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  1. caley
    I have no evidence of this but I bet, even with the inclusion of Evan Karagias, the WCW boy band was probably better than the Indy one and I base that largely on Jimmy Hart's involvement
  2. caley
    Am I first? It wasn't his idea. Pretty sure it was an Indy gimmick that also probably would have worked a little better because they replaced one of the original members with Karagias and then signed the other two. Edit: The group was called The Badstreet Boys and consisted of Moore, Helms, Christian York and Joey Matthews (Mercury) and somehow WCW signed all of them but only out Helms and Moore in 3 Count!
  3. caley
    Boy do I NOT remember this at all. I read this as "Raven's gear" and got a good chuckle at the visual of Smiley in a leather jacket screaming away. But but but people who are watching this at home would see that it was really Russo's idea AND the people in the crowd so why would a condition of his deal be to go lie about something already knows isnt...never mind You just KNOW if this was modern day, Karagias would get his own Russo-created shirt that said something "Chilling Ultra Cool Karagias" and the joke would be that he didn't know it spelled out "CUCK" but then, in true Russo fashion, it would be mentioned 6-7 times in every segment in case someone didn't get how clever he was. I wonder why he decided to keep his face hidden to begin with? He clearly likes the spotlight but didn't want his face in TV?! *** Imagine trying to explain this show to a non-viewer. "Well the matches are all predetermined but you suspend your disbelief: like watching a movie. But this segment the wrestlers are insisting is real is still fake but now is labeling the other segments as fake. So you're supposed to think that this segment is really real while the other segment is fake real. But it's all fake but it...forget it"
  4. caley
    You know in any other moment in wrestling history, this sentence would make no sense. But in Russo WCW, it's not even in a Top 5 weird sentences about a wrestling show. What makes this whole run so WEIRD is that the Misfits were a punk band of very LITTLE mainstream cred. Like, they were never especially succesful on charts, no big crossover hits, pretty much their biggest mainstream cache is their logo and the fact Danzig was the singer for a while. I have a sneaking suspicion that ICP wanted more money or had to go on tour, and someone (Vamp, himself?) went to bat for the Misfits being a better, cheaper substitute, but there is no real justification for them getting this much TV time and what was still a fairly popular show.
  5. caley
    Imagining an alternate reality ECW where the lights go out, the crowd goes wild, the lights come on and Jim Duggan's standing in the ring with his 2x4 yelling "Hoooooo!" to a deafening pop. It's weird because I was thinking it was a McMahon thing that Russo inherited McMahon didn't do that so much early on, Austin and Rock often stood tall. It wasn't really until after Cena that he seemed to rarely let the faces stand tall. It was especially egregious after Lesnars return. I remember a couple times thinking "Wow if (random midcarder) stands up to Lesnar here, even if he gets destroyed after, it will be such a pop...oh no he's going to try to run...and still get destroyed".
  6. caley
    Woof. What a terribly Russoriffic "joke". I'm amazed he never had a wrestler named Kay Fabe. And if he did, I don't wanna know about it.
  7. caley
    That's amazing! My favourite unintentional AI vaginal reference was when my very straightlaced and completely modern respectful male friend asked his TV remote for something innocuous (It wasn't Food Network but in the same vein) and his wife walked in as the TV displayed the message "You asked for p---y and this system can't handle commands with that type of language" as he fell all over himself to plead with her that he had not just asked the remote for that!
