Ultimo Necro Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 ... the fuck? http://www.chikarasalonandspa.com/ Have never seen this before in a Chikara google search, and yet, first page, 3-4 links down. So afraid to clickity ... so interested in clickity ... It was once a well liked Spa, before it was shut down. Now it is an alternative reality spa that releases youtube videos of its former employees every so often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Newest WWE Signing http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/former-port-vale-goalkeeper-stuart-tomlinson-become-wwe-142335486--sow.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Stuart Tomlinson versus Antonio Cesaro, WrestleMania 32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Bryan Adams in any incarnation is probably the worst promo guy in the business.Yeah 1993 wasn't good for him at all - every program he had, he never really got his heat back - Doink, Shawn, Yoko, then Savage.....that beatdown of Savage and the lacerated tongue was pretty brutal for its time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Steal this idea: Stuart Tomlinson uses a 'loaded goalkeeper glove' to win matches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Needs to form a soccer hooligan tag team. A double team move of one guy being whipped in from the corner and then being "headed in"/speared could look pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 which would lead to them bringing back one of the Highlanders as a soccer hooligan.. or WADE BARRETT SOCCER HOOLIGAN FC WWE for life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Needs to form a soccer hooligan tag team. A double team move of one guy being whipped in from the corner and then being "headed in"/speared could look pretty cool. A bunch of faces are trying to get their hands on his manager, but he steps in front to protect him. One by one they run at him only to be pushed away, and sell it like Ziggler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I loved Kronik in WCW. Both Adams and Clark had great looks and they had some beastly moves. And the 'mercenary' gimmick was fun too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodear Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 My soccer gimmick is based on him taking dives and asking for yellow cards. And of course, not using his hands. Granted its less developed than my quarterback gimmick where he wears a yellow jersey during squash matches, has a nameless henchman called The Line and is named Quenton Bishop I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Fuck it - this is now a Punk/Austin fantasy booking thread. Following up the original idea, you have the next week on RAW go over Austin being outsmarted "for the first time ever", is he past it, does he still have it. End of the night, he ends up being assaulted in the ring by the Wyatts. Punk's music plays but he takes forever to appear. The distraction is enough for Austin to take over and take out the Wyatts by himself with a chair and stunners. Beer bash to end RAW, Punk looks on from the ramp in shock. You go the whole Rocky Balboa path, how the Sports Centre guys talked about who would win the fantasy fight between Rocky and Dixon. Did the real Austin turn up and still has it? Or did Austin get the upper hand only because of Punk's distraction? First match at Survivor Series, which essentially becomes a mirror of Bret/Austin from SS 96. Punk attempts an OwenDriver, but his conscience gets the better of him, and hesitates long enough to be rolled up for the pin after dominating the match. Austin then goes away for a while. The feud is then carried by HHH instead, who after Punk's series of high profile losses to Brock, Rock, himself and now Austin, doesn't want Punk to have the rematch with Austin. That Austin match at Wrestlemania is good for business and better off with someone else. Punk then spends the two months between the Rumble proving himself against guys HHH wants to have the Austin match instead. Clusterfuck ending at the Rumble. Punk, whoever else all get eliminated, Austin runs in with chair, stunners the other guys, eliminates them, and Punk gets the win ala RR 97. Punk refuses the shot at the title, and wants Austin instead. HHH agrees, as his guy gets the shot at the title instead. At this point, not too sure if you go with a redux of "I have to beat you, Rock" as it foreshadows everything too much. But think you end up with Punk aligning himself with Vince or HHH, and beats Austin to a bloody pulp. Last gasp Lou Thesz Press attempt gets turned into the Anaconda Vice, and Punk attempts to do what Bret couldn't at Mania, make Austin give up. Think that ending ties things up. Punk makes peace with the establishment and gets his big win. Austin went out the way essentially he came to the fore in the WWE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I really miss when WCW wrestlers would walk up without a mic, and yell at the camera post-squash match. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 the WWE never went for the "cameramen on the apron" idea as hard as WCW did, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 the WWE never went for the "cameramen on the apron" idea as hard as WCW did, right? They used it a lot during the Punk Vs. Luke Harper match, but I haven't noticed it since. http://youtu.be/BB9NygW4O5s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 As a kid I thought that Kona Crush was going to be world champ so hard. That guy was the best. And the guitar riff on that entrance music! The. Best. I ended up actually not being a fan because of how he was booked. Doink straight up made an ass out of him for about a whole year, it seemed like. Did Crush EVER get one over on Doink? I was one of those kids in school that did homework before it was due on a regular basis and who really valued intelligence and craftiness in my wrestlers (big Bret Hart fan as a kid, in other words), so as soon as Crush got exposed as a "big dummy," as Bobby Heenan put it, I lost my support for him. On the other hand, I really appreciated Doink for being smart as hell, even with the yellow teeth and the painted face and the general douchebaggery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Punk is like Bryan in that he's over with a certain group of fans and they do buy his merch, but he can't draw buyrates or move significant numbers and is, probably, a turn off to most casual fans. Punk and Bryan are the Trophy Wife, to John Cena's Big Bang Theory, essentially. Although credit to Bryan, at least he can develop his character and doesn't still act like its summer 2011 when non-stop shooting was "so kewl!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Dammit, and I like Big Bang Theory... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrag Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Although credit to Bryan, at least he can develop his character and doesn't still act like its summer 2011 when non-stop shooting was "so kewl!" Bryan's character? I'm not about go all March Madness in here, but saying YES a bunch seems a little simpler than what Punk is asked to do. Could you get 4 months out of Bryan vs Heyman and Axel? I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Although credit to Bryan, at least he can develop his character and doesn't still act like its summer 2011 when non-stop shooting was "so kewl!" Did you actually listen to Daniel Bryan's promos during his feud with The Authority, or were you just loudly yelling "YES! YES! YES!" in your living room, and couldn't hear Bryan? Because he talked about during his promos was being "held down". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LooseCannon Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 More Austin fantasy booking. RVD returns at the Royal Rumble and screws Punk. He is there to fight on behalf of Paul Heyman, who he has forgiven. Once a Paul Heyman guy, always a Paul Heyman guy. One day, Punk will learn and come home. Punk defeats RVD at Elimination Chamber. The next night on Raw, Punk asks who Heyman has next. Sabu? Tommy Dreamer? Justin Credible and Lance Storm? Danny Doring and Roadkill? Heyman teases Jericho, but it turns out to be none other than Steve Austin. And the WWE Channel debuts with a retrospective look at the Dangerous Alliance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Bryan's character is that he's weird and small and the jock bully assholes in corporate hate on him for that reason, except that he can kick dudes in the face and make them feel it unlike most weird nerds. He's a granola-eating geeky Austin. I think he can pull it off being a slightly-unhinged nerd if asked to do so. Heyman and Axel poking at Bryan the nerd until he snaps and starts kneeing people in the face sounds like a whole lot of fun for four straight months, but then again, so does Mark Henry throwing Axel off of and into various things for four months, so my threshold for being entertained might just be really low. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzalez Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 More fantasy booking. RVD returns at the Royal Rumble and screws Punk. He is there to fight on behalf of Paul Heyman, who he has forgiven. Once a Paul Heyman guy, always a Paul Heyman guy. One day, Punk will learn and come home. Punk defeats RVD at Elimination Chamber. The next night on Raw, Punk asks who Heyman has next. Sabu? Tommy Dreamer? Justin Credible and Lance Storm? Danny Doring and Roadkill? Heyman teases Jericho, but it turns out to be none other than The Musketeer, and Bowler Boy. And the WWE Channel debuts with a retrospective look at the Dangerous Alliance. Fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Plain ol' Crush was great, Heel Crush in the Savage feud was great. That 4-5 month period where he was Kona Crush and he suddenly had an over-the-top island accent and only talked about Hawaii (unless he was mentioning his clown dad) was pretty terrible. He was actually pretty over in mid-late 92 before they really pushed the accent and then had Doink destroy him. If they had let him mow through a bunch of guys in the rumble instead, who knows what would have happened. From what I could tell, he was way over but only in certain places. Some towns people would kind of check out during his squashes, but in others it was like Goldberg heat. The craziest part about the Luger Change or as I call it The Lugering, is that Luger was shown on TV LITERALLY THE DAY BEFORE as the Narcissist. While the show was taped way in advance, for the audience the Lugering happened literally over night. Kona Crush was clearly an experiment to create a kid friendly Hulk Clone, but it wasn't clicking nationally like I mentioned. Only in different territories brother. So of course after they turned Luger they took Crush and put him against Yoko on RAW, and had Crush get stretchered out - and then put all the heat on Luger to avenge him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Did any of the Legion of Demolition tag matches (Animal and Crush) ever get televised, or were they just European house shows when Hawk went AWOL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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