Curt McGirt Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 when did the Pipes knocking Vinny Mac happen, was that when he was on crutches after the motorcycle accident when he did the angle with Virgil/Ted DiBiase or after that? Okay, somebody has to explain this to me. My first exposure to wrestling on TV that I remember is Roddy on crutches and DiBiase taunting/beating on him. What was the angle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charro! Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I was wondering, in the 80's & 90's who were Dave Meltzer's 'sources' for news items & such and did anyone ever get future-endeavored because they leaked info to Dave?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 when did the Pipes knocking Vinny Mac happen, was that when he was on crutches after the motorcycle accident when he did the angle with Virgil/Ted DiBiase or after that? Okay, somebody has to explain this to me. My first exposure to wrestling on TV that I remember is Roddy on crutches and DiBiase taunting/beating on him. What was the angle? Piper was encouraging/training Virgil. And had a (AFAIK real life) motorcycle accident hence the crutches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeeball Wizard Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 when did the Pipes knocking Vinny Mac happen, was that when he was on crutches after the motorcycle accident when he did the angle with Virgil/Ted DiBiase or after that?Okay, somebody has to explain this to me. My first exposure to wrestling on TV that I remember is Roddy on crutches and DiBiase taunting/beating on him. What was the angle?Piper was encouraging/training Virgil. And had a (AFAIK real life) motorcycle accident hence the crutches. The motorcycle accident was kayfabe, in reality he had the first of many hip surgeries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Good lord, that far back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeeball Wizard Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Good lord, that far back? Yep. He had a full on hip replacement in 94. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyMax46 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Watching old WCW PPV's on the network. Mene Gene says on the hotline pitch that a WCW wrestler has left. Who would have left WCW around March 1997? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Wasn't that around the time Disco Inferno was fired and was rumored to be going to WWF as Rockabilly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyMax46 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I didn't know he was fired. I thought he was injured during that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 He was fired after he refused to job to Jacqueline. Sting got him his job back later in the year, but the first thing he had to do was put her over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyMax46 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 That was October 97. This was before that, so it couldn't have been him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 John Tenta. He's gone after Flair gives Piper the Horsemen for Uncensored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyMax46 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Um...I have a second question then. Why was Piper's original team what it was? I'm assuming they were all friends of his? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petey Posted June 13, 2015 Share Posted June 13, 2015 I don't have an answer but that was such an odd segment. Really just out of no where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 What's really sad is that happened during the last ever show at the Omni. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Um...I have a second question then. Why was Piper's original team what it was? I'm assuming they were all friends of his? I remember there was a rumor for a while that one of those guys he beat first was Goldberg before getting the Goldberg gimmick but I think it's actually Luther Reigns. Here's a link that talks more about the segment and identifies the two guys who were on his team as Layton Morrison (mulleted kickboxer guy, who has an imdb page listing a long body of stuntwork) and Craig Mally (excitable boxer guy who has a scant imdb page but nothing much else on google). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 i remember when that segment happened. i (and assumingly everyone else) kept waiting for an actual superstar to come out instead of these nobodies. i really believed that eventually someone like the Ultimate Warrior would face Piper and then join the team. instead, it was just some random boxer guy, and a kickboxer or something. i had no problem with John Tenta, although i did find it weird they pretended we'd never seen him before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 I just remember my friend in high school referring to the really wooly guy as "Bulgrarian Fat". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 Why is Terry Funk the ref in the Jumbo vs Bock AWA title switch? Going through the AWA TV from this era and was sorta surprised to see that. He also takes the biggest bump in the match, which isn't terribly shocking. He's cuts quite a dapper figure as well. More refs should bust out the formalwear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Jokes aside, why was HBK given so much time off in the 90s? I'm sure he did need injury recuperation and all that, but in an era where nobody got any time off, he had a great deal of down time. Is there any explanation as to why he was given so much leeway? Legit drug/physical rehab or was it just one of those things that is inexplainable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 One time it was contract issues, one time it was injury, one time it was feigned injury. I'm sure that leaves various other periods unaccounted for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 End of 93 was a suspension for failing a steroid test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charro! Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Have a theme music question, how long did the Hulkster use this song as his theme Also did Bonnie Tyler's version pre-date this song being used as Hulk's theme? or did the songwriter give it to her to be recorded after Hulk used in the WWF and for Rock & Wrestling. Are there any other songs which were later recorded by artists but were first used in wrestling promotions as themes or opening themes for TV shows?. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I'm p sure it was just an instrumental of Bonnie Tyler's song. It's an awesome tune, btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonial Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 The Bonnie Tyler album featuring "Ravishing" was released about six months after "The Wrestling Album". The album took about two years to produce (another single from that album, "Holding Out for a Hero", was released on the "Footloose" soundtrack in 1984), and it appears Jim Steinman came up with the instrumental first, then slightly changed the melody and added lyrics for the Tyler version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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