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Wyld Samurai

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  1. ... It's "Helloova Kick"? All this time I thought the announcers were saying Puma Kick.

    A New Day-Loreon was gold... and what a way to build up The Vaudevillains with the proceeding beatdown they took. That's how you book!

  2. 5 minutes ago, mattdangerously said:

    In today's WWE, I think they'd be more concerned with the fact that Hogan exhumed Piper's body and brought it down to the ring on live TV.

    well, the Ancient Romans exhumed Pope Formasus, dressed him up in his Papal gear and put his decomposing cadaver to trial. So I could absolutely see Hogan doing the same. 

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  3. 6 hours ago, Technico Support said:

    I remember being at a house show, lower concourse first row by the entrance when Bret walked within a few feet of my friends and I and it hit me how big the guy really was.  Michaels was 6'1" and in the low 200s when he was part of the "small, high-flying" Rockers.  Perfect was immense compared to a lot of today's guys like Balor, Enzo, Aries, Styles, etc. 

    If I was to design that classic ideal of a main event wrestler they would be in that Bret / Perfect mold.

    That could have been the mid 90s version of Flair vs Steamboat... that's the guy Bret truly needed during his main run... he had Owen... but Owen wasn't Perfect.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Ace said:

    From Meltzer's show last night:

    While it hasn't been publicly announced, it appears that Christian has been quietly released from his wrestling contract. It's said to have no effect on the network show. 

     

    He was on a wrestling contract? I would think they would have released him from that then out him on a Legends type contract.

  5. Austin didn't even need to have a match over 10 minutes. He was a talking head that would kick punch suplex mudhole kick stunner pin. He was Hogan. You just wanted to get off your ass when you hear the glass and watch him chug beers and flip the bird. Much along the lines as you sang along to Real American and posed along with The Hulkster after he vanquished the freak du jour

  6. 1 hour ago, hammerva said:

    According to PWinsider.com you can add Steve "Brooklyn Brawler" Lombardi to the list of people released.  Given how long he has been there this is rather interesting

     

    He should be retirement age, no?

    According to his wiki he's 55.. and surprisingly studied biochemistry in college.

  7. It's an absolute fact that Austin had to change his style after his injury. It wasn't so much from a character driven standpoint because he was on fire leading up to it and stealing the show everytime he hit the ring. He could barely turn his head without moving his shoulders. Towards the later years when he became bionic (oh the irony!) He really regressed to just being a caricature.

    Cena is good and dedicated to his craft. I don't think he's on the level of Austin ring wise, but instead has always reminded me more of a modern day Sting. 

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  8. 55 minutes ago, Smelly McUgly said:

    What does Cena do better than Austin? That's not meant to be a snarky rhetorical question. Off the top of my head, I just can't think of one positive that Cena has in-ring that is a bigger positive for him than for Austin. And I think Cena is great and an elite worker when it comes down to it, so it's not blind Cena hate, either. 

    I am going to have to disagree. Austin/Angle from Summerslam '01 is great and definitely re-watchable, and I'll go out on a limb and say that it, not either of the Austin/Bret matches, is Austin's best WWF/E match ever, even with the cop-out finish.

    I absolutely forgot about his work with Angle. 

  9. Did you guys watch Austin during his WCW years? His work with The Dangerous Alliance, The Hollywood Blondes or his US Championship run / feud with Steamboat?

    Austin lost his performance aura after his injury. There is nothing truly rewatchable after Calgary Stampede. 

    Cena is a guy who I wonder what he could really do if he wasn't held back. 

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  10. Hence why he's a "poor man's".

    It is a different style today. That hurts the artform a ton for the WWE. But look back at how Austin wrestled before the injury and tell me he wasn't infinitely a better ring performer than most of the guys on the current roster who just do over exaggerated done to death spots. Cena had it called out on him back at ONS 06. 

    Even look back at the lower card guys back theN their matches made sense and their offense made sense.  Not like Apollo Crews who needs his opponent to flip over after the gorilla press slam so he can do a standing moonsault for a pinfall attempt. That's absolutely horseshit by anyone's standards.  All Apollo has to do is invert the Press slam so he automatically falls on their back.

    Guys like Regal, Orndorff, Double A and Larry Zybisco sucked? It's not nostalgia for their characters... it's nostalgia for the fact that their shit look good, made sense, and could get the crowd involved without shortening their careers or looking like morons with blatant assists to their opponents offense like Kalisto needs.

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