colonial Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Meltzer reporting there will NOT be a Kurt Angle episode, but there will be ones on Chris Colt, John Tenta and Terry Gordy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 (edited) I don’t think of Tenta having a dark side kind of story other than dying young. Edited January 20 by odessasteps 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Well Chris Colt explains the spiders climbing over the cage Quote An infamous incident took place in Phoenix in 1975, when Colt was wrestling inside a steel cage. Before the match, Colt had injested the drug peyote, and this caused Colt to climb into the ring high, hallucinating spiders all over the structure. He panicked and started brawling with fans and security as he fled the arena. Due to Colt's drug issues, he was said to never work sober, but promoters saw no issue as he could still draw heat from the audience. In 1986, Harris wrapped up his career in Alabama as the neo-nazi Chris von Colt, but continued to compete until the following year for Pacific Northwest Wrestling. Once wrestling was over, Colt, who was openly gay, starred in gay porn movies (e.g. “Sex Aggression: Jack Husky’s First Night At Chris Colt’s Wrestling Academy”) and was rumored to have become a born-again Christian in the 90s. https://dead-wrestler-database.fandom.com/wiki/Chris_Colt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peck Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 14 minutes ago, odessasteps said: I don’t think of Tenta having a dark side kind of story other than dying young. Dude murdered Damian. 2 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 1 hour ago, colonial said: Meltzer reporting there will NOT be a Kurt Angle episode, but there will be ones on Chris Colt, John Tenta and Terry Gordy. weird for them do do all 3 of those guys in one episode, didn't think they all crossed paths (yes I know it's 3 episodes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Awww, Big John Tenta? The nicest guy in the business? Just because he got in a shoot with that piece of crap Koji Kitao? Bogus. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Hopefully Meltzer tells us why there won't be an Angle episode. Possibility of a lawsuit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 9 hours ago, clintthecrippler said: Sandman episode, fuck yeah, there better be a re-enactment of what Sandman thought he was seeing while wrestling Sabu while high on hallucinogenics at November to Remember 97 in what of the greatest train wreck matches ever. 9 hours ago, Gorman said: In my upcoming ECW history book, I talk about sitting in the crowd watching this match, wondering if it was good or bad. 8 hours ago, clintthecrippler said: One of the few times where the answer to an "either/or" question actually is YES. 7 hours ago, Gorman said: That's a spoiler! Okay, here you go: When I was in the crowd, I was asking myself, "Is this a good match?" Nearly every move was a crazy dive involving a ladder or table, and only half of the moves landed properly. It was like eating a six-course meal, with every course being cake, and only three of the cakes were good. Sabu vs. The Sandbag at ECW November 2 Remember 1997 is one of the worst matches I've ever seen. The two redeemed themselves in Stairway to Hell at ECW House Party 1998. Sabu broke his jaw but taped it up to continue the match as you do. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Just now, The Natural said: Sabu vs. The Sandbag at ECW November 2 Remember 1997 is one of the worst matches I've ever seen. The two redeemed themselves in Stairway to Hell at ECW House Party 1998. Sabu broke his jaw but taped it up to continue the match as you do. I'm keeping that autocorrect in. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 6 hours ago, Cobra Commander said: weird for them do do all 3 of those guys in one episode, didn't think they all crossed paths (yes I know it's 3 episodes) Unless there’s some bear porno out there that I really don’t want to know about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 (edited) I'll forever stand by the Stairway to Hell match. The shot of Hak standing there with his eyes closed, leaning against the ropes in agony, covered in blood with barbed wire encircling his head, actively upset/grossed-out the ECW mutants. Which was nigh impossible to do. I think it even got Joey to emit this quiet, Owen voice "Oh my god." It ends with somebody getting nailed in their broken jaw with a full on kendo stick shot. Doesn't get more final than that, does it? Edited January 20 by Curt McGirt 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great ML Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 I hope a ring set on fire isn’t based on Hulk Hogan’s BS story of how Harley Race set the ring on fire at a WWF Missouri show, then asking Hulk for a job. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 It probably is, but hopefully they point out how full of shit Hogan is/was. Race says he DID pull the gun on him, though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 22 hours ago, Technico Support said: I just need an episode on people whose asses Vince hilariously thought he'd be able to kick. I know there's Harley Race and Frank Shamrock. There must be more. Adjacent to that is tough guy Vince telling Bret he'd get one free shot, and then Bret proceeding to K him TFO. Pretty sure that one or both of Angle and Lesnar tied Vince up in knots and/or launched him into the stratosphere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 21 hours ago, Peck said: Dude murdered Damian. Correction: Quake hunted an animal for food. What was he going to do, make his Quakeburgers out of ground beef that was easily bought at a supermarket? The man was hungry! Starving, even! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 leaked photo of Foley being interviewed for an upcoming episode Spoiler 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evidence Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 On 1/19/2024 at 9:30 PM, odessasteps said: I don’t think of Tenta having a dark side kind of story other than dying young. He exposed the business by revealing that he was a man and not a shark on a 1996 episode of Nitro. 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 He was also in that god awful Team Piper segment on Nitro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Apparently Chris Adams is also on this season which should be wild as hell. This Chris Colt one is going to the most talked about one because of how insane his life was and how little people know of it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 23 hours ago, zendragon said: He was also in that god awful Team Piper segment on Nitro To be fair, I would say unfortunately "we" were all a part of that segment. We will never escape the trauma. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefanie Sparkleface Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Tenta feels kind of like a Magnum TA-ish episode to where there is an interesting life wrapped in tragedy, and that is the darkness rather than "here's someone who did a bunch of drugs"/"here's a guy that committed a bunch of terrible acts". Tenta was in sumo, trained with All Japan, had a pretty major run with the WWF, had the incident with Kitao, was with WCW right as the NWO started, and died very young. That's a good life for an hour long documentary, but where else would you do it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 The average viewer will prob think some of the Chris Colt is made up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 15 minutes ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said: Tenta feels kind of like a Magnum TA-ish episode to where there is an interesting life wrapped in tragedy, and that is the darkness rather than "here's someone who did a bunch of drugs"/"here's a guy that committed a bunch of terrible acts". Tenta was in sumo, trained with All Japan, had a pretty major run with the WWF, had the incident with Kitao, was with WCW right as the NWO started, and died very young. That's a good life for an hour long documentary, but where else would you do it? Exactly. IMO That's kinda of the issue with the latter in that if you don't do a series or a longer standalone profile like Chyna had, how do you properly cover everything in 43-45 minutes? You cannot without moving timelines like we've seen with a bunch of episodes. If you can properly condense some of these careers in that length of time and then somehow provide great context of something that may have went wrong, it probably wasn't that great a career to begin with. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefanie Sparkleface Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 32 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said: Exactly. IMO That's kinda of the issue with the latter in that if you don't do a series or a longer standalone profile like Chyna had, how do you properly cover everything in 43-45 minutes? You cannot without moving timelines like we've seen with a bunch of episodes. If you can properly condense some of these careers in that length of time and then somehow provide great context of something that may have went wrong, it probably wasn't that great a career to begin with. Yeah, and there's also the problem where the people making the series probably want to do more with the subject matter but are limited to that amount of time, so they have to decide what's the most important and what can be cut, but it's either take the time you're allotted or the story doesn't get told. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 While wrestling is never going to run out of lurid or salacious stories, you can prob say the show has likely hit on most of the people the general public can identify. So, now you are getting down to someone like Colt, who has one of the craziest careers and personal lives but prob <1% of their audience knows him. Similarly, they could do Dan Fargo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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