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    Either comparison works for me, though I think Axel/Hennig more closely resembles Tim Horner - a good, technically sound wrestler who didn't have the right look and charisma to be a star for a larger company. Horner was just fine working for Continental back in the day (and for Smoky Mountain), He just wasn't cut out for a TV promotion.
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    Faction Warfare is where ROH lost me. My interest in the company never really came back, after that. I don't think TV works for ROH during the Punk/Joe years any more than it worked later on. Probably works out worse for ROH, since at that point DVD sales are good. HDNET was something that kept me from getting back into the company, since they seemed to be running two sets of storylines independently - one for shows/PPV, the other for HDNET tapings.
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    Do I even want to know what his finisher is? I'm guessing squat thrust.
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    Well, I just googled around a bit, and I didn't find anything mentioning a seventh episode. Looks like the next couple weeks, at least, are reruns. Weird.
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    God. On paper, this sounds more like a Smoky Mountain Wrestling main event than most actual SMW main events, Nikita is really Jim Cornette, isn't he? That explains so much.
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    Oh, and Roddy Piper wants a title shot so bad he's willing to pay Moondog to put the title on the line. But mostly, Moondog is all abour Buckwheat, his pregnant pig. (If you haven't seen Moondog Mayne, you want to watch this. So much goodness in his promo).
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    When/If Cena turns heel, they should rip off the Atlantis angle from CMLL and make Cena a heel character who cluelessly thinks he's still a babyface. (When Atlants turned rudo several years ago, he still did his technico entrance. So he'd walk to the ring kissing babies and waving to the crowd - completely oblivious to the fact that they were now booing him). It would be in poor taste, but I'd mark for a staged - I said, staged! - segment where Cena insisted on still visiting Make-a-Wish kids, not realizing that he was making them cry because they really wanted Daniel Bryan. As a bonus, when Cena does realize that he's no longer megapopular with kids, he can have a bout of self-doubt, start living on the street, and eventually join Vince's hobo army. The angle practically writes itself.
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    Lots of things seem more hilarious than they really are when you drink on the job.
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    Warlord landed awkwardly, putting his weight on Animal's head.
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    I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Flair spends $10K a month on clothes now. There was some talk about his spending on the Flair-Piper Wife Swap episode that aired a month or two back. Ric is still living the gimmick, to put it mildly.
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    The Group was formed in '03. At the time, Samoa Joe had just debuted in ROH and was basically an unknown. It was a really forgettable collection of random dudes who didn't last very long as a stable. Did like the Prophecy. Maff and Whitmer were a surprisingly good team (only time I've liked Whitmer) and, at the time, I dug Christopher Daniel's "fallen angel" gimmick.
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    Since Paul Jones "gave" Abdullah the Butcher to Tully Blanchard and Baby Doll for their feud with Dusty Rhodes, the Boogie Woogie Man gives Dusty Rhodes his... prostitute. Um, ok, that seems fair and equitable.
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    Yeah, Judy Bagwell was Buff's agent for most of his career (at least through the short WWE run) and was regarded as being way too hands on. It earned Bagwell a "Mama's Boy" reputation in the locker rooms and gave Nash and company the idea to write her into storyline. Besides the "calling in sick" thing, there's a hilarious story about Judy Bagwell pestering JR to pay for limo service for Buff (to shows). Apparently, Buff saw the Giant and DDP arrive to a WWE show in a limo. They told him the company paid for it and Buff decided he wanted he wanted one too. Of course, the whole thing was a rib. DDP and Giant paid for the limo themselves to save themselves the hassle of parking their rental cars at the arena, but Buff didn't know that and proceeded to bury himself with JR..
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    So this is how you get over your top babyfaces - whimpering! And dry heaving! But mostly whimpering. Does Bill Watt know about this?
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    Every time I read this, I picture Godzilla destroying Tokyo while the downtrodden smark inhabitants of the city line the streets, chanting "THIS IS AWESOME **CLAP CLAP CLAP** THIS IS AWESOME **CLAP CLAP CLAP**"
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    Tom Prichard married the sister of the Dirty White Girl (Anthony's ex-wife). She was Tony Anthony's sister-in-law, not his sister. Never heard that they had legit heat, though that doesn't mean they did or didn't.
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    Really digging his Thor run.
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    Bah, I see you all of this and raise you the Road Warriors singing (growling, really) to an awful 80's synthesizer beat: Does anyone know what this is from? It's pre-Crockett, judging by the Roadies' face paint. Edit: What I'm really asking is, why does this exist? Did the AWA think there was a market for a Legion of Doom Christmas album or something?
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    Warlord broke into the business in 1986 and started doing the Warlord gimmick straight away - probably because he got into the business through Road Warrior Animal (Warlord worked out at a gym Animal owned and Animal got him into Crockett). He was really green and Crockett farmed him out to Central States Wrestling where he tagged with.... Krusher Kovac, I think. I also remember him doing at least one tour of Japan during that time. He came back to JCP in '88 and they paired him with the Barbarian and Paul Jones (Jones was still managing, but had disbanded the Paul Jones Army - and stopped dressing like Hitler, irrc). I don't recall if Warlord had face paint when he first came in in '86, but the only thing that sticks in my mind is that he was a face and managed by Baby Doll. Yeah, he came in as a face monster (*cough* Road Warriors *cough cough*). Baby Doll had turned face and he was her "bodyguard". And you're right. No face paint, but otherwise, the look was basically the same as his Powers of Pain look. Even had the Road Warrior black tights. Looks like he was around for about two months, then Crockett worked out a deal to effectively take control of Central States and shipped Warlord, Teijo Khan anda few others out there for seasoning. Warlord started painting his face when he turned heel in Central States.
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    Probably one of the best booked angles ever, but I have no idea what Eddie Gilbert was thinking when he decided to run with this.
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    Warlord broke into the business in 1986 and started doing the Warlord gimmick straight away - probably because he got into the business through Road Warrior Animal (Warlord worked out at a gym Animal owned and Animal got him into Crockett). He was really green and Crockett farmed him out to Central States Wrestling where he tagged with.... Krusher Kovac, I think. I also remember him doing at least one tour of Japan during that time. He came back to JCP in '88 and they paired him with the Barbarian and Paul Jones (Jones was still managing, but had disbanded the Paul Jones Army - and stopped dressing like Hitler, irrc).
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    Awful looking moonsault. No wonder they never let him do it on TV.
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    Barbarian started using the face paint/Road Warriors look when he came into Jim Crockett Promotions. That was late 1984 or early 1985. The Powers of Pain team with the Barbarian formed in 1988. BTW, he was never actually billed as "Konga the Barbarian" on a show or called that on commentary. He was simply "The Barbarian". The Apter mags are the only one who called him "Konga the Barbarian" to differentiate him from Nord the Barbarian who started in World Class at about the same time. His previous gimmick was King Konga and he wore tights with the word "Konga" down the leg. When he started doing the Barbarian gimmick, he wore the same tights.
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    Anyone else having to sign in every time they visit the site? It's not retaining my log-in. Might be a Firefox issue. I haven't tried a different browser yet.
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