United Airlines Flight 553 was sabotaged because Dorothy Hunt knew something about what happened in Dallas was not in the spirit of the show), but in total I think they chose well on what to concentrate.
While clicking through some Wikipedia pages (to check some facts, history etc.), I noticed that almost all of the "plumbers" reached a high age - Liddy died at the age of 90, Hunt at 88, the burglars got to 98, 93, 92, 88 and only Sturgis died at a relatively young age (68).
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No Glenn Jacobs joke? Come on.
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6 minutes ago, Happ Hazzard said:
Someone took "Los Perros del Mal" too literal.
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3 hours ago, BrianS81177 said:
Aww man. The Gambler was my favorite of the WCW jobbers. Did he ever win a televised match?
Here is one:
cagematch has two other wins of his marked as TV matches (against Mike Winner in 94 and against Chad Brook in 96), but who knows if those weren't actually dark matches.
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6 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
SAG-AFTRA has voted to authorize a strike.
Stupid questions: there are wrestlers who are part of SAG, right? Would those people strike w.r.t. wrestling shows as well?
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3 hours ago, odessasteps said:
You did later have Tommy wrestle Bobby in the WWF Light Heavyweight tournament, IIRC.
I think that was a one-off (Rogers had one other match with Brian Christopher taped on the same night, a Raw and Shotgun Saturday Night taping in the metropolis of Lake Placid in front of 2700 fans - I did not realize that they still did those small-town Raws by the summer of 97) organized by Jim Cornette. I know Corny has talked about the circumstances of that match, maybe on WWF Timeline.
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22 hours ago, Infinit said:
PN News is still alive
YO BABY YO BABY YOOOOO
I saw Cannonball Grizzly live in 2005 and I think he lost some weight by that point, at least I don't remember him looking that fat.
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Apros pos Akeem: How many "fat" 80ies and early 90ies wrestlers are still alive? I was recently watching World War 3 95 and was trying to count the number of people who are dead by now (15, I think, by the way) and when One Man Gang entered I automatically wanted to add him to the list until I went, wait, he is still alive, is he. But there are not many of those guys besides George Gray still standing.
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3 hours ago, odessasteps said:
I wonder what comedy ended with the darkest /bleakest ending. Off top of my head, hard to top Blackadder IV.
Blackadder IV is a good call. I recently watched Space Force and the second (and last) season ended with the indication that the earth is about to get hit by a big ass meteroid.
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6 hours ago, Kevin Wilson said:
Hulk Hogan in a recent interview said this:
One of Hogan's career highlights was when he joined forces with Graham, a moment The Hulkster appreciates all these years later when he reflects on his wrestling legacy.
"When we were in Atlanta working for Ted Turner," Hogan said. "They teamed us up. We looked like brothers. He was in prime shape. I was in prime shape. We had the same balding hairline. It was amazing."
So we've established 100 times over that Hogan enjoys making up stories, but I looked on cagematch and see no evidence of anything like this happening. In fact I see no evidence that Billy Graham wrestled again after 1987. Anyone else know anything about it? Was it on some house show nostalgia situation or another Hogan fabrication? I assume its made up, Hogan is a ridiculous person. Although to Hogan's rare credit he has really been putting over Graham in the last week, admitting he stole a few bits off of him and that he was the wrestler he modeled himself after. Which was obvious to us but still nice of him to say.
I assume that by "working in Atlanta for Ted Turner" Hogan meant GCW where Hogan was working in late 79. cagematch has two Georgia results for Graham in that timeframe as well, most notably an Omni show which had Hogan on the card as well (beating Stan Hansen by the way):
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July 2023 Wrestling Discussion
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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So are they trying to say Finn is dead and he has been replaced by a look-alike?