sydneybrown
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Rocky IV is the answer but 1-2-3 Kid vs. Razor Ramon almost fits it too. The crowd was absolutely snark, didn't give a shit about Waltman and was cheering Razor the whole way. He even gets a "Razor" chant during it. Then Kid got the upset and they all entirely flipped and lost their minds.
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7 hours ago, Pete said:
For reference, here's the entire card. Get a load of the match placement for this.
1. Brutus Beefcake defeated S.D. Jones (13:22 minutes)
2. Salvatore Bellomo defeated Johnny Rodz (5:36 minutes)
3. Antonio Inoki defeated David Schultz (5:16 minutes)
4. Junkyard Dog defeated Paul Kelly (3:05 minutes)
5. WWF Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Cobra defeated Black Tiger (12:29 minutes) - TITLE CHANGE!!!
6. Roddy Piper and Bob Orton Jr. vs. Jimmy Snuka and The Tonga Kid ended without a winner as a double disqualification (14:58 minutes)
7. Mike Rotunda defeated Rene Goulet (10:38 minutes)
8. WWF World Tag Team Titles Match: North-South Connection [2] (Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdoch) (c) vs. Jack Brisco and Jerry Brisco ended without a winner as a double countout (26:46 minutes)
9. Barry Windham defeated Mr. Fuji (0:19 minutes)
10. WWF World Heavyweight Title Match: Hulk Hogan (c) defeated The Iron Sheik (3:31 minutes)Pretty sure the last two matches went short because the tag match went MUCH longer than it was supposed to and MSG had a curfew. A near 30 minute WWF match back then was almost unheard of.
This was also the show where David Schultz slapped the shit out of John Stossel backstage.
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The Eugene gimmick lasted three and a half years. Keep in mind he debuted in April 2004, got shockingly over...and then HHH murdered him in August.
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Jesus Christ, I just mowed my lawn and didn't wear my Mower of Lawn shirt. Again. And in fact, have NEVER worn it... That's LITERALLY the only reason I even bought it.
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2 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
still time to get an Ice T appearance in the WWE, it seems..
Ice T isn't wrong. That's one of the all-time dick heel spots. For the record, the kid did get the money afterwards.
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Mike Graham used to host the Florida shows during the 24/7 days. I don't remember the shows being bad quality at all. I'm assuming the WWE doesn't think anyone is interested in watching them. Or even thinks about it one way or another.
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10 hours ago, The Natural said:
WWE Women's Evolution: Then and Now Pictures:
Rest here:
https://www.wwe.com/gallery/womens-evolution-superstars-then-now-photos#fid-40496281
Am I just old? Aside from the Tough Enough contestants and hair color, I see almost no difference between any of them.
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4 hours ago, Edwin said:
I know WrestleMania 13 is mostly known for Bret vs. Stone Cold, but that Chicago Street Fight between LOD and Ahmed vs. NOD was a wild and heated feud driven ringside brawl with folks just endlessly getting hit with some nasty weapon shots and some crazy bumps from Faarooq.
Not sure it has aged well but at the time this was a seriously underrated WM match. This was absolutely LOD's best WWF match period. Not a show-stealing match but they all completely made the most of it.
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9 hours ago, Matt D said:
Putting this here because I honestly never knew about it. I've seen WM3 a bunch of times, but I never realized that they had an angle to set up Beefcake's turn like this:
I will say, that's a big mistake they made about WMIII. I didn't watch every WWF show and I missed that one and maybe the follow-up, and it literally took WWF magazine months later to explain to me why Beefcake and Adonis hated each other. And by the time I knew, Adonis was gone. But yeah, its obvious the crowd is just going along with whatever Beefcake is doing since he kinda got turned on earlier.
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24 minutes ago, For Great Justice said:
Is TK saying that...
Those rating systems are flawed?
Tony needs to stop talking. He's right, but Jesus that first tweet was bad, that followup tweet does not make him look confident at all. The cool kids like you. You aren't cool when you feel the need to tell people that.
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3 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
At least the movie stars in the golden era knew how to hide their shit.
William Holden went from his 30s to his 60s in a year.
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6 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
He has the Robert Duvall curse of always looking ten years older than he actually was.
I'll counter that when both actually got to the age they looked, they looked it. Take away 30 pounds or so and Arn doesn't look THAT different from his BrainBusters days. I'll take that over guys like Ralph Macchio and Macaulay Culkin who looked like little kids who would never grow old...and then one day....
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5 hours ago, Oyaji said:
You guys, I don't think he got down to 315 or whatever it was he was aiming for.
Actually, I think he did. Part of the reason he had to wear a mask as Golga was because he dropped so much weight they didn't think the Earthquake gimmick would be believable anymore.
And yeah, he was still in his 20s when he feuded with Hogan. He looked about 45.
