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Quick question: is the Hogan/Ordorff cage match where they both hit the ground at the same time on any DVD?
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I've noticed this showing up a lot lately; apparently, the fallout from the misuse of "literally" is to now overuse the use of "metaphorically." Wish I was more committed to my forum activity, I would so attach a Punk grumpy face cap from "Grammar Slam" right'chere ...
Yeah, no shit.Saw this on Reddit...
New Japan Pro Wrestling and TV Asahi are going global.According to Dave Meltzer, from The Wrestling Observer, NJPW has signed a deal that will bring the property to Singaporean televisions – translated in English. No details were given as to who bought the rights from TV Asahi to broadcast the events, but it is a huge step forward for ANY Japanese pro wrestling outlet. Prior to this, puroresu brands have been very reluctant to expand outside of Japan. With the rise of MMA and the level of which Japanese wrestlers compete, there is likely a connection that will prove successful for the company.NJPW took their brand to the internet this year with UStream, broadcasting shows via iPPV (internet pay-per-view) in a move that opened the doors for other companies. Pancrase also jumped onboard the iPPV train, another huge step in globalizing these brands.With the advent of streaming technology and the world shrinking in size (metaphorically speaking), it is multiples less expensive to get these types of deals done as variables such as satellites and acquiring a buyer of your content are steps that are able to be bypassed.TV Asahi recently released a 20 minute video that showcased some of their biggest names, Shinsuke Nakamura, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Prince Devitt, and champ Kazuchika Okada.
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Show your work for full credit.
I think they're equal. I'll give you that.Bugging people for scholarly articles on the history of 80's lucha > Being the first person to ever appear on WWE programming with a homemade Heath Slater sign. FACT.
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Bugging people for scholarly articles on the history of 80's lucha > Being the first person to ever appear on WWE programming with a homemade Heath Slater sign. FACT.
I am not proud of my ignorance. I am trying to fix it. You are proud of whatever you said up there.
This was the first time I think I've ever given a like to someone (jaedmc) and given it to someone else ... what a weird, wild, wonderful feeling it is~...
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I'm curious if the ROHbots now are predominantly the same as they were when they had Joe, Danielson, Aries, etc or they've left to follow something else.
I went to a ton of shows (maybe 40ish) between 2003 and 2009, but followed WWE throughout. I was into TNA for a while from 2003-2005 or so, but that burned out pretty quickly for me. Once Joe and Danielson were gone I just didn't care as much, and I was getting older and the time and money needed to follow this niche hobby became way too much to sustain. I followed ROH and WWE concurrently because they both gave me something I really wanted, and now WWE gives me both more often than not, and ROH, from what I've seen, gives me neither. It would be interesting to plug the TV equation into ROH around the time Joe lost the belt to Aries. Could they have grown into something through Summer of Punk/CZW/Best in the World Bryan Danielson?
Yes, very much so. And then Faction Warrrz happened, and it looked EXACTLY like what an entire company built around a Nation of Domination/ Disciples of the Apocolypse/ Los Boriquas angle would look like. Doo. Doo. Butter. I think it was a misstep that ROH didn't really recover from ... I mean, yeah, all kinds of other stuff happened during that time, but that was the herald of the downward slope.
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In case you didn't read it elsewhere, he's demanding all the books.That booking has gotten me more excited about AJ Styles than I've been in almost a decade.We really need to take donations and fund a vanity promotion so we can give Ben the book.
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"Hy-vee," as in HIV?
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I don't know that the Bellas are all that "great," per se.
Danielson needs to align w/ the Wyatt family. Not because Bray Wyatt is his messiah, not because he's following the buzzards; simply because they share an affinity for great beards.I watched the AM Raw last night, and boy, is Bryan over with the live crowd. They went nuts for him in that opening segment with Steph, just nuts. I think Bryan needs some kind of short-term help, though: Basically it's him vs. "the Corporation," which consists of Orton, HHH, Vince, Stephanie, Brad Maddox and the Shield. So it's technically 8 on 1, including the owners of the company and the general manager. If he overcomes those odds without a little help, it seems almost too superhuman. Someone or ones should step up and say "we've got your back," and the best candidates would be Big Show-Mark Henry. They don't have to form a lasting alliance, just a "common good"-type thing.
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I'm amused at the implication that Punk's reign needs an asterix next to it. Good luck with your petition.
