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Dr Tom Pritchard was the Doctor of Disaster. Jesse Ventura: "Do you realise what that means? This man has a PhD... in 'Disaster'."

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20 minutes ago, AxB said:

Dr Tom Pritchard was the Doctor of Disaster. Jesse Ventura: "Do you realise what that means? This man has a PhD... in 'Disaster'."

I'm excited about the idea of Dr. Tom footage in either 85-90 WWF or 92-93 WCW where Jesse could actually say that.

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He did say it, in 93 WCW. It was on a PPV I think.

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4 minutes ago, AxB said:

He did say it, in 93 WCW. It was on a PPV I think.

Oh yeah, they had the SMW deal before Watts left. I knew that. I blame having Ruby Soho stuck in my head.

There's the 8 man tag. Let me find it

Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson, WCW/NWA Tag Team Champions Ricky Steamboat & Shane Douglas fought Steve Austin & Brian Pillman, Tom Prichard & Stan Lane (w/ Jim Cornette & Bobby Eaton) to a double disqualification at 10:14 when all eight men began brawling in and out of the ring and Cornette was thrown in the ring by Gibson.

That is a match that exists.

 

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7 hours ago, AxB said:

Dr Tom Pritchard was the Doctor of Disaster. Jesse Ventura: "Do you realise what that means? This man has a PhD... in 'Disaster'."

Jesse also speculated that Dr. Tom might have a degree in gynaecology.

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2 hours ago, Happ Hazzard said:

Jesse also speculated that Dr. Tom might have a degree in gynaecology.

That must have been once he became the Doctor of Desire!

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On 9/21/2021 at 5:46 PM, J.H. said:

Is that one with Marina Sirtis and Marina Sirtis Best Supporting Breasts?

James

This being Hollywood, Greek Brit Marina Sirtis as a New York Hispanic (Puerto Rican?) was totally plausible. The movie was filmed in London and set in NYC.

Also...

On 9/21/2021 at 7:43 PM, Zimbra said:

Yeah, Dan Spivey and Mike Rotundo wrestled as American Express for a couple of years in the 80s.

That sounds like a tag team name that would have ended with AmEx's lawyers sending a letter to the promotion.

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Death Wish 3 is ridiculous I agree but somehow enjoyable. I haven’t seen the other sequels. The first 2 are great.

MIA 1 and 2 are also great. The 3rd MIA is terrible and not even enjoyable in a ridiculous 80s movie way. 

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4 and 5 didn’t come along until the 90s IIRC. Might have even been direct to video. I passed because I hated watching the 80s embarrass itself in the 90s. There’s a new one with Bruce Willis that was panned, which usually means it’s great. 

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I just recently stumbled upon old German WWF television shows, it was an episode in which fake Razor debuted in ring, fake Diesel joined him for a post match beat down. What I found interesting was: Not only did the German announcers acknowledge that the two men weren't the real Diesel and Razor, they actually said "Razor is actually Scott Hall, and Diesel is Kevin Nash". Since both WCW and WWF were on the same channel at that time, I can assume this was a way of cross-promoting, but I still was amazed by it. 

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Is that all that different from what they did on English-language WWF? I know in the lead-up to the reveal, they had WWF President Gorilla Monsoon issue a statement on-air that he had no idea what Jim Ross was talking about when he promised to deliver Razor Ramon and Diesel, because Scott Hall and Kevin Nash had left WWF. I don't recall if they ever mentioned those names after the fakes debuted, but it wouldn't have seemed out of place if they did.

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47 minutes ago, Infinit said:

Am I crazy or were Fake Diesel and Fake Razor in AAA?

They were, I remember seeing a trios with them in it on a tape.

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April/May 1997 according to cagematch. 

Teamed with Jake once and  Fuerza vs Cibernetico, Canek and Larin Lover 

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17 hours ago, tbarrie said:

Is that all that different from what they did on English-language WWF? I know in the lead-up to the reveal, they had WWF President Gorilla Monsoon issue a statement on-air that he had no idea what Jim Ross was talking about when he promised to deliver Razor Ramon and Diesel, because Scott Hall and Kevin Nash had left WWF. I don't recall if they ever mentioned those names after the fakes debuted, but it wouldn't have seemed out of place if they did.

No idea, I hadn't seen the English broadcast. I was just amazed by it, don't think I saw it back in the day. Wrestling was on on weekdays around ten in the evening and I was 12 that year. Plus my parents weren't too high on wrestling. 

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Fair enough. And I can see why you'd be amazed, as the belief that WWE was actually trying to pass the fakes off as the real articles is bafflingly common on the internet.

For the record, they weren't. I have no idea what they were trying to do with that angle, but it wasn't that. The two guys were clearly presented as fakes in-storyline.

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17 hours ago, Zimbra said:

They were, I remember seeing a trios with them in it on a tape.

There was a brief WWF and AAA talent agreement at the time, especially to pad out a thin roster at Royal Rumble 97.

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Something I've thought about recently. If Rick Rude isn't hurt at the end of 92, does the Vader in 93 run happen the same way? All signs seem to point to Rude beating Simmons at Starrcade, then when the match is canceled, Simmons immediately drops the title to Vader. I personally think we are getting a Rude run on top until the summer if things happen differently.

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Interesting question. Chono is NWA champ until 93 so if Rude beats Simmons for the WCW title, I could see Vader beating Chono for the NWA title around Superbrawl 3 and still have a dominant run as champ throughout the rest of 93.

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3 hours ago, Happ Hazzard said:

Supposedly the fake Razor and Diesel thing was to support the lawsuit against WCW for them trying to pass off Hall and Nash as their WWF characters.

Oh yeah, that does sound familiar. And it helped their case if they could demonstrate that they were still using the "Razor Ramon" and "Diesel" IP, right?

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16 hours ago, RandomAct said:

Something I've thought about recently. If Rick Rude isn't hurt at the end of 92, does the Vader in 93 run happen the same way? All signs seem to point to Rude beating Simmons at Starrcade, then when the match is canceled, Simmons immediately drops the title to Vader. I personally think we are getting a Rude run on top until the summer if things happen differently.

At some point, didn't they even plant the seeds for a Rude/Vader feud?  

It's sad that we never got to see a tough-guy face Rude run.  

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