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7 minutes ago, olythegreat89 said:
I'd sub Road Dogg with Bossman but I think that's probably the list. You might switch the numbers around (not Crash though, he's #1) but those are the guys on the list.
Honestly, Road Dogg is exactly where he should be. I went through those RAWs and Road Dogg hardcore matches are WAY better than they had any right to be. I'd take Mankind off, I don't think he was champ more than three weeks and he never regained it. I'd put Dogg at 4 or 5 and move Bossman somewhere on there just for taking that sugar pitcher shot that still fucked his face up.
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1 hour ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
How many non-televised War Games are there?
There were 4 total in 1987, two were unaired house shows. There are about a dozen in 1988, I don't know if any of them aired. They almost all ended with Dillon submitting.
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On 6/30/2020 at 7:55 AM, Doc Townsend said:
Watched Survivor Series 1990 the other night. Was there any particular reason they booked the last match (pitting the survivors of the previous matches against each other)? As far as I can remember, that was a one-off and they never used that gimmick again.
I'm not a fan of the wrinkle in theory, and, in practice, it worked horribly, imo. It ended up being a handicap match with DiBiase, Martel, Power and Glory, and the Warlord against Hogan, Warrior, and Tito Santana. Santana was eliminated two min into the match and then Hogan and Warrior just went into squash mode and killed the heel team dead.
I'm guessing Vince didn't think he had enough star power on the card to make another interesting match and decided that another shot of Warrior and Hogan would send the crowd home happy. Lotta guys missing compared to the previous year. Beefcake was injured, Andre was gone, Savage appeared on the card but didn't wrestle, Rude and Akeem were supposed to be on the card but left before the actual event due to contract issues, Arn and Tully were gone, etc.
Pure speculation but I'd guess it was to set up Hogan-Warrior II, but then they switched gears to Slaughter, and we got left with a Hogan and Warrior are BFFs finish.
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1 hour ago, Niners Fan in CT said:
This isn't the point.... NXT was doing 500,000 viewers a few weeks back. Now they are doing 800,000 viewers.. 900,000 for Sasha/Io. That is a MASSIVE improvement to what they were doing no matter how you want to spin it.
I DVR both shows but haven't watched Wednesday in months. But come on, in retrospect, head to head I'd watch Io-Sasha over Best Friends vs. anybody. I actually DID watch Io-Sasha after the fact.
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2 hours ago, Peck said:
Up and comer... Powers had been with the WWF for six years at this point. And got a PUSH three years prior. He was the opposite of up and comer.
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27 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
I thought you meant a Steiner Screwdriver. THAT would have been impressive.
I thought the same thing. Especially if the opponent lived after.
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1 hour ago, RIPPA said:
There is no way I am getting through this new WON tonight because it is fucking massive. However add example 588256322105489 to what trash Vince and the WWE are
Renee Young has heat on her for going to get testing on her own AND for then going public
And as of at least 6/25 - neither Vince, HHH, Kevin Dunn or Mark Carrano had contacted her to see how she was feeling
(And this is all coming from Moxley for those wondering)
I have all the respect in the world for Renee Young. You've GOT to take care of yourself. Because no one else will. And anyone in the company mad at her about it can go fuck themselves.
I work as an "essential" employee so I'm around people and I know the company doesn't really give a shit about me if I caught it, but at least they'd go through the motions.
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5 hours ago, Hagan said:
Last night's Liz Hunter and Matt Brock shoutout on AEW made me think of has anyone ever put a definitive list of fake "Apter" mag writers? I'm sure it's been brought up over the years.
Aren't those two it? Eddie Ellner and the late Dan Shocket were definitely real. Dr. Sydney M. Basil and WWF "expert" Thomas Pillard were fake people used for quotes though.
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2 hours ago, RIPPA said:
Yeah basically he says something like "My intention is to not wrestle another match"
So obviously when Vince throws like 5 million dollars at him come Rumble suddenly it will be "Okay sure"
You only get to retire once. And when you renege, it's bullshit. He "retired" against Roman Reigns and just kept going. He's going to keep going.
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2 hours ago, Zimbra said:
I love that some of the biggest names in wrestling of all time are practically hidden in this photo and fucking Bagwell is front and center.
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9 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:
I wonder if Sid's reputation is much different right now if he doesn't disappear from the scene from 1997 to 1999 during a wrestling boom. Or if he doesn't get injured 2 months before WCW ends.
No because WWF punished him for leaving by having to job in every match. The few matches he did do he lost and when you see the matches he no-showed, you can tell who was taking the fall. He disappeared because he wasn't going to be part of that boom.
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Literally didn't know until I got home just now and was kinda excited to watch....and oh, it's over and now I gotta match this shit up...BTW, I spend $10 on the WWE Network and $10 on Wrestling Observer. Guess which one actually told me this show was happening. Apparently, just putting up the Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook images, that's enough.