Doesn't count because he did too many "non-title match" jobs ranging from real guys like Cena and Bryan down to total numbnut non-entities like Ziggler and Kane during his bullshit longest reign. Modern history is just code for the "titles don't mean shit anymore" and stringing out Punk's reign as long as they did doesn't even make his reign anymore significant than JBL's. Besides by now cRyback's just the modern equivalent to The Warlord. And even he made Punk look like his punk bitch for the majority of those matches regardless of the end result."The Beast" gave way too much to the glorified tatted up sandwich artist. On the other hand, it really doesn't matter because by now it's clear Brock's only there to swap wins with the top guys even if they're glorified sandwich artists undeserving of the rub.Goddammit FSW, the man is the longest reigning WWE Champion in modern history. He's defeated wrestlers like Ryback, Kane, and DVDVR darling Mark Henry. If those guys couldn't stand a chance against The Best In The World, then Brock sure as hell doesn't. Deal with it already. Because when it's time to induct Punk into the HOF, Brock will be calling him "Boss" when he personally inducts him live at the Sugarpova Arena in 2025.
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Has Abraham Washington twittered about Young's coming out?
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You mean "Hey. Soos."
This guy?
No doubt that man loves him some titties!
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http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/luther-ward-bio
This dude looks like Rutger Hauer. I demand a Roy Batty gimmick.
Maybe it's the similar contacts, but he looks like a super young Kane.
Give Joey six months and he will look totally different. Never encountered a wrestler who could shift shape like him.
I looked him up because - for some reason, ungodly as it was - I thought you might have been saying he was Joey Mercury (back off me, okay, it's been a long day ...), and I found that he wrestled a tag match against the team of ... Marty Jannetty and Sabu.
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Marty Jannetty and Sabu.
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He got taken out by Eric Young piledriving him on the ramp of all things.
Y'know, I could have sworn he got the shot, but it was in a four-way elimination match. (I might be wrong.)
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SoCal Val is apprently gone from TNA. I like her, she's gorgeous. But I'm not really sure what they got from her that Christy Hemme doesn't provide.
Maybe it's just me, but I wish they'd released Christy and kept Val.
Hemme's at least a decent ring announcer. I'm not sure what Val was good at.
To steal something said in another discussion, "I'm such a child."
http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/luther-ward-bio
This dude looks like Rutger Hauer. I demand a Roy Batty gimmick.
Another post where the avatar makes the post even better ...
Also, ahem ... "Hobo with a Shotgun" ...
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I could be totally off base here, but the one to Gail Kim doesn't look so bad; she looks like she landed alright for the move, plus, hey, Hernandez ... handful of titty, good on ye, esse ...
And it's easier watching the one to Doug Williams, because he ended up okay ...
But being that's the case, I CANNOT watch the one into the pool without cringing at the near-miss to paralysis. I mean, motherFUCKER! Both of those individuals are idiots ...
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Wrestling is... inexplicable sexy lucha mask wackiness.
http://rderudooficial.blogspot.com/2013/08/lucha-y-futbol-en-expomascaras-39.html
Gee. Zus.
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Who's made more trash than treasure: John Carpenter or Wes Craven?
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Cursed.
I just recently rewatched that film - $1.99 for the DVD through Amazon, why the hell not? - and motherfucker what a horrible ass film. Due to all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans, I can totally understand why the film tanked, but a werewolf film without a single solid transformation scene (there's that one scene where the chick turns into ... something ... but ... c'mon, really? If you wanna count that, be my guest ...). Such a doo-doo film ... and YET ... likeable in its doo-doo-ness. My favorite bit of shit dialogue:
Ellie (Christina Ricci): “Can you cover for me at the opening?”
Kyle (Michael Rosenbaum): “What? And miss Jake’s big opening?”
Ellie: “I can’t make it”
Such a redundant bit of words, it's maddening to hear them echo in my head.
Definitely, for me, a so-bad-it's-good movie.
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The Warlord/Barbarian split was obviously to create Warrior and Hogan opponents and it really never worked out that way.
Shame there was no Powers of Pain vs. Hogan/Warrior Summerslam main (or at least a Saturday Night's Main Event). I think that would be a match we'd still talk about to this day ...
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I actually mentioned something like this on the old board, forgot how I put it but basically commented how I wondered if this wasn't a very purposeful attempt to parlay a new concept of face/heel dynamics. Greggulator says it a bit better than I did at the time though; case in point, I didn't think of him as a tweener but rather a full-fledged heel, which overlooks that he still does major face-type things. Could you imagine Flair back in the JCP days visiting terminally ill kids?