  8. caley
    I like that Kidman couldn't finish the match, rather sacrificing his title to go stop this nonsense. Somewhere there's an alternate reality where Buff did actually lead the new generation of stars and there's a whole roster of over-tanned, calf-implanted, barely mobile unfunny smirking good guys posing and delivering terrible matches. And it's only slightly worse than [insert the name of your most hated wrestling fed here] WCW: We hate our belts! I don't specifically remember much of Maestro's WCW run, but I still wouldn't hold my breath for closure on this one. This would be much funnier if Duggan had barged onto the piano bench, pounded at the keys, but they superimposed actual good piano-playing over top of it. I was still retroactively excited over who was in the limo, reading this today, somehow and then... laughed really hard reading this line, knowing your outright hatred of late-90s Piper and then... read this and laughed again. Not at the joke, which is poor. But at Piper's beyond-closeted obsession with drag. Reading these, he brings it up ALL the time. It's too bad he's not still alive because someone could just say "Just put the makeup on, wear the dress and stop being so repressed, Hot Rod!" It's like the Alan Partridge (Dated TV reference again!) episode where he keeps talking about "lady boys" and how "Disgusting" it is and how he's not attracted to them, it's just "Confusing" and at the end he finally gives up and asks the front desk to put the pornography on TV for him. Anytime someone brings something up this much, he's obviously harboring some hidden feelings. This sounds like one of the worst finishes ever.
  9. caley
    There is a Nitro or Thunder off in the future where Vito is given mic time to big himself up and my brother and I used to cue it up and watch repeatedly because he was trying to get a zillion catchphrases over "I'm the Pavarotti of shots to the body and my t feels really...good!" and " I'm the goomba of ooh aah! "
  10. caley
    I just thought it was so funny that a dude got hit with a fish (Which I do NOT remember) but you've become so desensitized to Russo's nonsense that you're just like "Disco hits Iaukea with the fish, then lands a Chartbuster and storms away{ as if he'd just hit him with a clothesline. I think it'd probably be like if you went back and watched 2004 WWE what with Eugene, Gene Snitsky, the Lita-Kane wedding, the murder of Paul Bearer, etc. that by the time you got to the Diva Search and Christy Hemme proclaiming that her "butt was hungry" or calling Carmella DeCesare a "c-- guzzling guttersl-t" you'd basically be like "Yeah, that tracks." And, hmm, i thought I'd dreamt Backstage Assault...I don't remember if I ever played it.
  11. caley
    I'm sorry...what!?! It was Russo who wanted to do away with the ring, wasn't it? I mean, I know McMahon also opined on this a few times with a sigh about how if they got rid of the ring and the word 'wrestling', more people would see just how entertaining they were which is hilarious because if they got rid of the ring and just became a soap opera with fighting, they would lose their fighting audience who would just watch action movies with bigger budgets and effects and for people into the soap opera side, they'd watch any dramatic series with better acting. Anyways, can you imagine a Vince Russo show without a ring?! Just an endless string of sketches with two guys running into each other backstage and getting into scuffles. "Hey did you just cut in front of me for coffee?!" " If you don't like me, bite me! " [scuffle, then cut to] "Hey did you just eat the last brownie?!" "Listen up, also nuts!" [Scuffle]
  12. caley
    I will always remember him for this. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/ou2934/ecw_on_tnn_was_wild/ Watching this, I legitimately thought he might be dead.
  13. caley
    Oh God, I forgot that they were named after the WWE "Stooges"! IIRC there was one funny thing Oklahoma said, which was after aping JR's repetition gimmick ("Austin! Austin!"), someone picked up the pinata stick and he yelled "Stick! Stick!" which was the only part of this that was remotely entertaining. There's an MST3k where they make light of some bad comedy by saying something like "It's not really comedy, more like comedy loaf. Until actual humor appears, please accept this substitute." which is exactly what this sounds like. i'm actually surprised they didn't show that! Oh...well, he still didn't yell "Hooooo!", I guess. Trying to quote some of this dialogue, I was shocked at just how early in the show some of this seemed to be. Like, reading this recap feels like the show takes FOREVER, so I can't even fathom how long it feels WATCHING it back.
  14. caley
    Ah, I had never heard this! I knew he was incompetent (I think Bret Hart made an allegation that he'd had a jacket stolen because Delliinger fell asleep on the job) and that he used to be a cop (Though that might go hand in hand with the above allegations...) but never that other part!
  15. caley
    Kinda tells you how bad the Shane Twins must have been to not go further than they did. Of course, wrestling as penises can shorten your careers
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