Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Wendel Cooley....one of the greatest wrestlers i read about in mags, but never really saw. lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Bugg Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Any truth to what I heard a few years ago that Misawa and Kawada had a backstage donnybrook? Also, whatever happened to Chad Austin after New Jack whipped the bejesus out of him in ECW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 After all those amazing matches, a real fight between the 2 was probably such a let down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeeball Wizard Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Any truth to what I heard a few years ago that Misawa and Kawada had a backstage donnybrook? Also, whatever happened to Chad Austin after New Jack whipped the bejesus out of him in ECW? Apparently Austin came to Jack with all kinds of ideas of what to do in the match where he and Blue Meanie were set totake on the Gangstas, and Jack, ever the diplomat, took that as disrespect . Jack and Mustapha got Meanie out of the ring and Jack proceeded to kick the dogshit out of Austin, basically as a "know your place jobber" kind of deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Kawada and Misawa being pretty high level amateur guys, their "fight" may have amounted to just two guys locked up for a moment and neither doing anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Any truth to what I heard a few years ago that Misawa and Kawada had a backstage donnybrook? Also, whatever happened to Chad Austin after New Jack whipped the bejesus out of him in ECW? Apparently Austin came to Jack with all kinds of ideas of what to do in the match where he and Blue Meanie were set totake on the Gangstas, and Jack, ever the diplomat, took that as disrespect . Jack and Mustapha got Meanie out of the ring and Jack proceeded to kick the dogshit out of Austin, basically as a "know your place jobber" kind of deal. Didn't Austin cut some sort of promo before that match about how he was going to Smokey Mountain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 So when the Mike Awesome and Tazz title change while Tazz was in WWE and Mike was heading to WCW which then lead to Tommy Dreamer getting the title. Some felt it wasn't a good idea to put the title on Tommy so if that's true who should have gotten the title? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Tommy had the title for literally 30 minutes. As in, if you ordered a pizza the minute he won the title you still wouldn't have your pizza when he lost the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabe Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 So basically Hart, Perez or both are full of shit? OK. Well at least talking about Al Perez has been more interesting than watching him. My money would be on both of them being full of it. Hart wasn't exactly 100% honest in his book - yeah, I'm sure he was making $100k a year working weekends in Georgia in 1980 or whatever - so it wouldn't surprise me if he was making this story or. Or exaggerating. Ditto for Al Perez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Austin Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 So when the Mike Awesome and Tazz title change while Tazz was in WWE and Mike was heading to WCW which then lead to Tommy Dreamer getting the title. Some felt it wasn't a good idea to put the title on Tommy so if that's true who should have gotten the title? That's a good question. Because he held it less than Tommy Rich held his one world title, he seemed to be the only one legit enough to win and eventually lose to Justin Credible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I still dont get why they didn't just go with Tanaka for a bit. Was he out of the country? A part timer? HE could have lost it to Credible. The Dreamer win was kind of bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petey Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Tanaka might have been out of the country. I don't know. Wasn't Dreamer winning sorta like a thank you/achievement award anyway? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 I think it was.I wonder if Vince had any say on who Taz could job to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Tanaka wasn't in ECW from Living Dangerously (3/12) to April 21st. The title change was on April 12th. The card on the night of Awesome's first no-show (4/6) was April 6, 2000 in Cleveland, OH Agora Theater drawing 1,150 Prodigy beat Chilly Willy.Mikey Whipwreck beat Johnny Swinger.CW Anderson & Bill Wiles beat Danny Doring & Amish Roadkill.Yoshihiro Tajiri beat Kid Kash.Raven beat Little Guido.Lance Storm & Dawn Marie beat Nova & Jazz.Tommy Dreamer & Sandman beat Vic Grimes & Angel.ECW TV Champ Super Crazy beat Rhino. to give you an idea of what they were working with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Based on that, I would have put it on Chilly Willy. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Territorial Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Tanaka might have been out of the country. I don't know. Wasn't Dreamer winning sorta like a thank you/achievement award anyway? Supposedly. At the time, there was a story going around that Dreamer still didn't really want the belt, and the 30 min angle was cooked up to satisfy him (fairly sure Meltzer has said that. but I'm not going to try to look it up). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Yeah, I vaguely remember Dreamer allegedly felt like winning the belt would destroy his character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Tanaka might have been out of the country. I don't know. Wasn't Dreamer winning sorta like a thank you/achievement award anyway? Supposedly. At the time, there was a story going around that Dreamer still didn't really want the belt, and the 30 min angle was cooked up to satisfy him (fairly sure Meltzer has said that. but I'm not going to try to look it up). Dreamer's said so publicly on more than one occasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petey Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I remember reading the report from the ECW website about Taz losing to Tommy and then Tommy losing to Justin Credible. I wasn't really an ECW fan but I had heard of the big names and had no idea who Justin Credible was or why Tommy lost to him. Ah the good ol' days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tromatagon Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Oh it's better that way. The rest of us just thought it fucking sucked Justin Credible was champion 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Oh it's better that way. The rest of us just thought it fucking sucked Justin Credible was champion Quoted for truth, motherfucker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Bugg Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAtJ0Spx62E Didn't the promo that Cena cut at the end of this WAR get him in hot water with WWE management? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagan Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 That Cena thing was so weird. He had to be concussed and loopy and not know what he was saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 It was Lesnar that was furious over it, because the agreement was that Lesnar would do the job, but Cena would end up stretchered out and off TV for a few weeks to sell the beating. Instead Cena ad-libbed a random promo (that probably was concussion-related) and was back on RAW the next night as if everything was fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Cena was channeling Onita a bit there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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