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Marry her? Worked for HHHim ...
Well he didn't fire her....technically. :PPlus from the sounds of it Brooke Hogan was getting overpaid. I also didn't factor in the gigantic idiocy of TNA (I know,I know) to pay her anything substantial in my previous post, when all she is known for is being Hulk Hogan's daughter. I wonder what they were paying her, especially in comparison to their in-ring talent. Imagine your a guy busting his ass in the ring, only to find out that you are probably being paid less than you're bosses untalented daughter, what do you do?
From PWInsider:"The feeling within TNA was that Brooke Hogan's role on IMPACT Wrestling had run its course and they mutually decided to part ways. Hulk Hogan was involved in the discussion as well.The split was said to be amicable. Brooke wants to focus on non-wrestling projects going forward, but the door is always open for a return if it makes sense to both sides.Also, financial considerations did factor into her release. One source in the company described her contract as being "a luxury we can't afford right now."
Can't imagine that Hogan would have fired his own kid.
Wouldn't be surprised if he's gone soon. He hasn't been on the last two weeks and the WON said Brooke was fired. Between that and being behind on pay, writing might be on the wall for the end of Hogan in TNA.I don't know really where else to post this but I am really glad Brooke Hogan is gone. Now if only the other Hogan would/could officially disappear from TNA.
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The ULTIMATE HOBO! Or as some may call him, "Hoibo!"
Okay, no, I'm done.
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Are their hobo punches any good?
(My first and, lord willing, last ever punches reference ... it was a good run.)
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data-author="SovietShooter">data-author="Newb82">Newb82, on 22 Aug2013 - 6:05 PM, said:
www.profightdb.com/pwi/nikita-allanov-2696.html2002: 3972003:3632004: 3812005: 362
Thank you kindly Newb82.
data-author="jaedmc">jaedmc, on 22 Aug2013 - 5:49 PM, said:Were you ever on the list Nikita?
Do you know of any wrestlers who got placed in that 300-500 range thatactually got any kind of recognition bump?
I feel like back in the 90's indy guys actually benefited from a spot on the500. I know for the longest time I only knew of Reckless Youth, Mr. Ooh La La,and Quack from the list, and it made me want to know more about them. Butnowadays, who even reads it? And it feels less beneficial than say someonepassing around youtube matches.
I think the bump is minimal. Back when there were still multiplecompanies, it was more or less a plot device to spur discussion about how guysfrom different companies matched up with each other.
During my heyday, there was only really one company, so the "bump" gainedfrom it was kind of minimal. Like, if you were a guy on the WWE periphery,and were ranked higher than some prelim/midcard WWE guys, then that might giveyou the needed publicity boost to get bookings in something like the Super 8 orwhatnot. It had the same trickle down effect thru the indys. Maybe a guymaking $5 a match could get more bookings for more money because promoters inother places knew him from PWI500 now. Maybe a guy that got an unexpected highranking could jump from non-descript indys to some of the more well-publicizedplaces.
For me, it was more about credibility. I could tell my family/friends Iwas ranked in the world's top 500 wrestlers, and it always seemed to be a bigaccomplishment they were proud of. It was also always something I couldthrow out there that showed I was on the radar of a major publication, and notjust some goof. Also, I had a lot of fans ask me to sign their copy, sothat was always kinda cool.
data-author="Assassin">Assassin, on 22Aug 2013 - 5:56 PM, said:I think I remember Nikita being on the list in 2002 (which is the onlyedition I ever read), it was either that, or the big "profiles of everypromotion in the US" magazine they put out at around the same time. Iremember being a big fan of a belt having to do with brass knuckles
Aside from my PWI500 rankings, I had a couple articles about me in TheWrestler, and I had the profile you mentioned in a Wrestle Americaalmanac or yearbook or whatever they called it - it was just a magazine thatprofiled a ton of independent groups. I was the NWA East Brass KnucklesChampion and they had my picture with the profile for NWA East.
I was working in the office for the aforementioned NWA group, and I handled alot of the heavy lifting getting things like results/pics into the Apter Mags,and I helped get a lot of guys I worked with ranked. I had a pretty goodprofessional relationship with Brandi, as she handled most of those areas, andwhen she stopped handling the PWI500, I stopped being ranked.
It really is all about who you know.
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