sydneybrown
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23 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
You bastard, you just made me imagine them doing a Jimmy Valiant glass table reenactment
Not to be that guy, just Google "Danny Thomas glass table." Someone took that exact story and replaced him with Jimmy Valiant. Over a decade later, he's probably still wondering why people keep bringing it up...
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19 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
Really good one. I had no idea Hawk had so many problems. It definitely makes sense why this is an episode now; I thought it might have just been because of that dumb angle (which I still remember seeing live and did not get over At. All.) and because Hawk was dead but yeah, this one totally fit the bill for the series. Didn't even know about the Wembley incident, that was just sad to see.
I have it on tape somewhere, I didn't see it on YouTube, there is absolutely an LOD-Demolition match at MSG where Hawk gets taken out early and spends the entire match laying on the floor and only gets up for the finish. And this was a YEAR AND A HALF before SummerSlam 92.
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14 minutes ago, Peck said:
Not sure if Foley realizes it, but he wrestled the Road Warriors on their last WCW PPV before going to WWF in 1990. Warriors/Norman the Lunatic beat Bam Bam Bigelow/Kevin Sullivan/Cactus Jack. Which sounds like one of those weird-ass WAR 6-mans...
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Really good episode. I'm a little disappointed we never found out once and for all if Rocco was Ellering's idea.
It says a lot that I had no interest in reliving the Owen story again...until that promo for it.
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2 hours ago, Southside Jim said:
Does anyone know the result of this match? I haven't been able to find anything.
Wikipedia says the Heatseekers have had the "Smokey Mountain" belts since 2014 so I guess they won. BTW, I don't know why Cornette acted like it was impossible for the Heavenly Bodies to wrestle. Yes, Del Ray has passed but Tom Prichard and Stan Lane were the original team and both were (and are) very much alive.
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3 minutes ago, nofuture said:
Seth doesn't look like he's taking this pregnancy news very well.
I assume it's a Vince angle he'll give up on within weeks. That being said, him not being all that happy about becoming a dad could have made him an all-time heel. Which we'll never know.
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I come here for a break from the world and then I get reminded that The Great Khali killed a man in the ring and now Del Rio has been arrested for sexual assault.... Sadly, not surprised by either. And I don't blame Khali, btw.
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Yokozuna murdering a future Dark Side of the Ring candidate...
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The best Grammy moment ever. Little Richard awards himself a Grammy and explains why and the crowd gives him a standing ovation for it.
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3 hours ago, Shane said:
Apropos of nothing, but I’m watching a comp of the Eric Embry vs. Devastation Inc. feud and man...I grew up watching World Class during the glory years, but this might be my favorite era of Texas wrestling. If you asked me to list my favorites, I wouldn’t think of Embry immediately, but he probably belongs on that list.
What an unlikely top babyface, though.
Jan 89-Aug 89 WCCW is super underrated and very entertaining. The key to all of this too is that Embry is absolutely in the wrong through most of this (refusing to leave after losing a loser-leaves-town match.) Definitely going to check the Youtube videos, hopefully they include the recap segments voiced over by a normal sounding Mick Foley (who was Cactus Jack Manson during all of this.)
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4 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
Bret you bastard, you left the part where you fucked Salt n Pepa out of your book. You owned up to all those other affairs, why not this one?
I am really not sure if I'm joking
I feel pretty confident he slept with Pepa. It would be pretty awkward to write in your book "I had a promo shoot with Salt n Pepa. I slept with Pepa...not Salt."
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48 minutes ago, olythegreat89 said:
Very happy to share a birthday with this man!
Reminds me of one of my all-time Owen quotes. Bulldog had just beaten Owen for the inaugural European title while they were tag champs, and Owen was trying to egg him on..."BULLDOG! You may have two titles...but you don't have TWO SLAMMYS!!!"
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30 minutes ago, Hamhock said:
The very end of it is remarkable, with Wendi staring straight back in disbelief towards the entrance (at what is presumably Vince), and her saying something like “If that’s how you want it, McMahon.”
Wow. I never knew that's what she was saying until now. And again, THAT was purposefully put ON a COMMERCIAL video.
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1 hour ago, Hagan said:
This may be better suited for Wrestling Classics but I watched the Spiderwoman/Wendi Richter double-cross and was it a big deal at the time or generate any controversy? I was a kid at the time and recall whenever I saw it on a VHS that it was just a weird fucked up finish or something. WWF wasn't really known for smooth wrestling afterall.
Watching it now - that shit is kinda bonkers.
