w. josh Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 I don't know if DDP was technically homeless when he was doing the "lost all his money" gimmick pre-Diamond Cutter breakthrough, but he was destitute until he got a mysterious benefactor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagan Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 A couple of quick thoughts while my students are reviewing for an exam - I punted WWE PPVs after Wrestlemania but did a cherry pick catchup and...well...not a lot of great. I think AJ has been slightly better than the talk is. Seth, for all his faults, just works so incredible hard in his matches. It's that weird thing where he's a much better athlete than he is a wrestler. He probably really is very good at Crossfit. The women have really carried the company this past year, even if not everything has been smooth. - To that end, are people downgrading last night's main event because Sane got injured and everyone is super weird anytime wrestlers get hurt now? Don't get me wrong. Not a smooth match but they all beat the Hell out of each other and it felt like a genuine hate-filled match. This idea that it's some disaster seems a little much of a stretch. I do think it's time to have a talk that maybe putting the women in these car-crash gimmick matches MIGHT be a bad idea both from execution and for their long-term health. Charlotte, Becky and Banks etc are gonna be walking like Foley in ten years if this keeps escalating - Related - last PPV of the year and, yeah, the women's "evolution" is a dumb, self-serving marketing thing but 2019 on the whole saw some really great opportunities for the women and high profile spots being given to them. I mean, ending aside, pretty cool that Asuka and Kairi Sane won a PPV main event. - Are Bray's puppets babyfaces? They seem pretty terrified of Bray and the Fiend. - Wrestlekingdom seems to have less buzz this year. The double main-event tournament really muddles the plot. - Does anyone gamble on WWE matches? I'm thinking about betting the house on Ripley on Wednesday. Have less of a feel for Finn and Cole though. Has anyone won or loss big on WWE matches? I feel that I used to have a pretty good feel for the direction of the company but the last few years they've lost the plot. - Like most, the bloom has worn off on AEW a bit for me but it's still been a good show week after week, especially with how dire most TV wrestling has been. I do think a two-hour show is probably slightly too long, especially week after week but each show has had more good than bad. I do think this company is going to be here for the long haul so the hyper-minute criticism probably needs to taper off. AEW and Smackdown aren't being cancelled or moved anytime in the foreseeable future. I remember living and dying with WWF and WCW ratings though when I was 18 so I get if it moves your needle though . - Everything with Scurll is fascinating right now. Ya know - with the British scene being basically dead and the indies in need of stars - there are worse things to do than to be unaffiliated and fill that void. If Scurll can work for NWA and work for ROH and still have flexibility for Japan and British indies - you can both be a very big star and probably make a nice living on your own schedule. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Wasn't there a homeless guy in XPW ( or whatever Rob Black's fed was called)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Primo Colon did an interview and he says he wasn't suspended for a failed drug test but was suspended for "missing a drug test" (I wanna say Paige??? got her suspension this way too) He said that got notice that he was to come to the States to do the drug test. He asked if he could have it done in Puerto Rico so he could save on the travel. The WWE never responded and two months later he was notified that he was suspended. In the interview - he said that his deal is up in October 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w. josh Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 48 minutes ago, Infinit said: Wasn't there a homeless guy in XPW ( or whatever Rob Black's fed was called)? Homeless Jimmy. Came out with a shopping cart full of weapons he'd "found in dumpsters." Man, XPW was awful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 2 hours ago, w. josh said: Homeless Jimmy. Came out with a shopping cart full of weapons he'd "found in dumpsters." Man, XPW was awful. Don't you disparage the goddamn good name of White Trash Johnny Webb like that. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 How fucking good was/is Terry Funk? https://twitter.com/MrLARIATO/status/1206662920932876289 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 8 minutes ago, cwoy2j said: How fucking good was/is Terry Funk? https://twitter.com/MrLARIATO/status/1206662920932876289 And then there's this. I'm not sure how much of that was selling from Sheik. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Wasn't Bray Wyatt technically homeless for a while? 4 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 "Vince McMahon and Triple H reportedly missed Sunday's WWE TLC pay-per-view." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Reminder that the WWE is taping two episodes of RAW tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 1 minute ago, RIPPA said: Reminder that the WWE is taping two episodes of RAW tonight Thoughts and prayers to the live audience. 6 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 IIRC, Championship Wrestling from Hollywood has a Hobo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Holy shit, six hours of RAW? That sounds like hell on Earth. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nice Guy Eddie Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 (edited) 22 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: I forgot about but I guess that's just another hillbilly. Harper wasn't a hobo or a hillbilly. He was a truck driver whose truck got stranded in front of the Wyatt compound on his way through Louisiana. Edited December 17, 2019 by Nice Guy Eddie 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 4 hours ago, RIPPA said: Reminder that the WWE is taping two episodes of RAW tonight That takes a serious masochist to sit through that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 On 12/14/2019 at 5:48 PM, Curt McGirt said: Now I'm thinking of Bayley in a bag lady gimmick. Is "homeless person" the only "profession" Titan hasn't had a wrestler use in it? Was the Brooklyn Brawler the closest to that gimmick? Nikolai Volkoff was homeless. He still managed to get good seats for every WWF show even before DiBiase bought him. Jameson looked like a bum but I'm not sure what he was supposed to be. He also managed to get really good seats. That might speak more to how poorly the WWF was doing at the time. Deep South Wrestling had The Bag Lady (Melissa Coates aka Super Genie). And hobos aren't really homeless. They're more like home-free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 Was Cactus Jack homeless when he had amnesia in those awful vignettes because Vader powerbombed him on concrete in WCW, 1993? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyld Samurai Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 10 minutes ago, The Natural said: Was Cactus Jack homeless when he had amnesia in those awful vignettes because Vader powerbombed him on concrete in WCW, 1993? Yes he was. Wasnt it Missy Hyatt with her investigative journalism that found him on skid row? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 1 minute ago, Wyld Samurai said: Yes he was. Wasnt it Missy Hyatt with her investigative journalism that found him on skid row? Catherine White, IIRC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 13 minutes ago, The Natural said: Was Cactus Jack homeless when he had amnesia in those awful vignettes because Vader powerbombed him on concrete in WCW, 1993? Well, he had a home. He just didn't remember it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenalysis Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 On 12/16/2019 at 1:24 AM, caley said: I had a character on one of the WWF N64 games with the gimmick Hobo Sexual, kind of a homeless Val Venis. He had a whole backstory where he was a Rick Rude-esque muscular guy, who put his name and all his money up against my Million Dollar-esque character, lost everything and became a homeless man. Would have fit in great in the Attitude era! That reminds me of one of DDP's early WCW gimmicks where we lost all his money, ended up coming to the ring in ripped tights and everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Brian Fowler said: Well, he had a home. He just didn't remember it. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 13 hours ago, cwoy2j said: How fucking good was/is Terry Funk? https://twitter.com/MrLARIATO/status/1206662920932876289 On #TerryTuesday it's safe to say he's the best of all time. Mick Foley's annecdote about the mystery of how good Terry Funk's punches were still cracks me up 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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