It was on an MSG house show, so it wasn't like a ton of people saw it (though it did air on Prime Time Wrestling.) Considering that was Wendi's last WWF match, and talent no longer existed once they left, it was pretty much a "Moolah won the title back" and they moved on. The bonkers shit is that the match showed up on a Coliseum Video. The whole thing, including Wendi trying to keep going and do the planned finish. And Gorilla's outrage: "What was THAT? The ref made a THREE COUNT?"
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26 minutes ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:
I've never wanted to see Tom Selleck tell David Schultz that wrestling is fake more in my life than right now.
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On 4/28/2020 at 10:14 PM, D.Z said:
Is this a real picture? That's clearly post haircut Andre in his heel jacket sitting next to circa 1982 Vince.
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1 minute ago, Casey said:
Didn't that episode of 20/20 air in December 1984? Schultz was still wrestling house show matches for the WWF up until the end of February '85.
The 20/20 episode aired in Feb 1985. BTW, the footage they showed of Schultz firing his gun and Vince losing his shit aired on TNT after David had already been fired. It's his last WWF appearance. He's even joking about the Stossel incident in the interview. 3/1/85 on the Network. He pulls a gun on Vince during the interview. Not kidding.
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Fucking LOVED this. They got Mansfield AND they showed the hypocrisy of Hogan purposefully injuring Richard Belzer. Schultz was spur of the moment, Hogan went out of his way to injure someone.
The craziest thing to me and I'm glad they brought this up too: The David Schultz incident happened on an MSG show in 12/84. 20/20 sat on that story for EIGHT WEEKS and didn't air it until the WrestleMania hype was underway in 2/85. Could you imagine Chris Jericho punching Chris Cuomo in the face right now and it being kept a secret until Independence Day? Now you'd know within minutes.
I think Stossel's "F**K you David" was kinda petty. It came off more that Stossel was angry that no matter what he did in his life, he's always going to be known as the guy who got smacked in an interview by a pro wrestler.
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12 minutes ago, PetrolCB said:
What was he really doing though anyways?
Pretty sure Finkel was still an employee when he passed, Petrol thinks Gerald deserved the Janet treatment.
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7 hours ago, Edwin said:
Coming to CBS this fall "Rick and the Fatman."
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1 hour ago, Tarheel Moneghetti said:
Has Randy Orton been seen since WrestleMania? I haven't heard his name mentioned lately. Quarantined somewhere?
Randy decided to combine all the rest of his 2020 wrestling into that one match.
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5 hours ago, caley said:
It's like when everyone attacked Miz for showing up to tapings sick, and I understand that line of thinking, but I also think you have to have some understanding/allowance of the athletic mindset, too. You've got in the Miz who has had it drilled into him for YEARS now "Show must go on, you don't have time to be sick or injured." that it's easy to dismiss feeling sick and going "I can work through this." Sure, he shouldn't have, but he's probably worked through so many injuries/illnesses over the years that he probably figured it was no big deal.
I mean that's rule #1. If you're sick, stay the fuck away from people. A lot of lives would probably have been saved if rule #2 was "send anyone home who looks sick but insists "No, I'm fine."
And fuck this allowance thing. This isn't about Miz. This is about all the people who he comes into contact who may not be able to handle whatever illness he has. I guarantee he didn't have COVID but he had something. And he was still spreading that shit. And now those people who might get it are going to think they have it too. I agree with everything you say if Miz doesn't give a shit about anybody but himself. Because that's the only way your comment makes any sense. This isn't HIV or cancer. You TALK to someone and you're potentially spreading it. Motherfucker was going to WRESTLE people...
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11 hours ago, Technico Support said:
I mean seriously, I listen to "The Chase" and it doesn't sound right to me because in my head, this is the correct version.
Oh my God, the few times I've seen Midnight Express, I kept waiting...and waiting for the bouncy synthesizer to start. And it never does. Actually kinda ruins the scene.
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Honestly, I think it would be better if the doc ends with Schultz saying something with meaning or with regret and suddenly Stossel runs in, smacks him in the face and yells "Payback's a bitch, bitch!" and then runs the fuck out of there. And it cuts to black.
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MAY 2020 WRESTLING CHAT.
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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I've been a D'Lo fan for decades. He always came off to me as someone being themselves. I was at the RAW where CM Punk cashed in Money in the Bank on Edge. The last time I went to a WWE show I had a "Push D'Lo" sign like the nerd that I am, and I joked about that. Then the dark match started. And his music played. And I lost my shit. The crowd gave him a great reaction too.